Bøger af William Bridges

Celebrating 40 years of the best-selling guide for coping with life's changes, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development--with a new Discussion Guide for readers, written by Susan Bridges and aimed at today's current people and organisations facing unprecedented change

This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.

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Title: Map of the city of New-York and island of Manhattan: with explanatory remarks and references.Author: William BridgesPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03973100CollectionID: CTRG02-B426PublicationDate: 18110101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Does not include the map. This was issued separately.Collation: 54 p

The source of Fortune 's widely discussed cover story "The End of the Job," Job Shift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new employment realities and uncovers new opportunities. Read Job Shift to understand how to generate secure work for yourself next year,and how we'll think about work for the next forty years.

In "Breath & Other Ventures," Bill Bridges has created a companion piece to his earlier "Places & Stories." But this time there's a more personal note, as he recounts how he dealt with an inherited respiratory ailment while at the same time exploring Zen breathing meditation. The "other ventures" of the title include a memoir constructed from notebooks of the 1970s, the story of a summer as a Washington newsman, an essay on "forgotten writers," and another GeeGee Dapple detective story, about a retired British editor who solves crimes through astute journalistic observation.

In "Under the Heaven Tree," journalist and poet William Bridges paints a rich picture of growing up in two Indiana towns, Franklin and Vincennes, from the 1930s through the 1950s. It is the story of an unusual family of artists, of a secret marriage, of hidden scandal, and the characters who once populated small towns, including the creator of the world's only six-person harmonica and a man who climbed the town monument to disarm the Civil War soldier. Most of all, it is a valentine to the writer's mother and father, and to a long-lost America.

The author of the best-selling Transitions turns inward, revealing how personal tragedy can yield growth and rejuvenation