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An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voice Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona Using voice to create characters Shaping one's voice into the form of a story Reigniting the energy of voice during revision

You don't need an MBA to make progress in your career or run your own company. Paco Muro's, Be a Big Fish, will remind you of the essential traits of effective leaders and productive employees that you and your staff should exhibit. Named one of Spain's top seven management experts, Muro, a director of consulting firm Otto Walter, uses clear examples and engaging stories to demonstrate what he sees as a culture of workplace success. Managers need to use a combination of qualities from the "heart and the head," according to Muro, and "enthusiasm fuels talent," he emphasizes. Be a Big Fish provides a concise dose of management wisdom and the practical advice and anecdotes offered by Paco Muro stay in the minds of readers as they go about the business of their daily lives and careers. Such reminders are essential vitamins that keep top professionals healthy and enhance the existing abilities of those who are striving to get ahead.

This anthology of materials by and about Elena Garro includes translations of two of her one-act plays and several essays that explore her theatrical and narrative pieces. Also presented are a personal interview and a chronology of her life by her own account.

An informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City" and its inhabitants by a longtime New Mexico reporter.

Focuses on international commerce as the greatest threat to the world's rain forests. Argues that no single industry or activity is to blame for deforestation, but that the ways in which consumers around the world spend and invest comprises a web of interests that lead to the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of habitats. Advocates consumer behavior meant to curtail the destruction.