![]() ![]() ![]() Focusing on the power of nonverbal behavior, prejudice and stereotyping, the delicate balance of trustworthiness and strength, and the ways in which people can affect their own thoughts, feelings, performance, and psychological and physical well-being, she writes and speaks about how we can become more present, influential, compassionate, and satisfied in our professional and personal lives. Cuddy’s 2012 TED Talk, “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are,” named by The Guardian as ‘One of 20 Online Talks that Could Change Your Life’, has been viewed more than 49 million times and is the second-most-viewed TED talk. As described in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “ Presence feels at once concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious–above all, truly powerful.” Amazon selected Presence as the monthly spotlight pick among its ‘Best Books of December 2015’. Cuddy’s book Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges (Little, Brown, & Co., 2015), is a New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, and Globe & Mail bestseller and has been published in 34 languages. Cuddy earned her PhD from Princeton University and has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Amy Cuddy is an expert on the behavioral science of power, presence, and prejudice. Social psychologist, bestselling author, and award-winning professor Dr. ![]()
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![]() Last month, a blockbuster investigation by the New York Times detailed Facebook’s stumbles amid an onslaught of crises, including Sandberg’s efforts to distract from the fact that Russians were using the platform to try to influence the 2016 presidential election. But in the waning weeks of 2018 – a year in which Facebook was besieged by high-profile scandals, and the #MeToo movement continued to train attention on the barriers facing working women – the potency of Sandberg’s individualistic, motivational mantra has fully eroded. Sandberg’s brand of self-empowerment feminism has endured waves of criticism ever since her 2013 bestselling book, “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” became a cultural phenomenon. The “Lean In” movement launched by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is officially over. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as the survivors slowly heal, find shelter, and rebuild, they will discover that another conspirator is lying in wait-and this time, there might be nowhere safe to hide. ![]() Add in books, housing, food, and you had to work weekends at the mall. ![]() And college included this little detail they called tuition. He wasn’t crazy about working in the mall either, but he wanted to go back to college in the fall. But one person wasn't satisfied with the shockingly high death toll at the DownEast Mall. Nora Roberts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels and there are 300 million copies of her books in print. Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts Reed Quartermaine hated working weekends. Another would close herself off, trying to bury the memory of huddling in a ladies' room, helplessly clutching her cell phone-until she finally found a way to pour her emotions into her art. In the years that followed, one would dedicate himself to a law enforcement career. But for those who lived through it, the effects would last forever. The chaos and carnage lasted only eight minutes before the killers were taken down. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at video game store tended to customers. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. ![]() It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018) - a powerful tale of heart, heroism.and propulsive suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() Skip parts that I’m struggling with and come back to them later. Even working from a full outline, I can’t write scenes out of order, or ![]() (sorry!) but I’d say my most significant quirk as a writer is that I have to write every manuscript from theīeginning straight through to end-and I cannot let anyone see it until it’sĭone. What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk? If I haven’t reached my quotaĪfter about six hours, though, I take it as a sign that I need to quit for the Stress levels, creativity flow, and so forth. Goal, and how long it takes me to reach that depends on my concentration, ![]() On a typical day, how much time do you spend writing?ĭiffers, but usually around four to six hours! I try to set a daily word count Only Caleb Roehrig could refresh the vampire trope with a LGBTQ-themed mystery that is both romantic and thrilling. An ancient and terrible power is returning to the earthly realm, and somehow Auggie seems to be the only one who can stop it. And when a mysterious (and annoyingly hot) vampire boy arrives with a cryptic warning, Auggie suddenly finds himself at the center of it. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights is practically an electromagnet for supernatural drama. ![]() The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. What’s a boy to do-in this YA paranormal romance-when his crush is a hot vampire with a mystery to solve? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With all good wishes Bertram Rota, June 6th 1941.” Bertram Rota began selling books in 1923 and was essentially the first bookseller to specialize in modern first editions. After being stored nearby, and escaping more bombs, it returned to the resurrected bookshop and now leaves Bodley House to find sanctuary in friendly hands in a luckier land. ![]() This copy survived fire and water when so many of its fellows were destroyed by Nazi barbarism at Bodley House in October 1940. Jackson’s copy of my boyhood’s favorite book. Inscribed by Bertram Rota, the owner of the Bodley House bookstore in London, “S.W. Octavo, original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902.įirst edition, first issue of Kipling’s classic collection of stories, illustrated with 22 plates designed by Kipling himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have loved the main character, Helen Munson, since the beginning, and there have been several times during the process I thought the novel was ready for publication. Still, Raintree Writers, seven members strong, continues–and one of our current members is the instructor from that original novel writing class.īobbing for Watermelons is April’s first novel, so I was part of the group that critiqued her early drafts. Members have come and gone over the years, and now April and I are the only ones left from the original group. April was one of the group’s founders, and I joined, too. When the class was over, several of the students decided to start a critique group to keep us motivated. ![]() April and I were students in a novel writing class way, way back in winter of 2003. Here’s a little more from my own point of view. Moore was my guest blogger with “ The Power of Persistence.” In that post, she talks about the journey of writing Bobbing for Watermelons, a novel of women’s fiction, and how long it took before she knew she had it right. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Horrocks also contributed to the Political cartoon, Better Luck Next Century (Top Shelf, 2001). 1 & 2, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics, 1997, 2000) Comix 2000 (L’Association, 2000) 9-11: Artists Respond (Dark Horse, 2001) Bizarro Comics, edited by Joey Cavalieri (DC Comics, 2000) Bizarro World, edited by Joey Cavalieri (DC Comics, 2004) Little Nemo 1905-2005: Un Siècle de Rêves, edited by Benoît Peeters (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2005), and Les Belles Étrangères : Douze Écrivains Néo-Zélandais (Sabine Wespieser, 2006). Horrocks has contributed to anthologies Dirty Stories, vol. He is married to youth health researcher Dr Terry Fleming and they have two children. He attended Green Bay High School and received his tertiary qualifications from the University of Auckland. He was born in Auckland, and has lived there most of his life, except for a few years in London, and short periods in the USA and Bougainville when he was a child. Horrocks, Dylan (1966 – ) is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator. ![]() ![]() Why? Because he writes some of the most interesting, complex, flawed, and fiercely intelligent female characters of any author out there. ![]() Space operas aren’t my typical genre of choice, but I’m happy Max Gladstone lured me with this one. ![]() Leah Rachel von Essen Empress of Forever by Max Gladstoneįormidable woman staring out at you from underneath a giant, horned emerald space helmet? Please tell me more. Her first choice for artist, Noah Saterstrom, delivered the art that would become this gorgeous, richly colored cover. She didn’t want a house-she wanted that to exist in the reader’s imagination-but she thought it would be wonderful to have it feature the portrait of 9-year-old protagonist Maeve, an object that is important within the novel. She said: “Book jackets are like your birthday.” A week before, you insist you don’t know what you want to a friend and say you don’t want anything, “and when that person gives you nothing, and you go to bed on your birthday hurt and bitter, it’s only your own fault.” So she fought for her version of the cover. ![]() I saw Patchett speak in Chicago shortly after her new novel’s release. Susie Dumond The Dutch House by Ann Patchett ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a full-page picture of the most extraordinary creature that I had ever seen. I turned it over, and gave an exclamation of surprise. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye." ~ The Lost World ![]() ![]() I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named. You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it. "Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me." ~ The Lost World But who-who in all this wide world could ever have imagined the incredible shape which that deed was to take, or the strange steps by which I was led to the doing of it? ~ The Lost World ~ The Lost WorldĪnd so it was that I found myself that foggy November evening pursuing the Camberwell tram with my heart glowing within me, and with the eager determination that not another day should elapse before I should find some deed which was worthy of my lady. Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand. My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. ![]() ![]() Little does she realize that her delightful new friendship with inventor Charles Babbage-brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly-will shape her destiny. ![]() When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Any troubling spark of imagination-or worse yet, passion or poetry-is promptly extinguished. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. ![]() The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace-Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung. ![]() |