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In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season, one stood out: the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons. Beyond Ross's remarkably strong play, he became the ultimate positive force in the Cubs locker room, mentoring and motivating his fellow players, some of them nearly 20 years his junior.

Many years of working with the dying showed the authors that certain lessons come up over and over again. Some of these lessons are enormously difficult to master but even the attempts to understand them can be deeply rewarding. Here, in 14 accessible chapters, from the "Lesson of Love" to the "Lesson of Happiness", the authors reveal the truth about our fears, our hopes, our relationships, and above all, about the grandness of who we really are.

Remarkable! is an entertaining and enlightening business parable that has the power to turn any team around. Through the humorous and eye-opening story of Dusty, leaders will discover how to build a culture that inspires team members to bring the best of who they are to the table every day. Addressing the three dimensions of culture - values, beliefs, and behaviors - Remarkable! introduces listeners to the Four Maxims of Value Creation: creativity, positivity, sustainability, and responsibility.

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom. In this warm and candid memoir, filled with loving recollections from the award-winning Happy Days team - from break-out star Henry Winkler to Cunningham "wild child" Erin Moran - Ross shares what it was like to be a starry-eyed young girl with dreams in poor, rural Minnesota, and the resilience, sacrifices, and determination it took to make them come true.

How did the 2016 Presidential-primary debates become insult-laden, substance-free shouting contests?...

Learn from David Doren Ross as he explains playing T’ai Chi.

In the Nicomachean Ethics (so called after their first editor, Aristotle's son Nicomachus) Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man: the life of happiness or eudaimonia. Happiness for Aristotle is the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. Virtue is shown in the deliberate choice of actions as part of a worked-out plan of life, a plan which takes a middle course between excess and deficiency.

Learn how the practice of T'ai Chi removes the roadblocks and challenges you face in life and allows you to feel healthier and happier than you thought possible. David-Dorian Ross, American T'ai Chi Master, will help you bring balance, power and integrity into your everyday experience.

This is an audiobook of short stories that will take you on a fantastic journey from the present and past and sometimes even off the planet! These stories are from the internationally known group Celestial Navigations headed up by well-known character actor Geoffrey Lewis. Each story is fully scored as if they were movies without pictures, but will allow you to conjure up images from your imagination that will touch and inspire you in ways you have never experienced.

On Monday, Indra Nooyi, the chief executive of Pepsi, picked up the phone and began calling other prominent corporate chieftains who — like her — had agreed to advise President Donald Trump.

"After Trump Hedges His Condemnation of Hate, CEOs Organize a Mass Defection" is from the August 16, 2017 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by David Gelles, Landon Thomas Jr., Andrew Ross Sorkin and Kate Kelly and narrated by Kristi Burns.

This issue contains nine articles: "So Long Joe", by Roger Angell; "The Fires", by Dana Goodyear; "Condi's Party Starter", by Jesse Lichtenstein; "Future Reading", by Anthony Grafton; "The Dog", by Roddy Doyle; "Running on Fumes", by Elizabeth Kolbert; "All Souls", by Peter Schjeldahl; "The Endless Scroll", by Alex Ross; and "Drug Warriors", by David Denby.

How can one touch the Chi to lead towards happiness?

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.

David Doren Ross breaks down for you the basics of ‘what is Ta’I Chi?’

What does balance have to do with life?

David Doren Ross explains rule four.

T’ai Chi isn’t just movements made with the upper body, it also starts from below.

T’ai Chi can do many things for the people that partake in it, and one of the things is finding balance.

David Doren Ross explains rule one.

David Doren Ross explains rule three.