Self Memoir

The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes listeners behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering.

Una dintre învățăturile lui Thich Nhat Hanh este că fiecare om trăiește într-o continuă legătură cu cei din jurul său, dar și cu natura. Nu putem exista în afara lumii care ne înconjoară, ci doar prin raportare la aceasta. Viața maestrului este dovada cea mai puternică a acestei concepții, pentru că întreaga sa gândire și activitate, care a schimbat percepția asupra spiritualității tradiționale, s-a dezvoltat în relație cu numeroși factori sociali și politici, dar și cu personalități remarcabile.

With lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world. As a girl, I ate like a king. So begins beloved author, journalist, and influencer Alicia...

Legendarul restaurant Eleven Madison Park era o braserie de două stele aflată într-o situație delicată când Will Guidara a preluat cârma. Unsprezece ani mai târziu, avea deja patru stele din partea publicației The New York Times, trei stele Michelin și fusese numit cel mai bun restaurant din lume. Cum a fost posibil? Angajații restaurantului au depășit cu mult așteptările clienților.

The remarkable true story of a group of former Special Operation soldiers turned entrepreneurs on a mission to end the war in Afghanistan with business, not bullets.

H.H. Holmes was a doctor, real estate speculator, pharmacist, bigamist, swindler, and America's first media superstar serial killer. As he awaited trial, he put out a series of autobiographical documents, press releases, and interviews that revealed his sociopathic tendencies and lies about his crimes. The infamous killer of the Chicago World's Fair published a memoir and a confession, both of which conceal more than they reveal of the truth.

Are you living a life of quiet desperation? Questioning what it means to succeed? Wondering if your efforts matter? In this uplifting memoir, Lorraine Ash uses her own life experiences to explore inner landscapes where the seeds of divine healing and insight reside. These are the landscapes on which we create our own meaning and find the resiliency to thrive in a changing and challenging world.

A REBELLIOUS APPROACH TO ACHIEVING PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS. In Unbeatable Latinas, Valeria Aloe takes us on a transformative journey. She begins by examining how ancestral cultural messages —such as "be humble," "just work hard," "be grateful for what you already have," and "don't create conflict"— have historically hindered our professional advancement, leaving many of us feeling undervalued, underpaid, or unsupported in our growth.

Eve’s Memoirs, a work of her-storical fiction, offers Eve’s secret diary written in the 100th year of the Dawn. Eve entrusts her witty words of wisdom, her deepest desires and innermost thoughts, to her daughters and sons, regarding the pleasures and pains of being a woman on planet Earth. Eve’s Memoirs will cradle you, rock you, and profoundly nurture you with a mystical sense of God’s love for you, as well as help you experience the Garden and find a garden of your own.

Because sometimes, life is going to suck, and you’re going to have to know how to handle it… What happens when you step on one of the great Lego pieces of life? When you get blind-sided? Thrown a curveball? When you get divorced? Or someone dies? You're going to need something more than the...

When Trent Cotchin was handed the reins of Richmond Football Club's team in 2013, he was a 22-year-old star, skilful and fearlessly hard at the ball. Coming off a Brownlow Medal-winning season, he embraced the captaincy and continued his quest to get the most out of himself for the benefit of...

Donna Freitas wants to believe. Raised Catholic, she sang songs about Jesus as a child and lived in a house where nuns and priests were regular guests, yet she found herself questioning the faith of her family, examining the reasons none of it added up, and distancing herself from the God of...

The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul, it might as well have been for the rest of his life. Plunged into a nightmarish world of extreme...

Warning...warning...warning! If you're ready to quit on yourself, don't even think about giving up on your goals and dreams, until you listen to this audiobook! You'll say to yourself...if this young boy can endure his journey through all of its crazy twists and turns...then maybe I can too! Never Quit is a story of turbulence, triumph, and hope. Passionate, provocative, and inspiring. This audiobook will make you gasp, laugh, cry, and believe. This young boy's ascent to manhood will lift the listener up as well.

This important book focuses on how women of color, children of immigrants, and other minoritized groups are predisposed to workplace imposter syndrome—and charts a path forward for self-advocacy and advancement.​ For women of color and children of immigrants, who are the “the other” at...

Star della Formula Uno, manager di fama internazionale, creatore di club per miliardari e personaggio da copertina: è lui, Flavio Briatore, l'uomo che buona parte degli italiani vorrebbero come maestro di vita. II perché è presto detto: Briatore, figlio di maestri elementari della profonda provincia cuneese, con un semplice diploma di geometra in tasca, è diventato multimiliardario, e oggi gira il mondo a bordo del suo jet privato. Simbolo vivente che "se vuoi, puoi" - come recita il suo motto - e che il successo e la bella vita sono alla portata di tutti.

Former Ethiopian refugee Yonas Hagos shares his amazing story about his plight in Ethiopia, his emigration to the US, and the business journey he took to become the owner of dozens of restaurant franchises. From Scrappy to Self-Made describes how Hagos beat all the odds to become the owner of more than four dozen restaurant franchises that have earned him $10 million, and counting.

七〇年以上前、占領下の日本において、アメリカ人によって無数のカラー写真が撮影され、いま、それらが続々と世に出てきている。

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the 19th century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's rights addressed, Stanton developed a devotion to equality uniquely American in character. Her writing and life make clear why feminism as a liberation movement has flourished here as nowhere else in the world.

Foreword by DeAndre Hopkins In this extraordinary memoir, Sabrina Greenlee, the indomitable mother of NFL sensation DeAndre Hopkins, unveils her journey of triumph over adversity—a saga of tenacity, redemption, faith, and the profound reclamation of personal power. Sabrina Greenlee was born to...