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Book Marcus and Lionel

Download or read book Marcus and Lionel written by Ronne P. Randall and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stuffed animals belonging to a little girl, Marcus the teddy bear and Lionel the lion, look forward to moving day, but the two become separated on the journey to the country.

Book Love and Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Buckingham
  • Publisher : Harvard Business Press
  • Release : 2022-04-05
  • ISBN : 164782124X
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Love and Work written by Marcus Buckingham and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal bestseller World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love—what engages us and makes us thrive—and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you'll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team. Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews. Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you. Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you. Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives—our work, teams, and classrooms. It's time we brought love back in. Love and Work shows you how.

Book Art Politics And The Will

Download or read book Art Politics And The Will written by Lionel Trilling and published by . This book was released on 1977-09-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christmas Bite

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. Hamil
  • Publisher : Frog Haven Press
  • Release : 2018-11-20
  • ISBN : 0996374930
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Christmas Bite written by S. Hamil and published by Frog Haven Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the eldest brother of three orphaned dark vampire waifs, bound by a lifetime vow of service to protect the offspring of the Golden Vampire Monteleone family. This is a debt that Lionel Jett can never discharge. Phoebe Dominichelli is a nineteen year old virgin, a Golden who has not taken the turning and who appears identical to her ancient great-great-grandmother, Maria Monteleone. Lionel Jett once harbored a secret and platonic love for Maria, who died as a mortal over three centuries ago. The two vampire races are forbidden to mate, yet Phoebe and Lionel’s attraction risks their very souls. In addition, the war brewing between the two species threatens the entire vampire society. When the two worlds collide, who will win out? Will their brief affair be worth an eternity of damnation? Or, can duty and honor leave room for love or the possibility of a happily ever after?

Book National Theatre Connections 2011

Download or read book National Theatre Connections 2011 written by Sam Adamson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary school are just some of subjects covered in the thrilling and varied new plays created by talented writers for young actors to perform in National Theatre Connections 2011. The plays in this anthology offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. Themes are both teenage and universal - ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.

Book The Untold Journey

Download or read book The Untold Journey written by Natalie Robins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a famed 20th century, Jewish New York author and literary and social critic who struggled in the shadow of her husband. Diana Trilling’s life with Columbia University professor and literary critic Lionel Trilling was filled with secrets, struggles, and betrayals, and she endured what she called her “own private hell” as she fought to reconcile competing duties and impulses at home and at work. She was a feminist, yet she insisted that women’s liberation created unnecessary friction with men, asserting that her career ambitions should be on equal footing with caring for her child and supporting her husband. She fearlessly expressed sensitive, controversial, and moral views, and fought publicly with Lillian Hellman, among other celebrated writers and intellectuals, over politics. Diana Trilling was an anticommunist liberal, a position often misunderstood, especially by her literary and university friends. And finally, she was among the “New Journalists” who transformed writing and reporting in the 1960s, making her nonfiction as imaginative in style and scope as a novel. The first biographer to mine Diana Trilling’s extensive archives, Natalie Robins tells a previously undisclosed history of an essential member of New York City culture at a time of dynamic change and intellectual relevance. “Meticulously researched and documented, the biography is a detailed foray into the lives of a generation of writers and into the mind of literary critic, writer and intellectual Diana Trilling.”—Ms. “Robins does a solid job of rehabilitating a significant literary and cultural figure of the 20th century, a woman who spent much of her career in her husband’s shadow.”—Kirkus Reviews

Book The Amistad Rebellion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Rediker
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-11-26
  • ISBN : 014312398X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book The Amistad Rebellion written by Marcus Rediker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence and featuring vividly drawn portraits of the rebels, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, Rediker reframes the story to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course for freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This edition includes a new epilogue about the author's trip to Sierra Leona to search for Lomboko, the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated, and other relics and connections to the Amistad rebellion, especially living local memory of the uprising and the people who made it.

Book Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons

Download or read book Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons written by Marcus Garvey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves."—Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937 A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this volume is a collection of autobiographical and philosophical works produced by Garvey in the period from his imprisonment in Atlanta to his death in London in 1940.

Book CASTILLIA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina DesJardins
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2018-08-19
  • ISBN : 1642984965
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book CASTILLIA written by Christina DesJardins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castillia, once a beautiful medieval vacation world of Mother Earth. Until for some unknown reason all of the computers went down. And all contact with Mother Earth ceased. Chaos and war broke out across the planet. The strong preyed on the weak and evil reined. Now after four generations of war a tenuous peace is attained and the kingdom of Castillia is formed. Into this medieval world are born Jarod and Samantha. Friends since childhood they must now struggle with their growing feelings for each other. Facing many obstacles and misunderstandings as their love matures. And now a greater threat against them and the kingdom looms. Before it is too late can they beat this dangerous advisory and accept their love for each other. A love that was written in the stars.

