A proven therapeutic method that channels workplace anxiety into powerful, confident performanceMillions of people are afraid of work. The situations they fear may be different-public speaking (e.g., presentations and speeches), meetings, conference calls, new assignments, performance reviews, promotions or praise, client consultations, team projects, and so on. But the feeling is often the same: some combination of obsessive worry, fear of being noticeably nervous...

Some colleagues may experience less anxiety than others, but far more people than you realize are just as burdened by the pressure to perform well and the fear of what will happen they don't. That feeling is called "workplace anxiety," and if you suffer from it, you are not alone. For the millions of people who suffer from workplace anxiety, Work Makes Me Nervous is a truly effective self-empowerment training tool. Unlike books about how to manage time, Work Makes Me Nervous provides a cur...

Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and sp...