Download or read book The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead written by Adam Sharp and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know your tater trap from your sniffle herring in Sharp's journey around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense - the perfect gift for Christmas 'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith - you will LOVE this book' Kit de Waal 'Extremely entertaining and very useful for new insults' Russell Kane 'Utter genius' Marian Keyes 'Brilliant' Brian Bilston Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig), how to hurry someone up in the US (You're going as slow as molasses in January) and what they call a shark in Vietnam (fat fish). Full of fascinating, ridiculous and hilarious translations from around the world, Adam has rounded up the very best of what every corner of the globe has to offer. Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)

Download or read book The Coaching Habit written by Michael Bungay Stanier and published by Box of Crayons Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They're just too busy, and it's too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an answer, or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. It can also mean unlearning our ''fix it'' habits. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And, he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. -Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how---by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results. - Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question - Stay on track during any interaction with The AWE Question - Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question - Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question - Finally, ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question A fresh, innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Dynamic question-and-answer sections help identify old habits and kick-start new behaviour, making sure you get the most out of all seven chapters. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great.

Download or read book Murder of a Smart Cookie written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yard sales can bring out the worst in people. So when Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison organizes a 100-mile yard sale, otherwise neighborly folk get downright nasty: her own mother creams a woman, and a battle of the sexes breaks out. But when her former boss is found murdered, nobody knows for sure how this cookie will crumble.

Download or read book Ageing in Everyday Life written by Katz, Stephen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, public and private spaces, older drivers, media representations, dementia care, health-tracking, dress and sexuality. This focus on micro-sociological conditions allows us to rethink key questions which have shaped debates in the social aspects of ageing. International contributions, including from the UK, USA, Sweden and Canada, provide a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.

Download or read book Fat Chance written by Aviva Orenstein and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight—not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father’s death and an angry teen doesn’t make it easier. Finding no help from her ex, who is distracted by remarriage to a much younger woman, Claire copes by relying on a faithful circle of friends, a wicked sense of humor, and a new interest in fitness. When Claire meets Rob, a beguiling, slightly pudgy man at the gym, there is an instant connection. Just maybe she can haul the composure she finds at work into the gym with her. Or is it fat chance for that? ~ ~ ~ “A funny, moving portrait of a small-town Jewish community and the people who inhabit it, including a single mom coping with loss, a teen, and modern love. You’ll be rooting for Orenstein’s characters—especially her witty, lovably self-deprecating heroine—the whole way through.” — Jennifer Richler, author of essays appearing in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, and The Atlantic “Fat Chance is an evocative journey that sharpens our contact with what it means to be human. And it is a hilariously loving yet unflinching portrait of a woman imprisoned by the body she thinks isolates her from love and—maybe more important—sex. Orenstein is like a magician pulling pennies from the air, infusing the haunting with laughter, the seeming inescapability with hope, and in the end offers the surprising and poignant gift of a special kind of joy.” — Michael Adams, author of Blind Man’s Bluff and Anniversaries in the Blood

Download or read book Starting with Shakespeare written by Todd Daubert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare comes alive for students with these engaging activities. Immersing students in his life and times and characters, this book introduces elementary students to four plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. A complete historical background, an introduction to the characters, a retelling of the story, a variety of integrated activities, verses for memorization, a complete script for class performance, and a list of resources accompany each play. Activities extend learning to history, geography, science, art, music, movement, math, and language arts. Grades K-5 (adaptable to higher levels).

Download or read book The Focus Model written by B.R. Jones and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With school improvement initiatives, quality trumps quantity every time. This book solves the growing problem of schools implementing too many improvement strategies at once instead of deep focus on the most critical few. B.R. Jones’s method details: Selecting critical standards—Defining the skills your students most need now. Uncovering the essentials—Choosing your initiatives based on a deconstruction of the standards and targeted definitions of how they will enrich students. Critical formative analysis of students—Analyzing student work to measure the strategy’s effectiveness. Critical learning teams—Collaborating with colleagues so everyone can make better decisions.

Download or read book 30 New Testament Quick Skits for Kids written by Steven James and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides quick and creative ways for teachers to have kids help retell New Testament Bible stories. This readers' theater performance style is fun because there aren't any lines to memorize. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.

