Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work
"Change Your Questions, Change Your Life" is a personal growth fable that tells how a seasoned executive, Ben Knight, uses QuestionThinking to move into a higher leadership role and how the same methods of change help him and his wife, Grace, enrich their marriage.
Leonard Seabrooke argues that the key to understanding "change" in international finance in the last 40 years rests with US structural power. He demonstrates how structural power draws from state-societal relations and how American promotion of "direct financing" has encouraged Britain, Japan and Germany to "catch-up" to US-led innovations. Drawing on multi-disciplinary insight, the book benefits those who wish to understand more about "change" in the international political economy.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 20 January 2010
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Change of Heart: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.
Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the universality of grammaticalization have usually argued that it is unidirectional and have thus found it a useful tool in linguistic reconstruction. In this book
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century.
