Short Essays

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.

Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt offers something new in this poignant, hilarious, and sometimes outrageous collection of stories drawn from her own life.

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.

Linguist is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve your communication skills. A linguist is someone who is highly skilled with words. The stories in this book will teach you how to effectively use words to create opportunities in your life.

The Comeback Kid is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to build your emotional resilience. We are not defined by our losses, we are defined by how we rise back up despite our losses. Each time we bounce back, each time we become tougher to kill. Turn your setbacks into legendary comebacks.

Built for More is a collection of short stories, essays, and insights to help you improve your soft skills. Learn to think clear and speak even clearer. Each entry is meant to fuel your logic and imagination so you are better equipped to deal with people.

In Clarity, you will be given insights that help you sharpen your mental models and improve your soft skills.

Epic is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve your communication skills. What is the engine of communication? Creativity. The creative person sees the bigger picture and uses that vision to create tools, insights, and processes that will benefit others.

Tough Love is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. Knowledge which has the most practical value is not easy to learn because it challenges a lot of pre-existing paradigms. Therefore, Tough Love introduces the listener to knowledge that will lead to becoming a high valued member of society to create a long-lasting legacy.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. THE SHORT-TIMERS: Within so many yards of this Covent-garden lodging of mine, as within so many yards of Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Prisons, the Courts of Justice, all the Institutions that govern the land, I can find must find...

Limit Breaker is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. In this book, you will gain the skill set of gargantuan thinking. The ability to think large allows you to become a high performer and deal better with people. Each story is geared to enhance your perception and break limiting beliefs. Soon, you will become a Limit Breaker, and shatter one goal at a time.

If you are planning to go to Washington DC for vacation or business, and you only have two or three days and you want to make the best of your short stay, then you have come to the right place. The goal of this book is not to squeeze everything the city has to offer into two to three days. The goal is to show you the best of the city in a short time. If you are looking for the encyclopedia of travel books, then don't buy this book. This book is for a short-stay traveler only! We focus on the best the city has to offer.

These poems, stories, and essays are specific times that have lived in my mind for 37 years from photos or actual memories or even stories accounted by family members and friends that I vaguely recall. This poetical account has to be done, so I don’t lose the fractal memories that I still house in my mind. Maybe this will free up mind-space so new memories can move in.

Oltre cinquanta autori italiani e stranieri – tra scrittori, artisti, editori, giornalisti, librai e blogger – accomunati dalla passione per i viaggi sulle tombe di poeti e romanzieri. Tombe sfarzose, come quella di Oscar Wilde, o semplici lapidi in un prato, come quelle di Jack Kerouac e James Joyce, tombe ospitate in cimiteri celebri – il Père-Lachaise di Parigi o l’acattolico di Roma – oppure nascoste in mezzo a monti desertici, coperte dal segreto di un monastero, come quella di Javsandamba Zanabazar, artista e poeta mongolo, in patria venerato come un santo.

Street Smarts is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve soft skills. The world is constantly changing, and the ability to adapt is more important than ever. It is time to ditch old modes of thinking for new mental models that allow us to thrive in a complex world. In Street Smarts, you will learn public speaking strategies to dominate the stage, content creation frameworks to build a powerful brand, methods on how to deal with loneliness and feel whole, how to unleash an attractive personality and form long-lasting connections, and more.

Word Play is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to help you improve your communication skills. This book discusses a wide range of topics to build a deeper perception of human dynamics so you can communicate with clarity, power, and warmth. In Word Play, you will learn: how to form allies and grow a network from the ground up, the art of consistency and how to stay disciplined, how to stop people-pleasing, fundamental truths regarding the field of dark psychology, and more.

Encompassing a variety of writing styles, Like a Rock in the Sea is a collection of short stories and essays which the author initially composed during his many years as a young American seminarian living abroad in countries as diverse as Spain, Italy, Germany, and Mexico.

Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty-two essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. The Ukraine conveys to listeners a place that Chapeye and his countrymen are currently fighting for with their lives. The book features a preface by the author, which he composed on his phone from the front lines.

More than 60 stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories - later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.