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| valerie khoo grab: Power Stories Valerie Khoo, 2012-12-10 Learn to tell stories that have the power to inspire, motivate, and sell Storytelling in business is a skill that's rarely taught—and often forgotten. But it gives those who get it right the power to inspire and engage people more than any pie chart or spreadsheet ever will. Stories foster a deeply human connection, and Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business gives readers the skills they need to master this lost art to make sales and seal deals. Whether it's in person or online, storytelling is an influential and persuasive tool. This book reveals how to discover the stories sitting under your nose and harness them for your business. From power stories readers need to know to how to turn prospects into customers, and customers into raving fans, the book covers exactly how and when to employ the power of storytelling, and is packed with proven strategies and real-life examples that bring the key concepts to life. Explains why storytelling is the ultimate tool for business success, revealing the 8 stories that any professional needs to be able to tell Includes proven strategies, tools, and techniques for mastering the lost art of storytelling in the business world, including the use of online tools and platforms Features real-life examples of businesses and entrepreneurs from around the world who have used storytelling to grow and thrive Written by Valerie Khoo, a respected small business commentator and successful entrepreneur, Power Stories gives professionals everywhere the tools they need to craft and tell great stories to create a competitive advantage. |
| valerie khoo grab: Queen Bee Valerie Khoo, 2002-09-01 By showing how to utilize her animal instincts--intuition, brains, and innate strengths--Queen Bee can put new buzz into any woman's life. Quips, advice, stories of queen bees throughout history, and simple techniques for setting goals all combine to help readers recognize themselves, figure out what kind of bee they are, and achieve their dreams. |
| valerie khoo grab: Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem Rick Held, 2022-01-13 Tholdi is a romantic. A musical prodigy whose brilliant future is extinguished when the horror unfolding across Europe arrives at his door. One day he's captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Lyuba who he meets on his sixteenth birthday; the next he wakes to the terrors of war as the Nazi-allied Romanians attack his town of Czernowitz. A ghetto is built to imprison the town's Jews before herding them onto trains bound for the concentration camps of Transnistria. With each passing day, Tholdi and his parents await their turn. And then Fate intervenes, giving them all a reprieve. At the weaving mill Tholdi secures work that spares him. He is elated. Until he discovers the two brothers who run the mill are Nazi collaborators hiding a terrible secret: the threat of transportation remains. When Tholdi sees one of the brothers with Lyuba, he glimpses a way to save himself and his family. But the stakes of his gamble are high. Will Lyuba be the key to their survival, or will Tholdi's infatuation with her become a dangerous obsession that guarantees their death?--Provided by publisher. |
| valerie khoo grab: Prince Charming Valerie Khoo, David Smiedt, 2003-06 We can conquer careers, earn advanced degrees and reasonable livings, scale mountains, win tennis matches and softball games. We've come a long way--so why do some of us have such a hard time in the realm of love and romance? Prince Charming won't solve all problems, but it will go a long way. This charming, illustrated book is every girl's guide to finding the right guy and keeping the relationship exciting once you've found him. But, first off, our authors one a guy and one a gal say, Relax. They caution we shouldn't be in such a hurry to tie the knot. Enjoy the process if you can. Nurture your own self-esteem. Explore your own needs. Banish bad attitudes. Trust your intuition. Valerie & David tell it like it is: if the new guy seems too good to be true he probably is. If he's so boring you're yawning on the first date, you'll be asleep by the second. He may be a Stayer, but Stayers with a little Player in their blood make for more fun. There are lists of what to look for and what NOT. And plenty of advice on separating the keepers and how to throw the others back. Not to mention a glossary of Male-Speak, what he says, what he really means, especially when he says he can't say I'm sorry. |
| valerie khoo grab: How to Be a Goddess Valerie Khoo, 2003-04 Valerie Khoo brings the Greek Goddesses into the 21st century lives of busy women who want to access the ancient feminine energy available to all of us. |
| valerie khoo grab: Multinational Maids Anju Mary Paul, 2017-09-28 Explores how global markets, middlemen and destination aspirations drive the 'stepwise migrations' of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Love That Remains Susan Francis, 2020-02-20 How could I write about the importance of truth and not tell the whole truth myself?After twenty years spent searching for her biological parents, 52-year-old Susan Hull unexpectedly meets the great love of her life - a goldminer named Wayne Francis. He is a gentle giant of a man, who promises Susan the world.Two years later, they throw in their jobs, marry and sell everything they own, embarking on an incredible adventure, to start a new life in the romantic city of Granada, where they learn Spanish and enjoy too much tapas. In love, and enthralled by the splendour of a European springtime, the pair treasure every moment together.Until a shocking series of events alters everything.Riveting, heartfelt and remarkably honest, Susan Francis The Love that Remains explores unconditional love and the lies we tell to safeguard our happiness. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name Sandhya Parappukkaran, 2023-11-30 When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he knows he’s got to do something about his long name. When no amount of shrinking, folding or crumpling works, he simply settles for Zim – but deep down, it doesn’t feel right. It’s not until a new friend sees him for who he truly is that Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step boldly into his long name. A warm and uplifting story that encourages young readers to celebrate their individuality, and shows how no-one should ever have to shrink themselves down to fit in. Winner of the 2022 Children's Book Council of Australia's Award for New Illustrator Selected as the January/February 2023 American Booksellers Association's Kids' Indie Next Title 2023 Outstanding International Book for USBBY (United States Board on Books for Young People) Shortlisted for the 2023 Speech Pathology Book of the Year award (Ages 3 to 5) |
| valerie khoo grab: Driving Stevie Fracasso Barry Divola, 2021-03-01 Two estranged brothers, one stolen car and a road trip from Texas to New York. What could possibly go wrong? For fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Tropper. Jaded music journalist Rick McLennan knows his life is going south when he loses his job, his apartment and his long-term girlfriend all on the same day. But then he is thrown a lifeline – a commission to write the story of his ex-rock-star brother, Stevie, and drive him from Austin, Texas, to New York to play one final gig. One small problem: the brothers haven't spoken in thirty years. Rick knows it's a bad idea. But he's out of choices. So he gets behind the wheel of a beaten-up 1985 Nissan Stanza and drives towards his destiny. He's about to find everything he didn't know he was missing. It's September 2001. From award-winning journalist and author Barry Divola comes a glorious, music-infused, rollicking road-trip novel – think High Fidelity meets The Big Lebowski meets The Darjeeling Limited. A smart, funny and wholly endearing story about how, though we may at times lose ourselves along the way, the road always leads back to family and the things that bring us joy. 'Of course this road trip comes with a top-quality mix-tape – it's by Barry Divola – but it's the layers to this story, and its humour and its heart, that make this journey irresistible.' – Nick Earls 'This book is the super f***ing gnarly lead break of rock-lit novels.' – John Birmingham 'Driving Stevie Fracasso reads as great as the fifth Replacements album sounds. It's a New York–centric, music-obsessive tale of humour and poignancy, the literary equivalent of hanging with folks who think going to church is finding a record fair. A+' – Stuart Coupe An interpreter of the listening experience forced to listen to experience? This novel will be read in between flippin' records. Go for the ride. You'll be spent, you'll be grateful.' – Tim Rogers 'If I could go back in time and take a different fork in the road, I would have lived like Barry Divola. But poor choices can't be unmade, and if Driving Stevie Fracasso is the only ride available I'll take it. Damn you, Barry Divola, you've been having everyone else's fun.' – Malcolm Knox |
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| valerie khoo grab: Psychological Science Michael S. Gazzaniga, Todd F. Heatherton, Diane F. Halpern, 2016 Reflecting the latest APA Guidelines and accompanied by an exciting, new, formative, adaptive online learning tool, Psychological Science, Fifth Edition, will train your students to be savvy, scientific thinkers. |
| valerie khoo grab: Write Better, Faster Monica Leonelle, 2020-12-15 In 2012, fiction author Monica Leonelle made a life-changing decision to learn to write faster. Through months of trial-and-error, hundreds of hours of experimentation, and dozens of manuscripts, she tweaked and honed until she could easily write 10,000 words in a day, at speeds over 3500+ words per hour! She shares all her insights, secrets, hacks, and data in this tome dedicated to improving your writing speeds, skyrocketing your monthly word count, and publishing more books. You'll learn: - The Writing Faster Framework that Monica used to reach speeds of 3500+ new fiction words per hour - The tracking systems you need to double or triple your writing speed in the next couple months - The killer 4-step pre-production method Monica uses to combat writer's block, no matter what the project is! - The secrets to developing a daily writing habit that other authors don't talk about enough - How Monica went from publishing only one book per year from 2009-2013, to publishing 8 books in a single year in 2014 For serious authors, both beginner and advanced, who want to improve their output this year! Write Better, Faster: How To Triple Your Writing Speed and Write More Every Day will help you kick your excuses and get more writing done. As part of The Productive Novelist series, it explores how to hack your writing routine to be more efficient, more productive, and have a ton of fun in the process! |
