Download or read book Planet Palm written by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism In the tradition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environment and global health—from the James Beard Award–winning journalist Over the past few decades, palm oil has seeped into every corner of our lives. Worldwide, palm oil production has nearly doubled in just the last decade: oil-palm plantations now cover an area nearly the size of New Zealand, and some form of the commodity lurks in half the products on U.S. grocery shelves. But the palm oil revolution has been built on stolen land and slave labor; it’s swept away cultures and so devastated the landscapes of Southeast Asia that iconic animals now teeter on the brink of extinction. Fires lit to clear the way for plantations spew carbon emissions to rival those of industrialized nations. James Beard Award–winning journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This groundbreaking work of first-rate journalism compels us to examine the connections between the choices we make at the grocery store and a planet under siege.

Download or read book Maximize Your Potential written by Jocelyn K. Glei and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've entered an exhilarating new era of self-invention. With access to new resources, technologies, and connectivity, you no longer have to rely on traditional channels to craft an incredible career. But surviving and thriving in this new landscape requires a highly proactive approach. Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest. About 99U 99U is Behance's effort to deliver the "missing curriculum" that you didn't get in school, highlighting best practices for making ideas happen. We do this through interviews, articles, and videos on our Webby Award-winning website at 99u.com, our annual 99U Conference in New York City, our bestselling book Making Ideas Happen, and our ongoing 99U book series, which includes Manage Your Day-to-Day and this audiobook, Maximize Your Potential. About Behance Behance, the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work, is on a mission to empower the creative world. Creatives from across industries use Behance to gain exposure, attribution, and opportunity. Behance also powers portfolio display for thousands of other websites around the web, including AdWeek, RISD, and the National Design Awards. Companies and enthusiasts around the globe use Behance to track and engage top talent. As an extension of our mission, we created 99U to foster new research and education on best practices for making ideas happen. Since its founding in 2009, 99U has grown to encompass a popular annual conference, a Webby Award-winning website, and this ongoing audiobook series. Behance is a proud member of the Adobe family.

Download or read book Jocelyn written by Wanda Palmer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelyn Meyers met Mark Denton, a gentleman navy officer from New Mexico while she s at a high school graduation party at Penny s Club with her close friend Marcie Rogers. Little did she know, her acquaintance with him will not only spark the beginning of a beautiful friendship but will also change both of their lives forever. In so many ways, Jocelyn and Mark were opposites. He was shy. She was gregarious. He needed time to himself. She found people interesting and exhilarating but did not mind being alone with her own thoughts. He liked to grow things and usually had a plant in his quarters. Mark took Jocelyn and her three brothers (Matthew, James, and Robert) to New Mexico to show them his world as a Navajo. On the other hand, Mark wanted to find out if Jocelyn could accept his family the same way he accepted hers. He had fallen in love with Jocelyn and wanted her to be his wife. But she never thought of their relationship as more than friendship. Did she really want to spend the rest of her life with Mark? What was it like to be in love with a Navajo man? Was she ready to commit to him?

Download or read book Unsubscribe written by Jocelyn K Glei and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters. Let's face it: Email is killing our productivity. The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends 28 percent of their total workweek managing their inbox. What was once a powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety, and distraction from our work. Unsubscribe will show you how to tame your inbox and reclaim your focus, with tips on how to: Break free from email addiction and the "inbox zero" obsession Build a daily email routine that reduces stress and anxiety Process your inbox based on what (and who) really matters to you Write messages that get people to pay attention and take action Set boundaries and say "no" to time-wasting distractions Plan your day around meaningful work -- not busywork Productivity isn't about just "keeping busy," it's about leaving a legacy. Are you ready to Unsubscribe?

Download or read book The Boy from the Forge written by Matt Brandt and published by Chloris Books. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max and Del did everything together. They bought the same bikes, wore the same clothes, and competed with one another as best friends often do in high school. As their summer together looms on the horizon, and the school year comes to an end, their friendship is tested when Max realizes their blue-collar upbringing in New Athens provides a life of limitations he didn’t imagine. His only escape from it is in his true feelings for Annika, who he can’t be with. To prevent any wrongdoing, Max forms a simple plan: To find a way to free himself from his working class destiny after high school for something greater than what’s in Milltown.

Download or read book Off the Record written by Jocelyn Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Monticello written by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle "...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." — The Washington Post Winner of the Weatherford Award in Fiction A winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book Awards A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.” United by these characters’ relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable book that bears witness to this country’s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.

Download or read book The Black Swan Files 002 Glisten written by Tricia Cerrone and published by Mystic Butterfly, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Award-Winning Series is back! She is known as Project Sunday to her former government captors—a human-enhanced teen transformed by a black swan event. She was their most valuable asset—until she escaped. Now, only one thing is certain…Jocelyn has no intention of ever going back. Graeme knew Jocelyn was special the first time he met her. Then, leaping from his Porsche to take down a drone, she pretty much sealed the deal. Months later, she has returned to his life and trouble is not far behind. But how do you help someone who won't tell you the truth, is constantly on the move, and has a best friend you want to punch in the face? As the stakes increase and his family is at risk, Graeme must decide one thing...whose side is he on? Finally in New York, Jocelyn is eager to reach her brother and sister, but nothing works out as she hoped. She has no way to prove who she is, there's a serial killer who wants her dead, her nemesis now controls her former handler, and the mastermind of it all is toying with her. Amidst everything, she is trying to survive in the “real world,” help her family in secret, and navigate her first shot at romance. Thankfully, she has friends with skills. It will take all of them to stop the government's latest plot. But at what cost? A fast-paced adventure! – USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Maureen A. Miller

Download or read book The Discursive Construction of Second Language Learners Motivation written by Mingyue Gu and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This longitudinal qualitative study explores the motivation and identity development of students in a comprehensive university who are learning English as a second language (L2). It is set in the contemporary People's Republic of China, where dramatic sociocultural, political and economical changes are taking place. Multiple research methods, including interviews, diary studies and recorded interactions, are employed. The author considers in her study both the impact of broader issues such as globalization and more local social development on language learners at tertiary-level in China, and the effects of discourse and community in constructing motivation. This study combines detailed linguistic analysis with sociocultural theory, together with the concept of communities of practice. In so doing, the author investigates the social, historical, linguistic and individualistic factors that combine dynamically over time to co-construct learners' motivation. A critical discourse analysis approach to exploring language learner motivation presents an enhanced understanding of the relationship between motivation and interaction, providing a line of enquiry and manifold new insights.

Download or read book Prize Package written by Catherine Runyon and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelyn Wentworth likes to take one day at a time. She's willing to live from paycheck to paycheck, although the pay that comes from her work as a full-time contest participant is often inconsistent. When Austin VanDoran, a staid, careful-to-the-point-of-boring postman enters her life, there is an unlikely but immediate attraction between them. Suddenly Austin is losing grip on his carefully organized life, and Joclelyn is taking a closer look at her own lifestyle. The differences in their personalities, however, threaten to snuff out that small flame of love.

Download or read book Island Girl written by Lynda Simmons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are people who try hard to forget their problems. All Ruby wants to do is remember... Ruby Donaldson has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, and she'll be damned if she won't straighten out her troubled family before she no longer knows how. Ruby spent years fighting to hold on to the home her grandmother built on Ward's Island. The only way she can ensure that her younger, mentally scarred daughter Grace can live there for the rest of her life is to convince her older daughter, Liz, to sober up and come home. Ruby always thought she'd have a lifetime to make things right, but suddenly time is running out. She has to put her broken family back together quickly while searching for a way to deal with the inevitable- and do it with all the grit, stubbornness, and unstoppable determination that makes Ruby who she is...until she's Ruby no longer.

