A Passion for Print
A Passion for Print

Author: Kristine Mahood

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0897899903

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Get teens excited about reading by using your own love of books along with a good dose of market savvy. This simple, upbeat guide is packed with practical guidelines and a wealth of exciting ideas for promoting books and reading through everything you do—from collection building, designing the space, and creating a Web site, to booktalking, readers' advisory, and special events. A practical, step-by-step approach. Promoting books and reading is one of your most important roles, but reaching teens and inspiring them to read can be a challenge, especially now, when teens have so many other commitments and interests. This guide will inspire you to build your book knowledge and combine it with marketing savvy to bring teens together with books and reading. Drawing upon recent research on teens and libraries, the author offers practical guidelines and a wealth of exciting ideas for environmental reading promotions (collection building, designing the space, creating publicity materials and developing the web site), as well as interactive promotions (communication with teens, readers advisory, booktalking, partnering with other organizations, and book-related activities and events). Based on the author's experience and the experience of others who work with teens, the book provides librarians and other educators with a simple, handy, and upbeat guide. Grades 6-12.

Dream Big!
Dream Big!

Author: Abigail Harrison

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0593116771

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From Astronaut Abby, the dynamic founder of The Mars Generation, comes a book about dreaming big, reaching for the stars, and making a plan for success! From the age of four, Abigail Harrison knew she wanted to go to space. At age eleven, she sat down and wrote out a plan--not just for how to become an astronaut, but how to be the first astronaut to set foot on Mars. With a degree in biology, internships at NASA, and a national organization founded to help kids reach for the stars themselves, Astronaut Abby is well on her way to achieving her dreams--and she wants to help others do the same! In this book, readers will find helpful advice and practical tips that can help set them on the path toward finding, reaching for, and achieving their goals. With examples from Abby's own life, interactive activities to get readers going, and plenty of fun illustrations along the way, this is the perfect guide for anyone--of any age--with big dreams and plenty of determination. It's time to reach for the stars! Praise for Dream Big!: "With friendly encouragement . . . the content and approach are general enough to appeal both to STEM-oriented fans of the author as well as those whose interests lie in other areas . . . Fun and helpful." --Kirkus Reviews "Any young person who wants to achieve their dreams will find this comprehensive book helpful." --Booklist "The conversational style is easy to understand. . . . There are eye-catching fonts, icons, think bubbles, and callouts. . . . A recommended purchase for middle school and high school libraries. Counselors assisting high schoolers with college preparation and educators teaching leadership classes will find many of the journaling activities very useful." --School Library Journal

Passion for Work
Passion for Work

Author: Robert J. Vallerand

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 0190648643

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Passion is a pervasive concept in the work domain. Workers aspire to be passionate in the hope of finding meaning and satisfaction from their professional life, while employers dream of passionate employees who will ensure organizational performance. Does passion for work matter ? Does passion invariably bring about the anticipated positive outcomes or is there a darker side to passion for work that can also lead to negative outcomes for individuals and organizations? The goal of this book is to address these issues. This volume reviews major theories of work passion, focusing specifically on the dominant theory: the Dualistic Model of Passion. This theory distinguishes between two types of passion-harmonious and obsessive- and their associated determinants and consequences. This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of passion for work by addressing the origin of the concept and its theoretical issues: how can passion for work be developed, what are the consequences to be expected at the individual and organizational levels, and how can passion for work shed new light on contemporary issues in the workplace. Passion for Work: Theory, Research, and Applications synthesizes a vast body of existing research in the area, provides insights into new and exciting research avenues, and explores how passion for work can be cultivated in work settings in order to fulfill both workers' and employers' hopes for a productive and satisfying work life.

B I C Y C L E S, C A N O E S, D R U M S
B I C Y C L E S, C A N O E S, D R U M S

Author: Dan Sklar

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0615244734

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I take seriously what Ezra Pound said, "make poetry new." I do not want to write like anyone else, if that's possible. I want to create new forms of poetry. Sure, I have been influenced by many writers who write differently than I do, whether it is in style, theme, or topics, but I respect all forms and styles of poetry. I am experimenting all the time. Each time I write, it is as if it is my first time, like I have not done it before. The poem, and the way it is put together, becomes the object I am writing about as well as the subject. The way the poem is written is part of its meaning. All of it, I feel, comes from a deep and original, and yet common, place. I write to try to understand myself and the world and to question the things we just assume to be true, but mostly I write to remember the brightness of being alive.

