Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves - and the world - for the better.Īdmiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this number-one New York Times best seller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" ( Wall Street Journal).
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I expected to be writing a post that 100% rubbished all claims for this book to be banned, but I’d be lying if I said that I didnt raise my eyebrows at least once – but not because of the books “gay undertones”. Tango Makes Three could be integral to improving attitudes towards homosexuality. One of the reasons homophobic tension exists is because children are unfamiliar with it they fear and consequently hate what they do not know. What about kids who have two mummies or two daddies? Unlike the stories about princes and princesses, And Tango Makes Three gives children of same-sex relationships something to relate to and identify with. Introducing children to the reality of same-sex relationships at an early age would surely discourage homophobic idiocy in later life. Okay, so when I heard about the controversy surrounding this story, I thought, “what a big hullabaloo!”. Co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, the story revolves around two chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, who love each other dearly. One of these books, And Tango Makes Three, has been challenged and banned “for homosexuality, anti-family, and unsuited to age group.”Īmazon delivered it promptly this week, and I’ve spent the past couple of days mulling it over. As part of this years Banned Books Week in the US, I decided to read a couple of books from the ALA’s list of most-challenged books. Shabazz says we must still fight to end police brutality, and we must still fight to end injustice. Though it’s been 55 years since Malcolm X’s assassination, the killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery remind those carrying on X’s legacy that too little has changed. “We organized this day so that we could not only celebrate Malcolm,” says Shabazz, “but so that we could also create an alliance, and have people see the importance of coming together, the importance of planning, and strategizing around whatever it is we need to accomplish.” “You can’t help but to rely on his words as a reaction or precursor to what is happening today and what has continually happened,” Shabazz says, while also touting it as an opportunity for people to come together and acknowledge who her father really was and what it means a cohesive community, to be united in its fight for equity. Al Sharpton and Ayanna Pressley, “ Malcolm X Day” according to Shabazz, is a time to explore what his legacy means in this moment. With special musical guests Erykah Badu, Common, Chuck D., and Stevie Wonder, along with political activists like Angela Davis, the Rev. WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 21: Ilyasah Shabazz (L) and Angela Davis attends the rally at the Women’s March on Washington on Januin Washington, DC. You combine seeing and intuitive thinking to come up with your experiences from the picture. When you look at a picture, you immediately come up with quick conclusions about the events happening in the picture. Thinking Fast and Slow Summary Discover the two systems present in your mind that enables you to make decisions and conclusions. Anyone interested to learn how to use why to get desired results.ĭaniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. People who need to use persuasion to generate sales or inspire change.Readers who are interested in persuasive and leadership oriented books.It was the 2012 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in behavioral science, engineering and medicine. Thinking, Fast and Slow is a best-selling book published in 2011 by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking. In the end it did come together, but it took awhile to get to that payoff, and I still had a few issues. I'll admit, I wasn't 100% on board with this one the whole way through. Because as Liv slowly begins to discover, her father may not have invited her to Greece for Atlantis, but for something much more important. But not everything on the Greek island is as perfect as it seems. She also definitely doesn’t want Theo, her father’s charismatic so-called protégé, to witness her struggle.Įven so, she can't help but be charmed by everything Santorini has to offer-the beautiful sunsets, the turquoise water, the sun-drenched villages, and the delicious cuisine. Liv doesn’t want to get sucked back into her father's world. There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. When she arrives in gorgeous Santorini, things are just as awkward as she'd imagined. So when teenage Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father, who explains that National Geographic is supporting a documentary about his theories on Atlantis-and asks if she will fly out to Greece and help-Liv is less than thrilled. Liv Varanakis doesn’t like to think about her father much, which makes sense-he fled to Greece when she was only eight, leaving her with just a few painful memories of their shared love for the lost city of Atlantis. Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan. The book has a broad appeal: to both literary audiences, intrigued by Safran Foer's new way of writing and to design and art audiences who will revel in the book's remarkable and unique visual experience. A complete list of all Jonathan Safran Foers books in order (7 books). As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. Eli’s Triumph by Joanna Wylde Peaches Taylor spent the last seven years slinging drinks and dodging drunks at the Starkwood Saloon. Colt isn’t about to let his friend lose his sister again so soon…or miss his own chance at a happy ending with Macie before they’ve barely had a beginning. Add in Truck’s boss, Colonel Colton Robinson, an amazingly distracting man whom she met under embarrassing circumstances, and Macie’s got a bit more on her plate than she can handle. It should be the happiest time of her life, getting to know Truck and his new wife…and it would be, if an ex wasn’t causing her trouble. But Cipher has other ideas… Rescuing Macie by Susan Stoker After years of estrangement, Mercedes Laughlin has finally reconciled with her older brother. All she has to do is appeal to Cipher’s burgeoning dark side. When she’s assigned to ensure that Cipher carries out their boss’s orders, she sees an opportunity to take revenge on those who wronged her. Lyre is a fallen angel with a heart full of hate. Cipher by Larissa Ione It’s been seven months since Cipher, an Unfallen angel who straddled a razor thin line between good and evil, woke up in hell with a new set of wings, a wicked pair of fangs, and a handler who’s as beautiful as she is dangerous. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Larissa Ione, Susan Stoker, Joanna Wylde, and Carly Phillips. This sets in motion a series of compromise amendments in Congress that avoids war while enabling slavery to remain in those states that have it in place – all bound by a final 18th Amendment forbidding these amendments ever be changed. The tilting point in Winters’s alternative history is having the assassination of Abraham Lincoln occurring just before the Civil War is about to commence. He is standing on the shoulders of writers like Philip K Dick, whose The Man in the High Castle was set in a world where the Allies had lost the war and America was split between the Japanese and the Nazis. Ben H Winters has woven a provocative idea into a compelling narrative, driven fast and hard by a deeply conflicted protagonist.Īlternative histories may not be new, but Winters has made his high-concept novel highly readable as well thought-provoking. Underground Airlines is set in modern day USA – basically the same except for one overwhelming difference: the Civil War never happened, and slavery still exists. Tags: Abraham LIncoln/ alternative history/ American Civil War/ Ben H Winters Her aunt goes downstairs with her and waits outside while Amor has to go back to the hostel to pack her suitcase. It’s a sorrow we all have to bear, she adds in a serious voice, while Tannie Marina trembles and dabs at her eyes with a tissue, though she has always looked down on Ma and doesn’t care at all that she’s dead, even if she isn’t. Or maybe she did once and has been permanently disgusted ever since. Some of the other girls say Miss Starkey is a lesbian, but it’s hard to imagine her doing anything sexy with anyone. I’m sorry, Miss Starkey says again, covering her big teeth behind thin, pressed-together lips. And especially not to Ma, who will always, always be alive. But now that the moment has really come, it feels far away and dreamy. Amor has been waiting and waiting for this moment for so long, has imagined it so many times, that it already seems like a fact. This is in Miss Starkey’s office, where the voice over the Tannoy told her to go. She looks at the word, lying there on the desk like an insect on its back, with no explanation. It can’t be true, what her aunt has just told her. But when the words are said to her aloud, she doesn’t believe them. You are sure to fall in love with Key's menagerie of colorful characters and laugh-out loud storytelling talents.Īdvance Praise for How to Pick Up Women with a Drunk Space Ninja How to Pick Up Women with a Drunk Space Ninja is the first book in the Adventures of Duke LaGrange, a series of hilarious sci-fi adventure romps from the creative mind of Jay Key. The bounty hunting duo will need to navigate a violent rebellion, flying fire breathing panthers, and mutated swamp cannibals in order to avoid being stranded light years from the nearest well-made martini. To top it off, this particular planet comes with its own insane ruler and an Orb that Controls Everything and Must be Respected. Few things are worse than undeveloped planets especially those that haven't even made it to the souffl� stage. When bounty hunter Duke LaGrange and his oft inebriated Japanese-Irish ninja companion, Ishiro'shea, entered their favorite watering hole, Cyborg Joe's Grill N' Go & The Why Not Saloon, they had no idea that they would soon be gobbled up by an unhinged astral anomaly and deposited on an uncharted primitive world. Welcome to the gut busting and page turning universe of Duke LaGrange! Anthropomorphic musk oxen from the moons of Gartosh. |