Download or read book We Need to Talk written by Celeste Headlee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS NPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication “We Need to Talk is an important read for a conversationally-challenged, disconnected age. Headlee is a talented, honest storyteller, and her advice has helped me become a better spouse, friend, and mother.” (Jessica Lahey, author of New York Times bestseller The Gift of Failure) Today most of us communicate from behind electronic screens, and studies show that Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever before. The blame for some of this disconnect can be attributed to our political landscape, but the erosion of our conversational skills as a society lies with us as individuals. And the only way forward, says Headlee, is to start talking to each other. In We Need to Talk, she outlines the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist—and offers simple tools that can improve anyone’s communication. For example: BE THERE OR GO ELSEWHERE. Human beings are incapable of multitasking, and this is especially true of tasks that involve language. Think you can type up a few emails while on a business call, or hold a conversation with your child while texting your spouse? Think again. CHECK YOUR BIAS. The belief that your intelligence protects you from erroneous assumptions can end up making you more vulnerable to them. We all have blind spots that affect the way we view others. Check your bias before you judge someone else. HIDE YOUR PHONE. Don’t just put down your phone, put it away. New research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone can negatively impact the quality of a conversation. Whether you’re struggling to communicate with your kid’s teacher at school, an employee at work, or the people you love the most—Headlee offers smart strategies that can help us all have conversations that matter.

Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Download or read book Into the Other Dimension written by JR Matthews and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an unexplainable anomaly creates a tear in the space-time continuum and jumps the entire galaxy and the multiple dimensions into one, a deadly invasion ensues on Earth by an armada known as The Coalition. Quick the respond to the invasion, the world continents unite to create the United World Army, recruiting every able-bodied man they could to fight, including the likes of KC Blackstone, a former soldier in 1952 to fight off the invaders; only to have his arms and legs completely destroyed in an explosion. On the brink of death, his childhood friend and long lost love of his life, Celeste, returns to him after being missing for decades and puts him into stasis until he is awakened 75 years later by a young and rowdy, tomboy genius named Riley, who replaced his missing limbs with new, robotic replacements in the now authoritarian, Coalition occupied Earth. Butting heads at first, KC and Riley are captured by Coalition forces where they are imprisoned in a labor camp when KC finds Celeste to be working for The Coalition. Reluctant at first, he convinces Riley to join him in escaping the labor camp and set off into the stars to save Celeste, and free her from the grasps of The Coalition’s powerful overlord, Maxim Drake, and revert the galaxy to how it once was.

Download or read book Undone written by Jessa James and published by Jessa James. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor Dawson spends her days getting down and dirty as a mechanic at her fathers garage, rather than with a hot guy. At nineteen, shes so ready to get rid of her v card but hasnt found the right man yet. Collecting her roommate from her bartending job at Club V, Taylor stumbles across Club Owner, Jake Mesa, giving a lesson in submission. Tay doesnt think shed ever be able to obey like the collared woman at Jakes mercy and slips away from the room unnoticed.However, Jakes security footage caught the gorgeous voyeur in his room and now she has his full attention. When Taylors dad admits to a business disaster that could end not only the garage but his life, she doesnt know where to turn. Then Jake makes her an offer... Will she be able to resist or become completely undone?If gorgeous heroes, instalove and sexy times are your thing, read on...

Download or read book Mercy written by David Lindsey and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With a sure, steady hand Lindsey ratchets the suspense and sexual tension tighter and tighter, page by merciless page. The only mercy you’ll get is the word on the cover.”—Stephen Conts Houston is shattered by a shock wave of unbelievably vicious sex killings. And this time the pattern is unique—way out of line with traditional violent-crime psychology. In Detective Carmen Palma’s experience, a psychopath always chooses anonymous targets. But the Houston victims know and trust their killer: They meet willingly in hotel rooms, even in their homes. They don’t fight when the leather cuffs are fastened to their wrists and ankles. They don't even struggle when the first blows fall . . . Palma’s first lightning instinct is that the victims expected their torture. They were practicing masochists, apart of a secret clique that includes some of the city's most prominent women. They helped choreograph their own punishments—every blow. They just didn't expect to die. . .

