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Working on Purpose
How to find happiness at work
- Narrated by
- Ellen Scott
Unabridged
8 hours 17 min
2025
EN
The way we work is broken. How do we fix it?The rise of quiet quitting and bare minimum Mondays, the realisation that 'dream jobs' are as rare as unicorns and a shared sense of growing disillusionment are all signs that our relationship with work has reached breaking point. For many of us, it can feel like there are only two options to choose from when it comes to our career: relentless burnout or stifling boreout.In Working on Purpose, journalist ...
2011
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"This is a terrific story, beautifully written, and completely enthralling."—Dorothy AllisonIn post-Katrina New Orleans, dying wishes can cure cancer, eliminate cats, bring back Elvis (1968 vintage), and turn the clouds orange. Divorced and disgraced up north, Victor hopes to live a carefree, drunken existence in the French Quarter, making capes and corsets and lusting for the girl who lives across the street—until the hysteria surrounding "death wishing" changes his world in ways ...
2015
EN
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The World Social Forum (WSF) has become the focus for a diverse array of movements advancing alternative visions of globalisation. The numerous WSF's have helped to connect activists in an increasingly dense network of advocates for radical social change. They have mobilised hundreds of thousands of people and may be one of the most important political developments of our time. The Handbook of World Social Forum Activism brings together leading scholars of the social forum process from Nor...
2017
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Four brothers determined to restore their family’s glory… Four women destined to tame the Lions of the Black Isle… Four brand-new Highland tales from USA Today and bestselling authors Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott.The Stolen BrideBook OneWhen the eldest Lion of the Black Isle, is jilted he takes drastic measures to turn his fortunes, and discovers that only true love can really save a man.
When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
2004
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They're hallmarks of childhood. The endless "why" questions. The desire to touch and taste everything. The curiosity and the observations.It can't be denied-children have an inherent desire to know. Teachers and parents can either encourage this natural inquisitiveness or squelch it. There is joy in the classroom when children learn-not to take a test, not to get a grade, not to compete with each other, and not to please their parents or their teachers-but because they want to know...
2017
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Jeaneane Lewis is a disturbed graduate student in a crime writing program who makes a grisly discovery: in the heart of the college/prison town of New Royal, Ohio, a military widow and her two small children lay dead in a frigid garden pond, watched over by a shivering, ex-cadaver dog named Daddy. The murders go unsolved, but Lewis manages to publish a vivid account of her experience before she falls prey to years of writer’s block and drug addiction that make her a terrible student but an...
2022
EN
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamil...
2017
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Four brothers determined to restore their family’s glory… Four women destined to tame the Lions of the Black Isle… Four brand-new Highland tales from USA Today and bestselling authors Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott.He is forced to marry for money, but won’t give up love. Even an impoverished Lion of the Black Isle can charm a wife into falling in love with him.A Scarsdale Publishing Half Hour ReadOther books in the Lions of the Black Isle seriesThe Stolen...
2017
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The Stolen BrideFour brothers determined to restore their family’s glory… Four women destined to tame the Lions of the Black Isle… Four brand-new Highland tales from USA Today and bestselling authors Sue-Ellen Welfonder and Tarah Scott.When the eldest Lion of the Black Isle, is jilted he takes drastic measures to turn his fortunes, and discovers that only true love can really save a man.The Convenient BrideHe is forced to marry for money, but won’t give up l...
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- Bloomsbury Handbooks
2021
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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and communication, this handbook provides a foundation for identifying and understanding many of t...
Working on Purpose
How to find happiness at work
2025
EN
The way we work is broken. How do we fix it?The rise of quiet quitting and bare minimum Mondays, the realisation that 'dream jobs' are as rare as unicorns and a shared sense of growing disillusionment are all signs that our relationship with work has reached breaking point. For many of us, it can feel like there are only two options to choose from when it comes to our career: relentless burnout or stifling boreout.In Working on Purpose, journalist ...
Intersecting Aesthetics
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
2023
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Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. SmithIntersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation bet...











