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Cultivate hope with strengths-based practices grounded in positive psychology. Learned Hopefulness offers powerful exercises grounded in evidence-based positive psychology to help you identify your strengths; ditch the self-limiting beliefs that diminish your capacity for positivity; and increase feelings of motivation, resiliency, and wellness.  

Hello! I'm Dan Rotter. I was so looking forward to bringing you a travelogue style podcast about the people and places in and around my home village of Arsbury. However, after overhearing some locals discussing plans for a new housing development on nearby farmland, my brother Barry and I have begun an in depth investigation into this outrageous attempt to profit from the destruction of the English countryside, to stop it and hold those responsible to account. This is our story.This comedy podcast is entirely fictional and any content resembling, naming or seemingly featuring any actual people...

Conservative commentary on politics, policy, and news from the Southern Piedmont of North Carolina, through the Raleigh State House to the nation's capital. "That liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom" The Sharon Statement

"An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds the Swastikas" is from the December 10, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Serge F. Kovaleski, Julie Turkewitz, Joseph Goldstein and Dan Barry and narrated by Sam Scholl.

"A Heated Linguistic Debate: What Makes 'Redskins' a Slur?" is from the May 21, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Barry and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"A Town Bustles to Prepare a Refugee Home, Furnished With Joy" is from the December 24, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Barry and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"'Always Agitated': Omar Mateen's Path from Troubled Child to Aggrieved Killer" is from the June 18, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder and Mujib Mashal and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Inquiry Finds Nepotism and Widespread Disorder at New York Athletic Commission" is from the July 25, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Barry and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry...

With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and...

“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in...

Cum ajunge legendar un asasin? In cazul lui John Rain, decisive au fost lectiile de tradare, lupte si iubire pe care le-a primit in 1972, in Tokio. Cartea raspunde la multe intrebari despre John Rain. De unde si cum si-a dezvoltat gustul pentru jazz si whiskyul de calitate? De ce a fost exilat...

Cine era Delilah? In ce fel prezenta ei avea sa-mi afecteze operatiunea? Aceleasi intrebari, bineinteles, pe care si le punea si ea despre mine. Dupa felul cum se comportase, stiam ca era antrenata. De aceea, era mai probabil sa lucreze cu o organizatie, decat sa fi actionat intr-o misiune...

Tema operei Asasinul din Tokio: Furia samuraiului este o situatie strict personala, care reprezinta o intruziune in viata profesionala a distributiei mele de asasini – practic, reversul subiectelor romanelor anterioare, in care situatia profesionala reprezenta o intruziune in viata personala...

Am mers la un magazin cu articole pentru spionat din Shinjuku ca sa-mi cumpar cateva obiecte care aveau sa-mi fie necesare. Ceea ce oferea magazinul de vanzare aproape ca te speria: videocamere și microfoane mici cat gamalia de ac. Arme taser și spray-uri cu gaz paralizant. Freze diamantate...

Eu si Delilah ne intersectaseram in Macao, unde am descoperit ca eram interesati amandoi de dealerul de arme Achille Belghazi pentru uciderea caruia fusesem angajat, dar pe care oamenii lui Delilah il doreau viu ca sa obtina de la el informatii importante. Intr-un final noi doi izbutiseram sa...

Afacerea asasinatelor are propria-i atractie gravitationala si daca te apropii prea mult, sau daca ramai prea mult in preajma ei, nu te vei elibera niciodata. John s-a retras din activitate si de aceea curiozitatea ii este starnita cand i se propune o misiune misterioasa: sa aranjeze trei...

John Rain isi doreste un singur lucru: dupa atatia ani traiti ca asasin platit, sa se retraga si sa locuiasca fericit impreuna cu frumoasa Delilah. Destinul a decis insa altceva… Un dusman demult uitat ii ia ostatic un prieten vechi si-l sileste pe japonez sa comita trei asasinate, care sa nu...

No aru taka wa, tsume o kakusu, cum spune un proverb japonez. Soimul iscusit isi ascunde ghearele. Traind discret si retras in Tokio, John Rain incearca sa-si evite vechea existenta de asasin, pana cand este abordat cu o oferta greu de refuzat. Rain si vechiul lui prieten Dox, alaturi de doi...

Dupa zece ani in care a luptat ca mercenar in Filipine, John Rain revine in Tokio, unde i se cere sa-l elimine pe ruso-japonezul Victor, care controleaza lumea asasinatelor din capitala Japoniei. Pentru a se apropia de acesta, intra in echipa lui si este trimis sa ucida un politician japonez...