Book Lionel Robbins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Howson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-09-30
  • ISBN : 1139501097
  • Pages : 1177 pages

Download or read book Lionel Robbins written by Susan Howson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his death the English economist Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was celebrated as a 'renaissance man'. He made major contributions to his own academic discipline and applied his skills as an economist not only to practical problems of economic policy – with conspicuous success when he served as head of the economists advising the wartime coalition government of Winston Churchill in 1940–45 – and of higher education – the 'Robbins Report' of 1963 – but also to the administration of the visual and performing arts that he loved deeply. He was devoted to the London School of Economics, from his time as an undergraduate following active service as an artillery officer on the Western Front in 1917–18, through his years as Professor of Economics (1929–62), and his stint as chairman of the governors during the 'troubles' of the late 1960s. This comprehensive biography, based on his personal and professional correspondence and other papers, covers all these many and varied activities.

Book Nine Lies About Work

Download or read book Nine Lies About Work written by Marcus Buckingham and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what you know about the world of work You crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies--distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking--that we encounter every time we show up for work. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be. But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These freethinking leaders recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness. They know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom and that evidence is more powerful than dogma. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matter most; that we should focus less on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real world of work, as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies About Work reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those who truly rely on you.

Book Unmasking Miss Appleby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Larkin
  • Publisher : Emily Larkin
  • Release : 2017-10-18
  • ISBN : 0994138407
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Unmasking Miss Appleby written by Emily Larkin and published by Emily Larkin. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One intrepid young lady, one imperiled earl, sundry nefarious villains … and a dash of dangerous magic. On her 25th birthday, Charlotte Appleby receives an unusual gift from the Faerie godmother she never knew she had: the ability to change shape. Penniless and orphaned, she sets off for London to make her fortune as a man. But a position as secretary to Lord Cosgrove proves unexpectedly challenging. Someone is trying to destroy Cosgrove and his life is increasingly in jeopardy. As Charlotte plunges into London’s backstreets at Cosgrove’s side, hunting his persecutor, she finds herself fighting for her life—and falling in love. The first novel in the wildly entertaining and multi award-winning Baleful Godmother series by USA TODAY bestselling author Emily Larkin. Length: Full-length novel of 94,000 words Sensuality level: A hot Regency romance with steamy love scenes If you love page-turning historical romances that keep you reading all night long, then this series is for you. Be swept into a Regency England brimming with passion and peril, adventure and romance, magic and love. Start this addictive series today!

Book 244 Years of Elcan Family History

Download or read book 244 Years of Elcan Family History written by Carl Coleman Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Elcan was born in 1750 in Prussia, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1785 and built Elk Hall in 1803 on his plantation in Buckingham County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Hooper (1768- 1836) in 1787. They had nine children. Lionel died in 1833. Traces nine generations of descendants.

Book Connections 500

    Book Details:
  • Author : Snoo Wilson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 1474284140
  • Pages : 752 pages

Download or read book Connections 500 written by Snoo Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department over the years, with the young performer in mind. In 2016, these plays were then performed by approximately 500 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional partner regional theatres at which the works were showcased. The anthology contains all 12 of the play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt; Simon Armitage; Jackie Kay; Patrick Marber; Mark Ravenhill; Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly; Davey Anderson; James Graham; Katori Hall; Carl Grose; Stacey Gregg; and Lucinda Coxon.

Book Death with a Double Edge

Download or read book Death with a Double Edge written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Headline Publishing Group, London, in 2020"--Copyright page.

Book Enlarging America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susanne Klingenstein
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1998-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780815605409
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Enlarging America written by Susanne Klingenstein and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain. Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique intellectual paths taken by scholars such as Harry Levin, Daniel Aaron, M. H. Abrams, Leo Marx, and Sacvan Bercovitch. At Columbia University, Klingenstein argues that the singular Jewish presence of Lionel Trilling shaped the minds and inspired the careers of Jewish intellectuals as different as Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz, Steven Marcus, and Carolyn Heilbrun. Once Jewish scholars had attained a strong foothold in literary academe, pioneering spirits such as Robert Alter and Ruth R. Wisse turned their attention from English and American to Jewish literature in Hebrew and Yiddish. Written as an interconnected series of twelve lucid and compelling portraits of major figures in the history of American literary criticism, this book illuminates the element of serendipity in culture-formation and exposes the social and intellectual forces at work in cultural change.

Book Secrets of Eden  Enhanced Edition

Download or read book Secrets of Eden Enhanced Edition written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Crown/Archetype. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced edition of Secrets of Eden includes the following exclusive materials: a nine-minute video, an original essay by the author, a Q&A with the author, a reader’s group guide, and sample chapters from Chris Bohjalian’s bestselling novels Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, Idyll Banter, The Buffalo Soldier, Trans-Sister Radio, The Law of Similars, and Midwives. From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. "There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels. Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen – who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him. But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, “Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect.”