P2d
P2d

Author: Tabatha Turman

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1665729112

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Claim your destiny by building the business, career, or life you’ve always imagined with the wisdom in P2D. The formula consists of passion, purpose and drive, but you’ll also need to manifest a growth mindset and push past fear, self-doubt, and weaknesses. Tabatha Turman, founder and CEO of Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions and an Army veteran who served in Iraq, shares leadership lessons that will help you learn from setbacks and build on successes. Discover how to: • build a brand that will attract people and resources to help you live out your passion; • understand why you’re passionate about a certain cause or goal; • leverage losses as lessons learned so that you go further faster the second, third, or fourth time around. • triangulate life experiences as a resource to draw strength when navigating new territory. The book also looks to her own experiences as well as the careers of some of the world’s most famous leaders to help you ignite passion, purpose, and drive to be successful. Join the author as she explores how to tie a higher purpose to the fuel you need to succeed in business and in life with this guide to winning with a growth a mindset.

Five Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur
Five Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur

Author: Ryan Westwood

Publisher: Sourced Media Books, LLC

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1937458881

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Researchers and psychologists have spent decades working to dissect and analyze the personality characteristics intrinsic to successful entrepreneurs. While a number of theories have been advanced about what it takes to achieve entrepreneurial success, none have tapped directly into the collective wisdom of the entrepreneurs themselves. In The Five Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur, serial entrepreneurs Ryan Westwood and Travis Johnson recount their two year mission to survey 100,000 highly successful U.S. business CEOs and founders whose organizations have grossed at least $1 million in annual revenue. Armed with survey results from more than 2,600 respondents from across the nation, Mr. Westwood and Mr. Johnson take an in-depth look at the five personality traits most commonly identified as essential to entrepreneurial success. Filled with real-life examples, insightful analysis, and action plans at the end of each chapter, The Five Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur is an unprecedented journey into the rich, nuanced fabric that has made American entrepreneurs the most savvy and innovative on earth. It is a must-read for any aspiring entrepreneur seeking to follow a clear path to success—and for any accomplished entrepreneur seeking to impart the most salient, relevant advice to the next generation.

What Is a Human?
What Is a Human?

Author: James Paul Gee

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 3030503828

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In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences. Gee argues that our schools, institutions, legal systems, and societies are designed for creatures that do not exist, thus resulting in multiple, interacting crises, such as climate change, failing institutions, and the rise of nationalist nationalism. As Gee constructs an understanding of the human that takes into account our social, collective, and historical nature, as established by recent research, he inspires readers to reflect for themselves on the very question of who we are—a key consideration for anyone interested in society, government, schools, health, activism, culture and diversity, or even just survival.

Literacy and Education
Literacy and Education

Author: James Paul Gee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1317577213

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Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing how the very idea of "literacy" has broadened into new literacies with words, signs, and deeds in contexts enhanced, augmented, and transformed by new technologies.

Anything & Everything
Anything & Everything

Author: Cyko Games

Publisher: Cyko Technology

Published: 2015-02-27

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13:

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We present before you the first edition of a magazine of your interest. A magazine, that contains a lot of fascinating as well as enthralling stuffs, for people of all ages. It includes topics ranging from technology to music, from inspirational stories to news about important happenings in the prevailing month, from information on useful apps to cykopedia, and a lot more to attract you towards it. We, as a team, have developed this multifaceted magazine, to bring to your service, information and knowledge, dealing with the different aspects of our lives. It`s our initiative to bring to you, a unique reading experience, like never before, a complete blend of innovative ideas emanated from different minds. So guys, kindly spare some time, and get through our work. And yeah don`t forget to give us your reviews. Your feedbacks are of immense importance to us, and would be highly appreciated and made use of, in raising the standards of our magazine as well as mitigating the short comings of the same. So, hurry up and get going!Happy reading folks!

Games, Learning, and Society
Games, Learning, and Society

Author: Constance Steinkuehler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-11

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1139510215

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This volume is the first reader on video games and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture and games as twenty-first-century pedagogy, it demonstrates the depth and breadth of scholarship on games and learning to date. The chapters represent some of the most influential thinkers, designers and writers in the emerging field of games and learning - including James Paul Gee, Soren Johnson, Eric Klopfer, Colleen Macklin, Thomas Malaby, Bonnie Nardi, David Sirlin and others. Together, their work functions both as an excellent introduction to the field of games and learning and as a powerful argument for the use of games in formal and informal learning environments in a digital age.