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Book Keep the Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harley J. Spiller
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2015-03-10
  • ISBN : 1616894199
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Keep the Change written by Harley J. Spiller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.

Book Keep the Change

Download or read book Keep the Change written by Steve Dublanica and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the irreverent spirit of A.J. Jacobs and Michael Moore, Keep the Change by Steve Dublanica is a pavement-pounding exploration of tipping, a huge but neglected part of the American economy—the hilarious and eye-opening follow-up to his smash-hit New York Times bestseller Waiter Rant. Subtitled “A Clueless Tipper’s Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity,” Keep the Change follows the popular blogger known as “the Waiter” from restaurant to casino to strip club and beyond as he explores what to tip and how tipping truly plays out in practice in a series of candid, funny, and sometimes uproariously cringe-inducing adventures.

Book Waiter Rant

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Dublanica
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061801232
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Waiter Rant written by Steve Dublanica and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places. Through outrageous stories, The Waiter reveals the secrets to getting good service, proper tipping etiquette, and how to keep him from spitting in your food. The Waiter also shares his ongoing struggle, at age thirty-eight, to figure out if he can finally leave the first job at which he's truly thrived.

Book Keep the Change

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  • Author : Becky Tirabassi
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 2008-09-08
  • ISBN : 1418574384
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Keep the Change written by Becky Tirabassi and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving goals in life, love, and work is only half the battle. To make permanent transformation last, you have to make change a way of life. This revolutionary book is the answer. The strategies, if dilligently followed, will result in positive and permanent change in any area of personal development.

Book Keep the Change

Download or read book Keep the Change written by E. Kristina Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristina Taylor is a born storyteller and reading her "Keep the Change" stories and poetry is reminiscent of those porch-sitting days when the tales of relatives evoked both giggles and snuffles. Taylor's poetry expresses delicate sentiments about her son, John, and the rich Sioux City antics of her stepfather in A Cowboy Named Jack. Short stories tell of Amanda's frustrating relationship with her Southern Belle mother, to the Saucier boys skinny dipping in Rouse's pond. Taylor's impressive debut collection mixes relaxed storytelling of small-town life with keen insights into the human condition.

Book Keep the Change

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  • Author : M.C. (Bo) Olson
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2009-08-11
  • ISBN : 1440145601
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Keep the Change written by M.C. (Bo) Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS NOVEL WAS MUSCLE TESTED AT A REMARKABLE 474 LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITH KINESIOLOGY. Keep the Change explains a fictional world where the monetary system has collapsed and the implications are just beginning to materialize. Can we survive? If we do survive, what will our world look like, feel like, etc? Is there something that could take its place? The planet stops dead silent still and waits for direction of how to reshape the new world. The old monetary exchange system refuses to heal, cant be fixed. In Keep the Change, we follow the stories of Able and Ted through the maze of a new perspective where man and machine become partners in the search and restore or find another solution. The quandary that the collapse of the monetary system creates, mirrors events in todays world. As the characters converge on an unexpected discovery, the question that must be answered is; will this be the best solution to resolve the global crisis so that all can move ahead or not! The book is fiction, visionary and metaphysical and relates to anyone who uses money in their everyday life. With all of the controversy concerning countries and governments about debt and policy I'm surprised that society hasn't placed this novel on the best sellers' list. One review explained it would make a great movie or series.

Book Keep the Change

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  • Author : Thomas McGuane
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-02-06
  • ISBN : 0307832236
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Keep the Change written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant story of one man’s struggle to change his life, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, is “full of wry wit and graceful depictions of family relations, first love and the stark beauty of the Montana prairie” (Wall Street Journal). Joe Starling, a man teetering on the edge of spectacular failures—as an artist, rancher, lover, and human being—is also a man of noble ambitions. His struggle to right himself is mesmerizing, hilarious, and profoundly moving. "No American novelist provides greater pleasure—sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page—than this Montana icon." —Chicago Sun-Times

Book Keep the Change

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  • Author : Michele Heeney
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009-04
  • ISBN : 0578022184
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Keep the Change written by Michele Heeney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Michele Heeney's second book of poems and photos. She has lived in Marin and Monterey counties of California, and also Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti Reservation, just south of santa Fe, in the little town of Cochiti Lake.

Book Change Your Life  and Keep the Change

Download or read book Change Your Life and Keep the Change written by Gary Dooley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively written book shows us how to use our unconscious mind to re-connect with our powerful inner resources of guidance and wisdom. Through a simple step by step process the book teaches each reader how to rewrite the programmes of the unconscious mind to create powerful and lasting change at any level of our being. At a time when overall levels of happiness seem to be falling, this book moves innovatively away from the tired notions of trying hard to resist negative thinking patterns and shows how anyone can easily and quickly change the programmes of their unconscious mind to effortlessly create greater overall happiness and the life we really want. Influenced by ground breaking discoveries in Mind/Body research each chapter provides simple and practical skills with which to harness the untapped power of our mind and live happier healthier lives.

Book You Can t Keep the Change

Download or read book You Can t Keep the Change written by Peter Cheyney and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels - heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for £100,000 - have disappeared. With his assistant, Windermere Nikolls, he discovers some startling facts - particularly about the lovely Esme Vendayne - and the mystery leads Callaghan to a shady London nightclub and a violent underworld.

