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Retellable

Author : Jay Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692826362
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Retellable written by Jay Golden and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before dinner tonight, you will see hundreds of emails, ads, tweets, and posts. Yet by tomorrow morning, so much of these will be forgotten. Except, that is, for the stories. The ability to find, shape, and share your own most essential stories-told one to one and one to many-is one of your greatest assets as a leader. The key is an understanding of the retellable story. While we all know how important communication and stories are, and know a good story when we hear one, we don't always know how to tell them. Retellable is a book about how you can find and tell yours. This book is an exploration into the center of what stories are, why they work, and how you can make them work for you. Written by story coach and storyteller Jay Golden, who has trained business leaders around the world on this topic at companies such as Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Retellable combines practical insights, actionable steps, anecdotes, and an easy-to-remember framework that will help you transform your audiences, your organization business, and your career, one story at a time.

Thirty-three Multicultural Tales to Tell

Author : Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874832662
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Thirty-three Multicultural Tales to Tell written by Pleasant DeSpain and published by august house. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales from around the world, selected for their "tellability."

Once There Was a Story

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416971726
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Once There Was a Story written by Jane Yolen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty shareable fairy tales, folk tales, and fables from around the world that includes magic tales, homey tales, animal tales, and two tales by Jane Yolen.

I Must Say

Author : Martin Short
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062309536
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book I Must Say written by Martin Short and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian." Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to the all-American comic big time of Saturday Night Live, and from memorable roles in such movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride to Broadway stardom in Fame Becomes Me and the Tony-winning Little Me. He reveals how he created his most indelible comedic characters, among them the manic man-child Ed Grimley, the slimy corporate lawyer Nathan Thurm, and the bizarrely insensitive interviewer Jiminy Glick. Throughout, Short freely shares the spotlight with friends, colleagues, and collaborators, among them Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Gilda Radner, Mel Brooks, Nora Ephron, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Shaffer, and David Letterman. But there is another side to Short's life that he has long kept private. He lost his eldest brother and both parents by the time he turned twenty, and, more recently, he lost his wife of thirty years to cancer. In I Must Say, Short talks for the first time about the pain that these losses inflicted and the upbeat life philosophy that has kept him resilient and carried him through. In the grand tradition of comedy legends, Martin Short offers a show-business memoir densely populated with boldface names and rife with retellable tales: a hugely entertaining yet surprisingly moving self-portrait that will keep you laughing—and crying—from the first page to the last.

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393104168
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago Tribune A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find in this collection of over 200 tales at least one story you would have sworn was true. Jan Harold Brunvand has been collecting and studying this modern folklore for over twenty years. In Too Good to Be True he captures the best stories in their best retellings, along with their latest variations and examples of how the stories have changed as they move from person to person and place to place. To help you find your favorite, Brunvand has arranged the tales thematically. "Bringing Up Baby" is full of episodes of child-rearing gone wrong, including the grisly tale of the drugged out baby-sitter who mistakes the kid for a turkey. "Funny Business" showcases stories of infamous lapses in customer service, such as the story of the shockingly expensive chocolate chip cookie recipe. And "The Criminal Mind" features both brilliant --if they were real --scams, as well as the purported antics of the less mentally gifted. Whether you want to become an expert debunker or just have plenty of laughs, this book will surprise and entertain you. Illustrated throughout. "Informative and entertaining.... Brunvand has collected more than 200 of the most-repeated and best-known examples of modern folk-myth."—Tampa Tribune "[N]ot only an entertaining anthology, but an excellent introduction to the study of folklore itself."—Publishers Weekly "A fun read... . All the classics are here from the killer upstairs to the Kentucky Fried Rat."—New City "Resonant stories that express our hidden anxieties ... make us laugh, [or] arouse our fascinated horror."—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Informative and entertaining... . Brunvand has collected more than 200 of the most-repeated and best-known examples of modern folk-myth."—Tampa Tribune "[N]ot only an entertaining anthology, but an excellent introduction to the study of folklore itself."—Publishers Weekly

Stick

Author : Irene Dickson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1536200166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Stick written by Irene Dickson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy and his dog set off to play together one sunny day, taking nothing with them but a good stick. There are so many things you can do with a stick, especially if you use your imagination. You can throw it, balance with it, float it down a stream, and draw pictures in the sand. It might even help you make new friends!

