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Book Don t Just Sit There

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katy Bowman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781905367658
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Don t Just Sit There written by Katy Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries

Download or read book Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries written by Katie S. Martin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed. The key is to focus on the root causes of hunger. When we shift our attention to strategies that build empathy, equity, and political will, we can implement real solutions. Martin shares those solutions in a warm, engaging style, with simple steps that anyone working or volunteering at a food bank or pantry can take today. Some are short-term strategies to create a more dignified experience for food pantry clients: providing client choice, where individuals select their own food, or redesigning a waiting room with better seating and a designated greeter. Some are longer-term: increasing the supply of healthy food, offering job training programs, or connecting clients to other social services. And some are big picture: joining the fight for living wages and a stronger social safety net. These strategies are illustrated through inspiring success stories and backed up by scientific research. Throughout, readers will find a wealth of proven ideas to make their charitable food organizations more empathetic and more effective. As Martin writes, it takes more than food to end hunger. Picking up this insightful, lively book is a great first step.

Book Badass  Making Users Awesome

Download or read book Badass Making Users Awesome written by Kathy Sierra and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note for ebook customers: The design and layout of this book play a key role in conveying the author's message. When creating the ebooks, we've tried to keep the look and feel of the print edition, but this means that not all e-reading devices will support the files. The EPUB format is optimized for iPad. The Mobi files are optimized for Kindle Fire tablets and phones and for Kindle reading apps. Imagine you’re in a game with one objective: a bestselling product or service. The rules? No marketing budget, no PR stunts, and it must be sustainably successful. No short-term fads. This is not a game of chance. It is a game of skill and strategy. And it begins with a single question: given competing products of equal pricing, promotion, and perceived quality, why does one outsell the others? The answer doesn’t live in the sustainably successful products or services. The answer lives in those who use them. Our goal is to craft a strategy for creating successful users. And that strategy is full of surprising, counter-intuitive, and astonishingly simple techniques that don’t depend on a massive marketing or development budget. Techniques typically overlooked by even the most well-funded, well-staffed product teams. Every role is a key player in this game. Product development, engineering, marketing, user experience, support—everyone on the team. Even if that team is a start-up of one. Armed with a surprisingly overlooked science and a unique POV, we can can reduce the role of luck. We can build sustainably successful products and services that rely not on unethical persuasive marketing tricks but on helping our users have deeper, richer experiences. Not just in the moments while they’re using our product but, more importantly, in the moments when they aren’t.

Book The End of Everything

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katie Mack
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-05-04
  • ISBN : 1982103558
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The End of Everything written by Katie Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack looks at five ways the universe could end, and the lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. --From publisher description.

Book How Did I Not See This Coming

Download or read book How Did I Not See This Coming written by Katy Tynan and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie’s having a very bad day. She’s a new manager, and her top performer has resigned to escape her, and her own manager is looking on with a skeptical eye. . . . This is the story of her turnaround. Being a first-time manager is a tough job. If you were Julie, what would you do? Wouldn’t anyone, given the choice of taking on a leadership role (with a raise), or staying put, have done the same? But no one prepared her for developing co-workers, her former peers, while producing as before and leading the team. Now she’s in over her head. Author Katy Tynan understands. In her new book, How Did I Not See This Coming? A Manager’s Guide to Avoiding Total Disaster, Tynan unlocks the truths about management, showing that first-time managers are basically on a journey without a map. It’s not that employers aren’t investing in their new managers, she says, or that the people in leadership don’t care, but they are no longer close to the raw experience of being a new manager. What’s more, most management books are written by experts who lack the memory of first-time failure. In How Did I Not See This Coming?, Tynan tells the fictional story of Julie, a onetime star producer, to illustrate how a new manager can successfully make the shift from a role without leadership responsibilities to one with them. Along the way, Tynan offers the five basic truths about management—starting with recognizing team values and strengths—truths that can be learned by anyone. You, too, can be the manager everyone’s talking about—in a good way—because you’re the one who figured it out.

Book Survive Your Promotion

Download or read book Survive Your Promotion written by Katy Tynan and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New managers have it tough - nearly half will wash out in the first year according to industry statistics. Will you be one of them? This 90 day plan has the secrets you need to beat the odds. Packed with real world examples and practical advice, Survive Your Promotion! gives you the tools you need to succeed. Learn how to manage your time, deal with conflict, align team goals with organizational objectives and much more! Great for managers at all levels, the resources in this book will move you directly from theory to success!