Download or read book The Wolves of Midwinter written by Anne Rice and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The tale of The Wolf Gift continues ... It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. Reuben is preparing to honor an ancient Midwinter festival with his fellow Morphenkinder—a secret gathering that takes place deep within the verdant recesses of the surrounding forests. However, Reuben is soon distracted by a ghost. Tormented, imploring, and unable to speak, it haunts the halls of the great mansion, drawing him toward a strange netherworld of new spirits, or “ageless ones.” And as the swirl of Nideck’s preparations reaches a fever pitch, they reveal their own dark magical powers.

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Download or read book City Out of Time written by William Robison III and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut novel, William Robison begins the story of a young time traveler and his retrieval team. Set in the midst of world history, this is a story of adventure, romance, and heroism that is part history lesson and part action movie, and all kinds of fun... Lanz Franco's life is going nowhere - and fast - until the death of his brother. All at once, Lanz Franco wanders into the desert, discovers a fantastic city out of time, learns that he is a time traveler, and falls head over heels for a mysterious woman. As a member of the Retrieval Corps, his job takes him all over the world and all over time to find objects needed to keep the City functioning. But a rogue time traveler has plans to stop the Corps by any means necessary. Soon Lanz finds himself in the middle of a bloody war raging across time and space, and the only thing he can do is try to hold on to those people that mean the most to him while trying to get one step ahead of a madman before time is irrevocably altered...

Download or read book Celeste s Harlem Renaissance written by Eleanora E. Tate and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Celeste Lassiter Massey is forced to live with her actress Aunt Valentina in Harlem, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and comfortable North Carolina for scary, big-city life. While Celeste experiences the Harlem Renaissance in full swing, she sees as much grit as glamour. A passionate writer, talented violinist, and aspiring doctor, she eventually faces a choice between ambition and loyalty, roots and horizons. The decision will change her forever.

Download or read book Sisters Strangers and Starting Over written by Belinda Acosta and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the family you've lost can lead you to the family you need... When Beatriz Sánchez-Milligan turned her back on her troubled sister, she ushered in a lifetime of regret. So when the niece Beatriz never knew she had appears on her doorstep--announcing that her mother has died--she can't help but see fourteen-year-old Celeste as a chance to redo the past . . . despite her own family's objections. But Celeste is skittish around her new family. She can feel the tension radiating from her uncle and cousins and, despite her aunt's enthusiasm, is hesitant to share her dreams of the traditional quinceañera she and her mother had been planning. Overwhelmed, Celeste does what her mom did years ago: she vanishes. Terrified the past is repeating itself, Beatriz scrambles to uncover the mystery surrounding her sister's life and death?and build a future in which the niece she dearly loves is truly part of her family.

Download or read book Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili written by Babalwa Magoqwana and published by Mandela University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to create a systematic, eclectic, historical picture of the present and past women intellectuals, activists, artists, and cultural custodians. Using the concept of ‘ukufukama’ (incubate) we connect intergenerational knowledge transfer of our elders to the current struggles faced by the younger generation of women. We bring together different authors who engage the biographical and intellectual contributions of different African women and their imagination of the democratic South Africa. Writing about the various feminist intellectual traditions between the 19th and 21st centuries, this book systematically pulls together oral and creative texts to recover the memories of Nosuthu Jotelo, Sarah Baartman, Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Phyllis Ntantala, Brigalia Bam, Umntwana uMagogo, Miriam Makeba, Sibongile Khumalo, Lebo Mathosa, Thandiswa Mazwai, Celeste Ntuli, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Neo Mathabe among the lives and works covered here. This range of voices shows that intellectual work is varied and has the ability to sit alongside each other. It importantly shows that scholarship emerges through community and conversation, which is to say feminist histories are created and recreated through conversations that care about women’s voices, stories, and being in the world. Ultimately, we think of the women featured in this book as forming a lineage, a tradition of black women’s’ survival wisdom, which facilitated change and enduring, radical transformation that demands theorisation and celebration.

