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Elements of Taste: Understanding What We Like and Why
by Benjamin ErrettFrom My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton. Gilmore Girls. We all have our most and least favorite things. But why? In this smart, funny, and well-researched book, Benjamin Errett brings together the latest findings from the worlds of psychology, criticism, neuroscience, market research, and more to examine what taste really means—and what it can teach us about ourselves. Covering kitsch, nostalgia, snobbery, bad taste, George Michael, and what it means to be “basic,” this is the ultimate read for anyone who devours popular and not-so-popular culture.
Elevate Your Excellence: The Power of Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well
by Dave AndersonBuild a custom plan to boost performance both inside and outside of the workplace, with simple everyday strategies anyone can use. How you do anything is how you do everything. Great performance, whether at work or at home, starts with the little things: making your bed, organizing your closet, maintaining your yard, shooting a basketball, closing a deal. Elevate Your Excellence offers a foolproof approach to improve the often-neglected everyday disciplines like hydration, sleep quality, and mindset maintenance that can make all the difference in generating high-quality performance. Based on his most popular seminars and trainings, LearntoLead.com founder Dave &“Mr. Accountability&” Anderson encourages readers to make simple and immediately actionable tweaks to begin doing ordinary things extraordinarily well to transform their lives—in areas including: Winning your morning hours to set the pace of success for the day Improving mental toughness and staying locked in to what matters most to tackle your most challenging days Mastering intentional breathing and sleeping to add years to your life Regardless of industry, position, age, experience, or geography, Anderson&’s guidelines are proven techniques to make excellence an innate part of your personal brand. Whether you&’re running a household or building a corporate culture, the game-changing action items in this book will inspire you to do and be better—and will truly elevate your excellence.
Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research
by Jonathan SchwabishLearn how to make data-driven research accessible to decision makers, policymakers, and the general public Many researchers, scholars, and analysts fail to develop communication strategies that work in today’s crowded landscape of content, research, and data. To be successful, modern researchersneed to share their insights with the wider audience that lies beyond academia. Elevate the Debate helps researchers of all types more effectively communicate their work in any number of areas, from traditional news outlets to the new media platforms of the digital age. After reading this book, you will be inspired and equipped to use traditional and digital media environments to your advantage. This real-world guide helps you present your data-driven research with greater clarity, coherence, and impact. An array of practical strategies and proven techniques enables you to make your research accessible to diverse audiences, form engaging narratives, and design and implement meaningful outreach plans. Each chapter examines a specific communications strategy, such as data visualization, presentation skills, social media, blog writing, and reporter interactions. Written by expert members of the Urban Institute’s Communication department, and edited by Jonathan Schwabish, a Senior Fellow at Urban, Elevate the Debate guides you on how to use the media environment to your advantage and make a difference through policy insights and policy solutions. This valuable book teaches you how to: Develop and apply data-driven and story-focused communication Use the “Pyramid Philosophy” of rooting accessible, engaging communications products in sophisticated research. Solve problems with your research by defining goals and recommending conclusions-based actions Identify the researchers, organizations, funders, influencers, and policymakers who are most important to your goals and precisely target their information needs Employ communication styles and strategies to get your work in the hands of people who can use it and act upon it. Elevate the Debate: A Multi-layered Approach to Communicating Your Research is a must-have resource for academic researches, policy researchers, and all analysts of data-driven research.
Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others (Ignite Reads #0)
by Robert GlazerNOW A USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!What are your limits? Care to break them?To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down.In Elevate, award-winning CEO and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles—or capacities—that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, find your core principles, and build more rewarding personal and professional relationships. As we look to elevate ourselves, we must do so much more than beating the competition, because our greatest competition is ourselves! We need to find ways to consistently outperform ourselves and our own expectations.Robert has built a career on accelerating productivity and careers. Elevate is based on his four foundational elements necessary for elevating our performance:Spiritual: Who you are, what you want most and the standards you live by.Intellectual: How you think, learn, plan and execute with disciplinePhysical: Your health, well-being and physical performanceEmotional: Your ability to overcome challenging situations, your emotional mindset and the quality of your relationships.Elevate explores each of these elements in detail and offers actionable tips you can use to start improving today.The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you. It's time to break free of your limits.
