![]() The Heaths show how to embed your ideas in a narrative that is compelling and engaging, rather than depend solely on analytical persuasion. Don’t forget that last one among your bullet points. The Heaths maintain presenters should focus on the six things that make ideas stick – aptly summed up in the mnemonic SUCCES: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and story. This book delineates just how to package and present ideas so that they stick – they stay in your head and you actually act on them. We could have used this book back then, but no one had the nerve to state what is stated so eloquently here. A few hundred years ago I studied the history of ideas, which treated ideas as sacrosanct and objective in the extreme. This book is one of the first to deal with what one day soon will be an acknowledged academic subject: how information works in a world we recognize. Made to Stick is a useful primer for how to “pitch” an idea so that it sticks in the minds of its hearers. The brothers Heath know how important the pitch is. ![]() Does anyone still believe that there are efficient markets for ideas in organizations? Imagine a virtual meritocracy where ideas rise and fall purely on their own merits, regardless of how they are presented and who is pitching the idea. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gately states in his opening paragraph: "Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. It can't be wished away, as Americans above all should understand, having suffered through Prohibition and its appalling consequences.īetter, instead, to face the inescapable reality and try to understand the many ways in which, over the ages, we have used and abused it, profited and suffered from it, refined it and been changed by it. Those who take the occasional (or more than occasional) drink are likely to enjoy it more than those who do not, but a central theme should be of interest to all: like it or not, alcohol has been and always will be with us, an important part of human history, culture and society. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol is thorough, informative, briskly readable and witty. ![]() Iain Gately, a British writer who six years ago published Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilisation, now turns his attention to booze, a subject of similar character but considerably larger import. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol, by Iain Gately. ![]() ![]() ![]() He leaned against the balustrade, propped an elbow on top of it, and turned his gaze to the scattered lights that caused the hills to sparkle. Garreth rose from the bed, dressed for the day, and wandered outside his bedroom doors to the connecting veranda. ![]() Llys y Gwalch must find a way to attain the heart of his soul mate and keep her safe from the dangers that threaten them both. Instead, he finds himself falling in love for the first time in his very long life. Garreth didn’t plan for Essie to stay any longer than it took her to decipher the pictograph. ![]() Real legends, and real magic, that have devastating consequences. She doesn’t plan to fall for the Lord of the castle, or to find herself deeply entrenched in legends, myths, and magic. Essie DeSpencer travels to an ancient Welsh castle in order to decipher an Ogham inscription discovered by the handsome and enigmatic, Garreth ap Daffyd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tribane is inhabited by vampires, dhamphirs, slayers, witches and warlocks. She is not entirely sure why this beautiful man is so interested in her, but she has a feeling there is something not quite right about him.Īs she falls deeper into Ethan’s world, Tegan makes some shocking discoveries about who she really is, and finally uncovers the true face of her home city. On her very first night outdoors, Tegan joins her friends at the Crimson club where she draws the attention of the mysterious owner, Ethan Cristescu. ![]() Following her friend Nicky’s advice, she is now going to step outside and start her life over again. For over two months she has grieved and not left the confines of her apartment in Tribane city. Tegan wonders if it is possible to die of a broken heart. But her blood is going to get her into trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “But that’s also where creativity comes in. “The project is very open-ended, making it challenging for students to come up with ideas,” says Shelir Ebrahimi, a 1P13 class instructor. Students had the opportunity to meet with both Tim and Kim to hear about ways in which their day-to-day lives could be improved, and then worked in groups to find solutions. Tim and Kim with the 1P13 Showcase finalists and judges. His wife, Kim started having mobility issues after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. After losing most of his eyesight due to diabetes in his 20’s, Tim dedicated over 30 years to his career at Mac to making campus more accessible for people of all abilities. Tim Nolan was the former director of Student Accessibility Services at McMaster. This year, tasked with developing engineering solutions to daily struggles encountered by clients Tim Nolan and his wife Kim, students created new devices that made everyday tasks accessible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Clover also goes to great lengths on how gender and body identification is constantly in flux in horror films, especially within the slasher genre. This survivor becomes the main focus of the film and becomes the heroine when she saves herself like Sally in Texas Chainsaw Massacre or dispatches her killers like Stretch in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The final girl comes into play when all of the men fail to save the woman and she becomes the sole survivor. Clover states that, “the preferred weapons of the killers can be knives, hammers, ice picks, hypodermic needles, red hot pokers, pitchforks and the like.” These weapons, according to Clover, “are personal extensions of the body that bring attack and attacker into primitive, animalistic embrace.” With these sexually confused killers, their instruments of murder are most of the time phallic in nature, and the varieties of these tools are vast. ![]() The killers themselves often times have sexual confusion, such as Norman Bates in Psycho, the transvestite slasher in Dressed to Kill, and Chop Top and Leatherface In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In chapter one, entitled “Her Body, Himself”, Professor Clover introduces us to “The Final Girl” as most of the killer’s victims are women. Sandwiched between a foreword and an afterward are four chapters of insightful criticism of horror films. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also put my thoughts into this recap, as that is just what I have to do. NOPE! I want a soul-crushing finale like Harry Potter, that makes me cry from beginning to end and makes me kind of hate the author but respect them too. I got a copy of so much of Lord of the Rings, barely any death just some side characters Maas didn't care too much about and then every ship sailing and ending happily ever after. Sarah J Maas adds in so many unnecessary scenes and wastes countless pages on boring inner monologues that add nothing. Let me just say that this book didn't need to be 1,000 pages. While I am on my role for recaps, I may as well just add the final book now as I took notes whilst reading. Feel free to ignore all my salty notes, especially if you loved this book. ![]() Again, I do this mainly for me but updated them on the off chance they are useful to others. I did it as I was reading and added my thoughts as I went. First and foremost, I write these recaps for myself. ![]() ![]() She meets Devlin! A protector, warden, and watcher of the night. She falls asleep every night and wakes up in a world covered in shooting stars, where she can imagine anything and it come true. Imagine one day being struck by lightning and your whole world turning upside down. Molly a normal hard working girl by day and badass savour by night. Seduced by the possibilities of this gift, Molly shifts her attention from waking life toward the man, the magic, and the world found in her dreams.īut Molly must ask herself-does something truly exist if you only see it when you close your eyes?įaced with the threat of losing everything-her job, best friend, boyfriend, and most importantly, that little thing called her sanity-Molly will learn just how far she’ll go to uncover what is real and what is merely a figment of her imagination. There she meets the captivating but frustrating Dev, and together they discover Molly possesses a power coveted by his people-the ability to conjure almost anything she desires into existence. Whatever the culprit, her life quickly catapults from mundane to insane as, night after night, Molly is transported through her once dreamless sleep to a mysterious land illuminated by shooting stars. Being struck by lightning might have something to do with it, but then again, her chicken did look a little undercooked at dinner. Molly hasn’t slept well since the night of her twenty-fourth birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Justin, the victim of a fraternity prank, and Layne, the subject of a forced insemination, have produced a beautiful child that they are both willing to protect. Common Bond, Tangled Hearts By Chelle Cordero Layne Gillette’s world is turned upside down when a man she has never met shows up to lay claim as the father of her 6-year old son. Layne Gillette’s world is turned upside down when a man she has never met. ![]() Read "Common Bond, Tangled Hearts" by Chelle Cordero available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< _Common Bond Tangled Hearts by Chelle Cordero Ebook Epub PDF rjb ![]() ![]() Having risen from the dead with his abilities enhanced but his mind on the brink of madness, Richthofen has plans for victory that give no quarter to soldiers or civilians" - Cover versoĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:07:20 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40298314 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() But they are pitted against the most deadly enemy of all: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. With the help of a highly advanced British dirigible war machine to infiltrate enemy territory, the team faces incredible danger as it struggles to reach the prison camp and strike at the heart of the enemy. Burke assembles a team of disparate members, from his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, to big-game-hunter-turned-soldier Clayton Manning, who funds the mission for an opportunity to confront this most dangerous zombie game, to professor Dan Richards, one of Tesla's top men and the resident authority on all things supernatural. ![]() ![]() When the American ace Major Jack Freeman-poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers-is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael ''Madman'' Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover Freeman. "At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or "corpse gas," and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops. ![]() |