![]() ![]() ![]() Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds-from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony-draw their power from the same six traits. ![]() In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Meanwhile, people with important ideas-entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists-struggle to make them “stick.” Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. ![]() Made to Stick is informative and entertaining at the same time, but I’m not sure how useful it will be in practical application. Similar to Malcolm Gladwell or Charles Duhigg, the Heath brothers use interesting anecdotes to illustrate the concepts of stickiness. Why do some ideas stick – no matter how true – while others go in one ear and out the other? Chip and Dan Heath break down the elements that made ideas memorable and teach you how to create stickier messaging. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jebara places Muhammad's life in a broader historical context, vividly evoking the Meccan society he was born into and arguing that his innovative vision helped shape our modern world. Surrounding the protagonist are dynamic women who nurture Muhammad Jewish and Christian mentors who inspire him and the enslaved individuals he helps liberate who propel his movement. ![]() From his dramatic birth to nearly being abducted into slavery to escaping assassination, Muhammad emerges as an unrelenting man on a mission. An accessible and fresh biography boldly arguing that Muhammad's entrepreneurial mindset helped unleash the modern worldĪ six-year-old cries in his mother's arms as she draws her last breaths to urge him: "Muhammad, be a world-changer " The boy, suddenly orphaned in a tribal society that fears any change, must overcome enormous obstacles to unleash his own potential and inspire others to do the same.įusing details long known to Muslim scholars but inaccessible to popular audiences, Mohamad Jebara brings to life the gripping personal story of Islam's founding prophet. ![]() ![]() After delivering the drugs, Querelle announces that he wants to sleep with Lysiane. During the execution of the deal, he murders his accomplice Vic by slitting his throat. Querelle makes a deal to sell opium to Nono. Lysiane's husband Nono works behind the bar and also manages La Feria's underhanded affairs with the assistance of his friend, the corrupt police captain Mario. Querelle has a love/hate relationship with his brother: when they meet at La Feria, they embrace, but also punch one another slowly and repeatedly in the belly. When his ship, Le Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he visits the Feria, a bar and brothel for sailors run by the Madame Lysiane, whose lover, Robert, is Querelle's brother. The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. It was Fassbinder's last film, released shortly after his death at the age of 37. Querelle is a 1982 West German-French English-language arthouse film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel Querelle of Brest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel, the Earl of Thornhill, is recently returned to London after a long stay on the Continent with his stepmother. The joy of finally seeing Kersey again and having their betrothal made official is almost more than she can bear. For five years she has constructed and worshipped a mental image of Kersey and the wonderful life they'll no doubt enjoy as a married couple. That was set for her five years ago, when she was 15, when her viscount father arranged her betrothal to a the heir to an earldom, Viscount Kersey. Unlike other girls on their come out, though, she's not here to snag a husband. ![]() ![]() Miss Jennifer Winwood is in town for her very first Season and positively vibrating with the excitement of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The term itself is a play on the popular corporate phrase "cradle to grave", implying that the C2C model is sustainable and considerate of life and future generations-from the birth, or "cradle", of one generation to the next generation, versus from birth to death, or "grave", within the same generation.Ĭ2C suggests that industry must protect and enrich ecosystems and nature's biological metabolism while also maintaining a safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of organic and technical nutrients. ![]() The current economic system, the current solution (the 3Rs), and the C2C framework as an alternative solutionĬradle-to-cradle design (also referred to as 2CC2, C2C, cradle 2 cradle, or regenerative design) is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes, where materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1980s and the 1990s, there was little incentive in India for remembering the Emergency (1975-1977), a period of authoritarian rule by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. But the British government criticised him and dropped his policies during the drought of 1943, leading to countless fatalities. During the 1873-'74 famine, the Bengal lieutenant governor, Richard Temple, saved many lives by importing and distributing food. So, authorities removed boats (the region's lifeline), and the police destroyed and seized rice stocks. ![]() ![]() Mr