|
|
| Line 27: |
Line 27: |
|
| |
|
| [[Category:FoundedIn20xx]] | | [[Category:FoundedIn20xx]] |
|
| |
| == Authors Nominate Top Books of All Time ==
| |
|
| |
| In 2002, the Norwegian Book Clubs gathered 100 authors from 54 countries and asked each one to list the 10 best works of fiction of all time. The authors responded and this list was created. The titles are arranged alphabetically by author name, so no one book stands above any other. The following list is the groups selection of the worlds 100 best books.How many have you read?
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/Authors-Nominate-Top-Books-of-All-Time-kRj65H.html Authors Nominate Top Books of All Time]]
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
| |
|
| |
| == 7 Essential Books on Optimism ==
| |
|
| |
| Every once in a while, we all get burned out. Sometimes, charred. And while a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism may help us get by, its in those times that we need nothing more than to embrace lifes promise of positivity with open arms. Here are seven wonderful books that help do just that with an arsenal ranging from the light visceral stimulation of optimistic design to the serious neuroscience findings about our proclivity for the positive.
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/7-Essential-Books-on-Optimism-6pgcLt.html 7 Essential Books on Optimism]]
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
| |
|
| |
| == Student Goes From Homeless to Harvard ==
| |
|
| |
| Despite being abandoned to homelessness by her parents, Dawn Loggins worked as a high school custodian by day and studied hard by night to become the first person from her school to ever be admitted to Harvard.
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/Student-Goes-From-Homeless-to-Harvard-QX9Vg4.html Student Goes From Homeless to Harvard]]
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
| |
|
| |
| == Bangladesh rickshaw puller starts clinic for the poor ==
| |
|
| |
| Joynal Abedin still remembers the rainy and windy night when he saw his father die because there was no medical treatment. His village in the northern Mymensingh district of Bangladesh did not have any medical facility at that time, and the nearest hospital was about 20km (12 miles) away.
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/Bangladesh-rickshaw-puller-starts-clinic-for-the-poor-0zbEXF.html Bangladesh rickshaw puller starts clinic for the poor]]
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
| |
|
| |
| == The Importance of Learned Optimism ==
| |
|
| |
| What 25 years of research reveal about the cognitive skills of happiness and finding lifes greater purpose.The illiterate of the 21st century, Alvin Toffler famously said, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Our outlook on the world and our daily choices of disposition and behavior are in many ways learned patterns to which Tofflers insight applies with all the greater urgency
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Importance-of-Learned-Optimism-jmZjsG.html The Importance of Learned Optimism]]
| |
|
| |
| [[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
| |
