Bøger af Rachel Johnson

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Being a leader involves having followers and working as a team. Sometimes our teams get stuck and issues emerge that we don't always feel equipped to deal with. How do we get buy in, keep momentum, recognise and overcome dysfunction, and get the best out of introverts and extroverts so that everyone feels safe and brave? This book is for people who want to be daring and responsible in their leadership, who want to embrace paradoxes, and understand how to create and maintain thriving teams. Use this book to help you work through the issues that are most relevant to you and your teams so that you, and they, can thrive.

Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivalsâEUR(TM) construction of dominant ideas about art cinema. Film festivals are considered the driving force of the film industry outside Hollywood, disseminating ideals of cinematic art and humanist politics. However, the question of what drives them remains highly contentious. In a rare consideration of the European competitive film festival circuit as a whole, this book analyses the shared economic, geopolitical and cultural histories that characterise âEUR¿European A festivalsâEUR(TM). It offers, too, the first extensive analysis of such festivalsâEUR(TM) role in the canonisation of select Italian films, from Rome, Open City to The Great Beauty and Gomorrah. The book proposes a new approach to ideology critique, one that enables detailed examination of how film festivals construct ideas about not only contemporary art cinema, but assumptions about gender, race, colonialism and capitalism.

The Truth Is a Funny Thing is a simple first look at the gods of the Bible from a skeptical perspective. It is suitable for children around the age of ten or for adults looking for a short, easy-to-follow manuscript concerning biblical claims. This book provides reasons for disbelief in the biblical account, offering an explanation for why the stories in the Bible were written and what their deeper meaning might be. It compares the biblical story to other ancient tales, showing how myths, fairy tales, and legends relate to nature and the resurrection of new life in the spring.If you want to offer your children reasonable answers to the Judaeo-Christian religion, with which they are bombarded on a daily basis, this may be the book you're looking for. Short chapters as well as drawings will help hold their interest as they begin to build their knowledge about why gods were invented.

This book recounts Rachel's search for hope in beauty, success and significance, an incredible romance and wedded bliss and how when her marriage of 14 months unraveled she realized none of those things could help. With the help of God, she learned that by letting go, being open to change, walking by faith, forgiving and learning to love, she could not only discover true hope in every area of her life, but also how to live an incredible and fulfilling life - even in the midst of her broken marriage.

Unlike other books, this book does not promote one single way of detoxification. It you how to get healthy with dozens of different options including those that you can make yourself right at home! These are medically proven and safe ways that you can detoxify your body right from the comfort of your own home and get rid of all of the impurities in your system.

"The New Galveston: Wholesome Eating for Women's Hormonal Transition" is a comprehensive cookbook that provides a transformative approach to nutrition tailored specifically for women's hormonal transitions. Written by renowned author and medical expert, Dr. Rachel Johnson, this cookbook is designed to help women navigate their health journey with delicious and nourishing recipes. With a focus on the Galveston Diet principles, this cookbook offers a wealth of knowledge and practical guidance for achieving optimal hormonal balance: Approximately 100 carefully crafted recipes designed to support women's health during various hormonal stages.Discover delicious and nourishing dishes that align with the Galveston Diet principles.Learn the science behind hormonal transitions and how nutrition can play a pivotal role.Easy-to-follow recipes accompanied by beautiful full-color photographs.Whether you're seeking relief from menopausal symptoms, struggling with hormone imbalances, or simply aiming to optimize your health, "The New Galveston" is your ultimate companion. Embrace the power of wholesome eating and embark on a transformative culinary journey with this exceptional cookbook. Empower yourself with knowledge and nourish your body with delicious meals that support your hormonal transition. Take control of your health today with "The New Galveston: Wholesome Eating for Women's Hormonal Transition."

"Unraveling the Illusions" is a thought-provoking read that challenges readers to question the reliability of their own thoughts. Through various examples and scientific evidence, the book unpacks the flaws in our thought process and highlights the dangers of relying solely on our own perceptions. It encourages readers to think critically and seek alternative perspectives, ultimately showing the importance of being open to different points of view.

Margaret Chicoski Clayton is a volunteer who danced her way through WWII. She worked to benefit our military, and she participated in parties and dances to bring joy to our soldiers. But, there were moments of great sorrow and tears. One time she had to deliver a paycheck to a young soldier in the hospital who had lost both his arms and legs. When he saw her he gave her the most beautiful smile and said thank you. Another sad memory was of a soldier who was so frightened to go to war that he took his own life. Margaret gave him CPR until help arrived, but to her dismay she found out the next day he had died. Wars can affect people in many ways, but so can a friendly smile.Rachel Johnson wrote and illustrated this story about Margaret, to show children and those of all ages the importance of caring for others and giving of your time by volunteering.

The Economic Research Service (ERS) is part of the U.S. Department of Agricultural (USDA). Its focus is to analyze and distribute economic information and research. Their results provide decision makers the information they need to run business, create policies and understand the farm, rural and food economy. Ample supplies of pork and poultry moderate prices.

Being a leader is a wonderful privilege but can also come with challenges we don't always feel prepared for. How often do we tie ourselves in knots wondering about the right way to deal with a difficult situation at work? Or wondering why no one ever told us how to manage some of the challenges? This book is for people who need practical ways of tackling the tricky issues in leadership to move forward courageously. From people pleasing to crucial conversations, we look at ten areas that can cause us to be 'stuck' and how we can get ourselves free. Dip into this book when you need some support to inspire, motivate, and equip you in whatever stage of leadership you're at so that you can lead more confidently and freely, and be your best more of the time.

