What if you were able to get answers to your burning business questions from artists, interior designers, and foodies? This dream is now a reality: this book fulfills this desire as 38 artists, interior designers, and foodies answer questions on their businesses in fascinating and fast-paced interview format.

Our culture and media often simplify the choice educators face-stay in or leave classroom teaching. Written for teachers and other educational professionals, this book dispels this simple dichotomy by representing the range of responses and career pathways that enable educators to make a difference. Based on interviews with hundreds of change-minded educators, the authors share career stories and insights against a backdrop that maps out the complexities, roles, and structures that define ...

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 inte...

It's tough being human. On the path to discovering our life's purpose, we can easily question whether we are on the right journey. The forks in the road confuse us, the doubts creep in, and we scurry for answers while we impatiently wait. But, when we let go, listen and trust, we can experience the heavenly, humbling transformations the Universe has in store for us. What were once abrupt, painful shifts grow into life lessons that gently revive our spirits. Join author and entrepreneur Kim...

The Global Comparative Assessment of Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Dam Safety explores a range of legal, institutional, technical, and financial options along a continuum to provide a decision support tool for dam safety assurance appropriate for a range of different economic, political and cultural circumstances.

In book three of the bestselling Women of Surprise series, narrator Kimberly Austin brings Tracey J Lyons’ Making Over Maggie to life! Maggie Monroe, the third of the Monroe cousins, has always been headstrong, and straightlaced. When aunt Margaret hires a flamboyant drifter named Samuel Clay to be Maggie’s second hand in the opening of the new Surprise dance hall, Maggie finds her peaceful, staid existence turned upside-down.The dance hall was her project, and the reason she staye...

Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author Tracey J Lyons brings listeners, Lydia’s Passion, book 2 in the popular and quirky Women of Surprise series with narration by Kimberly Austin. Lydia’s Aunt Margaret Monroe always had a way of meddling in the lives of her three nieces. Therefore, it was no shock to learn she wants Lydia to be the new schoolteacher in the town of Surprise. A bit spoiled, and used to being unencumbered by responsibilities, Lydia can’t believe she’ll be in charge of a room...

Publisher's Weekly bestselling author, Tracey J Lyons tells a heart-warming story of suspense and love, in A Surprise for Abigail, book one in the popular Women of Surprise series.A jaded drifter on the run. A young woman with a broken heart. Can these two strangers find what they are looking for in a quirky small-town called Surprise?Cole Stanton was a man on the move. On his own since the death of his family, he's drifted from town to town, shielding his heart from attach...

A Darkly Enchanted Artifact.A Passion to Outlast the Centuries.Solaus had but one wish of the medallion: to save his dying bride. But when he placed the pendant around his neck, his wish was changed by a malevolent twist of magic that made him Djinn, but also took away the knowledge of what he is and who he used to be. Flung from Ancient Persia into immortality, Solaus has only the memory that he did not save his true love and nothing more as time begins to pass.Eager for a fresh start, Ne...

You must follow your heart for the answers you seek may save us all yet."A brass key. A note. A handsome stranger near a fountain in an abandoned courtyard. On a sultry New Orleans evening, Jasmine takes these only clues to her identity and follows them to a place she'd thought only existed in dreams and ancient faery tales.Through a doorway in time, Hayden has come from the dangers of his dying kingdom to the most beautiful woman he's ever known. Bound by his royal blood to retrieve the l...