Career Family

“A deeply felt meditation on the vital role of passion in good teaching”—with useful samples, interviews, and advice (Anthony Rotundo, The Washington Post) Every teacher can be a passionate teacher—one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas—if teaching is...

None of us are exempt from the difficulties that life can sometimes bring. Unforeseen and unfavorable circumstances can change our realities so significantly that our entire being is fundamentally changed forever.

Without your support, your middle school student's self-regard can crack. But a solid sense of self-worth now—in middle school—will help your youngster find future fulfillment in the adult world of work. Career Book 2 empowers parents and counselors to prepare youngsters (ages 11-13) with disabilities for meaningful employment as adults.

Career Book 3 outlines six strategies for helping your youngster grow in self-confidence and nine strategies for discovering disability's competitive edge in tomorrow's job market—all based on the road map recommended by the U.S. National Career Development Guidelines

"If Mr. and Mrs. Smith had kids and wrote a parenting book, this is what you'd get: a practical guide for how to utilize key spy tactics to teach kids important life skills--from self-defense to effective communication to conflict resolution." --Working Mother Christina was a single, successful...

As a single parent, your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home, you likely find yourself with many responsibilities but little support. It's a heavy weight to bear. Doing It All as a Solo Parent helps you to lighten the load. Drawing on the expertise from experts and parents alike, it provides practical tips and advice catered to your unique challenges as a solo parent.

The world needs the very things God has put within you - your unique dreams - to manifest in the world around us. For every problem we see today, for every heartache we’re experiencing, for every injustice, wrongdoing, up-side-down system, he has created solutions - only those solutions don’t lie dormant in the world around us. They lie dormant in the world within us.

Bethenny Frankel, four-time New York Times bestselling author, on-the-go working mom, self-made businesswoman, and daytime’s newest talk show host, shares her Skinnygirl guide to life: simple ideas, extraordinary results. YOUR GUIDE TO HAVING IT ALL WITHOUT GE TTING OVERWHELMED In Skinnygirl...

Emotions have always been part of policing although they’ve often been overlooked in favor of other learning and development. The time has come in the evolution of the role of first responders for emotional literacy to be added to their professional competencies. Decades of research show that life satisfaction, in the face of traumatic events, is less about how many we have experienced and more about how we have navigated our way through them.

The Line of the Ball reveals the extraordinary life journey of Dr. Beh Chun Chuan, who transformed a single medical laboratory into one of Malaysia's largest healthcare groups while becoming an accomplished international polo player.

Family-owned manufacturing companies are the heart of America’s economy, yet many falter when it comes to passing the torch. With drama often taking center stage, as seen in series like Succession, the importance of a well-planned generational transition cannot be overstated.

Stop juggling; start managing everything you need to do at home and at work. It used to be simple: Stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. You needed that mindset to get where you are, but that's not going to cut it anymore. You need to make different choices to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member. Getting It All Done can't teach you how to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenge of succeeding at work while making sure your family is housed, fed, healthy, safe, and educated.

The Power Lane: Why Keeping Moms in the Workplace Revs the Economy is a compelling business case for why leaders should take a hard look at their organization’s systems and structures to solve one of today’s most perplexing problems—understanding why moms aren’t leaving the workforce, they are leaving your workplace. With record-high labor participation rates, moms have been a driving force in the US economic recovery post-pandemic but with a significant personal, financial, and health cost.

In Life After Medical School, Dr. Bill Truels presents a compilation of both humorous and serious short stories and poems depicting his 50 years of experience as a practicing physician. Written initially for medical students and health care workers, these accounts have become popular with the general public, and anyone with a career that threatens to overtake their family life.

Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home.

Family Business Management provides an accessible overview of the core aspects of family business, with an international, practice-based perspective. Structured in four parts, the book covers key topics such as family firm goals, conflict management, human resources, strategy, financial management, family and business governance, and succession planning. A wide variety of cases and examples are used throughout the book to highlight cultural and institutional differences between family businesses in contrasting contexts.

Beyond the Rut is a fascinating motivational book that will inspire you to re-examine your life. This book lays out some of the manageable steps that you can follow in creating a more fulfilling personal and professional life.

Kate Isler’s incredible story demonstrates how women can stop self-selecting out of opportunities and take the leap of faith to accomplish their dreams. Kate Isler navigated the male-dominated culture of the technology industry, breaking new global markets for Microsoft in their fast-paced...

She may not have it all figured out yet. But this year she's ✨manifesting✨ Don't miss this brand new rom-com perfect for fans of Bridget Jones's Diary and Emily Henry! 🔮 🔮 🔮 I manifest… The perfect man (Guy Carmichael) falling in love with me. I am letting go of… My rat-infested...

In this captivated novel, a young Korean American woman attempts to distance herself from her family in order to forge an authentic future—but a violent act forces her to see that she’ll always be implicated with their actions and they with hers. "A pulsating signal from the liminal zone...