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Cómo grabar audiolibros
by George Smolinski M. Celeste Espina¡El audio es fantástico! No es ninguna novedad el hecho de que, ya sea en podcast o en audiolibros, la gente prefiere escuchar contenido más que verlo o leerlo. ¡Comience a grabar su propio audiolibro! Esta es una completa guía con instrucciones en video que le permitirán crear su propio producto. ¡Lo sé porque yo utilicé ÉSTAS MISMAS TÉCNICAS para grabar este libro para Audible! Los audiolibros son hoy la tendencia más candente en edición. Hubo un crecimiento explosivo en las ventas de audiolibros durante los últimos cuatro años, y hoy usted necesita tener su libro en este formato. Esta guía le enseñará los pormenores de la creación de audiolibros, ¡incluso si desea hacer la grabación usted mismo! Ésta guía abarca: 1. Qué equipamiento necesitará para la grabación y narración de su libro. 2. Cómo comenzar a grabar con los softwares GarageBand y Audacity. 3. Trucos y consejos para ayudarlo a comenzar con buen pie en la narración de audiolibros. 4. Cómo subir su libro terminado a Audible y a iTunes. 5. Recursos útiles para externalizar su producción en el caso de que usted no sea una persona hábil para el "hágalo usted mismo". ¡Súbase al carro de los audiolibros y aprenda a realizarlos hoy mismo!
Cómo no fracasar en el mundo editorial: Consejos irresponsables de Actualidad Panamericana
by Actualidad panamericanaLos lectores descubrirán cómo en cuatro años Actualidad Panamericana logró posicionarse como una marca digital a punta de afecto y bacanería. ¿Tuvieron que venderle el alma al demonio (o a Facebook) para triunfar en Internet? ¿Es posible llevar gente a un sitio web sin usar titulares engañosos? ¿Cómo han mantenido la motivación mientras consiguen que su audiencia crezca? ¿Cómo logran expresar lo que quieren decir y que la gente lo entienda? ¿Cómo eligen el mejor contenido y los canales por donde llegará más lejos? ¿Cómo superan el miedo al fracaso y a ofender a otros? En este libro, los creadores de Actualidad Panamericana responden a estas preguntas, entre muchas otras, y revelan todo lo que sus lectores siempre han querido saber sobre ellos. Cada día, miles de nuevos medios digitales se lanzan a las turbulentas aguas de Internet a perseguir ese monstruo mitológico llamado éxito. Son muchos los peligros y errores que pueden llevar al naufragio los sueños de fama y fortuna. Actualidad Panamericana a diario inventa noticias en tono de sátira para criticar los males de nuestra sociedad y, curiosamente, se ha consolidado como uno de los portales independientes con mayor credibilidad del país. Acá se comparten todos los secretos -muchas veces en contravía de lo que los gurús de Internet recomiendan- que lo han llevado a ser uno de los medios con más seguidores en Colombia.
Cómo tratar con gente complicada: Saca lo mejor de los demás en sus peores momentos
by Rick BrinkmanEl bestseller que ha ayudado a miles de personas a lidiar de forma adecuada con distintos tipos de personas conflictivas y situaciones difíciles. Cómo tratar con gente complicada te brinda una serie de estrategias y herramientas emocionales y de comportamiento para mejorar tus relaciones interpersonales. Descubre las características de los diferentes psicotipos (tipos de personalidad) para llevarte bien cuando tratas con personas que tienen la misteriosa habilidad de sabotear, descarrilar e interferir con tus planes, necesidades y deseos. Aprenderás cómo: - Usar técnicas de escucha sofisticadas para abrir las puertas a las mentes, corazones y necesidades más profundas de las personas. - Aplicar habilidades de "ponte al mando" que convierten el conflicto en cooperación al reducir las diferencias entre las personas. - Transformar el comportamiento destructivo delTanque, el Francotirador, el Sabelotodo, el Quejumbroso, el Mártir, el Entrometido y otros tipos de personas difíciles. Ya sea que estés tratando con un compañero de trabajo que intenta atribuirse el mérito de tu proyecto, un familiar que no conoce límites personales o un desconocido que habla muy alto por teléfono en el transporte público, este libro te brindará las herramientas para sacar lo mejor de las personas en su peor momento.
