WorkParty: How to Create & Cultivate the Career of Your Dreams By Jaclyn Johnson
2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1501190849 | EPUB | 10 MB
First, we leaned in. Now we stand up. In this "much-needed combo of real talk, confessions, and lessons learned along the way" (Chelsea Handler), Jaclyn Johnson-the founder and CEO behind Create & Cultivate, the fastest growing online platform for millennial businesswomen-offers a rallying cry for a new generation of women who are redefining the meaning of work on their own terms.Jaclyn suffered a massive blow in her early twenties. She was on an upward career climb and confidently moved across the country for a job-and then, was abruptly let go. Attempting to turn that closed door into an open window, she launched a company with a trusted business partner. Soon after, she discovered said business partner had made detrimental decisions to the company without her knowledge. Before she knew it, she was in the throes of a brutal business partner break up. She was only twenty-four. Determined to bounce back, Jaclyn overhauled the mess that was her life and by the time she was in her early thirties, she had sold a company and launched the much-buzzed about Create & Cultivate platform-and advised and invested in multiple million-dollar projects at the same time. So, how did she do it? In WorkParty, Jaclyn shows how she turned distrust into determination, frustration into fuel, and heartache into hard work-and how you can, too. With stories from leading female entrepreneurs including Christene Barberich (co-founder of Refinery29), Alli Webb, (creator of Drybar), Morgan Debaun (founder of Blavity), Jen Gotch of Ban.do, Rebecca Minkoff, and Kendra Scott, you will learn the tips and tricks from the best in the business while cultivating the passion and happiness you need to succeed. "This is the book you need to take your career to the next level-on your own terms" (Refinery29).

Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations By Alissa Mello (editor), Claudia Orenstein (editor), Cariad Astles (editor)
2019 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0415787386 | PDF | 10 MB
Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and off stage. Part I, "CriticalPerspective," includes historical and contemporary analyses of women's roles in society, gender anxiety revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression within oppressive social contexts. Part II, "Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations," investigates work of female practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories, barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate, revive, and transform performance traditions. And in Part III,"Women Practitioners Speak,"contemporary artists reflect on their experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities that women face in this unique art form.

Luiz Otavio Laydner, Barbara Makant, John Tabor, "With the Back on the Ground: From the Early Japanese in America to MMA - How Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Developed"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00N1BX9NU | 424 pages | AZW3 | 0.43 MB
It wasn't likely, without the benefit of hindsight, anyone in the crowd at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado, that 12th of November 1993 had a clue that they were witnessing history in the making. The modest audience attending UFC 1 was certainly surprised as they left the venue. Partly the surprise had to do with the violence they'd just seen, real human combat, with no rules or limits, mutually agreed to by contestants caged into a fenced enclosure. But that sense of surprise was also due to how easily the tournament winner dispatched his adversaries. The time his three fights lasted in all: five minutes, less than two rounds of a professional boxing bout. They'd have been more surprised still had they known the champion wasn't even in the top tier of his art's practitioners back in his homeland. With Royce Gracie's victories at the subsequent events the community of martial arts scholars became acquainted with what is now known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but at the time wasn't yet called by that name. Naturally, analysis of this phenomenon brought with it controversy. What ensued was an intense "battle for legitimacy" where experts in an array of martial arts sought, to no avail, to come to a consensus on just what Brazilian jiu-jitsu is, what the Gracies' role in its development was, etc... Truth is, it is a modern day expression of an ancient philosophy of combat. Its initial success was the consequence of a process that began 90 years prior, when a group of Japanese martial artists brought judo to America and over the course of years unconsciously adapted their techniques to deal with the problem at hand when they were repeatedly challenged by American wrestlers who were almost invariably bigger and stronger. The natural consequence of this was the development of a style of fighting that would respect the natural physiology of humans, and a peculiar combat philosophy. The outcome of this philosophy of pursuing superiority led to the creation of vale-tudo in 1930s Rio de Janeiro. That was the starting point of the timeline in which Brazilian jiu-jitsu developed, quite unmethodically mixing combat in the gi, no-gi and "valendo tudo," or "anything goes." At several points the art came close to extinction or being absorbed by judo, escaping this fate mainly because of the obstinacy of Hélio Gracie. From the '30s onwards Brazilian jiu-jitsu Descriptionted a path of near total isolation, restricted to a small number of practitioners but preserving the original combat philosophy, a still frame of an era on its way to forgottenness. Until it captured the world's attention on November 12, 1993. How this process unfolded, that is the aim of this book.

Deanna Lynn Sletten, "Widow, Virgin, Whore"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1481970690 | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.39 MB
Three very different women−one house−one devastating diagnosis.

Drew G I Hart, "Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance"
English | ISBN: 1513806580 | 2020 | 373 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Churches have begun awakening to social and political injustices, often carried out in the name of Christianity. But once awakened, how will we respond?

What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
English | 1 Sept. 2022 | ISBN: 1800812191 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 0.6 MB
Between the theories of business school and the real world of business, there is still a gap - one that can only be filled by experience, helped by the knowledge of someone who has already done it.

Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics By Clare Cunningham (editor), Dr. Christopher J. Hall (editor)
2021 | 510 Pages | ISBN: 1788928229 | PDF | 2 MB
The chapters in this book call attention to vulnerabilities, challenges and risks for applied linguistics researchers and the communities they work with across a broad range of contexts from the Global North and South, and in both signed and spoken languages. Together they provide insights on both academic and professional practice across several areas: the vulnerabilities involved in researching, the limitations of traditional epistemologies, the challenges inherent in the repertoire of methodologies and pedagogies employed by applied linguists, and the effectiveness of practical responses to language-related problems. The book encourages those involved in applied linguistics to consider their own practice and their relationship with the communities, policies and educational contexts they engage with in the course of their teaching, research and activism.

Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Handbook By Michael Buckley
1998 | 730 Pages | ISBN: 1566911311 | PDF | 108 MB
This handbook's second edition provides readers will all the information they need to explore this new travel frontier. 142 photos. 111 illustrations. 120 maps.

Urgent Matters by Paula Rodriguez, translated by Sarah Moses
English | 3 Nov. 2022 | ISBN: 1782278133 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.4 MB
A train crashes in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, leaving forty-three people dead. A prayer card of Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of urgent matters, flutters above the wreckage.

Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, "Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0824827961 | 335 pages | EPUB | 2.1 MB
Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.