Download or read book What Matters Now What Can t You Hear written by Daniela Cascella and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Matters Now? (What Can't You Hear?) is an anthology of 16 newly-commissioned texts on listening. Texts by Cheryl Tipp, Chiara Guidi, David Toop, Francesco Tenaglia, Helena Hunter, Ivan Carozzi, James Wilkes, Luciano Chessa, Mike Cooper, Patrick Farmer, Salome Voegelin, Sandra Jasper, Simone Bertuzzi, Stefano Scalich, Steve Roden, Tone Gellein.
Download or read book What Matters Now written by Gary Hamel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one looks, one sees the exceptional and the extraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save off senescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolistic strongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creative work. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs and complacent boards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beings connect, learn and collaborate. Obviously, there are lots of things that matter now. But in a world of fractured certainties and battered trust, some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere who are eager to... move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company that's truly fit for the future Concise and to the point, the book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead.
Download or read book What Matters Now written by Gareth O'Callaghan and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Heart-breaking and uplifting, I defy anyone to read this memoir and not be affected by O'Callaghan's honesty and humanity' Irish Times In 2018, after receiving a life-changing diagnosis, broadcaster Gareth O'Callaghan retired from full-time work and gave up the career that he had loved for decades. In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir he tells that story, from the moments after his doctor uttered the words Multiple System Atrophy - a progressive and incurable neurological disease that ultimately carries a fatal prognosis - to his struggle to come to terms with a life unplanned. Recounted with insight and searing honesty, What Matters Now reveals how, regardless of circumstance, we can choose how we live, to the fullest. A stunning and life-affirming account of the power of the human spirit, and the potential for hope even in the darkest times. "For me, this is not a choice. It's all I want, namely a full and loving life that I strive to choose every day over everything else - considering that maybe the big odds are heavily stacked against that. But I don't care what the odds might be; I'll keep defying them for as long as I can keep fighting and living."
Download or read book You Matter written by and published by SGM Lifewords. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The message "You matter to God" is presented using the parable of the Prodigal Son. Cartoon. Age range: Children, Youth, Adults
Download or read book Another Kind of Diamond written by Gloria Obizu and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book for everyone Another kind of Diamond discuses a girl who had to go through the horrible ordeal of abuse and neglect in the hands of her parents. However, as we read we discover that even though her up-bringing was nothing to write home about yet she had ample opportunities to make all wrongs right. For instance she is gifted in physical and intellectual abilities. Granted the chance for a fresh start, a good husband, even loyal friends at some other points and wealth too, but she stuck to self destructive ways and ended her life in ruin.
Download or read book The Political Possibility of Sound written by Salomé Voegelin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for a discussion on the possibility of the political that includes creativity and invention, and articulates a politics that imagines transformation and the desire to embrace a connected and collaborative world. The themes of these essays emerge from and deepen discussions started in Voegelin's previous books, Listening to Noise and Silence and Sonic Possible Worlds. Continuing the methodological juxtaposition of phenomenology and logic and writing from close sonic encounters each represents a fragment of listening to a variety of sound works, to music, the acoustic environment and to poetry, to hear their possibilities and develop words for what appears impossible. As fragments of writing they respond to ideas on geography and migration, bring into play formless subjectivities and trans-objective identities, and practice collectivity and a sonic cosmopolitanism through the hearing of shared volumes. They involve the unheard and the in-between to contribute to current discussions on new materialism, and perform vertical readings to reach the depth of sound.
Download or read book Meet Me in Barcelona written by Mary Carter and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer's current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn't just Grace's foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend--until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her. Despite her initial misgivings, Grace wants to help. But then Carrie Ann and Jake both go missing. Stunned and confused, Grace begins to realize how much of herself she's kept from Jake--and how much of Carrie Ann she never understood. Soon Grace is baited into following a trail of scant clues across Spain, determined to find the truth, even if she must revisit her troubled past to do it. . . Mary Carter's intriguing novel delves into the complexities of childhood bonds, the corrosive weight of guilt and blame, and all the ways we try--and often fail--to truly know the ones we love. Praise for Mary Carter "A touching novel." --Publishers Weekly on The Things I Do For You "This is guaranteed to become one of the books on your shelf that you'll want to read again." --The Free Lance-Star on The Pub Across the Pond
Download or read book The Multisensory Museum written by Nina Levent and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research in the cognitive sciences gives us a new perspective on the cognitive and sensory landscape. In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space,museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at the creation of memories through different types of sensory engagement with objects, and how these memories in turn affect our next cultural experience. An anthropological perspective on the history of our multisensory engagement with ritual and art objects, especially in cultures that did not privilege sight over other senses, allows us a glimpse of what museums might become in the future. Education researchers discover museums as unique educational playgrounds that allow for a variety of learning styles, active and passive exploration, and participatory learning. Designers and architects suggest a framework for thinking about design solutions for a museum environment that invites an intuitive, multisensory and flexible exploration, as well as minimizes physical hurdles. While attention has been paid to accessibility for the physically-impaired since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, making buildings accessible is only the first small step in elevating museums to be centers of learning and culture for all members of their communities. This landmark book will help all museums go much further.
