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Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
By Jim VandeHei. 2024
A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today&’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no…
matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico.Jim VandeHei&’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn&’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor&’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot.Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism. VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff, his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other &“good stuff,&” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success. Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.Reintroducing Harriet Martineau: Pioneering Sociologist and Activist (Reintroducing...)
By Stuart Hobday, Gaby Weiner. 2024
This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a ‘scientific’ approach to…
understanding social and societal change. With attention to her focus on the key social structures and societal issues of her day – the economy, education, the condition of women and the evils of slavery – the authors highlight her creation and application of what we now recognise as sociological methodology, fieldwork and analysis. Through an examination in each chapter of the writings that best illustrate Martineau’s sociological perspective, Reintroducing Harriet Martineau discusses her enduring contribution to sociology. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of methodology.We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
By Jeffrey Wilson, Bambi Kramer. 2024
A graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting—and beating—calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting…
to stay in their homes, organizing with their communities, and winning.We Live Here! is a graphic novel biography of the members of the local activist group Detroit Eviction Defense combatting—and beating—calls for their eviction. By illustrating the stories of families struggling against evictions, the book gives a voice to those who have remained in Detroit, showing the larger complexities at work in a beleaguered city. These are everyday people fighting back, organizing with others, going into the streets, and winning their homes back. What will Detroit look like in the future? Today cheap property entices real estate speculators from around the world. Artists arrive from all over viewing the city as a creative playground. Billionaires are re-sculpting downtown as a spot for tourism. But beyond the conventional players in urban growth and development, Detroit Eviction Defense (DED) members—like others engaged in place-based struggles all over the country—are pushing back, saying in effect, &“we live here, we&’ve been here, there is no Detroit without us.&”Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law, and Society
By Elizabeth A. Faulkner. 2024
This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different disciplinary…
positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view to contribute a unique insight into critical modern slavery studies. Providing a platform to critique the legal, ideological and political responses to the issue, experts interrogate the construct of modern slavery and the anti-trafficking discourse which have dominated contemporary responses to and understandings of exploitation. Drawing on a range of global real-world examples, this is a vital contribution to the study of modern slavery.Why Do We Stay?: How My Toxic Relationship Can Help You Find Freedom
By Stephanie Quayle. 2024
You or someone you love may be in a toxic relationship, but it doesn't have to stay that way. In…
this compassionate and practical resource, Stephanie Quayle shares her powerful story alongside psychologist Dr. W. Keith Campbell's professional insights to give you the help and hope you need—and remind you that you are not alone.When Stephanie lost her boyfriend in a plane crash, she faced intense grief and pain. Nothing compared, though, to the shock of discovering she had not been the only woman in his life. As her world unraveled around her, Stephanie realized that it had actually been unraveling from the start of their relationship—back when he promised her everything.In Why Do We Stay? Stephanie draws on her story to explain how to spot a toxic relationship, how to get out, and how to heal. Mental health expert Dr. W. Keith Campbell joins her in helping you see that:You can make a change in your lifeThere are warning signs to look for and ways to spot an unhealthy relationshipYou don&’t have to be a victim to narcissism or gaslighting or lose years of your lifeWhether you stay in or leave your relationship, healing and freedom are possible Why Do We Stay? is ideal for:Those who feel trapped in an unhealthy relationshipThose who are recovering from a toxic relationshipReaders searching for a resource—for themselves or for a friend—on narcissism, gaslighting, compulsive lying, and other destructive behaviors With a powerful blend of clinical research, gripping storytelling, and unvarnished hope, Why Do We Stay? empowers you to make changes in your life. You are not alone.Discover a way forward.I Want to Matter: Your Life Is Too Short and Too Precious to Waste
By Kathie Lee Gifford. 2024
We all want to matter, right? We want to love people well and be loved in return. We want to…
have made a difference before our life is over. We want to have lived a full life without any regrets. In I Want to Matter, New York Times bestselling author and former Today show host Kathie Lee Gifford shares stories about her life and encourages you to remember your self-worth and never give up on your dreams.In this beautiful two-color 60-day DayReader® each day features a:focal topic,story from Kathie Lee Gifford's life,and reflection questions to help you apply the message to your own life.I Want to Matter is inspired by a song written by Kathie Lee and includes content from her New York Times bestselling book, It's Never Too Late. She wants to help you feel seen and heard. This daily reader is great for:birthdays, Mother's Day, Teacher Appreciation Day, Hanukkah, Christmas, or as a just because gift to anyone needing encouragement.morning and night reading routines.anyone searching for an inspirational message.This DayReader® is a way for you to relive the moments that shaped you into who you are today and will allow you to revive your ability to wonder because you truly do matter.Create a Life You Love: How to Quiet Outside Voices So You Can Finally Hear Your Own
