Author: Anthea Comerford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132995811X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It is time to be the best person we can be by creating more value for our life and taking responsibility so we can offer more greatness to the world. Anthea's Invest in Ourselves, Own Our Life is a short, easy, inspiring read that motivates us to turn the darkest of times into rays of sunshine. Her story of overcoming anxiety and depression is uplifting for anyone who is suffering, or knows someone who is facing the conditions which effect the body, mind and soul. For those who have family, friends, colleagues, patients and clients who are enduring these setbacks, this read is empowering and will give great support to you and the people close to you. When we invest in ourselves and own our life, living a life in alignment with our values, we are being the best version of ourselves and inspiring others to be a healthy well version of themselves too. It is time to invest in ourselves and own our life. There is always a way. The challenge is to find how.
Anthea: Invest In Ourselves. Own Our Lives (hardcover)
Author: Anthea Comerford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132995811X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It is time to be the best person we can be by creating more value for our life and taking responsibility so we can offer more greatness to the world. Anthea's Invest in Ourselves, Own Our Life is a short, easy, inspiring read that motivates us to turn the darkest of times into rays of sunshine. Her story of overcoming anxiety and depression is uplifting for anyone who is suffering, or knows someone who is facing the conditions which effect the body, mind and soul. For those who have family, friends, colleagues, patients and clients who are enduring these setbacks, this read is empowering and will give great support to you and the people close to you. When we invest in ourselves and own our life, living a life in alignment with our values, we are being the best version of ourselves and inspiring others to be a healthy well version of themselves too. It is time to invest in ourselves and own our life. There is always a way. The challenge is to find how.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132995811X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
It is time to be the best person we can be by creating more value for our life and taking responsibility so we can offer more greatness to the world. Anthea's Invest in Ourselves, Own Our Life is a short, easy, inspiring read that motivates us to turn the darkest of times into rays of sunshine. Her story of overcoming anxiety and depression is uplifting for anyone who is suffering, or knows someone who is facing the conditions which effect the body, mind and soul. For those who have family, friends, colleagues, patients and clients who are enduring these setbacks, this read is empowering and will give great support to you and the people close to you. When we invest in ourselves and own our life, living a life in alignment with our values, we are being the best version of ourselves and inspiring others to be a healthy well version of themselves too. It is time to invest in ourselves and own our life. There is always a way. The challenge is to find how.
Inspirational Book Writing (hardcover)
Author: Dave Thompson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329958047
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The greatest gift you can give the world is to fully express yourself, in all your ways; passionate, determined, a little quirky, fun or otherwise. Because when you cast your inspirational message, ideas or methodology into the hands of the people that need them most, that's when we uplift the consciousness of the world. Writing and publishing an inspirational book: - Will give you an opportunity to fully express yourself, put to bed old stories and experience a personal breakthrough of epic proportions. - Makes solid business sense. An inspirational best-selling book positions you as an authority in your industry, making you the go-to celebrity with the ability to charge premium prices. - Creates much BUZZ and EXCITEMENT around your brand in the marketplace, attracting loads of attention and generating new leads and enthusiastic, raving fan customers. Use this book as the kick up the butt you need to write your book, before it's too late. Now is the time.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329958047
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The greatest gift you can give the world is to fully express yourself, in all your ways; passionate, determined, a little quirky, fun or otherwise. Because when you cast your inspirational message, ideas or methodology into the hands of the people that need them most, that's when we uplift the consciousness of the world. Writing and publishing an inspirational book: - Will give you an opportunity to fully express yourself, put to bed old stories and experience a personal breakthrough of epic proportions. - Makes solid business sense. An inspirational best-selling book positions you as an authority in your industry, making you the go-to celebrity with the ability to charge premium prices. - Creates much BUZZ and EXCITEMENT around your brand in the marketplace, attracting loads of attention and generating new leads and enthusiastic, raving fan customers. Use this book as the kick up the butt you need to write your book, before it's too late. Now is the time.
Austerlitz
Author: W.G. Sebald
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679645411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (The Guardian), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. “Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, Kafka’s troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine Best Book of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is—a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679645411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (The Guardian), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. “Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, Kafka’s troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine Best Book of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is—a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.
Is International Law International?