| valerie khoo grab: The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set Kevin Kwan, 2018-08-21 The New York Times bestselling international sensation that was the basis for Hollywood’s highest grossing romantic comedy in over a decade. • A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family.” —People This box set includes the entire trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees to spend the summer in Nick’s home, her life unexpectedly becomes an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. And that’s all before she discovers the true identity of her long-lost father... |
| valerie khoo grab: Pedantic Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras, 2020-03-31 A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use - even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean - with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings. Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat - something you've heard of, but what exactly happened (or didn't happen) with that cat? Or you're reading a New Yorker article that explains that 'Solecism slipped into solipsism into full-blown narcissistic projection.' An excellent point . . . if you know what 'solecism' means . . . or, for that matter, 'solipsism'. Language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain all of the words and phrases smart people should know. Covering the worlds of science, the arts and philosophy, they explore broad topics, like quantum physics and ontology, and more specific ones, like shibboleth and bete noire. From Latin phrases we often hear and read (prima facie, sui generis and the like) to those pesky words that have entered our vocabularies from other languages (bildungsroman, sturm und drang), this book will inform and delight even the most pernickety word nerds. |
| valerie khoo grab: Animal People Charlotte Wood, 2011 The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is the day he has decided to dump his girlfriend. A sharply observed, 24-hour urban love story. |
| valerie khoo grab: Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia Franklin Southworth, 2004-08-02 This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particular the Indus Valley civilization, its links with neighbouring regions and its implications for social history. Each type of linguistic data is put into its socio-historical context. Consequently, the book is both a description of the unique methodology 'linguistic archaeology' and a treatment of South Asian linguistic data. |
| valerie khoo grab: Frank Lowy Jill Margo, 2009 The story of how Frank Lowy, a one-time refugee, became the multibillionaire behind the Westfield shopping centres. It's also the account of a Jewish Slovakian-Hungarian boy whose character was forged in the fire of the Holocaust. |
| valerie khoo grab: Eating Puerto Rico Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra, 2013-10-14 Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors--or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared--Ortiz concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Truth App Jack Heath, 2021-02-23 “A swift, intense page-turner.” —BCCB In this pulse-pounding tech-thriller, Jack Heath creates a world where everyone knows when you lie—and telling the truth doesn’t always set you free. Jarli likes to think he’s an honest guy. He’s a big believer in telling the truth, no matter what. So he develops The Truth App, a mobile application that listens in on your conversations and can tell when someone’s lying. Then his app goes viral and, suddenly, Jarli is an internet sensation. But, soon enough, Jarli realizes that being famous can be dangerous—especially when you’ve just exposed everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Now his entire town is out to get him: kids at school, teachers, the police, even his own family. Also, an underground network of criminals has just added Jarli to their hit list. Sometimes, exposing the truth comes with a price… |
| valerie khoo grab: The Windsor Diaries Alathea Fitzalan Howard, 2021-05-04 The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard—who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom—provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family. Like so many others in Great Britain, young Alathea Fitzalan Howard’s life was turned upside down by the start of the Second World War. Sent to stay with her grandfather at the historic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Alathea found the affection she so craved through her close friendship with the two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and their parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, her neighbors at nearby Windsor Castle. Together, the girls enjoyed parties, cinema evenings, picnics, and more, all recorded in honest and captivating detail in Alathea’s diary, which she kept as a constant source of comfort. Day by day, from ages sixteen to twenty-two, she recorded the intimate details of her life with the Royal Family and the anxieties of wartime Britain. Now, published for the first time, these unique diaries unveil a candid and vivid portrait of the British Royal Family and of Princess Elizabeth in particular, the warm, quiet young girl who was already on her journey to her ultimate destiny: the Crown. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Good Teacher Petronella McGovern, 2022-08-02 From the bestselling author of Six Minutes, comes a fast-paced, heart-stopping thriller full of gripping tension, twists and turns. |
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| valerie khoo grab: GameAxis Unwired , 2006-05 GameAxis Unwired is a magazine dedicated to bring you the latest news, previews, reviews and events around the world and close to you. Every month rain or shine, our team of dedicated editors (and hardcore gamers!) put themselves in the line of fire to bring you news, previews and other things you will want to know. |
| valerie khoo grab: GameAxis Unwired , 2006-04 GameAxis Unwired is a magazine dedicated to bring you the latest news, previews, reviews and events around the world and close to you. Every month rain or shine, our team of dedicated editors (and hardcore gamers!) put themselves in the line of fire to bring you news, previews and other things you will want to know. |
| valerie khoo grab: He Died With a Felafel in His Hand John Birmingham, 2016-05-26 Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who’s been there. Birmingham pulls no punches: from dead rats in the kitchen to tent-dwelling lodgers in the living room, you’ll run for the safety of living alone. |
| valerie khoo grab: Peta Lyre's Rating Normal Anna Whateley, 2020-04-28 'I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you can, at least when you greet them. I try, but it's hard when she is smiling so big, and leaning in. Peta Lyre is far from typical. The world she lives in isn't designed for the way her mind works, but when she follows her therapist's rules for 'normal' behaviour, she can almost fit in without attracting attention. When a new girl, Sam, starts at school, Peta's carefully structured routines start to crack. But on the school ski trip, with romance blooming and a newfound confidence, she starts to wonder if maybe she can have a normal life after all. When things fall apart, Peta must decide whether all the old rules still matter. Does she want a life less ordinary, or should she keep her rating normal? A moving and joyful own voices debut. 'Honest, perceptive and gutsy; I loved tuning into Peta's world.' - Emily Gale |
| valerie khoo grab: In Teachers' Hands , 2005 The aim of this study was to identify teaching practices that lead to improved literacy outcomes for children in the early years of schooling. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Psychology of Teen Violence and Victimization Michele A. Paludi, 2011-10-20 This compilation of original essays does more than just illuminate the serious problem of teen violence and victimization; it also provides resources that parents and teachers can use to address issues of violence with their teens and make a difference. |
| valerie khoo grab: Rez Metal Ashkan Soltani Stone, Natale A. Zappia, 2020-10 Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular. Many cultural leaders—including former Navajo president Russell Begaye—have begun to recognize heavy metal’s ability to inspire Navajo communities facing chronic challenges such as poverty, depression, and addiction. Heavy metal music speaks to the frustrations, fears, trials, and hopes of living in Indian Country. Rez Metal highlights a seminal moment in Indigenous heavy metal: when Kyle Felter, lead singer of the Navajo heavy metal band I Dont Konform, sent a demo tape to Flemming Rasmussen, the Grammy Award–winning producer of several Metallica albums, including Master of Puppets. A few months later, Rasmussen, captivated by the music, flew from Denmark to Window Rock, Arizona, to meet the band. Through a series of vivid images and interviews focused on the venues, bands, and fans of the Navajo Nation metal scene, Rez Metal provides a window into this fascinating world. |
| valerie khoo grab: The Fire Star A. L. Tait, 2023 |
| valerie khoo grab: Visual Informatics: Sustaining Research and Innovations Halimah Badioze Zaman, Peter Robinson, Maria Petrou, Patrick Olivier, Timothy K. Shih, Sergio Velastin, Ingela Nyström, 2011-10-28 The two-volume set LNCS 7066 and LNCS 7067 constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2011, held in Selangor, Malaysia, during November 9-11, 2011. The 71 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in these proceedings. They are organized in topical sections named computer vision and simulation; virtual image processing and engineering; visual computing; and visualisation and social computing. In addition the first volume contains two keynote speeches in full paper length, and one keynote abstract. |
| valerie khoo grab: Maybe the Horse Will Talk Elliot Perlman, 2019-10-01 ‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’ Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out. To keep the job he hates, pay the mortgage and salvage his marriage, he will have to do something strikingly daring, something he never thought himself capable of. But if he’s not careful, it might be the last job he ever has... Warm, dramatic, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, with the narrative pull of a thriller, Maybe the Horse Will Talk is a love story, a reflection on contemporary marriage, and on friendship. It is also an unflinching examination of sexual harassment in the workplace and an exposé of corporate corruption that taps directly into the pulse of our times. ‘Australia’s outstanding social novelist’ (Times Literary Supplement), Elliot Perlman ‘...has many things working in his favor as a novelist: curiosity, erudition, daring and a gift for seducing readers into going along with him for the ride. He’ll get you where you want to go...’ (Washington Post) |
| valerie khoo grab: Molecular Genetic Pathology Liang Cheng, David Y. Zhang, John N. Eble, 2013-03-05 Molecular Genetic Pathology, Second Edition presents up-to-date material containing fundamental information relevant to the clinical practice of molecular genetic pathology. Fully updated in each area and expanded to include identification of new infectious agents (H1N1), new diagnostic biomarkers and biomarkers for targeted cancer therapy. This edition is also expanded to include the many new technologies that have become available in the past few years such as microarray (AmpliChip) and high throughput deep sequencing, which will certainly change the clinical practice of molecular genetic pathology. Part I examines the clinical aspects of molecular biology and technology, genomics. Poharmacogenomics and proteomics, while Part II covers the clinically relevant information of medical genetics, hematology, transfusion medicine, oncology, and forensic pathology. Supplemented with many useful figures and presented in a helpful bullet-point format, Molecular Genetic Pathology, Second Edition provides a unique reference for practicing pathologists, oncologists, internists, and medical genetisists. Furthermore, a book with concise overview of the field and highlights of clinical applications will certainly help those trainees, including pathology residents, genetics residents, molecular pathology fellows, internists, hematology/oncology fellows, and medical technologists in preparing for their board examination/certification. |
| valerie khoo grab: Borrelia burgdorferi Utpal Pal, Ozlem Buyuktanir, 2018-08-14 This volume details protocols that broadly cover many aspects of basic and translational research on Borrelia burgdorferi. Chapters guide readers through epidemiology and ecology, cultivation, cell structure, physiology, genomics and transcriptomics, proteomics, animal infection, pathogenesis and host responses, and vaccines. These essential protocols incorporate the most recent, practical, and innovative research tools aiding new and experienced researchers in their studies involving the biology, pathogenesis, and prevention of B. burgdorferi infection. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Borrelia burgdorferi: Methods and Protocols aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field of biomedical research. |
| valerie khoo grab: Ultimate 48 Hour Author Natasa Denman, 2014 Have you always wanted to write a book and didn't know where to start? Or perhaps you see it as this gigantic mountain of a project to complete and that's always being put in the 'too hard' basket? It doesn't have to be that way. Writing books is meant to be fun, easy and super rewarding. In this book, Natasa Denman reveals her successful system around getting your book written in just 48 hours! She has done it a few times now, helped many others do it for themselves and now you can do it too. Read the strategies and system you need to follow, all in a step by step format to have the success you truly deserve. Change the face of your business, increase your self-worth, be perceived as a leader and position yourself as the Expert in your field. The process of writing books is no longer time consuming and expensive. In this book you will find the tools, steps and actions you need to take to become an Author in 48 Hours. |
| valerie khoo grab: Choices in Relationships David Knox, Caroline Schacht, 2013 Built on the idea that the right choice is an informed choice, Knox and Schacht's CHOICES IN RELATIONSHIPS equips you with the knowledge and confidence you need to make wise decisions for a lifetime of positive relationships. By applying the text's concepts, and participating in exercises such as the text's self-assessments, you will learn how to approach every intimate relationship with the freedom and responsibility that comes from making educated choices. You will come away with the information that you need to explore the tradeoffs that choices involve, learn how to view situations in a positive light, and understand how not making a choice is really a choice after all. |
| valerie khoo grab: Walking Out of Secret Shame Jennifer Heng, 2012 |
