The 2015 Rugby World Cup in England is set to be the biggest, brightest and most successful tournament to date, as the world's top teams compete for the coveted Webb Ellis Cup and inspire new participants and fans worldwide across 44 days and 48 matches. With over three million tickets set to be sold for the matches, the Rugby World Cup will be viewed in over 207 territories worldwide.However, for all the fanfare of the third biggest sporting event in the world (after the Olympics and FIFA...

Transform your classroom with more than 200 research-backed solutions to perennial problems every teacher faces in every school.Between behavioral challenges, disengaged students, the demands of technology integration, the constant reimagination of assessment, and the looming threat of burnout, educators need high-quality practical support more than ever.Written by four passionate practitioners, The Teaching Strategy Handbook delivers exactly what ...

Veteran instructional coaches A. Keith Young and Tamarra Osborne provide practical advice for trainers seeking high-leverage strategies for successful professional trainings.How do you see yourself as a trainer? Are you occasionally extraordinary, or do you flail about a bit? Are you connected to a helpful community of other trainers, or are you just starting out and feeling isolated and alone in your job? Do your workshops end with thunderous applause, or do you h...

Three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they've used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches.The Instructional Coaching Handbook is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening in the first place. From their thousands of annual school visits, the authors recognize that coaches frequently confront sim...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man psychically bonded to the living weapon for which he is the failsafe, a harem of "female" androids newly capable of questioning their subservient status—these are a few of the characters you'll m...

You have a built in super power! The ability to bend anyone to your will without them even knowing it. This is truly a super power. The power of influence can open up many doors in life. It doesn't matter if you're selling homes, closing business deals or taking advantage of life. These 12 powers of Influence will change the way you interact with people for the rest of your life!

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these i...

The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand and apply it in their everyday lives. Autho...

With the culture festival behind them, it’s finally time for some rest and relaxation! Or it would be, were it not for the two-mom tag team ambush being sprung on Akiteru. With both mothers keen on interrogating Akiteru about his relationship with their daughters, there’ll be no time for relaxing at all! While Aki deals with them and tries to figure out what happened between his aunt and uncle, a battle rages on behind the screens as Mashiro and Iroha compete for his affections.Wil...

The Secret to Speak Fluent English As An AdultThis book is specially written for older students (25+) of the English language who wishes to improve his/her English fluency to the next level but seems to have hit a plateau. Regardless of what actions are taken, progression is slow or limited.Here is a checklist to see if this guide is for you.This Book is For You If..✔ You can understand 70% of an English spe...

This book is about the power of our rational and emotional minds in our work lives. It demonstrates the essential interconnection between them for motivating us to work and for making us effective leaders. Using the metaphor of the Rider for the rational mind and the Elephant for our emotional mind, the reader instantly sees the differences between them in size and power. They serve different but interconnected functions and when they are positively aligned our work engagement and producti...

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new...