Author: Anthea Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190696419
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. International law in the United States and in the United Kingdom looks different compared to international law in China and Russia, though some approaches (particularly Western, Anglo-American ones) are more influential outside their borders than others. Given shifts in geopolitical power and the rise of non-Western powers like China, it is increasingly important for international lawyers to understand how others coming from diverse backgrounds approach the field. By examining the international law academies and textbooks of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Roberts provides a window into these different communities of international lawyers, and she uncovers some of the similarities and differences in how they understand and approach international law.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190696419
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book challenges the idea that international law looks the same from anywhere in the world. Instead, how international lawyers understand and approach their field is often deeply influenced by the national contexts in which they lived, studied, and worked. International law in the United States and in the United Kingdom looks different compared to international law in China and Russia, though some approaches (particularly Western, Anglo-American ones) are more influential outside their borders than others. Given shifts in geopolitical power and the rise of non-Western powers like China, it is increasingly important for international lawyers to understand how others coming from diverse backgrounds approach the field. By examining the international law academies and textbooks of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Roberts provides a window into these different communities of international lawyers, and she uncovers some of the similarities and differences in how they understand and approach international law.
The Glory of Life
Author: Michael Kumpfmüller
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1908323558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The aftermath of Franz Kafka’s love affair with Dora Diamant is legend: refusing to honor his instructions to destroy his work when he died, Diamant saved Kafka’s writings and letters that were in her possession. These were later taken by the Nazis and are still being sought today. Her importance for Kafka’s literary legacy makes their all-too-brief relationship even more intriguing. Set over the course of his last year, The Glory of Life is compelling fictional re-imagining of this fragile, tender romance. In July 1923, Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Diamant and they fall in love. He is forty years old and dying of tuberculosis; she is twenty-five and seems to him the essence of life. After a tentative first meeting, the indecisive Kafka moves with Diamant to Berlin, a city in the throes of political upheaval, rising anti-Semitism, and the turmoil of Weimar-era hyperinflation. As his tuberculosis advances, they are forced to leave the city for the Kierling Sanatorium near Vienna, a move that threatens the paradise they have created. The first of Kumpfmüller’s novels to appear in English after his acclaimed The Adventures of a Bed Salesman, The Glory of Life is a meticulously researched and poignant portrait of one of the most enduring authors in world literature. Beautifully crafted, this book is an evocative rumination on the power of love and friendship.
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1908323558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The aftermath of Franz Kafka’s love affair with Dora Diamant is legend: refusing to honor his instructions to destroy his work when he died, Diamant saved Kafka’s writings and letters that were in her possession. These were later taken by the Nazis and are still being sought today. Her importance for Kafka’s literary legacy makes their all-too-brief relationship even more intriguing. Set over the course of his last year, The Glory of Life is compelling fictional re-imagining of this fragile, tender romance. In July 1923, Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Diamant and they fall in love. He is forty years old and dying of tuberculosis; she is twenty-five and seems to him the essence of life. After a tentative first meeting, the indecisive Kafka moves with Diamant to Berlin, a city in the throes of political upheaval, rising anti-Semitism, and the turmoil of Weimar-era hyperinflation. As his tuberculosis advances, they are forced to leave the city for the Kierling Sanatorium near Vienna, a move that threatens the paradise they have created. The first of Kumpfmüller’s novels to appear in English after his acclaimed The Adventures of a Bed Salesman, The Glory of Life is a meticulously researched and poignant portrait of one of the most enduring authors in world literature. Beautifully crafted, this book is an evocative rumination on the power of love and friendship.
Unearthing Christmas
Author: Anthea T. Piscarik
Publisher: Canterbury House Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781945401039
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Unearthing Christmas" offers a glimpse into a world before technology became the driving force in everyday existence. Fourteen-year-old Peggy, in 2015, cannot imagine a life without IPads, IPhones, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Lori, a teenager with a personal mission, has no knowledge beyond 1955. She reenters the world through time and space to stop Peggy from stealing treasured possessions. Their meeting ground is a bomb shelter, decorated for Christmas, and completely preserved in a span of 60 years Beyond an exploration of time periods, "Unearthing Christmas" allows readers to examine and reflect upon their choices, at any age Peggy, a modern-day malcontent, knows she must change her negative course, but doesn't know how, and can't figure out where to start. She and her cohorts, Larry and Fran, discover the abandoned bomb shelter in search of a hiding place for pilfered property. Peggy's reality is permanently altered when she returns to the underground shelter, alone. At first she considers Lori an amnesiac and soon learns she is a supernatural acquaintance, unseen by anyone else. An uneasy alliance takes place with Lori's knack for appearing and disappearing without notice. Peggy even questions her sanity thinking she's conjured up a specter. Making matters worse, the effervescent Lori, initially an annoyance, ceases her spontaneous appearances leaving Peggy feeling alone and resentful. The mystery takes another fold when Peggy discovers that Lori really does exist, in the past and present Together, Lori and Peggy enter a fate-filled journey leading to self-awareness, understanding, and ultimately, forgiveness.