By Stephanie May Wilson. 2024
As women, we're often told that we're entitled or unrealistic when we want to create a life we love. We start…
hearing this message from a very early age, and by the time we're old enough to know what we want, we've also been taught to doubt our instincts and to see selfishness in all our longings.This book is the antidote to those voices. . .and the way forward.Writer, speaker, and podcaster Stephanie May Wilson has helped thousands of women shrug off the pressure of what they think their lives are supposed to look like and take on the next big decision or life transition with intentionality and confidence.Create a Life You Love is a warm, passionate guide on how you can rediscover your own authority and build a life you're finally excited to live. You'll learn how to:Define yourself on your own terms by setting aside societal pressures that tell you who you're supposed to be.Feel empowered to make your next big decisions with confidence and clarity.Build security and peace in both who you are and the season you're in.Through stories, exercises, and hard-won wisdom, Create a Life You Love will help you untangle your own expectations from the expectations of others and get inspired to at last pursue a life that you're excited to wake up to each day.Soigner les vieux: chroniques d'un médecin engagé
By Réjean Hébert. 2023
Soigner les vieux, c'est d'abord adapter le système de santé au vieillissement de la population. Soigner les vieux, c'est aussi…
permettre aux personnes âgées de participer pleinement à la société. Soigner les vieux, c'est enfin tirer des leçons de la pandémie de COVID-19. Soigner les vieux, c'est la mission que poursuit le Dr Réjean Hébert pour un meilleur système de soins public et une société plus juste, inclusive et respectueuse de tous ses citoyens et citoyennesLa tentation écofasciste: écologie et extrême droite (Collection Polémos. Combattre, débattre)
By Pierre Madelin. 2023
Avant de passer à l'acte, les auteurs de tueries de masse Brenton Tarrant en Nouvelle-Zélande, Patrick Crusius et Payton Gendron…
aux États-Unis ont rédigé un manifeste écofasciste. Pour eux, devant l'immigration et le réchauffement climatique, il faut "tuer les envahisseurs, tuer la surpopulation, et ainsi sauver l'environnement.". L'écofascisme désigne les diverses appropriations de l'écologie au sein de l'extrême droite, alors que le lien entre écologie et thématiques identitaires risque de s'exacerber. À la frontière de l'histoire des idées, de la cartographie intellectuelle et de l'anticipation politique, La tentation écosfasciste est un incontournable pour comprendre ce phénomèneOù va l'argent des pauvres: fantasmes politiques, réalités sociologiques
By Denis Colombi. 2019
A partir d'exemples du quotidien, l'auteur cherche à déconstruire les idées véhiculées sur les pauvres en s'intéressant à la question…
de l'argent, lequel est parfois considéré comme mal géré, mal utilisé ou mal alloué. Cette thématique amène une réflexion sur le rapport à la consommation, sur la place du luxe et du superflu dans les dépenses des autres membres de la sociétéT'as pas trouvé pire comme boulot ?: chronique d'un travailleur en maison de retraite
By Nicolas Rouillé. 2023
Quand Nicolas Rouillé, écrivain dépourvu d'expérience dans le médico-social, annonce qu'il a trouvé un emploi en maison de retraite, on…
lui demande: "Tu vas torcher les vieux? T'as pas trouvé pire comme boulot?" Dans un établissement public qui se remet tout juste de la pandémie de COVID, il fait la rencontre de Mme Lopez, Mady, Suzanne, M. Lacaze et de bien d'autres résident·es attachant·es qui luttent, se laissent porter ou perdent pied. Rapidement, il s'intègre à une équipe d'auxiliaires de vie, d'aides-soignantes et d'infirmières dont la force de travail est tout aussi invisibilisée qu'essentielleHistoire populaire de l'amour au Québec, de la Nouvelle-France à la Révolution tranquille: 3, 1860 à 1960
By Jean-Sébastien Marsan. 2019
Le Québec des années 1860 à 1960 a connu une série d'évolutions, de crises et de tensions. La province s'industrialisation,…
s'urbanise et se bureaucratise. Elle connaît une forte émigration vers les États-Unis, les premières féministes remportent leurs premières batailles malgré la criminalisation de l'avortement, une guerre mondiale éclate, suivie de l'effervescence des Années folles, de la Grande Dépression et d'une autre guerre mondiale... Apparaissent alors les fameux enterrements de vie de garçon, les showers, la commercialisation du mariage et la popularisation de l'automobile, du cinéma, de la radio et la télévision. La société québécoise évolue et bénéficie de constant progrès en matière d'hygiène, de médecine et de moyens de contraception. À l'approche de la Révolution tranquille, le Québec subit un décalage de plus criant avec le discours de l'Église : la population aspire maintenant à autre choseThe cure for burnout: How to find balance and reclaim your life
By Emily Ballesteros. 2024
&“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros&’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers…
eager to reclaim their time and energy.&”—Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you&’re in need of a cure for burnout. In The Cure for Burnout , burnout management coach and TikTok influencer Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research, her expertise in organizational psychology, and the tried-and-true strategies she&’s successfully implemented with clients around the globe to demystify burnout for our post-pandemic world – and set you on a path toward a life of personal and professional balance. Ballesteros outlines five areas in which you can build healthy habits to combat burnout — mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries , and stress management . She offers clear, easy-to-implement tools to help you find greater balance, energy, and fulfillment, showing you how to: • break burnout habits that keep you in a pattern of chronic overwhelm • create sustainable work/life balance through predictable personal care • get more done in less time while creating forward momentum toward a meaningful life • identify and set your personal and professional limits , guilt-free • master your stress and detach from your stressors The Cure for Burnout provides a holistic method for burnout management to address the epidemic of our always-on, chronically overextended culture, empowering us to reclaim control of our own lives once and for allA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call…
