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Reassuring and nurturing, this book is the perfect way to remind your little one how much you love them whilst you are at work. Emotive and gentle, When Daddy Goes to Work introduces the concept of work to babies and toddlers through rhyming text. It also offers parents the ideal talking point for conveying their own feelings about going to work and routine in a reassuring and nurturing manner. Beautiful artwork reminiscent of bestsellers Guess How Much I Love You and Dogger draws parallels between the activities of the child and parent throughout the day. This is the ideal gift book for anyone who is returning to work after the birth of a new child. Autorid: Paul Schofield, Anna Terreros-Martin

"This well-researched and engaging book provides everything you need to maximize one of your most powerful sources of magic: language. Sharing more than thirty practices and projects, Ember Grant teaches you how to manifest your goals through written andspoken magic"-- Manifest Your Goals with the Magical Power of Language Words hold great power. Whether written or spoken, they have always been the most significant way to make magic happen. Ember Grant teaches you how to maximize the power of language through more than thirty practices and projects, from the act and art of speaking to a water writing spell for health. Grant shares ideas for expanding and strengthening your use of words in magic, including how to use rhyme and rhythm in chants and craft unique spells and rituals. Experiment with different writing methods, such as stamping, painting, and engraving. Discover the magic inherent in choosing what to write on—wood, fabric, glass, clay, leaves, and even your body. Whether you want to protect your magic with secret names and codes or delve into the connection between letters and numerology, this book offers essential information and hands-on practices anyone can use. Autorid: Ember Grant

"A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist Frantz Fanon, who inspired today's movements for racial liberatio"-- This eye-opening new biography of the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era whose writings about race, revolution and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world offers a dramatic reconstruction of his extraordinary life. Illustrations. Named a best book of 2024 so far by The New York Times | The New Yorker | VultureLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction “Nimble and engrossing . . . (An] exemplary work of public intellectualism.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post"Undoubtedly the best (biography of Fanon] . . . A remarkable achievement." —Robert J. C. Young, Los Angeles Review of BooksA revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial justice.In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War–era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II; when the war was over, he fell under the influence of Existentialism while studying medicine in Lyon and trying to make sense of his experiences as a Black man in a white city. Fanon went on to practice a novel psychiatry of “dis-alienation” in rural France and Algeria, and then join the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist. He died in 1961, while under the care of the CIA in a Maryland hospital. Today, Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth have become canonical texts of the Black and global radical imagination, comparable to James Baldwin’s essays in their influence. And yet they are little understood. In The Rebel’s Clinic, Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon’s extraordinary life—and a guide to the books that underlie today’s most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism.Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs Autorid: Adam Shatz

Now in its second edition, this engaging book takes a deep dive into feedback fundamentals, providing a clear and evidence-based approach to show what makes effective feedback exchanges, and how people can learn and grow from negative feedback, as well as utilize technology to deliver impactful feedback. Feedback Fundamentals: Give It, Ask for It, Use It balances research, testimonials, and practical tools to provide readers with a thorough understanding of feedback exchanges. Critical findings from decades of research in psychology, business, and other disciplines are distilled into tools and strategies that readers can easily adopt in their own lives, regardless of who they are or what they do. Equipped with practical activities, reflective questions, and case studies, this book has a wealth of examples from a variety of people and situations, both within and outside traditional work contexts. This new edition draws together findings from the education context, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the rise of technology to provide easy-to-implement strategies for having thoughtful and constructive conversations about feedback. Feedback Fundamentals: Give It, Ask for It, Use It is an excellent resource for professionals, leaders, and anyone from any industry or stage in life looking to give better feedback, proactively ask for feedback, gracefully receive feedback, and put that feedback to use. Now in its second edition, this engaging book takes a deep dive into feedback fundamentals, providing a clear and evidence-based approach to show what makes effective feedback exchanges, how can people learn and grow from negative feedback and utilizing technology to deliver impactful feedback. Autorid: Brodie Gregory Riordan

KennedyI've always been the relationship guy. I love big, hard and fast ... but unfortunately for me, that's the quickest way to make a new romance crash and burn.Moving to Wilde's End, our not-so-abandoned town, is exactly the fresh start I need. What's better than a town in the middle of nowhere and long days of hard work to swear off relationships? At least that's what I think, until I meet Ziggy. He's the town electrician who has a weird habit of making sparks fly whenever I'm around him. He's cute, snarky, and his piercings are hot as hell. Too bad I don't trust myself not to make the same mistakes I always do.ZiggyI've always been the weird loner. The strange kid who doesn't talk. So when Kennedy shows up in my life, with his big energy and sunny personality, I don't know how to take him. I'm used to being the invisible shadow that goes unnoticed in the Wilde. Kennedy makes me feel seen.He doesn't expect me to talk when the voices in my head get too loud, he doesn't expect me to be funny or witty or anything that I'm not. He's happy just to be around me, and that's not something I've experienced before. He's sworn off dating. And I've never so much as been kissed. But with the sunshine he brings to my life, it's impossible to feel like a shadow anymore. I'm determined to win him over, no matter what it takes.

The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republicIn 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia―Africa's first black republic―in 1847.James Ciment's Another America is the first full account of this dramatic experiment. With empathy and a sharp eye for human foibles, Ciment reveals that the Americo-Liberians struggled to live up to their high ideals. They wrote a stirring Declaration of Independence but re-created the social order of antebellum Dixie, with themselves as the master caste. Building plantations, holding elegant soirees, and exploiting and even helping enslave the native Liberians, the persecuted became the persecutors―until a lowly native sergeant murdered their president in 1980, ending 133 years of Americo rule.The rich cast of characters in Another America rivals that of any novel. We encounter Marcus Garvey, who coaxed his followers toward Liberia in the 1920s, and the rubber king Harvey Firestone, who built his empire on the backs of native Liberians. Among the Americoes themselves, we meet the brilliant intellectual Edward Blyden, one of the first black nationalists; the Baltimore-born explorer Benjamin Anderson, seeking a legendary city of gold in the Liberian hinterland; and President William Tubman, a descendant of Georgia slaves, whose economic policies brought Cadillacs to the streets of Monrovia, the Liberian capital. And then there are the natives, men like Joseph Samson, who was adopted by a prominent Americo family and later presided over the execution of his foster father during the 1980 coup.In making Liberia, the Americoes transplanted the virtues and vices of their country of birth. The inspiring and troubled history they created is, to a remarkable degree, the mirror image of our own.

In these marvelously wide-ranging essays, Margaret Atwood explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, as a reader and as a writer. At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, utopias, dystopias, slipstream, and fantasy, musing on the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with SF, from her childhood invention of a race of flying superhero rabbits to her graduate study of its Victorian antecedents to the creation of her own acclaimed novels. Studded with appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift, In Other Worlds is as humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative.