OPPOSABLE LIVES

OPPOSABLE LIVES
Author: Peter Carnahan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2009-03-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1462802990

I've done my best in what follows to put my life dowb with accuracy and without exaggeration, as memory and research have prompted. Yes, Mr. Orwell, even the disgraceful bits-some of them. But as Mr. Dickey notes, memory is notoriously self-serving. Ig you find yourself in these pages and don't like what I have remembered about you, I apologize. I was after the truth of my own life and everything else was subject to that.

The Opposable Mind

The Opposable Mind
Author: Roger L. Martin
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422148106

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing questions including: What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs? Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual and experiential knowledge. Integrative thinking can be learned, and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill.

Accumulating Lives

Accumulating Lives
Author: Peter Carnahan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1453515623

Praise for OPPOSABLE LIVES, Volume One of an Autobiography "I found it fascinating. . . . There are very few people who could write an interesting and entertaining autobiography." Mary Arntfield "A wonderful read!. . . tender and insightful, straight-forward and honest." Bill Guest "What a wonderful gift!. . . it's extremely well written, flows lucidly an easy while highly perceptive read." John Davis "I love your witty title. Opposable thumbs led to curiosity, experimentation, imagining, growth in intellect. Opposable Lives' generates these, and much, much more." Thomas Whitbread "I thoroughly enjoyed it." Brian Carnahan

Watching Other People Work

Watching Other People Work
Author: Peter Carnahan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 775
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1479735620

WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE WORK, volume three of an autobiography by Peter Carnahan, covers the 18-plus years the author worked as Director of the Theatre and Literature Programs of The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This time, from 1972 to 1991, was a period of enormous growth for the arts in Pennsylvania and the nation. Reflecting that growth, the PCA budget grew from $286,000 to $12 million during the period. During the second decade covered by this volume, Carnahan began his next career, as a writer, publishing his first nonfiction book in 1989.

Alice Adams

Alice Adams
Author: Carol Sklenicka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451621345

The first full-scale biography of prolific writer Alice Adams, whose celebrated stories and bestselling novels traced women’s lives and illuminated “an era characterized both by drastic cultural changes and by the persistence of old expectations, conventions, and biases” (The New Yorker). “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific writer. Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in midcentury America. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. One of only four winners of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, Adams wove her life into her fiction and used her writing to understand the changing tides of the 20th century. Her work portrays vibrant characters both young and old who live on the edge of their emotions, absorbed by love affairs yet always determined to be independent and to fulfill their personal destinies. Carol Sklenicka interweaves Adams’s deeply felt, elegantly fierce life with a cascade of events—the civil rights and women’s rights movements, the sixties counterculture, and sexual freedom. Her biography’s revealing analyses of Adams’s stories and novels from Careless Love to Superior Women to The Last Lovely City, and her extensive interviews with Adams’s family and friends, among them Mary Gaitskill, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, and Alison Lurie, give us the definitive story of a writer often dubbed “America’s Colette.” Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer captures not just a beloved woman’s life in full, but a crucial span of American history.

A Sustainable Theatre

A Sustainable Theatre
Author: B. Witham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137121858

Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3034614284

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, is one of most innovative architectural offi ces in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity of their aesthetically refined and finely detailed designs. The work ranges from cultural institutions such as the Toronto International Film Festival and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis to ecologically innovative concepts such as Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnipeg, developed with leading climate engineers Transsolar of Stuttgart. A respectful approach toward the integration of heritage buildings is also a characteristic feature, illustrated by the designs for the Royal Conservatory and the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Finally, educational and research facilities are also a strong focus in KPMB’s work exemplified by the Centre for Innovation and Governance Campus in Waterloo, Ontario, and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management in Toronto, as well as future projects for the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and Princeton University in the United States.

The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummified Kittens

The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummified Kittens
Author: Dr. Harold Walter Sims Jr.
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1637100299

A Story of a Feline Whistleblower in 33 BC Egypt The Mystery of the Egyptian Mummified Kittens spins a cat tale that takes place in ancient Egypt. Hebony, the protagonist, is a cat that is going on a mission that will take him to places to do things that no other cat has ever done before. Chosen by goddesses and trained from birth by his mother and siblings at the age of four months, he begins an odyssey that, if successful, will save the lives of kittens that might be sacrificed and made into little cat mummies to be sold to people who wish to gain favor with the cat goddess Bastet. But his training to get him into shape for such a mission is augmented by words from his mother who is very concerned about the destruction the people have done and are still doing to a land that all forms of life depend on for their survival. So at times, besides keeping on course with his primary mission, Hebony learns more about the people, their self-destructive natures, their love for war and competition, and their total disregard for any other inhabitants they must share the little land that is known. Follow Hebony as he climbs sandy dunes; trespasses on the land of the priests; jumps into fast-moving chariots; goes to the fair city of Alexandra and finds his first love; attends a chariot race and meets Grosso, a cat who becomes his mentor and foster father. And when he thinks his mission is over, he learns more about the mystery from a retired Egyptian priest who lives in an old fisherman's cabin deep in the woods. When he finally returns home to report his findings, he is arrested and returned to Alexandria where he is and tried by a kangaroo court, convicted of treason, and sentenced to death by mummification. But with a little help from his friends and a nest full of mice, he escapes and lives to tell his tale. Hebony is no ordinary cat. But this story isn't just about a brave little kitten. It is a story that will motivate readers to follow Hebony's example and live their life as he did with a purpose and the determination to reach their goals and make the world a better place than they'd found it. It's something we all need to do.

Todd: A Day in the Life

Todd: A Day in the Life
Author: J. T. Prose
Publisher: Gerry Dorley Publishing
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This satire is set in an alternate universe bronze age. Todd, its omnipotent god (or so he’s convinced the population) should be enjoying his day off. Instead, he’s having the worst day of his life. His boss is out for his job, a war threatens the balance of power, and long lost, rebellious gods have returned for revenge. Fun and provocative, Todd is guaranteed to challenge the reader’s notions of religion, politics, power and narrative. Characters will appear to be those in the news headlines. Enjoy all the pop culture Easter eggs a long the way!

Find Your Why

Find Your Why
Author: Joanne Mallon
Publisher: Summersdale
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800073593

Knowing your purpose, or your “why”, has the power to transform your life – and this book will help you to discover yours. From reflecting on your past to visualizing your future, the tips and advice in these pages will guide you towards your true calling, and a deeper sense of contentment and happiness.