About this product: It’s fun to make friends and play with others, but it’s not always easy to do. You have to make an effort, and you have to know the rules—like ask before joining in, take turns, play fair, and be a good sport. This book teaches the basics of cooperation, getting along, making friends, and being a friend. Includes ideas for games adults can use with kids to reinforce the skills being taught.
How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It's the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. In Getting from College to Career, Lindsey Pollak offers the first definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need before starting your first major job search. Her 90 action-oriented tips include strategies ranging from the simple to the expert, including:
Avoid the biggest mistake in career prep and job hunting
Subscribe to a daily newspaper
E-mail like a professional
Make every event a networking success
Practice the eight essentials of internship achievement
Perform five minutes of stand-up
Overprepare for interviews
Persist
Getting from College to Career gives you the essential information and guidance you need to get your foot in the door of the real world. Don't start your first job search without it!
Featuring a wide variety of cold-join techniques from the commonly used to the amazingly new, this beautiful handbook is the first on cold connections and combines the art of jewelry making with modern craft assemblage, which metal workers can use to spark creativity and look at their craft in new, innovative ways. Proving everyday found objects—staples, rivets, fibers, resins—can be used to make beautiful jewelry, sculpture, or mixed media, this guide explains how to craft original works with just about anything. Each chapter offers a new technique with a different attaching method along with descriptive sketches showing the connecting layers. This handy crafter’s resource showcases a gallery of 23 top jewelry artists and offers insights, philosophies, and techniques as well as pages of creative musings and stunning photos of marionettes and jewelry.
About this product: With the continued fragmentation of the media and proliferation of media options, the balance of power has shifted from the marketer to the individual. In Join the Conversation, Jaffe discusses the changing role of the consumer and how marketers must adapt by joining the rich, deep and meaningful conversation already in progress. This book reveals what marketers must do to become a welcome and invited part of the dialogue, and how to leverage and integrate the resulting partnership in ways that provide win-win situations for businesses, brands and lives.
About this product: "Through her valuable advice and insight, Marti enables readers to achieve their goals by mining their own strengths and those of the people around them. In these challenging times, we are all well served by Marti's engaging advice and counsel." —Zoë Baird, CEO, Markle Foundation Laid Off? Burned Out? Find Out How to Switch Careers—And Live Happily Ever After Do you suspect a downsizing outbreak at your company? Do you feel trapped in your current position? Whatever the catalyst, you will likely face a hard fact at some point in your life: the need for a career change. In this unique guide, now updated, Marti Smye, Ph.D., gives you targeted tools to take charge of that change—and match your strengths, your beliefs, and life's realities to your dreams. A corporate change management specialist, Smye shows you how to apply the secrets of cutting-edge organizations to your own career and life. With quizzes and checklists at every step, you'll learn how to take inventory, invest in yourself, create your own "board of directors," develop a realistic, flexible business plan—and soar to new heights as the CEO of "You, Inc." Is It Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? is filled with uplifting, real-life stories. You'll meet Paul, a professor of biology who now guides tours of the Amazon jungle, as well as many others who found the confidence and self-management savvy to go for their dreams. "Change is not an option; it is going to happen to you," Smye firmly believes. With this guide, you too can make change less daunting and continually rewarding—on the job and beyond.
About this product: Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott invite knitters to stay close-knit using patterns from sock clubs everywhere! In today's knitting community, socks are hot--they're small, inexpensive, quick to finish, and completely portable. With this collection of 23 patterns, knitters of all skill levels will find something to tickle them down to their (sock-covered) toes!
* Discover unique patterns from local and Internet yarn stores as well as indie dyers and designers * Learn techniques including top-down and toe-up knitting, various heel construction methods, cable and lace patterning, embellishing, and customizing sock sizing * Enjoy a sense of connection and camaraderie with others in the knitting world
About this product: On a lark, journalist Danny Wallace placed an ad in a small London paper that offered two simple words: "join me." What followed was astounding. From all over the world, thousands of replies poured in, effectively "joining" Danny-but in what, he had no idea. When "Joinees" began referring to him as "The Leader," Danny quickly understood one thing-he had just created a cult.
Join Me quickly became a phenomenon. With the help of a few trusted Joinees and the crackpot leader of a well-established cult, Danny promulgates his uncle's dreams of a Utopian society, struggles to keep his girlfriend, manages to stay humble amidst the newfound celebrity, and remarkably provides a sense of purpose and belonging to Joinees everywhere.
About this product: TIRED OF LOGGING HOURS AT THE GYM AND NOT GETTING RESULTS?
WANT TO EAT DELICIOUS FOODS AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT?
SHAKE THINGS UP AND SLIM DOWN WITH THE WEIGHT LOSS PHENOMENON THAT'S TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM...ZUMBA!
Created by celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez, Zumba® combines fun, easy-to-follow dance steps with hot Latin beats to help you shed pounds and inches fast. Now the DVD and classes that have hooked millions are available in book format, with a complete workout program, fat-burning diet, and an exclusive instructional DVD with 60 minutes worth of music to help you Zumba your way to the perfect body.
Using the principles of interval and resistance training, the simple dance and sculpting moves (inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba, and merengue) tone and shape your body. And because it burns 600 to 1,000 calories per hour, you don't have to restrict your meals to boring or bland-tasting diet foods. The Zumba diet begins with a 5-Day Express Diet to jump start weight loss (lose up to 9 lbs in 5 days) and then offers 14-day meal plans and recipes that target weight loss in the stomach and thighs. You'll find: · Hot moves that make you feel like you're on the dance floor-not on the elliptical machine!
· Recipes for mouthwatering meals that boost your metabolism
· Dozens of workout combinations so you never get bored
· An exclusive jump-start program to get you ready for that big event next weekend
· An easy plan to help you keep up your progress and maintain the weight loss
So start moving, grooving and losing with Zumba today!
About this product: Serious issues of racial prejudice, expectations and connections are lovingly wrought in seventeen original short stories by well-known and well-loved multi-ethnic writers that are written from a young adult perspective. Reprint. AB. K.
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