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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened...
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 20
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"But this book is different. It's about you - your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose. There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge...
Author
Series
Technical publication volume no. 60
Publisher
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Land development and increased demand for outdoor recreational opportunities continue to impact wildlife habitat and are placing increased pressure on local wildlife populations. Land managers and other decision makers in Eagle County are interested in finding ways to incorporate wildlife habitat conservation into land use decisions and policies that are consistent with the desires of the county's residents.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A mother's memoir of parenting a daughter with Asperger's syndrome. Describes the challenges and joys of understanding emotional and behavioral differences, advocating for and seeking proper educational support, helping with homework and friendships, and self-care, which included training for the London Marathon"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 and grew it into a $5 million a year company. Together, they're living examples of how thinking BIG and knowing when to back up your opinions aggressively.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Offers advice for divorcing parents that helps them create a more peaceful separation for the benefit of raising less-stressed children; and encourages them to establish fair visitation schedules, staying active in their children's lives, and learning how to compromise
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. When it comes to emotions at work, there's rarely a happy medium. In some offices, your boss might send snaps of her weekend getaway in Vegas, or your coworker might send twenty texts about how Susan ate his clearly labeled lunch...again. Other offices are buttoned-up emotional deserts, where crying is only allowed in the bathroom...
14) Survival lessons
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One of America's most beloved writers shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times.
15) The invitation
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invit ation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances"--Amazon.com.