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The Generous Leader: 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone's Gain
An innovative and insightful 7-part guide to heartfelt and collaborative actions that transform the reader into a generous leader. Leading successfully in a world full of disruption means building more than technical skills. Yes, you must deliver results, but to run a successful business you need people--and people today want leaders who can and will work to see beyond themselves and only the bottom line--you must learn to lead with your heart. Being vulnerable with your staff is intimidating, but when connecting with people not only will you grow as a leader and a person, but your business will grow as well. Bringing your authentic self to your leadership takes courage and commitment, but you reap profound benefits from heart-led generous acts. This book presents 7 ways to give of yourself for everyone's gain: 1. Generous Communication: Be real to build deep connections
2. Generous Listening: Be sincerely curious about another's perspective
3. Generous Inclusion: Be inclusive to invite collaboration and show respect
4. The Generous Ally: Take chances to make chances for others
5. Generous Development: Validate strengths and success, identify expansive opportunities
6. Generous Moments: Make small acts of acknowledgment in important moments to make a big impact
7. Give up the Mask: Be emotionally accessible with authenticity and vulnerability Through unvarnished and unforgettable stories, the author and CEOs of well-recognized companies reveal experiences and mistakes that informed their success and share actions that make the shift to more heart less scary, more satisfying and incredible personal. As you build your skills with the guidance from this trusted reference, success will spread from your generosity to the people you work with, to your organization, to your own career and even society. There is no more powerful leader than a generous leader. -
Black Girl in Love (with Herself): A Guide to Self-Love, Healing, and Creating the Life You Truly Deserve
Speaker, writer, and producer Trey Anthony breaks it down, giving black women a relatable voice and personalized "keeping it real" to-do list on how to practice self-love and self-care. Therapy is not just for white women-no matter what your momma told you! After a lifetime of never truly relating to the personal development experts because of the color of her skin, Trey Anthony has written the book she needed to read as a black woman trying to navigate a world filled with unique challenges that often acts like she doesn't exist.
On the outside Trey Anthony was the overachieving, reliable, and strong black woman she was raised to be, but on the inside the pressure of sacrificing her own needs to please others was building. When her grandmother and mother raised her strong, they also unknowingly taught her that self-love and expressing emotions were weak, creating an unhealthy dynamic that had Trey facing burnout and rock bottom.
In Black Girl in Love (with Herself), Trey breaks down the lessons and tools that she used to heal her life, including how to:- Set clear and healthy boundaries-even with the people who raised you
- Quit being the family ATM
- Sort out who is a real friend, and who is just there for parties and gossip
- Confront microaggressions at work without missing a beat
- Forget who black women are "supposed" to be
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From Seed to Sunflower
How does a small, black seed turn into a huge, yellow sunflower? Follow each step in the cycle--from seed to sunflower and back to seeds--in this intriguing book! Start to Finish titles help readers examine how things are made and teach sequential thinking skills and vocabulary.
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Carving Faces in Wood: Learn to Carve Male and Female Faces in 8 Easy Steps
While considered by many carvers an essential woodcarving skill, the intricacy and detailing required when carving faces, realistic and stylized alike, can be daunting even for the most seasoned craftsman. In Carving Faces in Wood, master woodcarver and social media sensation, Alec LaCasse, details eight easy steps for carving human faces for beginners. Using rules of proportion, Alec guides readers through every aspect of carving male and female faces. Included in this comprehensive illustrated instructional guide are chapters on basic tools, building a home-carving station, wood selection including birch, poplar, and trembling pine, design, creating and finishing. A woodcarver since the age of 12 and instructor starting at age 16, Alec now teaches woodcarving at his online school and in his highly popular, informative, and entertaining social media instructional videos.Sold out -
Designing with Dried Flowers: Creating Everlasting Arrangements
Step into the world of beautiful everlasting flowers with this book of thirty-two dried flower arrangements that can be made all year round. Flowers are often fleetingly lovely, but a dried bouquet is a gift that can last. In Designing with Dried Flowers, you'll find small arrangements for every day, beautiful wreaths for every season and occasion, and celebration showstoppers that will look gorgeous in the moment and for months to come. Farmer-florist Hannah Muller of The Wreath Room at Full Belly Farms shares her unique methods to naturally dry flowers that hold their color and delicacy. Alongside the arrangements you'll learn how to dry your own flowers, whether they're from the supermarket or your garden. From there, create one of the many unique arrangements in the book, and easily create new ones with the same flowers. With step-by-step instructions for every arrangement, gorgeous photography to inspire your creations, and helpful information along the way, Designing with Dried Flowers is a must-have for every flower lover. -
House of the Dragon: The Official Coloring Book
Step back into Westeros with this brand new coloring book featuring over 75 illustrations of your favorite scenes, characters, and show logos from the hit series House of the Dragon. Long before the Wall fell, the Targaryens reigned with fire and blood. From the conflict between Rhaenyra and Alicent to Daemon burning the Crabfeeder army, explore the reign of the Targaryen Empire in Westeros with the official House of the Dragon coloring book. Featuring over 75 original illustrations and thick paper, this coloring book offers you a way to relive the most dramatic moments from the hugely popular show. -
Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships
Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's cooperation and communication, while sharing practical strategies to preserve and strengthen these relationships.
