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Einmal kurz innehalten kann so wertvoll sein in unserem hektischen, dicht gedrängten Alltag: um Abstand zu gewinnen, durchzuatmen, das Gefühl für uns selbst und für unsere eigenen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse zurückzugewinnen. Mit den minutenschnellen Übungen und Meditationen von Danielle Marchant gelingt es uns, ganz ins Hier und Jetzt zu kommen - in uns ruhend, konzentriert und fokussiert. Und wir sind bestens gewappnet, um mit innerer Gelassenheit, einem klaren Geist und neuer Kraft alle Anforderungen des täglichen Lebens entspannt zu meistern.

Älterwerden ist nicht gerade beliebt. Doch in Wahrheit ist es die Chance unseres Lebens für Wachstum und Reife. Bestsellerautor Ruediger Dahlke zeigt, wie wir die letzte Lebensphase nutzen, um endlich aus dem ewigen Hamsterrad der Beschleunigung auszusteigen und sie als das ultimative Sabbatical bewusst und freudvoll zu erleben. Er nimmt uns die Angst vor den typischen Altersbeschwerden und gibt uns alles an die Hand, was wir für erfülltes Altwerden in Weisheit und Gesundheit brauchen: von der richtigen Ernährung bis zu Strategien für ein sinnerfülltes Leben.

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what? Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League Dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike.

From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools.

When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other Black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine”, as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.

Andy Bramante left his successful career as a corporate scientist to teach public high school - and now helms one of the most remarkable classrooms in America. Bramante’s unconventional class at Connecticut’s prestigious yet diverse Greenwich High School has no curriculum, tests, textbooks, or lectures, and is equal parts elite research lab, student counseling office, and teenage hangout spot. United by a passion to learn, Mr. B.’s band of whiz kids set out every year to conquer the brutally competitive science fair circuit.

Woops the worm worries about everything. But one day, something happens that makes him not only stop worrying but also tell someone else not to. What do you think makes him forget all his worries? Listen to find out.

Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't. Based on research, interviews and the author's own experiences, this book is invaluable for its insight into the inner workings of politics, political parties and what really makes for a winning election campaign.

The story of the forging of India, the world's largest democracy, is a rich and inspiring one. This volume, a sequel to the India's Struggle for Independence, analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved in the light of its colonial legacy and century-long struggle for freedom.

Michael Phillips would never become anything. At least, that’s what he was told. It seemed like everyone was waiting for him to just fall through the cracks. After losing his father, suffering a life-altering car accident, and losing his college scholarship, Michael turned to selling drugs to make ends meet. But when his house was raided, he was arrested and thrown into a living nightmare.

Today, we are confronted with a lot of compelling career options, but with little guidance. The new age engagement models, such as working-from-home, freelancing, gig-workforce, moonlighting, co-working spaces, solopreneur and entrepreneur-in-residence, have ushered significant flux in both the formal and informal work settings. This book is a humble attempt in offering hope and clarity to individuals who feel helpless amid all the chaos and to give them the appropriate tools and frameworks to guide their careers towards fulfilment.