![]() Useful and motivational (but a bit unrealistic?) ![]() In this accessible and fun guide, Chris Bailey offers over 30 tried and tested best practices that will help everyone to accomplish more - and become more awesome. Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection, scheduling less time for important tasks, the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions, and the concept of productive procrastination. ![]() ![]() This audiobook is the result of Chris' year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). After graduating college Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could and finding the things that work.Īmong the experiments that he undertook are going several weeks on little to no sleep cutting out caffeine and sugar taking a daily siesta living in total isolation for 10 days stretching his workweek to 90 hours and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. ![]() Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. ![]()
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On Call was originally picked up by then-IMDb TV - Amazon’s free, AVOD service which has since been rebranded as Amazon Freevee - in spring 2021, with Ben Watkins as showrunner and Elliot Wolf as executive producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most memorable parts of his career was J. Over the years, Simmons has been landing increasingly major roles that allowed him to wow audiences and critics alike. It was only a matter of time before he went on to make his acting debut in the 1986 TV film Popeye Doyle and, a few years later, in the feature film The Ref. Simmons took his first steps in the entertainment world as a musician, and then transitioned into theater. This character actor has been owning each and every role he lands, regardless of how prominent they may be, which has earned him wide acclaim and some of the industry's most prestigious awards. Simmons has become one of the most respected performers in the entertainment industry. With a career that spans nearly 40 years and credits in over 200 films and TV series, J.K. ![]() ![]() It continues the evolution of the series from a simple retelling of a well-known fairy tale into an entertaining saga featuring a fully developed magical world of its own.Ĭopyright 2007 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. This tale satisfyingly explains much of the history behind the other books and gives insight into one of the more interesting characters in The Frog Princess. The queen's gleeful and perplexing antics provide some humor in this story but her disinterest in taking care of her realm threatens the safety of Greater Greensward, leads to the death of the king, and forces Grassina to undertake a quest. Bak 9781599901527 eBay Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Tales of the Frog Princess Box Set, Books 1-3 Paperback E. The girls' rivalry and the entire kingdom are turned upside down when their father innocently brings their mother flowers, invoking a curse that changes her into an ugly hag. Tales of the Frog Princess Box Set, Books 1-3 Paperback E. Her mother, Queen Olivene, the Green Witch, is grooming Grassina's older sister to inherit this title while ignoring Grassina's interest in magic and potential talent. Gr 5-7-A prequel to The Frog Princess (Bloomsbury, 2003) and the fifth book in the series, this novel features a young Princess Grassina and her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. ![]() ![]() When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.Īnd then there is the writing. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix-she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. ![]() She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet horses for friends baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. ![]() A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeīeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. ![]() ![]() In all nations that have moved to this direction, there was a sharp increase in social inequality and the redistribution of economic resources to the upper classes, which had been in decline under Keynesian embedded liberalism. Pinochet in Chile, Thatcher in Britain, Reagan in America and Deng in China were cardinal figures because of their success in creating ‘consent’ towards and expanding the neoliberal ethos, fostering a series of changes that transformed neoliberal theory into reality. The ideological and material legacies left behind by elitist institutions (such as the Mont Pelerin Society) or by politicians who led pro-neoliberal administrations, according to Harvey, means that neoliberal thinking remains the current hegemony at the expense of the poor and working class. A Brief History provides a rich historical examination of neoliberal policies since the 1970s, tracing as far back as the emerging dominance of US hegemonic values following the Cold War, the Volcker shock and Thatcher’s economic reform policies, up to the modern day practices of the ‘imperialist’ IMF and World Bank. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency. ![]() Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front runner, in his own backyard. Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times-an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.Īward-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times - an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment - and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his arch-rival Democrat Stephen A. ![]() Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address - an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. ![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t get the scholarship, and seems to have decided, thereafter, that achieving things was a mark of vulgarity. Asked to write an essay saying what he’d do if he came into a million pounds, he wrote that he would pension off the older Balliol dons. After enjoying universal adulation at Eton for his good looks, sporting prowess and wit, he was examined for a scholarship to Balliol. Languid, charismatic, casually erudite, and, in his charming way, a bit of a shit, Denys (as Wheeler calls him) made fecklessness into an art form. ![]() He was, as his biographer puts it, ‘as bald as a billiard ball’. Denys differed from Robert Redford in one important particular. The image most of us have of him, then, is of a tanned and sunny Robert Redford heading non- chalantly to his doom in a Gypsy Moth. ![]() That we know of him now is largely down to his long and tortured love affair with the ill-starred Danish coffee-farmer Karen Blixen, who under the pen name of Isak Dinesen described their relationship in Out of Africa. ‘And don’t let anybody tell you different.’ Denys Finch Hatton - who was born into the English aristocracy in 1887, and died in a plane crash in Africa not long after his 44th birthday - was one of the great farters-around of all time. ‘We are here on earth to fart around,’ that wise man Kurt Vonne- gut once wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a huge portion of the book which is Sasha cat fishing Ivy which is just PLAIN WRONG, and then there’s a big part of the story that deals with emotional abuse in a relationship… There was just so much going on. ![]() When I finished the book, my initial thoughts were that it was messed up and just weird. THIS IS SUCH A DARK PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER! It’s just craziness the whole way throughout and it gripped me from the very first line to the very last, and I think I read it in a couple of hours (it’s only a short book as well!) ![]() She poses as a hot guy online, to prove cheaters never change.īut Sasha’s plan goes wrong fast, and soon the lies lead down a path from which there’s no return Worried that Xavier is ready to forgive and forget, Sasha decides to do a little catfishing. There’s nothing Sasha wouldn’t do to protect Xavier from getting hurt, especially by his cheating ex Ivy, who’s suddenly slithered back into the picture. So I dived right in to Bad Girls With Perfect Faces… I saw that Weingarten had another book out and I was intrigued to see whether her writing style had developed and what new thrilling plots she would come up with this time. ![]() Last time I read something by Lynn Weingarten was 3 years ago and it was Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, the reader is treated to the personal foibles of each man as well as their more serious flaws none of the men, by training or temperament, were truly suited to their positions and certainly not to the grave challenges their respective countries faced, especially in wartime Germany and Russia. This author's eminently readable study of three cousins-George V of England, Nicholas II of Russia, and Wilhelm II of Germany-uses the biographies of these three descendants of Queen Victoria to trace not only the coming of World War I but, more centrally, to capture the twilight of these monarchies as they gave way to "democracy, self-determination, and greater brutality" (xxiv). George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins on the Road to World War I. ![]() |