Fighting for Our Friendships is one part textbook, one part handbook. Readers will not only learn what the latest research has to say about the mechanics of women's friendships, but they'll walk away with real-life solutions for the most common conflicts that arise in their platonic relationships.
Using a combination of psychology, science, narrative, and a few of the author's signature scripts and out-of-the-box exercises, readers will learn:- The three "affinities" that bring women together (and tear them apart)
- Scripts to navigate nine of the most challenging "friend types" (and how to know which one you are)
- The covert strategies women use to hurt each other (and how to avoid them)
- How to have a hard conversation with a friend (without losing the friendship)
- Surprising ways that women's people-pleasing delays platonic intimacy (and how to stop it)
- How to know if a friendship is worth saving (and what to do to recover)
- How to make (and deepen!) connections with other women
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A Field Guide to Spring: Play and Learn in Nature
A Field Guide to Spring is a pocket-sized introduction to spring, inspired by the Forest School movement. Building on children's natural curiosity about the world around them, this book aims to establish a connection with nature at an early age that will go on to last a lifetime!
Hunt for seedlings, squelch around in the mud, identify birds' eggs, and build your own nest. Discover how tadpoles transform into frogs and why rainbows appear in the sky.
The first in the Wild By Nature series, A Field Guide to Spring features lyrical poems, hands-on crafts and activities, scientific facts, and identifier pages to help children find different plants and animals. Whether a child's access to nature is in the form of an urban park, a private garden, a field, or a forest, there is so much to discover and experience.
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Crochet Baby Sets: 30 Patterns for Blankets, Booties, Hats, Tops, and More
Welcome baby with crocheted blankets, sweaters, hats, booties, and more!
In this collection for baby, you'll find patterns for matching sets of baby classics like sweaters, blankets, and booties. Make the sets as shown or mix and match--all items are made with DK weight yarn so it is easy to use your favorite yarns and make any of the pieces to create the ultimate baby layette.
Sizes range from newborn to 12 months, and all patterns are easy to intermediate in skill level. You don't need to be a crochet expert to make a beautiful gift for baby. If you need a refresher or are new to a crochet technique, step-by-step tutorials are included. There are 30 designs in all. Get in on the fun of giving crocheted joy to all the new babies in your life!
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Tunisian Crochet - The Japanese Way: Combine the Best of Knitting and Crochet Using Clear Japanese-Style Charts & Symbols
Combine the best of knitting and crochet using Japan's visual notation style! Tunisian crochet is the knitwork style that combines the cast-on method of knitting with the hook method of crochet, resulting in fabrics that look woven as well as knitted. Tunisian Crochet--The Japanese Way gives knitting and crochet enthusiasts a chance to create beautiful patterns and textures using the clear chart-and-symbol method of visual notation pioneered in Japan and now popular worldwide. Step-by-step illustrations for 13 classic stitches are provided, along with the 20 stylish projects:- Wave Stitch--Used to create an intricate multi-colored shrug
- Seed Stitch--Perfect fun bags of all sizes, from a fabulous drawstring bucket bag (with a scallop stitch) to a beautifully patterned pencil case
- Cube Stitch--You'll enjoy using this to make a colorful vest and splashy tippet
- Domino Stitch--A versatile stitch that can be used to create an elegant beret
- And many more!
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The Cumulative Cloth, Dry Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construction, and Embellishment
Learn surface design for textiles, to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces. Projects by expert Susan Brandeis (author of the bestselling The Intentional Thread) help novices and experts experiment with each method.
- Covers dry techniques in detail: how to add color, pattern, and images to fabrics using cutting, piecing, layering, building, and embellishing.
- Includes both machine stitching and hand stitching.
- What's the "Cumulative Cloth"? A single cloth that readers add to with each chapter's techniques, eventually creating a piece of art.
- Serves as a go-to reference to check technical procedures and safety guidelines (many methods require caution).
- Wet techniques are covered separately in the author's coordinating book, The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques.
- Praise for the author: "Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush." --Embroidery MagazineSold out -
Pusheen by the Numbers: A Little Painting Kit
Pusheen by the Numbers offers artists of every age the chance to paint and display their favorite lazy, lovable feline no matter where or when inspiration strikes.
- Specifications: Includes everything you need to create three 3-1/8" X 2-1/4" mini masterpieces including: 1 mini paintbrush, 8 paint pots, 3 pre-printed canvases, 1 easel, and a fold-out sheet with numbered sections and easy-to-follow instructions
- Book Included: 16-page mini book with painting tips and instructions
- A Perfect Gift: A fun, crafty, and creative gift for Pusheen fans of all ages
- Portable: Small size allows for fun anytime, anywhere
- Officially Licensed: An authentic Pusheen product
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Motherland Herbal: The Story of African Holistic Health
In this powerful and comprehensive guide in the spirit of Jambalaya and Sacred Woman, an herbalist celebrates ancient and modern African holistic healing.
