“A lively and inspiring guidebook for anyone who wants to make the jump from normal to extraordinary.” —Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Unshakeable and MONEY: Master the Game An inspirational book that lays out the “Jump Curve”—four steps to wholeheartedly pursuing the career of your dreams—through experiences from a variety of people who have jumped and never looked back When Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job, he eagerly wanted to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a professional squash player. But he had questions: When is the right time to move from work that is comfortable to a career you have only dared to dream of? How have other people made such a jump? What did they feel when making that jump—and afterward? Mike sought guidance from others who had “jumped,” and the responses he got—from a banker who started a brewery, a publicist who became a Bishop, a garbage collector who became a furniture designer, and on and on—were so clear-eyed and inspiring that Mike wanted to share what he had learned with others who might be helped by those stories. First, though, he started playing squash professionally. The right book at the right time, When to Jump offers more than forty heartening stories (from the founder of Bonobos, the author of The Big Short, the designer of the Lyft logo, the Humans of New York creator, and many more) and takeaways that will inspire, instruct, and reassure, including the ingenious four-phase Jump Curve.
The Oren were one and their strength was legion. They had it all figured out, in their own parasitical, cold-blooded way. But they'd neglected one she-cat of a girl....
Few possessions are as highly prized by duck hunters as their favorite calls. Enabling the hunter to attract waterfowl by mimicking their sounds, the skillfully crafted and highly individualized calls are revered for the craftsmanship and rich history associated with this uniquely American art form. In this book, avid Arkansas duck call collector Mike Lewis chronicles the history of Arkansas duck call making and captures the spirit of over fifty renowned call makers. He recounts how Arkansas artisans dominated the early market and continued to influence the design and refinement of the modern duck call through the vivid combination of images and stories. He traces the evolution of call design from 1890 to 2017, featuring the work of call makers whose contributions of handcrafted duck calls are highly regarded as among the most prized in the world. Lewis includes over three hundred call makers and over seven hundred photographs that facilitate identification of the calls.
School leadership is synonymous with challenge. However, some school leaders face true crises - situations threatening the continuing existence of their school. Leading Schools During Crisis analyzes leadership and behaviors of principals in these extraordinary circumstances. A simultaneously scholarly and practice-oriented book, Leading Schools During Crisis proposes the first school-specific model of defining and analyzing crises. Through authentic case studies, Leading Schools During Crisis offers a detailed theoretical and practical analysis of each crisis and the lessons from it for all school leaders. Highlights of the twelve case studies include: P.S. 234, Manhattan. At nine a.m. on September 11, 2001, the thirty-seven teachers and 650 elementary students of P.S. 234 were twelve hundred feet from Ground Zero. Principal Anna Switzer states, '[r]ight when the second plane crashed_that's when we knew that it wasn't an accident.' George Washington Carver H.S., New Orleans, Louisiana. Principal Vanessa Eugene believed Katrina would be another chapter in New Orleans' long history of near-miss hurricanes. Carver's campus was soon under ten feet of water. Sobrante Park E.S., Oakland, California. Like many schools, Sobrante Park only slowly realized the paradigm shift associated with the No Child Left Behind Act_until the fifth year of failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress. 'What do you do when all the data is bad?' asked Principal Marco Franco. Platte Canyon H.S, Bailey, Colorado. Principal Brian Krause was approached by a frantic student who reported: ''[T]here's a guy in the English classroom with a gun' . . . . I remember thinking, okay, he said guy. He didn't say student or kid or Johnny.' Other case studies include the challenges inherent in starting charter schools, discovery of systemic and deliberate grade fraud, rezoning of 95 percent of a elementary school's student population, and leading a school populated by changing_and often contentious_refugee groups.
Daily Warm-Up Exercises for Jazz Ensemble was written as a series of studies to aid the jazz group in performance. It is published in two volumes, Volume I for the young or beginning ensemble, and Volume II for the more advanced group. All musical groups need a short period of time during the beginning of a rehearsal to reacquaint their body functions with the needs of making music. Even though individuals warm-up by themselves in preparation for performance, the group as a whole needs to experience basic musical qualities -- blend, balance, precision, intonation -- together to ensure good ensemble performance. Hopefully, this series will provide the jazz ensemble with materials organized in a logical manner to accomplish these goals.
SURREAL TALES OF BOTH HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Thirty Four Wondrous Stories by Four Unique Talents in the Horror / Science Fiction Field -- Each Writer is well known for his Deranged Dreams and Night Gaunts brought to Life * MF Korn - Louisiana Author of twelve Novels and 240 short stories published -- * DF Lewis - Winner of the British Fantasy Award and 1500 stories published, editor/publisher of famed magazine Nemonymous -- * Mike Philbin - Crazed aesthetic Author of over a hundred stories and several novels published -- * David Mathew - Seminal reviewer for Interzone, Author of several novels and 400 stories published ---
Argues that the economy can only be improved through major changes that will make it more decentralized and cooperative, including such novel ideas as energy self-sufficiency, interest-free financing, affordable housing, local food systems and more. Original.
This simple but comprehensive equation explains competencies for everyone interested in their career path. The book provides a global view of work and how employees and leaders provide value to organisations. It explains why some employees are happy with their roles but others are too stressed or imcompetent because they are not yet ready for the complexity of the work.It is a guide for youngsters who want to understand work and how they can reach their potential. For more mature workers it explains options for further growth in their career path. In organisations this is a framework for human resource development for both leaders and developers of talent. We owe it to ourselves to be happy in our work: the Competency Equation will show you how to achieve this.
