Reading Work

James Baldwin gives an electrifying reading about a young gay American in Paris recalling a dramatic and transforming incident from his boyhood, as he struggles to accept his sexual identity.

Updated and Expanded Edition of the Leadership Bestseller Harness the meaning of love, the verb, to improve your corporate culture and bottom line with the help of Joel Manby, former President and CEO of both SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and Herschend Enterprises. Joel won the respect of...

You sense there’s more to tarot than prediction—but how do you access its deeper potential for self-discovery? You’ve pulled cards seeking breakthrough insight, only to find that standard interpretations sometimes fall short. You’ve journaled, reflected, and searched for deeper meaning, yet certain patterns still feel hard to understand. What if the missing piece is the shadow—the hidden side of the psyche that Carl Jung believed plays an essential role in becoming whole? This book teaches you to explore tarot through the lens of Jungian depth psychology, transforming each card ...

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a...

Welcome to Marcos Entre Dos Mundos “Hola de nuevo… ¿Estás listo para vivir entre dos mundos?” If you understood that — including fue recibido and se han enriquecido — you’re ready for Level B2.1. This is the seventh book in the Leer español sin adivinar series and your gateway to advanced, confident Spanish. An International Story. A Higher Level. Marcos has built a life in Barcelona — career, family, fiancée. Then comes Bogotá. A major Colombian contract transforms his professional world. Over eighteen months, he navigates cultural adaptation, ethical dilemmas, long-...

After lifelong best friends are transported to a mythic island, they discover that their memories of each other are the price of returning home in DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island The Deluxe Junior Novelization. In theaters September 25, 2026! From the filmmakers of Puss in Boots: The...

A plain‑English guide that reveals the hidden physics inside everyday machines—so you can finally see how the hardware around you actually works. Machines shape almost everything you touch: the car in the driveway, the furnace in the basement, the refrigerator humming in the kitchen, the power plant miles away that keeps the lights on. Behind every one of them is the quiet, elegant discipline that turns physical law into working hardware. This book is a plain-English tour of that discipline, written for readers who want to understand what is really happening inside pumps, engines, coils...

The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included a collaboration with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by Sputnik and panicked by paperwork eagerly embraced her promises of a speed-reading revolution.

We are all influenced every single day of our lives by both the positive and well as the negative. Influencing people requires you to have a certain power over them.

Are you tired of Arabic books that teach you how to say "The moon is beautiful" but NOT how to ask "Where is the nearest pharmacy"? You are not alone. Most Arabic learning books are filled with classical literature, folk tales, or endless grammar tables. They prepare you for a test, not for real life. This book is different. What makes this book different? This is not a book for entertainment. This is a survival tool. Every story solves a real communication problem you will face when: Traveling to Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, UAE, Saudi, or Jordan Immigrating for work or residency Dealing with ...

Bloomsbury presents Dyslexia Unlocked: How to be successful in work and life, written and read by Natalie Brooks You are capable of achieving anything you want in life. It’s not your dyslexia that’s holding you back, but the way you engage with it. Learn simple, practical solutions to manage...

This allocation volume turns the confusing cloud invoice into a shared story across executive, engineering, and finance lenses by teaching schema design, enforcement, showback, chargeback, dashboards, communication, pitfalls, and a runnable first ninety day rollout plan through a five-person cast that walks a real client through the practice. Your cloud invoice is unreadable and nobody in the room can quite agree on what any of it means. This is the calm, plain-English handbook that turns the raw line items into a shared story an executive, an engineer, and a controller can all read in the ...

Discover the behaviors and responses successful people have in common. Many years of counseling have enabled Dr. Henry Cloud to observe people trying to work out the most important issues of life: relationships, career, fulfillment, meaning, pain, hurt, loss, despair, and addictions. If we...

Your organization - business, church, or nonprofit - will experience unprecedented growth when you close the gap between these two game-changing questions: What are we known for? What do we want to be known for? In Know What You're FOR, entrepreneur and thought leader Jeff Henderson makes it...

Do you have anyone in your life who can't seem to stick with a project, meet a deadline, or even clean up after themselves? All of us feel we deserve special treatment sometimes. Some people live with this entitled attitude, such as: Professionals who wander from job to job looking for a boss...

What does it take to achieve your personal and professional goals? When is the right time to take calculated risks, and how do you prepare for the moment when opportunity presents itself? If anyone can show you how to do this, it’s Nicole Lynn. As the first Black female agent to represent a...

Leadership by the Good Book will inspire, empower, and equip men and women to lead their businesses, their teams, their ministries, and even their families to greater heights and to have an eternal impact. For David L. Steward, founder and chairman of World Wide Technology, his philosophy for...

You have a deck of tarot cards sitting on a shelf, perhaps gifted by a friend or bought on a whim, but every time you pick it up, it feels like a secret language you weren't invited to learn. Most books demand you memorize ancient occult histories or believe in psychic predictions before you even shuffle. The Tarot, Clearly is a different kind of guide. This book strips away the mystery to reveal the logic, structure, and beauty of the 78 cards. You won't find fortune-telling here. Instead, you'll discover a grounded system for self-reflection that works like a mirror for your life. Verity ...

Discipleship is the buzzword today. Many believers are contemplating in a fresh way what it means to take the Great Commission seriously. Rediscovering Discipleship takes the guesswork out of Christian maturity. Based on insights gained from a decade of personally making disciples, author and...

This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering...