"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--

Holding the Calm is a practical and immediately useful guide that meticulously lays out twenty concrete, easy-to-use tools for defusing tension, settling cases, resolving disputes, and rechanneling arguments. How do you stop conflict? Settle disputes? Handle someone who is yelling at you, crying, or just won't speak? How do you find a solution when a solution seems impossible? Holding the Calm shares the secrets that enable everyone to avoid, minimize,...

Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...

Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...

This report finds that the decline in the tea sector in Mauritius is the result of uncoordinated institutional actions, the absence of comprehensive policy and national strategies, weak legislation and regulatory framework. The decline can be attributed to the low level of technology adoption, lack of organizational innovation in the business model, lack of action plans and strategies to navigate the declining global price of tea, rising costs of...

The CEO of the Happiness Institute explores how we can learn to create happy memories and do better at holding onto them.

An "utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing" book on the origins of the world's oldest known system of writing (American Journal of Archaeology). One of American Scientist's Top 100 Books on Science, 2001 In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat...

A handy compilation of arguments and 20 questions to confront a muslim and expose the hypocrisy and the violence of islam. Those who are not expert in islam will find irrefutable facts to permanently rebuff all claims that islam is a religion of peace. Muslims will lie to their teeth to push their agenda, here is a test of 20 questions to expose the true face of a muslim and how he cannot be trusted.

This is Book II, Patriotism and Politics, of three books in the Real Advocacy Journalism® series. Book I focused on Ethics and Values. Book III will address Justice and Equality. Book I has received great editorial reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Reviews, and Chanticleer International Book Reviews and more. It also won the Silver Award from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. I have been an advocate journalist for the past...

A atuação como primeiro-ministro da Grã-Bretanha durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial fez Winston Churchill (1874-1965) ser reconhecido como o mais importante estadista do século XX, um dos gigantes da liberdade no mundo Ocidental. E porque atualmente a nossa civilização vive uma fase delicada com diversas ameaças à liberdade, o exemplo deste grande herói volta a ser recuperado em filmes, em seriados e em livros. Churchill e a Ciência Por Trás...