Funny, perceptive, and practical-this compendium of memorable quotations from our favorite writers and great literary figures shows us that, as word smiths, we are not alone in how or why we choose to meet the challenge of the blank page. Despite the fact that writing is an often sloppy and sometimes frustrating process, it is also an exhilarating, joyful, entertaining, and even noble, endeavor, which, if done honestly and practiced faithfully, ultimately reveals every aspect of the human condition. Here you will find encouragement, advice, and motivation, along with belly laughs. A gift for everyone who writes, or longs to, THE WRITER'S BOOK OF INSPIRATION reads like the conversation at a gathering of old, close friends.
Audacious (noun): 1. intrepidly daring, adventurous, bold, 2. marked by originality and verve. It's the way to be. Your success in life depends on how creative you are and on how willing you are to act boldly on your creative ideas. Meet 30 notable professionals (including bestselling authors, well-known speakers, career and life coaches, spiritual teachers, business leaders, healers, therapists, musicians, actors, and artists) whose audacious creativity has touched the lives of millions of people. From them, you'll learn how to make better decisions, design a vision for a fulfilling future, overcome the fear of self-expression, access your inner genius, get into the flow of universal energy, manifest wealth, raise good kids, enjoy optimal health, and lead an energized lifestyle. As you read their stories, sometimes you'll be moved to tears, other times to laughter. At the end, you'll be ready to shine your bright light in the world-audaciously.
Helps expectant mothers make informed decisions about their pregnancy and childbirth, furnishing information on what to expect when delivering in a hospital, birthing center, or at home; how to select an advocate; the natural stages of labor; natural alternatives to drugs, surgery, and technology; and explanations of various medical interventions. Original. 25,000 first printing.
You deserve to be happy. If you or someone you love struggles with depression or anxiety, then ESSENTIALLY HAPPY could change your life for the better-forever. Did you know 350 million people suffer from depression? It is now the leading cause of disability worldwide. But it doesn't have to be... There's hope! Science reveals that natural remedies are often as effective as prescription drugs for overcoming depression. Mother Nature has solutions. How can you elevate your mood and be happy? The answer isn't to jump straight into popping an antidepressant, a sleep aid, or a tranquilizer. In fact, the answer isn't one answer... but THREE answers. Answer #1 Happy Nutrition: Feed your brain & heal your body deep down at the cellular level. Answer #2 Happy Lifestyle: Get fit & reduce stress. Answer #3 Happy Relationships: Love yourself & others.
Thousands of young people set their sights on becoming professional actors each year hoping to get a foot in the door with a solid resum built in high school college and local theatre company productions. But competition for parts is fierce and no li
Dr. Jay Handt and Kathi Handt invite you to expand your field of possibilities in regard to your practice, your profession, and your personal life. Learn the secrets to achieving financial freedom, including how to manage staff and associates so that your business runs with or without you there, create multiple income streams within your field, make your money go farther and last longer, increase patient and customer retention, and become a client magnet, while getting the best vacation deals, flying for free, and more!
Make your home an intimate retreat that will please your senses and nourish your soul. Here's how to make your home a sacred space... a sanctuary for mind, body, and soul. HOME SANCTUARIES gives you an easy-to-follow, seven-stage process for building personal retreats, altars, and shrines within your home. You will learn how to identify a location, cleanse and sanctify the area, evaluate the balance of energy, assemble materials, and energize your intentions. Specific chapters are devoted to communal rooms, intimate spaces, zones of creativity, and contemplative environments. Hundreds of practical tips and suggestions, insightful stories, and life lessons provide just the guidance you need to implement the ancient principles of feng shui right where you live. Readers who love the books of Denise Linn, Karen Kingston, Nancy SantoPietro, Xorin Balbes, and Tsh Oxenreider will find this book a great companion of equal value. The Alchemy of Intention (From the Introduction) Where intention goes, energy flows. Because of how energy functions, we are each engaged in co-creation with the life force. If you want your life to be sacred, you need to set the intention for it to be so. Setting an intention is like speaking to the Divine through a megaphone: It gets the message across more clearly. This is the true secret behind creating a home sanctuary. Altars and shrines are incredible spiritual tools because they anchor our feelings and thoughts so we become very clear and specific about what we want. Ultimately, whatever we focus on appears in the material world. Creating a sacred space in your home is an opportunity to connect your intimate environment with the realm of the Divine so that your soul is supported and nourished and has freedom to express and flourish.