Book Keep The Change

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  • Author : Nirupama Subramaniam
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-01-12
  • ISBN : 9350292815
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Keep The Change written by Nirupama Subramaniam and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncoolness of her name plagues B. Damayanthi, along with the bunch of unsuitable prospective husbands her Amma throws at her, a dead-end job as an accountant in a decrepit firm, the oppressiveness of Chennai. When she finally jettisons her job and some of her inhibitions to join a bank in Mumbai, Amma's parting words are: 'Be good. Don't do anything silly.' Translation: 'Stay away from sex and alcohol! ' Soon Damayanthi is negotiating competitive corporate corridors and big-city life. Aided by dubious words of wisdom from the cherub-faced Jimmy, she must impress the intellectual C.G., who has a low opinion of her; battle Sonya Sood, flatmate and size-zero sophisticate, for the TV remote; choose between resisting or giving in to temptation in the form of the seductive Rahul; deal with the moral dilemma of 'stealing' a million-dollar idea for her project. Can a good girl have a really good time? Can the conservative, curd-rice-eating Damayanthi become a cool, corporate babe? Keep the Change is a rollicking, wickedly witty story of every girl's journey to fulfil her dreams and find her own place in the world.

Book Change Your Life  and Keep the Change

Download or read book Change Your Life and Keep the Change written by Gary Dooley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our unconscious mind is running every one of our emotions. This book teaches us how to change the running order.

Book Keep Moving

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  • Author : Maggie Smith
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 1982132086
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Keep Moving written by Maggie Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?

Book Change with Confidence

Download or read book Change with Confidence written by Phil Buckley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE “Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence in order to succeed. Rare too for an author in this field, he shares the ‘how-not-to’ as well as the ‘how-to.’ This is a book any manager wanting to succeed in change should keep close by.” — Professor Chris Bones, Dean Emeritus, Henley Business School; Professor of Leadership, University of Manchester; and award-winning author of The Cult of the Leader “Phil Buckley’s book gives excellent, practical advice on how to implement change in any private or public organization. What makes Change with Confidence so special is that it is organized around questions that anybody who is engaged in or leading change management will find to be key to their success. The real-life examples given for each question make this a very readable book. A must-buy for anybody who wants to avoid the most common mistakes in change management.” — Stefan A. Bomhard, President, Europe, Bacardi Martini Group “Change with Confidence provides leaders and leaders of change with a wealth of knowledge and experience that they can apply to their own change initiatives, and the real-world examples provide additional clarity on how to successfully manage or avoid common pitfalls.” — David Sculthorpe, CEO, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Change Management is about helping people decide to change successfully If you have been charged with leading a change initiative, chances are you were chosen for the job—that is, you didn’t volunteer, but rather were tapped to lead or manage a large change project. You may have been given a short briefing and left to your own devices to succeed or fail in an uncertain, often threatening, environment. You may find yourself struggling to adapt your skill set to unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing conditions, conscious that your performance will affect your future career paths. Change with Confidence addresses the 50 biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well, and to enable successful, sustainable change. Whether you’re trying to figure it out, are in the planning stage, are actively managing or are working to make it stick, you’ll find guidance for a wide range of issues, including: Analyzing previous change initiatives to see what worked, what didn’t, and why Finding out who can influence your success or failure, help you, or trip you up Determining what resources you’ll need and how to get them Overcoming change fatigue and opposition to change. Although every change has its own circumstances, there are proven processes, tactics, and behaviors that lead to lasting success. Change with Confidence offers practical, experience-based advice on a difficult and stressful challenge.

Book Switch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chip Heath
  • Publisher : Crown Currency
  • Release : 2010-02-16
  • ISBN : 030759016X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Switch written by Chip Heath and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly. In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results: • The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients • The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping • The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.

Book All We Can Save

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  • Author : Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
  • Publisher : One World
  • Release : 2021-07-20
  • ISBN : 0593237080
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book All We Can Save written by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it’s a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone. All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States—scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race—and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save. With essays and poems by: Emily Atkin • Xiye Bastida • Ellen Bass • Colette Pichon Battle • Jainey K. Bavishi • Janine Benyus • adrienne maree brown • Régine Clément • Abigail Dillen • Camille T. Dungy • Rhiana Gunn-Wright • Joy Harjo • Katharine Hayhoe • Mary Annaïse Heglar • Jane Hirshfield • Mary Anne Hitt • Ailish Hopper • Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe • Emily N. Johnston • Joan Naviyuk Kane • Naomi Klein • Kate Knuth • Ada Limón • Louise Maher-Johnson • Kate Marvel • Gina McCarthy • Anne Haven McDonnell • Sarah Miller • Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset • Susanne C. Moser • Lynna Odel • Sharon Olds • Mary Oliver • Kate Orff • Jacqui Patterson • Leah Penniman • Catherine Pierce • Marge Piercy • Kendra Pierre-Louis • Varshini • Prakash • Janisse Ray • Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez • Favianna Rodriguez • Cameron Russell • Ash Sanders • Judith D. Schwartz • Patricia Smith • Emily Stengel • Sarah Stillman • Leah Cardamore Stokes • Amanda Sturgeon • Maggie Thomas • Heather McTeer Toney • Alexandria Villaseñor • Alice Walker • Amy Westervelt • Jane Zelikova

Book Leading Change

Download or read book Leading Change written by John P. Kotter and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.