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What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?

Author : Marianne Schnall
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 158005496X
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book What Will It Take to Make A Woman President? written by Marianne Schnall and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by a question from her eight-year-old daughter during the 2008 election of Barack Obama—“Why haven’t we ever had a woman president?”—Marianne Schnall set out on a journey to find the answer. A widely published writer, author, and interviewer, and the Executive Director of Feminist.com, Schnall began looking at the issues from various angles and perspectives, gathering viewpoints from influential people from all sectors. What Will It Take to Make A Woman President? features interviews with politicians, public officials, thought leaders, writers, artists, and activists in an attempt to discover the obstacles that have held women back and what needs to change in order to elect a woman into the White House. With insights and personal anecdotes from Sheryl Sandberg, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, Nancy Pelosi, Nicholas Kristof, Melissa Etheridge, and many more, this book addresses timely, provocative issues involving women, politics, and power. With a broader goal of encouraging women and girls to be leaders in their lives, their communities, and the larger world, Schnall and her interviewees explore the changing paradigms occurring in politics and in our culture with the hope of moving toward meaningful and effective solutions—and a world where a woman can be president.

What Will It Take (A Mother's Love)

Author : Amy Jamison
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467871052
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book What Will It Take (A Mother's Love) written by Amy Jamison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story is to be an inspiration to anybody who has had a life with hanging experience where one is left feeling as if there is no hope left. Whether the occurrence is from death, rape, divorce, both sides of adoption or even unwanted marriage. This story shows how the mind of a child can be influenced so we as caregivers in any form should take the life of an innocent child very serious and know that as long as there is life in you then here is hope for a better day to do things different from that we're used to.

Will You Take Me As I Am

Author : Michelle Mercer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416566554
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Will You Take Me As I Am written by Michelle Mercer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Will You Take Me As I Am -- the first book about Joni Mitchell to include original interviews with her -- looks at Blue to explore the development of an extraordinary artist, the history of songwriting, and much more. In extensive conversations with Mitchell, Michelle Mercer heard firsthand about Joni's internal and external journeys as she composed the largely autobiographical albums of what Mercer calls her Blue Period, which lasted through the mid-1970s. Incorporating biography, memoir, reportage, criticism, and interviews into an illuminating narrative, Mercer moves beyond the "making of an album" genre to arrive at a new form of music writing. In 1970, Mitchell was living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon and had made a name for herself as a so-called folk singer notable for her soaring voice and skillful compositions. Soon, though, feeling hemmed in, she fled to the hippie cave community of Matala, Greece. Here and on further travels, her compositions were freshly inspired by the lands and people she encountered as well as by her own radically changing interior landscape. After returning home to record Blue, Mitchell retreated to British Columbia, eventually reemerging as the leader of a successful jazz-rock group and turning outward in her songwriting toward social commentary. Finally, a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and a pivotal meeting with the Tibetan lama ChÖgyam Trungpa prompted Mitchell's return to personal songwriting, which resulted in her 1976 masterpiece album, Hejira. Mercer interlaces this fascinating account of Mitchell's Blue Period with meditations on topics related to her work, including the impact of landscape on music, the value of autobiographical songwriting for artist and listener, and the literary history of confessionalism. Mercer also provides rich analyses of Mitchell's creative achievements: her innovative manner of marrying lyrics to melody; her inventive, highly expressive chords that achieve her signature blend of wonder and melancholy; how she pioneered personal songwriting and, along with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, brought a new literacy to the popular song. Fans will appreciate the previously unpublished photos and a coda of Mitchell's unedited commentary on the places, books, music, pastimes, and philosophies she holds dear. This utterly original book offers a unique portrait of a great musician and her remarkable work, as well as new perspectives on the art of songwriting itself.

The First 20 Hours

Author : Josh Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101623047
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The First 20 Hours written by Josh Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

Lies Will Take You Somewhere

Author : Sheila Schwartz
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0979745063
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Lies Will Take You Somewhere written by Sheila Schwartz and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish family saga.

Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old?

Author : Joy Loverde
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738219649
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old? by : Joy Loverde

Download or read book Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old? written by Joy Loverde and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to plan for your own safe, financially secure, healthy, and happy old age For those who have no support system in place, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or not, growing old does not have to be an inevitable decline into helplessness. It is possible to maintain a good quality of life in your later years, but having a plan is essential. Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old? equips readers with everything they need to prepare on their own: Advice on the tough medical, financial, and housing decisions to come Real solutions to create a support network Questions about aging solo readers don't know to ask Customizable worksheets and checklists that help keep plans on course Guidance on new products, services, technology, and resources Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old? goes way beyond estate planning to help readers prepare for all the changes in store. Readers are empowered to make proactive plans for their own lives rather than entrusting decisions to family and community.

Who Will Take Our Children?

Author : Carlton Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000460509
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Who Will Take Our Children? written by Carlton Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside – and how it affected social life during the war years. It uses hitherto unpublished material from the collections of the Children’s Overseas Reception Board and the Mass Observation Archive.

I Will Take the Answer

Author : Ander Monson
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451107
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book I Will Take the Answer written by Ander Monson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and wide-ranging collection of essays by the author of Letter to a Future Lover The idea of connection permeates I Will Take the Answer, Ander Monson’s fourth book of utterly original and intelligent essays. How is our present connected to our past and future? How do neural connections form memories, and why do we recall them when we do? And how do we connect with one another in meaningful ways across time and space? In the opening essay, which extends across the book in brief subsequent pieces, a trip through a storm sewer in Tucson inspires Monson to trace the city’s relationship to Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who shot Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders, along with how violence is produced and how we grieve and honor the dead. With the formally inventive “I in River,” he ruminates on water in a waterless city and the structures we use to attempt to contain and control it. Monson also visits the exuberantly nerdy kingdom of a Renaissance Faire, and elaborates on the enduring appeal of sad songs through the lens of March Sadness, an online competition that he cofounded, an engaging riff on the NCAA basketball tournament brackets in which sad songs replace teams. As personal and idiosyncratic as the best mixtape, I Will Take the Answer showcases Monson’s deep thinking and broad-ranging interests, his sly wit, his soft spot for heavy metal, and his ability to tunnel deeply into the odd and revealing, sometimes subterranean, worlds of American life.

And He Will Take Your Daughters...'

Author : April D. Westbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567662667
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book And He Will Take Your Daughters...' written by April D. Westbrook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April Westbrook explores the intentional inclusion of woman stories (those displaying significant female presence) within the David narrative in the books of Samuel. These stories are made prominent by the surprisingly high number of their occurrences as well as the sequentially progressive literary pattern in which they occur in the larger narrative. Westbrook shows that the dramatic and detailed accounts within the story repeatedly challenge the reader to consider the experiences of women and their contribution to the purpose of the larger narrative. When viewed collectively, these woman stories serve to stir the reader's responses in ways which systematically call into question the nature of the monarchy itself as a power system-both its impact upon the nation and upon the kings who rule. Although King David is often held up as a paragon of virtue, the experiences of the women in his life frequently reveal a different side of his character, and the reader must wrestle with the resultant ambiguity. In the process, the reader must also think deeply about the inevitably negative aspects of hierarchical social structures and why this biblical text is apparently designed to press the reader toward unavoidable and uncomfortable personal confrontation with these realities concerning the use of power within community life.

Presentation Skills That Will Take You to the Top (Collection)

Author : Jerry Weissman
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0133443019
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Presentation Skills That Will Take You to the Top (Collection) by : Jerry Weissman