Download or read book Beard Science written by Penny Reid and published by Cipher Naught . This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Best Romance * *Amazon Top 10 Romances of 2016* *AAR Top 10 Romances of All Time* From the NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, & USA TODAY bestselling series. Make a deal with the devil and you might get what you want, but will it be what you need? Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient daughter, Jennifer is buckling under the weight of her social media celebrity, her mother’s ambitions, and her father’s puritanical mandates. Jennifer is officially desperate. And desperate times call for Cletus Winston. Cletus Winston is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery covered in conundrum sauce, and now he’s in a pickle. Despite being convinced of his own omniscience, extortion by the exalted Banana Cake Queen of Green Valley has taken him completely by surprise. So... what’s a maniacal mastermind to do? Likely, the last thing you expect. Beard Science is book #3 in the Winston Brothers series. Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the romantic exploits and adventures of one of the six Winston Brothers.

Download or read book There s No Place Like Home written by Cathy Blount and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathy Blount has a unique gift of being able to communicate her story with heart-wrenching honesty and emotion, yet with God's strength and hope. For anyone who loves someone who is gay, this book is for you. You will go on a rollercoaster journey with Cathy as she shares her feelings of shock, sadness, anger, despair, and finally acceptance with anticipation that nothing is impossible with God. This book is an encouragement to any Christian parent who has faced disappointment and heartache because of their child's unfair suffering or unwise choices. Cathy will inspire you as you read her words of faith, hope, and love. a "Nancy H. Burgess, Director of Heart and Soul Connection"

Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Insults written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Magpie. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant collection of insults and sharp retorts for every situation. Includes studied insults, wry putdowns, literary, political, and dramatic rebukes, playground insults, barbs and jibes. The perfect resource for responding to life's slings and arrows with humour and satisfying venom.

Download or read book Spoons written by Steven Raine and published by Steven Raine. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the town of Spoons, Nuthook County, South Dakota. Y’all come back now.

Download or read book How to Smell Like God written by Steven James and published by Standard Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Smell Like God is filled with humorous and gripping true stories to help teens discover what it really means to know God, serve Jesus, and be led by the Holy Spirit. After each story readers are challenged to apply the message to their own lives.

Download or read book Idioms through Time and Technology written by Iulian Mardar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This game-changing, reader-friendly book provides a more precise definition of idioms, along with new classifications of them. It eliminates fixed phrases such as phrasal verbs, collocations, slang, and proverbs from the class of idioms, while including two major new categories: similidioms and irony-based idiom sentences (IBISes). As a matter of fact, similidioms (basically, idioms in the form of a simile) have been there probably since the beginning of our history as being capable of speaking, but they have not been revealed, until now. Starting from the observation that the production of idioms in any language is influenced by the technological advance of society, the book takes two of the most productive lexico-semantic categories of idioms in both English and Romanian—crazy and stupid idioms—and provides, for the first time, their classification according to their topic and pattern, in an intriguing contrastive approach. Well-documented and not lacking a subtle sense of humour, the book not only opens new perspectives for researchers in the field, but will also captivate the general reader interested in finding out more about the expressions they use every day.

Download or read book Umbr a Technology written by Joan Copejec and published by Umbr(a) Journal. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monster Squad 5 Homecoming written by Heath Stallcup and published by DevilDog Press. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monster Squad returns home to find that not all is as it seems. Nothing could prepare them for what is about to come as they are taught a very harsh lesson. Nothing spurs the desire for revenge more than betrayal, except perhaps a threat to family. Follow along as the hunters face yet another series of challenges. Some large, some small, but all focused on the same goal…the final destruction of the Monster Squad. Just another day at the office for this clandestine group.

Download or read book Insults Every Man Should Know written by Nick Mamatas and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket-sized gift book guide to the best hard-hitting insults for every occasion. This handy little book is packed with insulting gestures, backhanded compliments, comebacks, all the things you should never say about someone's mama, and much more! Including: • Insulting Someone’s Intelligence • Insulting Someone’s Sexual Prowess • Insults for the Office • Insults on Game Day • Insults throughout History • Insults from around the World