The founder of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches presents insight on business and leadership in the age of COVID-19 from some of today's top consultants.This informative volume offers expert advice on navigating a business through today's global pandemic. Some of the world's most effective consultants give their perspectives on all areas of employee and customer growth and engagement. They also consider the ramifications of COVID-19 on people; the healthcare system; l...

This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Beginners, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 5 to 7, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

Encompassing theory, research, and practice, this tenth edition provides an introduction to conflict communication and conflict management.This text features real-life case studies across a range of theoretical perspectives and conflict settings, including interpersonal, group, and organizational. Approachably written for students and with an eye to application, the book teaches conflict theory in the context of practical skills. This edition features new sections and references on...

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America’s favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . .Before she was affectionately known to millions as “Mrs. C.,” Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960s—including Love, American Style, in which she donned an apron that would cinch her career. Soon afte...

Never before has a book like this one delved into the spiritual odyssey of cultural icon Bob Dylan. Tracking an American original—from his Jewish roots to his controversial embrace of Jesus to his enduring legacy as the composer of the Tempest album—Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life delivers the story of a man in dogged pursuit of redemption.Based on years of research and original interviews, this book sorts through the myths and misunderstandings and reveals Dylan to b...

In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in ge...

A glowing green sphere drifts above New York City, and within hours the world changes forever. The Statue of Liberty is sliced apart without warning. Bombers vanish in midair. Battleships dissolve beneath the harbor. No explosion. No wreckage. Just disappearance. Panic grips the streets as humanity realizes it is facing an enemy with weapons beyond comprehension and patience running dangerously short.Then the visitor delivers its ultimatum. Entire nations are ordered to surrender w...

When the brain suffers an injury, the effects can be delayed and unpredictable. Cerebrospinal fluid can slowly build up, causing dangerously high levels of intracranial pressure (ICP), and the brain tissue can be displaced into adjacent compartments, resulting in cerebral herniation syndrome (CHS). Within the burgeoning field of neurocritical care, experts are just beginning to understand the nuanced, sometimes counterintuitive relationship between ICP and CHS.Written by leading re...

Twenty-two more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”Authors include Yoon Ha Lee, Helen Marshall, Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Seth Dickinson, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and Cat Rambo. Includes “No Sweeter Art” by Tony Pi, a finalist for the 2015 Auro...

If managing your Parkinson’s has become more challenging than it used to be, the book Managing Parkinson’s Mid-Stride: A Treatment Guide to Parkinson’s is for you. This audiobook explains why symptoms may get better and worse throughout the day and how to treat and cope with them. Find answers and read tips and stories that can help.

Winner of the Ernest Bormann Research Award from the National Communication AssociationThe Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication’s central role within research on human behaviour and fosters an identity for group communicat...

Accelerating Cleanup at Toxic Waste Sites: Fast-tracking Environmental Actions and Decision Making presents truly innovative advances in investigative and cleanup technologies, offering valuable solutions that streamline the data collection process, speed up the time it takes to characterize a site, and expedite decision making. Using easy to understand graphic displays, tables, text summaries, and real world case studies, and by synthesizing technical and regulatory reference information ...