House Work

En Fragmentados Andrés Hatum describe, analiza y ejemplifica las distintas formas en que el trabajo nos arruinó y fragmentó la vida. Arruinar, por lo inhumano de ciertos trabajos, en particular en momentos como la Revolución Industrial; fragmentar porque, en vez de estar integrados en nuestra vida, los trabajos se metieron como una cuña para complicárnosla.

Hilda Krüger, una atractiva y sofisticada actriz alemana, protagonizó uno de los episodios más extravagantes de mediados del siglo XX. Admirada por Joseph Goebbels, el omnipotente y siniestro ministro de Propaganda de Hitler, partió a Estados Unidos primero con la aparente intención de continuar su carrera en el glamour de Hollywood, para después dirigirse a México dejando atrás intensas relaciones con el magnate J. Paul Getty y Gert von Gontard, heredero del emporio cervecero Anheuser-Busch.

Most American corporations invest money, time, and energy in diversity, equity, and inclusion, popular terms that realistically bear little weight. Companies say they want to hire people from a wide array of backgrounds, but do they even know what a diverse workforce looks like? Why do so many companies fail in creating and cultivating an environment that truly embraces diversity and its benefits?

As you journey through this book, you will get a close look at a heart that experienced love but was also devastated by an encounter with loss. This heart experienced such disappointment that eventually found it bound up by fear. Although committed to living a life of purpose in God, you can still find yourself veering off course.

Once upon a time I became an adult. I had dreams and vision for my life. I was going places. Every day I worked as hard as I could - keeping myself busy with meaningless activities, thinking it would get me closer to my dreams. One day I moved to the Middle East, where my algorithm of "keep busy and I'll reach my dreams" did not work. I was exhausted from culture shock, was drowning in language learning, while trying to figure out how to be a good dad and husband. Because of that, I woke up and started searching for a better way - a Kingdom way.

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's Workshop. Meanwhile, two train-riding hobos, "Lucky" Cunningham and "Hollywood Mike", are traveling near Vanished Lake, Texas, where the newest generation of bio-weapons is secretly being tested. A bio-accident at Vanishing Lake turns the town into a living hell.

No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers invaluable lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you're vying for. Throughout the audiobook, Cathie offers fascinating glimpses of media and business personalities, but at the core of it are her candid, personal stories. Basic Black provides a close-up look at the keen judgment, perseverance, and optimism that have propelled Cathie Black to the top of her game.

Con un enfoque práctico y metodologías innovadoras, este libro está diseñado para líderes actuales y emergentes que buscan adaptarse y prosperar en el cambiante mundo del trabajo. Desde la adopción de tecnologías avanzadas hasta el abordaje de dinámicas de equipos en entornos híbridos, Carlos Sandoval, autor reconocido por su destacada contribución al liderazgo organizacional, ofrece orientaciones claras para enfrentar los desafíos de liderar en un contexto líquido y post-pandemia.

This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.

Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his mission's call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign missions, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside.

In Haven't You Heard?, Marie Le Conte looks at the role gossip, whispers and tittle-tattle play in all areas of politics - for the MPs and their advisers, the press who cover them and the civil servants in the middle of it all. From policy rows which aren't about policy at all and boozy nights with dramatic consequences, to people spinning their way to the top and dark secrets never seeing the light of day, Marie explores in great and entertaining detail the human side of the people running the country against a backdrop of political mayhem.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

What if I were to tell you the conventional career intelligence publicly available surrounding careers in construction has mostly held you back? This is the case for a few reasons. First, it’s incomplete and missing context. Second, it doesn’t provide a holistic approach to career development. And third, it’s missing all the internal work that’s first required to achieve career success, because we live from the inside out.

This book is about working hard, working together, and making your dreams come true by achieving what you set out to accomplish. Come join Silas and his sister Chase on their quest to build a treehouse with the help of cupcakes, the neighborhood, and of course mom and dad. Let’s join them on their treehouse adventure. Ready, set, listen!

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When the coronavirus hit the world, workers were flung from organized offices to fend for themselves at home, where kids, spouses, and housework beg for attention 24/7. Learning to find focus amid distractions, or finish work when you live at the office, will be essential to conquer the new work-from-home normal.

Mrs. Gee announced to GG, “It is cleaning day.” Immediately, GG knew her help would be needed, and she was ready - laundry, dishwashing, mopping, and the most fun of all, vacuuming. But, is Mrs. Gee ready for GG’s help? Come share GG’s action-packed cleaning day, as GG learns the rewards of teamwork!

Throw it away, give it away, sell it, trade it, donate it, recycle it, store it, or organize it. This book teaches you what things in your house are valuable, what can be traded for other stuff that you want, what can be sold online, what should be sold in stores, what is worthless, what should be thrown away as garbage, and what should be given away.

The Cognitive Tales is a collection of fables inspired by Aesop’s Fables, designed to explain the myriad of common biases and fallacies through charming and relatable stories. The author hopes that by listening to these tales, future generations will be better equipped to recognize and counteract the mischief and harm caused by cognitive biases.

In this guide, you will find 17 of the best toilet cleaning cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks that every toilet owner should know. It doesn't matter whether you are cleaning a toilet for the first time or you are a toilet cleaning expert, this audiobook will still be very beneficial for you. After utilizing the cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks featured in this guide, toilet cleaning will actually be more of an enjoyable task, and less of a hated chore.