Art meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez is creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America. A decorative box with figures in the interior, the retablo in the Andes became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among the herds owned by the local peasant population. These boxes served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. Now reimagined by Jiménez, the retablo offers compelling insights into the bitter immigration disputes dividing our nation.
With humour and wisdom, this book shows you how to talk your way to success! Learn the right way to approach anyone and leave a good impression. Learn how to become indispensable at your job. Learn how to get people talking positively about you. Learn how to start a life-long friendship within the first few minutes after meeting anyone! Whether you are meeting someone famous, or the boss's wife, this book teaches you how to better handle that most intimate act: conversation. The authors of this book prefer to call it "The Art of the Shmooze"!
If you want to gain the winning edge for your sales performance, it’s time to embrace the entire customer life cycle. Your job may be all about sales, but not your customers. Did you know that the average executive spends less than 5 percent of their time engaged in the buying of products and services? Therefore, sales professionals who focus solely on the moment of the sale have made a fatal miscalculation in understanding their customers. Beyond the Sales Process provides you with a proven methodology for driving success before, during, and after every sale. Featuring instructional case studies from companies such as Hilton Worldwide, Merck, and Siemens, this resource reveals 12 essential strategies for salespeople wanting to take their performance to a whole new level, including: Research your customer Build a vision with them for their own success Understand your customer’s drivers, objectives, and challenges Create and realize value together Leverage your results to forge lasting--and mutually beneficial—relationships If you want to successfully sell to your customers, you need to know your customers…beyond the sales process!
A powerful bomb destroys a Sydney liquor store and kills its owner, Goran Pekič. Private investigators Damon Ogilvy and Janet Maitland try to find the killer. They discover that Pekič was a member of Drugavi, an organization that protects the perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War.They also uncover a cocaine smuggling ring. Two of its leaders hold Damon and Janet responsible for the deaths of their brothers, and swear vengeance. Then the heads of the Drugavi organization realize that Damon and Janet's investigation has resulted in the arrest of a number of their comrades, who now face trial for genocide.A murderous game of cat and mouse now ensues. Damon and Janet flee to Canada, pursued by both Drugavi and the cocaine gang. From there, they fly to France where police set a trap with Damon and Janet as the bait. The chase ends with a Wild West-style shoot-out in a chocolate shop in Provence.
Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life's biggest questions." --Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application. Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction. In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme--people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94--those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can't because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire. With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.
DescriptionQuestionable Therapy is a psychological drama that unfolds through the lives of two college students who fall in love and begin life in the real world together. Through a combination of first person therapy sessions with a psychiatrist and flashbacks to the last 4 years, Rick and Stacy reveal how they deal with Stacy's severe psychological issues while trying to keep their marriage on track. A family background complicated by depression, suicide attempts and other mental problems, plagues Stacy posing great challenges to her marriage and, new husband, Rick. Adding to his issues is someone who causes him to question his love for Stacy and the future of their marriage. Eventually, the death of Rick's best friend sends Stacy into a downward emotional spiral that results in her most severe psychological challenges and several attempts on her own life. At the same time, a dark force is brewing in the mind of a dangerous man who is fighting carnal desires for Stacy that he cannot control. Ultimately, Stacy disappears and her husband discovers the surprising and terrible truth about Stacy's fate, and who seals it, as he unravels clues from unlikely places. About the AuthorSteve Godofsky recently retired from the radio industry after decades of service. He was most recently Senior Vice-President and Regional Vice-President for the 3rd largest public radio company in the U.S. Mr. Godofsky has Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees with majors in marketing and marketing research. He has managed more than 20 radio stations in 13 cities, run 3 broadcast companies, and consulted over 40 radio stations on their programming, marketing, sales, and management practices.The author of articles on radio management and leadership for trade publications, poetry, and fiction.He also writes music, sings, and plays keyboard instruments. Mr. Godofsky was born in Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A and now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Sandra and his Golden Retriever named Hank.
This collection of microfiction contains reader-voted best work published on MicrofictionMondayMagazine.com in 2015 alongside original, never-before published work from each of the contributing authors. Foreword by Gayle Towell.
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