There is an old Persian proverb that says: "Only that which comes from a heart can touch a heart." In his new book, You Are a Spirit, clairvoyant spiritual teacher Kayhan Ghodsi suggests nine spiritual considerations that touch the heart and open the mind to that which exists beyond the five-sensory world. He invites you to recognize your transcendent, creative, supremely powerful metaphysical self, residing in your body, whose sole purpose is to serve as a conduit for you to experience life. His "nine steps to heaven" are designed to lead you to clear your space of the energy of expectation and judgment, and trust your spiritual essence to guide your choices and actions. What comes to light, according to Sarah Maria, bestselling author of Love Your Body, Love Your Life, is the "only secret you will ever need to know: Who you are is not limited in any way." Laid out in what Ernest D. Chu, author of Soul Currency, calls "eminently readable practical steps," each ending with a simple meditative exercise from a "wise good friend," You Are a Spirit encompasses Ghodsi's unique and elegant perspective, gained from years practicing and teaching clairvoyant meditation, and offers, in the words of Howard Falco, author of I AM, "a great resource for those serious about engaging in a new and harmonious way to experience life." You Are a Spirit is filled with gentle, respectful, and yet powerfully transformative guidance that is appropriate for everyone on a spiritual path seeking insights.
Secretly, scores of Fortune 500 companies, like Proctor & Gamble, Disney, Bloomingdales, Lexus, Reebok, Sony, Samsung, and Starwood Hotels, have been using aroma to bypass their competition. These cutting edge companies are using scent research to trigger and enhance customers' emotions, perceptions, and brand loyalty, resulting in increased sales and satisfied customers.Whiff! conveniently pulls back the veil for the rest of the $3.9 trillion U.S retail marketing trade, so that innovative small and mid-sized businesses can share the advantage of the big boys.Yet this is only the beginning stage of the scent revolution. This global wave is changing how branding and marketing experts communicate with their customers at every level across every industry.Whiff! reveals how exciting new scent discoveries are being applied to safety, security, healthcare, navigation, diagnostics, product design, and even on the battlefield. With a comprehensive overview of this global phenomenon, Brumfield and his team offer up a breath-taking whiff of the future.
Named one of "The New Healers" on the cover of "New York Magazine, " holistic physician Lipman presents his seven-step program for cultivating resilience, vitality, and long-term health.
Simple and inexpensive natural remedies every medicine cabinet should have Dr. Edward Shalts's easy-to-use reference book is designed for those just getting started in homeopathy as well as for those confused by the thousands of elixirs, herbs, and other healing methods on the market. Now, in one user-friendly guide, Shalts identifies the seven most useful and effective homeopathic remedies, explaining to you exactly what they are, how they work, and how to use them for hundreds of common conditions.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the U.S.-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border.
Packed with useful tools, this practitioner guide and course text helps educators assess and teach essential literacy skills and strategies at all grade levels (PreK–12). All six literacy modalities are addressed--listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. Chapters on specific literacy processes integrate foundational knowledge, assessments, and strategies for students who need support in literacy, including English language learners. Presented are dozens of authentic assessments along with differentiation ideas. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book features more than 70 reproducible assessment forms and resources. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
Police work involves the difficult task of preventing community dysfunction and preserving law and order within the community. Officers who deal with human misery on a daily basis work under a hidden danger not visible on the street: that of psychological harm. UNDER THE BLUE SHADOW was written to provide clinical cases and research in one volume in order to help provide a well-rounded view of police officers who work under these conditions. It will be a valuable resource for helping officers to survive this psychologically dangerous occupation. The authors of this book have both had experience with policing. The cases described in this book are from the files of Stephanie Samuels who has counseled troubled officers for many years. Dr. John M. Violanti is a 23-year veteran of the New York State Police and has conducted research on police trauma and suicide for 20 years. Police officers and executives, counselors, and other mental health professionals will find the book to be a valuable addition to their library. Chapters include: Introduction; Working with the Police: A Therapist's View; Research on Police Suicide; The Police Role and Suicide Risk; Posttraumatic Stress, the Police, and Suicide; Trauma and Police Suicide Ideation; The Police Organization and Suicide; Suicide by Cop: Impact on Police Officers; Suicide by Suspect: Suicide by Cop Turned Inside Out; Other Psychological Issues in Policing; and Police Suicide Prevention: Future Directions.