Publisher: Canterbury House Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781945401039
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Unearthing Christmas" offers a glimpse into a world before technology became the driving force in everyday existence. Fourteen-year-old Peggy, in 2015, cannot imagine a life without IPads, IPhones, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Lori, a teenager with a personal mission, has no knowledge beyond 1955. She reenters the world through time and space to stop Peggy from stealing treasured possessions. Their meeting ground is a bomb shelter, decorated for Christmas, and completely preserved in a span of 60 years Beyond an exploration of time periods, "Unearthing Christmas" allows readers to examine and reflect upon their choices, at any age Peggy, a modern-day malcontent, knows she must change her negative course, but doesn't know how, and can't figure out where to start. She and her cohorts, Larry and Fran, discover the abandoned bomb shelter in search of a hiding place for pilfered property. Peggy's reality is permanently altered when she returns to the underground shelter, alone. At first she considers Lori an amnesiac and soon learns she is a supernatural acquaintance, unseen by anyone else. An uneasy alliance takes place with Lori's knack for appearing and disappearing without notice. Peggy even questions her sanity thinking she's conjured up a specter. Making matters worse, the effervescent Lori, initially an annoyance, ceases her spontaneous appearances leaving Peggy feeling alone and resentful. The mystery takes another fold when Peggy discovers that Lori really does exist, in the past and present Together, Lori and Peggy enter a fate-filled journey leading to self-awareness, understanding, and ultimately, forgiveness.
A Desirable Residence
Author: Madeleine Wickham
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429950293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the New York Times bestsellers The Wedding Girl and Sleeping Arrangements, comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their lives—and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. A Desirable Residence is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429950293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the New York Times bestsellers The Wedding Girl and Sleeping Arrangements, comes a wicked comedy of adultery, angst, and modern marriage The asking price for this house includes a stunning renovation of hearts and dreams....Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then realtor Marcus Witherstone came into their lives—and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone is tangled up with everyone else, and in the most awkward possible way. As events close in, they all begin to realize that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. A Desirable Residence is sure to continue the phenomenal success of the Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham franchise.
A Field Guide to Awkward Silences
Author: Alexandra Petri
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America’s Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering “Who is that dude?” on national TV. Afraid of bad jokes? Alexandra Petri won an international pun championship. Petri has been a debutante, reenacted the Civil War, and fended off suitors at a Star Wars convention while wearing a Jabba the Hutt suit. One time, she let some cult members she met on the street baptize her, just to be polite. She’s a connoisseur of the kind of awkwardness that most people spend whole lifetimes trying to avoid. If John Hodgman and Amy Sedaris had a baby…they would never let Petri babysit it. But Petri is here to tell you: Everything you fear is not so bad. Trust her. She’s tried it. And in the course of her misadventures, she’s learned that there are worse things out there than awkwardness—and that interesting things start to happen when you stop caring what people think.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir... Most twentysomethings spend a lot of time avoiding awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri. Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America’s Next Top Model. Afraid of looking like an idiot? Alexandra Petri lost Jeopardy! by answering “Who is that dude?” on national TV. Afraid of bad jokes? Alexandra Petri won an international pun championship. Petri has been a debutante, reenacted the Civil War, and fended off suitors at a Star Wars convention while wearing a Jabba the Hutt suit. One time, she let some cult members she met on the street baptize her, just to be polite. She’s a connoisseur of the kind of awkwardness that most people spend whole lifetimes trying to avoid. If John Hodgman and Amy Sedaris had a baby…they would never let Petri babysit it. But Petri is here to tell you: Everything you fear is not so bad. Trust her. She’s tried it. And in the course of her misadventures, she’s learned that there are worse things out there than awkwardness—and that interesting things start to happen when you stop caring what people think.
All for Nothing
Author: Walter Kempowski
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
New World A-Coming
Author: Judith Weisenfeld
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479865850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes," declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479865850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
"When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes," declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members."--Publisher's description.