Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Download or read book You Say More Than You Think written by Janine Driver and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now You’re Talking! Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you. With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact: Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actually more important where you point your belly button. This small body shift communicates true interest more powerfully than constant eye contact. The “steeple” hand gesture will give you the upper hand during negotiations and business meetings. Wrong. Driver has seen this overbearing gesture backfire more often than not. Instead, she suggests two new steeples that give you power without making you seem overly aggressive: the Basketball Steeple and the A-OK Two-Fingered Steeple. Happy people command power and attention by smiling just before they meet new people. Studies have shown that people who do this are viewed as Beta Leaders. Alpha leaders smile once they shake your hand and hear your name. At a time when every advantage counts—and first impressions matter more than ever—this is the book to help you really get your message across.

Download or read book The Next President written by Joseph Flynn and published by Stray Dog Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.D. Cade came home to southern Illinois from Vietnam and thought he’d never have to kill again. He was wrong. Someone starts blackmailing him. Not only does this new anonymous enemy know J.D.’s darkest secrets, he also implicates J.D.’s son in a death that could reignite a blood feud.The blackmailer wants J.D. to use his deadly skills to assassinate Senator Franklin Delano Rawley — the first African-American with a chance to become president of the United States.In order to save his son, spare Rawley and emerge alive, J.D. must somehow find out who is behind a conspiracy that could change the fate of a nation.(First published in June, 2000 — eight years before the election of Barack Obama.)

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Download or read book Wild Truth Bible Lessons 2 written by Mark Oestreicher and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bible characters . . . wild activities, games, discussion starters, and video ideas . . . wild truths for living. Put them all together, blend well, and you’ve got Wild Truth Bible Lessons 2--12 more dynamite lessons for junior high youth groups by Mark Oestreicher. Like its fun, creative predecessor, Wild Truth Bible Lessons, this book invites kids to discover the adventure of faith through the events and responses of real Bible people who did wild things for God. Based on another 12 personalities from the list of characters in Wild Truth Journal: 50 Life Lessons from the Scriptures, each lesson reaches back into history to help junior highers learn about Bible people and principles--and then reaches forward to challenge students to make better decisions, better friends, and better lives. 12 lessons.

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Download or read book The Song in the Green Thorn Tree written by James William Barke and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Song in the Green Thorn Tree" by James William Barke. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book You re Not Done Yet written by Dr. B. Janet Hibbs and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear-eyed, optimistic guide for parents with adult children who need help navigating the challenges to launching an independent life. Times were already tough for young adults looking for ways to start living independent lives after high school and college: rents were up, wages were down, student loan debt was burdensome, then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. A generation of young people were forced out of their classrooms, jobs, and social lives, returning home to live with their parents. Now many of these young adults carry the scars of the internal pandemic, with increased anxiety and depression, poor coping, and the uncertainty of how to restart their lives. Parents want to help, but the old rules of advice-giving can clash with the need to respect their child’s autonomy. In You’re Not Done Yet, two leading adolescent and young adult mental health experts provide a practical and compassionate path to parents combatting the worry and frustrating isolation many feel when supporting their twentysomethings. Hibbs and Rostain explain when and how developmental markers changed, and invite parents and young adults to learn new, more effective ways of communicating with each other. Part I of the book covers the “new normal,” of young adulthood, with its educational and career changes. The new normal of parent-child relationship asks us to rethink our “shoulds,” and in the process develop a closer relationship based on talking and listening to understand each other, rather than “being right.” Part II addresses the common and challenging problems that arise when mental illness creates a drag on a young adult’s progress, and shows how parents may be engaged in their child’s treatment. Packed with helpful information and step-by-step guides to specific problems, this book will be an invaluable resource for parents and their twentysomething children.

Download or read book Nurturing Attachments written by Kim S. Golding and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurturing Attachments combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure attachment relationships. It gives an overview of attachment theory and a step-by-step model of parenting which provides the reader with a tried-and-tested framework for developing resilience and emotional growth. Featuring throughout are the stories of Catherine, Zoe, Marcus and Luke, four fictional children in foster care or adoptive homes, who are used to illustrate the ideas and strategies described. The book offers sound advice and provides exercises for parents and their children, as well as useful tools that supervising social workers can use both in individual support of carers as well as in training exercises. This is an essential guide for adoptive and foster parents, professionals including health and social care practitioners, clinical psychologists, child care professionals, and lecturers and students in this field.

