Use Your Contacts as the Building Blocks to Success"The 'Golden Rules' for developing a continuous chain of high-quality referrals for any product in any business."—Brian Tracy, bestselling author of The Psychology of Selling"This easy-to-use, practical guide will dramatically increase your referral stream."—Jon Voegele, Regional Vice President of Agency, COUNTRY Financial"Matt Anderson has wr...

Most people do not have a big knowing problem, they have a big consistent doing problem. Whether you are new on your journey or have been trying to change and grow all your life, "The 5 Habits to Mine Your Gold" addresses how to move through your obstacles to a clear process full of practical action steps, habits, and mindset shifts. In this book, international business coach Matt Anderson lays out how you can address the obstinate and imposing obstacle (YOU!) with an achievable, customiza...

Drawing upon the horrors and grim fantasies of contemporary weird fiction authors as well as folklore and history, Matt Anderson offers his first collection of short stories. This collection contains fifteen nightmares, fantasies, and tragedies set entirely in Minnesota. These stories take the reader through the seasons, through the decades, and through the ever-watchful woods on an expedition of unsettling discoveries and horrific revelations.

Social medicine, starting two centuries ago, has shown that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does, and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. Understanding and exposing sickness-generating structures in society helps us change them.This first book providing a critical introduction to social medicine sheds light on an increasingly important field. The authors draw on examples worldwide to show how principle...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Asteroid City and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection seriesAsteroid City—the eleventh feature film from Academy Award–winning director Wes Anderson—follows a group of teen geniuses and their families as they attend the 1955 Junior Stargazers convention in the eponymous dusty hamlet.The events of the film, a representation of a fictional play, also titled Asteroid Cit...

Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his films—Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom—instantly recognizable as “Andersonian.” The...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, Matt Anderson's Shotgunned is a relatable and intimate piece of theatre about how the people we lose can shape who we become.Telling the story of Dylan and Roz – a couple who unexpectedly fall out of love – Shotgunned takes the audience on a non-linear journey through their relationship in a collection of fragmented scenes, like photographs in a shoebox or memories of a bygone age.Shotgunned is a poignant ...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection seriesThe French Dispatch—the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes Anderson—is a love letter to journalists set at the titular American newspaper in the fictional 20th-century French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The film stars a number of Anderson's frequent collaborators, including Bill Murray as the newspaper's edit...

This book, part of the New York Times bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection series, takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar®-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz.Introduction by award-winning playwright Anne WashburnLearn all about the film’s conception, hear personal anecdotes from the set, and explore th...

Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies explores and puts into dialogue two growing field of studies, comic studies and critical animal studies. The book’s aim is to create a form of praxis that people can use to actualize many of the values superheroes strive to protect. To this end, contributor chapters are divided into sections on the foundation of superhero representation and how to teach it, criticisms of particular superheroes and how they fall short of truly protecting the planet, a...

Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered teaching and learning for faculty and students alike. The increased prevalence of video-conferencing software for conducting classes fundamentally changed the way in which we teach and seemingly upended many best practices for good pedagogy in the college classroom. Whether it was the reflection over surveillance software, or the increased mental health demands of the pandemic on teachers and stu...