![]() ![]() He previously worked at Proctor & Gamble. ![]() Josh Kaufman is an acclaimed blogger and consultant who helps people improve their business skills. (Ben Casnocha, author of "My Start-Up Life"). It's rare to find complicated concepts explained with such clarity. "Josh Kaufman has synthesized the most important topics in business into a book that truly lives up to its title. Well on its way to becoming a business classic.You're pretty much guaranteed to get your money's worth - if not much, much more". (Seth Godin, author of "Purple Cow" and "Linchpin"). From the basics of products, sales & marketing and finance to the nuances of human psychology, teamwork and creating systems, this book distils everything you need to know to take on the MBA graduates and win. "The Personal MBA" teaches simple mental models for every subject that's key to commercial success. Feted by everyone from the business media to Seth Godin and David Allen, he's torn up the rulebook and given thousands of people worldwide the tools to teach themselves everything they need to know. Josh Kaufman is the rogue professor of modern business education. ![]() And if you don't want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are it simply isn't worth it. An MBA at a top school is an enormous investment in time, effort and cold, hard cash. This revised and expanded edition of the bestselling book, "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman, gives you everything you need to transform your business, your career or your working life forever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lightly butter an 8 inch square baking dish.Return to large bowl and add dried fruit.Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.Spread mixture evenly on a large rimmed baking sheet.Drizzle honey mixture over oat mixture.In a large bowl, combine oats, almonds, and a pinch of salt.In a small saucepan, heat ¼ cup honey & butter over low.⅓ cup creamy almond or other nut butter.unsalted butter, plus more for the baking dish Serve in a cocktail glass with your choice of ice cream toppings.In a blender, combine Creme de Almond, Creme de Cacao, ice cream, and half of the ice.½ cup Creme de Almond (or Creme de Noyaux).We also had homemade granola bars click here for the recipes. Our cocktail for this episode is a Frozen Pink Squirrel. To read the full transcript of this episode, click here: Jennie and Marcy discuss the Newbery medal winner from 2014, Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. (see also: our interview with the illustrator) Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This fascinating early response to the Father Tim stories shows that from the very start, Karon succeeded at inventing a place readers wanted to inhabit. Karon’s early files on the first novel show us that as she worked on the first Mitford novel, external feedback was valuable and productive. Built mostly by Karon, with several contributions by others, Mitford has spread to a cookbook, bedside reader, quotation collections, a devotional manual, a play and television film, and even The Mitford Museum. Drawing from the practical and creative wells cultivated in her advertising work, as well as from her experiences of growing up in and returning to the South, Karon began building Mitford from the earliest stories forward, resulting in a world that extends today well beyond the novels. ![]() After leaving her job in advertising in the late 1980s to pursue a career as an author, Karon struggled to realize a story that would communicate her view of the world to her audience until, one night, a vision of an Episcopal priest and his homely town unfolded in her mind, and Father Tim Kavanagh and Mitford materialized.įrom Middle Earth to Hogwarts, the world that an author creates is a vital element of popular genre fiction, but Karon’s Mitford proves that effective “worldbuilding” does not require magic and monsters to inspire the loyalty of readers. The story goes that Mitford came to Jan Karon in a dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Coloring the News" is an impressively documented and provocative book about how a journalism slanted by good intentions has allowed a narrow multicultural orthodoxy to restrict debate just at the point when information about America's changing national identity needs to be robust, knowledgeable and honest. Along the way, he dissects the way the press "mis-told" key stories involving figures like Kara Hultgren (the Navy fighter pilot who died after missing a carrier landing), Kelly Flinn (the Air Force officer cashiered for an affair with a married man) and Patrick Chavis (the black physician who was once a poster boy for affirmative action and then had his license taken away because of medical incompetence). Focusing on coverage of the "diversity issues" of immigration, race, gay rights, feminism and affirmative action, McGowan gives a fascinating analysis of what stories get reported and how. There are 200+ professionals named 'Bill Mcgowan', who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. William McGowan opens the door to the newsrooms at "USA Today," the "New York Times," the "Washington Post" and other pillars of the "mainstream press" in this carefully researched investigation of how the quest for "diversity" has affected American journalism. View the profiles of professionals named 'Bill Mcgowan' on LinkedIn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells-from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books-using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells-the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain-few of us understand how and why we smell. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Presented in partnership with Illinois Science CouncilĪbout the book: Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. She will be in joined in discussion by Christopher Kemp. ![]() Join us for a conversation with Jude Stewart on her book, Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell. " - Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs "The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the matre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory-and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chicago is div ided equally into black, white, and Latino, each group clustered in their various turfs. Though other cities including Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Baltimore can fight over that mantle, it's clear that segregation defines Chicago. The Manhattan Institute dubs Chicago as one of the most segregated big cities in the country. Yet, swept under the rug is the stench of segregation that compromises Chicago. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have touted and promoted Chicago as a "world class city." The skyscrapers kissing the clouds, the billiondollar Millennium Park, Michelinrated restaurants, pristine lake views, fabulous shopping, vibrant theater scene, downtown flower beds and stellar architecture tell one story. The South Side Author Talk with Natalie Moore RSVP on Facebook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An afterword includes a discussion of the evolution of voting rights and women's rights since 1920, including the efforts to pass an equal rights amendment. The book explains how support for women's suffrage grew, leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1919, and the battle to get it ratified by three-fourths of the nation's 48 states. It details and illustrates the political lobbying and public protests organized by women's groups led by suffragists like Alice Paul and the backlash against these efforts, including intimidation, imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding of prisoners. The book starts with basic history on the struggle for women's rights, other groups' battles for the vote, and background on the 19th-century women's suffrage movement before focusing on the ultimately successful 20th century efforts to enfranchise women. Over the course of seven compelling, fact-filled chapters-"Parade," "Rights," "Momentum," "Protest," "Prison," "Action," and "Victory"-the story of a brave struggle unfolds, showing how women used the democratic system that excluded them in order to become full voting citizens of their nation. The photo-illustrated history With Courage and Cloth tells the story of how women fought for and won the right to vote in the United States. ![]() ![]() It touches on the creative spirit and all that comes with sharing that gift, and how oftentimes the comedians in our lives are the most sensitive, or struggling. ![]() ![]() When helping her includes taking those barriers down, all those funny feelings start coming out into the open, and it quickly begins to feel like anything but a joke.įunny Feelings is a swoony story about friendship, love, and looking for the laugh in life. ![]() This is the only reason why, when the biggest opportunity of Farley’s career includes thrusting him back into the spotlight to stir up publicity, he agrees- despite his grumpiness, his protectiveness over Hazel, and his disdain for public attention. So, all joking aside, the stakes really are high when it’s not only her career, but both of those relationships on the line.Ī former stand-up star himself, Meyer has helped the trajectory of her career take off since he began managing her… Since he became her closest and most treasured friend, in the process. Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three years ago. Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true. ![]() ![]() She grows worried when Winston calls her one day and seems depressed, and a few months later he dies by suicide beneath the mulberry tree. Mimi attends college and studies engineering. They have three daughters: Mimi, Carmen, and Amelia. He and his wife Charlotte plant a mulberry tree at their home in Illinois. Sih Hsuin moves to America, changes his name to Winston Ma, and gets married. Before he leaves, his father gives him their family’s treasures: three jade rings carved like trees, and an ancient scroll portraying Buddhist adepts. ![]() The narrative then shifts to China, where Ma Sih Hsuin is preparing to move to America to attend engineering school. When he returns the next morning, he finds his family dead, killed by a gas leak. Visiting the family farm for Christmas one year, Nick is stranded on the road by a snowstorm. This ritual lasts for generations, up to the latest Hoel, an art student named Nicholas. ![]() Jørgen’s son buys a camera and begins taking a photo of the chestnut tree once a month. One seedling survives and grows massive, even as a blight wipes out most of the country’s other chestnuts. The first part begins in the mid-1800s, following the Hoel family as Jørgen Hoel brings six chestnuts from New York and plants them at his new home in Iowa. The Overstory introduces each of its nine main characters with their own section. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet her contrarian instincts are better at challenging assumptions about biblical and American values than in diagnosing more terrestrial problems. ![]() New Atheists like Sam Harris and medieval nostalgists like Rick Santorum would each find occasions for garment-rending in this collection. Through rigorous citation and deep personal reflection, Robinson builds an excellent case. “When I Was A Child” is a broadside defense of literature and classical liberalism that demands we include the unfashionable Old Testament as a foundation of both. Yet it grants a central argument of many religious conservatives - that America’s virtues are indeed steeped in biblical thought. Her new essay collection, “When I Was a Child I Read Books,” is - despite the sentimentality of its title - fundamentally a leftist political manifesto and lament for America’s loss of faith in government. Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today’s political alignment. ![]() |