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Money management can be challenging, especially for young women navigating career paths, life goals, and financial independence. Your Money, Your Future is a practical, empowering resource that tackles everything from building wealth to spending smartly, helping listeners create a solid foundation for financial success. Beginning with the importance of a positive money mindset, this guide walks listeners through key aspects of financial well-being, including setting clear goals, advancing in your career, and creating a healthy work-life balance.

Heading off to college is a monumental step. Is the high school graduate in your life truly prepared for what's ahead? Introducing College Bound, the essential guide to navigating the complexities of college life. No fluff, just real, actionable strategies to tackle the challenges they'll face. This book is a practical toolkit, turning overwhelmed freshmen into confident students.

College is a high-stakes game, according to authors Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, but students can learn how to win it. Hacking College offers college advisors, faculty, and staff in student and academic affairs a groundbreaking guide to rethinking higher education so that students can succeed in an increasingly complex world. Drawing from extensive research and real student experiences, this essential book exposes the hidden challenges and bureaucratic traps that undermine student success, from convoluted transfer processes to a single-minded emphasis on majors.

Becoming a skilled, reliable, and safe commercial driver takes more than obtaining a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). It requires training, discipline, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to professionalism. That’s what this book is all about – guiding both aspiring and experienced drivers through the process of finding, building, and advancing in a successful trucking career.

Les règles d'or du management bienveillant ! Il dit rarement bonjour, a une fâcheuse tendance à se mettre en colère, se méfie du télétravail (des autres) comme de la peste, envoie à ses collaborateurs des e-mails à toute heure du jour et de la nuit... Vous connaissez forcément BoB, il est manager, et il aime ça. En réalité, c'est le pire des managers ! Gaël Chatelain-Berry nous invite à passer une journée dans la vie de BoB, pour l'aider à s'améliorer (on a tous un peu de BoB en nous !), et pour apprendre à gérer ses réactions désordonnées.

This isn't your average guide to Greek life. "Secrets to Getting the D9 of Your Choice to Choose You" is a witty, insightful, and honest look at the world of historically Black fraternities and sororities. Whether you're an eager undergrad or a driven graduate, this book arms you with knowledge and strategies to stand out from the crowd and increase your chances of getting noticed–and invited–by the D9 organization that resonates with your soul.

Days after his emergency hire as principal of Fordson High, Imad Fadlallah discovers enough weed in its parking lot to supply a local dispensary. He realizes he is manning a sinking ship with thousands of young boys and girls aboard, among them, his son Ali. Ali is drowning in a lyrical muse, as no one seems to tune in to his calls for help. Finding himself between stolen dreams and lives lost, Ali becomes yet another victim of Fordson's Prison of Minds.

In a world increasingly defined by crisis, public service institutions like colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations require capable, dynamic, and trustworthy leadership, yet stories of leadership failures there abound. The problem, Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues in Leading Generously, is a fundamental mismatch between the communal purposes that leaders must serve and the individualistic structures under which they operate.

Inside the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning – to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens – and offers a probing, accessible guided tour of critical thinking, emphasizing the analytic skills that form the intellectual core of all higher education. Becoming better critical thinkers doesn’t mean we have to become philosophers. As users of language, Scheuer explains, we’re already philosophers.

SSD Global Solutions supports the following concepts in Lean Government applications: Consider customer service from the standpoint of optimizing value for the regulated community, the public, or other stakeholders.

The Art of Soft Skills in Healthcare: A Virtual Training Approach delves into the essential role of soft skills in healthcare, highlighting how they shape patient outcomes and interprofessional collaboration.

"Un llamado a la introspección que nos mueva a esforzarnos por ser mejores cada día, que nos motive a reflexionar y a hacer los ajustes necesarios en nuestra vida". Así describe de forma resumida Ney Díaz la intención de su libro Las 12 preguntas. Este libro se alimenta de la cotidianidad y de la observación. No es un recetario de doctrinas. A través de historias, anécdotas y reflexiones, Ney comparte aprendizajes que sirven como insumos para que los lectores respondan cada una de las 12 preguntas que él les propone.

Hey there, future GMAT conqueror! Let me tell you, you've just taken a fantastic first step. Right now, you’re holding a book that isn’t just another long, dry list of vocabulary words. This is your personal key to mastering the language of the GMAT — but with a twist. Instead of memorizing and forgetting, we're making vocabulary unforgettable. Think mnemonics, stories, even a bit of humor. This book makes each word something you'll understand, remember, and actually know how to use — not just for test day but long after.

Dive into the ultimate preparation experience with the MCAT Q&A Study Guide, meticulously designed to help you conquer the Medical College Admission Test with confidence and precision. This comprehensive book transforms the way you prepare, fitting seamlessly into your busy lifestyle—whether you're commuting, working out, or tackling chores, every moment becomes an opportunity to excel.

In the summer of 1971, a psychology study at Stanford University morphed into a chilling demonstration of human behavior under the pressures of authority and submission. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), led by psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo, aimed to explore the psychological effects of power and control in a simulated prison. What began as a planned two-week study unraveled in just six days, as participants—ordinary college students randomly assigned as 'guards' or 'prisoners'—descended into extreme and often disturbing behaviors.

Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing varied views and frank exchanges of opinion is a core component of the educational enterprise. But free speech does not mean a free-for-all. The First Amendment prohibits "abridging the freedom of speech," yet laws against perjury or bribery, for example, are still constitutional. In the same way, valuing freedom of speech does not stop a university from regulating speech when doing so is necessary for its educational mission. So where is the dividing line? How can we distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermissible infringement?

Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance.

Your Ivy competitive edge. The most effective college application strategies ever published. Transform your college applications into Bam! Pow! Wow!—without high-priced consultants, tutors, or prep courses. Using actual common application personal essays, activities and honors sections, supplemental essays, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to University of Virginia, Duke, and Princeton, Coach Mom Top College Admission Playbook shows you how to stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.

Student life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams, family pressures and challenging relationships. It is not surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. But there are simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university experience and achieve academic success.

Learn how to record audiobooks from a seasoned recording artist. In celebration of his 200th audiobook and a decade in the business, Jack Nolan shares his experience, wisdom, and woes to help you learn how to record audiobooks, or elevate your recordings and performances to the professional level.