![]() ![]() ![]() Fast-paced and down-to-earth, DELIVERING HAPPINESS shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success-and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own. In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine's annual "Best Companies to Work For" list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. Help employees grow-both personally and professionally.To keep it afloat, its creators used millions of their own dollars so they could keep the site up and running (Greenfield, 2015). ![]() Zappos, when it started in 1999, did the opposite of attract investors. ♺pply research from the science of happiness to running a business Delivering Happiness is a book written by CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh (2013). Focus on company culture as the no.1 priority.Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From there we return to Jackie’s childhood, in Glasgow, her student days and the beginnings of her search for her identity. The meeting is related with humour – despite the fact her father is not quite the man she had hoped he would be. The book opens in fact in 2009 with the author meeting her birth father in a hotel in Nigeria. I enjoyed this non-linear structure, it has the feel of a long, intimate conversation, it definitely adds to the compelling nature of the narrative. The story of Jackie Kay’s upbringing and search for her biological parents is not told chronologically – the narrative moves back and forth across the decades, allowing different aspects of the author’s story to be revealed gradually. Not just a hugely compelling memoir, this is a book which raises questions of race, family and belonging. The book was chosen by my very small book group, and we meet to talk about it on Wednesday. Red Dust Road is the compelling autobiographical account of a woman’s search for her birth parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trip is a popular route with foreign hikers who trek on the mountain trails, and also with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who visit the Muktinath temple. ![]() ![]() The mountainous region around Jomsom has been receiving rain in the past few days, though flights had been operating as per schedule. The airline said there were four Indians, two Germans and 16 Nepalis on board, including three crew members. The airline mainly flies Canadian-built, turboprop Twin Otter planes. The Tara Air plane, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight, had 19 passengers and three crew members on board. Police official Prem Kumar Dani said a land rescue-and-search team had been sent to the area near Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak at 8,167 meters (26,795 feet). The plane lost contact with the airport tower shortly after takeoff. Army and police search teams have left towards the site," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement. Helicopters are ready to take off for search from Kathmandu, Pokhara and Jomsom once weather conditions improve. "One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane. A small passenger plane flying on a popular tourist route in Nepal went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board, according to flight operator Tara Air.Ĭloudy weather was preventing search helicopters from flying into the area of the flight's last known location, officials said. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wrote about Ashley Dawson’s Extinction a week or two ago…finished it since then and it’s a good, sad, angrifying read. I’ll have a full review forthcoming closer to its pub date, but the short review is: Buy it. ![]() It is funny and sad and even cruel, but also sweet (and bitter and very very funny). Mahendra Singh’s American Candide is forthcoming from Rosarium. ![]() Is it about memory? Or is it memory? “If only one knew what to remember or what to pretend to remember”-If I remember correctly, this is the first sentence of the novel’s second paragraph. Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick is a riff-novel, or a thought-novel, or an I-don’t-know-what, I mean. Heidegger complains to Hitler Ty Cobb gets turned on to Little Orphan Annie. ![]() Stories that are like poems, or infused by poems-or dialogues, or spirit rants, ersatz music reviews for bands that may or may not exist. I was excited to find this at the bookstore yesterday so maybe I’ll be excited to find some other phantom collection in some eventual phantom future. Is this the only collection of short stories by Clark? I don’t know. I just spent the past hour reading from Tom Clark’s 1980 short story collection The Last Gas Station and Other Stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Northanger Abbey is a pointed response to moralising texts like James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women (1766) – yes, the one that Mr Collins is so fond of in Pride and Prejudice – as well as to a broader literary culture that devalued novels and worried about their effects on their (young women) readers. Here, Austen is speaking about the context in which she was writing. ![]() “here seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them,” Austen writes in chapter five, directly addressing the reader – and assuring them that she has no interest in doing the same. It is a neat summation of the entire attitude of the book.