Reading Social

The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt - an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights.

There is a gigantic turkey, Grandma's secret stuffing, green beans, and authentic cranberry sauce, the kind that doesn't come out of a can. And desserts? There are almost too many to count. Join Nancy and her entire family as they celebrate Thanksgiving in this brand-new storybook, complete with more than thirty swanky stickers.

Almost everything about Valentine's Day is fancy... especially with Fancy Nancy! Mystery is in the air when Nancy receives a valentine from a secret someone. Join Nancy as she follows the clues to find out who it is—all in her trademark fabulous style, of course. Gorgeous stickers included!

In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents. Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience with a comprehensive resource for effectively managing the lives of one's own parents while keeping sanity and strength intact.

Kids today are presented with new challenges all the time. They face an uncertain future and are under constant pressure to thrive in an overwhelming and fast-paced world. You vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up retells Bear Grylls' most extreme adventures in a kid-friendly way. He shares the life lessons he's learned along the way, and how the skills needed to survive in the wild can be used in everyday life. From finding confidence to bouncing back from failure, Bear gives children the tools they need to survive and thrive in their own lives.

Author Maxwell Jensen will teach you actionable steps to polish your body language, as well as analyze other people’s physical signals, to improve your communication, influence, negotiation, and persuasion skills.

This is the most powerful collection of audiobooks on analyzing and speed-reading people, helping you improve your communication and people and social skills. Included in this audiobook collection are Speed Reading People and How to Read Body Language. This is the only audiobook you’ll ever need to decode the hidden secrets of body language - to understand exactly what each person is saying, feeling, and conveying with his or her body!

The detectable identity of southern Louisiana's one-of-a-kind culture has been expressed in numerous descriptive phrases - "south of the South," "the northern tip of the Caribbean," "this folklore land." A strange, piquant, and savory mixture, it also has been likened to one of the region's signature dishes, gumbo.

When Theo's photography project is mysteriously vandalized at school, there are five suspected students who all say, "It wasn't me." Theo just wants to forget about the humiliating incident, but his favorite teacher is determined to get to the bottom of it and has the six of them come into school over vacation to talk. She calls it "Justice Circle". The six students - the Nerd, the Princess, the Jock, the Screw Up, the Weirdo, and the Nobody - think of it as detention. A.k.a. their worst nightmare. That is until they realize they might get along after all, despite their differences.

Meet Nancy, who believes that more is always better when it comes to fancy.... In this story, Fancy Nancy is faced with a tutu dilemma - that’s a fancy way of saying she doesn’t know what to do!

Are you tired of people using deception, manipulation, and other underhanded tactics to control you? You're going to want to invest in this audiobook, where I will personally show you how to identify deception, influence people, become likeable, understand emotional intelligence, and read body language and other paraverbal activities 99 percent of the society is not aware of! Get on top of every social encounter you come across whether at the workplace, school, social settings, or other family functions.

For over two millennia, Seneca’s letters have inspired countless individuals to live with purpose, courage, and clarity. In How to Read Stoicism, you’ll find a straight-to-the-point, modern translation of Seneca’s 5 best letters to Lucilius, carefully selected to give you powerful insights into time management, mental toughness, and living a meaningful life.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. In recent years non-religious funerals have become more common, but without an established canon of texts to fall back on, it can be difficult to plan an appropriate service for a loved one who had no religious belief or connections. Texts recommended by secular humanists, especially modern texts, can sometimes sound trite or overly informal.

What if you were able to tell when your colleague's smile actually mean that they were irritated with you? Would you change your tactics of negotiation if you knew how the person in your business meeting was really interpreting your suggestions? Obviously, the skill of reading people offers an amazing advantage. Most people want to think that they are already good at interpreting other people's body language signals, but the fact is that we aren't as good at this as we believe. Are you tired of guessing how people feel or constantly misinterpreting the signals of those around you?

With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.

The Science of Reading People isn't a book that tells you about crossed arms, eye contact, and eyerolls. That type of information is so basic, it can be hidden. No, this book is about deep behavioral psychology, and how it affects all of our actions and behaviors.

Powerful reading and writing is fundamentally linked to civic education. The Civically Engaged Classroom is packed with practical guidance designed to support teachers in giving students the skills, knowledge, and tools to be active participants in society.

Take a second to imagine how your day-to-day life will change when you can instantly analyze people everywhere you go. This guide will give you the practical tools and knowledge to read and understand people in a way few others ever will.

Originally published on www.lawfareblog.com, Brookings Senior Fellow and legal analyst Benjamin Wittes, reads the 448-page Mueller report carefully, and wrote his thoughts as he progressed. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Notes on the Mueller Report: A Reading Diary and learn about political science and the Federal Government.

In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas. In Victories Never Last, Zaretsky weaves his reflections on the pandemic siege of his nursing home with the testimony of six writers on their own times of plague: Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, and Albert Camus.