![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Social competence is made by social awareness and relationship management. Personal competence comes from the ability to stay aware of our emotions and manage our behavior. The authors break EQ into four skills-two personal and two social competencies. EQ impacts our careers, friendships, and our most intimate relationships. Better decision making, time management, stress tolerance, communication, anger management, and trust are just a few of the side benefits. The benefits from improving our emotional intelligence show up in many other critical skills. When that happens, it undermines our effectiveness and damages our relationships. Intense emotions can and will override our rational thinking in driving our behavior. Whatever level of EQ we start from, it can be learned and improved.EQ is far more than charisma and gregariousness.Research has shown that emotional intelligence is more important in determining our success and satisfaction with life than IQ.I was excited to read Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves’ Emotional Intelligence 2.0 based on its promise to help us improve our EQ.Īs a baseline, and perhaps as motivation to better understand EQ, here is some background: For me–someone who aced school and showed signs of a decent IQ yet struggled with life-the concept of EQ explained a lot. The concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) has been around since at least 1995 when Daniel Goleman’s groundbreaking book was published. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Batman by marie lu![]() I’d like to thank Penguin Random House USA International for sending me an ARC of Batman: Nightwalker for review and Times Reads for providing the giveaway copy. But is he getting her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees? Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer. ![]() What is she hiding? And why will she speak only to Bruce? Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel. In Arkham, Bruce meets Madeleine, a brilliant girl with ties to the Nightwalkers. But after a run-in with the police, he’s forced to do community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison that holds the city’s most brutal criminals. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family’s fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. One by one, the city’s elites are being executed as their mansions’ security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. ![]() The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy. Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (Jan 2, 2018)īefore he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also wrote, directed and produced the short film REVOLUTION (2012). He has written six produced films including THE ARTIST’S WIFE (Strand Releasing, 2020) MENENDEZ: BLOOD BROTHERS (Lifetime, 2017), and THE QUIET (Sony Pictures Classics, 2006). LIKE A LOVE STORY won a Stonewall Honor and was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best young adult books of all time.Ībdi has written for three television shows: NBC's ORDINARY JOE, Fox’s ALMOST FAMILY, and NBC’s THE VILLAGE. He has written three young adult novels, all published by Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins: THE AUTHENTICS (2017), LIKE A LOVE STORY (2019), and THE CHANDLER LEGACIES (2022). Abdi Nazemian spent his childhood in a series of exciting locations (Tehran, Paris, Toronto, New York), but could usually be found in his bedroom watching old movies and reading.Ībdi’s first novel, THE WALK-IN CLOSET, was awarded Best Debut at the Lambda Literary Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes to shatter everything. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all- friendship. ![]() Anna, who's sitting further up the train, impatient to get to work. There's Lou, in an adjacent seat, who witnesses events first hand. For at least three passengers on the 7:44 on that particular morning, life will never be the same again. Then, abruptly, everything changes: a man collapses, the train is stopped, and an ambulance is called. Further along, another woman flicks through a glossy magazine. She is also the author/publisher of the 'Making Friends' series of non-fiction self-help books. Across the aisle, a husband strokes his wife's hand. Her novel, the international bestseller, 'One Moment, One Morning' has two follow-ups, 'The Two Week Wait' and 'Another Night, Another Day', which feature the same Brighton-based characters. One woman occupies her time observing the people around her. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on her tail, Vanja has just two weeks to pull off her biggest grift yet, or she risks losing more than her freedom – she could lose her life. Until, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to turn into jewels, stone by stone. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming the nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. With the help of an enchanted string of pearls, Vanja transformed into her former mistress and took her place, leaving the real Gisele a penniless nobody. ![]() Until a year ago, when her otherworldly mothers demanded payment for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back. The adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, Vanja has long made her own way in the world as the dutiful servant of Princess Gisele. Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love. ![]() Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() We met in the early seventies and bonded over tuna fish sandwiches at Schrafft’s on our way to a meeting of children’s book writers. We were born in the same year, our favorite childhood books were the “Betsy-Tacy” series, and each of us, as Norma put it, “rushed into reading adult novels at eleven or twelve, to find an alternative to the idealized, sanitized, sentimentalized books meant for readers our ages.” For a short time, we even shared the same literary agent. ![]() When I moved with my family to New Mexico she was flabbergasted. I was a New Jersey girl who’d always dreamed of living across the river and she was a city girl who had trouble imagining living anywhere else. Her world, and the world she wrote about, was often the world of the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she lived with her husband and two daughters. ![]() She was a consummate New Yorker, born, bred, and educated in the city. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher. ![]() Introduction Copyright © 2014 by Judy Blume ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The mists of avalon series![]() ![]() Given this history of productivity, it is perhaps no surprise that Bradley was working right up until her death in 1999. ![]() She started her own magazine -devoted to science fiction and fantasy, of course-as a teenager, and she wrote her first novel when she was in high school. ![]() As a young girl, before she learned to take pen in hand, she was dictating stories to her mother. Marion Zimmer Bradley was writing before she could write.
6/7/2023 0 Comments The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead![]() Rutledge, who believes she did see something disturbing, probes both past and present to get at the truth. ![]() There’s little doubt that Lady Benton was mistaken at best, as Nelson, who was stationed at the airfield built on her property during the war, was seen years earlier dying in a car crash, though whether the death was an accident or suicide is uncertain. Lady Benton, an Essex noblewoman, has reported seeing one man murder another-but she identified the killer as a dead man, Captain Nelson, and the supposed corpse was never found. ![]() In bestseller Todd’s excellent 24th Ian Rutledge whodunit (after 2021’s A Fatal Lie), the psychologically damaged Scotland Yard inspector, who’s haunted by the ghost of a subordinate whom he was forced to execute for disobeying futile orders during WWI, has another specter to deal with in 1921. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Sula by toni morrison![]() ![]() The story is organized by chronological chapters labeled with years. and the blacks populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day they could literally look down on the white folks" (5). "The white people lived on the rich valley floor. This is obviously untrue, but it is the story that black people told to illuminate the fact that white people's racism and lies have created this topsy turvy world in which up is down and down is up. The slave said he thought valley land was bottom land, to which the master said land on the hill, not the valley, was bottom land, rich and fertile" (Morrison 5). ![]() He tells the slave he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land, for he had hoped to give him a piece of the bottom land. Freedom was easy, the farmer had no objection to that, but he did not want to give up the land. Upon completion, the farmer regrets his end of the bargain. In the first section of the novel, the origin story of the Bottom is revealed as well as how it got its name: a white farmer promised freedom and a piece of Bottom land to his slave if he would perform some difficult chores for him. The Bottom is a black neighborhood on the hill above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio. The novel begins when the construction of a golf course is announced, the site being the destroyed remnants of what used to be the Bottom. Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970). ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Rachel carson pesticides![]() ![]() How did its publication mark a turning point? In the preface to a recent new edition of the book, Al Gore wrote that “ Silent Spring changed the course of history” and “transformed our society”. ![]() She warned us: with this massive use of chemicals, modern societies had entered “the age of poison”. Rachel Carson saw very early the signs of the environmental catastrophes to come. She detailed its consequences on the quality of water, soil and air, as well as on flora, fauna and human health. ![]() What does this book say?Ĭatherine Larrère: With this book, Rachel Carson accomplished pioneering work: she precisely and relentlessly documented the devastating effects of pesticides which were increasingly deployed in industrialised agriculture. Sébastien Billard: The biologist and writer Rachel Carson published her seminal environmental text Silent Spring in 1962. But who was Rachel Carson really? Why was her book pioneering? An interview with environmental philosopher Catherine Larrère. In it, the American biologist documented in meticulous detail the devastating effects of pesticides, and worried about the alarming decline of bird populations in the American countryside. Sixty years ago, as chemicals were sprayed on fields in massive quantities, Rachel Carson published what has since become an environmentalist classic: Silent Spring. ![]() |