Download or read book The Grave for Bad Memories Full Circle written by K.J. Wallace and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unconditional Love The saga continues in the lives of longtime friends Gerald and Catherine. On December 23, 1984, Catherine Russell marries her best friend, Gerald Lucas. Shortly after theyre married, a lover from Geralds past makes her presence known and causes Catherine to doubt his fidelity. Will old lovers threaten their marriage? While dealing with this drama, an internal affairs agent constantly rehashes the tragic events surrounding Catherines mothers death. Will her unwarranted inquiries into their past jeopardize Geralds career in law enforcement? Over the years, Catherine refused to discuss the traumatic events of her childhood. Ultimately, a secret that she has kept for more than twenty years is revealed, and she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. Will this secret tear the family apart?

Download or read book Jocelyn S Journey written by Elizabeth Jones and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeths oldest daughter, Jocelyn, was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating neurological disorder known as Rett syndrome. Since that instant, Elizabeth has been on the front lines of a battle to find a cure. Without the deep pockets of big pharmaceutical companies, she has orchestrated a grassroots fundraising army that is poised to beat the odds and cure her daughter and thousands of others. Jocelyns Journey exposes the devastating struggles a special-needs family experiences: physical struggles of an ill child, marital struggles, struggles to fit in with society, and struggles with questioning faith. Jocelyns Journey tells of how Elizabeth and her family have overcome hurdles and found faith in adversity. It will leave you with an overwhelming hope for their future and yours.

Download or read book Meet Me in Barefoot Bay written by Roxanne St. Claire and published by Forever. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with two "lovely, lush, and layered" beach romances from a renowned New York Times bestselling author (Kristan Higgins) — together for the first time in print! Barefoot in the Sand When a hurricane roars through Lacey Armstrong's home, she decides the rubble is a chance to finally achieve her dreams. Nothing is going to distract her from running her own hotel—not even the hot, younger architect eager to work alongside her. Both have experienced heartbreak in the past, but after meeting Lacey, Clay Walker can't imagine his life without her. Clay has until the end of the project to build Lacey's trust in their future together—one that will last forever. Barefoot in the Rain When scandal strikes for celebrity life coach Jocelyn Bloom, she hides in the one place no one would think to search: Barefoot Bay. But her hometown is nothing like she remembers. Her father is a shell of the man he once was, and Will Palmer, the man who broke her heart, is his caretaker. Jocelyn's return brings back old feelings for them both, but her presence also unearths the turmoil that once led to her leaving. Jocelyn has guided countless clients to happiness-but can she and Will learn to let go of their own past to find a sunny new future together?

Download or read book The Galaxy written by William Conant Church and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls written by Wendy Delsol and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling novel about a bed-and-breakfast that houses three generations of women- and their many secrets. In the early 1960s, Ruby, a spunky unwed teen mother, was wooed and won over by the founder of the McCloud Home. Now, forty years later, the historic property has been converted into an inn that Ruby runs with one of her daughters, Jill. When Jill's fourteen-year-old daughter begins to search for the identity of her father, she sets in motion events that will test the bonds that bind mothers, daughters, and sisters. Jill unwittingly aids the forces of upheaval when she agrees to host the wake of the town matriarch. As the guests-including the matriarch's handsome son and Jill's vivacious, irresponsible sister Jocelyn- return to the small town, the convergence of people and memories uncovers rivalries, sparks romance, recalls heartbreak, and reveals a shocking family secret, one that could separate the McCloud women forever or lead them to the renewal of their powerful, enduring connection.

Download or read book A Promise Worth Keeping written by Jill Lyna’ Albanys and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspirational novel, Alex wonders if there will ever be a place she would truly belong as she realizes she just cant fit into the stuffy confines of the social ton in France. When Alex is faced with her mothers death and her betrothal to a man she despises, her life changes suddenly. She finds herself on an adventure that leads her to tumultuous seas, abduction and other faith testing obstacles. A Promise Worth Keeping is filled with intrigue, romance, and a message that reminds the reader to keep believing that the events in our lives will somehow work together in a greater plan designed by the One that always has our good in mind.