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The Future is Bright: How Gem Prep is Reimaging Education and Building Tomorrow's Leaders captures the essence of how some of America's best schools are transforming education and the next generation. Gem Prep schools utilize strong academics, competency development, and exposure to a variety of experiences to prepare today's students to be tomorrow's leaders. Gem Prep's approach to education places students in the driver's seat of their education as they incrementally take ownership of their education and their future.

Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions.

Authors of Life Unscripted, Jeff Katzman and Dan O'Connor, have created a process they call ensembling that helps us build an ensemble of relationships in our lives and more deeply enjoy the groups we already belong to. This is a process of becoming a little vulnerable with each other, and of embracing the moment in which we find ourselves. Drawing on concepts from narrative improvisational theatre and depth psychology, the authors present us with the skills we need to connect with each other more actively and meaningfully.

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco" more than its soaring clock tower. But as acclaimed architectural critic John King recounts, the rise of the automobile and double-deck freeways severed the city from its beloved structure. King's narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry Building, introducing colorful figures who fought to preserve its character.

Are you stuck in a cycle of repetitive arguments with your partner? Do parenting challenges, critical family dynamics, or past hurts in friendships weigh on you? The Connection Playbook is your essential guide to transforming these relationships into deep, meaningful connections. This guide is meticulously crafted to help you navigate the complexities of relationships - whether with your spouse, children, parents, friends, or colleagues. Each chapter provides not only insightful narratives but also practical exercises designed to foster vulnerability, understanding, and genuine connection.

All words are made up. All words spoken between us are nothing more than made-up sounds from manipulated air. They're just lung puffs. All of the letters that we text, email, and write are made-up symbols to coincide with our made-up noise.

The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively and persistently sought to establish a new political order that would affirm their land claims, protect them against attack, and promote trade.

As much we would like to take pride in our self-sufficient independence, we are still humans and can’t do everything by ourselves. We all need a helping hand once in a while, so utilize your strengths and delegate your weaknesses. This particularly rings true for any leadership or team management role requiring handling and pulling a group of people together as one when bringing any task to fruition. Then how do you get people who have strengths in different areas to eagerly collaborate with everybody else as a unified team to achieve success?

If you have trouble communicating effectively and would like to change that so you can enjoy more success in your social and business life, then keep reading! Ineffective communication skills can have a drastic and lasting effect on your life. They can hamper career prospects, end personal relationships, and damage your mental health. Improving your communication skills can be tricky, but with the right help, it is more than possible. Effective Communication is the perfect way to guide you through this learning process.

La Robustesse est la capacité de faire face aux épreuves, d'agir avec courage et d'accomplir le nécessaire à temps. Nous vivons dans un monde de manque et d'excès, et le seul miracle, la vie, n'existe que gr'ce à l'équilibre. Cet équilibre est fragile : la toute-puissance de l'homme menace de le détruire. Les produits industriels transformés dérobent les nutriments et le goût naturel de notre alimentation.

Conflict in relationships is inevitable. If you haven't had a conflict yet, you haven't been paying attention. A short book, packed with wisdom, disarming humor, and refreshing directness, Constructive Conflict shows how you can manage your conflicts.

Looking for small things that you can do each day that will have huge impacts on your business relationships? Creating Connections is your solution. This daily guide will walk you through one simple thing you can do every day that will help you connect more deeply with everyone you meet. From first-time connections to clients, colleagues, and your community, you will see a big difference as you focus on one area at a time each week.

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his group the Earth Guardians believe that choices made now will have a lasting impact on the world of tomorrow, and they want to ensure a positive, just, and sustainable future. Beginning with their empowering story, We Rise explores many aspects of effective activism and provides step-by-step information on how to start and join solution-oriented movements.

In Empires of Trust, Professor Thomas F. Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics. By making friends of enemies and demonstrating a commitment to fairness, the two republics - both "reluctant" yet unquestioned super-powers - built empires based on trust. Madden also includes vital lessons from the Roman Republic's 100-year struggle with "terrorism."

As online business owners, we have to work on our mind-set, because having the right mind-set is what leads us to success. Without the motivation and the self-growth, we will never accomplish living the lifestyle of our dreams, because we'll be too busy procrastinating.

How do I make it big on social media? What is my story - and who is my audience? What content should I post to achieve #success? How do I go viral...or how long will it take me to get noticed? Selfie Made is a one-of-a-kind guide to creating a digital identity, finding an audience, and building a powerful brand - your own! - on the Internet.

This audiobook describes how students are expected to treat each other. It describes how kids are not alone and are alike in many ways. The Unstoppable Ones describes four friends that have been bullied for the way they look, their weight, race, wealth, culture, and many other things. Each student has a different scenario they can relate to. These four friends are faced with intense emotions and learn to be aware of their feelings and communicate them in order cope and to help others.

Illegal immigration is among the most challenging and divisive issues facing America. With few changes in immigration laws since 1986, the undocumented population has swelled to an estimated 11 million. Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and their human toll through the eyes of Houston businessman Stan Marek, who’s watched the immigration crisis unfold over 40 years.

Being Black in America is not an easy task. Black people in America are faced with the task of surviving in a system predicated on the notion that Black people were less than human, policed and enforced by a system that is rooted in slavery and racism. All while trying to succeed in a capitalist society where we are discriminated against.

Don't struggle trying to figure out how to start a YouTube channel, increase views, subscribers, and make passive income from what you love doing. This audiobook is prepared to get you started with all the necessary information that will help you avoid pitfalls most uninformed beginners to YoutTube encounter. This audiobook arose from the writer’s thirst to guide people - especially beginners to identify their niche on YouTube, giving them everything they need from start to the end.