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 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.

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...

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...

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...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."—Reese WitherspoonTired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsk...

2014 Winner of The Grawemeyer Award in EducationThe future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted ...

New York Times Bestseller**Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by EssenceNamed a Best Holiday Gift Book by Real Simple, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, and moreNamed a Best Gift for Coworkers by Heavy.comNamed a Best Mother’s Day Gift by the Seattle Times**“I want to rip out every page of this glorio...

"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND“Schools that Learn is a magnificent, grand book that pays equal attention to the small and the big picture - and what's more integrates them. There is no book on educatio...

"I well recall a conversation with an executive I hoped to interview about her astonishing productivity. I began our call with an assurance that I would not take much of her time. She laughed. 'Oh, I have all the time in the world,' she said."Most of us feel constantly behind, unsure how to escape feeling oppressed by busyness. Laura Vanderkam, unlike other time-management gurus, believes that in order to get more done, we must first feel like we have all the time ...