Download or read book Take a Girl Like You written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis’s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squalor—emotional, material, sexual, you name it—of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Jenny is a beauty and men and women are crazy about her, most of all handsome Patrick Standish, who Jenny also likes. But Jenny and Patrick live in a world where it’s becoming ridiculously difficult—disastrously difficult—to sort out the claims of sex and the claims of love.

Download or read book When God Wants to Punish You He Answers Your Prayers written by Robert V. Fiorella and published by Author House. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom loves Jenny. Tom marries Jenny. Tom and Jenny should live happily ever after--.but life intervenes. Tom gets burned, tries to deny his soul, and loses his way. Then Jenny, the love of his life, leaves him to share a bed with Satan, and Toms world falls apart. He decides to focus all his time and energy on fixing his life and getting Jenny back. To accomplish this daunting task Tom stops talking and withdraws into himself where he feels certain he can find the answers hes looking for. To get away from outside distractions and well meaning kith and kin he enters a cushy psychiatric center. While in this upscale Booby Hatch Tom finds himself drawn into the lives of his fellow loons. As he works through his problems Tom rediscovers a part of himself that he thought he had buried a long time ago. He realizes that hes been the unwitting master of his own destruction, and he undergoes a kind of rebirth that puts him in touch with his nature. Tom learns that sometimes, when God wants to punish you He answers your prayers.

Download or read book The Most Beloved Animal Stories in One Volume written by Beatrix Potter and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 3249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "The Most-Beloved Animal Stories in One Volume" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter) The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess) Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess) The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess) The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams) Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales (Howard R. Garis): Uncle Wiggily's Adventures Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Uncle Wiggily's Squirt Gun Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland Uncle Wiggily's Travels Uncle Wiggily's Fortune Uncle Wiggily's Auto Sled Uncle Wiggily in the Woods Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum) Mother Goose in Prose (L. Frank Baum) Lulu's Library (Louisa May Alcott) The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) The Second Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) White Fang (Jack London) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (Hugh Lofting) The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope) The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Panchatantra (Vishnu Sharma) Aesop Fables Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones The Russian Garland: Folk Tales

Download or read book The British Drama written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Download or read book Fight For It written by Mary E Thompson and published by BluEyed Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestselling contemporary romance author Jenny Owens feels like she’s looking for something. She wants more from her life, but she’s not greedy. She just wants her boyfriend to like in the same zip code, or even the same area code, her job to match her skills and desires, and her home to be something of her own instead of her parents’. It’s not much, is it? Jenny is floundering. She is a happy person by nature, but she feels like her four years of college were a waste every time she goes into work as a waitress, the same job she held before going off to college. Add to that her boyfriend is always so busy with school, and his friends, that she rarely sees him. And she’s not even sure she cares anymore. When Jenny gets a flat tire at 3 am one night, her entire world changes. Logan Campbell liked his life. He had a thriving business that made him happy, friends he could count on, and the occasional woman to keep his bed warm if he was in the mood. But when he stops to help the car stranded, he realizes his life isn’t all he thought is was. Logan and Jenny share an incredible night filled with passion, compatibility, and the best sex of their lives. Logan walks away from the experience knowing he can’t let her go. Until she admits she has a boyfriend. Logan broods and snaps at everyone in sight while Jenny tries desperately to forget about him. But Jenny can’t stop thinking about Logan, and the way he seemed to know her body better than anyone else ever had. When they keep getting thrown together, either by their own inability to avoid each other or outside forces, they have to decide if what they have is worth the fight. Or if they should cut their losses and go. KEYWORDS: small town romance, instant attraction romance, happily ever after, guaranteed HEA, love stories, no cliffhangers, strangers romance, one night stand

Download or read book I Love Animal Stories written by Beatrix Potter and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 3249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of cute and cuddly animal tales for your little ones:_x000D_ The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)_x000D_ Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)_x000D_ The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales (Howard R. Garis):_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Adventures_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Squirt Gun_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Travels_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Fortune_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Auto Sled_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily in the Woods_x000D_ Little Bun Rabbit (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ Mother Goose in Prose (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ Lulu's Library (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ The Second Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ The Call of the Wild (Jack London)_x000D_ White Fang (Jack London)_x000D_ Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)_x000D_ The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)_x000D_ The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)_x000D_ Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (Hugh Lofting)_x000D_ The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Laura Lee Hope)_x000D_ The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (Laura Lee Hope)_x000D_ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)_x000D_ The Panchatantra (Vishnu Sharma)_x000D_ Aesop Fables_x000D_ Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones_x000D_ The Russian Garland: Folk Tales