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Legacy
A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Personal History
Linda Spence
Ohio University Press, 1997

When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked—“How? Where do I begin?” In this practical guide to capturing those memories that have been stored away, Linda Spence provides the questions that are the keys to unlocking the memories that make up a life.

Beyond the vital statistics are the personal stories that tell what it was like, what we did, and why we did it, how we feel about our choices, and what our circumstances were. Through encouraging coaching, shared memories, and open-ended questions, the process of producing a personal history becomes intriguing and engaging.

With Legacy the possibilities expand: a personal record is preserved—with its myths, traditions, joys, pains, gains, and losses; a family opens a potential dialogue that will last for generations; the writer has an opportunity for insight and resolution; the culture of a time and place is noted; the tradition of personal story is revitalized, and our present and future find nourishment and knowledge in the past.

Either as a gift that can act as a shared experience as the memories are recounted or as a personal way to take account of one’s experiences, often long since forgotten, Legacy is indeed a way to get one’s story down.

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Lessons in Leadership
Steve Adubato, PhD
Rutgers University Press, 2016
In this practical guide, Emmy Award-winning public broadcasting anchor Steve Adubato teaches readers to be self-aware, empathetic, and more effective leaders at work and at home. His powerful case studies spotlighting dozens of leaders—from Pope Francis to New Jersey governor Chris Christie—are complemented by concrete tips and tools based in real-life scenarios. With Lessons in Leadership, readers can learn to steer others through difficult economic times, to mentor rising leaders, to provide straight talk to underperforming employees, and even how to lead a company through a significant change. 
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Let Them Go Free
A Guide to Withdrawing Life Support
Thomas A. Shannon and Charles N. Faso, OFM
Georgetown University Press, 2007

Let Them Go Free offers families a way to cope with a problem particular to our time: what to do when medical treatment sustains life but does not cure or resuscitate a critically ill loved one. This straightforward and empathic guide helps such families affirm that their choice to remove life support is morally acceptable, warranted, and made in the spirit of love and care for the patient.

With an emphasis on maintaining openness and trust among all involved in the decision-making process, this helpful guide skillfully addresses the questions that must be asked to assess the best course of care for a loved one:

• What is the patient’s medical condition?

• What are the medical options?

• Has the patient expressed any wishes regarding his or her treatment?

• What if the patient hasn’t expressed any wishes regarding treatment?

• Do we have to do everything possible to keep the patient alive?

• Do we have to use artificial means of feeding?

• How do we handle disagreements?

• What should we do about donating organs?

Let Them Go Free also includes an ecumenical prayer service to be conducted as life support is withdrawn. Woven with readings and prayers from Hebrew and Christian scripture, the service is intended to give family and friends a moment to express their love for the patient, to say goodbye, and to find a sense of closure as they embark on the first stage of the grieving process.

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Letters to Kate
Life after Life
Carl H. Klaus
University of Iowa Press, 2006
Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a map but a history. . . . There is something new to be chronicled every day,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love. His vivid and thoughtful letters will resonate with everyone whose loss confronts them with emotional, psychological, and philosophical questions for which there are no easy answers.During his first year without Kate, Carl writes himself into the life that comes after the life he loved. From days of grief in the darkness of a midwestern winter, to springtime, with a return to life in the garden and a memorial service for Kate on a sunny afternoon, to fall, with a pilgrimage to their favorite vacation spot in Hawaii, Carl documents his year-long experience of remembering, meditating, and evolving a new life. Individually his letters provide the insights of a master diarist; collectively, they have the arc of a master essayist. Recording the full range of mourning from intense shock to moments of exceptional affirmation, Klaus's stories and reflections on loss bear witness to universal truths about the first and most significant year of mourning.
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License To Steal
Nevada'S Gaming Control System In The Megaresort Age
Jeff Burbank
University of Nevada Press, 2005
These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.
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Listen to Your Work
Job-Active Advice from a Battle-Scarred Mentor
Collins Andrews
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2009
This is an easy-to-read guide for mentors, mentees, professors of business, and business graduates is a must-read for all professionals written by a retired senior manager. Although intended for a business audience, the advice in this book is appropriate for employers and employees from any discipline. With chapter headings like Teaming and Trust, Communication, Humanity in Business, and The Bottom Line; Work Hard, Do Right, and Have Fun, it is apparent that this man understands what motivates people to do their best work and how to communicate his ideas to employers and employees alike.
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Living with the Dead
How We Care for the Deceased
Vibeke Maria Viestad and Andreas Viestad
Reaktion Books, 2023
Spanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead. 
 
Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it’s also a practical problem—what do we do with dead bodies? Vibeke Maria and Andreas Viestad live by a cemetery and are daily spectators of its routines, and their fascination with burials has led them to dig deep to examine our relationship with the dead. Taking us on a journey around the world and into the past, the Viestads explore how the deceased are honored and cared for, cremated, and buried. From archaeological sites in Spain, Israel, and Russia to environmentally friendly burials in the United States and Ghana’s fantasy coffins, and from cremations without fire to the new industry turning our dearly departed’s ashes into diamonds, this empathetic and enthralling book is for anyone who knows their turn is coming, but who’d like a good book for the journey.
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Lobos Con Piel De Cordero
Claves Para Entender Y Lidial Con Los Manipuladores
George K. Simon, Ph.D.
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., 2020
CLAVES PARA ENTENDER Y LIDIAR CON LOS MANIPULADORES 
El Dr. George Simon sabe cómo algunas personas tocan la fibra sensible de otras. Tus hijos-en especial las adolescentes-son expertos en esto, al igual que tu pareja. Puede que tus compaiieros de trabajo desacrediten tus esfuerzos calladamente pretendiendo ser serviciales, o que tu jefe se aproveche de tus flaquezas. Las personas manipuladoras persiguen dos propósitos: ganar y quedar bien al hacerlo. A menudo, aquellos de quienes abusan apenas perciben lo que está pasando. Esta reveladora obra te abrirá los ojos y en ella descubrirás … 
 
•          4 motivos par las que a las víctimas les cuesta tanto romper con susrelaciones abusivas
•          tácticas que utilizan las manipuladores para imponer sus intenciones ocultas y justificar su comportamiento
•          tácnicas para redefinir las reglas del juego entre tú y el abusador
•          cómo detectar aquellos puntos débiles de tu carácter que tienden a hacerte caer en las redes de las manipuladores
•          12 técnicas de fortalecimiento personal que te ayudarán a tener mayor firmeza en todas tus relaciones
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