to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women's healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women's own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal legacy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women. While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on—as do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies—how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today's medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed. With a physician's knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own experience treating thousands of women. Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives— for us and generations to come—All in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women's medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of women's history and bodiesTony Robbins returns with the final book in his financial freedom trilogy by unveiling the power of alternative investments. Robbins,…
and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world's most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook. For decades, trillions of dollars in "smart money" has been making outsized returns using private equity, private credit, venture capital and other alternative investments. Robbins teams up with renowned private equity investor Christopher Zook, founder of CAZ Investments, to sit down with more than a dozen of the world's greatest alternative investment managers, collectively managing over half a trillion dollars on behalf of investors. Names like... Robert F. Smith – Founder of Vista Equity Partners, Smith is the considered the most successful enterprise software investor of all time. Vinod Khosla – Founder of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla is considered a legend in Venture Capital. He is famous for turning a $4 million investment into a $7 billion windfall for his investors. Michael B. Kim – The "Godfather of Private Equity" in Asia, Kim has created the largest private equity firm in Asia. His astounding success for investors has also made him South Korea's wealthiest man. And many more! In The Holy Grail of Investing , you'll discover: -How to take advantage of the trillions flowing into private equity by becoming an owner of firms that actually manage the assets and share in the revenue they generate -How to take advantage of the two to three times higher returns of private credit as an alternative (or compliment) to bonds -How new rule changes allow individual investors to own a piece of the major professional sports teams (MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS) and benefit from this fanatically driven asset class -How to invest in the energy evolution and ride the wave of trillions in global investments -How investments in private real estate can work as an inflationary hedge and source of tax efficient income -How many of the world's greatest investors thrive in good times and badA map of future ruins: On borders and belonging
By Lauren Markham. 2024
&“This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we&’ve been told—and told ourselves—in order…
to naturalize the forms of injustice we&’ve come to understand as order.&” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West&’s idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization of migrants today? In 2021, Lauren Markham went to Greece, in search of her own Greek heritage and to cover the aftermath of a fire that burned down the largest refugee camp in Europe. Almost no one had wanted the camp—not activists, not the country&’s growing neo-fascist movement, not even the government. But almost immediately, on scant evidence, six young Afghan refugees were arrested for the crime. Markham soon saw that she was tracing a broader narrative, rooted not only in centuries of global history but also in myth. A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay, A Map of Future Ruins helps us see that the stories we tell about migration don&’t just explain what happened. They are oracles: they predict the futureThe bodies keep coming: Dispatches from a black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
By Brian H Williams. 2023
Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma…
bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories more than hard truths, he came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw, intimate detail, he narrates not only the events of that night, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Gawande and Tweedy, he diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, training his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills manifesting themselves in his patients' bodies. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it's designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until we transform policy and law with compassion and careS'engager en amitié (Radar)
By Camille Toffoli. 2023
Lieu de grande liberté, de partage et d'intimité, les amitiés se déploient sous toutes sortes de formes. Qu'elles soient brèves…
ou s'inscrivent dans la durée, elles nous façonnent comme individus. Dans un essai très original et sans tabou où se croisent témoignages et expérience personnelle, Camille Toffoli a voulu montrer combien les amitiés peuvent influencer nos parcours individuels et jouer un rôle politique, car elles ont le potentiel de transformer le monde dans lequel nous évoluons. Pourquoi ne pas redonner à l'amitié une place centrale dans notre société? S'engager en amitié est une invitation à explorer la force des amitiés et en révéler tout leur potentiel émancipateurHors jeu: chronique culturelle et féministe sur l'industrie du sport professionnel
By Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau. 2023
De plus en plus de femmes sont visibles dans le sport professionnel masculin. De spectatrices, cheerleaders ou conjointes d'athlètes, elles…
atteignent désormais les rangs de coachs, d'arbitres et même de directrices d'équipe. Qu'en est-il exactement ? À partir d'une posture d'exception, celle de partenaire d'un joueur célèbre, mais aussi d'intellectuelle engagée parachutée sur un terrain de football à Kansas City, Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau déconstruit un à un les mythes entourant les femmes dans l'industrie. Haut lieu de reproduction des pires stéréotypes de classe, de race et de genre ? Bien sûr. Lieu de résistance où se conjuguent justice sociale et égalité des genres ? Rien d'impossibleUne question de mort et de vie
By Irvin D Yalom. 2021
"Atteinte d'un cancer, Marilyn Yalom choisit elle-même de mettre fin à ses jours, avec le soutien et l'accompagnement sans faille…
de son époux Irvin. Dans cette chronique, le couple livre ses réflexions sur le combat contre la maladie, la mort, le deuil, l'intimité et l'amour."