For those who have already experienced the clarity of mind from reading Getting Things Done, Making It All Work will take the process to the next level.David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Throw out everything you know about productivity-Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, and perspective. David Allen's Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done.
0 Comments
However, with hard work and time to reflect, I think BD has held its own. Launching a debut novel in this climate was like setting up a lemonade stand in the middle of a war zone. Ebooks were on the verge of changing everything and bookstores were closing in droves. The book debuted on the cusp of precarious times in the publishing industry. The backstory to Beautiful Disaster ends with a postscript. I spent serious time interviewing a Special Ops Marine, and dove deep into the world of holistic design. A stale journalism degree finally met with a practical purpose, and I used those skills to get the facts I needed. As the story evolved, it grew apparent that I needed to write about things for which I had no real experience. So what is the real story behind Beautiful Disaster? The answer is D, all of the above.Īlong with imagination, the novel required plenty of research. Sometimes readers are curious to know if Flynn is based on a real person, I reply back and confess (perhaps to their disappointment) that he’s pure imagination. In many ways, I painted the characters into the town’s eclectic canvas. I also give Athens, Georgia-home to my college alma mater-credit. He appeared in my sunroom like an apparition looking to come in out of the rain. When book clubs ask, I explain that Flynn turned up one gloomy April afternoon. Answers vary when it comes to Beautiful Disaster’s backstory. This path-breaking book reveals how caste crushes human creativity and is disturbingly similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender. As he brings to light the immovable glass ceiling that exists for Dalits even in politics, bureaucracy and judiciary, Yengde provides an unflinchingly honest account of divisions within the Dalit community itself-from their internal caste divisions to the conduct of elite Dalits and their tokenized forms of modern-day untouchability-all operating under the inescapable influences of Brahminical doctrines. He describes his gut-wrenching experiences of growing up in a Dalit basti, the multiple humiliations suffered by Dalits on a daily basis, and their incredible resilience enabled by love and humour. In this explosive book, Suraj Yengde, a first-generation Dalit scholar educated across continents, challenges deep-seated beliefs about caste and unpacks its many layers. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal… a fork? Everything's changed―new apartment, new school, new family dynamic ―and Sol desperately wants to fit in. It only takes one moment to change your life forever…Īfter her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Este encuentro fortuito cambiará su vida por completo pronto aprenderá que encajar no es tan importante como ser ella misma, incluso si eso es lo más difìcil que haya tenido que hacer. Sólo hay un problema: Ethan, el nieto de los Westray, la descubre robando y ella apenas logra escapar. Para ello, Sol debe participar de un rito de iniciación: entrar a la vieja casa de los Westray y robar… ¿un tenedor? Su entorno cambió por completo: nuevo departamento, nueva escuela, nueva dinámica familiar… ella simplemente quiere encajar, y la mejor manera de conseguirlo es uniéndose al Club de Historia de su escuela. Tras la deportación de su madre un año atrás, todo lo que Soledad "Sol" Gutiérrez desea es volver a tener una vida normal. SÓLO SE NECESITA UN MOMENTO PARA CAMBIAR TU VIDA PARA SIEMPRE. 23, 2010 and spent 62 weeks in the top 150. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list on Sept. "This gives new readers an opportunity to see how the novel was adapted as they're first reading it, while allowing those returning to Safe Haven to view its world and characters in new and sometimes surprising ways," said Sparks in a statement. The book has also been re-released in movie tie-in paperback and audiobook. The enhanced e-book features interviews with Sparks, Duhamel and Hough on the making of the film, as well as storyboards, behind-he-scenes footage and seven videos, three exclusive to the e-book edition. Nicholas Sparks fans have seen seven of of the best-selling author's love stories come to the big screen, from the Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams classic tear-jerker The Notebook, to the Amanda Seyfried-Channing Tatum coupling in Dear John.īefore Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel bring Sparks' 2010 novel Safe Haven to life in theaters this Valentine's Day, Grand Central Publishing is releasing a movie tie-in edition enhanced e-book, the first of its kind from Sparks. While catching up with Variety to discuss her MCU return, Natalie Portman looked back at the Thor: The Dark World backlash. Related: Thor 2 Avoided Disaster By Passing On Benedict Cumberbatch’s Villain Casting In spite of the poor reception, Thor: The Dark Worldproved to be a box office hit, grossing over $644 million and becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of the year. Helmed by Game of Thrones alum Alan Taylor, the sequel was met with mixed reviews from critics, who praised Hemsworth and Hiddleston's performances and its action sequences, but criticized its lackluster villain and writing. Alongside Hemsworth and Portman, the cast for Thor: The Dark World saw the MCU returns of Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander and Rene Russo. She's the cofounder of Vocable Communications and former Vice President of Content at the Veritas Forum. Sean McDowell: Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College. Sean McDowell: Today we have a guest who's written a fascinating new book called Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion, which, of course, is Christianity. Scott Rae: I'm your cohost, Scott Rae, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics, also at Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University. I'm your host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Sean McDowell: Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture. She is a regular writer for The Gospel Coalition. Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill seminary in London. However, no one was aware of her stigma until she became a teenager. As she was born in the astrological year of the Chinese Fire Horse, she was considered unlucky by some. Meg was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington as Meggin Patricia Cabot and was raised in the same city. Many of the novels of her series have featured in the New York Times Bestselling lists, which has increased her popularity as an established author. She has written several successful series in her career, in the Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, and Romance genres. Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir Dayįorever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning GloryĪuthor Meg Cabot is a famous novelist from Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Princess on the Brink / After Eight / Royal Scandal Princess in Love / Princess in the Middle Princess in the Spotlight / Take Two / A Royal Disaster However, Diamond argues, this view doesn't hold up to examination, and part of the point of his book will be to disprove that view. For a long time, the Europeans and those from advanced industrial nations believed that the reason why some nations were less developed was that some peoples were naturally inferior to others. Diamond makes a point of insisting that he doesn’t believe that one society is better than any other, and that he will try to remain impartial in his analysis. Yali asks Diamond why some societies flourished more than the others-this is the question Diamond will try to answer in the book. Diamond mentions Yali, a New Guinean politician interested in the history of his country and the colonization of New Guinea. The book begins with a preface in which Diamond claims that the main purpose of his text is to explain why different countries developed in different manners. The first half is slow-moving, and hardly mentions running in any way. I know it seems like blasphemy to only give three stars to any book about Quenton Cassidy, but only about 3/5ths of the book is any good, so it seems appropriate. Perfectly capturing the intensity, relentlessness, and occasional lunacy of a serious runner’s life, Again to Carthage is a must-read for runners-and athletes-of all ages, and a novel that will thrill any lover of fiction. After reconnecting with his friend and former coach Bruce Denton, Cassidy returns to the world of competitive running in a desperate, all-out attempt to make one last Olympic team. But when he loses his best friend to the Vietnam War and two relatives to life’s vicissitudes, Cassidy realizes that an important part of his life was left unfinished. The former Olympian has become a successful attorney in south Florida, where his life centers on work, friends, skin diving, and boating trips to the Bahamas. Now, in Again to Carthage, hero Quenton Cassidy returns. Originally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner became a cult classic, emerging after three decades to become a New York Times bestseller. Again to Carthage is the "breathtaking, pulse-quickening, stunning" sequel to Once a Runner that "will have you standing up and cheering, and pulling on your running shoes" ( Chicago Sun-Times). |