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Noise

Author : Joseph McCormack
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 139432426X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Noise written by Joseph McCormack and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches managers and leaders to cut through the static and hone their focusing skills In the current digital age, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to stay focused. Smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and other devices constantly vie for our attention. In both business and life, we are constantly bombarded with tweets, likes, mentions, and a constant stream of information. The inability to pay attention impacts learning, parenting, prioritizing, and leading. Not surprisingly, attention spans have gotten shorter. Already being pulled in a dozen directions every minute, managers and business leaders often struggle to address important issues and focus on everything that needs attention. Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus teaches managers and leaders how to help themselves and others sharpen their focusing skills. In this follow-up to his first book Brief—the proven, step-by-step approach to clear, concise, and effective communication—author Joseph McCormack helps readers cut through the static and devote their attention to what is important. This engaging, informative book will help you: Apply effective, real-world techniques to hone your focus and reduce interference Learn the lessons taught to organizations such as Harley-Davidson, BMO Harris Bank, MasterCard, and the US Army Understand how modern technology can actually strengthen your focus if used correctly Avoid becoming a casualty of “weapons of mass distraction” Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus is a valuable resource for leaders and managers seeking to develop laser-sharp focus and apply it to everything you do.

The Brief History of the Dead

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424237
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Brief History of the Dead written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

Brief Thief

Author : Michaël Escoffier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592701315
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Brief Thief written by Michaël Escoffier and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he runs out of toilet paper, Leon must find something else to use. With that, his troubles begin.

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747585962
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil written by George Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly acclaimed cult author of Pastoralia, comes a novella and short-story collection.

The Pelican Brief

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0440245931
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Pelican Brief written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Author : Junot Díaz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594483299
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) written by Junot Díaz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

A Bintel Brief

Author : Isaac Metzker
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307787001
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Bintel Brief written by Isaac Metzker and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meets New. Isaac Metzker's beloved selection of these letters and responses has become for today's readers a remarkable oral record not only of the varied problems of Jewish immigrant life in America but also of the catastrophic events of the first half of our century. Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden

The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader

Author : Gilbert Muller
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780073405995
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader written by Gilbert Muller and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences.

How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief

Author : Howard Ibach
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450249876
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief written by Howard Ibach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of the above in a charming, personable, tongue-in-cheek style that makes How to Write an Inspired Creative Brief not only a pleasure to read, but a well-nigh essential foundation on which to build a successful advertising career." -Dave Butler, Creative Director (retired ), TBWA/CHIAT/Day, Los Angeles "Howard Ibach has written the essential brief for the briefers, a simple, memorable, enoyable book for those who need to practice the art of strategic reduction for a living. He expounds several oft-forgotten principles: simplicity, clarity, collaboration." -Steve Wehrenberg, CEO, Campbell Mithum Advertising, Minneapolis

The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199826625
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-13 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use sections. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judge's attention from the first few words, these tips add up to the most compelling, orderly, and visually appealing brief that an advocate can present. In Garner's view, good writing is good thinking put to paper. "Never write a sentence that you couldn't easily speak," he warns-and demonstrates how to do just that. Beginning each tip with a set of quotable quotes from experts, he then gives masterly advice on building sound paragraphs, drafting crisp sentences, choosing the best words ("Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary."), quoting authority, citing sources, and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads. Throughout, he shows how to edit for maximal impact, using vivid before-and-after examples that apply the basics of rhetoric to persuasive writing. Filled with examples of good and bad writing from actual briefs filed in courts of all types, The Winning Brief also covers the new appellate rules for preparing federal briefs. Constantly collecting material from his seminars and polling judges for their preferences, the second edition delivers the same solid guidelines with even more supporting evidence. Including for the first time sections on the ever-changing rules of acceptable legal writing, Garner's new edition keeps even the most seasoned lawyers on their toes and writing briefs that win cases. An invaluable resource for attorneys, law clerks, judges, paralegals, law students and their teachers, The Winning Brief has the qualities that make all of Garner's books so popular: authority, accessibility, and page after page of techniques that work. If you're writing to win a case, this book shouldn't merely be on your shelf--it should be open on your desk.

