From the soul of the streets comes a voice you can't ignore.GHETTONOMICS: A Poetic Therapy is a powerful collection of spoken-word style poetry that brings raw emotion, unfiltered truth, and spiritual resilience from the heart of urban America.Melvin Smith shares his journey through pain, poverty, fatherhood, injustice, faith, addiction, love, and survival in the ghettos of New York. These poems are a mirror held up to society-bold, unapologetic, and brimming with ...

You're trying to help—but is it working?Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained l...

Wall Street Journal bestseller“A welcome revelation.” --The Financial TimesAward-winning Wharton Professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behavior change. In this ground-breaking book, Milkman reveals a proven path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from psychologist Angela Duckworth, the best-selling author of Grit

This book was written in 2011. Some of the poems and songs date back to 2003. Some of the poems and songs have not been inserted in this book due to original book and papers being lost. A view on emotions looking out and looking within.

A short collection of poetry that compliments a beautiful soul.

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This is a small compilation of my posts from Facebook and Tumblr on my stories of being a single father.

The title speaks for itself; an Average Joe with some means to express himself. If you enjoy rhymes with a mixture of real-life experiences, this may be the book for you. A.C. Gallant is nothing but honest with his readers as he gets quite personal from fail attempts at love to family problems of some sort. A.C. also mentions that this book of poems is a reminder to those that think misfortune doesn't birth opportunity. "Out of the ashes, rises the Phoenix."

If not ME, Then WHO? Practice Confidence, Stumbling Upon Happiness and Manifesting Unconditional Love! All while Feeling Beautiful!If you have ever been at a turning point in your life or career, then you can relate to this!If you have ever been in a place where you felt so different, so alone…as if no one looked like you or could relate to you…this is for you!Join us, as we give you so personal quick hits from an ASSURED perspective that will allow...

There are things that a child endures that scars them, and then there are things that change them. Growing up it wasn't easy I went through a lot of terrifying things. Eventually I made some changes within myself. From a young child who was getting abused to a teenager who was getting abused to a woman who lost her only true love. The pain and the problems just never seemed to stop. Still she was the realist person, loving and so humble.

Don't let life's unintended drama sink your ship. Be always on point and never give someone the upper hand to manipulate you into doing something you don't approve of. Don't let issues into your circle and cloud your judgment. Continue your journey knowing you will achieve your goals in life…with as little stress as possible. And believe in God, knowing you'll be scarred though.Don't let life's unintended drama sink your ship. Be always on point and never give someone the upper hand to man...

Robert Alfred Taylor Jr. is a hard working African American male who noticed that there is a serious problem with relationships and the African American male. Robert was born in Kansas City, Mo. And has traveled throughout the United States. Along his travels he has learned that the problem with relationships is a universal problem that is not only growing in the African American Communities, but others as well. Robert intends to help those in need of building better relationships in all c...