Everyday Life

Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200993
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life written by Roger Abrahams and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience and the substrate of mutual understandings carried around as part of our own cultural longings and belongings. Everyday Life explores the entire range of social gatherings, from chance encounters and casual conversations to well-rehearsed performances in theaters and stadiums. Abrahams ties the everyday to those more intense experiences of playful celebration and serious power displays and shows how these seemingly disparate entities are cut from the same cloth of human communication. Abrahams explores the core components of everyday-ness, including aspects of sociability and goodwill, from jokes and stories to elaborate networks of organization, both formal and informal, in the workplace. He analyzes how the past enters our present through common experiences and attitudes, through our shared practices and their underlying values. Everyday Life begins with the vernacular terms for "old talk" and offers an overview of the range of practices thought of as customary or traditional. Chapters are concerned directly with the terms for intense experiences, mostly forms of play and celebration but extending to riots and other forms of social and political resistance. Finally Abrahams addresses key terms that have recently come front and center in sociological discussions of culture in a global perspective, such as identity, ethnicity, creolization, and diaspora, thus taking on academic jargon words as they are introduced into vernacular discussions.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312420560
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson Is Indignant written by Lydia Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the "true originals of contemporary American short fiction" ("San Francisco Chronicle") comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive each other and themselves. An ALA Notable Book of the Year.

Diplomatic Style and Foreign Policy

Author : Jeffrey Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317283007
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Diplomatic Style and Foreign Policy written by Jeffrey Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea. Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy’s universalism; misconstrued as a component of foreign policy; alluded to perfunctorily amidst broader considerations of foreign policy; or wholly absented from discussions in which it should comprise an important component. In contrast to these views, practitioners maintain a faith-like confidence in diplomatic style. They assume it plays an important role in providing analytical insight, giving them advantage over scholars in the analysis of foreign policy. This book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into foreign policy, using South Korea as a case study. It determines that style remains important to diplomatic practitioners, and provides analytical insight into a state’s foreign policy by highlighting phenomena of policy relevance, which narrows the range of information an analyst must cover. The book demonstrates how South Korea’s diplomatic style – which has a tendency towards emotionalism, and is affected by status, generational change, cosmopolitanism, and estrangement from international society – can be a guide to understanding South Korea’s contemporary foreign policy. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, foreign policy, Asian politics, and International Relations in general.

Globalizing Race

Author : Dorian Bell
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136902
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Race written by Dorian Bell and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Morès to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France’s colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form—and that, conversely, antisemitism influenced the elaboration of the imperial project itself. Globalizing Race radiates from France to place authors like Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola into sustained relation with thinkers from across the ideological spectrum, including Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Engaging with what has been called the “spatial turn” in social theory, the book offers new tools for thinking about how racisms interact across space and time. Among these is what Bell calls racial scalarity. Race, Bell argues, did not just become globalized when European racism and antisemitism accompanied imperial penetration into the farthest reaches of the world. Rather, race became most thoroughly global as a method for constructing and negotiating the different scales (national, global, etc.) necessary for the development of imperial capitalism. As France, Europe, and the world confront a rising tide of Islamophobia, Globalizing Race also brings into fascinating focus how present-day French responses to Muslim antisemitism hark back to older, problematic modes of representing the European colonial periphery.

M.C. Plays Hide & Seek

Author : Eva Grayzel
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781645431435
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book M.C. Plays Hide & Seek written by Eva Grayzel and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.C. is a cancer cell who shares just enough information about the nature of the disease to promote dialogue and minimize fear. The scary part of cancer is the unknown. Learn about doctors who look for cancer. Understand feelings children experience and learn ways to cope. Empower children with knowledge and how to make a difference. M.C. Plays Hide & Seek strengthens communication and builds emotional health.

Kentucky Folktales

Author : Mary Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813136008
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Folktales written by Mary Hamilton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone's ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father's land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent re-tellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky's storytelling tradition.

