Download or read book Diane A Signature Life written by Diane von Furstenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frank and compelling story of an extraordinary woman and her adventures in fashion, business, and life. “Most fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince. That's where mine began,” says Diane Von Furstenberg. Von Furstenberg lived the American Dream before she was thirty, building a multimillion-dollar fashion empire while raising two children and living life in the fast lane. Her wrap dress, a cultural phenomenon in the seventies, hangs in the Smithsonian Institution; her entry into the beauty business in 1979 was as serendipitous and as successful. Von Furstenberg learned her trade in the trenches, crisscrossing the country to make personal appearances at department stores, selling her dresses and cosmetics. That business had its ups and downs, as the fashionista entrepreneur’s unparalleled success became the source of its own undoing and she contended with bankruptcy, the loss of her business, and finally a complete self-reinvention that took her back to the top of the industry. This revealing and contemplative memoir works to make sense of the contradictions of the author’s life: glamour vs. hard work, European vs. American, daughter of a Holocaust survivor vs. wife of an Austro-Italian prince, mother vs. entrepreneur, lover vs. tycoon. She emerges wiser, stronger, and ever more determined never to sacrifice her passion for life.

Download or read book Your Signature Life written by Dianna Daniels Booher and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we all lived our daily lives so that we could be proud to add our signature to it at the end of the day-just as an artist or novelist signs a finished piece of work? When a craftsman signs his work, he's making a statement: “I'm taking ownership. This is my personal best at this moment.” Your Signature Life encourages us to give God the very best of ourselves at work, at home, and in relationships, through the choices we make every day.

Download or read book John Hancock written by Philip Koslow and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the colonial statesman, merchant, and patriot who became prominent during the American Revolution.

Download or read book Style Therapy written by Lauren Messiah and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to be the best-dressed in the room! Personal styling and life coaching come together in this action-filled guide to curating a closet that supports your goals and takes the stress out of getting dressed. Hollywood stylist-turned-entrepreneur Lauren Messiah helps you identify and clear the roadblocks that hold you back from putting the best (and best-dressed) version of yourself out into the world. Style Therapy is your thirty-day action plan to define and build your style week by week. You'll learn how to: Shop like a stylist and make your shopping trips quick, easy, and efficient. Find clothes that actually fit you, and end dressing room frustration forever. Choose the perfect outfit from your closet in five minutes flat. Keep your look fresh and your style up-to-date from season to season, without having to reinvent the wheel every few months. Slipping back into bad habits is no longer an option. This guide breaks down the process into manageable, helpful, and encouraging steps to help you redefine your personal style!

Download or read book Your Signature Path written by Geoffrey Bellman and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provacative book invites us to look at our lives as individual and unique paths we make in the world and leave behind after we are gone. It is written for people who want to live their lives "thoughtfully", who want to be proud of how they live their lives, and who want to grow in the process.

Download or read book Your Signature Work written by Dianna Booher and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on the concept of doing one's personal best at work so that it reflects one's goals, values, beliefs, and faith, Booher advises readers that even if they feel trapped in a dissatisfying job or a seemingly insignificant career, their work matters to God, and their attitude will make all the difference in how they view their job.

Download or read book Signature for Success written by Arlyn Imberman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Signature for Success, Imberman shares analysis techniques for readers to gain better insight into themselves, co-workers, and their family and thus create, improve, and understand their relationships. This useful volume even includes handwriting samples and analysis of the famous, infamous, and everyday people.

Download or read book The Signature of God written by Rhonda Milner and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A person’s handwriting reveals something about who they are—their intellect, perspectives, natural abilities, and hidden aptitudes. It’s also a form of expression that sends a message about how they want to be seen by others. In our lives and world, things are not as they are by accident. They’re written in a specific way, and the size, placement, direction, and pressure of strokes has everything to do with the One who signed His name on it all. The Signature of God is about a God who reveals who He is through the beauty and intricacy of creation. He’s signed His name on all He made, and the purpose in it is nothing short of miraculous. Nature, the universe, and God’s interaction with us through His creation say much about Him and how He feels about us. If we look carefully at His writing, we realize that He’s always given us a way to know His character and heart. In this book of Christian apologetics and personal reflection, Rhonda Dawes Milner delves into her experiences as a physician, therapist, spiritual director, and mother to show us the significance and meaning of God’s signature in our lives and in the world.

Download or read book Your Signature Work written by Dianna Booher and published by Tyndale. Reprinted by Booher Research Institute. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you bored in your job? Has the newness worn off so much so that you dread going to work every day? Have you ever felt as if your tasks––whether in a big organization or at home––just didn’t really contribute to anything significant? Do you often speculate about how much more influence you could have if you worked in a more visible or critical role––like may be a doctor, a pastor, a congressional representative? If so, then this book will inspire you to take a more reflective look at where you work, how you work, and who you influence. You’ll explore challenges such as these: · Finding the right job · Finding your calling in life · How to find purpose in life · Doing your best at work and what that looks like practically speaking As a companion to the earlier book Your Signature Life by the same author, Your Signature Work expands on the concept of doing your personal best at work so that it reflects your goals, values, beliefs, and faith. Using a sports analogy (basketball), this companion book will challenge you to see your tasks and job—whether parenting, building a forklift, stocking shelves, selling pharmaceuticals, or analyzing computer glitches––as an opportunity for leadership and service to others. As you strive for personal excellence, you'll identify ways to influence others in your workplace to “live” their values and faith. Even if you feel trapped in a dissatisfying job or a seemingly insignificant career, your work matters to God and to others in need. Your attitude can make all the difference in how you view your job, and the results you achieve! When you find your true calling, your work will be a source of satisfaction and fulfillment. And as an artist does, you will be proud to sign your name to work! Author and speaker Dianna Booher shares the same in-depth insights that she offers to churches and her Fortune 500 clients during keynotes and workshops. As founder and CEO of Booher Research, she’s an internationally recognized leadership communication and executive presence expert. As the author of 49 books, she has published with Penguin Random House/Perigee, HarperCollins, Warner, McGraw-Hill, Tyndale, and Thomas Nelson.

Download or read book Signature Sins written by Michael Mangis and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally--a safe place to talk about sin. The topic of sin in general has been safe for a while. But here, guided by psychologist Michael Mangis, we get specific by learning to know ourselves and our signature sins--the individual and specific patterns of sin in our life that affect our thoughts, actions and relationships. In these pages, the author empathetically and honestly reflects on the ways we manage our behavior to hide our sin and ignore the true poverty of our hearts. But until we deal with the root of our sin, we will be ruled and fooled by it, and miss the freedom Christ died to bring. Exploring common forms of sin and then discovering how our own temperament, culture, family and gender affect the way those sins manifest themselves in our lives will lead us to a place of real honesty with ourselves, God and others. But the book doesn't stop there; it also shows ways to combat our sin so that we can change our hearts, not just our behavior. Sin is serious and specific, and it doesn't go away on its own. But here is serious--and safe--help for facing sin and finding freedom in Christ.

Download or read book Signature in the Cell written by Stephen C. Meyer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book attempts to make a comprehensive, interdisciplinary case for a new view of the origin of life"--Prologue.

Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.

Download or read book Quotations on Communication and Other Quips written by Dianna Booher and published by AudioInk. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add the perfect touch to a project when you choose from this collection of more than 140 quotations and quips on communication, productivity, and related topics. Spice up your speeches with just the right quotation from an expert in the field. Motivate your staff to share information rather than horde it. Spur your thinking as you draft articles and papers. Inspire your team to improve their speaking, writing skills, or interpersonal skills with these thought-provoking insights on the importance of communication.Browse through dozens of memorable, thought-provoking quotations on writing, speaking, productivity, truth-telling, interpersonal skills, listening, meetings, communication flow, conflict, decisions making, presentation skills, selling, life balance, and inspiration-such as these nuggets: "If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour."-From Speak with Confidence!"Communicate like you brush your teeth-routinely and often."-From The Voice of Authority"Communication is the soul of management: analysis and solid decisions translated into clear messages that influence people to act and feel good about their performance."-From Communicate with Confidence!Need an insightful quotation on some aspect of communication? Look no further than prolific author Dianna Booher. With more than 40 books with major publishers, Dianna has generated a wealth of insightful comments, the best of which are included in this ebook."

Download or read book The Signature of All Things written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.

Download or read book The Signature of Jesus written by Brennan Manning and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signature of Jesus challenges the gospel of "cheap grace" and calls the church to radical discipleship. With passion and boldness, author Brennan Manning invites readers to risk living life as Jesus lived—committed to simplicity, purity of heart, and obedience to the gospel. As a radical alternative this book is offered to Christians who want to live by faith and not by mere “religion,” for those who recognize that many of the burning theological issues in the church today are neither burning nor theological; who see Christianity neither as a moral code or a belief system but as a love affair; who have not forgotten that they are followers of a crucified Christ; who know that following him means living dangerously; who want to live the gospel without compromise; who have no greater desire than to have his signature written on the pages of their lives. “Behold,” Jesus proclaims, “I stand at the door and knock.” You may have already met him at the door…but do you truly know him? Have you been transformed by His furious, passionate, unexplainable love? Join Brennan Manning, the bestselling author of The Ragamuffin Gospel, on a personal journey to experience Christ’s love and live with His passion.

Download or read book Red Signature written by Mary Leader and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of five winners of the 1996 National Poetry Series (chosen by Deborah Digges) Mary Leader's poetry sets out to collect signatures left by the nooks and crannies of history: recipe cards, a self-starved man's last will, a schoolteacher's ditty. "An astonishing gift". -- Allen Grossman

Download or read book The Signature Movement written by Tonya D. Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection, a production, a lifestyle. Poetry accentuates this intimate collection of life skills training lessons as shared from a now-single mother's perspective. Some of life's toughest challenges are tackled here, with humorous undertones, such as dating after divorce, overcoming disappointment and failure, hormonal issues, and money issues--all while raising minor children. A light-hearted, informative, encouraging self-help guide for anyone trying to find that special someone, again.