Book As the Shadow Rises

Download or read book As the Shadow Rises written by Katy Rose Pool and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six of Crows meets Graceling with a dash of Winter is Coming in Katy Rose Pool's second installment of the action-packed and swoon-worthy Age of Darkness series--As the Shadow Rises. "As the Shadow Rises solidifies Katy Rose Pool's status as one of the best fantasy writers of the 21st century." —Popsugar The Last Prophet has been found, yet he sees destruction ahead. In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed There Will Come a Darkness, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult, the magical Graced are being persecuted, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world hurtling toward its prophesized end, Anton’s haunting vision reveals the dangerous beginnings of a plan to stop the Age of Darkness. As Jude, Keeper of the Order of the Last Light, returns home in disgrace, his quest to aid the Prophet is complicated by his growing feelings for Anton. Meanwhile, the assassin known as the Pale Hand will stop at nothing to find her undead sister before she dies for good, even if it means letting the world burn. And in Nazirah, Hassan, the kingdom-less Prince, forms a risky pact to try to regain his throne. When the forces of light and darkness collide in the City of Mercy, old wounds are reopened, new alliances are tested, and the end of the world begins. The Age of Darkness trilogy is perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, and An Ember in the Ashes. * "Adventurous relic-hunting, mind-blowing twists, budding love, and terrible betrayals feature in this multiple-narrator, character-driven study of power, agency, and identity." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Praise for There Will Come a Darkness "Reading this intricate YA fantasy, you get the feeling Katy Rose Pool’s plot is always seven steps ahead of you. You’ll want to catch up as quickly as possible." —Refinery 29

Book How to Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katy Milkman
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2021-05-06
  • ISBN : 1473593824
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book How to Change written by Katy Milkman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Game-changing. Katy Milkman shows in this book that we can all be a super human' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit How to Change is a powerful, groundbreaking blueprint to help you - and anyone you manage, teach or coach - to achieve personal and professional goals, from the master of human nature and behaviour change and Choiceology podcast host Professor Katy Milkman. Award-winning Wharton Professor Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behaviour change. An engineer by training, she approaches all challenges as problems to be solved and, with this mind-set, has drilled into the roadblocks that prevent us from achieving our goals and breaking unwanted behaviours. The key to lasting change, she argues, is not to set ever more audacious goals or to foster good habits but to get your strategy right. In How to Change Milkman identifies seven human impulses, or 'problems', that commonly sabotage our attempts to make positive personal and professional change. Then, crucially, instead of getting you to do battle with these impulses she shows you how to harness them and use these as driving forces to help instil new, positive behaviours - better, faster and more efficiently than you could imagine. Drawing her own original research, countless engaging case studies and practical tools throughout to help you put her ideas into action, Milkman reveals a proven, inspiring path that can take you - once and for all - from where you are today to where you want to be.

Book Unbelievable

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katy Tur
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-09-12
  • ISBN : 0062684949
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Unbelievable written by Katy Tur and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compelling… this book couldn’t be more timely.” – Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Called "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. Katy Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. She visited forty states with the candidate, made more than 3,800 live television reports, and tried to endure a gazillion loops of Elton John’s "Tiny Dancer"—a Trump rally playlist staple. From day 1 to day 500, Tur documented Trump’s inconsistencies, fact-checked his falsities, and called him out on his lies. In return, Trump repeatedly singled Tur out. He tried to charm her, intimidate her, and shame her. At one point, he got a crowd so riled up against Tur, Secret Service agents had to walk her to her car. None of it worked. Facts are stubborn. So was Tur. She was part of the first women-led politics team in the history of network news. The Boys on the Bus became the Girls on the Plane. But the circus remained. Through all the long nights, wild scoops, naked chauvinism, dodgy staffers, and fevered debates, no one had a better view than Tur. Unbelievable is her darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. It’s also the story of what it was like for Tur to be there as it happened, inside a no-rules world where reporters were spat on, demeaned, and discredited. Tur was a foreign correspondent who came home to her most foreign story of all. Unbelievable is a must-read for anyone who still wakes up and wonders, Is this real life?

Book Knocking on Heaven s Door

Download or read book Knocking on Heaven s Door written by Katy Butler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A blend of memoir and investigation of the choices we face when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of modern medicine"--

Book Dinner Like a Boss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katy Holder
  • Publisher : Hardie Grant
  • Release : 2018-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781741175325
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dinner Like a Boss written by Katy Holder and published by Hardie Grant. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinnertime is very different for families today than it was 10 years ago. Many parents work, kids often have after-school activities, and there's the constant battle to get the kids away from a screen. Amidst all of this, who has time to cook? This cookbook is for real-world parents who want quick, easy yet nutritious meals to serve at dinnertime – they want to make Dinner Like a Boss! Every recipe highlights the preparation and cooking times, with easy-to-follow steps and options to vary the recipe, so the one dish can be adapted for different family members. Many of the variations add extra flavor without being overt, meaning this book can be a great way to introduce kids to more complex flavors at a young age. The dishes are nutritionally balanced family meals, covering both meat and vegetarian options (and some sweets, too) in more than 50 recipes, and take inspiration from around the globe. Recipes include san choi bao, bibimbap, shakshuka, risotto, aromatic chicken noodle soup, spiralized zucchini noodles, fajitas, meatballs with hidden vegetables, and the ultimate mashed potato fish cakes. The desserts are all healthier yet delicious sweet options such as coconut popsicles and Greek yogurt panna cotta.

Book MUSE

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katy Evans
  • Publisher : KT PUBLISHING LLC
  • Release : 2018-09-14
  • ISBN : 1732443912
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book MUSE written by Katy Evans and published by KT PUBLISHING LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new sizzling standalone contemporary romance by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans. It was supposed to just be a quick trip to Manhattan. My best friend was heartbroken. She needed support, and I needed inspiration. I hoped to love the city. Bustling. Crazy. Inspiring New York. But I ended up at the airport, heading home in the same condition that I arrived. In a rut. Add to all that, missing my flight and losing my laptop—the laptop, where the Best Love Story Ever sat on my hard drive. Enter Noah Steele. Eerily familiar. Movie star. Heartthrob. Sultry romeo with bedroom eyes. (But we're not going there.) He missed his flight too. Noah is so smoldering, lip-bitingly hot, he's not taken seriously as an actor, and is struggling to launch his career in New York. He's only ever had superficial girlfriends, so he's having trouble showing true passion in his acting—the same challenge I’m having with this book. When we met, we didn't know that our connection would bring us the change we’d been craving. That we’d be the very thing the other needed and didn't know. Each other's muse. *This book is a complete standalone and no previous reading is necessary to enjoy.

Book American Photo

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book American Photo written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Aunties and a Wedding

Download or read book Four Aunties and a Wedding written by Jesse Q. Sutanto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties. Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family—actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene—over their dead bodies—and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.

Book Head to Head

Download or read book Head to Head written by Penelope Freed and published by Robynne Smith. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah and Lisa have just one rule—no boys, no distractions. On paper, Hannah O’Brian has it all. Scholarships to not just one, but two, prestigious summer intensives, parents ready to support her dream of becoming a professional dancer and a cute boy sending her sweet texts. When the opportunity to compete in an international ballet competition arrives, Hannah has to decide if she’s brave enough to finally make the leap to the big leagues. Or will a certain someone with a pair of warm brown eyes distract her at just the wrong time? For Lisa Hamasaki, everything makes more sense when you make a pros and cons list. Pro—if she can keep her grades up, her parents might just let her go with Hannah this summer, getting her one step closer to their shared dream. Con—giving up the sliver of a social life she squeezed out between school dance, and Japanese school. Is ballet worth giving up everything else? Especially when that something else has a devastating smile? Pro—Her best friend’s brother is suddenly a little more interested in their personal chemistry than the AP Chem exam. Con—when their attraction explodes in a moment of carelessness, will her best friends still be there to help her clean up the mess? Head to Head is the second book in Penelope Freed’s On Pointe series, a contemporary YA romance with a ballet twist. Make-or-break competition, secret relationships and best friends who just don’t understand, all set against the world of pre-professional ballet, where all that glitters isn’t rhinestones. Dive into the world of bunheads, blisters and heartbreak today!

Book Merchant Vessels of the United States

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchant Vessels of the United States

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: