Failures ought to be seen as an opportunity for learning and improvement rather than as a matter of shame and embarrassment. Instead of protecting children from the pain of not succeeding, parents should encourage them to take risks and treat those risks as a necessary ingredient of progress. This book has practical exercises to learn how to cope with and benefit from the consequences of failure.

This book explores the topic of how grandparents can become more substantively involved with their grandchildren without interfering in the traditional interaction between parents and children. It looks at the subject from the perspective of a public policy specialist, someone professionally interested in creating better communities through political activity. It leaves to other professionals -- doctors, psychologists, teachers, counsellors, mentors, priests and the like -- the issues of how to make better children for those communities.

While corruption is most noticeable in government agencies and among business entities, it also occurs in religious organizations, nonprofit groups, sports teams, and individual families. Because corrupt behavior is not restricted to illegal activities alone, it can impact the fair and efficient operation of society whenever rules are broken, boundaries are trespassed, and standards are lowered. Although it is unlikely that any society will ever be successful in totally preventing corruption, there are steps that can be taken to control its impact and restrict its spreadand more checkpoints, additional guards, and increased openness are not among them.

The text provides a basic understanding and history of ivory along with a discussion and photographs of its many uses. It argues that ivory collected from elephants that die of natural causes, are culled from authorised hunts, that come from archeological sites and are recycled should be allowed to move in international trade with the proceeds going to programs to end poaching.

Provides a brief illustrated history of Leonardo da Vinci for the teenage market with emphasis on his artistic contributions and his scientific inventions. Includes a frank discussion of the three great challenges that drove his desire to succeed: his illegitimate birth, his left-handness, and his probable homosexuality. Includes a timeline of his life and events occurring elsewhere in the world.

Eleven easy-to-use, freely reproducible forms and simple instructions -- developed by a former US diplomat with professional protocol experience --account for every activity, keep track of every detail, visualise every moment, and plan every detail to create a memorable and successful function -- on time, without stress and within budget.

Discusses and illustrates why three crucial aspects of Leonardo da Vinci's life -- his illegitimate birth, his left-handedness, and his homosexuality -- drove an ordinary man to make extraordinary contributions in art, science, engineering, design, and philosophy. The author shows how many of his 15th century contributions still have relevance to the 21st century and why Leonardo's abiding belief that "every difficulty can be overcome by effort" is a lesson we need to instil in students of today. As one reviewer noted: "You have made me a believer (and so will) just about anyone else who reads what you have written..."

This title contains over 300 money-making and socially sensible concepts woven into illustrative stories, showing how they have worked or what would be needed to implement them. Each of the ideas is designed to improve a situation, correct a problem, create a product, or provide a service. The book details the best of the commercial, social, cultural, political, and personal projects undertaken or developed by the author over his 40-year career as a college instructor, Army intelligence officer, US diplomat, management specialist in the President's Executive office, and as a private sector advisor to governments, non-profit groups, and businesses.

Word of mouth advertising, the oldest, least expensive, and most effective form of market promotion, has recently added e-mails, websites, and an array of social networks to the way information about products, services, events, and ideas are disseminated. Harris reviews the impact of these new techniques against the background of a major case study of 25 word of mouth programs used as the primary marketing tool to promote a museum exhibit. This is the 8th book by the author on various aspects of word of mouth advertising. Previous titles have examined how to stimulate word of mouth advertising, how to use it effectively in various industries, how to use it on the Internet, the role of body language in word of mouth advertising, and how to design word of mouth programs.

This book makes events come together more quickly, run more smoothly, meet their potential more readily, be remembered more fondly and raise money more easily.

Illustrates and briefly describes the crucial moments in the life of Leonardo da Vinci -- including his family background, education, travels, inventions, discoveries, paintings. These events are presented in terms of the year in which they occurred. In a parallel listing, all the other great events occurring at the same time in the rest of the world are illustrated and described. With one sweep of the eye, the reader has a visual review of how the world looked between the time of Leonardo's birth in 1452 and his death in 1519.

Eleven easy-to-use, freely reproducible forms and simple instructions -- developed by a professional planner and the expert staff of a packing/shipping/freight forwarding firm -- to prepare for every activity, keep track of every detail, visualise every moment, and plan every detail of a successful move -- on time, without stress, and within budget.

This guide offers new ways to decide on individual charitable contributions to encourage fairness and balance for the work of Americas nonprofits. Helps anyone decide on what to give to any cause in amounts that reflect both the organisation's needs and the individuals available funds.