Cómo triunfar en el mundo digital
by Lina CáceresLos secretos y consejos de la mánager de Calle y Poché, Pautips, Sebastián Villalobos y muchos más. Muchos se preguntan quiénes están detrás del éxito de los creadores de contenido más populares de los últimos tiempos, como Calle & Poché, Sebastián Villalobos, Juan Pablo Jaramillo, Mario Ruiz y Xime Ponch. Uno de ellos es Lina Cáceres, cofundadora del departamento digital de la agencia de representación de talentos más importante de la región, LatinWE, quien ha convertido a sus creadores digitales en celebridades multiplataforma. ¿Cuál es el secreto? ¿Cuáles son las estrategias para ampliar sus audiencias, generar contenidos de calidad y ser la imagen de grandes marcas? ¿Cuáles son las bases para entender el entorno digital hoy y durante los próximos años? Este libro responde todos los interrogantes necesarios para entender y conocer las últimas tendencias y el futuro de un sector líder en el mundo de los negocios del entretenimiento.
DEI and Intersectional Social Identities at Work: A Communication Approach
by Donnalyn Pompper Tugce Ertem-ErayThis book equips readers—both students and communication practitioners—with the theoretical understanding and practical skills they need to support nonprofit and for-profit organizations to create and assess their diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and social identity intersectionality goals.Through applied examples of the insider activist role that the communication function plays, the book helps future and current professional communicators navigate organizations toward authentic relationship-building with internal and external audiences. It teaches that embracing DEI includes acknowledging social identity intersectionalities—recognizing that people possess multiple social identity dimensions of age, culture, ethnicity/race, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, social class, and more. In order to illuminate the theory discussed in the book, each chapter includes thought-provoking situation-opportunity sidebars, discussion questions for drilling deeper into the issues at hand, and case studies with applied lessons about DEI issues.This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduates and graduate courses in organizational communication, strategic communication, marketing communication, human resources, and public relations, as well as for communication practitioners working in these subdisciplines.
DFT - Diskrete Fourier-Transformation
by André NeubauerDie diskrete Fourier-Transformation DFT stellt eines der wichtigsten Werkzeuge der digitalen Signalverarbeitung und der Signaltheorie dar. Sie besitzt eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen wie beispielsweise in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, in der technischen Informatik, in der Messtechnik und in der Medizintechnik. Das Lehrbuch bietet eine leicht verständliche elementare Einführung in die Grundlagen der DFT. Neben den Eigenschaften und Korrespondenzen der DFT werden ihre effiziente Implementierung mit Hilfe der schnellen Fourier-Transformation FFT erläutert sowie als wichtiges Anwendungsbeispiel die schnelle Faltung behandelt. Sämtliche im Buch für die Behandlung der DFT benötigten mathematischen Grundlagen werden beschrieben und erleichtern somit sowohl Studierenden als auch Schülern den Zugang zu diesem für praktische Anwendungen wichtigen und interessanten Themenfeld. Aufgrund der eingefügten Beispiele sowie der detaillierten Herleitungen ist das Buch sowohl vorlesungsbegleitend als auch zum Selbststudium hervorragend geeignet.
DIGICOMPASS: Navigating Digital Multiliteracies in Global Language Education
by Sonia RoccaThis book addresses the urgent need for an educational framework that integrates digital multiliteracies with global competence. As technology reshapes how we communicate, learn, and work, educators face the challenge of preparing students not just academically but as informed, ethical participants in a digital and global community. Furthermore, as classrooms become more culturally diverse, the importance of inclusive practices and intercultural competence cannot be overstated. The author sets out to resolve a gap in current educational practices that often separate technology integration, language learning, and global education into distinct compartments. This separation fails to equip learners with the holistic skill set required in the 21st century. The book proposes a transformative approach that synergizes these elements, presenting a comprehensive curriculum framework designed to cultivate digitally literate, globally competent, and socially responsible individuals. By providing practical strategies, theoretical foundations, and real-world applications, DIGICOMPASS aims to revolutionize global language education. It not only advocates for the integration of adaptive learning technologies and digital multiliteracies but also emphasizes the importance of fostering an inclusive, culturally aware, and ethically engaged learning environment. This comprehensive approach addresses the modern educational landscape's complexities, preparing learners to thrive in a culturally diverse and digitally interconnected world. The book will be of particular interest to educators, curriculum developers, policymakers, and educational technology specialists interested in integrating digital multiliteracies into language education. It will also appeal to scholars and students in the fields of TESOL, educational technology, global education, and curriculum design.