Download or read book Unsympathetic Magic written by Laura Resnick and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...gripping and enticing..." —Crash and Burn Reviews Acting jobs don't grow on fire escapes, so struggling actress Esther Diamond is outraged when her guest role as a hooker on controversial TV drama The Dirty Thirty is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse. Meanwhile, the talented teens Esther is coaching at a Harlem cultural center are also being attacked by the sinister supernatural power that's spreading through Manhattan. Since the show must go on, Esther boldly helps her friend, the 350-year-old sorcerer Dr. Maximillian Zadok, combat the Evil forces at work—all while attempting to salvage her love life with her would-be lover, Detective Connor Lopez. But will Esther's courage backfire and end up leading her to become a human sacrifice on the altar of the sinister supernatural powers that are taking over New York City? Unsympathetic Magic is the exciting third installment of the Esther Diamond series.

Download or read book Seven Wherewithal Way written by Samantha-Ellen Bound and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celeste is having the worst summer ever. Her parents are off on an adventure and she's stuck at Gran's house with her annoying little sister, Esme, and strict instructions to be responsible. Or, as Esme says, boring. So when their eccentric cousin Ferd crash-lands a flying bus in the yard, what choice does Celeste have but to follow Ferd back home to Seven Wherewithal Way? Wherewithal - the waypoint between the many magical realms unreachable from Earth - is bursting with magic and mystery and enchanting creatures. It's Celeste's favourite place in any world. But when something tries to break in through the portal in the pantry - the gateway to the mystical Realm of Forests - Celeste learns that both Wherewithal and her beloved cousin are under threat. If Celeste wants to save her cousin, their home, its inhabitants and possibly even all the realms, she is going to have to find her adventurous side. And she needs to find it fast.

Download or read book Alpha Markus Book 1 written by Emm E. Goshald and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of The Aztec Mates Series Celeste is the Alpha daughter of the Sky Moon Pack. Her parents were killed when she was just 8 years old by the Blood Moon Pack. For 11 years she lived as an omega even though she had Alpha blood running in her veins. Lying about her age, her rank and her broken gift, she lived life trying to protect the remaining members of her parent's pack without letting anyone find out who she really is. During the full moon party for the Blood Moon Alpha's daughter, Celeste's lie comes crumbling around her as she realizes that Alpha Markus, one of the guests, is her mate. Joining the Crescent Moon Pack with her mate has changed Celeste's life, but as truth of her past begins to come out, she and Alpha Markus find themselves in a battle for her life and the survival of her people. She finds out the secret of what is behind the tragedy that follows her Aztec blood line. Celeste and Markus will find themselves with enemies more powerful than your average greedy werewolf. Will Celeste and Markus' bond be enough to get them through the battles ahead. Join them in their journey to right the wrongs of things past, their present and to secure their future. Stary Writing Academy III Girl Power Chasing her Apollo

Download or read book Fated written by Ella A. Smyt and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being able to see is a gift most people have, but nobody is really watching. People guess how their lives are going to turn out, but nobody really knows what they are destined to do or who they are destined to be with. For Indigo Preston, being a seer is more blinding than helpful. She can see people's soulmates, their partners, their best friends, and most reviled of all, their murderers. That ability used to mean nothing to her until she met Celeste and Saxon. While Celeste's life is thrown into danger and Saxon's world comes to a grinding halt, Indigo must navigate a sticky web of future in which the three Fates have entwined her in. Fate can't be rewritten, but it can be destroyed.

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Download or read book The Fortune Hunter written by Suzy Spencer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true story of the murder of Texas multimillionaire Steven Beard, Jr. by his younger wife, Celeste, and Tracey Tarlton, a woman Celeste met in a psychiatric hospital. photos. Original.