(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 25 uplifting songs for piano, voice and guitar, including “Hallelujah” and “Imagine” plus: Beautiful Day * Circle of Life * Don’t Stop Believin’ * Hero * One Moment in Time * Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) * True Colors * Walking on Sunshine * The Wind Beneath My Wings * You Raise Me Up * and more.
Foreword by Bill Gates
Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as an engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere.
Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives – the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing.
It’s about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform “hit refresh” in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it’s about us humans and how our one unique quality – empathy – will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will disrupt the status quo as never before.
Satya Nadella explores a fascinating childhood before immigrating to the US and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO – one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He tells the inside story of how a company rediscovered its soul – transforming everything from culture to their fiercely competitive landscape and industry partnerships. Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of technology and by exploring the potential impact to society and delivering a call to action for world leaders.
“Ideas excite me,” Nadella explains. “Empathy grounds and centers me.” Hit Refresh is a reflection, meditations, and series of recommendations presented as algorithms from a principled, deliberative leader searching for improvement – for himself, for a storied company, and for society.
Imagine A Forest explores the unique style of illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova, which is rooted in the rich traditions of Eastern European folklore. This design guide features instructions and tips on how to draw your own beautiful art in a modern folklore style. Create charming flowers, birds, animals, fairy tale characters,mythical creatures and more.
The lush and captivating illustrations and encouraging advice featured in these step-by-step tutorials will guide you through Dinara’s gorgeous folk-art drawings and inspire you to create your own. Dinara even gives you design ideas and project suggestions so you can make and decorate practical things with your beautiful art. With Imagine A Forest, you can transform your everyday world into a beautiful Eastern European fairy tale.
Record Your Thoughts in a Beautiful Journal! For home, office or on the go, this professionally designed 6” x 9” notebook is the perfect size to take anywhere, and the perfect place to record all of your thoughts! 300 lined pages on creamy paper with a thick card stock cover, this journal makes a wonderful purchase for yourself, or a great gift for birthdays, holidays, back to school and more.
Creativity is not a gift for a select few, but an ongoing process of growth and self-realization available to anyone who puts in the effort to pursue the spark. In this book, Chris Orwig offers a unique perspective on the creative process, showing you how to find meaning in your work, be inspired, and discover the life for which you were designed.
With thoughtful and engaging chapters such as “Keep the Edges Wild,” “Einstein’s Game of Connect the Dots,” and “Grit and Glory,” Chris presents each concept through personal examples—his own and others’—showing how to live a more creative and meaningful life.
Drawn from his 12 years as a faculty member at the prestigious Brooks Institute as well as his experience leading creative inspiration and photography workshops and speaking on global stages, Chris’s stories are designed to teach you how to discover your own creative voice. Each chapter includes exercises to help you incorporate what you’ve learned and connect the topics directly to your own experience.
Features the friendly, approachable voice of Chris Orwig, whose photography, teaching, and speaking have inspired countless aspiring amateurs and professionals alike Includes exercises in every chapter to help you put the concepts you learned into practice Offers an elegant design filled with the author’s original photographs captured to visually support the ideas discussed in the book
For resources and inspiration, check out the book’s companion site, thecreativefight.com.
All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. In Imagine Heaven, Burke compares over 100 gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will Heaven look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets?
For decades, Burke has been studying accounts of survivors brought back from near death who lived to tell of both heavenly and hellish experiences. While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors–including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people–point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.
This thrilling journey into the afterlife will make you feel like you’ve been there. It will forever change the way you view the life to come and the way you live your life today. You’ll discover Heaven is even more amazing than you’ve ever imagined.
“What would it look like to you if you could inspire and empower yourself and others to create wild success? Thousands of books and articles promise to ‘motivate you’, help you ‘overcome’, ‘put an end to’, ‘ improve performance’, ‘gain or lose something’, or ‘feel better’. Just remember, it all begins with YOU; you have to decide to accept the advice and decide to change for what you want. It doesn’t happen without you, no matter how many books and articles you read. When you decide to make a difference in your life, this book will prove to be a valuable gift of ideas, nuggets of gold; when you accept that this is not a recipe, but a process that you patiently need to adjust to your needs and wants, then incredible things will start happening. Start a fire! Try a couple of ideas, then a couple more, then a blaze of them on your way to well-being and performance. You’ll figure out what to leave behind, what to do, and how to enjoy newfound happiness, joy, success and ultimate performance. Unleash your inner self, your potential, and help others do the same. Take action and do it now; don’t wait! For the non-believers, suspend judgement and ask what would be different in your life if even 2% of the ideas in this book really worked for you. And don’t forget, if you want the rainbow, you have to make it through the rain.” — Andrew Vujnovich, DSL, Leadership Performance Consultant
With this terrific collection of quilt patterns, popular blogger Dana Bolyard invites quilters of all ages and skill levels to innovate and create.
Fascinating designs range in size from small wall hangings to bed-sized quiltsUnique projects are organized into four groups: combining colors based on your stash, using traditional blocks in new ways, finding inspiration in unexpected places, and breaking the rulesStep-by-step instructions ensure success, teach skills, and spark ideas for future projects
Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder? Or is America still the hope of the world?
New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. It is the Progressive view that is taught in our schools, that is preached by Hollywood, and that shapes the policies of the Obama administration. If America is a force for inequality and injustice in the world, its power deserves to be diminished; if traditional America is based on oppression and theft, then traditional America must be reformed – and the federal government can do the reforming.
In America: Imagine a World Without Her D’Souza offers a passionate and sharply reasoned defense of America, knocking down every important accusation made by Progressives against our country.
Provocative in its analysis, stunning in its conclusions, Dinesh D’Souza’s America will be the most talked about audiobook of the year.