DITA for Practitioners Volume 1
by Eliot KimberDITA expert Eliot Kimber takes you inside the DITA XML standard, explaining the architecture and technology that make DITA unique. Volume 1 of his two-volume exploration of DITA starts with a hands-on explanation of end-to-end DITA processing that will get you up and running fast. Then, he explores the DITA architecture, explaining maps and topics, structural patterns, metadata, linking and addressing, keys and key references, relationship tables, conditional processing, reuse, and more. DITA for Practitioners Volume 1: Architecture and Technology is for engineers, tool builders, and content strategists: anyone who designs, implements, or supports DITA-based systems and needs a deeper understanding of DITA technology. Kimber's unique perspective unwraps the puzzle that is DITA, explaining the rationale for its design and structure, and giving you an unvarnished, detailed look inside this important technology.
DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media (The\mit Press Ser.)
by Megan Boler Matt RattoHow social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's “Twitter revolution” of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternarratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and “critical making” that have emerged in recent years. The authors and artists in this collection describe DIY citizens whose activities range from activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens.Contributors examine DIY activism, describing new modes of civic engagement that include Harry Potter fan activism and the activities of the Yes Men. They consider DIY making in learning, culture, hacking, and the arts, including do-it-yourself media production and collaborative documentary making. They discuss DIY and design and how citizens can unlock the black box of technological infrastructures to engage and innovate open and participatory critical making. And they explore DIY and media, describing activists' efforts to remake and reimagine media and the public sphere. As these chapters make clear, DIY is characterized by its emphasis on “doing” and making rather than passive consumption. DIY citizens assume active roles as interventionists, makers, hackers, modders, and tinkerers, in pursuit of new forms of engaged and participatory democracy.ContributorsMike Ananny, Chris Atton, Alexandra Bal, Megan Boler, Catherine Burwell, Red Chidgey, Andrew Clement, Negin Dahya, Suzanne de Castell, Carl DiSalvo, Kevin Driscoll, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Joseph Ferenbok, Stephanie Fisher, Miki Foster, Stephen Gilbert, Henry Jenkins, Jennifer Jenson, Yasmin B. Kafai, Ann Light, Steve Mann, Joel McKim, Brenda McPhail, Owen McSwiney, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Graham Meikle, Emily Rose Michaud, Kate Milberry, Michael Murphy, Jason Nolan, Kate Orton-Johnson, Kylie A. Peppler, David J. Phillips, Karen Pollock, Matt Ratto, Ian Reilly, Rosa Reitsamer, Mandy Rose, Daniela K. Rosner, Yukari Seko, Karen Louise Smith, Lana Swartz, Alex Tichine, Jennette Weber, Elke Zobl
DK Essential Managers: Effective Public Relations (DK Essential Managers)
by DKLearn all you need to know about how to generate and manage publicity — from recognizing public relations opportunities to creating and sustaining media coverage. Effective PR shows you not only how to identify and target your audience, but also provides practical techniques for presenting information, whether writing news releases or organizing press conferences and product launches. Power tips help you to deal with real-life situations and handle all types of media with confidence. The Essential Managers have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.
DK Essential Managers: Inspiring, Empowering, Team Building, Goal Setting, Rewarding (DK Essential Managers)
by Pippa Bourne Michael BourneMaximize your impact in the workplace with this clear and concise guidebook. It will show you how to get the best out of your staff by increasing morale, and getting them to work smarter, not harder. No matter how good your staff, you will not have an effective team without proper motivation. Written by Michael and Pippa Bourne, co-founders of an international management firm with decades of combined business and writing experience, the book walks you through all the essential principles and challenges of motivating people in four efficient chapters. From building a motivating environment and tracking performance to motivating yourself and getting through challenges, you'll be ready for any challenge. DK's bestselling Essential Managers books are ideal for managers at every level. These concise references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.
DK Essential Managers: Managing Meetings (DK Essential Managers)
by Robert HellerMeetings are a crucial element of the business world, but they need to be run efficiently to help and not hurt productivity. Whether you lead a meeting or attend one as a participant, there are common-sense steps you can take to make sure you and your company are getting the most out of these ubiquitous events. From assessing what kind of meeting is appropriate to the task at hand, to setting an agenda to navigating conflict, this book will teach you how to make sure your meetings meet your goals. DK Essential Managers: Manage Your Time is part of the bestselling DK Essential Managers series. Packed with essential tips for today's competitive business world, these efficient guidebooks are ideal for anyone interested in improving their business skills. Concise treatment of dozens of techniques, skills, and methods make Essential Managers the most accessible guide to business available.
