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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In Feedback, Isabella Wallace and Leah Kirkman explore our understanding of what is often cited as one of the most powerful tools for enhancing learning, drawing together ideas from leading international thinkers and practical strategies for busy teachers. The Best of the Best series brings together...
Developing Tenacity
Teaching learners how to persevere in the face of difficulty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer’s Developing Tenacity: Teaching learners how to persevere in the face of difficulty is a powerful call to action and a practical handbook for all teachers who want to stimulate and strengthen their pupils’ learning tenacity. The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group...
The Spirit of Community
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
America needs to move from me to we.
In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward—together.
The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening...
The Articulate Attorney
Public Speaking for Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Addressing the distinctive communication skills expected of attorneys—and based on three decades of experience coaching lawyers—this manual of practical, useful solutions integrates cutting-edge discoveries in human factors, linguistics, neuroscience, gesture studies, and sports psychology. These...
The Life Coaching Handbook
Everything you need to be an effective life coach
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2001
This complete guide to life coaching reveals what life coaching IS, how to coach yourself and others effectively and how to create and sustain a successful coaching practice. Leading you through a comprehensive programme of Advanced Life Coaching Skill The Life Coaching Handbook is the essential guide...
Comeback Moms
How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven't Had a Job in Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?
Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what's best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when you’re ready to leave...
The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back
Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to rise effortlessly to the top, while others are stuck in the same job year after year? Have you ever felt you are falling short of your career potential? Have you wondered if some of the things you do–or don’t do–at work might be hamstringing your...
Teacher Geek
Because life's too short for worksheets
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
What can you do with a pack of marshmallows and some tinfoil? Create innovative, engaging learning opportunities; if you embrace the teacher geek mentality. What was your best lesson like? Rachel Jones thinks that her best lessons have happened when she's been brave enough to wonder, 'What might happen...
Faith and Fortune
The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better. Faith and Fortune tells the stories of the extraordinary people who are leading the way and the admirable...
How We Compete
What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
"Impressive... This is an evidence-based bottom-up account of the realities of globalisation. It is more varied, more subtle, and more substantial than many of the popular works available on the subject." -- Financial Times
Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center,...
The Underground Culinary Tour
How the New Metrics of Today's Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The Underground Culinary Tour is a high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data.
Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and...
What Were They Thinking?
Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from Products That Flopped
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Those ignorant of the mistakes of the past are bound to lose a lot of money. That's why Bob McMath founded the New Products Showcase and Learning Center--a "Smithsonian for Stinkers," Business Week dubbed it. There, executives from top corporations pay huge amounts of money to rummage through some...
Seven Steps to Sold
The Secrets to Selling Your Home for Big Bucks . . . Fast!
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Real estate experts Donna and Shannon Freeman don’t pull any punches. Whether it’s on HGTV’s shows Designed to Sell and Secrets That Sell or with their own clients, this mother-daughter team’s straight-talking approach helps home sellers do what it takes to close a successful sale. Often hilarious...
Unraveled
The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter,...