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Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn
by Tojo Thatchenkery Carol MetzkerWith a nod to Howard Gardner's ideas on multiple intelligences, Thatchenkery (organizational learning, George Mason U.) and Metzker (M.S.) introduce appreciative intelligence as the ability to perceive positive potential. Drawing on neuroscience and interviews with people with innovative solutions, they treat the reality-reframing concept in areas as diverse as technological advances and Middle East peace. Exercises for assessing, and tools for developing, appreciative intelligence are included.
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach To Building Cooperative Capacity
by Frank J. Barrett Ronald E. FryThis book provides a concise introduction to and overview of the growing discipline and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). If you are intrigued by the prospect of mobilizing rapid, positive change with multiple stakeholders in a human system that is important to you, this book is for you.
Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions: 21 Strength-Based Workshops
by Robyn Stratton-BerkesselA practical resource for facilitators who want to introduce positive, strength-based perspectives into their work and trainings, this book provides an overview of Appreciative Inquiry's positive psychology and strength-based change methods. Author Robyn Stratton-Berkessel explores basic principles and practices, shows you how to incorporate AI into existing work, and offers practical advice for designing new trainings. She provides a variety of ready-to-deliver workshops on topics such as leadership, diversity, technology, creativity, change, innovation, learning, collaboration, coaching, and team-building. In addition, she suggests how to make the outcomes of an Appreciative Inquiry session stick and what it takes to make these valuable approaches self-sustaining. A first in the field of Appreciative Inquiry, this important resource provides twenty one ready-to-use workshops for facilitators, leaders, consultants, and trainers who want to empower others in creating collaborative solutions.
Applied Wisdom
by James C. MorganSuccess in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials Inc. to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager. Applied Materials is one of Silicon Valley's great success stories and it helped propel the digital revolution. But Jim Morgan's management techniques are not reserved for high-tech: Applied Wisdom shows how the same approaches, tools, and values work at any scale, from start-ups to middle management in a global corporation ? and even to non-profits. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-read for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.
Applied Health Humanities for the Aging: Activities for Home and Institutional Caregivers
by Trini Stickle Lorna E. SegallThis book provides a collection of interventions from researchers’ and clinicians’ health humanities experiences, and makes their methods available to home and institutional caregivers to aid interactions with the elderly, particularly persons diagnosed with dementia. As a revolutionary perspective connecting medical training and treatment with lessons from the humanities, medical humanities emphasizes the treatment and care of disease, the "science of the human," and offers an integrated approach to health professional education that include lessons from comparative religion, history, literature, philosophy, the visual and performing arts.Highlighting the needs of persons with dementia and their caregivers, this compilation shows how the arts can play a primary role in empowering families and communities to offer creative and meaningful care within their own homes and communities. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific creative application (reading and commonplacing; storytelling; intergenerational musical activities; Bingocize®; haiku making; and animatronic pet activities), the evidence-based support for its benefits, and clear and accessible instructions for the reader. These methods offer insightful approaches to care in which skills such as active listening can provide in-roads to patient experiences as well as an array of creative approaches to ameliorate the physical and mental consequences of isolation and loneliness that too often accompany aging and disease. This text will be of interest to healthcare workers and allied health professionals, healthcare administrators and family members.
Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership
by Michael VenturaMichael Ventura, entrepreneur and CEO of award-winning strategy and design firm Sub Rosa, shares &“how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center&” (Arianna Huffington). Having built his career working with iconic brands and institutions such as General Electric, Google, Nike, Warby Parker, and also The United Nations and the Obama Administration, Michael Ventura offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new business book and way forward. Empathy is not about being nice. It&’s not about pity or sympathy either. It&’s about understanding—your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself—and it&’s a direct path to powerful leadership. As such, Applied Empathy presents real strategies, based on Sub Rosa&’s design work and the popular class Ventura and his team have taught at Princeton University, on how to make lasting connections and evolve your business internally (your employees, culture, and product/services) as well as externally (your brand, consumers, and value). &“The most neglected fact in business is we&’re all human. Michael Ventura makes a powerful argument that empathy is the secret sauce of 21st century business. The more digital we get, the more empathy we need&” (Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Equation). For leaders of all levels, this groundbreaking guide lays the foundation to establish a diverse, inventive, and driven team that can meet the challenges of today&’s ever-evolving marketplace. If you want to connect to the people you work with, you have to understand them first.
Applications for Living: Holistic Living, Relationships, Abundance and Right Livelihood
by Neale Donald WalschIn Applications for Living, Neale Donald Walsch has distilled the principles of Conversations with God through his own life experience into a universal formula for living well. Holistic Living shows that all individuals can and should achieve emotional, sexual, intellectual and spiritual fulfilment, as well as abolishing negative, unproductive habits. Relationships examines common patterns that hinder our ability to build and maintain successful relationships, and teaches us to move beyond restrictive ways of relating. Abundance and Right Livelihood explains the author’s simple and practical philosophy for achieving abundance, and how to learn what your ‘right livelihood’ is. Inspirational, practical and humorous, Neale Donald Walsch reveals in Applications for Living how we can use our own mistakes and experiences as stepping stones to a higher awareness and greater fulfilment in life.
Apple of Sodom
by Mary HoffmanEmily Crawford, a young American wife and mother, seeks a long-overdue self-respect in this absorbing and dramatic portrait of an expatriate family experi-encing life in an exotic Arab culture at the start of the 1960s. Revelatory episodes unfold against the enter¬tainments of the well-to-do and influential, among the lives of ordinary citizens, and during explorations of ancient cities in the Holy Land and beyond.
Appetites: Why Women Want
by Caroline KnappIn Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, "What do women want?" and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite-for food, love, work, and pleasure-has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers-and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want."Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully-and urgently-challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.
Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
by Geneen RothExplores the process of questioning what was at the core of the author's own life, her ultimate return to good health, and the new and unexpected ways she found to nourish herself and those she has loved and worked with. Looks into women's friendships and what happens when they change; the longing for success and affirmation for one's work; the conflicting emotions a woman can have when she considers whether or not to have a child; the longing for a safe place to live and build toward the future. "A story of friends and women with whom the author has worked as they've questioned the meaning of success, thinness, friendship, and fulfillment. "
Appetite for Power: Eating, Drinking & Dealmaking in NYC: A Billions Guide
by Bahar LeventogluMore than One Hundred Iconic New York City Dining Institutions From hole-in-the-walls to cozy neighborhood gems to Michelin-starred restaurants, the characters in the SHOWTIME® series Billions know how to eat well, as any fan of the beloved show can confirm. Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien spectacularly display the city's vibrant food scene—but it's more than showing us how the one percent eats. It's about integrating food, which brings people together and is an integral part of our daily lives, into the storyline while honoring the quality, the diversity, and the legacy of culinary culture in New York City. It&’s about the city staples that have been around for generations. It&’s about the immigrants who brought their own food to New York and made it a part of city culture. It&’s about the power joints where the movers and shakers of the city discuss the affairs of the day. It&’s about the pizza slice or the candy bar that takes you back to your childhood. It&’s about those who start at the bottom of the kitchen chain and ultimately open their own restaurant as well as about the old who pass the torch to future generations. It&’s about the energy and the creativity in New York food industry that is setting the standards for the rest of the world. It&’s about everyone who has contributed to making New York the dining capital of the world as it is today. This book presents the complete list of restaurants, bars, bakeries, bodegas, and more, featured in Billions. The listings include description and history of the chef and building, signature dishes, fun facts, and of course, tie-in to the show's storyline. Which characters are eating there? What is the occasion? What are they discussing? Features include: Empire DinerYonah Schimmel&’s Knish BakerySushi NakazawaPeking Duck HouseVeselkaThe Spotted PigIvan RamenLibrary Bar at the NoMad HotelEmmy SquaredMorgenstern's Ice CreamSo many more!
Apparitions and Haunted Houses: A Survey Of Evidence (The Paranormal)
by Ernest BennettThe Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural - other-worldly books for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts and witchcraft. A wide collection of some of the best attested cases collected by the Society For Psychical Research. There are a number of well authenticated narratives, some from private sources, and some which reached Sir Ernest after his Broadcast, given under the title of this book in 1934.
Apparitions (The Paranormal)
by George N. M. TyrellApparitions is most influential in categorizing ghosts. These four categories include experiments, crisis, post-mortem and ghosts. Tyrrell's classification of phantoms is an interesting and thought provoking one, his system is been continued in its use today, demonstrating that he was ahead of his time. Tyrrell develops the idea that the apparition may be a way for the unconscious part of the mind to bring to consciousness information that has been paranormally acquired--in crisis cases, for example. He introduces an evocative metaphor of a mental 'stage-carpenter', behind the scenes in the unconscious part of the mind, and constructing the quasi-perceptual experience that eventually appears on the stage of consciousness, so that it embodies paranormal information in a symbolic way. Tyrell first introduced the term out-of-body-experience in this book. The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F&W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural--other-worldly books for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts and witchcraft.
