Delighted

Delighted
Author: Susan Johnson
Publisher: Brava
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781575668239

A collection of erotic romances includes "The Awakening," in which Marguerite Abbott, a courtesan at the most elite brothel in Paris, surrenders her heart to a stranger from New Orleans who teaches her the true art of pleasure.

The Book of (More) Delights

The Book of (More) Delights
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1643755471

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Delight Your Customers

Delight Your Customers
Author: Steve Curtin
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814432824

Discover the hidden ways to raise your organizations’ customer service experiences from ordinary to extraordinary. If you want to know how strong your company’s customer service is, ask your employees to describe what their work entails. Then pay attention to whether they simply list their duties and tasks or if they speak to the true essence of their job--to create delighted customers who will be less price sensitive, have higher repurchase rates, and enthusiastically recommend the company or brand to others. The latter should be every employee’s highest priority, because when it’s not, your customers are merely the recipients of a transaction, not an experience, and transactions do not make for a lasting impression or inspire loyalty. In Delight Your Customers, customer service expert Steve Curtin makes a compelling case that customer service managers need to shift from monitoring service activities to modeling, recognizing, and reinforcing the behaviors that create happy and returning customers. Things such as: Expressing genuine interest Offering sincere compliments Sharing unique knowledge Conveying authentic enthusiasm Providing pleasant surprises Delivering service heroics when needed Simply based on their own personal experiences, everyone knows that great customer service is rare. So why wouldn’t you want to provide a unique, caring, and beneficial experience for all your customers to rave about with others? With the real-world stories, examples, and strategies shared in Delight Your Customers, you can take the customer service experience you offer from ordinary to extraordinary.

Delight

Delight
Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0008585717

‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench

Positively Delighted

Positively Delighted
Author: Kelsey Henry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre:
ISBN:

"The funnest self-help book EVER!" - Tamar Medford, author of Hope Elevated Prepare yourself for major fun and self-care in this personal growth adventure! Positively Delighted: Create a Positive Mindset & a Life of Delight, Laughter, & Fun! will teach you all about the power of positive thinking and how to use positivity to manifest your dreams! Full of self-esteem and happiness boosting activities and stories, this book will help you live your best life. Negative thinking doesn't have to be bad! Learn how to lean into your emotions, take responsibility for your life, heal a broken heart, bust any bad mood, and deal with self-doubt. Embrace your inner child and find your fun with self-help exercises in Laughter Yoga, adult coloring, music, gratitude, meditation, kindness, and play! If you love vision boards, positive affirmations, and adventures, then this is the book for you! Written by Kelsey Henry, positivity coach and best-selling author of Growing Up Roadschooled: Stories, Lyrics, & Lessons Learned from Full-time RVing & Life After Roadschooling. Kelsey is a certified Jack Canfield Success Trainer and Marci Shimoff Happy for No Reason Trainer, both featured Law of Attraction teachers from the hit sensation The Secret. She is also a certified Laughter Yoga Leader. She uses these programs to help others create a positive mindset and a life of delight, laughter, and fun!

Turkish Delight

Turkish Delight
Author: Jan Wolkers
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941040489

The story of a tempestuous love affair—and the basis for Paul Verhoeven's Oscar-nominated film—Wolkers's controversial masterpiece comes alive in a new translation. Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt. Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga—its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside. In a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing. Tin House Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, whose generous subsidy made this new translation possible.

Happy-People-Pills For All

Happy-People-Pills For All
Author: Mark Walker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1118357310

Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of ‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything

Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything
Author: Alan White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1623566274

Moral values are real-we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world-it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free-what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation. These are radical claims. But they are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy because they are almost always considered in relative isolation from one another. This book shows that when they are considered in conjunction, they gain mutual support. And it shows this both clearly and concisely. But its systematic approach to philosophy also reveals that various philosophical positions currently widely accepted and defended can appear plausible and perhaps even compelling only when they are considered in relative isolation-as they, too, almost always are. When the issues on which these positions are taken are considered in conjunction, problems come into view and the alternative positions defended in this book emerge as superior. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything is a ground-breaking work that shows the importance of systematic thinking, while also defending positions, on central philosophical issues, that are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy.