![]() ![]() ![]() Our goal in this book is to teach you how to figure out which emotions to toss, which to keep to yourself, and which to express in order to be both happier and more effective. ![]() Ignoring or suppressing what you feel hurts your health and productivity - but so does letting your emotions run wild. Easier said than done!Īs both organizational consultants and regular people, we know what it's like to experience uncomfortable emotions at work - everything from mild jealousy and insecurity to panic and rage. We're expected to be authentic, but not too authentic. The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. How do you stop the office grouch from ruining your day? How do you enjoy a vacation without obsessing about the unanswered emails in your inbox? If you're a boss, what should you do when your new, eager hire wants to follow you on Instagram? "A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."Ī hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms. Next Big Idea Club selection―chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!" ![]()
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![]() ![]() Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. ![]() When the British left it was just above 3 per cent. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India s share of world GDP was 23 per cent. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain s conscious and deliberate bleeding of India. ![]() ![]() ![]() This lengthy installment in the series has inventive premise and some thrilling moments, but both are largely smothered by adolescent angst.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him. Certainly the book’s imaginative twist on angels deserves a look. Nonetheless, the target audience likely won’t complain. ![]() The author writes the exciting suspense portions of the story with far more clarity. The book needs to be cut by at least a third in order to sharpen the romance writing. Amid all of this repetitious romantic torment Weatherly keeps up the plot against the angels, although it simmers in the background through much of this shamelessly overlong story. Alex, however, breaks up with her in a fit of jealousy. Willow finds herself drawn to Seb when they meet, yet she never wavers in her love for Alex. Another half-angel, a Mexican boy named Seb, strongly senses that Willow exists and constantly searches for her. Meanwhile, heroine Willow, a half-angel, basks in her true love for boyfriend Alex, an “angel killer,” as they travel to Mexico City to hunt the angel high council. They feed on human auras, leaving their willing and ecstatic victims sick and dying. An epic fight against evil, predatory angels takes a back seat to romance in the second of this planned trilogy.Īngels intend to turn humans into farm animals as they invade the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. ![]() As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() ![]() Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 when he was 38, an experience similar to that of the protagonist in The Kite Runner. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist.īorn in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father, Hosseini spent some time living in Iran and France. Khaled Hosseini ( / ˈ h ɑː l ɛ d h oʊ ˈ s eɪ n i/ Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. ![]() Recorded February 2014 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub ![]() ![]() ![]() When society reopens, we could do worse than to find new pursuits to embrace with the open-minded zeal of a child to rediscover the intrinsic wonders of the world through the eyes of a beginner. As we spent most of 2020 increasingly cut off from the outside world, turning more and more to the easy diversion of the digital to compensate for the persistent sting of loss, Beginners which documents a time before the pandemic arrived, unintentionally provides a primer of sorts for re-engaging with life. When read against the backdrop of the current pandemic, however, Beginners attains a deeper level of meaning. ![]() The result is an entertaining read that avoids the trap of forced anecdotes and excessive contrarianism that plague lesser titles in the genre. Though this style of structuring a book may be standard, Vanderbilt deploys it effectively, relying on a keen instinct for interesting characters and a willingness to let stories unfold at their own pace. Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning paperback Tom Vanderbilt gives us an inspirational journey into the transformative joys. Following a standard trope, Vanderbilt dedicates a chapter or so to each pursuit, using his personal narrative, rich in obligatory self-deprecation and infectious excitement, to introduce relevant scientific studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book may have been written more simply as a study of Okonkwo's deterioration in character in an increasingly unsympathetic and incompatible environment, but consider what would have been lost had Achebe not emphasized the theme of the complex and dynamic qualities of the Igbo in Umuofia.Īgainst Achebe's theme of Igbo cultural complexity is his theme of the clash of cultures. To support this theme, he includes detailed descriptions of the justice codes and the trial process, the social and family rituals, the marriage customs, food production and preparation processes, the process of shared leadership for the community, religious beliefs and practices, and the opportunities for virtually every man to climb the clan's ladder of success through his own efforts. The theme - often several themes - guides the author by controlling where the story goes, what the characters do, what mood is portrayed, what style evolves, and what emotional effects the story will create in the reader.įrom Achebe's own statements, we know that one of his themes is the complexity of Igbo society before the arrival of the Europeans. ![]() ![]() Even if the author doesn't consciously identify an intended theme, the creative process is directed by at least one controlling idea - a concept or principle or belief or purpose significant to the author. ![]() For many writers, the theme of a novel is the driving force of the book during its creation. ![]() ![]() In this stunning, original tale of magic and revolution, Michael R. ![]() It's one thing to take a stand against oppression, but with the odds stacked against the Shields, it's another thing to actually triumph. The only thing they have going for them is that the crime lords are fighting each other as well-that is, until the tyrants agree to a summit that will permanently divide the city and cement their rule of Audec-Hal. Now, with nothing left to lose, First Sentinel and the Shields are the only resistance against the city's overlords as they strive to free themselves from the clutches of evil. It was one of these storms that gave First Sentinel, leader of the revolutionaries known as the Shields of Audec-Hal, power to control the emotional connections between people-a power that cost him the love of his life. Their infighting is nothing, though, compared to the mysterious "Spark-storms" that alternate between razing the land and bestowing the citizens with wild, unpredictable abilities. ![]() For decades it has suffered under the dominance of five tyrants, all with their own agendas. The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of a Titan. In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Bean Sextet"/"Shadow Sextet" ( "Bean Quintet" combined with The Last Shadow) "Bean Quintet"/"Shadow Quintet" ( "Bean Quartet" combined with Shadows in Flight), could be referred to as: "Bean Quartet"/"Shadow Quartet" ( Ender's Shadow combined with "Shadow Trilogy"), also referred to as: "Shadow Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Shadow, also referred to as: "Ender Quintet" ("Ender Quartet" combined with Ender in Exile). "Ender Quartet" ( Ender's Game combined with "Speaker Trilogy"), also referred to as: "Speaker Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Game, also referred to as: ^ a b Note on the following (maybe not yet so common) Trilogies:.Last part of Ender in Exile (1/3) takes places after Shadow of the Giant. First part of Ender in Exile (2/3) takes place during the Shadow Trilogy. ^ a b The events of Ender in Exile and the Shadow Trilogy take place in roughly the same time period.The events of A War of Gifts only take place during the time at Battle School). ![]() ^ a b c The events of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and A War of Gifts take place in roughly the same time period. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fine characterization and sensitive prose distinguish the story, too-as when Rose remembers the wisdom a swimming teacher shared about holding his breath for minutes at a time: “He told me the secret was he would tell himself that he was actually breathing.” Ages 12–up. Printed entirely in somber blue ink, the illustrations powerfully evoke the densely wooded beach town setting and the emotional freight carried by characters at critical moments, including several confronting their womanhood in different and painful ways. Jillian Tamaki’s exceptionally graceful line is one of the strengths of this work from the cousin duo behind Skim. She is the co-creator, with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, of Skim and This One Summer, the latter of which won a Caldecott. ![]() ![]() A professional artist since 2003, she has worked for publications around the world and taught extensively in New York at the undergraduate and graduate level. As Rose’s parents’ marriage founders and the taunts of local teens wake her to issues of social class, Rose veers between secret grief and fleeting pleasure in the rituals of summer. Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Toronto. Yet Windy’s instincts are often sound, while Rose is led astray by an infatuation with a local convenience store clerk. Rose, a bit older, has knowledge and polish that tubby, still-childish Windy lacks, and Windy sometimes bores her. Rose and Windy, friends for two weeks every summer in nearby Ontario lake cottages, have hit early adolescence. ![]() |