Ī biting satire of popular 19th-century Gothic romances, Northanger Abbey is also a passionate defence of the novel and of novel-reading. So says Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland, the hero and heroine respectively of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (completed 1803, published posthumously in 1817). “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. ![]() ![]() Agatha and Archie fid not really experience married life until he was posted at the London War Office. One other interesting fact was that Agatha met Archie Christie in 1912, married on Christmas Eve 1914, spending their honeymoon at The Grand Hotel in Torquay, but Archie returned to France on Dec 27th due to the War. It is a great asset to readers that author John Curran wrote the definitive book about an iconic author. ![]() The information about this illustrious author goes on and on. ![]() Her favorite flower was Lily of the Valley. Agatha Christie's name has appeared every day for 53 years in every newspaper with a West End London theatre listing. Her last public appearance was in 1974, at the premier of the movie, Murder on the Orient Express. She traveled around the world in 1922, which would have been quite a feat back then. She once had three plays running simultaneously in London. Agatha could have been an excellent performer as a pianist, but she was much too shy to perform. Since there are so many, just a few will be mentioned here. He outlines many of those interesting facts. In his research, Curran found a plethora of information about Agatha. Her father did not want her to begin learning to read until age eight, but out of boredom, she taught herself to read by age five. It was an unusual way to be educated for the times. ![]() She was born in 1890 in England, where she was home schooled by her American father. What a daunting task to write about the most famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ĭue to two year hiatus between seasons 1 and 2, scheduling conflicts, she was unable to commit to the second season of Lexx, although she agreed to appear in the first two episodes, allowing the writers to end her character properly. Habermann appeared in the ZDF series Rosa Roth and the ARD series Gegen den Wind as well as appearing in the Rosamunde Pilcher film Two Sisters. She also moderated the children Pumuckl TV broadcast on German TV (1995/1996). Soon after graduation, she obtained her first television role in Lexx. ![]() ![]() While studying for (the German equivalent of) her Senior High School diploma ("Advanced Placement" courses only), Habermann received singing and dancing lessons. She is best known for playing the role of Zev Bellringer in the television series Lexx. Eva Felicitas Habermann (born 16 January 1976) is a German actress who has appeared in numerous films and TV series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Night Fever is a story that’s been scratching at the back of my skull for a long time now and man, is this a weird one. In describing the origin of Night Fever Brubaker said: This riveting tour-of-the-night is a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips readers. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark… And the question is, what will he do to get home? Night Fever is a pulse-pounding noir thriller featuring the Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. ![]() Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. ![]() ![]() Outsider in the White House tells the story of a passionate and principled political life. A new foreword by Nina Turner, former president of Our Revolution and co-chair of the Sanders for President campaign, provides a rare glimpse of Bernie as a person. He describes how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, he. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español. An extensive afterword by The Nation's National Affairs correspondent John Nichols continues the story with Sanders's entrance into the Senate, the drama of the 2016 Democratic Primary, his ongoing resistance to Trump, and the thrilling launch of his 2020 bid for the White House. In this book, Sanders tells the story of a passionate and principled political life. Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders, 2019, Verso Books edition, in English. House of Representatives in forty years and now the longest-serving independent in U.S. ![]() ![]() He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for him to become the first independent elected to the U.S. Bernie Sanders has real influence: Vermonts longtime outsider has become a trusted voice in the Biden White House. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its editor, Ann Patty, has written of how on first encountering it, she stayed up “until 2am, reading it in one long gulp”. In her 1978 pitch letter, Andrews described her novel as a “fictionalised version of a true story” about “real children who struggled to survive under almost unendurable circumstances … basically a horror story”. ‘Wicked sense of humour’ … Virginia Andrews Flowers in the Attic inspired the band name for Amanda Palmer’s band the Dresden Dolls, while Gillian Flynn has said that the mother and grandmother characters begat her addiction to “wicked women”: “It felt so new and stunning to me – these witches who seemed quite real.” There have been two film adaptations and a stage play, as well as sequels, prequels and retellings penned by both Andrews and Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter who took on Andews’ mantle after her death. ![]() Andrews’ gothic tale of incest, poisoning and dark family secrets has sold more than 40m copies. That “deranged swill” proved irresistible. I could have stopped you if I’d really wanted to.” Somehow, the incestuous teenagers acquire a romantic tinge: can Chris and Cathy escape, and will they make it as a couple despite everything that’s against them? ![]() They end up trapped in the attic for more than three years, where poisoned doughnuts kill off one of them, and where the overheated drama somehow leads Chris to rape his sister – but it’s fine, says Cathy, “you didn’t rape me. ![]() |