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Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval Office, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion - meeting the queen at Buckingham Palace, bursting in on secret climate talks or nailing a campaign speech in a hailstorm - there were dozens of less-than-perfect moments when it was up to Alyssa to save the day.

As an educator and avid learner, I set out to understand the complex issue of homelessness in America. After watching hundreds of interviews with people living on the streets, I wrote this book to share their stories and perspectives. Across twenty heartfelt chapters, you will meet individuals like Bruce, a lawyer-turned-beggar in D.C.; Penny, a young woman selling her body for drug money in Detroit; and James, an entrepreneur in Columbus still holding onto hope. Each person describes in their own words how they wound up homeless, whether through job loss, addiction, childhood trauma, lack ...

Business storytelling is the #1 skill you need to succeed in your professional lives amidst all the noise, competition and massive technological disruption. In this book, Sandeep looks at human evolution, behavioural psychology and the world of movies to identify the golden principles of storytelling.

This volume brings together for the first time all of the poems that appeared in Anthony Hecht’s seven trade collections, from A Summoning of Stones of 1954 through to The Darkness and the Light of 2001; it adds the remarkable work contained in his posthumously issued Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria of 2011; and it rounds this out with the best of the many poems which were left uncollected at the time of his death in 2004, the earliest dating from 1950 and the latest from 2001.

A lonely housewife finds herself admiring the college-age neighbor boy and begins to wonder what it would be like to stray from her husband. "April May Carter's stories capture what it feels like to be a horny woman with pent up sexual frustrations finally getting her groove back." - Alhena Adams "She has a way of conveying the experience of what it's like be a woman considering giving in to temptation" - Angelica Aurora Angela Andrews is frustrated. Her husband let himself go after they got married, and she just doesn't feel attracted to him anymore. She feels her sexuality dying within ...

Con base en sus amplios conocimientos sobre la conducta humana y las relaciones sociales, Gaby Vargas ofrece en esta obra las claves indispensables para lograr el éxito y la realización personal en el ámbito laboral.

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A certified World Class Manufacturing Instructor (WCM/Lean) shows you how to step-by-step turn your family cleaning routine into a process of calm, joy, and purpose. "The 4th Simple Step to Your Perfect Home" is the fourth book of the 5 Steps series. Ivan Kuznietsov takes us on a family cleaning tour of our own houses and apartments, focuses on the psychology of involving our parents, spouses, kids, and friends in the tidying process. He also offers practical guidelines for integrating mindfulness in our relationships and everyday life. So the purpose of this book is not just to create a ...

People whose homes hold lasting impressions of the deaths or trauma of the previous owners can be seriously affected, and despite many cultures accepting this concept, admitting to it can put them at odds with "rationality". Ghosts or no ghosts, Sheldon Norberg's clients find themselves affected by the feelings of their new homes, and frequently adjust their lives to suit these undesired imprints.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Remedios Varo fue una artista con una imaginación fecunda que cruzó la alquimia, el surrealismo, el subconsciente. En este libro, Silvana Ávila le rinde homenaje.

It’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological puzzle to her employer.

She wasn’t praying for a man—she was burning journal pages. She wasn’t healing—she was remembering. And when Maceo came crawling back, it wasn’t divine timing. It was a final test. Imani is done with karmic crushes, spiritual excuses, and men who confuse affection with access. What she’s building now is sacred: a temple. A life. A self that doesn’t shrink for anybody—not even the one she thought was fated. But magick doesn’t leave quietly. And when your soul fragments into a child, a lover, a past self and a prophecy—you can’t just sage it away. You have to face it. ...

Integrative life coach Xavier Dagba explores our relationship to the dark side of the human psyche. This includes wounds from the past, aspects of ourselves we’ve been conditioned to see as unlovable, and, more importantly, our repressed brightness: the golden shadow. Many books on shadow work focus only on the more “painful” or dark aspects of the shadow. They do not necessarily address the golden shadow. Scars of Gold places shadow work into a well-crafted framework of personal transformation that meets the listener where they are and guides them toward a fuller and more integrated life

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010, when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Now, in their first book, Cerulo and Mazur bring to light the unique power of female friendship to fuel successful businesses. Drawing on their own experiences, as well as the stories of other thriving “work wives,” they highlight the ways in which vulnerability, openness, and compassion - qualities central to so many women’s relationships - lend themselves to professional accomplishment and innovation.

A step-by-step guide to create more balance, gain financial freedom, and create a life and business you love. If your heart is telling you that it's time to leave that 9-to-5 behind, or you feel alive every time you work on your side hustle, or you're fed up building someone else's dreams . . . it is time to give your two weeks' notice.

In Finding Work You Love, award-winning University of Southern California business school professor Kirk Snyder helps you match the value you alone bring to today's new job market with work that rewards you for who you are in the professional world. When you find a role that leverages the exact strengths and abilities you have to offer, you set yourself up for a rewarding career that matters.

That’s what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade.

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Storytelling in business is different from telling stories to friends in a bar. It needs to be based on facts. Stories at Work will teach you how to wrap your stories in context and deliver them in a way that grabs your audience's attention. The special tools, techniques, and structures in this book will help you bring the power of stories into your day-to-day business communication. They will enable you to connect, engage, and inspire and ensure that everything you share has a lasting impression on your listeners.