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work
by Amelia DunlopHave you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do? When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is crazy if he thinks we will ever say those words out loud to each other much less to a potential client." We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. The acknowledgement of our intrinsic worth as human beings and the nurturing of our own or another's growth through love ultimately contribute to higher performance and organizational growth. Now as the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, a leading Experience Consultancy, Amelia Dunlop knows we must embrace elevating the human experience for the advancement and success of ourselves and our organizations. This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients. The first path explores the path of the self, an inward path where we learn to love ourselves when we show up for work, and examines the obstacles that hinder us. The second path centers around learning to love and recognize the worth of another in our lives, adding to the worth we feel and providing a source of meaning to our lives. The third path considers the community of work and learning to love and recognize the worth of those we meet every day at work, especially for those who may be systematically marginalized, unseen, or unrepresented. Drawing on her own personal journey to find love and worth at work in her twenty-year career as a management consultant, Amelia also weaves together insights from philosophers, theologians, and sociologists with the stories of people from diverse backgrounds gathered during her research. Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work is for anyone who has felt the struggle to feel worthy at work, as well as for those who have no idea what it may feel like to struggle every day just to feel loved and worthy, but love people and lead people who do. It’s a practical approach to elevating the human experience that will lead to important conversations about values and purpose, and ultimately, meaningful change.
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
by Phil JacksonThis is the story of a preacher's kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen meditation. This book is full of revelations: about fascinating personalities and their drive to win; about the wellsprings of motivation and competition at the highest levels; and about what it takes to bring out the best in ourselves and others.
Elf-Help for Living with Joy
by R. W. Alley Karen KatafiaszIn Elf-Help for Living with Joy, author Karen Katafiasz--with the help of the whimsical illustrations by R. W. Alley--offers insights into how to hold onto a spirit of true, profound joy that can remain with us, even when things seem to be at their worst. The clear, life-affirming wisdom of this small book will truly help you discover the passion of being fully alive and the elation of living with joy!
Elf-help for Being a Good Parent
by R. W. Alley Janet GeiszPractical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
Elf-help for Busy Moms
by Molly Wigand R. W. AlleyWhether juggling career and family, or tackling the feat of being a stay-at-home mom, mothers have a strenuous job. The endearing elves on these pages offer busy moms affirmation, inspiration, and nurturing advice on how to care for themselves as they care for their families. For every mom who's ever gotten bogged down in the home trenches, Elf-help for Busy Moms is just the pick-me-up needed!
Elf-help for Coping with Cancer
by R. W. Alley Joel SchornElf-help for Coping with Cancer suggests how you can react to your illness and also act in ways that will help you heal. It will also help you see how having cancer, despite the limitations and downright terrors it may present, can offer opportunities to grow closer to God and those around you, and to focus on what's really important.
Elf-help for Coping with Pain
by R. W. Alley Anne Calodich FoneThis book offers no quick-fix solutions. What it does offer are gentle reminders that any journey from woundedness to wholeness is a process and not to be traveled alone. There are things we can do to make the trip easier--and blessings to be found along the way.
Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People
by R. W. Alley Lisa O EngelhardtSome people are just plain difficult--or, at least, we have difficulty dealing with them. Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People is a sensible little guidebook empowering readers to achieve peace and harmony in life's inevitable problem relationships.
Elf-help for Healing from Divorce
by R. W. Alley Kathryn LankstonElf-help for Healing from Divorce is written for anyone whose life has been touched by divorce. It features 38 small ways to face the reality of divorce, and to begin the healing that needs to happen. The book helps people to realize that, although something has ended, life will continue, and be good again.
Elf-help for Overcoming Depression
by R. W. Alley Linus MundyElf-help for Overcoming Depression shows how to look into your own heart and soul, as well as to others, for help in managing emotions. Linus Mundy has written a number of books for children and grown-ups, as well as articles for the religious press. The founder of the popular CareNotes and CareNotes for Kids booklet series from Abbey Press, he has written Slowdown Therapy and Keep-life-simple Therapy, and several books on prayer and spiritual growth. Linus and his wife, Michaelene, wrote the Bringing Religion Home newsletter for a number of years. R. W. Alley is the illustrator for the popular Abbey Press adult series of Elf-help books, as well as an illustrator and writer of children's books. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, daughter, and son. See a wide variety of his works at: www.rwalley.com.