This fascinating account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work done by authors writing during the Gilded Age. Stephanie C. Palmer shows how events like broken carriage wheels and missed trains were used by local color authors to bring together bourgeois and lower-class characters, thus giving readers the opportunity to see modernity coming into contact with both rural and urban life. Using the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, Palmer traces the use of the regional travel accident motif and how local color writers employed it to give critiques on class, society, and modern life. Exploring the themes of regional identity, modernity, and interpersonal relationships, Together by Accident offers an intriguing evaluation of the innovations and inconveniences associated with life during the industrializing Gilded Age in America.
When a New York City vintage clothing shop owner’s recent purchases contain a hidden journal from 1907, her entire life will be turned upside down in this “insightful, charming, and wholly entertaining novel” (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner). Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place Vintage, thinks she’son just another call to appraise and possibly purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated. The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas, limiting a woman’s sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds she’s connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined.
Sometimes summer is one wild ride. I’d set my heart and summer plans on working my dream job at Midwest Wild Adventure theme park with my friend Chelsea and my long-time crush KJ Keene. Only a day-one prank results in total humiliation, punchline: Me. Worse, Chelsea and KJ are in on the prank. Not only that, but after my big, loud mouth gets me in trouble with my new boss, I’m sent to work at the "loser" side of the park. My new coworkers, the Midwest Midfits, offer a chilly welcome to their desolate go kart zone. Especially Jonah, the big scary dude who won't talk to anyone. He's the "beast" park employees fear because of his part in some mysterious ride malfunction that injured a kid last summer. I can’t quit my job since I need to prove to Mom and my stepdad that I can follow through on something. Plus, I’m not ready to give up on my summer with KJ. Only KJ might be keeping secrets about what happened last summer. When the big boss issues a challenge to draw crowds to underused areas of the park, I round up our band of outcasts aiming to win the prize money. We can all use each other to get what we want. It turns out, the Midfits aren’t so bad. Even Jonah, who seems more misunderstood than anything. Somehow, Jonah becomes a person I confide in, and the person I grow to trust most. Get ready for a drama-filled summer featuring a cast of loveable misfits in this sweet young adult workplace romance. Search terms: young adult romance, ya romance, ya series, ya book series, summer romance, teen romance, teen romance books, high school romance, high school romance books, teen romcom, romcom romance, summer job romance, young adult romance series, workplace romance
A groundbreaking approach to successfully navigating your pregnancy at work Pregnancy is a profound journey. Navigating it while working—from figuring out how to tell your boss you’re pregnant to squeezing in doctors’ appointments between meetings, all while working even harder to prove yourself—can be a push and pull between a desire for privacy and the need for support. The good news is, it’s possible to thrive in both spaces. Carry Strong offers a new approach that will transform your pregnancy years at work from something to “get through” into a career opportunity to embrace with confidence. Employing original research, expert advice, and real-life stories from Olympic athletes, CEOs, and hundreds of amazing working mothers across the country, executive and professor Stephanie Kramer outlines essential principles for navigating pregnancy and work simultaneously. She shows you how to embrace a different perspective, find your balance, cultivate community, communicate your needs, and navigate the shift in identity from working woman to working mother. Along the way, you’ll identify career considerations to make at each phase of pregnancy, starting with the moment you decide you want to become a working mom-to-be. In Carry Strong, Kramer flips the script: This isn’t about powering through pregnancy at work. It’s about being powerful and pregnant at work.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a series on Starz "Brilliantly written. . . . Outstanding."—The New York Times Book Review Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. The story of a young woman’s coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York’s most elite restaurants, in Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the food industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young and adrift.
After a scheduling mishap occurs one student tracks how her high school's homecoming game, the academic battle, and class election all ended up on the same day with hilarious results! The word is out...BROOKS MANDEVILLE, quarterback: Friday is the homecoming game and dance. It is a very big deal.NATALIE WAGNER, marching band clarinet: Our band's halftime show performances are legendary, even if our football team isn't. CINTHIA ALVAREZ, Academic Battle team member: Our Academic Battle team has won five years in a row. This Friday, it'll be six.TANNER ERICKSEN, sophomore class candidate for vice president: Holly has to win the election for class president this Friday!HOLLY CARPENTER, cheerleader, Academic Battle team member, class president candidate: Friday? Everything is on Friday? How can I be in three places at once?COLIN VON KOHORN, editor-in-chief of the Prepster: This kind of scheduling incompetence could only have come straight from the top.ANGELICA HUTCHERSON, reporter-at-large: I talked to everyone and my article is going to crack this story wide open...This is what happens on the wildest day in the history of high school!
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