Paula Becker

Dennis Becker

This text provides an overview of the speaking skills needed in business. It offers step-by-step guidelines on speaking clearly, organizing speeches and presentations, and speaking informa-tively or persuasively. It also includes proper phone procedures and speaking techniques geared toward various types of meet-ings, small group discussions, and larger presentations.

Speaking Skills for Business Careers

Fifty Years of Gospel Singing with the Speer Family

Let the Song Go on

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker’s son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet, addiction found him. More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril. For parents, a child’s addiction upends family life, catapulting them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr. Spock, but by Dante’s Inferno. Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.

Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

A House on Stilts

Americkou spisovatelku Betty MacDonald není třeba dlouze představovat. Svými knihami nabitými osobními příhodami a svérázným smyslem pro humor si získala několik generací čtenářů po celém světě. Memoárová beletrie Vejce a já, Kdokoli může dělat cokoli, Morová rána, Dusím se ve vlastní šťávě či příběhy pro děti Paní Láryfáry patří dodneška mezi bestsellery. Novinářka Paula Becker se vydala po stopách slavné autorky a sepsala unikátní životopis, který mapuje místa, kde žila, popisuje lidi, které potkávala a jejichž osobité charaktery daly vzniknout spoustě nezapomenutelných literárních postav, a nechává čtenáře nahlédnout i do korespondence, poznámek a fotografií, které dosud nebyly zveřejněny.

Hledání Betty MacDonald

Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald’s vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald’s archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk

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