Celebrate the HBCU legacy of Howard University in this beautiful story about a young girl named Taraji who overcomes her apprehension about school through the reflective lyrics of her mother's lullaby. As Taraji dreams, the reader is invited to feel the unique spirit and pride that resonates within the Howard University community and capture a bit of Howard News. Co-written and edited by Howard university alumni.

Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about ...

An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —MashableRob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean...

**An instant Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestsellerThe future of leadership begins with trust—and it starts within**In Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, leadership expert Dr. Rob McKenna redefines what it means to lead in a world fragmented by broken promises, disconnection, and low engagement. Backed by research with thousands of leaders and organizations, this book reveals how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt—and why whole leader development is ...

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.By introducing readers to a different kind of activism – based on universal patterns of Transformation, Expansion, Wholeness, a...

Readers were beguiled by Rob Brezsny’s new approach to the humble horoscope when his “Free Will Astrology” column first appeared. Instead of the generic, one-size-fits-all style of similar columns, Brezsny used witty parables, tender rants, cultural riffs, and love letters in his playfully positive readings. He brings that same sensibility—and the same message of a benevolent universe—to this self-help book for people who may be skeptical about self-help books. Brezsny persuasively advises...

The future of leadership begins with trust―and it starts withinIn Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, leadership expert Dr. Rob McKenna redefines what it means to lead in a world fragmented by broken promises, disconnection, and low engagement. Backed by research with thousands of leaders and organizations, this book reveals how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt―and why whole leader development is the key to sustainable performance and well-being.McKenna ...

Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.Drawing on a range of international contexts across informal, adult, school and university settings, this book provides innovative example...

The reality of the built environment for disabled people is one of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility, movement and access. In the United Kingdom, most homes cannot be accessed by wheelchair, while accessible transport is the exception rather than the rule. Pavements are littered with street furniture, while most public and commercial buildings provide few design features to permit disabled people ease of access.Inclusive Design i...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

From Lost Friends to Changed Worlds to Goodbye EarthThe Unbound Collection is the first three editions of the Unbound Anthology Series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications.26 Amazing Authors26 Amazing StoriesOne CollectionWith themes of Lost Friends, Changed Worlds, and Goodbye Earth, eveyone will find at least one favorate story. Enlightening, dark, fantasitical,***Warning***The Unbo...

What is the BIGGEST animal? The SMALLEST? The FASTEST, the SLOWEST? The MOST POISONOUS? The animal that SLEEPS the MOST? What animal has the MOST POWERFUL bite? The answers to these questions and a lot MORE can be found in this book that explores the world of Feats and Records in the Animal Kingdom. Filled with full color illustrations, bursting with interesting and amazing facts and easy to understand text. This book will fas...