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  Lessons in Leadership

  Paula S. Wallace

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  As the founder and president of SCAD, Paula Wallace has reshaped higher education and transformed creative industries. In Lessons in Leadership, Wallace describes a new model for leaders informed by her more than 50 years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, university founder, and chief executive. 
  Drawing from research, interviews, and her own lifetime of stories—as she transformed a tiny art school into the world’s most comprehensive university for creative professions—she provides 10 practical and immediately applicable lessons for new and established leaders. 
  With wit and warmth, Wallace empowers listeners to apply these lessons in their work, studies, and life writ large.

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  The Gospel of the Hold Steady -...

  Michael Hann, The Hold Steady

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  On January 22, 2003, four men stepped onto a stage in Brooklyn and did something no one else was doing at that time, in that place. They played rock 'n' roll: old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with skyscraping riffs and sloppy solos, topped with extraordinary lyrics about an out-of-focus America, blurred by pills and powders, of crime and fear and desperation and redemption. Twenty years later, The Hold Steady are one of America's most beloved rock bands, famed for live shows that turn unbelievers into converts and for a catalog filled with some of the most exciting yet poetic music of the twenty-first century. To mark those twenty years, The Hold Steady tell their full story. An oral history, based on interviews with everyone who has played in the band, and those who have worked with them over the course of their career, The Gospel of the Hold Steady addresses all the triumphs and setbacks of The Hold Steady's career in the band's own words?from high times to near deaths, from the brink of splitting to their current renaissance. The Gospel of The Hold Steady is completed by essays about America's greatest bar band by writers Rob Sheffield, Laura Barton, Isaac Fitzgerald, and Michael Hann, as well as the thoughts and memories of The Unified Scene?the fans who have helped define the band's identity over the years. This is a book for anyone who understands that the magic of rock 'n' roll happens on a stage in a small room with voices raised from the crowd.

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  Waqt Di Canvas Te

  Gurdeep Singh Varrach

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  This book, Waqt Di Canvas Te, written by Gurdeep Singh Varrach, presents real-life memories, events, and experiences in a unique style, covering various topics gathered over the years. It includes engaging travel stories and valuable information on many other subjects. The author shares incidents, happenings, and fascinating tales from his personal life, revealing hidden insights into living well. Each piece concludes with thoughtful hints and tips for leading an organized and successful life, adding great value to the work. The vivid descriptions of natural scenery bring peace to the mind. We are confident you will truly enjoy this creation.

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  I Fear for this Boy

  Theo Fennell

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  SPECTATOR WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022"I ripped through I Fear For This Boy like a train, snorting with laughter and delight as I rattled along, pulled by the power of Fennell's unique story-telling genius.... I can't recommend the ride highly enough." - Stephen FryThe heart-warming memoir from British jewellery and silverware designer, Theo Fennell.From the depths of financial despair to the glittering celebrity world of the rich and famous, Theo Fennell's journey has been anything but predictable. With humour, candour and self-depreciation, Fennell charts the highs and lows of his remarkable career, from dealing with hardened criminals to designing for Elton John, Lady Gaga and Madonna."A highly amusing - even glittering - romp" - The Guardian

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  Jimmy Bluefeather

  Kim Heacox

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  Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ("with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in"), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. 
   
   
   
  When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb's senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue's gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.

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  Running for Our Lives - Stories...

  Rachel Ann Cullen

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  ‘Every time I speak to someone and hear about their experiences, it leaves me with a sense of running’s incredible power to help people overcome pretty much anything.’
   
  Each day, millions of people around the world put on their trainers and try to deal with their personal demons and life challenges by going for a run. And, increasingly, they do it knowing that they are not alone: a growing and often virtual community is right there running alongside them. We are all, in some sense, running for our lives.
   
  Rachel Ann Cullen’s first book, Running for My Life, described her own marathon journey through depression, bipolar disorder and body dysmorphia, and her revelatory discovery that running could transform her physical and mental wellbeing. After hearing from people who had read about her experiences, Rachel wanted to tell some stories of other runners from all around the world – ordinary people living with mental health struggles, grief, cancer and other unavoidable life events who have relied on running to get them through their worst days and to keep going. Running for Our Lives shares moving accounts of hope and resilience; it demonstrates the power of running to help us all overcome adversity, and is a lesson for us all in learning not only how to survive life’s challenges, but to thrive.

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