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ياسر الحزيمي هو كاتب ومتحدث سعودي بارز في مجال تطوير الذات والتنمية البشرية، ويعتبر من أبرز الشخصيات في هذا المجال في المملكة العربية السعودية. يتمتع بخبرة واسعة في تقديم المحاضرات وورش العمل التي تركز على تحسين الأداء الشخصي والمهني. يشتهر بقدراته الفائقة في تحفيز الآخرين وتوجيههم نحو تحسين حياتهم من خلال تحسين مهاراتهم ...

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself...Amrou knew they were gay when, aged 10, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight. Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy...From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.

Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

Former Special Forces operative Aiden McDane has every reason to hate bombs expert Tara Northpoint. Problem is, he can’t remember a single one, and not just because of the way she looks up at him with those big eyes and lush lips.

Twenty billion people live on the Earth in a city with no end. Pollution, corruption, high unemployment, and the lack of clean water leave the population scratching out a meager existence. Easton Miller Takes a chance on a job in the colonies on a new world. Expecting to find a better life he is faced with knowledge of a horrifying secret buried deep inside of him. A secret that will change the existence of mankind and the very perception of what and who we are.

A college student, Natalie Wright. She hasn't had it easy for years, emotionally. Her one safe haven is music. Soul-breaking, body-quaking lyrics sung in such a voice the emotions are conveyed onto you. Enter Ryan "Steele" Hurst, a chart topping lead singer in the rock band Steele's Army. The band's songs are about cheapening the meaning of love. They project the bad-boy image.

With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of JD Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigor of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today's world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness.

If you have been struggling with situational depression, the condensed information in this audiobook will help you overcome being depressed. The wisdom Al Mentoring shares about coping with depression has helped hundreds of thousands of people all over the world learn how to deal with their depression.

Join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.

In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the Earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that encompasses not only the Earth's ecology, but also population trends, appropriate technology, and environmental education.

This very short nonfiction book takes a look at some of the science and technology described in the popular science fiction novel, Yesterday’s Thief. Here are some of the questions it answers: Can earthquakes be predicted? Is mind reading possible? What are space-time crystals? Do people really try to steal power? What kind of time travel is possible (and happens every day)? Is it really possible to artificially inseminate three thousand cows in one year? Can oil wells be infected? Do jewel thieves make stupid mistakes? Does cold fusion deserve a second look?

Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels south to Laramie, Tillman relives his life in flashbacks. From the Big Woods of Wisconsin, where he was born and met his wife, Tillman's ...

Billy is a small boy with a big imagination. Mr. Booth is a serious teacher with a strict lesson plan. When the irresistible force of Billy's unrestrained creativity meets the immovable object of Mr. Booth's fixed worldview, one thing is obvious: someone is going to learn a lot this school year! The irrepressible Billy, star of the New York Times bestselling When I Grow Up, returns in an uproarious back-to-school tale from the uniquely inspired "Weird Al" Yankovic.

This show tells the journey of a young transgender man as he shares his story with the world. Insightful and thoughtful, this show speaks from the heart.

After 12 years, Corrie Phaeder is returning home to Orangefield - the last place in the world he wants to be. Orangefield is a town of nightmares, a town where the impossible and the horrific happen all too often, where ghosts rise screaming from their graves, and where trick-or-treating goblins have no need for scary costumes. Something is waiting patiently for Corrie's homecoming. This Halloween, a messenger from a realm of shadows, with the body of a scarecrow and the head of a pumpkin, will usher Corrie into what might prove to be his last nightmare.

These days, the road to success can feel jampacked with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al Roker - beloved cohost of The Today Show, weatherperson extraordinaire, and the man we all secretly wish we could turn to for wisdom and wisecracks in our everyday lives. Al has learned worthwhile lessons over a long, successful career. And now, for the first time, Al is ready to unleash savvy advice on how to embrace happiness.

Hank and Josie own a small nursery in Mays Landing, New Jersey. They have three kids and a house with a mortgage. Josie has worked hard making and selling wreaths to make money for Christmas presents. Two days before Christmas, while she is collecting pine cones for her wreaths, she finds a woman named Helen lying in the woods behind her house. She is bruised and beaten, but won't let Josie call for help.

Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter, and a job he loved. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off, Bekker's home was invaded and his daughter witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. A decade later, Bekker is a drunk, living in a run-down trailer on the beach.

La alquimia de la felicidad, obra atemporal y de culto, aborda el tema del viaje espiritual y personal. A través de reflexiones y cuidadas parábolas, el autor revela que la auténtica felicidad no reside en la riqueza material ni los placeres mundanos, sino en el conocimiento, la virtud y la humildad.

The final two series of A. L. Kennedy's wry comic drama about love in later life. In their youth, John and Maggie had a tempestuous on/off affair that ended badly. Now in their 60s, they've decided to give their romance another chance - and discovered that love doesn't get any easier when you're older but no wiser. Having survived dating and moving in together, the duo face the next big test for their relationship: tying the knot.