Pounding the Pavement

Pounding the Pavement
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 168
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781469122106
ISBN-13 : 1469122103
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Pounding the Pavement by : Bob Theriot Jr.

Bob Theriot Jr. reveals his real world tools and techniques to help you succeed in the ultra competitive sales world. Chalk full of sales secrets that can help the seasoned sales professional or someone brand new to the field. An inspiration for anyone selling a product or service! With his quick wit and charm, Theriot offers up his insights on how to Cold Call Keep Customers For Life Use Technology To Gain Sales Make A 1st Impression Remember Names Find New Customers * Combat Rejections Plus, he also reveals The Secret Weapon Of Sales! And the Top 50 Quick Sales Tips to make you more money in sales! This incredible book also contains over 100 quotes from some of the most successful people to have walked the planet! Including Donald Trump, Vince Lombardi, Wayne Dyer, Malcom Forbes, Dale Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Carl Jung! Foreword by Charles Cumpston, Editor Of AGRR Magazine... A must have for anyone in business looking for inspiration. Add this one of a kind book to your library. You wont regret it.

Pounding the Pavement

Pounding the Pavement
Author :
Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780767921633
ISBN-13 : 0767921631
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Pounding the Pavement by : Jennifer van der Kwast

A laugh-out-loud debut novel about the minefield that is unemployment, the pursuit of the ultimate career, and the annoying habit of falling in love at inconvenient times. Sarah Pelletier is unemployed and in a very bad mood. Her film company has tanked—right before Christmas, no less—leaving her with one lousy swivel chair and a lifetime supply of paper clips. Her headhunter is a fool who can’t pronounce her name; her irritatingly gorgeous roommate’s idea of a fun time is to drag her to pink-slip parties; and, to top it all off, her last twelve bucks are trapped in a Metro Card. Something has got to give. So begins one smart twentysomething’s quest for the right job in New York City. After extricating herself from a morass of self-pity strewn with candy bar wrappers and wine bottles, Sarah turns to the all-important task of padding her résumé—while artfully dodging her parents’ attempts to bribe her into law school. Of course, padding your résumé puts you in jeopardy of being construed as over-qualified. In which case you might try unpadding your résumé, which then puts you in danger of being labeled inexperienced. Which leaves you with the option of stalking your ex-boss in the hope that she’ll drag you along in her ascent to greatness in another company. Unless she stabs you in the back first. Meanwhile, when a temp job saddles her with a massive crush on a Brooklyn-dwelling dreamboat named Jake, Sarah’s already full plate is crowded with lust, jealousy, and mild obsession, just when she’s trying to be professional. This hilarious first novel from a confident new voice in women’s fiction offers a pitch-perfect take on the dignity-whittling survival game of job hunting—starring a lovably neurotic heroine whose problems ring refreshingly true.

Patina

Patina
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Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781481450195
ISBN-13 : 1481450190
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Patina by : Jason Reynolds

A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this New York Times bestselling follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons—to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. She runs from the reason WHY she’s not able to live with her “real” mom anymore: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom’s legs will one day take her away forever. And so Patty’s also running for her mom, who can’t. But can you ever really run away from any of this? As the stress builds, it’s building up a pretty bad attitude as well. Coach won’t tolerate bad attitude. No day, no way. And now he wants Patty to run relay…where you have to depend on other people? How’s she going to do THAT?

Barack Obama

Barack Obama
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Publisher : LernerClassroom
Total Pages : 104
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780761349501
ISBN-13 : 0761349502
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Barack Obama by : Marlene Targ Brill

On a cold day in February 2007, Barack Obama - the popular African American senator from Illinois - announced that he was running for president of the United States. He made the announcement in Springfield, Illinois, where almost 150 years earlier Abraham Lincoln had warned Americans of the danger of living in a country divided by slavery. Obama said that day, Few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail. But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible. In 2007, many people doubted the junior senator had a chance of winning the Democratic Party s nomination, much less the presidential race. But Obama toughed it out over many months of campaigning on promises of change to eventually gain the highest office in the land, becoming the first African American president of the United States in 2009.