"The message of this book is: hold onto your yams, your collards, watermelon, and roots. There is magic, mystery, connection, and healing stored within them."--Stephanie Rose Bird
Stephanie Rose Bird grew up surrounded by forests, listening to the stories of her ancestors and learning African healing ways. From an early age, she dedicated herself to herbalism and living a spiritually fulfilled life in harmony with nature. Now, the wisdom she as accrued is gathered in this impressive encyclopedic work of African Healing and herbal medicine.
Stephanie teaches you how to garden and harvest in unison with the seasons, and how to use herbalism and magic--derived from ancestral and spiritual helpers--to heal. A treasure trove of knowledge, Motherland Herbal showcases an array of recipes and rituals that nourish every facet of life:
- Seasonal recipes to support overall well-beingTinctures for common ailments such as headaches, flu, or heartburnRemedies for improving mental health, lessening symptoms of anxiety, stress, or depressionNatural body and home care products, from facials to cleaning solutionsHerbal Baths for relaxation, sexual wellness, and good luckRituals and Altars for universal experiences, such as learning to letting go after loss and improving creativity and fertilityLove Potions, Sleep Potions, Protective Amulets, and more
Written in Stephanie's warm and authoritative voice, Motherland Herbal seamlessly blends activism and ancestral folklore with the realms of spirituality, gardening, and holistic wellness. Her deep reverence for the wisdom of her ancestors infuses every page of this guide, which is a foundational resource that will shape the landscape of African healing and folk medicine for generations to come.
Motherland Herbal includes 54 original pieces of art, including maps and artwork created by the author.
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For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen
The author of Choice Theory and Reality Therapy offers a powerful approach for helping troubled teens.
In his decades as a therapist, Dr William Glasser has often counselled parents and teenagers. His advice has healed shattered families and changed lives. Now in his first book on the lessons he has learned, he asks parents to reject the 'common sense' that tells them to 'lay down the law', ground teens, or try to coerce them into changing behaviour. These strategies have never worked, asserts Dr Glasser, and never will. Instead he offers a different approach based upon Choice Theory. Glasser spells out the seven deadly habits parents practiSe and then shows them how to accomplish their goals by changing their own behaviour. Above all, he helps parents keep their relationship with their child strong. Dr Glasser provides a groundbreaking method that any parent can use with confidence and love.
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The Year of the Buttered Cat: A Mostly True Story
A funny and empowering memoir from a girl with a severe form of cerebral palsy, for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind. Includes 8 pages of full color photos, in print for the first time! When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed thirteen-year-old, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or--dare she dream it?--to walk and use her hands. As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on the verge of shutting out the rest of the world, Lexi began a gutsy and solitary quest to find her "missing" body... and she learns new ways to reach out to the world to save her friendships and uncover the startling truth about what happened to her as a baby. In the spirit of Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, here is a riveting story that offers empowering messages of friendship, family, and the art of redefining ourselves. -
Fortaleza Mental para Jóvenes Atletas: Pasa del ANONIMATO a ser una ESTRELLA; 9 técnicas infalibles para desarrollar la resiliencia, forjar una mental
Tu rendimiento deportivo depende al 100% de lo que pasa por tu mente. Tus pensamientos afectan a tus actos y pueden hacerte ganar o perder... Quieres ser el mejor de los mejores! El nivel de excelencia deportiva se eleva cada vez que alguien gana una carrera o un partido... así que, cómo puedes triunfar en un mundo deportivo cada vez más difícil? La respuesta al éxito como deportista no está en lo mucho que exijas a tu cuerpo, sino casi exclusivamente en tu mente. En este libro descubrirás: ● Cómo funcionan la mente y el cuerpo como una unidad cohesionada, y por qué necesitamos de ambos para destacar en el deporte● Cómo maximizar tu energía incluyendo los elementos vitales que te hacen más poderoso y resistente, y los verdaderos secretos de las personas mentalmente fuertes● Las cosas que te debilitan a diario, desde las personas tóxicas hasta el desorden y la complejidad de la vida, y cómo superarlas● Lo que necesitas para construir un invencible sentido de autoestima que te mantendrá en buena posición en todos los niveles de la vida● Los principales hábitos clave que debes poner en práctica ahora mismo, y cómo asegurarte de mantenerlos● La razón por la que la perspectiva y el estado de tu mente pueden cambiar tu vida, y cómo cambiarla en la dirección correcta● Cómo encontrar a tu tribu: aquellos que te respaldarán y apoyarán plenamente en tu camino hacia la cima.● Cómo perfeccionar tus emociones como fuente de energía para alimentar tu rendimiento deportivo● Historias inspiradoras y motivadoras de jóvenes deportistas que superaron las adversidades y salieron adelante, y cómo lo hicieron Y mucho más. Todos los entrenadores y mentores deportivos profesionales saben que es vital tener la cabeza bien puesta y meterla en el partido. Aprender esta habilidad para nivelar tu mente, tus emociones y todo tu enfoque del deporte, revolucionará tus capacidades deportivas. Este es el único libro que necesitarás para alcanzar el dominio mental y la fortaleza que necesitas para triunfar en el campo deportivo. Descubre cómo reforzar tu fortaleza mental para triunfar cuando más lo necesites.