Churchill also pushed a scorched earth policy-which went by the sinister name of Denial Policy-in coastal Bengal, where the colonisers feared the Japanese would land. As imports dropped, prices shot up, and hoarders made a killing. ![]() Churchill turned down fervent pleas to export food to India, citing a shortage of ships-this when shiploads of Australian wheat, for example, would pass by India to be stored for future consumption in Europe. This would have kept nearly 400,000 people alive for an entire year. India exported more than 70,000 tonnes of rice between January and July 1943, even as the famine set in. Bengal famine resulted from food scarcity caused by large-scale exports of food from India for use in the war theatres and consumption in Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Khrushchev’s shoe-pounding (or -brandishing, depending on whom you ask) speech at the United Nations weeks before Khrushchev actually visited the United Nations. Almost from the beginning, though, a few readers pointed out that many of the conversations in the book had a stagey, wooden quality, not unlike the dialogue in Steinbeck’s fiction.Įarly on in the book, for example, Steinbeck has a New England farmer talking in folksy terms about Nikita S. It remains in print, regarded by some as a classic of American travel writing. Steinbeck’s book-length account of his journey, “Travels With Charley: In Search of America,” published in 1962, was generally well reviewed and became a best-seller. The idea was that he would travel alone, stay at campgrounds and reconnect himself with the country by talking to the locals he met along the way. ![]() He outfitted a three-quarter-ton pickup truck as a sort of land yacht and set off from his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., with his French poodle, Charley, to drive cross-country. In the fall of 1960 an ailing, out-of-sorts John Steinbeck, pretty much depleted as a novelist, decided that his problem was he had lost touch with America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt creatively free to do what I wanted to do. I’ve already demonstrated that I can write to the satisfaction of my peers and colleagues on the business side. “I never thought I’d win a National Book Award, you know,” he says. Following up a major award winner would cause anxiety in some, but not for McBride. McBride’s third novel, 2013’s The Good Lord Bird, won the National Book Award in fiction. Following a short story collection and a well-received biography of James Brown, Deacon King Kong marks McBride’s return to the novel. Since then, he’s worked in multiple genres and formats to explore race, love, loss and the basic human threads that unite us all. He first captured our hearts and minds with his 1995 memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. James McBride is one of America’s foremost storytellers, a contemporary urban griot whose works offer nuanced portrayals of America’s complex cultural landscape. ![]() ![]() "Started out on motor scooter along famous wide 'promenade des anglais' of Nice, with its out-door cafés, splendid baroque facades, rows of palms, strolling musicians-and headed inland to Vence, where I planned to see the beautiful recent Matisse cathedral of my art magazine, which I've loved via pictures for years." 3 "Yesterday was about the most lovely in my life," Plath writes on a postcard to her mother, dated January 7, 1956. How can I describe the beauty of country? Burning through the material of my bathing suit, the great heat radiated through my body." 2 Such a heat the rock had, such a rugged and comfortable warmth, that I felt it could be a human body. "Lying on my stomach on the flat warm rock, I let my arm hang over the side, and my hand caressed the rounded contours of the sun-hot stone, and felt the smooth undulations of it. In July 1951, Sylvia Plath wrote in her journals: Finally, by the time the train reached the Côte d'Azur, she saw what she had been waiting for: 'the red sun rising like the eye of God out of a screaming blue sea.'" In her journal she described the joy she felt after leaving the biting winds and leaden skies of Cambridge behind. The sun seeped into every pore, satiating every querulous fiber of me into a great glowing golden peace.Īs Plath biographer Andrew Wilson notes in his article "Sylvia Plath in Love," 1 "Plath was a self-confessed sun worshipper. ![]() To honor her life, here are ten things she loved and wrote about in her letters, journals, and poems. February 11, 2013, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Sylvia Plath's death. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Lugosi declined, feeling the non-speaking role was beneath an actor of his caliber. Many may be unaware that Lugosi was actually offered the role of the Monster in Frankenstein. One can’t mention great vampire films without mentioning the amazing Bela Lugosi. Starting with vampires (of course!) Landis starts his showcase of vampires with the first cinematic version of Dracula, a German silent film, Nosferatu in 1922. In Monsters in the Movies, legendary filmmaker features some of the most famous (or infamous) monsters that have made an appearance on the silver screen.
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