7/8/2023 0 Comments Go kiss the world![]() He seeks to inspire, motivate, and energize young professionals to live extraordinary lives instead of mere, mundane existences. His strong principles and moral values took him from the humblest of beginnings to the highest of achievements.In the book, he intersperses personal anecdotes with simple nuggets of wisdom that have played very important roles in his own life. ![]() He became used to learning from quite unusual sources. His family values bred in him a sense of simplicity, awe, and contentment. ![]() Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons For the Young Professional, aimed at young Indian professionals, is an inspiring message from a highly successful Indian entrepreneur, Subroto Bagchi.Summary Of The BookGo Kiss The World: Life Lessons For the Young Professional is a memoir of sorts written by Subroto Bagchi, a noted Indian entrepreneur.The title of the book refers to the last words uttered by Bagchis mother just before her death.Bagchi took his mothers words to heart and modeled his life accordingly.Bagchi narrates his story, right from his birth and upbringing in a small town in rural Orissa. ![]() Read the best book at the best price!! With you get the widest and most up-to-date collection of books that made it to the most prestigious national as well as international bestseller lists. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Impostor by Susanne Winnacker![]() ![]() manages to walk the tricky line between fun and suspenseful. reminiscent of a Stephen King novel.' VOYA 'Fun and suspenseful.' Marissa Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of CINDER ![]() ![]() As Madison, she finds friends, romance, and the kind of loving family she'd do anything to keep.Īmid action, suspense, and a ticking clock, this super-human comes to a very human conclusion: even a girl who can look like anyone struggles the most with being herself. Tessa hates everything about being an impostor - the stress, the danger, the deceit - but loves playing the role of a normal girl. When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, Tessa is given a mission: she must impersonate Madison, a local teen, to find the killer before he strikes again. There she trains with other Variants, such as long-term crush Alec, who each have their own extraordinary ability. Shunned by her family, she's spent the last two years with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. Tessa is a Variant, able to absorb the DNA of anyone she touches and mimic their appearance. She could be a hero, but all she wants to be is a normal teenage girl. Tessa is a Variant with extraordinary abilities. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Loki daniel kibblesmith![]() Pick it up from a local comic shop near you, via mail order, or digitally here. ![]() Meanwhile, could Thor be hatching a mischievous plot of his own? Now the God of Mischief/Stories/Evil/Chaos has to outsmart the cleverest man on Earth - or die (again) trying. Restless with his new duties, Loki seeks out the advice of the closest thing Midgard has to a king - Tony Stark, the invincible Iron Man! Close enough, right? But it turns out that Shellhead isn't too happy to see Loki on account of all that stuff he did in the past. He was most recently a writer for Netflix Animation’s Inside Job (2021) and unannounced for Netflix, and a former staff-writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS, 2015 - 2020), as well as the writer of Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee (ABC, 2019). But now Loki has a whole new set of responsibilities - and his brother Thor isn't about to let him walk away from them. Loki (2019) 3 WELCOME TO HIS NIGHTMARE The nefarious NIGHTMARE has come to Earth, and only Loki, The God of Nothing, can stop him from trapping all of New York City into the Nightmare Dimension But first, he’ll need to strike a bargain with a new and powerful force that will change the Marvel Universe forever. Daniel Kibblesmith is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and author from Oak Park, Illinois. Loki is - Earth's Mightiest Hero?! After dying a grisly death in WAR OF THE REALMS, the reborn Trickster learned a valuable lesson in warmongering: Don't get caught. ![]() ![]() Collects Loki (2019) #1-5, material from War of the Realms: Omega (2019) #1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trudier Harris Intercollegiate Black History Scholar Bowl.” The inaugural competition, among five universities in Alabama, was held in February of 2021.įor all the scholarly endeavors, I remain an avid sports fan. In 2021, I was honored when the Black Faculty and Staff Association at the University of Alabama established the “Dr. Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing (my memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, was a key factor in that Award). In 2018, I received the SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Alabama (“Professor of the Year”) as well as the Clarence E. ![]() After leaving UNC and after becoming incredibly bored with retirement, I joined the faculty at the University of Alabama, where I served as University Distinguished Research Professor of English until I retired for the second time in February of 2022. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Kornher stace![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A girl wearing that same expression is dismissed as overbearing and hostile. A dude with a permanent scowl gets a fascinating backstory headcanoned onto him fast enough to break the sound barrier. A loner dude is fascinating and mysterious. What really struck me about it, though, was that some of these same girls reacted very, very differently to guys with the same traits. In hindsight I think the “some reason” had a lot to do with the fact that I’ve always been a loner and I’ve always had what people refer to as “a presence,” which I translate as: I’m kind of on the tall side and I have legendary resting bitchface. I assumed you were a huge bitch for some reason.” And I’d kind of mumble something noncommittal and go back to whatever I was doing, because what do you say to that? Thanks, I guess? Out of the blue they’d say something to me like “Wow, you’re actually really nice. When I was in high school, I had the same weird conversation several times with different girls in my classes. