Love for Imperfect Things

Renowned and loved for her refreshing candour on everyday issues, social, domestic and intimate, Stacey Solomon reminds us how important it is to embrace ourselves; the good, bad and the ugly.Stacey’s authenticity and her courage to say what others daren’t opens discussions on sensitive but significant topics; her lack of sex drive after having kids, her battles with anxiety, the lows of motherhood and even the importance of hairy legs.In Happily Imperfect, be moved to tears and laughter by joining Stacey in her journey so far, as she reveals how to stay positive despite the everyday pressure to be and look perfect. Told through hilarious, sometimes moving, and always charming anecdotes, discover how to get the best out of life by being positive, not following the crowd, and trusting your gut instincts.Covering how to navigate motherhood, deal with anxiety and prejudice, as well as the experience of getting older, Stacey has plenty of words of wisdom to share. With tips and tricks on how to apply a positive mindset within your own day-to-day life, become emotionally freer and happier with Stacey by your side.

Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention of marriage for love inverted the old relationship between love and marriage. In the past, marriage was sacred, and love, if it existed at all, was a consequence of marriage; today, love is sacred and marriage is secondary. But now marriage appears to be becoming increasingly superfluous. For the past forty years or so, the number of weddings has been declining, the number of divorces exploding and the number of unmarried individuals and couples growing, while single-parent families are becoming more numerous. Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside. So has the ideal of marriage for love failed, and has love finally been liberated from the shackles of marriage? In this brilliant and provocative book Pascal Bruckner argues that the old tension between love and marriage has not been resolved in favour of love, it has simply been displaced onto other levels. Even if it seems more straightforward, the contemporary landscape of love is far from euphoric: as in the past, infidelity, loss and betrayal are central to the plots of modern love, and the disenchantment is all the greater because marriages are voluntary and not imposed. But the collapse of the ideal of marriage for love is not necessarily a cause for remorse, because it demonstrates that love retains its subversive power. Love is not a glue to be put in the service of the institution of marriage: it is an explosive that blows up in our faces, dynamite pure and simple.

Praise for The Imperfect Board Member «Finally! A book about boards that isn't boring!» –Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team «Everyone wins with good governance–countries, corporations, and community groups. In a compelling style like no one before him, Jim Brown helps leaders understand the keys for boardroom excellence. The Imperfect Board Member ought to be required reading for people on every type of board. The great thing is that it won't need to be required–it's such a fun book, every leader will want to read it.» –Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO, Research in Motion; chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation «I know no board members, myself included, who won't learn valuable lessons from Jim Brown's book The Imperfect Board Member. Don't miss it!» –Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One-Minute Manager and The Secret «Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, boards have become active. The Imperfect Board Member clarifies sharply the lines of what boards need to do and what management needs to do. The time has come for the two groups to work together and yet keep independent.» –Ram Charan, coauthor, Execution, and author, Boards That Deliver «The Imperfect Board Member by Jim Brown is a highly perceptive, eminently readable, engagingly human book on how boards and directors can improve their performance. In a breezy conversational style that uses dialogue invitingly and often, the author explores with sensitivity and a light touch not only the standard ingredients but also the more subtle nuances of excellence in both corporate and not-for-profit governance.» –William A. Dimma, author, Tougher Boards for Tougher Times; chairman, Home Capital Group Inc.

Shortlisted for the Best Childrens Book in the Junior Design Awards 2017. Shortlisted for the School Library Association Information Book Award 2017. Full of fun facts, colourful illustrations, and games that will feed a childs imagination and quench their thirst for knowledge, whilst supporting the National Curriculum. My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things is the perfect book for children from 4-7 years of age. Supporting the national curriculum and providing all the information young minds need and much more, My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things is split into six sections covering the Planet, Places, Animals, People, Me, and other very important things - covering everything from the continents to the blue whale in fun and engaging ways. Bursting with knowledge and loads of very important things to set young minds alight.