| valerie khoo grab: The Narrative Gym Randy Olson, 2020-11-11 The Narrative Gym by Dr. Randy Olson presents a new model for messaging and communication. It's a short, practical guide to the ABT Framework (And, But, Therefore) which needs to be on the desk of everyone crafting a message, essay, strategy, novel, campaign, proposal, presentation, screenplay, argument, joke, ballad, report ... pretty much all communication.There is no other book on the ABT Framework. There is no other analytical model for narrative structure like the ABT Framework. This is a new and unique resource. The ABT seems like something from elementary school and at its core is as old as the ancient Greeks, but the formulation only began less than a decade ago.The original insights for this communication model come from Hollywood screenwriting. The importance of the three words (And, But, Therefore) began with legendary screenwriting instructor Frank Daniel of the U.S.C. School of Cinematic Arts who in a 1986 speech first talked of replacing the word and with either but or therefore to strengthen the narrative content of a text. This was propagated by his students, then articulated by the co-creators of the animated series, South Park, in a 2011 documentary. Randy Olson formulated the ABT Narrative Template (___ AND ___ BUT ___ THEREFORE ___) in his 2013 TEDMED Talk, and his 2015 book, Houston, We Have A Narrative. It is at the heart of how humans have communicated for thousands of years. You can see it in the Gettysburg Address, nursery rhymes, argumentation, comic structure, myths, the billion-viewed Call Me Maybe song from Carlie Rae Jepsen, the 1600's poem To His Coy Mistress, blockbuster movies - on and on. It's at the core of everything memorable because it is narrative itself. The bottom line is: You've got something to say AND you know it's important, BUT you're having trouble boiling it down to its powerful and essential core, THEREFORE you need the ABT Framework. The Narrative Gym is the definitive communications tool for the Information Society. - Michael Strauss, Former head of the Office of Science Quality Review, U.S.D.A. |
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| valerie khoo grab: The Whispering Veronica Lando, 2022-07-01 The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look away ... The stunning Aussie crime debut from the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2023 Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. Callum Haffenden swore he'd never return to Granite Creek. But, thirty years after a life-shattering accident, he's thrust back into the clutches of Far North Queensland and a local legend he worked hard to forget. When a man goes missing in the rainforest, the past begins to resurface, breathing new life into memories of previous tragedies - two girls lost, seventeen years apart. In a town where it's easiest to turn a blind eye, the guilt runs deep and everyone in Granite Creek has something to hide. In his search for answers, Callum fights to keep his feet firmly on the trail as he battles the deafening call of the rainforest burrowing into his ears. After all, everyone knows that the worst things in the rainforest are those unseen. 'The Whispering has everything we've come to expect from Australian rural noir in the way of climate and landscape, characters, hidden truths, and unpredictable plotting. Lando has cleverly woven an intricate and multi-layered story into a gripping mystery told with skill - and a good dose of obligatory treachery! I devoured it.' Lyn Yeowart, author of The Silent Listener 'Small town secrets and decades-old animosities weave together in this atmospheric, eerie mystery set in the dense tropical north, where everyone has something to hide and the dank wet rainforest can lure away the unwary. A dark, absorbing, tangled mystery that had me second-guessing right to the end.' Dinuka McKenzie, author of The Torrent |
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Valerie is generally a feminine given name, derived directly from the French Valérie (a traditionally female name). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Valéry or Valery is a masculine given name in parts of Europe …
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Valerie - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Jun 8, 2025 · The name Valerie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "strength, health". The name of a martyred medieval saint, Valerie has been on the popularity list since its earliest …
Valerie: The Surprising Meaning Behind Amy Winehouse's Hit
Sep 28, 2023 · Although many think "Valerie" is an Amy Winehouse original, the song was originally a hit for another celebrated English act.
Valerie Name, Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
May 7, 2024 · Valerie is a name with diverse origins and beautiful connotations embodying courage and strength. Explore more about this timeless name and its rich history.
Valerie: Name Meaning and Origin - SheKnows
Valerie is a traditionally feminine name with English and French origins. It can mean "brave," courtesy of its most obvious Latin root word, "valiant," and is also said to mean "strong"...
Valerie Name Meaning: Popularity, Trends & Nicknames - Mom …
Feb 17, 2025 · Meaning: “healthy and strong,” “valiant,” “fierce,” and “brave.” Gender: Valerie is a girl’s name. Origin: The name Valerie stems from primarily French and Latin origins. Popularity: …
Valerie - Name Meaning, What does Valerie mean? - Think Baby Names
What does Valerie mean? V alerie as a girls' name is pronounced VAL-er-ee. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Valerie is "strong, healthy". Feminine of Valerius, a Roman family clan name; the …
Meaning, origin and history of the name Valerie
Nov 20, 2020 · English and German form of Valeria, as well as a Czech variant of Valérie. Name Days?
Valerie - Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, and Related Names
Valerian, also known as Valerian, the Elder, was Roman Emperor from 253 to 259. He was taken captive by Persian king Shapur I after the Battle of Edessa, becoming the only Roman Emperor …
