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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy.
Social networks, the defining cultural movement...
Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)
A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
"You can't step in the same river twice."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
"The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written,...
The Path to Purpose
Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Drawing on the revelatory results of a landmark study, William Damon -- one of the country's leading writers on the lives of young people, whose book Greater Expectations won the Parents' Choice Award -- brilliantly investigates the most pressing issue in the lives of youth today: why so many young...
The Balanced Teacher Path
How to Teach, Live, and Be Happy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Award-winning teacher offers advice on achieving work-life balance and employing self-care techniques to avoid burnout.
It wasn’t long after being named North Carolina History Teacher of the year that Justin Ashley started noticing signs of burnout. He knew he needed to make some radical...
by Lori Lite
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2008
Children will love to experience belly breathing with playful sea otters and a sea child. This effective, self-calming technique also known as “diaphragmatic breathing” can have a positive impact on your child’s health. Proper breathing can lower stress and anxiety levels. It can...
Pieces of Intelligence
The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Donald Rumsfeld is not just a two-time Secretary of Defence, former CEO, former White House Chief of Staff, and the most outspoken and forceful civilian military leader in recent American history. He is also, intentionally or not, a poet. At last, the ubiquitous and at times unintelligible U.S. Secretary...
by Jay Luvaas
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2001
Napoleon. The passage of time has not dimmed the power of his name. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world. Yet unlike Machiavelli, Clausewitz, or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work. The subject of thousands of...
Shame
The Exposed Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 1995
Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion of interest in the self-conscious emotion....
What Kids Buy
The Psychology of Marketing to Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
If you're in the business of marketing or developing products and programs for kids, What Kids Buy and Why belongs in your office.
How can you create outstanding products and programs that will win in the marketplace and in the hearts of kids and parents? Dan S. Acuff and Robert H. Reiher have...
The Way of Go
8 Ancient Strategy Secrets for Success in Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
For centuries, business, political, and military leaders throughout Asia have had a secret weapon for success -- the philosophies and strategies found in an ancient game called Go.
Now, Troy Anderson, an entrepreneur, knowledge management expert, Fortune 500 management consultant, and one of only...
by Milton Rokeach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values.
The Drama Years
Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Today’s middle school girls have it rough.
In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative—and riskiest—time in their lives. Groups turn on each other, a trusted childhood friend can reveal secrets by sending...
by Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
It’s never too soon to learn the difference between what’s true and what isn’t. Words and pictures help young children discover that being honest in words and actions builds trust and self-confidence. They also learn that telling the truth sometimes takes courage and tact. Includes discussion questions, skits, scenarios, and games that reinforce the ideas being taught.
Be Positive!
A book about optimism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
A sense of optimism is a key ingredient to success in life. Guide young children to develop a positive outlook and discover how the choices they make can lead to feeling happy and capable. This friendly, encouraging book introduces preschool and primary-age children to ways of thinking and acting...