The Gift Of A Life Smile

Find Your Smile, Find Your Joy Visiting the dentist has historically been a chore, a dreaded task, a necessary nuisance. Sometimes dental horror stories are even traded like baseball cards--but it doesn't have to be that way. Your dental health is vital to not only your personal wellness, but your overall wellbeing. For something so important, your experience should be one you look forward to and anticipate. You deserve a dental practice that exists in a category apart from all the rest--a "category of one." Dr. Maximo has created a patient-centric approach to dental care that puts you first, always. In Your Smile is a Gift: Look Younger and Feel Healthier with Your Smile, you'll discover what sets Woodlawn Dental Center apart and how they have created a unique environment focused on a comfortable, relaxed experience. You will also learn how to best care for your smile at every stage of your life, using it as leverage to: - Improve your overall health - Increase your self-confidence - Reduce your risk of disease - Unlock your full potential

EVERYONE HAS PAIN.But you have a choice.You can go through the pain, letting it crush you.Or you can grow through pain, turning your tears into triumph.You - the aspiring leader, hopeful individual and desperate seeker who craves to get out of the cynical cycle of negativity - can make a breakthrough in your life. With this book, you can grow through your own pain to see it as the greatest gift, and then inspire others to grow through their pain too.I know what it feels like to let your pain take over your life. You'll do anything to get rid of the trauma, the heartbreaks, loneliness, bitterness, failures, setbacks, depression, anxiety, fears, doubts, and insecurities that take over your mind.This is the book I wish I had in my life during my darkest days, and this is the book I want you to have during yours.Deep down, you know you were made for these stormy, dark moments. You know you're not a quitter, you're a warrior. Deep down you know that your pain is capable of transforming your life into a new dimension. Deep down, you have the tools to respond to your pain not with bitterness, anger, and resentment, but joy, tenderness, and gratitude.In Life's Greatest Gift: P.A.I.N., I'll walk you through transforming your wounds to wonders. It's time to pick up your key and open the door to a surreal joy you've never experienced before - a joy you've been robbed of and conditioned to believe doesn't exist.I'll say it again: you have a choice. Are you going to unlock that door by walking with me through this journey or are you going to walk away from your destiny? I'll be waiting on the other end of the door with a surprise just for you.

Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics. Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect.

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in capitalism is broken.