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Love and other disasters novel![]() ![]() ![]() Still, she's focused on winning, until she meets someone she might want a future with more than she needs the prize money.Īfter announcing their pronouns on national television, London Parker has enough on their mind without worrying about the klutzy competitor stationed in front of them. ![]() Too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying-not quite the fresh start she was hoping for. Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef’s Special. The first openly nonbinary contestant on America’s favorite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this delicious romantic comedy debut “that is both fantastically fun and crack your heart wide open vulnerable.” (Rosie Danan, author of The Roommate) ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The obesity code fung![]() He continued his investigative medical writing in The Diabetes Code (2018) and The Cancer Code (2020). Today, Fung is recognized as an expert on fasting and obesity. The Obesity Code, published in 2016, received positive reviews and has been called one of the most comprehensive treatments of obesity yet written. After witnessing diabetes patients gain weight from insulin treatment, he began to explore type 2 diabetes and obesity, two conditions that often lead to kidney disease. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Lossįung is a Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist) and head of the Intensive Dietary Management Program in Toronto. ![]() Fung presents a new theory, arguing that obesity is a hormonal problem that causes overeating and weight gain, rather than a problem of willpower or self-control.īelow is a brief overview of The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung. In his book The Obesity Code, Jason Fung argues that for decades, we’ve misunderstood obesity and, as a result, have consistently failed in our efforts to curb its spread. ![]() What is Jason Fung’s The Obesity Code about? What is the key message to take away from the book? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Obesity Code" by Jason Fung. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Included in this chapter is a discussion of some of the elements Luther retained from the Roman liturgy and some of those elements which he discarded or changed, namely those elements which relate to the use of music in the liturgy. Because this mass setting resulted from the reform movement of Martin Luther, Chapter Two addresses the role of the mass in the Lutheran liturgy. ![]() Chapter One presents a survey of Telemann’s life and career, church music, and historical reception, both in his day and to the present. This setting is one of five in a manuscript collection in the library of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Royal Conservatory, Brussels). Presented here is a performing edition of one of Telemann’s missae breves based on the Lutheran chorale melody Christ lag in Todesbanden. Though many of Telemann’s works were published by him, many are today assumed lost or remain unknown. In his lifetime, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was one of Germany’s, if not Europe’s, most famous and most prolific composers. The purpose of the treatise is to provide a modern edition of one of Telemann's “Lutheran masses” and a discussion of the work in its historical, stylistic, and liturgical context. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Big data brian clegg![]() While a majority of his work focuses on physics- and maths-based topics, he has also covered the impact of science on everyday life. As well as contributing to newspapers and magazines, he has written over twenty science books including A Brief History of Infinity (Constable and Robinson, 2003) and Dice World (Icon Books, 2013), both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for science books. In 2001 writing became a full time activity as Brian moved into science writing, inspired by his degree in natural sciences. His magazine work continued while he branched out into business books covering business creativity and customer service with titles including Imagination Engineering (Pitman Publishing, 1996) and Capturing Customers’ Hearts (FT Prentice Hall, 2000). He began writing professionally for computing magazines in the 1990s, providing features and reviews before becoming a columnist for Personal Computer World. ![]() Brian Clegg is an award-winning popular science writer. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Death in her hands![]() ![]() I’d be renewed, reborn,” says the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, with uncharacteristic sincerity). Yet there can be something ennobling, even liberating, about their isolation (“I knew in my heart… that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. Her characters are oddballs – alcoholics, pill-poppers, twentysomething virgins – swimming and drowning in self-loathing, even as they cast a pitiless eye over the people around them. From her earliest stories, through her novella McGlue to her novels Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a tale of self-isolation before it was cool), her preoccupations have always been clear and unapologetic. Moshfegh is one of the most original and astute young novelists working today. ![]() "Loneliness clarifies,” said Philip Larkin, whose similarities with the American writer Ottessa Moshfegh are not otherwise obvious. ![]() |