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While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

The challenges of today and tomorrow demand new ways of leading organizations, building collaborations, and creating communities. Since its premiere issue, the award-winning journal Leader to Leader—published by The Drucker Foundation—has presented the best thinking from leaders for leaders. This recording collects some of the best contributions to the journal from the likes of management pioneer Peter F. Drucker, Southwest Airlines leader Herb Kelleher, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her decades of experience as a teacher and critic, Cohen argues that we learn to converse in our families and then carry that knowledge into a broader world where we encounter diverse opinions and sensibilities.

In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish. But her parents think she’s too young to help. And anyway they didn’t come to America for their little girl to work. “Go play with the cat!” they urge.

פודקאסט על שאלות עם אנשים שואלים, נצא ביחד למסע להבין את אחת מהיכולות הכי מדהימות שיש לנו כבני אדם. היכולת לשאול. כל שבוע נארח לשיחה אדם שחלק מעבודתו קשורה בשאילת שאלות: פילוסופים, מדענים, מורים, פסיכולוגים, חוקרים, סנגורים, מראיינים ועוד ועוד ועוד.

Do you want to take advantage of one of the largest global markets that offer investors flexibility, high liquidity, and the potential for great returns on investment? Have you discovered that Forex trading is a great opportunity for investing? In this audiobook, we take an in-depth look at the basics of Forex trading. In addition, the detailed strategies provided on risk management will go a long way in ensuring that once you start trading in Forex you are in control of your trading capital and in a position to make maximum possible returns on your investment.

Mario Alfieri, the world's most famous tenor, is preparing to make his debut at the Met. As he rents a house facing Gramercy Park, he discovers a pale young woman hiding in its music room. Her love and secrets soon mesmerize the great man. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, this is a tale of passion, intrigue, and murder.

You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking, queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even heard some version of her Cinderella story: she was a single mom with two teenaged sons when she started a brown-bag lunch business with $200 and wound up with a thriving restaurant business, a fairy-tale second marriage, and wildly popular television shows. But you have never heard the intimate details of her often bumpy road to fame and fortune.

As Dr. Watson commits to history in his journal, "... in reviewing my notes for the year 1890, I have come across a case that, while seeming at the outset to be one of the most mundane ever brought to him, had one of the most inexplicable endings that I have been privileged to record."