**What if you could have one of the world’s top leadership coaches in your pocket? That’s what Leadership Intelligence gives you: a compelling playbook packed with science-backed strategies that leaders at all levels can use to raise their game.“If you want to become a wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient leader, this is the best book you can read.”—Jonathan Haidt, NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Ethical Leadership and #1 New York Times bestselling ...

After Jenny's best friend and next-door neighbor, Ashley, moves out of the neighborhood, she is sad and lonely for a pretty long time. Then one day, she is excited to see a new family move in with a girl about her age. But the members of this new family are really weird: the mom wears a flowing robe and a turban, the dad dons a thick black beard, and they speak an alien tongue. Maybe they are Martians from outer space.Jenny's fears get worse as she watches more strange, mysterious ...

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...

This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their st...

Even before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular destination for travellers, including those undertaking the popular 'Grand Tour' across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb compares the experiences of travellers from the era of Shakespeare to the years following the incorporation of the Veneto into the new kingdom of Italy in 1866. She considers their reasons for visiting Verona as well as their experiences and expectations once they arrived. The majority of English visitors be...

Fetters of a Mind-Set is about a young man who fought against family tradition and decided not to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in order to do something very different and totally unheard of. It was to be a step towards his finding the Bible and his discovery of what the Word was and is. It is a journey through the seasons as he comes to terms with himself and those around him, and it describes how he finally gives himself to the true God the creator.

This story travels through the life of the author, and many have had or are in a similar crisis, for we all have trials and tribulations, and it is possible to come out of them to walk in victory, this is if there is a change in the focus of self and the situation, to a higher Authority. This story has been written about her life and the learning she had to experience before entering into a very secure safe haven, and then see the world as it really is. It is through this journey the autho...

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...

**What if you could have one of the world’s top leadership coaches in your pocket? That’s what Leadership Intelligence gives you: a compelling playbook packed with science-backed strategies that leaders at all levels can use to raise their game.“If you want to become a wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient leader, this is the best book you can read.”—Jonathan Haidt, NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Ethical Leadership and #1 New York Times bestselling ...

**A breakthrough book on the transformative power of collaborative thinking.Includes a PDF of charts and graphs to help determine your personality type as well as tips on how to work better with other personalities.**Collaborative intelligence, or CQ, is a measure of our ability to think with others on behalf of what matters to us all. It is emerging as a new professional currency at a time when the way we think, interact, and innovate is shifting. In the past, “market shar...

Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won’t accept ...

Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets.Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it’s your turn.Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one minute? The answer just might surp...