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Rediscover the power of perspective with heartfelt stories from people who went through unthinkable circumstances - but came out ahead. This book will motivate you, inspire you, and help you see life from a fresh new lens. Each carefully worded story lets you peer into someone's soul and see how they came out of tough times with their head held high. You're sure to find a story that resonates with you; you owe it to yourself.

Within each chapter, you’ll find an un-airbrushed selection of advice, comment and opinion. These are intimate stories from bad sex to bad boys, from workplace inequality to the sheer joy of learning something new, that will spark hope, triumph and occasionally outrage. In Life Honestly you will find fresh perspectives on everything from age milestones to friendship, motherhood and weddings, and why you should always, always, tell someone when you like their earrings.

滋賀県愛あふるるエッセイ。琵琶湖が何県にあるのか知らない人が実は多い、「千葉」や「佐賀」とよく間違えられる、比叡山延暦寺があるのは京都じゃない――

Furiose Essays über die Liebe von einer der originellsten Stimmen der Gegenwart. Wen begehren wir? Und was erzählt unser Begehren über uns? Wie hängen Lust, Leidenschaft und Liebe zusammen? In ihrem neuen Band Liebe und andere Neurosen schreibt Katja Eichinger in zehn elektrisierenden Essays über das Wechselspiel zwischen Verlangen und Verunsicherung. Sie erzählt Familiengeschichten wie die ihrer Urgroßmutter, die ihre Leben lang unter dem Apfelbaum stand und von dem armen Handwerker träumte, den sie nicht heiraten durfte.

Epic is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve your communication skills. What is the engine of communication? Creativity. The creative person sees the bigger picture and uses that vision to create tools, insights, and processes that will benefit others.

The Comeback Kid is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to build your emotional resilience. We are not defined by our losses, we are defined by how we rise back up despite our losses. Each time we bounce back, each time we become tougher to kill. Turn your setbacks into legendary comebacks.

Built for More is a collection of short stories, essays, and insights to help you improve your soft skills. Learn to think clear and speak even clearer. Each entry is meant to fuel your logic and imagination so you are better equipped to deal with people.

Tough Love is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. Knowledge which has the most practical value is not easy to learn because it challenges a lot of pre-existing paradigms. Therefore, Tough Love introduces the listener to knowledge that will lead to becoming a high valued member of society to create a long-lasting legacy.

Limit Breaker is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. In this book, you will gain the skill set of gargantuan thinking. The ability to think large allows you to become a high performer and deal better with people. Each story is geared to enhance your perception and break limiting beliefs. Soon, you will become a Limit Breaker, and shatter one goal at a time.

Man's best friend. Through laughter, tears, and moments of reflection, listeners are invited to join Mann on a journey of love, loss, and the enduring bond between humans and dogs. Whether you're seeking insights into dog training tricks, easy-to-follow methods, or clicker training techniques, this easy dog training book is your comprehensive guide. Top dog training. Discover the joy of teaching your dog new tricks and strengthen your bond through simple yet effective training methods.

What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book brings together a selection of powerful reflections exploring the black British male experience and what it really means to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society.

自身の経験にもとづく問題提起を行ってきた著者が、閉塞状況の日本に一石を投じるエッセイ。　1997年から2000年に毎日新聞、産経新聞などに掲載したものをまとめて単行本化した書籍の改装版。

When our lives are imbalanced at any level of our self, i.e. physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, or relationally, we can experience stress, discomfort, unhappiness, and illness. In his audiobook Healing and Dealing: Essays on Becoming Wholed, Peter Cloud Panjoyah offers a road map toward an elusive balance point, outlining possibilities for healing inwardly and outwardly. This audiobook lays out the nuts and bolts of how to heal the emotional denial that has plagued humanity, impacted our health, and created dangerous dramas on the world stage.

We all have it—that inner voice that shines as a beacon to our authentic self—but it’s often dimmed by life’s struggles. And that’s when we lose our way, because our path is dark. The Lighthouse Project is a collection of poignant stories by strong women who share their diverse yet unifying truths on trusting their intuition and reigniting their inner spark. From losing friends to losing jobs, from the end of relationships to coping with grief, these brave humans share their powerful and personal journeys of resilience and self-discovery. We hope you’ll be inspired to lean into ...

Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just a few sentences but never more than a few paragraphs, these compelling literary and personal meditations have raised the Facebook post to an art form, gained thousands of loyal readers, and been featured in the New Yorker.

When Tim O’Brien became an older father, he resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him - a few scraps of paper signed ‘Love, Dad’. Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly ageing father, a man they might never really know. For the next 15 years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

Here's a collection of essays and letters from the pen of one of America's shrewdest observers of human nature. During his lifetime, Benjamin Franklin was a successful publisher, printer, author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. This collection of letters and essays illuminates Franklin's views on the subjects of marriage, savages, cold air baths, and a variety of other topics.

Do you have a goal but don’t know where or how to start? Have you procrastinated for far too long on a goal that you want to accomplish? So many times, we lose sight of our goals because we may become distracted and forget why we are working on them. In this essay, Christina provides a 4-step simple guide to help you design a plan to accomplish your goals. Do it for you!

Author, critic, and traveler, Marina Vaizey reflects on her experiences of the international art world, in a career spanning six decades, including eighteen years as the chief art critic at the Sunday Times. I can offer a lecture, very short, on the art world post war until now. Here it is. More. More artists, more money, more collectors, more collections, more scholarship, more publications, more museums, more galleries, more countries involved publicly world wide: Just - for good and ill - more.