Learn how to use watercolor to soothe your soul with this beginner's guide to painting for relaxation.In this guide for the absolute beginner, artist and teacher Sharone Stevens makes the joy of watercolor accessible to everyone. With simple techniques and exercises, she shows how painting lines, patterns, and shapes can have a powerful meditative effect. Along the way, you will find yourself creating beautiful artwork that you'll be proud to display in your home.

From a cup of coffee to a panda, this comprehensive directory of 100 step-by-step watercolor projects will teach you how to paint it, in six steps or less!Watercolor painting has never been easier or more fun with this super-accessible guide to painting animals, botanicals, food and drink, and more! With easy-to-follow visual steps, you’ll see how to build up realistic looking pictures from the first washes to the final details.This value-packed book will b...

A Magazine Celebrating Romance:Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite author's world now and again, but don't have the time to read a full-length novel. Heart's Kiss magazine offers delicious variety and more.Each issue has at least 60,000 plus words of fiction from names readers will recognize, to newly discovered writers, including interviews and...

THE AMAZING TRUE STORY—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story full of drama, love, insurmountable odds, and miraculous triumph experienced by ordinary people who rose up to answer the call to help an innocent child, about one woman in particular who looked beyond her own limitations to say yes to the impossible.Sharon Stevens, twice divorced, barely making enough to support herself, would never claim to be an angel. Early in life, perilous situations were t...

要成為卓越的領導人，不只要才智出眾，更要具備「情緒智慧」！暢銷書《EQ》作者丹尼爾．高曼發現，要展現傑出的領導力，情緒智慧的重要性，是其他能力的兩倍。而且，情緒智慧不只對領導人有決定性的影響，對各個層級、各種職務的人來說，也都極為重要。可以說，不管你再聰明、再能幹，都只具備了基本條件，唯有情緒智慧，才是你縱橫職場的必備利器。本書以「情緒智慧」為主題，假如你從未涉獵任何教人在職場上、在管理上善用情緒智慧的著作，就從讀這本書開始吧！本書的十篇文章，都是從全球頂尖管理雜誌《哈佛商業評論》中，依此主題嚴選出來的作品，篇篇都是經得起千錘百鍊的經典文章，幫助你提高社交技能與情緒技能，進而為你打造專業上、事業上的成功。▸本書特色◂本書提出以下的見解與建議，激發讀者鍛鍊「情緒智慧」，並有效應用：．管理並引導你的心情和情緒．做出聰明、有同理心的人事決定．管理團隊的衝突、控制團隊的情緒．以復原力挺過嚴...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

This book provides an important lens for understanding how interlocking humanitarian crises caused by armed conflict, natural disasters, forced displacement and, more recently, a global health pandemic have adversely impacted teaching and learning.It brings together evidence from multiple, diverse research-practice partnerships in seven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The authors provide a clear account of...

Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies, edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftanski, offers a substantive, diverse, and timely consideration of phenomenological engagements within the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. Featuring original essays from a distinguished collection of established and emerging global scholars representing different schools of thought, this volume explains how the interest in a phenomenological reading of Kierkegaard is not only vital, but conti...

The quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit the spaces left behind by those we love. Easy-to-use exercise guides and activities invite readers to explore the changeable nature of grief through the ebb and flow of the seasons.As well as contributions from diverse creative practitioners, poems from Dr. Robert Neimeyer and reflection...

Lexington, the seat for Rockbridge County, is situated in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley within minutes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Main Street is part of Route 11'the Valley Pike/Great Road'and the architecture downtown looks much as it did in the 19th century. Lexington is home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute. It is also the final resting place for Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson and Robert E. Lee, as well as their horses. Within a few blocks, one visits the...

Two generations of students inspired by Harvey Mansfield come together here to demonstrate how their diverse approaches illuminate the topic of the arts of rule and speak to the wide scope of Mansfield's contributions. The essays collected here cover both ancient and modern ground. The first section covers topics such as Xenophon's question of what it is to be a gentleman, Aristotle's view of friendship, Montaigne's account of the highest good, and Montesquieu's elevation of modesty. The s...

Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world sha...