Only With Passion

Author : Katarina Witt
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586484279
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only With Passion written by Katarina Witt and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the glamorous, ultra-competitive world of figure skating, Katarina Witt is a living legend. She has won more titles than anyone else before her — including two Olympic gold medals, four world championships, and eight national championships. She is also renowned for independence and self-possession in a world where many stars are in thrall to management companies, and for her ability to stay true to skating while developing new careers in business, movies and television. Witt has always done whatever she's done with all her heart — with passion, intelligence, and a love of perfection. Now, in Only with Passion, she offers advice to a new generation of women athletes making their way in the world on how to live full out, compete with edge, and navigate life with grace. When a young skater consults her for advice on whether to train abroad — and leave a boyfriend behind — Witt finds occasion to recall the major turning points of her own journey, from her East German childhood to the international spotlight. She shares her inside perspective and frank opinions on the insular world of skating and offers her views about what it takes to be a champion, and to create a fulfilling life. Whether she's talking about life on or off the ice (or on the cover of Playboy!), Witt is always candid, fresh, and down-to-earth. Written with E.M. Swift, author of My Sergei, one of the best-selling skating books of all time, Only with Passion is the perfect gift for young women, young athletes —particularly skaters — and skating fans of all ages.

Author : Jean Drum
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461669995
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Only Great Passion written by Jean Drum and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would later be made famous by better known contemporaries such as Sergei Eisenstein and D.W. Griffith. Now, in My Only Great Passion, the first full-length English language biography of Dreyer, Jean and Dale D. Drum restore his reputation to its rightful place. Based on extensive and exclusive interviews with both Dreyer and the people who worked with him—including personal correspondence dating back to 1952—this biography provides the most comprehensive critical examination to date of both Dreyer's life and his approach to filmmaking. A valuable resource for film critics and historians, those in the film industry, and university cinema departments, as well as anyone with an interest in Danish art and culture, My Only Great Passion provides long neglected insights into the man who first raised European film above the level of entertainment and placed it in the realm of art.

Author : Erin Cech
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520972694
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Passion written by Erin Cech and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. "Follow your passion" is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this "passion principle"—seductive as it is—does not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality. Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated. Passion-seeking presumes middle-class safety nets and springboards and penalizes first-generation and working-class young adults who seek passion without them. The ripple effects of this mantra undermine the promise of college as a tool for social and economic mobility. The passion principle also feeds into a culture of overwork, encouraging white-collar workers to tolerate precarious employment and gladly sacrifice time, money, and leisure for work they are passionate about. And potential employers covet, but won't compensate, passion among job applicants. This book asks, What does it take to center passion in career decisions? Who gets ahead and who gets left behind by passion-seeking? The Trouble with Passion calls for citizens, educators, college administrators, and industry leaders to reconsider how we think about good jobs and, by extension, good lives.

Author : Kate Hewitt
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596282218
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIS BRAND OF PASSION written by Kate Hewitt and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Zoe frowned at Aaron upon seeing his rude behavior at her sister’s wedding. Did he think he could do anything at all just because he’s a multimillionaire? Zoe tried to teach Aaron a lesson, but she ultimately lost herself to his charm and ended up in his bed! It was supposed to be just another memory until she realized she was pregnant. When Aaron learned about it, he asked Zoe to give up their baby. Shocked at the suggestion, Zoe left…but Aaron decided to follow her.

Author : Nancy Anderson
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577316940
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work with Passion in Midlife and Beyond written by Nancy Anderson and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Work With Passion in Midlife and Beyond' demonstrates through stories that it is never too late to pursue your life's dreams - and succeed.

Author : Keith Abraham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0730369498
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Starts with Passion written by Keith Abraham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring more energy to everything in your life. It Starts with Passion will help you ignite the purpose in your life, as well as in the lives of your colleagues, employees, and associates. In-depth research, practical concepts, inspirational stories, and clear visual models will show you how to find out what's meaningful to you and pursue it with passion. For three decades, Keith Abraham has been helping people around the world to harnass their passion, achieve their goals and focus on what's most important to bring the best out of themselves and their business. It's time to embark on a life of certainty, clarity and confidence and It Starts with Passion. Originally published in 2013, this book has been reviewed and redesigned to become part of the Wiley Be Your Best series - aimed at helping readers acheive professional and personal success.

Author : Pamela Gilbreath Kelly
Publisher : Pamela Kelly
ISBN 13 : 9780979100109
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speak with Passion, Speak with Power! written by Pamela Gilbreath Kelly and published by Pamela Kelly. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on becoming an extraordinary communicator. This book helps you discover how to: replace fear with relaxation and alertness; use the 'big purpose' to shift focus from yourself; organise your ideas by asking the right questions; support your points with a simple formula; and, design your talk to attract different learning styles.

Author : Harold Rabinowitz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307419665
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passion for Books written by Harold Rabinowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity. Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's How to Justify a Private Library, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?"; Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it; and Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. Interspersed throughout are entertaining lists--Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more-- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared "bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books.

Author : Patrice Michelle
Publisher : Ellora's Cave
ISBN 13 : 9781843605690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste for Passion written by Patrice Michelle and published by Ellora's Cave. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rana Sterling finally finds the man of her dreams and BOY does he know how to push all the right buttons. Only, Mr. Tall, Dark and Too-Good-to-Be-True turns out to be just that; he's a real live, fanged vampire! Lucian Trevane has a duty to fulfill. He's expected to take the role of Vit?, leader of the vampires in three days. But he knows he won't take the position without his wife by his side. Now, after seventy years of searching for his reincarnated fianc?, he finally finds the woman of his dreams in Rana Sterling. Rana may respond to his lovemaking, but she refuses to become his vampire wife. As if their lives aren't complicated enough, throw in a vengeful vampire, a surprise twist, and the fact Rana and Lucian can't deny the strong attraction that exists between them and you've just stepped into A TASTE OF PASSION.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York : New American Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Act of Passion written by Georges Simenon and published by New York : New American Library. This book was released on 1952 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: