The Handshake

Author : Ella Al-Shamahi
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782838376
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handshake written by Ella Al-Shamahi and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic' Chris Evans 'A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring' Sunday Times Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history. So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact. Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.

Author : Clayton Jennings
Publisher : Clayton Jennings
ISBN 13 : 9780963862402
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handshake written by Clayton Jennings and published by Clayton Jennings. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayton Jennings grew up in Iowa. While still in high school he and his brother Ted got their start in the livestock business ... Eventually they both moved to South Dakota where they built an Angus empire with registered and commercial cattle.

Author : Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101528834
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonobo Handshake written by Vanessa Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman follows her fiancé to war-torn Congo to study extremely endangered bonobo apes-who teach her a new truth about love and belonging. In 2005, Vanessa Woods accepted a marriage proposal from a man she barely knew and agreed to join him on a research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country reeling from a brutal decade-long war that had claimed the lives of millions. Settling in at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo's capital, Vanessa and her fiancé entered the world of a rare ape with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA. She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of the sanctuary-ape and human alike-are refugees from unspeakable violence, yet bonobos live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake. A fascinating memoir of hope and adventure, Bonobo Handshake traces Vanessa's self-discovery as she finds herself falling deeply in love with her husband, the apes, and her new surroundings while probing life's greatest question: What ultimately makes us human? Courageous and extraordinary, this true story of revelation and transformation in a fragile corner of Africa is about looking past the differences between animals and ourselves, and finding in them the same extraordinary courage and will to survive. For Vanessa, it is about finding her own path as a writer and scientist, falling in love, and finding a home. Watch a Video

Author : Dalia Dassa Kaye
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231120036
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Handshake written by Dalia Dassa Kaye and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional conceptions about the meaning and nature of international cooperation, Kaye argues that multilateral cooperation in the Middle East must be understood as a process of interaction rather than a set of outcomes. Presenting theoretical insights of value to students of regional and international relations, Beyond the Handshake provides a unique look at the evolving nature of Arab-Israeli relations.

Author : Lawrence Anderson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811258627
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond The Handshake: Singapore's Foreign Service written by Lawrence Anderson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From independence in 1965, Singapore has experienced a meteoric rise to a modern developed city-state. What is less known is the part played by its foreign policy or by the men and women who contributed to its implementation and success. Here, several of Singapore's senior diplomats and Ambassadors tell in their own words, how they did their work, their experiences, their achievements and the challenges that they faced in promoting and safeguarding Singapore's strategic security and economic interests.

Author : Susan Price
Publisher : Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
ISBN 13 : 9781504021012
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sterkarm Handshake written by Susan Price and published by Open Road Media Science & Fantasy. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company's representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms' welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future--and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping "Elves" begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called "enthralling" by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price's Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called "dazzling," "exciting," "memorable," "thought provoking," and "a thumping good page-turner."

Author : Kathleen Kelly Reardon Ph.D.
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385505191
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Handshake written by Kathleen Kelly Reardon Ph.D. and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secret Handshake, top corporate consultant and USC management professor Kathleen Reardon explores and reveals the hidden rules on the ins and outs of corporate politics that you won’t find outlined in any employee handbook. Based on hundreds of candid interviews with executives at Fortune 500 companies who have achieved their goals and joined the inner circle, The Secret Handshake lays bare the unstated conventions that govern and shape corporate hierarchies. Taking readers inside boardrooms to learn firsthand how the top decision-makers view and assess the employees under them, it offers invaluable advice on such career-building tactics and skills as getting noticed, networking, persuading others, knowing which battles to fight, and mastering the art of the quid pro quo. For all those who aspire to be part of the decision-making body of their organization, The Secret Handshake is the ultimate intelligence report on whom to trust and whom to watch out for, how to manage the inevitable conflicts that will arise, and how to read between the corporate lines.

Author : Kevin J. Adams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725245205
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gospel in a Handshake written by Kevin J. Adams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy. Offering winsome worship hospitality, these pages provide seasoned wisdom, often in the form of pithy introductions (Adams calls these "frames") that alert worshipers to the character and purpose of various service elements. Readers get the tools to create their own frames, informed by the church of all ages, and customized to their congregation and neighborhood. This book will serve well anyone who wants to increase their missional worship IQ.

Author : Murray Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330490795
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Handshake written by Murray Davies and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-05 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, the SOE HQ is given the task of assassinating Hitler. Finding the right man for mission seems impossible until the junior officer volunteers. Dropped into Bavaria in the guise of a German officer, Lusty kills a policeman to protect his cover, putting a ruthless detective on his trail.

Author : Betty Lynxleg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handshake and the Pipe written by Betty Lynxleg and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey with Neepin and her kookoo around their home reserve of Lynx Creek First Nation. Learn the story of their people and the importance of respect and honouring agreements.