Elf-help for Raising a Teen
by Jim Auer R. W. AlleyPractical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
Elf-help for a Happy Retirement
by R. W. Alley Ted O'NealWhimsical Elfin characters offer simple, sage advice for dealing with life's challenges!
Elf-help for the Mother-to-be
by R. W. Alley Claudia BollwinkelWise and whimsical advice and inspiration for about-to-be mommies!
Elige triunfar: Los secretos del ser y el hacer de mujeres emprendedoras
by Héctor TemeNuestro mundo actual se distingue por la emancipación femenina. La mujer emprendedora entiende que la relación de esclavitud ya no se acepta y que la relación de dependencia no satisface; sin embargo, la relación de independencia no sirve. No obstante hay nuevos modelos para llegar a ser triunfadoras, lo cual es posible en una relación de interdependencia. Moviéndose juntas, viéndose crecer unas a otras, ayudándose más y más cada día. Disfrutando el éxito de la otra como propio, mientras se persiste en lograr el particular.* ¿Quieres ser una mujer triunfadora y todavía no lo logras?* ¿Te gusta lo que haces pero deseas hacerlo menos tiempo y sacarle el máximo provecho?* ¿Estás a punto de pasar al siguiente nivel, comprar tu casa, ganarte el bono máximo y necesitas herramientas?* ¿Trabajas mucho y ganas bien, pero no lo disfrutas?* ¿Has tenido que empezar de nuevo muchas veces?* ¿Te cuesta saber exactamente cómo hacerlo?Si la respuesta ha sido sí, entonces este libro es para ti.
Elimina la prisa de tu vida: Cómo mantener la salud emocional y espiritual en el caos del mundo moderno
by John Mark ComerUn Bestseller de la Asociación de Editoriales Cristianas (EPAC)• Un alegato emocional y espiritual contra la prisa y a favor de una forma de vida más sencilla y más lenta. "Siendo alguien muy familiarizado con la enfermedad de la prisa, me doy cuenta de que necesitaba este libro urgentemente ". -Scott Harrison, autor de Thirst / Sed, bestseller del New York Times . "¿En quién me estoy convirtiendo?" Esa pregunta le molestaba e incomodaba constantemente al pastor y autor John Mark Comer. En el exterior parecía muy exitoso pero, por dentro, las cosas no lucían muy bien. Así que se dirigió a su mentor en busca de orientación y le escuchó decir estas palabras: “Elimina, sin piedad, la prisa de tu vida. La prisa es el gran enemigo de la vidaespiritual”. No era la respuesta que esperaba oír,pero fue y sigue siendo la respuesta que necesitaba. Con frecuencia, tratamos los síntomas tóxicos de nuestras vidas modernas, en lugar de identificar la causa. Un número creciente de voces están señalando a la prisa o el ajetreo como la raíz de muchos males. En este libro, encontrarás una fascinante hoja de ruta para mantenerse emocionalmente saludable y espiritualmente vivo dentro del caos de nuestro mundo moderno.
Eliminando el dolor de espalda
by Pílula DigitalCualquier persona que ya haya sufrido con el dolor de espalda sabe cuán urgente es sentir alivio. Uma vez que usted esté libre de dolor, la mayoría de las personas aprenderá lo máximo que pueda sobre el dolor de espalda para intentar evitar que los problemas en la espalda vuelvan a surgir. El dolor de espalda puede variar de persona en persona, de tipo en tipo y de zona en zona, como en la parte superior, media e inferior de la espalda. Puede ser un dolor sordo y constante o un dolor agudo y repentino que torna casi demasiado doloroso moverse. Puede comenzar rápidamente si usted se cae, se lastima o levanta algo muy pesado. O puede empeorar con el tiempo progresivamente. Uma cosa é cierta, el dolor es inolvidable, y la mayoría de las personas va a experimentarlo en algún momento de sus vidas. Vamos a comenzar con qué es el dolor de espalda y cuán común puede ser.
Eliminando la Ansiedad: Técnicas sencillas para superar la ansiedad y el estrés del mundo moderno
by Pílula DigitalLa ANSIEDAD puede ser, al mismo tiempo, un sentimiento NATURALMENTE humano, un síntoma de una enfermedad o un TRASTORNO mental en sí mismo. La diferencia radica en el PAPEL que desempeña la ansiedad en la vida de esa persona. En otras palabras, todos SENTIMOS ansiedad de vez en cuando, ya sea porque vas a hacer algo que nunca has hecho antes, PRESENTAR un trabajo, una reunión importante, etc. Sin embargo, cuando la ANSIEDAD llega a ser tan fuerte que PERJUDICA el día a día de una persona, imposibilitándole REALIZAR las actividades cotidianas y provocándole malestar emocional, hay algo más serio a lo que PRESTAR ATENCIÓN. Para que la ansiedad no EVOLUCIONE hasta convertirse en un trastorno mental, es IMPORTANTE ser consciente de sus síntomas y cambiar la forma de afrontarla, y esto ocurre en el día a día, A TRAVÉS de diversas acciones.
Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL
by Nick HaysProven tools to take your team and yourself to the next level Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a practical, no-nonsense guide to elevate your leadership skills and drive your team to their maximum potential. Before you can push your team to the max, you must push yourself—elite teams require elite leaders. This invaluable guide supplies the tools you need to develop effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and overcome. Author Nick Hays combines military training with Harvard education to present a comprehensive program that will unlock the potential in yourself and your team. The business environment has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Volatile market conditions, disruptive innovation, and digital transformations across entire sectors have rendered traditional business methods obsolete. To thrive, businesses must be adaptable, agile, and lean. Policies and procedures may change, but strong leadership and shared goals ensure a source of strength and continuity. Providing real-world methods and effective strategies, this essential resource will allow you to: Embrace the Warrior Mindset to always be proactive, never a victim Develop the trust of your team through strength and shared experience Devise durable and sustainable business strategies and contingency plans that adapt to fluid situations Promote a culture of innovation and authenticity to deliver a solid foundation for your team Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a must-read guide for everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to established business leaders. No matter the stage of your business—development, exploitation, or disruption—Elite will change your approach to business and unlock the warrior within.
Elogio degli artisti pacati: Storie emozionanti di artisti introversi che il mondo non potrà mai dimenticare
by Prasenjeet KumarFinalmente un libro che rende onore alla creatività e alla ricca immaginazione degli introversi. Credete davvero che leggende come Steven Spielberg, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Leonardo Da Vinci, Amitabh Bachchan fossero estroversi e socievoli come voi? No, vi sbagliate di grosso. Erano tranquilli e introversi. Come me e come voi. Eppure il loro contributo è riconosciuto ovunque. Provate ad immaginare un mondo senza di loro. Come sarebbe? Senza Harry Potter, Monna Lisa, Hercule Poirot, l’ispettore Vijay, E.T…. Quindi, se davvero questi artisti erano introversi come me e voi, come hanno fatto a lasciare un'impronta così indelebile nel mondo? Hanno imparato ad essere falsi estroversi? Si sono allenati a socializzare? Hanno imparato a parlare senza sosta? Ovviamente no. Sono rimasti se stessi. Siete stupiti? Allora comprate subito una copia di questo libro! E godetevi tutte le storie rigeneranti di questi artisti introversi la cui l'introversione, che per loro è stato uno dono divino, li ha aiutati a superare tragedie devastanti, sfide e ostacoli.
Elogio del leader pacato: Storie edificanti di leader introversi che hanno cambiato la storia
by Prasenjeet Kumar Ambra RacoHai un'idea di cosa possano avere in comune George Washington e Buddha, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk e Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks e Florence Nightingale? Che siano stati grandi leader e che abbiano lasciato un segno imponente nella Storia? Esatto! Ma erano anche degli introversi, lo sapevi? Dalll'autore best seller Prasenjeet Kumar, un'eccezionale raccolta di storie edificanti di personaggi che hanno riscritto la Storia per mezzo del potere dell'introversione. Essi si sono affermati, non per averla superata, MA proprio grazie al dono, alla forza della riservatezza... preparatevi ad immergervi nelle storie di pacati, timidi e sensibili leader di tutto il mondo, e nelle prove del loro coraggio. Leggerete quante difficoltà e minacce alla loro stessa vita siano stati costretti ad affrontare epari alla leggendaria fenice, sono risorti dalle ceneri, ma in modo pacato. Come la Fenice tranquilla, dal titolo della mia collana di libri.