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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Full Circle: 101 Short Stories, Essays, and Insights to Improve Communication Skills by Toastmaster Arman N. Chowdhury to learn about how to improve your social and communication skills.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Compass and learn to improve your communication skills.

Ve al Grano es una guía para principiantes sobre cómo escribir ensayos, utilizar el pensamiento crítico y desmenuzar temas complejos mediante el análisis lógico. Los ensayos son una manera profunda de construir tu cuerpo de trabajo y solidificar tu filosofía. Aprende el arte y la ciencia de escribir ensayos en este libro.

En los ensayos de Ralph Waldo Emerson, se pueden observar los orígenes de varias corrientes de pensamiento, religión y arte que singularizan el mundo contemporáneo hasta nuestros días. El trascendentalismo de R. W. Emerson, su investigación de la unidad que subyace tras toda diversidad, su comprensión íntima de la ley de la interconexión y de la causalidad que teje los lazos entre todo lo existente, es sin duda alguna una pedagogía optimista y revolucionaria que muestra al lector sus posibilidades latentes para llegar a ser aquello para lo que ha venido a este mundo.

These days, the road to success can feel jampacked with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al Roker - beloved cohost of The Today Show, weatherperson extraordinaire, and the man we all secretly wish we could turn to for wisdom and wisecracks in our everyday lives. Al has learned worthwhile lessons over a long, successful career. And now, for the first time, Al is ready to unleash savvy advice on how to embrace happiness.

R. Gopalakrishnan, the best-selling author of The Case of the Bonsai Manager, explores how concepts turn into ideas, which then become prototypes, models, and products. Defining thought as the ancestor of innovation - as without thought, there could be no innovation - he explores the impending questions such as: What happens next? How can you take on challenges and keep your ideas relevant? The Biography of Innovation is the definitive audiobook on the life cycle of new ideas and transformations.

This is a collection of short stories and essays on a variety of subjects from the scientific and technical to the humorous and childhood memories, from sasquatch and bigfoot to personal relationships. It is a volume of easy listening, sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant, but always worthwhile.

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master John McPhee. It is divided into two parts. It is an "album quilt", an artful assortment of nonfiction writings that have not previously appeared in any book.

In this 10th anniversary edition, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles. From mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, Roberts reveals how much progress has now been made and how much further we have to go. Updated and expanded to include a diverse new cast of women, including Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Billie Jean King, and others, this collection of essays offers tremendous insight into the opportunities and challenges that women encounter today.

Susan Orlean has a full-on phobia of flying - an epic inconvenience for an author on a national book tour. With her trademark curiosity, she decides to rewire her thinking through hypnosis. Along the way, Susan discovers a lot about the unconscious mind, suggestibility, Mesmer, Freud, today’s cutting-edge treatments, and the dulling power of a sonorous voice. Most of all, she learns what it takes to close her eyes, open them again at thirty thousand feet, and finally be able to exhale. And you can too.

When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better” - someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one’s life comes to the fore - sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won’t find.

Beautifully illustrated and deriving inspiration from nature, Far from Fearless explores the pitfalls, perils, and joys of creativity. Whether struggling with beginnings, self-doubt, unexpected setbacks, or finding the courage to embrace possibilities, each essay delves into the creative process with heartfelt honesty, humor, and encouragement.

Stories include How to Remember Names Better, Too Smart for Your Own Good?, How to Write Every Day, FOREVER, How to Get Rid of a Nasal Voice, Why Do Authors Use Tension in a Story?, Why Study History As An Adult?, and more. Listen today!

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Concepts and learn about the definition of woke.

Brilliance is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve your soft skills. A trait of a brilliant person is someone with high levels of self-awareness. The higher the self-awareness, the better this individual can navigate the world. The stories in Brilliance will spark inspiration to help you improve your self-awareness. Now you can be smarter and sharper in context to your life.

Are you tired of chasing happiness and only to find it elusive and temporary? Do you yearn for a deeper understanding of the true meaning of life? Look no further than Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life, a book that will send you on a transformative journey toward lasting joy and fulfillment.

When our lives are imbalanced at any level of our self, i.e. physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, or relationally, we can experience stress, discomfort, unhappiness, and illness. In his audiobook Healing and Dealing: Essays on Becoming Wholed, Peter Cloud Panjoyah offers a road map toward an elusive balance point, outlining possibilities for healing inwardly and outwardly. This audiobook lays out the nuts and bolts of how to heal the emotional denial that has plagued humanity, impacted our health, and created dangerous dramas on the world stage.

Life Lessons: Ruminations on Life of a Human on Earth, Essays by Mary A Faderan, PhD is a collection of essays on her musings about life in the world as we know it. Her life has taken many turns, starting from her research work at Yale School of Medicine, postdoctorate studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and then at Purdue University.

Furiose Essays über die Liebe von einer der originellsten Stimmen der Gegenwart. Wen begehren wir? Und was erzählt unser Begehren über uns? Wie hängen Lust, Leidenschaft und Liebe zusammen? In ihrem neuen Band Liebe und andere Neurosen schreibt Katja Eichinger in zehn elektrisierenden Essays über das Wechselspiel zwischen Verlangen und Verunsicherung. Sie erzählt Familiengeschichten wie die ihrer Urgroßmutter, die ihre Leben lang unter dem Apfelbaum stand und von dem armen Handwerker träumte, den sie nicht heiraten durfte.

Neil Gaiman hat einmal gesagt, dass "die Welt immer heller erscheint, wenn man gerade etwas geschaffen hat, das vorher nicht da war". Dieses kleine Hörbuch ist die Verkörperung dieser Vision. Es versammelt die besten Texte und kreativen Manifeste Neil Gaimans und zeigt, wie Lesen, unsere Vorstellungskraft und schöpferische Prozesse die Welt verändern können.