Search:

Results 451 to 460 of 768 | « previous |

Slow Productivity The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout [electronic resource] : by Newport, Cal.aut; cloudLibrary;
A New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and IndieBound bestseller "Brilliant and timely" — Oliver Burkeman ~ Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. ~ From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of  burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers – from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe – Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,” a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative. From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Skills; Time Management; Success;
© 2024., Penguin Publishing Group,
unAPI

Fear nothing : a novel / by Gardner, Lisa.;
"In #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Detective D. D. Warren must face a new fear as a serial killer terrorizes Boston. My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work. My sister is Shana Day, a notorious murderer who first killed at fourteen. Incarcerated for thirty years, she has now murdered more people while in prison than she did as a free woman. Six weeks later, a second woman is discovered murdered in her own bed, her room containing the same calling cards from the first: a bottle of champagne and a single red rose. The only person who may have seen the killer: Detective D. D. Warren, who still can't lift her child, load her gun, or recall a single detail from the night that may have cost her everything. Our father was Harry Day, an infamous serial killer who buried young women beneath the floor of our home. He has been dead for forty years. Except the Rose Killer knows things about my father he shouldn't. My sister claims she can help catch him. I think just because I can't feel pain doesn't mean my family can't hurt me. D.D. may not be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women, he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down: Fear nothing"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Antisocial personality disorders; Police; Serial murderers; Sisters; Warren, D. D. (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

Pokémon adventures, X-Y. [graphic novel] / by Kusaka, Hidenori,author.; Miyaki, Tetsuichiro,translator.; Turnage, Bryant,author.; Yamamoto, Satoshi(Illustrator),illustrator.;
"Two Pokémon Trainers, Korrina and her grandfather Gurkinn, escape from the Tower of Mastery only to be confronted by Team Flare. Is the mysterious new Trainer who suddenly appears with a Gardevoir their friend or foe?! Meanwhile, X and his friends head for Cyllage City in search of Y's mother but encounter Yvette, Y's Sky Trainer school classmate, along the way."Rated A for all ages.
Subjects: Action and adventure comics.; Graphic novels.; Manga.; Pokémon (Fictitious characters); Pokémon (Game); Quests (Expeditions);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Murder with orange pekoe tea / by Smith, Karen Rose.;
Daisy's orange pekoe is flowing at a fundraiser--and she's also made a new friend, Piper, a young woman whose hopes for motherhood were dashed by a foul-up at a fertility clinic. But before they can settle into a long conversation, the event is disrupted by masked protestors who object to building a shelter in Willow Creek. Among the angry crowd is Eli--who left his Amish community some time ago, with help from a lawyer named Hiram. It just so happens that Hiram is also representing the fertility clinic in a class-action suit--and soon afterward, he turns up dead, felled by an insulin injection. Daisy can't help but get drawn in, especially since Piper's husband had been pretty steamed at the victim and didn't hide it. She'd love to spend some time with the dog she and her boyfriend have just adopted--but first she'll be straining to find a killer...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women detectives; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Highlander's Return A Novel [electronic resource] : by Sands, Lynsay.aut; cloudLibrary;
A bold warrior who never expected to marry meets his match in a fiery young widow in this latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’s Highland Brides series, perfect for fans of Outlander. Graeme Gunn is a warrior through and through. A second son, he left home years ago to battle his way through Scotland as a mercenary. But with his brother William’s death, Graeme is forced to return to his clan—which now includes William’s grieving widow, Annella Mackay. And Graeme is stunned to find that the beautiful, determined woman at the keep is nothing like the meek lass he remembers from William’s wedding years ago… Annella Mackay once had hopes for a loving marriage, a dream that shattered when her husband abandoned her. Hiding her pain, she embraced the roles of both laird and lady of the Gunn clan with spirit. But with William’s death, she finally has a chance at a new dream, and she won’t let anything deter her plans. Not even Graeme, no matter how strong her attraction to the strong-willed warrior, or how much she enjoys his kisses… It's an explosion of passion and clash of wills from the start, especially when Graeme decides to stay and claim his title. And when the threat of a hidden enemy rears its head, Graeme and Annella realize that in fighting for their home they might also be fighting for their love. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Scottish;
© 2024., HarperCollins,
unAPI

