Saber escuchar es una habilidad crítica que a menudo se da por sentado. Al aprender a escuchar atentamente, conseguirás mantener a tus empleados más comprometidos, fomentar el descubrimiento de nuevas ideas y escuchar lo que necesitas escuchar en una reunión en lugar de lo que esperas escuchar.A través de las investigaciones de reputados especialistas de la Harvard Business Review, este libro te enseñará lo que hacen los grandes oyentes, cómo mantenerse completamente presente en co...

Phil Proctor, co-founder of the legendary, surrealist comedy group, the thrice Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, in cahoots with Peter Bergman, Phil Austin and David Ossman, helped to create the most revolutionary comedy recordings ever made. Over a 50-year career, starting in the ‘60s and ending with them all in their 70s, they predicted reality TV, hackers, computer viruses, virtual reality, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and much more still to come. But during a breather in the Fir...

Cement Dust draws a stark picture of the confluence of creativity and confusion as a sculptor and her younger cousin deal with her growing manic-depression syndrome. Feyhe Baumann has no idea of her illness but her cousin's son, Billy Duncan becomes the object of her obsessive nature and he also begins to develop this problem.

SMALL IRONIES: Max Draper is the younger child in a typical American family with a three-generation family business: prostitution. As a teenager he falls in love with a friend, a girl named Freddy. In New York, London and elsewhere life takes him through many changes, including sexual orientation. He ends up in a place never thought of, but very right for his history and background. In 52 chapters the book covers 17 years in his life.

SMALL IRONIES: Max Draper is the younger child in a typical American family with a three-generation family business: prostitution. As a teenager he falls in love with a friend, a girl named Freddy. In New York, London and elsewhere life takes him through many changes, including sexual orientation. He ends up in a place never thought of, but very right for his history and background. In 52 chapters the book covers 17 years in his life.

Billy and Feyhe are cousins, both creative artists, whose late friendship blossoms into a caregiver relationship when her manic-depression overwhelms her. How they affect each others lives and careers is at the center of the story, but her illness, and his fear of also having it, influences his choices in life and art. **Now a Silver Medal winner in the 2020 IPPY Awards in the US Northeast Region.

Max Draper is the younger child in an ordinary American family growing up in New York City. His life is as straightforward as it can be and his family as seemingly normal as possible. There is one thing, though. His family business, for generations, has been prostitution. Raised in an environment that encourages honesty he falls in love with a childhood friend, a girl named Freddy. That love, and all that it brings with it, masks his true nature, his homosexuality, and living that dichotom...

Malin Bergman älskar sitt jobb. Hon är en stolt journalist. Visserligen arbetslös men inte desto mindre stolt. Och tacksam. Utan journalistiken skulle hon förmodligen bo kvar i den lilla norrländska håla hon växte upp i. Malins pojkvän, en aspirerande MMA-fighter, är uppenbarligen inte lika imponerad av journalistyrket. För han ställer ett ultimatum. Och när han gör det omkullkastar det allt. Malin tackar ja till ett arbete i sin hemstad, en plats hon som ung och oskuldsfull lämnat för att...

Malin Bergman älskar sitt jobb. Hon är en stolt journalist. Visserligen arbetslös men inte desto mindre stolt. Och tacksam. Utan journalistiken skulle hon förmodligen bo kvar i den lilla norrländska håla hon växte upp i. Malins pojkvän, en aspirerande MMA-fighter, är uppenbarligen inte lika imponerad av journalistyrket. För han ställer ett ultimatum. Och när han gör det omkullkastar det allt. Malin tackar ja till ett arbete i sin hemstad, en plats hon som ung och oskuldsfull lämnat för att...

Vindpojken tar med dig på en nervkittlande resa in i det kalla hjärtat av Norrlands inland, där Malin Bergman, en ambitiös journalist med passion för vindkraftverk, finner sig förlorad i en virvel av mörka hemligheter. När hon stöter på ett lik bland de mäktiga vindturbinerna blir hon snart insnärjd i en mystisk och farlig värld. Ett andra mord, denna gång på en ung pojke, sätter hennes professionella och personliga värld i gungning. Mellan kontrasterna av hennes pojkväns hälsofokuserade l...

Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the sixty-year film and stage career of Ingmar Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex, and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead.Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused.

Let Gilligan's Island teach you about situational ethics.Learn about epistemology from The Brady Bunch.Explore Aristotle's Poetics by watching 24.Television has grappled with a wide range of philosophical conundrums. According to the networks, it's the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe! So why not look to the small screen for answers to all of humanity's dilemmas?There's not a single issue discussed by the gre...