In Contagious, Berger reveals the secret science behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. He’s studied why New York Times articles make the paper’s own Most E-mailed list, why products get word of mouth, and how social influence shapes everything from the cars we buy to the clothes we wear to the names we give our children. Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger has spent the last decade answering these questions. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral? People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. What makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. “Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in the world.” -Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular.
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Antenn comes from a violent background and Tiana suffered from a violent episode in her childhood. Antenn and Tiana are both likeable people with their own personal problems to overcome. Like every series, there are some books (and Fams) I prefer more than others, but I enjoy them all. I have no idea how I discovered them, but I am so glad I did. I have loved these books since the first one was published. Thirteen? This can’t possibly be the thirteenth story in the Celta’s Heartmates series. Can they trust each other in dangerous circumstances to succeed…and to love? Tiana, too, is an integral part of this process, but the villain who wrecked her Family is ready with firebombs. The cathedral will make him famous, but more, it will last for ages and prove to others he can contribute to Celta…if the controversial structure isn’t destroyed while being built. She’s sure her HeartMate has never claimed her due to a terrible scandal involving her Family, and she’s set aside hopes for love.Īntenn’s gotten the commission of his life. She’s watched her friends struggle with such a stormy destiny. Tiana, a priestess, has her own fears about being a HeartMate. After all, how could he, a commoner who grew up in the slums, the brother of a murderer, be worthy of any woman? Even though he yearns for her, he’s taken steps to ensure she will be forever unknown to him. On the planet Celta, accepting a HeartMate can be the greatest challenge in the universe…Īntenn, an architect hired to build a cathedral in Druida City, dares not think of his HeartMate. And, as is mentioned in Camoflage, it should be thought of as a difference, rather than a disorder. Thankfully, in the world today, we’re more aware of autism, Asperger’s and other differences we find in those around us, whether it’s friends or family, loved ones or colleagues. Using comics for this (and make no mistake, this is, definitely, a comic), is a perfect fit, getting factual information through to many who simply either wouldn’t be able to, or more likely, wouldn’t wish to, access it through plain text. Camouflage takes its starting point from the awful statistic that a clinical diagnosis of autism is far less likely in women and develops into a look into the reasons why, using research, information, and, crucially, using interviews with three women who have been diagnosed.Īs a medical comic, an educational comic, it’s really well done, imparting knowledge with ease, simple, clear, effective. Sarah Bargiela and Sophie Standing have put together something rather different, specialised, designed to inform and educate rather than entertain, and it’s a comic that does its job particularly well. Of Bahá’u’lláh to be made available in the West. 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Hopefully, he can spend quality time with Mr. His crush on the smoldering Richard Porter is inappropriate and downright silly, and every meeting with the alpha leaves him a blushing mess. Except then he finds his shy little dog walker crying on his living room floor, and protecting Carter becomes his utmost priority.Ĭarter has always had a thing for older men, but they never seem to have a thing for him. He shouldn’t even be noticing cute omegas half his age. After a messy breakup, he moves to a tiny coastal town, intent on rebuilding his life and reinventing himself. Richard has everything he ever wanted-immense wealth, sky-high status, beautiful men… But only the dog he did not want brings him some semblance of happiness. Even racial integration had relatively little impact on student achievement, as measured by standardized tests. Moreover, the differences they did recognize had little effect on black and white performance. Popular impressions to the contrary, Coleman’s investigators found little difference between physical facilities and curricula at black and white schools. When the results were in from this, the second-largest social science research project in history, they produced conclusions sharply at variance with the reigning doctrine. You know yourself that the difference is going to be striking.” So Coleman and most of the academic establishment were startled and dismayed eight months later by just how little difference his survey detected. So powerful was the presumption that when Congress in 1964 ordered a survey on “the lack of availability of equal educational opportunity for individuals by reason of race, color, religion or national origin,” James Coleman, the study’s director, could tell an interviewer even before the field work was done: “… the study will show the difference in the quality of schools that the average Negro child and the average white child are exposed to. “As the social sciences became increasingly central to the formulation of public policy, this doctrine reinforced the political and legal drive for school desegregation. He has published more than seventy books for children, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novels.ĭav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996). He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books - the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th Exclude only your mortgage, which will be addressed in another step.Ģ) Each month, apply every extra dollar you have after basic expenses toward paying the smallest debt until it’s paid off. There are two steps:ġ) List your debts in order, from the one with the smallest balance to largest. The debt snowball method is the way to pay off debt. You need to get rid of debt to get control of your income and put it to work for you. When you get $1,000, stash it where it’s accessible in an emergency but not so easy to grab that you’ll be tempted to spend it for non-emergencies (for instance, by keeping it in your sock drawer). Most people can find the money in less than a month, but if you can’t, sell more or take on an extra job. Do whatever you can to round up $1,000: cut your spending, work extra hours, or sell something (by having a yard sale, for example). Jamie isn't sure if he should go for things with Shannon, or if he shouldn't and just be friends. One night they have a little bit of a make-out session, and things turn in their relationship. However, they have always just been friends. Jamie and Shannon, have known each other a few years now. Shannon has liked Jamie for the last few years, however, she isn't one to rock the boat and do anything to jeopardize that friendship. She works at a local bakery, and wants to own her own bakery one day. Shannon is in a sorority, going to college, and working part time. He is having a hard time deciding what to do after graduation, if he should try to go pro in the NHL or join his father's computer gaming business. In this book we have Jameson (Jamie) who is a gamer. In this series - Face Off Legacy Series, we have the children who are in college now, just about all are living together and going to the same college. This is a bit of a continuation of The Face Off Series. Conner’s wife, Laine, a vivacious blonde vegetarian, is also long suffering as her husband has an affair, then develops a life threatening illness. Just ask his wife Mona, a reporter at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, who can’t cut away Jack’s long-buried feelings about his parents. Jack is a man not in touch with his feelings. While we follow their lives through the years – Conner learning how to drive, Jack moving up the cooperate ladder in his late father’s law firm, Conner agonizing over whether to have sex with his high school girlfriend or Jack bedding yet another paralegal from his office – it’s clear the brothers love one another, but don’t know how to express it. Older brother Jack, 25, returns to Cleveland to take care of 15-year-old Conner. Jack and Connor Reed are left only with each other after their parents die premature, through unrelated, deaths. In alternating and distinct voices, first time novelist Shari Goldhagen shows us the emotionally charged relationship between two brothers over a 25 year period. |