DK Essential Managers: Relationships, Listening, Understanding, Negotiation, Communication (DK Essential Managers)
by Raphael LapinThis practical and accessible guidebook, written by an international negotiation expert, gives you the tools and techniques to communicate with those with whom you don't see eye to eye. Learn the art of patience to compromise and negotiate to get what you want. The book is divided into four clear and concise sections: "Understanding difficult people," "Communicating with excellence," "Negotiating conflict," and "Managing the difficult person." The topics are addressed with crisp, efficient prose and helpful graphics, making these often-daunting challenges seem understandable and approachable. Complex issues are broken down into concrete, common-sense actions and questions, so you can not only understand the situation but work your way through it.Author Raphael Lapin is the founder of Lapin Negotiation Strategies and studied at Harvard Law School under pioneering negotiation scholar Roger Fisher (who co-wrote the business bestseller Getting to Yes). The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics.
DK Essential Managers: Writing Your Resume (DK Essential Managers)
by Robert Heller Simon HowardLearn all you need to know about creating and using a resumé successfully, from summarizing your achievements to targeting potential companies and replying to job advertisements. Writing Your Resumé not only shows you how to decide on your career objectives, but also provides practical techniques for selecting and presenting information and creating the right impression. Power tips help you to develop first-class presentation skills that will dramatically improve your resumé&’s chance of standing out from the competition. The book&’s author, Simon Howard, has quite a resumé himself. He wrote a column in the Sunday Times for over a decade, served as director of global recruiting firm Armstrong Craven for eight years, and founded his own company, Work Communications, in 2000. This guide book is part of Dorling Kindersley&’s Essential Managers series. Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.
DK Guide To Public Speaking
by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff Lisa A. Ford-BrownMost visual, easiest to use With its powerful visual design and comprehensive scope, the DK Guide to Public Speaking, 2/e, is an easy-to-navigate resource that will equip students with the tools to be effective public speakers. Based on extensive research and usability studies, this full-color, tabbed, spiral-bound guidebook gives students the practical information they seek, supported with the concepts and theories instructors want. MyCommunicationLab is an integral part of the Ford-Brown program that will help enhance students' presentation skills. With MediaShare, students can post and share videos of their speeches for peer commenting and instructor commenting and grading. Also, interactive videos provide students with the opportunity to evaluate speeches. Online self-assessments and pre- and post-tests help students assess their comfort level with public speaking and their knowledge of the material. Note: MyCommunicationLab does come automatically packaged with this text.
DK Guide to Public Speaking
by Lisa A. Ford-BrownCombining its comprehensive coverage with the powerfully visual DK design, the student- and instructor-tested DK Guide to Public Speaking offers an easy-to-navigate resource with dynamic visuals, current examples, and concise instruction that will equip students with the tools and confidence to be effective speakers.
DNS Security Management
by Michael Dooley Timothy RooneyAn advanced Domain Name System (DNS) security resource that explores the operation of DNS, its vulnerabilities, basic security approaches, and mitigation strategies DNS Security Management offers an overall role-based security approach and discusses the various threats to the Domain Name Systems (DNS). This vital resource is filled with proven strategies for detecting and mitigating these all too frequent threats. The authors—noted experts on the topic—offer an introduction to the role of DNS and explore the operation of DNS. They cover a myriad of DNS vulnerabilities and include preventative strategies that can be implemented. Comprehensive in scope, the text shows how to secure DNS resolution with the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). In addition, the text includes discussions on security applications facility by DNS, such as anti-spam, SPF, DANE and related CERT/SSHFP records. This important resource: Presents security approaches for the various types of DNS deployments by role (e.g., recursive vs. authoritative) Discusses DNS resolvers including host access protections, DHCP configurations and DNS recursive server IPs Examines DNS data collection, data analytics, and detection strategies With cyber attacks ever on the rise worldwide, DNS Security Management offers network engineers a much-needed resource that provides a clear understanding of the threats to networks in order to mitigate the risks and assess the strategies to defend against threats.
Daddy-Long-Legs
by Jean WebsterDaddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Stories in Easy English by Madhubun Reading Club.