Aporta o aparta
by Nika VázquezAporta valor, creatividad e ilusión a tu vida. Aparta los obstáculos que te impiden ser feliz. ¡Bienvenido a la mejor parte de tu vida! Cuando termines este libro tendrás todo lo que necesitas para dar un nuevo y mejor rumbo a tu existencia. ¿Tienes la sensación de que no estás viviendo la vida que deseas? ¿Qué necesitas cambiar? ¿Qué sueños has arrinconado? ¿Qué estás haciendo que no desearías hacer? Este manual práctico te enseña a apartar lo que no funciona en tu vida y a aportar nuevos proyectos, relaciones y formas de pensar con el objetivo de convertirte en la mejor compañía para ti mismo. Para ello exploraremos los miedos que frenan los cambios que necesitas hacer y cómo desmontarlos, a la vez que aprendes a deshacerte de todas las creencias que te paralizan a fin de sustituirlas por otras que te ayuden a ser feliz. Esta guía es una caja de herramientas con la que podrás desmontar los aspectos de tu vida que no funcionan y construir una nueva vida en la que te sientas realizado y lleno de planes para vivir con plenitud. «El objetivo de este manual es ayudarte a desmontar las ideas paralizantes y cambiarlas por otras que te lleven hacia el éxito y la felicidad. No hay claves para ser perfectos, pero sí tenemos las herramientas para hacer frente a todas las aventuras que nos ofrece la vida. Así que te animo a que te arriesgues y te atrevas a ser feliz.»Nika Vázquez En los blogs... «Son unas 200 páginas con enseñanzas y cuestiones conocidas por el lector, narradas de forma ágil sin ahondar en extensas formulaciones, cada capítulo es escueto, claro y conciso.»Blog Libros en el petate
Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art
by Walter Darby BannardA Volume of Timeless Wisdom for Artists to Consult Like an Oracle Why do young artists struggle to find their voices? Walter Darby Bannard, a renowned teacher, critic, and internationally exhibited painter, contemplated that question for more than two decades. At the urging of one of his former students, Bannard set down his thoughts in a short book, Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art. It is at once a volume of practical art-making wisdom and an engaging piece of personal philosophy, both wry and readable. Open to any page, and you'll find a memorable gem of wisdom, followed by a brief expansion by Bannard that adds more insight. It is a necessary reference to keep on hand in the studio, and a perfect gift for the aspiring artist to read and re-read, and to consult at times of artistic troubles.
Apego seguro: Cómo relacionarte con tu hijo a partir de los 2 años
by Andrea CardemilEn este libro no solo propone conocer y entender el temperamento de nuestros niños para ajustar la crianza a sus particulares características, sino que aconseja -de manera práctica y precisa- cómo manejar las pataletas, dónde poner los límites y cómo regular las emociones de los más pequeños para promover un apego seguro. Lo que todo papá y mamá busca. Temperamento - Pataletas - Emociones - Límites. ¿Qué pasa con nuestros hijos después de los dos años, cuando la lactancia ya no es el tema? ¿Qué hacer cuando nos dicen "no, no quiero"? ¿Cuando se lanzan al suelo para demostrar, con patadas y llanto, que no están dispuestos a obedecernos? Después de que aprenden a caminar, los niños sienten que el mundo está a sus pies. Ya no necesitan a sus padres para desplazarse, por lo que creen que pueden hacer todo y cuanto deseen. Es entonces cuando aparece la rebeldía y la obstinación, la voluntad por cumplir sus deseos y las negativas frente a las peticiones de los adultos. Cual juguete nuevo, el niño pone en práctica este descubrimiento y busca conquistar, de esta forma, su autonomía e independencia. Como psicóloga, Andrea Cardemil Ricke ha estudiado las interrogantes con las que los padres se enfrentan en esta etapa del desarrollo, la etapa preescolar.
Apatavani - 5
by Dada Bhagwan“Aptavani 5” is the fifth in a series of spiritual books titled “Aptavani”. In this series, Gnani Purush (embodiment of Self knowledge) Dada Bhagwan addresses age-old unanswered questions of spiritual seekers. Dadashri offers in-depth answers to questions such as: “What is the meaning of karma?”, “How can I master the law of karma?”, “Who am I, and who is the ‘Doer’ (ego definition)?”, and “What is prakruti (non-self complex)?” Dadashri also provides spiritual explanation on the topics of: “To attain the Self, must one control the five sense organs?”, “How does one define penance?”, and “What would be the definition of repentance? For those wondering how to become more spiritual, Dadashri explains that the knowledge of Self is the beginning of true spirituality. With such spiritual development, and from understanding the law of karma, one can learn how to interact peacefully in worldly life.
