New Place

In The Smartest Places on Earth, van Agtmael and Bakker present a truly hopeful and inspiring investigation into the emerging sources of a new era of competitiveness for America and Europe that are coming from unlikely places - those cities and areas once known as "rustbelts" that have, from an economic perspective, been written off.

Could you close $1,000,000 - $10,000,000 business-to-business sales if you were not allowed to visit your customer face-to-face? Business changes were already occurring in sales, but are now accelerated. Selling at distance is a must have capability. Proficiency will separate the highest level of performers from all other sales people. How to Sell in Place changes the way in which professional sales people reach new prospects, sell value and close large sales.

Kernstück des Buches ist ein Essay, in dem er sich ausführlich mit den neuen Medien und ihrem Plattformcharakter beschäftigt, die traditionelle Massenmedien–maßgebliche Antreiber des »alten« Strukturwandels–zunehmend in den Hintergrund drängen. Fluchtpunkt seiner Überlegungen ist die Vermutung, dass die neuen Formen der Kommunikation die Selbstwahrnehmung der politischen Öffentlichkeit als solcher beschädigen.

Lissie, her dad, and her grandmother travel “to a faraway place, in a different part of the world” in this short illustrated novel. Their destination is Guatemala, where Raúl—Dad’s friend from high school—and his family live. Lissie doesn’t know how to speak Spanish, and initially the world is cloaked in mystery. But Lissie is a fearless explorer, both of language and new places, and soon she is embracing the sights and sounds, the delicious foods, the family stories and history, and the people she encounters.

Have you ever looked at a piece of art or closed a book and found yourself left with deep, profound feelings? Often, our lives resonate with unexpected beauty. For Marie, wandering around an art museum is like wandering into the hearts of artists, seeing their trials and tribulations on display - a chronicle of their efforts to make sense of this messy affair called life.

Sometimes there are situations that require human skills to put a person in place. This problem is often not an easy task, given that people are different, and they leverage that reliable influence on some. Others simply do not understand and will not work on them. In cases when a contact becomes intrusive or tries to hurt you, you must be able to stop the aggressor. How to do it with dignity, avoiding faux pas and rudeness, is what we describe in this audiobook.

Some Contemplative Writing students have spoken about the contemplative writing process as a "river of words" or a freeing of the writing processes. Contemplation is the mental easing of something that often results in the release of more inner workings than initially expected. I find when writing becomes less of a course of nature for me, painting and letting out imagery and color can itself ease up the processes of writing. These past few years I have been deeply studying and practicing meditation, which shares something with contemplation.

Where have all our holy relics (Moses' rod and ark, Elijah's mantle, Noah's ark, the cross, crown of thorns, shroud, and sacred chalice of Jesus, the Spear of Destiny, the stone of the Ten Commandments, etc.) gone? They have, according to Commander Valiant Thor, gone to the White Planet, the resting place of holy artifacts.