Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up(R) training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persua
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 416, Publishers: Simon & Schuster, Author: Rachel Willson-Broyles, ISBN-13: 9781668045510, Date of issue: 2025
"The Eight Concepts" is a clear and concise description of the basic concepts of Bowen family system theory. Beginning with the fundamental concept of the nuclear family as the emotional unit, the other concepts -- differentiation of self scale, triangles,
Taking a practical approach, this insightful book provides key guidance and insights from HR professionals working in hospitality, hotels, and events, showing how aspects of HR are facilitated in the working world, using case studies and practical examples to elucidate theory. With contributions from a range of industry HR professionals, this volume aims to enhance the comprehension of a range of practical HR-related issues facing the hospitality, hotels, and events industries. This includes guidance on the recruitment process, fair recruitment practices, contract types, onboarding, training, appraisals, reward and performance management, amongst many other topics. This book will contain real-life experiences, complementing the ideal process that HR follows when recruiting, onboarding, training, monitoring performance, and when rewarding staff. The book also considers legal issues faced by an industry which continues to handle staffing challenges, alongside post-Brexit and Covid pandemic shortages. International in scope, this volume is a pivotal resource for college and university-level students studying hospitality, hotel, or events management subjects, as well as those with a general interest or career in HR or management, such as those with an involvement in planning hospitality staffing, or individuals responsible for planning corporate, charitable, or private events. Taking a practical approach, this insightful book provides key guidance and insights from HR professionals working in hospitality, hotels and events, showing how aspects of HR are facilitated in the working world, using case studies and practical examples to elucidate theory. Autorid: Jennifer Kaye
"A young girl is thrilled to spend the day with her big sister, but things don't go as planned. It's so hot outside-legs-stick-to-the-seat hot-that her ice cream melts and then it rains. Their plans must change, and then change again as the library closes just before they arrive. But big sister knows just what to do next-even if it's nothing besides splashing in puddles and looking at the stars. The day isn't anything like little sister expected . . . it's better"-- "Love and tenderness are expressed in every scene" School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW "...this sweet and optimistic picture book shows how the support of a loved one can help reframe attitudes, come rain or shine." Booklist, STARRED REVIEW Big sisters are the best! Neither rain nor a series of setbacks can put a damper on a young girls day spent with her big sister. A picture book that captures the love between siblings!A young girl is thrilled to spend the day with her big sister, but things dont go as planned. Its so hot outsidelegs-stick-to-the-seat hotthat her ice cream melts and then it rains. Their plans must change, and then change again as the library closes just before they arrive. But big sister knows just what to do nexteven if its nothing besides splashing in puddles and looking at the stars. The day isnt anything like little sister expected . . . its better. For fans of Oge Mora's Saturday, this picture book about the power of sibling friendship comes from award-winning author Nelly Buchet and Salvadoran illustrator Rachel Katstaller. Autorid: Nelly Buchet, Rachel Katstaller
"Stitched Sewing Organizers is the book I have been waiting years for." The Sewing Directory Celebrate and use your sewing skills with well-known and popular designer Aneela Hoey's 15 stylish yet functional patterns for a wide variety of sewing organisers. Designed to work together, many of the smaller projects fit into larger ones and can be made into a coordinating set. Showcase trendy fat quarters and half-yards or use up odds and ends of your favourite fabric as you make cute containers for yourself, to give to your friends, or to bring to swaps. Even the more challenging patterns can be sewn in less than a day - perfect for when you need a break from those more time-consuming projects. Autorid: Aneela Hoey
Discovering an unfinished manuscript after the death of his writer father, Scott Mast finds the story to be a riveting ghost tale about a house with a hidden wing and subsequently learns that the house is a real structure with a mysterious history, a dwelling that Scott rents so that he can complete his father's novel. Original. Scott discovers an unfinished novel in a tool shed after his father's death and, after learning that the story is based on a real haunted house in town, decides to rent the place in order to complete it. Scott Mast thought he got away - first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances - the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day - are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript - an unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden - and perhaps finish his father's unspeakable work. When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got away–first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scott’s mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances–the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day–are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript–an unfinished ghost story written in his father’s own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden–and perhaps finish his father’s unspeakable work. Autorid: Joe Schreiber
All Delora ever wanted was to disappear.Thrown into the Veil for a crime she committed, Delora was discarded by the world. Although afraid of her oncoming demise, she accepts it as it would be a worldly escape from her problems. She didn't expect that she would wake up from her deadly fall, nor that the person who saved her would be a Duskwalker.She's wary about him at first, but Delora begins to realise there's more to him than just a faceless monster.All he ever wanted was a name.After discovering that humans can be kept as companions, he begins planning for the day he finds his own bride. He still lacks humanity and there is much to learn first. One morning when leaving his cave, a human suddenly crashes into him from the sky. Broken and sleeping, he gets to work on healing the woman.It doesn't take him long to understand she's wounded in a way his magic can't heal.But will he be able to gain her affections, or will she come to hate him as he stumbles his way through learning about her - and more importantly, himself?