The President's Book of Secrets

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395964
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The President's Book of Secrets written by David Priess and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.

A Brief History of Earth

Author : Andrew H. Knoll
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062853937
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Earth written by Andrew H. Knoll and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).

The World

Author : Richard Haass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562419
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The World written by Richard Haass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller “A superb introduction to the world and global issues. Richard Haass has written something that is brief, readable, and yet comprehensive—marked throughout by his trademark intelligence and common sense.” —Fareed Zakaria An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders. We live in a global era, in which what happens thousands of miles away often affects our lives. Although the United States is bordered by two oceans, those oceans are not moats. And the so-called Vegas rule—what happens there stays there—does not apply. Globalization can be both good and bad, but it is not something that individuals or countries can opt out of. The choice we face is how to respond. The World focuses on history, what makes each region of the world tick, the many challenges globalization presents, and the most influential countries, events, and ideas, to provide readers with the background they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world.

The Einstaat Brief

Author : Blake Banner
Publisher : Right House
ISBN 13 : 9781636960401
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Einstaat Brief written by Blake Banner and published by Right House. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thing Harry Bauer knew for certain: He was not a man who could ever fall in love and make a home. Until it happened. And then he knew something else. He had to give up his job as an assassin for Cobra. He could not lie to that woman, he could not bring danger into her life. But then a hit squad came after him, and Cobra made him an offer he could not refuse. One last job, the Einstaat Brief, and they would keep her safe. One last job: A job that would take him to Andorra, high in the Pyrenees, to a secret conference of 130 of the world's most powerful men and women, cloistered in a luxury hotel to discuss the future of the world. Among them, Stephen Plant, Andrew Ashkenazi and William Hughes; IT billionaires, believers in 'strong Ai'. Each one of them must die. Because their plans for humanity cannot be allowed to succeed. There was just one problem. It had to be done then, right then, with no planning and no intel. And only Harry Bauer could do that...

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd edition

Author : Henry M. Robert III
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541751124
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd edition written by Henry M. Robert III and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short, concise and user-friendly guide to the essential procedures of conducting a meeting, written by the authors of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, the only authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure Originally published in 1876, General Henry M. Robert's guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold over six million copies in eleven editions. Robert's Rules of Order is the book on parliamentary proceedings, yet those not well versed on what has now become a rather thick document can find themselves lost-and delayed-while trying to locate the most important rules. The solution? Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised in Brief. Written by the same authorship team behind the officially sanctioned Robert's Rules of Order, this short and user-friendly edition takes readers through the rules most often needed at meetings--from debates to amendments to nominations. With sample dialogues and a guide to using the complete edition, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised in Brief is the essential handbook for parliamentary proceedings.

Illustration

Author : Alan Male
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474263038
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Illustration written by Alan Male and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustration practice is not judged purely by visual literacy and technical qualities, but also requires intellectual engagement with its subject matter. Illustration: A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective, 2nd Edition examines the breadth and many uses of this diverse discipline, through nearly 300 colour examples. From developing a brief, conducting research and analysing visual language, the book goes on to explore the role of illustration in documentation, commentary, storytelling, persuasion and identity. It concludes with an overview of current professional practice, demonstrating that the ability to communicate meaningfully and effectively for a global audience is key to navigating today's creative industries. Examples of work from award-winning illustrators showcase a huge range of applications, from the author's own collaboration with the British Museum of Natural History and Olivier Kugler's Portraits of Syrian Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, to Levi Pinfold's fictional picture book Black Dog and Malika Favre's promotional images for the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards.

A Brief Welcome to the Universe

Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223610
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Brief Welcome to the Universe written by Neil deGrasse Tyson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take readers on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how our universe actually works. Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, this book builds your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative. How do stars live and die? What are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it expanding and accelerating? Is our universe alone or part of an infinite multiverse? Exploring these and many other questions, this pocket-friendly book is your passport into the wonders of our evolving cosmos.