Collection: Adult

Exuberant, playful, and evergreen, The Game at the End of the World revels in the grass-stained highlights of a sport without borders or boundaries.

Soccer (née football) fans will rejoice at this all-new volume of crackling essays from the author of God Is Round. Here, Juan Villoro explores the sport through the elements that make it the world's favorite pastime, from its ancient origins, near-mythic players, exhilarating matches, endemic rivalries, and the unlikely moments in which football has changed history.

As a prolific writer and chronicler of World Cup games around the world, Villoro draws on a rich cultural mosaic to inspire readers, players, and fans long after the final whistle blows. With a journalist's ear and a philosopher's outlook, he has produced a collection for curious newcomers and lifelong football buffs alike.

COGAT(R) Kindergarten Test Prep provides comprehensive content to help your young child succeed on the COGAT(R). Savant Test Prep's(TM) resource includes two practice tests, answer explanations, and expert tips to help your young scholar achieve a high score.

Your test prep book will include:

• 300+ Questions (2 Full-Length Practice Tests)
• 9 COGAT(R) Question Types Thoroughly Covered (Picture Analogies, Picture Classification, Sentence Completion, Number Analogies, Number Series, Number Puzzles, Figure Analogies, Figure Classification, Paper Folding)
• Answer Key With Explanations
• Expert Tips and Guidance for Understanding the COGAT(R)

A high COGAT(R) score will help set your child up for academic success, as many Gifted & Talented (G&T) programs rely on these as a key determinant in program acceptance.

The COGAT(R) is a difficult test.

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Develop the skills and mindset to successfully manage others for the first time.

If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team's strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to perform at their best.

This book will inspire you to:

• Build trust before asserting your authority
• Give constructive feedback that produces positive results
• Gain buy-in for your ideas across the organization
• Navigate tough conversations and high-stakes situations
• Cultivate a robust network both inside and outside your organization
• Lead with empathy and emotional intelligence

This collection of articles includes "Becoming the Boss," by Linda A. Hill; "What Great Managers Do," by Marcus Buckingham; "How Leaders Create and Use Networks," by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; "How to Preempt Team Conflict," by Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "What Is Psychological Safety?" by Amy Gallo; "Get the Boss to Buy In," by Susan J. Ashford and James Detert; "Four Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills," by Nina A. Bowman; "How to Help (Without Micromanaging)," by Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile, and Julianna Pillemer; "Is Your Hybrid Team Losing Steam?" by Heidi K. Gardner; "Make the Most of Your One-on-One Meetings," by Steven G. Rogelberg; "How to Give (and Receive) Critical Feedback," by Patrick Thean; "Collaborative Overload," by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; "The Power of Mattering at Work," by Zach Mercurio; "Leading Is Emotionally Draining. Here's How to Recover," by Dina Denham Smith; and "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

THE GAME IS AFOOT

While ringing in the new year, Chise and Elias have a visitor: Lindsay--Head of House St. George, one of the Seven Shields. Lindsay asks Chise and Elias to join the St. George twins in investigating rumors of the Red Dragon. After some hesitation, Chise and Elias agree to join the investigation. That decided, the two prepare to return to the College for the new semester. Meanwhile, Violet and Jasmine's mother, Hilda St. George, travels to the Dragon's Aerie where she begs its caretaker to return with her to England.

HOT SPRINGS SHENANIGANS

Stuck in an endless August 31st that only they remember, Suzuki and Takagi still don't seem any closer to figuring out how to break the loop. On the surface their relationship seems just as stagnant. So when Takagi suggests she and Suzuki go on a hot springs trip together, Suzuki's hopes immediately shoot sky high. He even makes sure to procure some necessary protection in case the opportunity arises. Later, alone in their room, things start getting steamy. Will Suzuki and Takagi finally take the next step?!

Do you ever doubt your coaching style is achieving the best results for your clients? Have you ever felt there's room for growth, but you're not sure how to achieve it?

