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A practical and engaging guide to building a meaningful and successful career.
Want to build a meaningful career that you love? Careers are changing; they are no longer linear and there's no such thing as a 'job for life'. Squiggly careers, where people jump constantly between roles, industries and locations, are becoming the new normal. Squiggly careers are filled with opportunity and excitement, but they can also be ambiguous and overwhelming if we don't know how to make the most of them.
In The Squiggly Career, personal development experts Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis will teach you how to:
- Identify your Values
- Play to your Super Strengths
- Address your Confidence gremlins
- Design your support solar systems (Networks)
- Explore your Future Possibilities
Packed with insights about the changing-face of work, exercises to aid your growth, and tips and inspiration from highly successful people, this book will help you be happier, and ultimately more successful in your career.
When Ben’s best friend moves away, he decides he will move, too -
under the table, where he lives as "Caveman Ben." Supported by his
family, Ben is able to work through his emotions until he feels
ready to reemerge and look forward to new friendships. When Ben’s
best friend Peter moves away, Ben decides that he will move,
too—into a “cave” under the kitchen table. Caveman Ben
doesn’t need any friends except his tame (stuffed) lion. He hunts
for his food (thoughtfully left on a plate by Mom and Dad) and
communicates in grunts. And in the safety of his cave he can
imagine a world where friends control their own destinies and
distance is no obstacle. Award-winning author-illustrator team
Sarah Ellis and Kim La Fave have produced yet another book in which
they gently guide Ben through an experience that is both familiar
and daunting to preschoolers everywhere. Ellis’ text deftly taps
into the thoughts and feelings of a young child, while La Fave’s
endearing art captures both the depths of Ben’s dismay and the
warmth of the family members who support him through his crisis.
Young readers and listeners will celebrate with Ben as, having been
given the space to work through his difficult feelings, he emerges
from his cave ready to rejoin his family and look forward to new
friendships.
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The Book of Small (Paperback)
Emily Carr; Introduction by Sarah Ellis
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The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first
gained recognition as an author. She wrote seven popular,
critically acclaimed books about her journeys to remote Native
communities and about her life as an artist--as well as her life as
a small child in Victoria at the turn of the last century.
The Book of Small is a collection of 36 short stories about a
childhood in a town that still had vestiges of its pioneer past.
With an uncanny skill at bringing people to life, Emily Carr tells
stories about her family, neighbours, friends and strangers--who
run the gamut from genteel people in high society to disreputable
frequenters of saloons--as well as an array of beloved pets. All
are observed through the sharp eyes and ears of a young,
ever-curious and irrepressible girl, and Carr's writing is a
disarming combination of charm and devastating frankness.
Carr's writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well
regarded today as when she was first published to both critical and
popular acclaim. The Book of Small has been in print ever since its
publication in 1942, and, like Klee Wyck, has been read and loved
by a couple of generations.
We often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist John Bradshaw and cat expert Sarah Ellis show that cats absolutely must be trained in order to enrich the bond between pet and owner.
Full of training tips and exercises -- from introducing your cat to a new baby to helping them deal with visits to the vet -- The Trainable Cat is the essential cat bible for cat owners and lovers.
'Amazing' Guardian From the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch,
and based on their groundbreaking research - this is the ultimate
guide to making your cat a happier, more sociable animal. The idea
of a trained cat is a contradiction in terms, isn't it? Naturally
solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers, they are attached
to place rather than people, and much of their 'antisocial'
behaviour arises in situations where that attachment is threatened.
But, as cat experts Sarah Ellis and John Bradshaw argue, such
stress-induced behaviour can be prevented, reduced, even
eliminated, by training. A comprehensive and engaging step-by-step
guide, The Trainable Cat will help you to help your cat negotiate
the complexities of everyday life: to enjoy living with humans -
including new babies and lively toddlers - and other pets; to
answer to their name; settle into a new home; and to overcome the
anxiety of a visit to the vet. You can train your cat to do what is
in its own best interests - even when its instincts tell it
otherwise. 'I doubt you'll find a more well-informed or scientific
book on cats that better shows you how feline thinking works' The
Times
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