The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common: 8 to Be Great
by St John, RichardEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-04-01
Publisher(s): Train of Thought Arts
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Summary
The perfect gift for budding entrepreneurs, professionals, and students, this is a fun, inspiring ride along the road to success. The author interviewed 500 greats, including Bill Gates, the Google founders, and Martha Stewart, and shares a wealth of wisdom anyone can apply towards his or her own success.
Table of Contents
| Camino del Sol Lighting a Path for Chicano/Latino Literature in the New Millennium | p. 1 |
| Poetry | |
| From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche | |
| Del otro lado de la noche/From the Other Side of Night | p. 19 |
| Plegaria de amor/Love Plea | p. 20 |
| ¡Tlazoltéotl! | p. 21 |
| Tlazolteotl! | p. 22 |
| Oración del desierto/Desert Prayer | p. 23 |
| Home Movies of Narcissus | |
| Amateur Filmmaker | p. 24 |
| People of the Piñata | p. 26 |
| That Flag | p. 27 |
| Directions to the Beach of the Dead | |
| When I Was a Little Cuban Boy | p. 28 |
| Translation for Mamá | p. 29 |
| In the City of Smoking Mirrors | |
| H. Writes to His Brother to Assure Him of Continuous Comfort in the Afterlife | p. 31 |
| Animal Time | p. 32 |
| El Espejo Fumeroso | p. 33 |
| In an Angry Season | |
| The Conjuror of the New Century | p. 34 |
| The Tattoo Artist | p. 36 |
| The Bad Wife | p. 38 |
| A Rush of Hands | |
| Shrine | p. 40 |
| Backyard | p. 41 |
| Nido | p. 43 |
| Work Done Right | |
| Chilalengua | p. 44 |
| Club Las Palmas | p. 45 |
| Pig | p. 46 |
| The Tovar Bull | p. 47 |
| A Question of Gravity and Light | |
| To Know You Better | p. 49 |
| This | p. 50 |
| Letter from the Cumberland | p. 50 |
| Epilogue | p. 51 |
| The Keepsake Storm | |
| Darkling | p. 51 |
| The Walk Like Old Habits | p. 53 |
| Where the Bodies, Half-Dressed, in Pieces | p. 54 |
| When Living Was a Labor Camp | |
| When living was a labor camp called Montgomery | p. 56 |
| Softball and Tomato Fields | p. 57 |
| Operation Wetback, 1953 | p. 58 |
| POEMA | |
| Lyric | p. 59 |
| At the Podium | p. 60 |
| What Baby Gertrude Heard | p. 61 |
| border-crosser with a lamborghini dream | |
| blood night café | p. 63 |
| selena in corpus christi lacquer red | p. 64 |
| Giraffe on Fire | |
| Ofelia in Manhattan, Circa 1943 | p. 65 |
| Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler | |
| Immigrant Fortune Teller Machine | p. 69 |
| Fuzzy Equations | p. 74 |
| Letanía para José Antonio Burciaga | p. 75 |
| Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother | |
| Salzbergwerk: The Salt Mines Tour | p. 78 |
| Cue Lazarus | |
| Light Show | p. 80 |
| A Prayer for My Brother | p. 81 |
| Breathing Between the Lines | |
| Discovering America | p. 82 |
| The Devil's Workshop | |
| Remedios | p. 85 |
| Class Action | p. 86 |
| World to World | |
| Heritage | p. 87 |
| World to World | p. 88 |
| Bowl | p. 88 |
| Wish | p. 89 |
| How Long She'll Last in This World | |
| Backcountry, Emigrant Gap | p. 91 |
| In Biruté's Camp | p. 91 |
| Why Can't We All Just Get Along? | p. 92 |
| Adobe Odes | |
| Ode to Readers | p. 96 |
| Ode to a Book | p. 97 |
| Ode to El Paso | p. 98 |
| Ode to Women | p. 101 |
| Blood Mysteries | |
| Piñión Nuts | p. 103 |
| Why I'm Not Someone Else | p. 105 |
| Elegy for Desire | |
| The Luxury of Darkness | p. 107 |
| The Disappearance of My Wife | p. 108 |
| Elegy for Desire | p. 108 |
| Palm Crows | |
| Animalia | p. 111 |
| El exilio | p. 115 |
| Margo Tamez | |
| Naked Wanting | |
| First Choice | p. 117 |
| For Keeps | p. 118 |
| What i'm on | |
| dear reader: this is what i thought on easter day | p. 120 |
| Section 7 | p. 121 |
| radio | p. 122 |
| esau past love | p. 123 |
| on Tuesday, when the homeless disappeared | |
| The Deer | p. 124 |
| El Salvador, 1932-1981 | p. 128 |
| Fiction | |
| excerpt from The Region of Lost Names | p. 135 |
| excerpt from Samba Dreamers | p. 146 |
| excerpt from If I Die in Juarez | p. 159 |
| Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | |
| A Scenic Night | p. 178 |
| Small Time | p. 186 |
| Inner View | p. 193 |
| Snapping Lines | |
| La Luz | p. 201 |
| Lost | p. 213 |
| El Milagro and Other Stories | |
| La Tortillera/The Tortilla Maker | p. 219 |
| Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love | |
| Amor Desesperado/Desperate Love | p. 223 |
| The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories | |
| The Ring | p. 228 |
| El Bebé del Vaquerón | p. 233 |
| excerpt from The Peruvian Notebooks | p. 235 |
| The Last Tortilla and Other Stories | |
| The Snake | p. 244 |
| Punching Chickens | p. 255 |
| Nonfiction | |
| Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir | |
| Words | p. 269 |
| Violeta Parra | p. 270 |
| November 1, The Day of the Dead | p. 271 |
| Nights of Exile | p. 272 |
| And Finally, Returning | p. 273 |
| The Illusion of a Firefly | p. 273 |
| The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing | |
| My Week as a Mexican | p. 274 |
| Found in Translation | p. 278 |
| The Woman Who Loved Water | p. 283 |
| The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape | |
| The Border Is Open | p. 295 |
| Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays | |
| excerpts from A Different Border | p. 305 |
| nobody's son: notes from an american life | |
| Nobody's Son | p. 321 |
| Source Credits | p. 335 |
| About the Editor | p. 337 |
| About the Contributors | p. 339 |
| Bibliography | p. 347 |
| Index of Authors | p. 351 |
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