A pictorial tour of the historic Lewis and Clark trail, all taken by plane and including maps of the trail. Includes CD with over 1700 photos and digitalized version of L&C journals.
If you're at a crossroads, this is the book you need to read to begin chasing your dreams. Includes a foreword by Sheryl Sandberg. Do you have a little voice in your head telling you to pursue the thing you love? Leaving a comfortable job to pursue a passion is a brave, bold move - but it's far from impossible. In this inspiring read When to Jump founder Mike Lewis has curated a community of people to share their stories about taking the leap into the unknown - people from all walks of life who left the safe inertia of their own circumstances to try and do what they really wanted to be doing. These are empowering, compelling tales about taking risks and embracing fear. Forget what you should be doing, what do you want to be doing? What do you love doing? When to Jump will show you that starting something different is possible. Nothing will change unless you make the change - the journey starts here... Mike has recently been awarded the Goldman Sachs accolade '100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs'. 'With more than forty stories of people who decided to make a major change, this book offers the inspiration as well as a practical and simple framework to help you make your own jump. A must read for anyone seeking to not only succeed but thrive.' - Arianna Huffington, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution 'A lively and inspiring guidebook for anyone who wants to make the jump from normal to extraordinary.' - Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Unshakeable and MONEY: Master the Game 'The book that will change your life today.' - The Sunday Times Style 'A smart and sensitive take on how to make positive changes with confidence.' - The Sunday Times Style 'If you're thinking of taking a lifestyle leap, don't do anything till you've read the inspiring new book that will show you how.' - The Sunday Times Style 'Lewis has interviewed 44 'jumpers', who are rarely less than fascinating...a simple and powerful message: be brave. Everyone should have these words on their wall: you only get one life.' - The Daily Mail 'This inspiring book could be just the read you need to make your own dreams reality.' - The Press Association 'The perfect guidebook for those who are only tentatively dipping their toe into the entrepreneurial world...an inspiring and useful read' - The Independent
Ralph Ellison has a character who says, "If you don't know where you are, you probably don't know who you are." The people that Mike Lewis-Beck conjures in Rural Routes are so enmeshed in their landscapes that where they are and who they are flicker so quickly as to become one continuous light. This is the glow of the all-night diner, the lunar light of eggs. Summer storms, lightning bugs in a jar, a faint dawn "but enough to navigate our fall field of corn." This is a book you can see by. These poems map their way through familiar terrains made new and strange by the clarity of his vision and the swoon of his song. James D'Agostino, author of Weathermanic
One night, two brothers and a sister met one another in the hallway. They were going to find The Boogie Man. The big brother (who wore socks to bed), along with his brother and sister would have to be sneaky. They walked along the hallway, down the stairs, around the corner, and across the slippery floor. The door was opened ... BOOGIE MAN! The race was on, and the big brother was doing fine, until he came to the corner. BOOGIE MAN!
Handsome multilevel plaques honoring all branches of the U.S. military can be made from the 30 full-size patterns included in this guide. Alphabet and number patterns are provided so that each plaque can be made specific to a particular unit and to a particular war—from WWI through Desert Storm. There are also several POW-MIA designs.
Marketing For Car Guys is the ultimate step-by-step blueprint to take you by the hand and guide you through the danger-riddled but rewarding journey of setting up marketing systems that will get customers and prospects into your business today. Marketing For Car Guys is unique in four significant ways:1.This book...is meant to be used as your personal guide to marketing your business in your market. There are plenty of books about running a business or marketing, but this is the first book to extensively focus on marketing your business in Your market.2.This book...prepares you to become an expert at getting leads into your business by empowering you with the exact information you need to know to market your business. Nothing has been left out.3.This book...breaks down all the vital parts of writing marketing messages that get butts into your business. It is not just a few scattered pages about marketing online, ads, training staff, and so on. This book gives you the birds-eye view and then swoops down for an in-the-trenches inspection of each piece of the marketing formula. 4.This book...hands you the keys to unlock every piece of knowledge and resource that you will need to market your business successfully.By investing in this book, you open the door to an entire library of information about marketing your business that will serve as guiding lights of inspiration, encouragement and sometimes an occasional slap on the wrist.
The Sales Bridge is for professionals who are ready to increase market share and earn more money! This book gives you real-world selling situations and simple techniques for understanding your customer! You'll learn how to communicate more effectively with your customer, separate yourself from your competition, focus on how your customer wants to be sold and lay the foundation for long-term customer relationships.
In the summer of 1962, Pete Gill was hired to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. With no starters taller than 5' 10", few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles. Roos brings to life a colorful and varied cast of characters and provides a compelling account of their struggles, wide-ranging emotions, and triumphs throughout the season.
In this comprehensive guide, Lewis and Roos reveal how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway's personal experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive historical research of a time period and terrain with which he was personally unfamiliar, and the impact of his vast reading in the great works of 19th-century fiction. Ultimately, Lewis and Roos assert, Hemingway's great novel is not simply a story of love and war, as most have concluded, but an intricate novel of ideas exploring the clash of reason and faith and deep questions of epistemology. The commentary also delves deeply into the roots of controversy surrounding the novel's treatment of gender issues through the characters of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Catherine, they argue, is far more than an object of love; she is a real feminist heroine who is responsible for Frederic's maturation in developing a capacity for true love. Written in clear and accessible prose that will appeal to scholars and Hemingway neophytes alike, Reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is the most sweeping guide yet available to Hemingway's finest novel and contributes to a richer understanding of the writer's entire body of work.
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