Susan: 10531 books

“Kindness is exactly what we need in our fractured world right now—it provides the simplest path to healing.” A single act of kindness, whether to a friend or a stranger, can become a spool of generosity that unwinds and touches the lives of so many. . . From Woman’s Day Editor-in-Chief...

Sparkling and sophisticated, this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking debut novel tells the story of a very messy, very high-profile divorce and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it.   Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate...

A professor emeritus of business at Stanford University has found only one consistently common trait among successful MBA graduates - great conversation skills. With this book, Susan Roane shows how to improve conversation skills for business.

除了本業，你還擁有什麼？ 除了職稱，你還有沒有比名片更亮眼的故事？ 席捲全球新風潮！ 不是迫於生存，而是不甘平庸！ 斜／槓／青／年──Slash是一種生活態度！ 共享經濟時代，越來越多人不再滿足於單一職業和身分的束縛，開始選擇一種能夠利用自身專業和才藝，經營多重身分的多職人生。這些人都擁有一個共同的名字：斜槓青年／Slash。 對於一個斜槓青年最重要的是： 不是身兼很多種賺錢的方式，而是擁有許多真正熱愛的事物。 透過不同管道，讓你的才華和機會超／展／開！ 斜槓青年並不浪漫，但可能精采。 他們投資的不是財富，而是自己人生的故事──── 一邊做設計同時開書店、從事攝影也是健身教練、寫程式邊做Youtuber…… 如今全球斜槓青年的故事已越堆越厚，如果你還未上路，那你該緊張了。 未必要辭職去旅行， 拋棄麵包追逐詩與遠方。 但是你該捫心自問， 除了一份安穩的工作，你還會什麼？ 如果世界是精采的， 當你delete人生的其他選擇，自然就沒得選擇。 你要做一隻在猴群裡爬樹的魚？還是也同時痛快地游水！ 讓現在的業餘愛好，成為你未來謀生的手段！ 從今以後，按自己的方式生活！ ★好評推薦★ 這個時代，大家都處於一種不斷變動的焦慮，過去的一招半式闖江湖，一份工作做到底，已經過去了。 現在的經驗法則，就是沒有法則，必須依靠探索和嘗試來瞭解這個「沒有模式的時代」的新規則。 作者這本書以他自身的觀察出發，提供在生活之樂中找到生存之道的思考與路徑，適合仍在理想及麵包兩端心理交戰、期望有所不同的朋友閱讀。——前公務員／《公門菜鳥飛》作者／生態保育NGO／政治工作者...

In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living up to its declared aims. This case study of Quakers in the United Kingdom closely examines the challenge...

Susan Snow Lukesh takes a mid-nineteenth century photo album from New Bedford, Massachusetts, created against a backdrop of the Civil War, and moves the people seemingly frozen in time backwards and forwards. The details of daily living, of the marrying, working, and dying of the individuals in the...

In 2003, Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of Israel. Nathan had arrived in Israel four years earlier and had taught English and worked with various progressive social organizations. Her desire to help build a just and humane society...

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the book also offers a rich resource of real life...

Maureen est aux anges : cette année, elle va organiser le spectacle de Noël d’Avalon, sa ville natale, où tout le monde la connaît et l’apprécie. Tandis que les premières neiges de décembre tombent sur le lac des Saules, elle met un point d’honneur à offrir aux habitants d’Avalon la...

In this heartwarming and celebrated Blackberry Island novel, New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery introduces us to three women whose friendship is about to change their lives forever. After Andi Gordon is jilted at the altar, she makes an impetuous decision—buying one of the famed...

Many women assume that abuse is always physical. But this is not always the case. Psychological, verbal and emotional abuse may not cause broken bones or black eyes, but when one person persistently inflicts sever mental pain on another by the use of fear, intimidation, humiliation and manipulation,...

Retirement is a life transition and a chance to thrive and enjoy life. This book encourages you to enjoy yourself and have an exciting and opportunity-filled retirement because retirement is not the end of the road it can be a new beginning. 

Anonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found and...

**Building the Future Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” That's what this book is about—innovation far more...