To create a more sustainable transformation in the people you coach, you need to start with your own mindset. As a coach, you know you can't change what you do, unless you alter what you believe first.

By shedding the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, you can reset your thinking to a beginner's mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery.

In this fresh and highly effective field guide, Master Mentor Coach, Clare Norman gets into your head to help you pinpoint the attitudes that you need to unlearn and reframe. Through Clare's rich experience, illuminating real-life stories, and practical guidance you can shift towards more useful thinking and powerful skillsets by:

• Spotting and changing your own restrictive coaching mindsets
• Understanding how marginal gains can lead to maximal outcomes
• Embracing replacement paradigms and new thought patterns
• Rediscovering what you love about coaching and its power to resource people

It's time to ditch the old beliefs that are holding you back, free your thinking and make the move from getting transactional results to being a transformational coach.

Anarchy Works takes examples from around the world, combing through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, practiced mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision-making: all the principles that anarchy is founded on, regardless of whether they call themselves anarchists. Well documented and expansive, this book is an inspiring answer to those who would say that anarchism is unrealistic, that it sounds nice but it couldn't actually work. This point-by-point introduction shows that it already has.

Master the lucrative discipline of quantitative trading with this insightful handbook from a master in the field

In the newly revised Second Edition of Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business, quant trading expert Dr. Ernest P. Chan shows you how to apply both time-tested and novel quantitative trading strategies to develop or improve your own trading firm.

You'll discover new case studies and updated information on the application of cutting-edge machine learning investment techniques, as well as:

• Updated back tests on a variety of trading strategies, with included Python and R code examples
• A new technique on optimizing parameters with changing market regimes using machine learning.
• A guide to selecting the best traders and advisors to manage your money

Perfect for independent retail traders seeking to start their own quantitative trading business, or investors looking to invest in such traders, this new edition of Quantitative Trading will also earn a place in the libraries of individual investors interested in exploring a career at a major financial institution.

Identify and learn about more than 150 types of common backyard weeds found throughout the midwestern United States.

Whether you're a forager, gardener, homeowner, or are simply fascinated by nature, you probably have an opinion about weeds. But do you know which to pull, which to preserve, and which to put to good use? Learn to identify common backyard weeds in your area. Written by foraging expert Teresa Marrone, Common Backyard Weeds of the Midwest utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify weeds by their visual characteristics--from growth patterns to color. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing details to give you confidence when identifying each weed.

Created for beginners--but useful even to those with experience in botany--this handy book explains how each weed spreads, how to control it, and its possible beneficial uses. It's a great visual guide to learning about backyard weeds--toxic, edible, or otherwise interesting--found in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Book Features:

• Identify 157 common backyard weeds by their visual characteristics


• Browse species by growth pattern, then by color


• Begin to learn which weeds have edible parts


• Learn the author's tips for getting rid of unwanted weeds

Centuries have passed since God turned His back on humanity, converting Earth into a hellish wasteland for angels that displeased him. The great Angelic Exodus set Fallen Angels free to roam and ravage the remnants of civilization, enslaving the weak and ruling with an iron fist. Among the shadows of despair, a few emerged as tyrants, the Hallowed Fallen, reigning over a broken world.

From the ashes of this despair rises Amara Ashenfall, sired by one of the very angels responsible for humanity's torment. When she is summoned into The Crucible- a harrowing rite of passage that all sired children must endure-her fate hangs in the balance. Thrust into the heart of the sinister Sanctum Metere, Amara faces a nightmarish transformation into a Nephilim, and indoctrination into the ranks of soldiers who serve the Hallowed Fallen.

As the brutal trials of The Crucible unfold, Amara finds herself ensnared in a web of violence, betrayal, and intrigue.It is here that she captures the cold, contemptuous gaze of her enigmatic instructor-an arrogant, mysterious man whose disdain for her burns as fiercely as her own hidden desire. together, they are engulfed in a tempest of conflicting loyalties and forbidden passions, each moment a haunting dance on the edge of life and death as she searches for truths he keeps hidden.

In a world where every choice could lead to salvation or death, Amara's world unfolds before her, truth becoming an ever shifting kaleidoscope. Will she rise to claim her destiny, or will fate spell the end of everything she holds dear? In this epic clash of wills, love and vengeance collide, and the line between hero and monster blurs into a gripping tale of survival against insurmountable odds.

How can we explain that Israel, despite its genocidal attacks in Gaza and its violation of international law, remains immune to criticism? Why do many feminists in the Global North, so quick to denounce the impact of "Islamic fundamentalism" on Palestinian women, remain silent when it comes to decrying the gendered impact of Israeli apartheid in Palestine?

In Palestine and Feminist Liberation, Palestinian scholar-activist Nada Elia argues that Palestinian women, far from being powerless and submissive, have long played an important role in resisting their people's dispossession, first by the British Mandate, then by Israel. Elia discusses the challenges diaspora Palestinian feminists face when organizing on Turtle Island, where the dominant discourse has long upheld the Zionist narrative, steeped in Orientalism and anti-Palestinian racism. She articulates a vision for liberation grounded in Indigenous feminism, with its focus on collective empowerment, rather than individual advancement.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?! NO WAY!

Long ago, when Natsuki was a child, he got matching pendants with...well, it sure wasn't our loser heroine Sakurako. But who was it? And can our loser heroine still win the day against one of the most powerful romantic tropes of all? It all comes down to the summer festival, where Natsuki will make his choice once and for all! (Unless yet another new girl arrives, but what are the odds of that?!)

A biography of a husband and wife immigrating to the States from Mexico in the mid-fifties with their five children. Within the first five years of living in mid-city L.A. four months after his wife gave birth to their seventh child in late February of 1959, she dies unexpectedly July 2nd of this same year. Leaving behind a destroyed widow husband with seven children ages ranging from 12 years of age to 4 months. My name is Sylvia Villasenor and I am the youngest of seven children that were raised by a widowed man. Our story changes the trajectory of your typical immigrant family coming to the Unites States seeking a better life. Yet with all the challenges faced after my mother's unexpected death when I was only 4 months old. Dad managed to make the right choices with the help of close family members that took us into their home while Dad battled challenges to get his life in order and finally my six siblings and I reunited with him when I was 5 years old. Embrace this journey with me as I dig deep into those challenging years of growing up without a mother and how my siblings and I got through it. This is a true story about how resilience and courage helped us rise above our challenges and circumstances.

A NEW SEMESTER BEGINS

A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 more dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, Genevieve Cogman, MK Lobb and more!

Twelve original dark academia stories from bestselling thriller writers - imagine darkened libraries, exclusive elite schools, looming Gothic towers, charismatic professors, illicit affairs, the tang of autumn in the air... and the rivalries and obsessions that lead to murder.

Featuring stories from:
Olivie Blake
Genevieve Cogman
Ariel Djanikian
Elspeth Wilson
MK Lobb
Jamison Shea
Kate Alice Marshall
Erica Waters
De Elizabeth
Taylor Grothe
Kit Mayquist
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

I love art. I love the stories you can tell with imagery and color. I can lose myself in a world I create, evoking emotions that help others connect and be seen.

I'm full of ambition, stardust, and hope. These things drive me. Until one day, my entire life feels like it's crashing, and someone is after me.

Determined to keep going, I find myself in Sleepy Coldwater, a small town in Alaska, seeking healing and adventure. What I didn't expect was to be blindsided by a snowstorm in the mountains, leaving me desperately in need of a life-saving sanctuary.

Gavin Ariksen finds me.

Handsome. Tall. Mysterious.

With glowing blue eyes that hold a tortured past. There's an intoxicating connection between us, dripping with tension.

The thing is, we're both souls with warm, broken hearts.

As time passes, the snow keeps rolling in, and truths unfold. Suddenly, this may be a storm I cannot survive.