The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength
It is estimated that as many as 40 percent of executives are introverted to at least some extent. Based on conversations with over 100 of these men and women, Kahnweiler lays out a progressive four-step strategy for succeeding in an extroverted world. First, preparation: carefully devise a game plan for any potentially anxiety producing situation. Then presence: knowing that you’re prepared, be completely focused on the present moment or activity.
This 1929 novel served as Remarque's attempt to confront and ultimately rid himself of the graphic and haunting memories of his time serving in World War I. A novel with autobiographical overtones, "All Quiet on the Western Front" traces the evolution of one man's powerful antiwar sentiments. This new title in the "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations" series features a fresh selection of full-length critical essays, in addition to a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an introduction by esteemed scholar Harold Bloom.
From “Musical Chairs” to “Hide and Seek,” there are 68 musical as well as non-musical games included in this amazing collection. Singing and circle games, team and tag games, follow the leader and playground games, rhythmic and quiet games---they’re all truly fun and kids love them. This is a collection to keep on hand for family games, kids’ parties, classroom events, or just riding in the car.
Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not Authors: Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert Narrated by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert Russell Hokes was recently fired from his job painting center lines on interstates and is now free to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Instead of drawing long white lines on asphalt, he'll draw much shorter ones on paper, with loops and curls. Having told his clueless publisher he wants to write about the quiet dignity of the American Small Town, Hokes hits the road for Wigfield. Wigfield is a town in danger. A bucolic hideaway built directly in front of a massive dam, it will soon be flooded when the dam is demolished by the state government to restore the salmon run. The only hope for the neither quiet nor dignified town is a self-righteous, self-aggrandizing, self-involved so-called "journalist": Hokes.
This most famous German anti-war novel was publicly denounced by the Nazis. It tells the story of six German youths and their grim experiences in the trenches during World War I.
