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Author : KOLAK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780767414326
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Questioning Matters written by KOLAK and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Hood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393253848
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Book That Matters Most: A Novel written by Ann Hood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood—one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother. Alternating with Ava’s story is that of her troubled daughter Maggie, who, living in Paris, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past and offers her and Maggie the chance to remake their lives.
Author : Warren Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620401460
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A More Beautiful Question written by Warren Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and “beautifully.” In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing questions. But Berger also shares human stories of people using questioning to solve everyday problems-from “How can I adapt my career in a time of constant change?” to “How can I step back from the daily rush and figure out what really makes me happy?” By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind and a willingness to work through a series of “Why,” “What if,” and “How” queries, Berger offers an inspiring framework of how we can all arrive at better solutions, fresh possibilities, and greater success in business and life.
Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889929
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Language Matters written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of language and its role in our lives are either misconceived or influenced by myths and stereotypes. Language Matters provides a highly informative tour of the world of language, examining these and other vexing and controversial language-related questions. Throughout, Napoli and Lee-Schoenfeld encourage and lead the reader to use common-sense and everyday experience rather than preconceived notions or technical linguistic expertise. Both their questions and their conclusions are surprising, sometimes provocative, and always entertaining. This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.
Author : Caroline McEnery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781192719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Art of Asking the Right Questions written by Caroline McEnery and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Breisch
Publisher : Dancing with Chaos
ISBN 13 : 9780692920190
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Questions That Matter written by Roger Breisch and published by Dancing with Chaos. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Would you be willing to share with me, why you want to live?" This question, asked of people so bereft of joy and connection that they have considered ending their lives, has taught Roger Breisch much about life and the human journey. Having logged more than 3000 hours answering calls on suicide hotlines, Breisch has come to know the vital, often life-saving role that questions play in our daily discourse. "Answers have a way of ending discovery and learning," he declares in Questions That Matter, his first collection of writings inspired, in part, by his revelatory experiences talking people off the ledge. "Captivating questions, however, open us to unimaginable possibilities..." Breisch's provocative essays explore profound truths hidden within the familiar questions we all share-questions about our lives, our work, our relationships, our gifts, and what, if anything, they mean. "We all struggle to know how to live in a complex and confusing world," he reminds us. "We desperately want to know what the future might bring for us and humanity..." Questions That Matter provides insights far more enlightening than pat answers about an unknowable future. Every page is watermarked with healing wisdom that guides us back to the things that matter most on the journey forward - the love and kindness that illuminate our individual lives, and collective soul.
Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199882568
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguist Donna Jo Napoli points out in this short and highly entertaining volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of language and its role in our lives are either misconceived or influenced by myths and stereotypes Napoli provides an entertaining tour through the world of language, examining these and other vexing and controversial language-related questions. Throughout, she encourages and leads the reader to use common-sense and everyday experience rather than preconceived notions or technical linguistic expertise. Both her questions and her conclusions are surprising, sometimes provocative, and always entertaining. This volume is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.
Author : Will Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996423984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Ask Powerful Questions written by Will Wise and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might happen if "small talk" was replaced with conversations that matter? In their Bestselling book, Will Wise and Chad Littlefield explain how the questions we traditionally ask are often meaningless when it comes to establishing a connection. Introducing a set of practice tools for understanding others by changing the way we ask questions, Will and Chad show how to transform "How are you?-I'm fine, thanks" into conversations that change not only how you lead but who you are as a person. Educators, business professionals, personal coaches, and anyone in a position of leadership will relate to the personal successes and failures Will shares. He unpacks the art of asking questions that lay the foundation for trust, psychological safety, productivity, and impact. Chad complements Will's personal stories and examples with fascinating facts and nuances in neuroscience that are behind the art of asking. Together, the art of asking and the science behind it join to create a simple and powerful framework for leaders to build a culture of connection. In his book, Will and Chad break it down into six simple steps for all of us to be able to understand. The Asking Powerful Questions Pyramid(TM) shows you how to build: Intention Rapport Openness Listening Empathy Powerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this book is for you. If you want to navigate difficult conversations with your spouse or a friend, or practice presence-based listening with your kids...this book is for you. If you want to become a better educator and facilitate an ice breaker conversation with colleagues...this book is for you. Ask Powerful Questions invites the reader on a journey that explores: the clarity of intent, connecting through rapport, creating openness, reflective listening, and empathy. How can we explore the space between ourselves and others, and exchange meaningful perspectives? Just ask-powerfully.
Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783091606
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism written by Colin Baker and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Delectable Demaundes, and Pleasant Questions, with Their Seuerall Answers, in Matters of Loue: Naturall Causes, with Morall and Politicke Deuises. Translated Out of French Into English. MS. Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1596 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Launcelot Dowdall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Questions Deducible from Easy Lessons on Money Matters, for the Use of Young People written by Launcelot Dowdall and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089316
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Questions That Matter Most written by Jane Smiley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Clear, vibrant” essays on reading and writing by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author: “A reader feels smarter just taking it in” (The Boston Globe). From the author of A Dangerous Business, A Thousand Acres, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, this volume “gathers essays (and two stories) composed with wit, enthusiasm, expertise, and candor” (Booklist). Long acclaimed as a preeminent American novelist, Jane Smiley is also an unparalleled observer of the craft of writing. In this book, she offers penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. After a personal introduction tracing Smiley’s migration from Iowa to California, she reflects on her findings in the literature of the Golden State, whose writers have for decades litigated the West’s contested legacies of racism, class conflict, and sexual politics through their work. With meticulous attention, she also dives beneath surface-level interpretations of authors like Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldór Laxness, and Jessica Mitford. Throughout, Smiley seeks to think harder, and with more clarity and nuance, about the questions that matter most. “Valuable . . . Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss.” —Library Journal (starred review) “Her literary criticism . . . brims with the same keen observations, inquisitiveness, and humor as her novels. . . . Fleet-footed and smart, this delights.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Fiona Bayrock
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781429602273
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book States of Matter written by Fiona Bayrock and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the composition of matter, its changing states, and the effects of changing between states"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ed. LeRoy Miller
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780070428362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Questions that Matter written by Ed. LeRoy Miller and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular choice for introductory philosophy courses again offers primary source readings woven into a text that is organized by key questions in philosophy. The discussion of each question is presented in a logical and historical light, showing connections, roots and influences. The clarity of the presentation and the successful student pedagogical aids provide an accessible, guided introduction to philosophy for college students.
Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262250748
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Technology Matters written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing new tools for more elegant solutions to old tasks. Perhaps this is because we are intimate with devices and machines from an early age—as children, we play with technological toys: trucks, cars, stoves, telephones, model railroads, Playstations. Through these machines we imagine ourselves into a creative relationship with the world. As adults, we retain this technological playfulness with gadgets and appliances—Blackberries, cell phones, GPS navigation systems in our cars. We use technology to shape our world, yet we think little about the choices we are making. In Technology Matters, Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies. He asks: Can we define technology? Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable or unpredictable? (Why do experts often fail to get it right?)? How do historians understand it? Are we using modern technology to create cultural uniformity, or diversity? To create abundance, or an ecological crisis? To destroy jobs or create new opportunities? Should "the market" choose our technologies? Do advanced technologies make us more secure, or escalate dangers? Does ubiquitous technology expand our mental horizons, or encapsulate us in artifice? These large questions may have no final answers yet, but we need to wrestle with them—to live them, so that we may, as Rilke puts it, "live along some distant day into the answers."
Author : Jan Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134529104
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Digital Matters written by Jan Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches (including sociology, media theory, cultural studies and technological philosophy), to suggest that the ‘Matrix’ of science fiction and Hollywood is simply an extreme example of how contemporary technological society enframes and conditions its citizens. Arranged in two parts, the book covers: theorizing the Im/Material Matrix living in the Digital Matrix. Providing a novel perspective on on-going digital developments by using both the work of current thinkers and that of past theorists not normally associated with digital issues, it gives a fresh insight into the roots and causes of the social matrix behind the digital one of popular imagination. The authors highlight the way we should be concerned by the power of the digital to undermine physical reality, but also explore the potential the digital has for alternative, empowering social uses. The book’s central point is to impress upon the reader that the digital does indeed matter. It includes a pessimistic interpretation of technological change, and adds a substantial historical perspective to the often excessively topical focus of much existing cyberstudies literature making it an important volume for students and researchers in this field.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145878438X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Teachers Have it Easy written by Dave Eggers and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its initial publication and multiple reprints in hardcover in 2005, Teachers Have It Easy has attracted the attention of teachers nationwide, appearing on the New York Times extended bestseller list, C-SPAN, and NPR's Marketplace, in additio...