Apasionante
by Milenka Peña¿CONOCES LA DIFERENCIA ENTRE UNA VIDA APASIONADA Y UNA VIDA APASIONANTE? Con el estilo fresco y directo que la caracteriza, la conocida comunicadora y conferencista Milenka Peña responde a esta pregunta, y te presenta principios fundamentales que necesitas conocer para transformarte en una persona...que inspira con su vida,que emociona con sus proyectos,que influye con sus convicciones,y que enciende la llama de un legado que perdure más allá de su propia existencia. Leyendo "Apasionante" descubrirás cómo: Determinar prioridadesIdentificar debilidadesAprender de erroresEjecutar proyectosTomar decisiones difícilesErradicar malos hábitosLiderar efectivamenteTrabajar con excelenciaValora lo que más importa, y ¡vive una vida apasionante!
Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
by Maxwell Gillingham-RyanFrom not enough space and too many things to not knowing what color to paint the living room walls, many of us struggle with our homes. Now Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, frequent makeover expert on HGTV’s Mission: Organization and Small Spaces, Big Style, shares the do-it-yourself strategies that have enabled his clients and fans to transform their apartments into well-organized, beautiful places that suit their style and budget. Week by week,Apartment Therapywill guide you to treat common problems, eliminate clutter, and revamp even the tiniest space. Here is an eight-step process that includes: A therapeutic questionnaire to help you get in touch with your personal taste and diagnose your home’s physical, emotional, and energy flow issues A prescription with recommendations for each room based on your needs and lifestyle–including tips on how to use color, lighting, and accessories A treatment plan, including regular maintenance schedules to ensure the ongoing health of your space Illustrations of floor plans and decorative examples that allow you to visualize concepts before you begin With surprising ease and without elaborate professional help,Apartment Therapywill help you clear a path through disorder and indecision–to reveal a home you’ll love. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Apani Aatmashakti Ko Pahchanen: अपनी आत्मशक्ति को पहचानें
by Robin Sharmaयह पुस्तक आपको अपने जीवन के पुनर्सृजन और अपने सर्वोत्तम आत्म से संपर्क स्थापित करने की सशक्त व व्यावहारिक प्रक्रिया से परिचित कराएगी। इसके व्यावहारिक जीवन के सबक अपने भाग्य का निर्धारण करने और अभिलषित चिर-आनंद की खोज में आपके सहायक होंगे।
Anywhere, Anytime Art: An Artist's Colorful Guide to Drawing on the Go! (Anywhere, Anytime Art)
by Monika ForsbergThis inspiring art guide helps you reconnect with your creative side and the simple pleasure of drawing with crayons.The joy of drawing and coloring with crayons doesn't have to leave your life just because you've entered adulthood. Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon will help you create beautiful, spontaneous artwork inspired by your surroundings, no matter where you are! This unique art guide is designed to get you back to basics and drawing with confidence. Professional illustrator Monika Forsberg teaches you how to work with crayon, master basic strokes and techniques, and choose the right colors for your subjects. Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon is filled with step-by-step lessons on drawing dozens of objects, like bicycles, gardens, pets, furniture . . . just about anything!
Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 Prompts for Discovering the Unexpected, Wherever Your Journey Leads
by Magda Lipka FalckSeventy-five ways to embrace a spirit of adventure—around the world or around the corner.Ask the next person you meet where his/her favorite street is. Go there.Write down what you like about this city on a small piece of paper. Leave it where someone else will find it later.If you can see a shop from where you are, step inside it.A creative travel guide for anywhere, this handy book includes seventy-five inspirations for exploration. With a unique mix of concrete actions and whimsical prompts, the Anywhere Travel Guide takes you on a journey that encourages you to see things differently, to discover both new and familiar places—and to bring a new spirit of adventure to your life.
Anywhere Connections: 75 Cards for Discovering Yourself & Others, Wherever You Are
by Magda Lipka FalckWith 75 prompts to inspire interaction and conversation between people, wherever they find themselves, this handy ebook is a creative tool for thinking and acting differently. From "Get lost somewhere together with someone you like" to "Ask people you meet today about their biggest life lesson. Take notes," the whimsical and thought-provoking activities invite users to engage with friends, family, and strangers in imaginative ways. Perfect for people looking to discover new things about themselves and others!
Anyway: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World
by Kent M. KeithPeople are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
Anyway
by Kent M KeithPeople are illogical, unreasonable and self-centred. Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.These commandments were first written down by Kent M. Keith for student leaders in the 1960s. Over the following years, they spread via word-of-mouth and became greatly valued - adopted by people far and wide. Now, for the first time, Keith's inspiring commandments appear in this life-changing book, with each principle illustrated with inspiring stories from his own life, as well as classic examples from history. They offer a way of living far removed from the lifestyle that strives for the popular symbols of success: wealth, power and fame. Instead, these ten rational principles focus on the enriching personal meaning that comes through living our lives selflessly and without recognition. Through accepting the Paradoxical Commandments and the paradoxical life, we are each truly free to be who we are really meant to be.