Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power by Dr. Julia DiGangiRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5 mbOverview: Your success in life—at work and at home—rises when you harness the energy that powers your brain. A neuropsychologist explains how. Your drive to create change, catalyze impact, and build relationships all come from neuroelectrical energy—real, electrical impulses—firing […]
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather MorrisRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6.4 MB | AU EditionOverview: It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and Vivian Bullwinkel, have just arrived in Singapore. The women have fled there from Malaya, where they had been […]
Rising from the Ashes: A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima by Akiko MikamoRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.5 MBOverview: This is a true and incredible story of a Japanese adolescent, Shinji Mikamo, who miraculously survived the first atomic bombing of human kinds. He was on top of his house roof with nothing to shield […]
Language Ideology and Order in Rising China by Minglang ZhouRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.1 MBOverview: This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic […]
Centaur Rising by Jane YolenRequirements: .ePUB reader, 723 KBOverview: One night during the Perseid meteor shower, Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family’s horse farm. About a year later, one of their horses gives birth to a baby centaur. The family has enough attention already as Arianne’s six-year-old […]