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Joe Brody, ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, is getting his life back together. Living with his grandmother in Queens, Joe has taken what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his nights reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise when things get particularly nasty on the streets. 

Have you ever sat down at your desk with an impossible deadline or an insurmountable obstacle staring you directly in the face and an expectation that you'll come up with a groundbreaking idea and solution? In Breakthrough, you'll find a powerful framework for bringing innovation and creativity to the surface not just once, but on a regular, daily basis.

The goal of the podcast is to facilitate connections with and to learn from the successes, struggles, life experience, and wisdom of the people featured, most of whom live and create in Austin, Texas. The honest conversational flow of these weekly long form interviews lends itself to some really great insights and information that is available to anyone who wants to listen. Join us to explore the origins, stories, lessons, lives and work of those in our community who are at the forefront of creative expression. The podcast is hosted by photographer, art enthusiast and collector, Scott David ...

Professionnels de la communication, vous êtes confrontés à des défis majeurs : créativité dans un monde en évolution constante, écoute des audiences exigeantes, et intégration croissante des enjeux RSE et de performance. Dans ce contexte, il est essentiel de poser les bonnes questions pour concevoir une communication UTILE, innovante et impactante pour vous, votre entreprise et vos audiences. Deux fois par mois, Les Voix De La Com’ décrypte avec des experts les méthodes et outils qui transforment la communication. Je suis David Gordon, fondateur de Nouvelles Voix, agence de ...

Thrill as characters like Jim Bowie, Joe Magarac, Anne Bonny, and Mike Fink come to life in two-fisted action adventure tales! Learn of the mysterious Leatherman and thrill to his wild adventures! Discover a whole new take on the concept of Paul Bunyan! Authors D. Alan Lewis, Gordon Dymowski, Nancy A. Hansen, Phillip Drayer Duncan, David White, and Greg Daniel take characters, both historic and fictional, and give them a treatment like no other.

The book begins with one of the experiences that I survived while hitchhiking in Florida. I continue by writing about my life as a blind person. How did my parents handle the news no parent can possibly be prepared for - that I was totally blind? How did I handle my blindness, and how did my need to be independent deeply influence my future? It also colorfully discusses my time in a residential school for the blind and some of the conflicting emotions that impacted me, such as feeling sad and abandoned when being sent away from home at the age of four years old.

A young woman is viciously murdered in Queens. The killer has left every indication that this will be the first in a long reign of terror. Detective Kate Manning is hunting the elusive butcher while desperately trying to decipher his message. Following the trail of blood, Kate will be pushed to her limits, as she is drawn into an age-old battle that challenges what it means to have faith in God and in man.

When the star of Edric Davies' basketball team succumbs to injury, he steps up to save the day. Suddenly, Edric has the world at his fingertips; fame, popularity, even the girl. But, for a poor kid in a rich town, that just isn't how it works. In Mount Collier, kids like Edric can't have it all. He is soon betrayed, condemned to a life in Shatterly's Obedience and Drill Fraternity, the state's harshest military school.

In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff - art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality - in his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as "Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevsky - yet still pure David Gordon."

Strategic planning needs to be a more integral part of America's foreign policymaking. While thousands of troops are engaged in combat and homeland security concerns abound, long-term coordination of goals and resources would seem to be of paramount importance. A change in presidential administration brings the hope that strategic planning will play an elevated role in U.S. foreign policy. Can policy planners - in the Pentagon, State Department, Treasury, NSC, and National Intelligence Council - rise to the challenge?

Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military, Joe has just managed to detox at the clinic of a Chinese herbalist when the mob bosses phone: they need Joe to help them swindle a group of opioid dealers (of all things). But these are no typical drug-ferrying gangsters.

Ein Bandenkrieg in der New Yorker Unterwelt. Und nur ein Türsteher kann noch helfen. Der atemraubende Thriller voller Action und unerwarteter Wendungen! Joe Brody ist ein durchschnittlicher, Dostojewski lesender, aus Harvard geflohener Stripclub-Türsteher, der eine streng geheime militärische Vergangenheit hat und dessen bester Freund zufällig der Mafiaboss Gio Caprisi ist. Die FBI-Agentin Donna Zamora ist alleinerziehende Mutter und wurde an den Schreibtisch verdonnert, um die Hotline zu bedienen.

Broadway writers David Goldsmith (Motown the Musical, Disney’s Descendants 3) and forever Tony ™ Nominee Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre, Daddy Long Legs) dive deep into the music and lyrics from musical theatre that taught them to write, make them happy, and keep them inspired to continue in this insane so-called business. Passing their experience, wisdom and joy of all things of commerce, craft and the art of Broadway and beyond onto you.

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