Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up: Stories about Growing Up, Meeting Challenges, and Learning from Life Editorial Reviews About the Author Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California. Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Product Details Series: Chicken Soup for the Soul Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul; 1 edition (July 29, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 193509601X ISBN-13: 978-1935096016 Product

The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society 内容简介 Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends such as Beyond Certainty has changed the way we view society. In The Second Curve, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life as students, parents, workers and voters and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves and points us in the direction of some of the a

Rejection Proof: How to Beat Fear and Become Invincible 内容简介 Rejection? It's nothing to be afraid of...Maybe you avoid situations where you might be rejected. You don't apply for that dream job. You don't ask for that pay rise. You don't ask that person on a date. But it doesn't have to be that way - the only thing standing between you and your goals...is you. Jia Jiang had allowed his fear of rejection to rule his life. But he decided to take radical action: he quit his job and spent 100 days deliberately seeking out scenarios where he would likely be rejected, from ordering donuts interlinked and iced like the Olympic rings to asking to pilot a light aircraft. And something remarkable happened; Jia not only learned how to cope with rejection but also discovered that even the most outrageous request may be granted - if you ask in the right way. In this infectiously positive book Jia shares what he learned in his 100 Days of Rejection, explaining how to turn a 'no' into a 'ye

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the authorof the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by theBaltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” Thispowerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make adifference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who isin love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cureit. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer.Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist,anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant,world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on aboat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnoseand cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools ofmodern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent bookshows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seeminsurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful l

Adopting a broad historical perspective, the author analyzesthe intricacies of the German identity. He encapsulates both thesituation today and its roots in the past. A new afterword bringsthis edition up-to-date. --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this title.

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the blackidentity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and BlackSkin, White Masks represents some of his most importantwork. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation thatupdates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and blackconsciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, WhiteMasks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a whiteworld. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when itwas first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force todayfrom one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle,colonialism, and racial difference in history.

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Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe,bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. Buttraditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality andpoverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature inwhich people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions,including the spiritual, the social and the altruistic. Welcome tothe world of social business, where the creative vision of theentrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feedingthe poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick and protecting theplanet."Creating a World Without Poverty" tells the stories of someof the earliest examples of social business, including Yunus' ownGrameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic andsocial revolution that is already under way - and in the worldwideeffort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy ofevery human being.

"The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature" offers penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in the cultural life of the 20th century. Carl Gustav Jung was at the heart of that cultural life, pioneering, along with Freud, a new interpretation of what it meant to be human in the modern age. This volume reveals the full range of Jung's involvement in this process, from his famous analysis of "Psychology and Literature" to his landmark texts on Joyce's "Ulysses" and Picasso's paintings. Jung writes of Freud from the perspective of one who was "permitted a deep glimpse into the mind of this remarkable man," and through the memories and opinions recorded in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature", the reader is offered a similar privilege.

"This book is a gift, and not only to Jordan."–USA Today In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write whatwould become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he didnot make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadsidebomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. AJournal for Jordan is a mother’s letter to her son about the fatherhe lost before he could even speak–including a fiercely honestaccount of her search for answers about Charles’s death. It is alsoa father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together–twoseemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply and losteach other too soon.

From one of the nation’s most trusted experts on children’sbedtime and nap time comes a new guide for sleep-training twins sothat everybody (including Mom and Dad) will be rested andhappy! As parents of twins and multiples know, double the fun can bedouble the sleep deprivation. Now, in Healthy Sleep Habits, HappyTwins, beloved pediatrician and renowned sleep authority Dr. MarcWeissbluth combines specialized advice for parents of twins withhis tried-and-true sleep-training methods to show exhausted momsand dads how to get their babies to sleep on their own, stayasleep, and sleep regularly. This essential step-by-step guide toestablishing good sleep patterns reveals how to build healthyhabits in twins’ natural slumber cycles, including · how healthy sleep differs from “junk” sleep, plus a helpfultutorial on the techniques of sleep training for new parents · the five ingredients of healthy sleep, and why daytime sleep isdifferent from nighttime sleep but equally important to

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.