EVERY CITY HAS A NOTTING HELL . . . "A spot of extramarital nookie with a close neighbor is one thing. We're all grown-ups here. But selling a rare-to-the-market mid-Victorian house -- not merely a house but our children's ancestral family home -- on a communal garden, the sort of house that a banker would trample over his own grandmother to spend his bonus on -- is another thing entirely. It's wrong." Meet Mimi. Mimi may "have it all" -- the house, the children, the part-time vanity job, the skinny jeans, the feng shui guru -- but life chez Fleming is not as cushy as she'd like (husband Ralph prefers the trout stream to the fast lane). And when Mimi meets Si, the new billionaire on the block, at a sushi party, she soon faces a choice of keeping up or keeping it real. Then there's her best friend Clare, neat-freak garden designer, deep in biopanic about her childlessness with eco-architect husband, Gideon. Clare monitors all illicit activity in the private West London compound, from light adultery to heavy construction, and she is watching Mimi. . . . Notting Hell is a wickedly funny and oh-so-recognizable comedy of manners, filleting life on a communal garden in London. So take your irreplaceable numbered key and enter Lonsdale Gardens, the world of wealthy one-upmanship, where the old-fashioned laws of love still rule among the stainless steel kitchen appliances, cashmere throws, and compassionately produced cups of latte. INCLUDES "Notting Hill for Beginners," a witty guide to the must-haves and must knows of Notting Hill

Rachel Johnson's dramatic plunge into the family business of politics - and how it all went spectacularly wrong.

Brandon and Rachel Johnson served as U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers from July 2006 to December 2008. Living in the rural village of Kgobagodimo in the Limpopo Province, they became passionately involved in their community through youth development, health education, and teacher training programs. This book includes the entirety of Brandon and Rachel's personal blog from their time of service in South Africa, including the months leading up to their departure and their readjustment afterward. The following is an excerpt from their March 17th entry in 2008: "Rachel and I had some really tough times at the beginning. We struggled through many frustrating weeks of school and miserable days in the village. But in the midst of it all, with a lot of hard work and motivation, we slowly found our passion. "We found the things that make us smile. We found the things that make us go to bed at night saying, 'today was a good day.' Not all Peace Corps Volunteers reach that point. We feel blessed we have."

'I just loved it. Lethally funny and so clever.' - Jilly CooperI ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.' - Marian Keyes Debt, double-basements, dastardly bankers...and DIVORCE?'Hell is other people' and journalist Mimi Fleming is fast realizing on her return to Notting Hill that there is no greater hell than the W11 neighbours with whom she shares an exclusive communal garden. Since she's been away, all her friends have become - impossibly - even richer, thinner, and YOUNGER. They're busy not just turning back the clock but also their homes into palatial iceberg houses - with basement swimming pools. But Mimi's troubles are just beginning. There's the compromising and risky mission she'd undertaking to re-launch her so-called journalism career (plus an embarrassing case of mistaken identity thanks to Google). Then there's her children who will only communicate via WhatsApp . And worst of all, Mimi's fallen for someone, and it's certainly not her husband Ralph. Ralph and Mimi have already been to Notting Hell and back. But is this the end or the beginning of something new?

Winter Games is a dazzling tale of secrets and betrayal: perfect reading for fans of The Bolter by Frances Osborne, and the writing of the Mitfords.Munich, 1936. She doesn't know it, but eighteen-year old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend, Betsy Barton-Hill, and a whole bevy of other young English upper-class girls, Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German, to go to the Opera, to be 'finished'. It may be the Third Reich, but another war is unthinkable, and the girls are having the time of their lives. Aren't they? London, 2006. Seventy years later and Daphne's granddaughter, Francie Fitzsimon has all the boxes ticked: large flat, successful husband, cushy job writing up holistic spas . . . The hardest decision she has to make is where to go for brunch - until, that is, events conspire to send her on a quest to discover what really happened to her grandmother in Germany, all those years ago.'A rip-roaring read' Evening Standard'There's never a dreary moment in this blast of a book . . . Johnson's descriptions are irresistibly exuberant . . . As addictively, fizzily invigorating as the Alpine air itself' Daily Mail'Johnson delivers a genuine sense of time and place . . . there isn't a dull sentence in this sure-footed novel' Jenny Colgan, Telegraph'An excellent romp. Full of 'tally-ho' Mitfordian charm . . . a witty, fast read' Red'Excellent on period detail, the blundering innocent abroad and young heartbreak' Sunday Times'The Jane Austen of W11' ScotsmanRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin.

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.'Appointed editor of The Lady - the oldest women's weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you've never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants?Will Rachel save The Lady - or sink it?'Action-packed, entertaining, marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist and has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing' Sunday Times'She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis' Mrs Julia Budworth, co-owner, The Lady'A total romp, wonderfully readable, unflinchingly described' Guardian'HYSTERICAL. For the first time, everyone is talking about The Lady for reasons other than nannies' Piers MorganRachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels and two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries, Notting Hell, Shire Hell and A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin.

Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they thought. Yes, there's mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there's Rose, Mimi's new best friend and Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is, it turns out, just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell. There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/Diesel/Ralph Lauren and the brood mares in Barbour/Boden, there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners and eco-warriers and naked hostility between Old Money, New Money and No Money. Yes, in honeybourne, if you don't have:1) A landscaped garden within 1000 acres (minimum) of prime land2) A helipad for your trophy guests3) An organic farm shop selling 16 sorts of home-made sausages4) Four pony-mad polo-playing children5) A literary festival in your mini-stately6) A bottom that looks smackable in jodhpursThen, well...you're Mimi basically.And that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it?

Rachel Johnson's hilarious take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making her newspaper readers chortle for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year, from the dog's birthday party in January (games of Paws-the-Parcel) to the June sports days (where the mummies turn up at the school sports day in sports bras and running shorts with little back packs containing high energy drinks - and that's just for them) to summer on Exmoor hosting demanding visiting ponies.