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  Push Play - Gaming For a Better...

  Songyee Yoon

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  Play is in our DNA.We game to experiment and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together.Yoon is president and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSOFT, a global video game company based in South Korea. Yoon’s work lies at the intersection of expertise and equity in emerging technologies. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community.Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all.

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  Gladys Aylward - The Little Woman

  Christine Hunter, Gladys Aylward

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  A solitary woman. A foreign country. An unknown language. An impossible dream? No.With  no mission board to support or guide her, and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England  to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled  to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God triumphed over impossible  situations, and drew people to Himself. In Gladys Aylward: My Missionary Life in China, Gladys tells her story—a  remarkable tale of one woman's determination to serve God at any cost. A true story of a determined missionary, Gladys  Aylward: My Missionary Life in China will challenge you to bold and expectant faith.

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  Hemingway's Passions - His Women...

  Nancy W Sindelar, Mariel Hemingway

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  Ernest Hemingway's passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by the many women in his life. His masculine, adventurous spirit appealed to women of all ages, including four wives and a long list of legendary actresses, and he frequently transformed the women in his life into memorable fictional characters. 
   
   
   
  In 1950, Hemingway told Marlene Dietrich that he truly loved only five women. Who were these women and why did he love them? Some of them may have included his wives, but there were others too, among them Agnes von Kurowsky. Through quotations from his works and personal letters, Hemingway scholar Nancy W. Sindelar captures Hemingway's life and romantic adventures, revealing his own feelings about his romantic relationships and the ways his experiences with women appear in his literary works. 
   
   
   
  Much has been written about Hemingway, but to date no book has linked the women he loved to his written work. The stories of Hemingway's romantic relationships reveal not only the influence these women had on his writing but also his personal ambition, heartbreak, and literary triumphs and trials. Sindelar's provocative analyses of Hemingway's literature give fresh insight into the life of a legendary author, outdoorsman, adventurer, and lover.

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  Running From Office -...

  Eoghan Murphy

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  'A wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life' - Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'Wryly self-deprecating, but also informative and illuminating' - Matt CooperAs Ireland's Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy took on one of the toughest briefs in government, one that continues to be a challenge today. Looking back at his life in the build-up to parliamentary office and at his time in the cabinet, Eoghan brings a self-lacerating and deeply personal view of the life of a modern politician trying - and often failing - to make the positive change he hoped to deliver. Brutal and sometimes harrowing, Eoghan's tale is also surprisingly funny, though the humour is only ever at the author's expense. If, in the end, all political careers end in failure, why didn't anyone tell the author that? There are no heroes or villains here, just a person facing their own limitations as they navigate the unfamiliar world of campaigns, elected office and government responsibility.Bringing refreshing candour to the pressures and absurdity of politics, this book shows us who our politicians really are when there's nothing left to spin and no one there to spin it to.

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  Memoirs of My Dead Life

  George Moore

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  "Memoirs of My Dead Life" by George Moore unfolds as a compelling introspection into the protagonist's past. In this autobiographical novel, Moore navigates the labyrinth of memory, revisiting love affairs, artistic endeavors, and personal struggles. The narrative explores the complexities of identity, regret, and the passage of time with poetic eloquence. As the protagonist reflects on the ghosts of their past, the novel becomes a poignant exploration of the human condition, leaving readers captivated by the timeless themes of life's transient nature and the enduring power of memory.

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  Life Lessons Learned From a...

  Lonnee Rey

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  This book is funny, insightful and impactful. The upside of an upside-down upbringing, author Lonnee Rey empowers readers to move past the impact of a ‘lousy mom.’ Masterful storytelling takes you through rough rides quickly, and lands lightly, offering solutions you can use right away. 
  It isn't a 'heavy' book. In fact, it is a quick read that can you make sense of the insanity, finally. 
  Universal truths and witty one-liners will serve you for the rest of your life, for truly these are life lessons learned from turning lemons into lemonade. 
  The author is all-too-familiar with the guilt, pain, and loss of self-esteem suffered in the hands of a mother who did not want to be a mother most of the time. She gets it, shares it, shows you how to break free of it. 
  Lonnee is your guide, and this, your guide book to better times...no matter what your messed-up mother told you!

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