The honeymoon affair / by O'Flanagan, Sheila,author.;
Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn't after her fiancé broke her heart. She's not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is undeniable. And what does she have to lose? In Ireland, Charles's ex-wife and agent Ariel flits from party to party, glamorous and poised. She's in constant contact with Charles. They're very close. Ariel wonders if they should get back together. She's an independent woman, but she liked being part of a power couple. And she's sure she only has to say, and they'll pick up where they left off. No matter how in control of life you think you are, it can shock and surprise you. As Izzy, Ariel and Charles are about to find out.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Choice (Psychology); Divorced men; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Single women; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Vacations;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Tilly in technicolor / by Eddings, Mazey,author.;
Tilly Twomley white-knuckling her way through high school with flawed executive functioning has left her burnt out and ready to start fresh. Working as an intern for her perfect older sister's start up requires her to travel around Europe, offering a much-needed change of scenery as she plans for her future. Oliver Clark's autism often makes it hard for him to form relationships, but his love of color theory and design allows him to feel deeply connected to the world around him. He's earned placement into a prestigious design program, and a summer internship to build his resume. But now he's being forced to spend the summer with a girl that couldn't be more his opposite -- and feeling things for her he can't quite name. As their neurodiverse connection grows, they learn that some of the best parts of life can't be planned.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Autism spectrum disorders; Autism; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology); Internship programs; Interpersonal relations; Love; Americans; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Autism spectrum disorders; Autism; Identity; Internship programs; Interpersonal relations; Love;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Noel letters / by Evans, Richard Paul,author.;
"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future. She begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, and in doing so, starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family. As the holidays draw near, she receives a Christmastime revelation that changes not only how she sees the past but also how she views her future"--
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Bookstores; Letters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

The last orphan / by Hurwitz, Gregg,author.;
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out. When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar. Having eliminated most of the Orphans in the program, the government will stop at nothing to eliminate the threat they see in Evan. But Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of his pursuers. Until he makes one little mistake ... Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal - eliminate a rich, powerful man she says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive. But when Evan left the Program he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he has to decide what's more important - his principles or his life"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Smoak, Evan (Fictitious character); Assassins; Presidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

My book of fossils / by Lomax, Dean R.;
Includes glossary and index.What are fossils? -- Types of fossils -- Making a fossil -- Fossil record -- Fossil sites -- Paleontology tools -- Collecting fossils -- Stromatolite -- Cooksonia -- Zamites -- Pecopteris -- Lepidodendron -- Porana -- Woodocrinus -- Rhizopoterion -- Thecosmilia -- Pygurus -- Didymograptus -- Tibia -- Hallucigenia -- Tullimonstrum -- Trilobites -- Pterygotus -- Archimedes -- Aviculopecten -- Meganeura -- Cyrtospirifer -- Cylindroteuthis -- Ammonites -- Gemstone fossils -- First fossil finders -- Pycnodus -- Otodus megalodon -- Coccosteus -- Drepanaspis -- Tiktaalik -- Eryops -- Echmatemys -- Edaphosaurus -- Stenopterydius -- Elasmosaurus -- Scaphognathus -- Platecarpus -- Dinosaurs -- Stegosaurus -- Euoplocephalus -- Ornithopods -- Patagotitan -- Khaan -- Triceratops -- Stegoceras -- Tyrannosaurus -- Velociraptor -- Archaeopteryx -- Confuciusornis -- Dinornis -- Dorudon -- Prehistoric world -- Morganucodon -- Gomphotherium -- Ursus spelaeus -- Coelodonta -- Smilodon -- Mammuthus -- Mylodon -- Australopithecus -- Excavation -- Recent discoveries -- Future fossils -- All together -- Glossary.Unearth the treasures from the prehistoric world underneath your feet. From glittering ammonites to razor-sharp dinosaur claws and delicate leaf impressions, uncover our world's prehistoric past through the incredible fossils left behind. Arranged by plant or animal type, there are profiles of 50 key fossils, including well-loved favorites, such as Triceratops, and more curious remains, such as fossil fish teeth. Learn all about how fossils form, where they are found, and how ancient animals are reconstructed. Filled with facts and containing newly discovered species, even the biggest fossil fans will learn something new from this book. Stunning photographs can be studied in detail, while pronunciation guides help with tricky names, and a visual index provides a quick overview of all the key plants and animals in the book.LSC
Subjects: Fossils; Dinosaurs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 451 to 460 of 768 | « previous |