Street Data

Street Data
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Publisher : Corwin
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781071812662
ISBN-13 : 1071812661
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Street Data by : Shane Safir

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.

Travels with Lizbeth

Travels with Lizbeth
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466836440
ISBN-13 : 146683644X
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Travels with Lizbeth by : Lars Eighner

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets is Lars Eighner’s account of his descent into homelessness and his adventures on the streets that has moved, charmed, and amused generations of readers. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paints a still life, not because he is especially fond of fruit, but because the subject is readily at hand.” Containing the widely anthologized essay “On Dumpster Diving,” Travels with Lizbeth is a beautifully written account of one man’s experience of homelessness, a story of physical survival, and the triumph of the artistic spirit in the face of enormous adversity. In his unique voice—dry, disciplined, poignant, comic—Eighner celebrates the companionship of his dog, Lizbeth, and recounts their ongoing struggle to survive on the streets of Austin, Texas, and hitchhiking along the highways to Southern California and back. “Lars Eighner is the Thoreau of the Dumpsters. Comparisons to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Hamsun’s Hunger leap to mind. A classic of down-and-out literature.”—Phillip Lopate, author of Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis “Eighner’s memoir contains the finest first-person writing we have about the experience of being homeless in America. Yet it’s not a dirge or a Bukowski-like scratching of the groin but an offbeat and plaintive hymn to life. It’s the sort of book that releases the emergency brake on your soul...A literate and exceedingly humane document.”—The New York Times

From Twitter to Tahrir Square

From Twitter to Tahrir Square
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 821
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ISBN-10 : 9798216088028
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis From Twitter to Tahrir Square by : Bala A. Musa

This timely guide examines the influence of social media in private, public, and professional settings, particularly the ethical implications of the cultural changes and trends created by their use. In the quest for quick dissemination of information, web users and content providers find both opportunity and liability in digital broadcasts. Examples abound: Twitter members tap into news reports well in advance of traditional print media, but stories are prone to inaccuracies and misinformation; Facebook shares useful data mined from member profiles, but this sharing often compromises privacy. It is no surprise that use of social media gives rise to a host of moral dilemmas never before encountered. This book sheds light on the effects of this new medium on the individual and society. Through two volumes chock full of topics found in news headlines everyday, the authors look at evolving trends in social media and their impact on privacy, politics, and journalism. The first volume explores the role of this technology on national and international security. Volume 2 focuses on the individual as both a producer and consumer of internet content, showing how the media itself is changing notions of self-identity, relationships, and popular culture. The book's content covers such topics as individual and community psychology, citizen journalism, and corporate technology.

Shadows of Our Night

Shadows of Our Night
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 188
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781462814398
ISBN-13 : 1462814395
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Shadows of Our Night by : Allyn C. Ryan

Danilo Cruz, a hardworking farm boy and the protagonist in Shadows of Our Night, starts off as a perceptive and sensitive young man who reflects on the countrys past in his valedictory address at high school graduation. He truly believes in the innate goodness of the people in his barrio. After he goes to Manila to study engineering, his altruistic nature begins to erode when he is exposed to the sordid conditions in the city. Through grit and tenacity of will, Danilo finds hope and love amidst the damning excesses of wealth and the battered ruins of human dignity.

English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary

English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary
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Publisher : Daniel B. Smith
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary by : Daniel B. Smith

Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.

The Voice that Won the Vote

The Voice that Won the Vote
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Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781534166738
ISBN-13 : 1534166734
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Voice that Won the Vote by : Elisa Boxer

In August of 1920, women's suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to vote. The historic moment came down to a single vote and the voter who tipped the scale toward equality did so because of a powerful letter his mother, Febb Burn, had written him urging him to "Vote for suffrage and don't forget to be a good boy." The Voice That Won the Vote is the story of Febb, her son Harry, and the letter than gave all American women a voice.