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness

Author : Joel ben Izzy
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1565128540
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness written by Joel ben Izzy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful!” (Grace Paley). “Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written” (Detroit Free Press). “Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie” (the Dallas Morning News). “Altogether original” (Dr. Laura Schlessinger). “This story will speak to the humanity of the reader” (Jewish Book World). The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness is that rare, magical book—a book that tells a good story but also shows us how the tales we learned when we were children shed light on our adult lives. Joel ben Izzy had the unusual opportunity to relive those lessons when he lost his voice and reconnected with his old teacher, Lenny, a retired storyteller. Through his meetings with Lenny, Joel rediscovers the wisdom of ancient tales and takes us on a journey into a world of beggars and kings, monks and tigers, lost horses and buried treasures—and in the end tells us the secret of happiness.

Stories for Work

Author : Gabrielle Dolan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0730343294
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Stories for Work written by Gabrielle Dolan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the science and master the art of telling a great story Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals. In this book, author Gabrielle Dolan draws from a decade of training business leaders in storytelling to show you what works, why it works, when it works best and what never works. You'll learn how to create your own stories — authentically yours, crafted to attain your goal — and develop an instinct for sharing when the time is right. In-depth case studies feature real-world people in real-world businesses, showing how storytelling has changed the way they work, motivate and lead — providing clear examples of the power of this enormously effective skill. Storytelling gives you an edge. Whether you're after a promotion, a difficult client, a big sale or leading through transition, a great story can help you smooth the road and seal the deal. This book is your personal coach for masterful storytelling, with expert guidance and lessons learned from real-world business leaders. Learn why storytelling grabs attention and helps your message get through Master the four types of stories used in business settings Infuse your stories with the personal to highlight your vision and values Craft a selection of stories to pull out at pivotal business moments The oral tradition has ancient roots that unite all humans, and despite our myriad modern distractions, we still respond to a well-told story. Stories for Work helps you put this dynamic to work for you in any business scenario.

Mr. C the Globetrotter

Author : Eva Grayzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982385722
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Mr. C the Globetrotter written by Eva Grayzel and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Mr. C, a cancer cell, up close and personal, as he visits countries around the globe. He introduces readers to children who have a family member with cancer. Each child shares his or her name, it's meaning, and how they've been coping since Mr. C came to visit. Readers are empowered with ways to help themselves and others. Mr. C admits he doesn't like being such a trouble-maker, but until a cure is found, he has to keep living his life. However, he makes up for causing trouble by doing some good. What good can come from cancer? Mr. C the Globetrotter answers this question in a comfortable yet honest way, making cancer less scary for children and empowering readers with how they can help themselves and each other. Don't 'hide' a cancer diagnosis from children - 'seek' out the Talk4Hope Book Series!

Sita

Author : Saraswati Nagpal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9380741251
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Sita written by Saraswati Nagpal and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ancient age, when gods and goddesses walked with mortals... ...Sita is the kind-hearted and intelligent princess of the kingdom of Videha. Married to Rama, prince of Ayodhya, her journey in life takes her from exhilaration to anguish. Along the way, she has to leave behind the luxury of royal comforts and live the simple, harsh life of a forest dweller, where danger is lurking in every shadow. Ensnared in the evil plans of the wicked demon-king Ravana, Sita is abducted and hidden away in Lanka. Will Rama muster up a strong army to rescue Sita from the demon's clutches? Will Sita return to Ayodhya to become queen of the land... or is she destined to be mistrusted and live alone for the rest of her life? Adapted from the ancient Indian epic, the Ramayana, this is a touching tale of love, honor, and sacrifice that reveals one woman's shining strength in an unforgiving world.

Don't Worry, Little Crab

Author : Chris Haughton
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536211192
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Don't Worry, Little Crab written by Chris Haughton and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning creator of Shh! We Have a Plan comes a vibrantly colorful story about mustering the courage to try something new. Little Crab and Very Big Crab live in a tiny rock pool near the sea. Today they’re going for a dip in the big ocean. “This is going to be so great,” says Little Crab, splish-splashing and squelch-squelching along, all the way to the very edge. Then comes a first glance down at the waves. WHOOSH! Maybe it’s better if they don’t go in? With vivid colors, bold shapes, and his trademark visual humor, Chris Haughton shows that sometimes a gentle “don’t worry, I’m here” can keep tentative little crabs sidestepping ahead — and help them discover the brilliant worlds that await when they take the plunge.