Bøger af Jay Williams

POWERFUL, riveting, sometimes terrifying, often funny true life "kick ass" stories to get you back on track and reclaim your JOY.Bulldoze fear. RESET each morning, experience change in as little as 10 minutes. Mrs. Henderson did just that. Having buried herhusband, she rowed to the middle of a misty lake and screamed so loud that it echoed across the water. And with that action, she became fully alive again. LR Knost: "Life is amazing. Then it's awful. Then it's amazing again." GOOD NEWS: you have the powerto pave a new path right now. Even better: YOU'RE STILL HERE. About Jay Williams......"You're terrific." Oscar Winner Estelle Parsons"Such tender passion you possess." Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Bennett"I love the way you write, . It's like a conversartion with my best friend." Linda Meyer

In his youth, Leonardo da Vinci wrote confidently, "I wish to work miracles." By the time of his death in 1519, when he was sixty-seven and famed throughout Europe, it seemed that he had accomplished wonders aplenty as an artist, engineer, inventor, and scientist. Here, from author Jay Williams, is the moving story of the man behind the Renaissance myth.

There are insights and practices for any leader in any industry including, doctors, lawyers, entertainment, retail, sciences, technology, teaching, etc. Influencing doesn't require a title, it only requires certain thinking, behavior, and skills. Leave Your Mark is a book about influencing as a leader. It represents my lifetime of experience, study, leading, and professional speaking. My aim is to help you leave your mark in the world and with the people around you.The purpose of this book is to convince you that leaving your mark is the most important think you will ever do. Each chapter is designed to help you achieve that by providing you with new thinking, behaviors, and people skills you'll need."I am here to shift your thinking."Let the first shift be this: It's not what you are born with that matters. It's what you do with it. Together we can unleash the possibilities already inside you to surprise the world.

Originally published in New York by Parents' Magazine Press in 1969.

Finding himself without a kingdom, a king goes into the world to improve his fortunes and finds six friends whose special skills help him to get what he wants most.

Danny uses a computer that Professor Bullfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend Joe Pearson and his new neighbor, Irene Miller, Danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged.Danny must figure out what is wrong with the machine and correct the problem. But Danny's teacher has learned about the machine, and she has her own ideas for the Homework Champions...

Offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer. Jay Williams examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents.

With his novels, journalism, short stories, political activism, and travel writing, Jack London established himself as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of the twentieth century. Covering London's biography, cultural context, and the various genres in which he wrote, The Oxford Handbook of Jack London is the definitive reference work on the author.

As a kid, Jay Williams pretended he was making the game-winning shot while playing basketball in his backyard. He kept right on making shots until he became an NCAA champion and two-time national player of the year at Duke, and the second overall NBA draft pick in 2002.But after just one season with the Chicago Bulls, Williams's basketball playing career ended after a horrific motorcycle accident. In an instant, the man with as fast a first step as any point guard in the history of basketball could no longer do anything for himself, including walk.In Life Is Not an Accident, Jay Williams shares his story of being a young man trying to wrest control of his life from his overinvolved parents, from the pleasures and perils of fame and money, and from the near-fatal mistake that threatened to define him. After a decade spent recovering from his injuries, Williams recounts with a rare honesty his hard-fought path to college basketball stardom and the painful lessons he's learned.Now in his thirties, Jay Williams is convinced that the crash that almost killed him at twenty-one was no accident, but a tragedy that taught him how to live.