Download or read book Presentation Skills That Will Take You to the Top (Collection) written by Jerry Weissman and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Weissman’s brand new collection of 4 authoritative books on making outstanding presentations Four breakthrough books help you deliver outstanding, winning presentations of all kinds — whatever your goals, whatever your audience! Jerry Weissman has helped the world’s top executives create the most important presentations of their lives: make-or-break investor presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars from demanding, expert investors. Now, in this remarkable 4 book collection, Weissman teaches everything you need to deliver the most compelling, successful presentations of your life! In Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters, Weissman reveals how the world’s best presenters have applied timeless principles of outstanding communication – and shows how you can, too. Packed with unforgettable examples from the media, sports, politics, science, art, music, literature, the military, and history, it teaches 100% actionable lessons for supercharging everything from content and graphics to delivery! Next, In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, Second Edition, Weissman shows how to answer even the toughest questions with perfect assurance… avoid the defensiveness, evasiveness, or anger that destroy careers… brilliantly control the entire exchange with hostile questioners! Weissman’s Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition is the industry’s best start-to-finish guide to connecting with even the toughest audiences...telling them compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for them… and moving people to action. Finally, in his brand-new Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, Weissman distills 75 best practices he’s developed through 20+ years coaching executives on high-stakes presentations. He shares powerful new insights into contents, graphics, delivery, Q&A sessions, and more. He also offers new advice on making persuasive political and scripted speeches, developing a richer public speaking voice, interviewing others, demonstrating products, and much more. Every technique is illuminated with a compelling case study, reflecting experiences of communicators ranging from Ronald Reagan to Jon Stewart, Stephen King to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. From world-renowned presentation consultant Jerry Weissman

The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Author : Paul Loeb
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038581
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Will Take a Little While written by Paul Loeb and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples. Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria's dictatorship. Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in The Impossible Will Take a Little While will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.

Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804746182
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself written by Richard Rorty and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.

This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon

Author : Linda McCullough Moore
Publisher : Levellers Press
ISBN 13 : 1937146030
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon written by Linda McCullough Moore and published by Levellers Press. This book was released on 2014-01-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories by Linda McCullough Moore. Linda is the author of the literary novel, The Distance Between, and more than 200 shorter works of fiction, essay, memoir and poetry, published in such places as The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Glimmer Train, House Beautiful, The Boston Globe, and The Southern Review.

She Will Take it

Author : Mary Carter
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758213549
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book She Will Take it written by Mary Carter and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Seitgar, a kleptomaniac and aspiring actress who lives by the rule "Don't Get Caught," finds her life spiraling wildly out of control when she meets Mr. Right. Original.

Where the Millennials Will Take Us

Author : Barbara J. Risman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199324409
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Where the Millennials Will Take Us written by Barbara J. Risman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are essentially different and should be so. Others are innovators, defying stereotypes and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices. Perhaps new to this generation are gender rebels who reject sex categories, often refusing to present their bodies within them and sometimes claiming genderqueer identities. And finally, many youths today are simply confused by all the changes swirling around them. As a new generation contends with unsettled gender norms and expectations, Risman reminds us that gender is much more than an identity; it also shapes expectations in everyday life, and structures the organization of workplaces, politics, and, ideology. To pursue change only in individual lives, Risman argues, risks the opportunity to eradicate both gender inequality and gender as a primary category that organizes social life.

I Will Take You to Broceliande

Author : Elizabeth Muhlhaus
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514439824
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book I Will Take You to Broceliande written by Elizabeth Muhlhaus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a mystery story and a detective story about mankind’s primordial quest for peace on earth, which first requires that we understand how peace gets destroyed. And like the thrillers on TV that reveal clues slowly, you will see a crescendo of mysteries that I knew were clues, if I could just figure them out! Those tough experiences were simply what I had to go through to develop the sensitivity to subliminal signals in nature that I never would have been able to pick up if my life had only been happy and easy. Yet the story is peppered with exhilarating moments of transcendence, love, and naivete. Wonderful experiences dotted this life like pecans in cinnamon rolls.

If I Could Take It, I Will Make It

Author : Edwin Ferraro
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646285557
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book If I Could Take It, I Will Make It written by Edwin Ferraro and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know that to see the truth in myself and the things to work on myself are the most important. The sooner we see the things, the better person we can become. This is to show how we can all come through the tough times. We battle with a smile. Even though we might not see it right away, we all have this inside of ourselves. I try to show with my personality and smiles to others, even on the tough days, to try and help people through their tough times, to have the self-awareness to constantly try and be the best version of myself possible. It's about who we become and what we can give back.