AWARDS: Independent Publisher Book Award 2015 (Silver) and National Mature Media Award 2015 (Bronze) Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun – again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert, focuses on the little things that can make a big difference in how we feel about work. Love Your Job is all about the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare. Changing these habits and attitudes is simple, and this book shows you how to identify the little things that make work enjoyable and engaging. Using these simple techniques, you can adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in. In this book, you will learn to: Develop new habits that bring more purpose into every single workday Rekindle your hope and motivation by celebrating small successes Recognize negative patterns that keep you from enjoying your job Craft an entrepreneurial attitude that will get you noticed and enrich your work life We all deserve to experience happiness and satisfaction every day, at every stage of our careers. Kerry Hannon explains that you don't have to make a huge career transition to love work again. But if you reinvent the way you see work, who knows where your new outlook will lead? Wake up to the countless possibilities that await you with Love Your Job.

Уилли Хатч — монументальная фигура, прочно укоренившаяся в каноне соула, наиболее известная благодаря записи двух лучших саундтреков к фильмам жанра Blaxploitation: «Мак» и «Фокси Браун». Однако его наследие гораздо шире. Помимо Марвина Гэя, Стиви Уандера и Смоки Робинсона, Хатч, пожалуй, был лучшим сольным исполнителем Motown 70-х годов. До сотрудничества с Горди и другими Хатч создал свои первые альбомы для RCA, два важных LP, которые Be With Records с гордостью представляет сегодня. Часто недооцениваемый, его второй альбом «Season For Love» (1970) — обязательный для всех поклонников глубокого соула и десятилетиями пользуется спросом у коллекционеров разных направлений. Если его дебютный альбом отличался громогласными, жесткими номерами, то здесь Хатч предлагает нам более мягкий соул — роскошный, теплый и с преобладанием струнных инструментов. Он сравнил свой подход с подходом Отиса Реддинга, и действительно, есть определенные параллели: от хриплого, грубоватого вокала, который колеблется между нежностью и глубокой страстью, до насыщенного духовыми инструментами, выразительного звукового фона. Благодаря безупречным оригинальным композициям, представленным наряду с несколькими удачно подобранными классическими произведениями (его потрясающая кавер-версия «Wichita Lineman», пожалуй, превосходит великолепие оригинала), легко понять, почему музыканты, использующие сэмплы, наперебой стремятся заимствовать идеи из этого альбома. Взгляните на величественные струнные, украшающие «The Magic Of Love» и душераздирающую «Walking On My Love», на мелодичную гитарную работу в созерцательной инструментальной композиции «The Shortest Distance» и великолепный сингл «When A Boy Falls In Love». Хотя аранжировки и исполнение на протяжении всего альбома поразительно впечатляют, непринужденный голос Хатча обладает теплотой, сравнимой с голосом Нэта «Кинга» Коула, и чистотой тембра, которая даже напоминает великого Сэма Кука. Действительно, несколько композиций почти переходят в джазовый вокал, напоминающий творчество Лу Роулза. Это не значит, что другим не хватает той неподдельной энергии и неоспоримого грува, которые присущи более позднему звучанию Уилли. Замечательно стабильный на протяжении всего альбома – редкое явление для многих соул-альбомов 70-х – отсутствие одной знаковой песни, вероятно, замедлило его развитие. Тем не менее, он заслуживал большего внимания, и теперь, в паре с величественным дебютным альбомом Soul Portrait, эти записи проливают новый свет на раннее творчество легенды соула. Оригинальные виниловые копии этого альбома чрезвычайно редки – и, соответственно, дороги – поэтому мы рады представить первое в истории виниловое переиздание настоящей утраченной классики. Этот релиз официально лицензирован и был ремастерирован для винила нашим уважаемым звукоинженером Саймоном Фрэнсисом. Впервые он выпущен на аудиофильском виниле весом 180 г и содержит оригинальное, редко встречающееся оформление.

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