Download or read book Rest written by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers—from Darwin to Stephen King—to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.

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Download or read book You Don t Know Everything Jilly P Scholastic Gold written by Alex Gino and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Melissa, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues. Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins. A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it. As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes . . . but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time--especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know--and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.

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Download or read book because I said I would written by Alex Sheen and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single promise can change a life forever. We all make promises constantly. “Yes, I’ll be there.” “Sure, no problem!” But do we really mean what we are saying? What is the impact of a broken promise? And what happens to a life when a promise is honored? Because I said I would is the international social movement at the forefront of shifting how the world views commitment and accountability. With over 10.3 million Promise Cards distributed, this cause has played a unique role in changing lives around the world. Heartwarming, humorous, inspirational, and tragic—these stories will challenge readers to look deep within themselves and consider the importance of the promises they make. Through a collection of inspiring short stories and concise philosophical chapters, readers will gain the following: • Practical life lessons from surprisingly raw stories of everyday people with incredible determination • Useful advice on how to get better at keeping promises • Inspiring perspectives that can be utilized in leadership and character development initiatives One hundred percent of the author’s proceeds go to because I said I would, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is bettering humanity through chapters of volunteers, character education in schools, accountability programs, and awareness campaigns with global reach.

Download or read book Dawn s End written by Larry Bills and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched high in a tree like a vulture, Devon looks down on Glory, Texas, sparkling in the darkness. People below will soon feel the full force of this vampire's rage. Evil converges in Glory as three couples struggle with lives full of abuse and infidelity. Alex can't come to grips with his girlfriend, Laura, leaving him. Jenny, a victim of domestic violence, must escape her husband, Ray. Syl and Dave's downfall is becoming embroiled in their friends' dramatic lives. Into this mix comes Rena, a beautiful and benevolent woman. Decades before, with a savage bite, Devon had turned her into his tormented companion. Distraught by how she must survive, Rena had fled his influence. And now Devon wants Rena to pay for betraying him and refusing to share eternal life with him. When Alex meets Rena in the local roadhouse, a spiral of depravity begins to uncoil. Alex and Rena join forces in an attempt to kill Devon and save the lives of their friends. But Devon is bent on destroying whomever he can to get what he wants, and unfortunately for Alex, everyone he cares about is standing in the way.

Download or read book The Giants of Russian Literature The Greatest Russian Novels Stories Plays Folk Tales Legends written by Leonid Andreyev and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 9091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of the greatest novesl, short stories & plays in Russian literature has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard... Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch... Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe... Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

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Download or read book Influential written by Wynn Wagner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposites attract. One is a streetwise kid with a shrewd talent for business. The other is a clairvoyant Swede with a take-no-prisoners activist mom. It is the tale of two boys who never should have met. When they do, the results are explosive. You will absolutely love these guys. influential is the updated and expanded movel based on Wynn Wagner's well-known short story of the 1970s: Under the Influence. Or as Wagner puts it: I super-sized it.

Download or read book My Lost Daughter written by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her success with The Cheater, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg returns to her most memorable character, Lily Forrester. Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can't help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son. Lily is determined to see justice done but she's thrown for a loop when she receives word that her own daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from Stanford Law School, is on the verge of dropping out. Lily rushes north and what she discovers causes her to fear for her daughter's mental state. She must get back to the trial and decides that she will take Shana to a facility where they can evaluate her and if needed give her some counseling or medication. Which is when things go horribly awry. For the institution that Lily has chosen is far less interested in treating patients than it is with bilking the insurance companies out of extravagant fees...and they are less than scrupulous about patient's rights. Discovering the awful truth, Lily will have to summon all her intelligence and street smarts to find a way to free Shana. She will have to work fast however, for there is someone at the facility who seems to have his own agenda separate from the institution. And Lily's daughter may not only be in danger of losing her sanity but her life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Download or read book Big City Heat The Complete Collection written by Misha Carver and published by Misha Carver. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria Everything was fine. Until he came back to town. I'd worked hard and earned the Chief promotion. Soon, I'd have enough money to leave my alcoholic husband and enroll my daughter in private school. It was all planned out. Nothing would stand in my way. I didn't expect the boy who'd made my life a living hell in high school to come back and add fuel to the fire. The next thing I knew, my world burned down around me and my life reduced to ashes. There's no way I'd ever let myself fall for Chance Friedman. No way. I tried to persist. I really did. But the flames of passion ignited between us like a wild fire out of control. I couldn't stop myself, no matter how hard I tried. My life was finally perfect. Until it wasn't. Everything blew up in smoke when he found out about my secret – the explosive secret I'd never told anyone but my best friend, Allison. Now he'll never forgive me and nothing short of a raging inferno will bring us back together. Sparks ignite, tension explodes, and passion erupts. Can Chance and Alexandria keep their cool or is the fire between them too hot to keep them holding on. Secrets fuel the flames in this sizzling hot firefighter romance. No cheating and a guaranteed HEA. This set contains the following books: Light My Fire I'm On Fire Ring of Fire More from Misha: BILLIONAIRE SEEKS AN HEIR Unplanned Fairy Tale Unraveled Lives Unforgettable Melody BIG CITY HEAT: Light My Fire I'm On Fire Ring of Fire PURRFECT MATES: Purrfect Chaos Purrfect Storm Purrfect Harmony THE ALPHA'S BRIDE Bearly Smitten Bearly Engaged Bearly Married STAND ALONE: Sasha's Storm SECOND CHANCE CHRISTMAS ROMANCES: The Christmas Homecoming The Christmas Reunion The Christmas Spirit JINGLE BELL SHIFTERS Jingle Bell Growl Jingle Bell Howl Jingle Bell Prowl Tags: new adult contemporary firefighter romance bbw curvy billionaire romantic suspense action and adventure exciting rescue HEA happily ever after boxed set collection anthology strong female heroine alpha male protector fireman single mother love story

Download or read book Cambridge English Empower Advanced Student s Book written by Adrian Doff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cambridge English Empower is a general English course for adult and young adult learners that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from Cambridge English Language Assessment ..."--Publisher description.

Download or read book Prince of Shadows written by Susan Krinard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning shapeshifter romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Prince of Wolves and Prince of Dreams. Spending the summer in Minnesota as a child, Alexandra developed a strong bond with a wolf pup named Shadow. The encounter led to a lifelong love of wolves, and she has never forgotten Shadow—or the young boy she met one day who acted like her friend. Now, seventeen years later, Alex is no longer the innocent and carefree girl she once was, but she still finds solace in the wilderness and with the wolves she has dedicated her life’s work to. Returning to Minnesota, her joy at reuniting with Shadow is soon clouded by amazement, as the wolf reveals himself to be a man named Kiernan. Alex vows to help Kiernan, who is plagued with amnesia and believes he is responsible for a series of grisly murders. By discovering the truth—in both the past and in themselves—Alex and Kiernan will find the peace they need to heal and bridge the gap between their separate worlds. Praise for Susan Krinard “Susan Krinard was born to write romance.” —Amanda Quick, New York Times–bestselling author “The reading world would be a happier place if more paranormal romance writers wrote as well as Krinard.” —Contra Costa Sunday Times “A vivid, talented author with a sparkling imagination.” —Anne Stuart, New York Times–bestselling author