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Author: Frank Partnoy Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1610390059 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world. Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make––unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years––benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life … even when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoy’s accounts of celebrity “delay specialists,” from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choices––large and small––can improve the quality of our lives.
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother’s story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then 70 years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from Korean by award-winning Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim’s Grass, which won the Krause Essay Prize, the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Harvey Award, and appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.
Author: Jamie Beck Publisher: St. James ISBN: 9781477820445 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Thirteen years ago Vivi LeBrun first met and fell for her friend's brother, David St. James. Since then his family rescued her from a lonely, tumultuous childhood, but after his mother's death David distanced himself from his family. As she travels to Block Island, Rhode Island to vacation with the St. James siblings, Vivi hopes he'll see her as his soul mate. Now, though, he's brought a girlfriend along-- who's pushing for a serious commitment. Will David's secrets cost Vivi the only real family she's ever known?
Author: Andrée Linnell Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1039113109 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 18
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Sometimes, life doesn’t play out like a nursery rhyme. Sometimes, we have to walk through thunderstorms before we get to our rainbows. Worth the Wait is about the long, difficult road some mothers must travel on the way to the birth of a healthy baby. That journey is sometimes interrupted by loss. Miscarriages can feel isolating, and mothers are often left with little support. Andrée Linnell captures this feeling, honouring mothers’ experiences and infusing hope, love, and strength into the hearts of her readers. Worth the Wait is about helping mothers celebrate pregnancies while remembering their angels. The journey toward a baby isn’t always easy. But that rainbow baby, when he or she arrives, will be worth the wait.
Author: Katherine D Jones Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9781583144725 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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While in the witness protection program, former basketball player Kevin DePalma encounters the beautiful FBI agent who saved his life and stole his heart, when he is forced to pose as her lover as part of an undercover assignment to infiltrate a Russian gun-selling operation. Original.
Author: Ronald McCowan Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1644924951 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 43
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Waiting is a challenge that creates stress of varying degrees. Waiting on God is part and parcel of the Christian walk. More intense and prolonged forms of waiting exist as wilderness and captivity experiences. This handbook describes these different levels of waiting and suggests options for navigating, adjusting to, and emerging from these life challenges.
Author: Robin Benway Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101610093 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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California high school student Audrey Cuttler dumps self-involved Evan, the lead singer of a little band called The Do-Gooders. Evan writes, ?Audrey, Wait!,? a break-up song that?s so good it rockets up the billboard charts. And Audrey is suddenly famous! Now rabid fans are invading her school. People is running articles about her arm-warmers. The lead singer of the Lolitas wants her as his muse. (And the Internet is documenting her every move!) Audrey can?t hang out with her best friend or get with her new crush without being mobbed by fans and paparazzi. Take a wild ride with Audrey as she makes headlines, has outrageous amounts of fun, confronts her ex on MTV, and gets the chance to show the world who she really is.
Author: Harper Bentley Publisher: Harper Bentley ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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Birdie-- I fell in love when I was 16. I married him. I thought life was good. Now he's dying. Beck-- I married an addict. I didn't know it at the time. She hid it well. Now she could die. When Bernadette--Birdie--Chapman and Beck Griffin meet in grief counseling they have an instant connection. For Birdie, it's a comfort to share her feelings with someone who knows what she's going through. For Beck, it's an outlet, someone who understands his anger. But neither is prepared when they fall in love. And the guilt is almost too much to bear. Thursdays--a love story of two broken hearts that find each other...and try to become a whole... Warning--cliffhanger
Author: DeVon Franklin
Author: DeVon Franklin
Author: Frank Partnoy
Author: Jason Stevens
Author: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Author: Jamie Beck
Author: Andrée Linnell
Author: Katherine D Jones
Author: Ronald McCowan
Author: Robin Benway
Author: Harper Bentley