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Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside his own head and heart. He notes that, as teachers, we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents.

America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.

Exactly what are the rules these days? Is it acceptable to text your boss at home? What is the polite way to ask a colleague to take a distracting conversation behind closed doors? What about the use of smartphones in meetings? Merging classic rules of behavior with new realities of modern business, Excuse Me spotlights dozens of puzzling situations, with suggestions for bridging divides.

In the first half of the 21st century, giving to family and community foundations alone will be ten times in today's dollars what it was throughout the entire 20th century. Yet despite tremendous innovation in the social sector, philanthropy's natural state is under-performance. Not since Andrew Carnegie wrote The Gospel of Wealth has a book been written that provides practical guidance for donors to get the most impact from their giving.

The old battle tactics were useless for the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, who were fighting a guerrilla war on foreign soil for the first time in American history. With the depth and honesty of Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, SEAL Warrior sheds light on the operations of the SEAL teams in Vietnam and shows how the SEALs laid the foundation for the modern guerrilla warfare that is used today.

Mit Herzblut betreibt Esther Dumanski die Pension "Sonnenblume" in der Nähe des Starnberger Sees. Allerdings liegt die Herberge abgelegen in einem Wald und hat alles andere als Seeblick. Als dann noch akute Geldnot bei den Dumanskis Einzug hält, hat die begeisterte Hobby-Gärtnerin Esther die Idee, Landurlaub gepaart mit Gartenkursen anzubieten - als Schnupperkurse für neugierige Städter und Stressabbau für überbeanspruchte Büromenschen. Der Plan scheint aufzugehen: Schon bald tritt die erste Gruppe Garten-Fans ihren Urlaub bei Esther an.

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, 19-year-old James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along for a particular purpose - to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom. Thus began one of the strangest partnerships in United States history

Achtsam sein bedeutet, eine offene, im Hier-und-Jetzt verankerte und nicht wertende Form der Aufmerksamkeit einzunehmen. Achtsamkeitsübungen können dabei helfen, die direkte und lebendige Wahrnehmung des eigenen Körpers zu fördern. Sie können insbesondere bei Stress, Depression, Ängsten und häufigem Grübeln hilfreich sein. Mithilfe der Übungen können ungünstige und immer wiederkehrende, grüblerische Gedanken und Gefühle wahrgenommen und allmählich losgelassen werden. Achtsamkeitsübungen ermöglichen, den Kontakt zur lebendigen Gegenwart aufzunehmen.

After disease and nuclear warfare decimate the world population, 17-year-old Nadia is sure she's the last person left on Earth. She buries her before-the-end memories and focuses on survival. Then one night, she hears a voice on her radio and everything changes. Nadia finds comfort in her new-found companions, but they also discover an unsettling thread tying them together: their shared birthdays. As they begin to unravel the mysteries surrounding their survival, they soon realize it was no accident, and that they could be in far more danger than they ever imagined…

Teachings by Jesuit priest, Fr. Richard Thomas.

When retired Buffalo police officer Bethany R. Judge travels to the Oktoberfest, her only plan is to celebrate her recent certification as a beer expert. She meets an American who happens to work at a Munich brewery, and it seems that all of her hopes have come true at once. Caught up in the excitement, she over-drinks and wakes up the following day, now the suspect in an unexplained murder. As more people around her are killed, Bethany finds herself entangled in a web that threatens Germany...and even the world.

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning three decades of service. Dealing with the complexities and challenges of the contemporary operating environment requires an internal moral compass fixed true. These maxims focus on developing inner citadels of character, moral courage, and the resilience to persevere in a contested domain where information is key. Its purpose is to provide future leaders with a professional development plan that will enable them to lead with honor.

There are currently no specialized treatments for social media addiction and anxiety type conditions attributed to social media usage. Whereas most "remedies" for social media abuse call for "vacations", "breaks", and "parental surveillance" from the applications, Delete Me refutes these methods as ineffective. Author J.A. Thomas, MSW, who is one of a growing army of industry experts going offline, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to abandon these treacherous online platforms.

Thoughts on music in order of appearance, one beat at a time. The personal music podcast of Tom Belknap, a drummer and songwriter from Rochester, NY.

Hello, my name is Thomas J. Bellezza, and welcome to The Write Mindset. The short, short version: for ten years I've been a script doctor and story consultant, helping writers get their thoughts organized onto the page by outlining, writing, or guiding them. Since the 90's, I've been in the entertainment industry, writing my own scripts, novels, poetry, music, and lyrics for a living. Podcast Mission: To educate writers on the craft of writing through my knowledge of how I was taught, learned, and currently teach my clients. My focus is on narrative, outlining, brainstorming, and both ...

Willst du die Passagiere retten – oder deine Familie? Coastal Airways Flug 416 hat den Flughafen von Los Angeles gerade verlassen, als Kapitän Bill Hoffman einen Anruf erhält. Ein Entführer hat seine Frau und Kinder in seine Gewalt gebracht und stellt Bill vor eine schreckliche Wahl: Entweder bringt er das Flugzeug mit 149 Menschen an Bord zum Absturz, oder seine Familie wird getötet. Zwar gelingt es Bill, die Crew über die Lage zu informieren, doch irgendwo in der Maschine befindet sich noch ein Komplize des Entführers.

Willst du die Passagiere retten – oder deine Familie? Coastal Airways Flug 416 hat den Flughafen von Los Angeles gerade verlassen, als Kapitän Bill Hoffman einen Anruf erhält. Ein Entführer hat seine Frau und Kinder in seine Gewalt gebracht und stellt Bill vor eine schreckliche Wahl: Entweder bringt er das Flugzeug mit 149 Menschen an Bord zum Absturz, oder seine Familie wird getötet. Zwar gelingt es Bill, die Crew über die Lage zu informieren, doch irgendwo in der Maschine befindet sich noch ein Komplize des Entführers. Und Bill weiß nicht, wem er vertrauen kann.

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. A masterful analysis of technology and culture, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects of a technology-dependent world.

This audiobook examines how summer brings observable changes in weather, nature, and people.

Pete turns up in Ambrosia in time to watch the strangest grocery stocking experience he’s ever laid eyes on. Turns out Ambrosia has a pact with the vampires: Their weakest and most vulnerable in exchange for all the goods they need to keep the dying town afloat one more month.