Download or read book Out and About written by Staci Troilo and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom From Jail. Freedom From Family. Jensen Keller covets freedom. He’s abided by his father’s wishes for years, until the one time he rebelled, and it nearly lost him his family. Now he’s summoned back to Cathedral Lake only to discover freedom has been granted to the one person who should be denied it—Wade Unger, the man responsible for his sister’s death. Bella Perish wants nothing more than to be free from her domineering father. In an unexpected turn of events, she’s not only granted that freedom—autonomy is forced on her... at the cost of her budding relationship with Jensen. As she works to repair the relationships that matter most to her, her newfound independence is compromised. Worse, her very life is threatened. An account of repression, revelation, bravery, and contrition, Out and About chronicles the merits and miseries of freedoms denied and gained.
Download or read book The Bell Ringers written by Henry Porter and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupt prime minister uses current anti-terror laws to Orwellian extremes in this “sophisticated, engrossing, and important political thriller” (The Washington Post). In a near-future England, there are still concerns about terrorism, the press is still feisty, and the prime minister is about to call a general election. But unknown even to most government officials, new technology and anti-terror laws have been used to establish unprecedented control over the lives of ordinary citizens. A top-secret data-mining system known as Deep Truth combs through personal records, identifying law violators as well as anyone disposed to “antigovernment” beliefs. David Eyam was once the prime minister’s head of intelligence, but after a mysterious fall from grace, he was killed by a terrorist bomb while on vacation in Colombia. Now his former lover, Kate Lockhart, has been named the benefactor of his estate. But Eyam has left her more than just wealth; Lockhart is also heir to his dangerous secrets. “North by Northwest meets House of Cards . . . Porter claims that the novel is set in the near future. Don’t be fooled.” —Cullen Murphy, Vanity Fair “Scary, informative, and, alas, eminently believable.” —The Economist “Superb.” —Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe
Download or read book The Doon Diaries Part 1 The Dream written by Meenal Panwar Sharma and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mishika took a life-changing decision because of a boy she met in her dream. She thought her reality was better until she realizes the forests of an unknown land had been waiting for her to come back. The bond between them is bizarre. How? They don't know. Why? They don't know. It's a tale of her choices, her connection and her past.
Download or read book Rite of Honour written by Alison Buckley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned to an honour killing after Uday Hussein and his henchmen rape her during the 1990s Iraqi-Kurdish war, Evin Feili flees to the northern Iraqi camp of Kurdish guerrilla fighters. Distinguishing herself in combat and intelligence operations in eastern Turkey, she returns to find the rebels have recruited Mehrdad Hassan, a former Israeli spy whom she suspects her father has hired to vindicate his honour. Driven to avenge her ordeal, she leads a victorious womens fighting unit against ISIS forces in Syria, aiding the rebels declaration of autonomy. Peace with Turkey then leaves Evin to pursue her own and Kurdistans honour deep inside Iran. Based on the Kurdish peoples struggle for self-determination and human rights in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, Rite of Honour reflects the lives of thousands of Middle Eastern women.
Download or read book A Dance of Chaos written by David Dalglish and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish Fear comes from the hands of prophets. . . The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to obtain. The Trifect is their next target, and Alyssa Gemcroft must reach out to whatever allies she can obtain, even if it means casting aside longtime friends. As the chaos grows, so does the power of the dark god Karak who lays siege to Veldaren. If the city falls, the world will suffer greatly. The legendary Thren Felhorn, broken, guileless, and rejected by his own son, holds the fate of the entire city in his hands. Unless Haern can stop his father, Thren will at last have the legacy of fire and destruction he has always desired. Father or son; some choices must be made in blood. Fantasy author David Dalglish spins a tale of retribution and darkness, and an underworld reaching for ultimate power.
Download or read book Star Trek McCoy 3 written by John Byrne and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A planet at war -- but all is not as it seems. Especially not when Dr. McCoy finds himself face to face with someone who seems to be from the wrong century! This issue picks up threads from both the Assignment: Earth and Crew minis.
Download or read book Star Trek Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor written by John Byrne and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His friend James T. Kirk has been promoted to Admiral, the U.S.S. Enterprise is in space dock for a refit, so McCoy is on his own as a member of the Frontier Medics Program in this collection of lively tales written and illustrated by John Byrne. Share the adventure as Bones confronts a mysterious plague on a distant world, contends with his growing distaste for the transporter, fights a virus that just might be smarter than he is, and wrestles with a dilemma that cuts to the very heart of his Hippocratic Oath. Along the way pick up story threads from Byrne's other Star Trek series, Assignment: Earth and Crew
Download or read book Orphan Dinah written by Eden Phillpotts and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a heartfelt journey through the poignant tale of "Orphan Dinah" by Eden Phillpotts. Follow the story of a young girl, orphaned and alone, as she navigates the trials and tribulations of life in a small village. But amidst the hardships, a glimmer of hope emerges: Could Dinah's resilience hold the key to her survival? Join Dinah as she discovers the true meaning of family and friendship in unexpected places. Each chapter unfolds with gripping emotion, drawing you deeper into Dinah's world with every turn of the page. As you journey alongside Dinah, you'll find yourself questioning the power of love and the strength of the human spirit. Could Dinah's story be a reflection of our own struggles and triumphs? Are you prepared to embark on a journey of courage, resilience, and hope with "Orphan Dinah"? Immerse yourself in the timeless tale of a young girl's quest for belonging and acceptance. Let Dinah's story inspire you to embrace life's challenges with unwavering determination. Experience the transformative power of storytelling. Join Dinah on her journey today and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary in "Orphan Dinah." Open your heart to the beauty of resilience. Purchase "Orphan Dinah" now and embark on a journey that will stay with you long after the final page.
Download or read book Electronic Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
