This work explores the relations between Shakespeare's comedies and their theatrical audience and attempts to demonstrate that laughter, pain, and wonder are the primary responses invited by comedies. Also explored are numerous examples of ways that comedies may be most effectively staged.

Laughter, Pain & Wonder: Shakespeare's Comedies and the Audience in the Theater

Literature & Fiction

Richman, David

Dramas & Plays

University of Delaware Press

Here is inspiration and practical advice that Financial Advisors can put to work immediately. 
Which sales techniques really work in a turbulent investment climate and which ones don’t? How does an Advisor regain confidence after a setback? 
How can Advisors communicate credibly and convincingly with uneasy investors and gain new clients in the process while serving their established base? 
Drawing on decades of front-line experience, authors Parisse and Richman address the challenges facing today’s Financial Advisors with insight, wit and intelligence.

This Is Your Time: Empowering Today's Financial Advisor

Parisse, Alan

Flagstaff Publishing

In normal times a financial advisor has three competitors: investors who do it themselves, client inertia and other advisors. In the wake of Fall 2008 do-it-yourselvers have lost confidence, inertia that kept clients from seeking investment advice from an outside advisor has significantly diminished and other advisors are nursing their wounds. Clients may not know what to do, but they want to do something. Advisors who are willing to lead the way will keep their clients and capture new ones. The biggest question a financial advisor faces now is, "Can I trust you?" It is your time if you can change your perspective, reframe the situation and see it as an exceptional opportunity to optimize your business and move forward with vigor. Great accomplishments and contributions require great challenges.

This is Your Time

Business & Money

Finance

Flagstaff Publishing (part of The Parisse Group)

A financial advisor recounts an interview with a recently retired physician who planned an enjoyable—and costly—retirement. The doctor wanted his entire portfolio in bonds, which was far too conservative to maintain the lifestyle he and his wife had planned. In the advisor’s words: "This fellow was a bit of a know-it-all, and I wasn’t getting through. Finally I asked him, 'Doctor, how will it feel for you when you have to go back to work?' That got his attention, and I was able to lay out a strategy that would allow him to retire and stay retired." In Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask…and Investors Need to Know, coauthors Alan Parisse and David Richman have compiled the questions great advisors ask that lead to the probing and personal conversations necessary to diagnose and understand clients'—and potential clients'—deep-seated feelings about money. That’s how great advisors help clients wring the emotion out of investing and set them on the rational road to achieving their financial goals. Throughout this book are questions, suggestions, and stories from some of the world’s top financial advisors, including a chapter of "great questions to ask" organized by topic.

Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask... and Investors Need to Know

Economics

Kaplan Publishing

Have you ever been forced to consider the fact of your mortality? If confronted with cancer, how would you feel? What would you say to the people you love? What would they say to you?No two people have the same answers to these questions, a lesson I learned well during a solo six-week, 5,000-mile cross-country bike ride I called Cycle of Lives. The trip started as a fundraiser in honor of my sister, June, who died of brain cancer. But long before I even set out on my endurance ride from L.A. to Florida to N.Y., I exhaustively interviewed fifteen people across the country whose lives had also been irrevocably changed by cancer--either as patients, survivors, loved ones, or caregivers.Hearing their moving stories, which were influenced by many different forms of past and present trauma, transformed my cycling odyssey into a journey of emotional self-discovery as I relived the chaos and emotional upheaval of cancer through them: from the man who found true love after losing his soulmate to cancer, to the elite athlete who had to reckon with his all-star body finally letting him down, to the medical oncologist who cares as much about her patients as she cares for them.Whether you or someone you care about is going through cancer or some other major trauma, I hope this thought-provoking collection of astonishing stories can help you, too.

Cycle of Lives: 15 People's Stories, 5,000 Miles, and a Journey Through the Emotional Chaos of Cancer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

River Grove Books

Imagine you're 16 years old and the most famous athlete in the world becomes your roommate.Wilt Chamberlain moved into 76ers owner Ike Richman’s home during the 1965 NBA season, and that was just the beginning of this incredible coming of age journey for Wilt and David, Ike's son.
Their daily life took on a normal routine – until game time, when David’s casual friend would turn into a mighty superstar, the beloved hero of ten thousand adoring basketball fans. Wilt was at his peak and soon, the Championship was within reach.
However, the enchanted tale takes a tragic turn. Ike suffers a fatal heart attack at courtside, and David’s young world is shattered. But unexpectedly, he has some profound, mystical experiences that help restore his spirit. 
Wilt, Ike &amp; Me is a poignant story of epic characters, set in a bygone era. As it journeys from the everyday, to the fantastic and even the metaphysical, the touching family saga is filled with triumph and tragedy. But ultimately, its true hero is the human heart, with its remarkable ability to transcend both time and death.

Wilt, Ike, and Me

Biographies & Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Remarkable People Volume 1: How They Overcame Adversity, Achieved Success, & You Can Too!

Self-Help

Chandler, Claire

Samuel, Kirsten D

Bell, Kimberly Anne

Hofmann, George

Pasqualone, David

Newsome, Jerremy Alexander

Covey, Danny

Young, Noah

Valentino, Gene M.

Personal Transformation

Independently published

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