Dads for Daughters: How Fathers Can Give their Daughters a Better, Brighter, Fairer Future
by Michelle TravisBuild a More Equitable World for Your Daughter“If you’re a dad who wants to create a fairer and more equal world for your daughters to thrive in, this book is a must-read!” —Jerry Yang, cofounder & former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.Winner 2020 Living Now Gold Award, Family & ParentingA world where your daughter can thrive. Today’s generation of feminist dads are raising confident, empowered daughters who believe they can achieve anything. But the world is still profoundly unequal for women and girls, with workplaces built by men for men, massive gender pay gaps, and deeply-ingrained gender stereotypes. Dads for Daughters: How Fathers Can Support Girls and Women for a Successful Feminist Future offers fathers guidance for building a world where their daughters can thrive.Lean In for dads. The most successful leaders of all companies, from family businesses to lean startups, understand that leaders eat last. Your workplace can be a stage for the fight for equality and true leadership that empowers women. The guidance in this book will help you move from TED talks to daily action.Invest in the next generation. Men who were raised with the second-wave feminism of The Feminine Mystique know that the personal is political. The confidence code for girls that you instill at home can lead to a better world for all women.Dads for Daughters is a feminist book for fathers invested in the gender equality fight. With this book, you’ll find:Steps you can take today in your workplace and community to create a better tomorrowInspiring stories from successful and empathetic fathersResources to help you take action in the women’s movementDad’s for Daughters is perfect for fathers who enjoyed Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, or We Should All Be Feminists. This book is great for men who love nasty women.
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
by Philip PullmanFrom the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story--from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others--and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master, and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
Dairylandia: Dispatches from a State of Mind
by Steve HannahDairylandia recounts Steve Hannah’s burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind.” He profiles the lives of the seemingly ordinary, yet quite (and quietly) extraordinary folks he met and befriended on his travels. From Norwegian farmers to rattlesnake hunters to a woman who kept her favorite dead bird in the freezer, Hannah was charmed and fascinated by practically everyone he met. These captivating vignettes are by turns humorous, tragic, and remarkable—and remind us of our shared humanity.
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics (Voices of the South)
by Robert MannThe grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom cloud. As the inferno roils in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson's voice intones, "These are the stakes -- to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die."In this thought-provoking and highly readable book, Robert Mann provides a concise, engaging study of the "Daisy Girl" ad, widely acknowledged as the most important and memorable political ad in American history. Commissioned by Johnson's campaign and aired only once during Johnson's 1964 presidential contest against Barry Goldwater, it remains an iconic piece of electoral propaganda, intertwining cold war fears of nuclear annihilation with the increasingly savvy world of media and advertising. Mann presents a nuanced view of how Johnson's campaign successfully cast Barry Goldwater as a radical too dangerous to control the nation's nuclear arsenal, a depiction that sparked immediate controversy across the United States. Repeatedly analyzed in countless books and articles, the spot purportedly destroyed Goldwater's presidential campaign. Although that degree of impact on the Goldwater campaign is debatable, what is certain is that the ad ushered in a new era of political advertising using emotional appeals as a routine aspect of campaign strategy.
Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-imagined
by K. Satyanarayana Judith Misrahi-Barak Nicole ThiaraThis book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has ‘change’ as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define. Effervescent first-person accounts, socially militant activism and sharp critiques of a little-explored literary terrain make this essential reading for scholars and researchers of social exclusion and discrimination studies, literature (especially comparative literature), translation studies, politics, human rights and culture studies.
Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
by D. G. HartRecounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author—and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken's life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken's relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Using plenty of Mencken's own words, Damning Words superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and, at the same time, casts telling new light on his era.
Dandelions Help
by Eve McBrideEve McBride has received hundreds of letters about her columns, but what really touched her was finding a column tacked to the inside of a friend's kitchen cupboard door. Her "poignant, often humorous glimpses at human complexity" had hit home again. Through the columns we see the passage of a personal journalist from the '80s to the '90s, her insightful reflections in a mutating society. Dandelions Help is a collection of columns from the Gazette and the Toronto Star selected to reflect reader response over the years. "Dandelions Help" generated the most mail, closely followed by "Satin Shoes". Eve McBride's path has taken her from Ontario to Whitehorse to Toronto to Montreal. In the Yukon with her husband and four daughters, she was Curator of the Art Gallery of the Whitehorse Library. Back in Toronto, she worked with Peter Gzowski on CBC's Morningside, then went on to write her newspaper columns. Her success, says Peter Gzowski, comes from her being "a graceful and perceptive observer". Read her and find out about "First Bra," "Last Grad," "Worms," "Police Chase," and "Bryan Adams." Eve McBride would also quote Virginia Woolf: "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." Eve McBride shows us those two edges, where she paints for us life's unpredictable canvases.