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Keeping Your Smile
by Jeff A. JohnsonFilled with warmth, humor, and honesty, Keeping Your Smile is a resource for anyone who cares for children and who wants to manage their own stress, tension, or anxiety before burnout becomes an overarching obstacle in their daily interactions with children. Jeff A. Johnson, a child care professional who wrote about his own burnout in Finding Your Smile Again, offers strategies, activities, tips, and tools help caregivers and educators work with children with passion and maintain a satisfying career in the field. Included are profiles of several professionals who have experienced burnout and survived to become stronger, better care providers.
Keeping a Creative Sketchbook: Build Your Artistic Practice for a Joyfully Inspired Life
by Emma BlockAn inspiring creativity guide for keeping a sketchbook as an artistic practice, with techniques and sources of inspiration for experimenting, drawing, painting, and seeing the world through a colorful lens, from watercolor artist and author of The Joy of Watercolor Emma Block Keeping a sketchbook is a wonderfully rewarding pursuit for artists and hobbyists alike. Your sketchbook is a safe place to explore, experiment, try new things, record your progress, and sometimes mess up, and working in a sketchbook, particularly on location, is an innately mindful practice. You become completely focused on the things you are sketching or painting and completely immersed in the atmosphere of the place. In Keeping a Creative Sketchbook, Emma Block shares her own sketchbook practice and offers inspiring artist interviews and numerous techniques and practices for beginning or transforming your own. Packed with ideas and prompts to get started, this book helps overcome overwhelm and open a world of joyful creativity. With your sketchbook by your side, you can slow down, be present, notice the little things, enjoy the process, let go of perfectionism, and embrace the blank page, discovering rich new depths to your creativity and finding your artist mindset for inner peace.
Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You
by Clare Walker LeslieOriginally published in 2000 with endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Leslie&’s Keeping a Nature Journal was at the forefront of the nature observation and journaling movement. Leslie&’s approach has long been acclaimed for its accessible style of teaching people to see, witness, and appreciate the wonders of nature, and her classic guide is still used by individuals, groups, and educators ranging from elementary school teachers to college-level instructors. The third edition features more of Leslie&’s step-by-step drawing techniques, a new selection of pages from her own journals (which she&’s kept for 40 years), and an expanded range of prompts for observing particular aspects of the natural world in any location. With an emphasis on learning to see and observe, Leslie shows how drawing nature doesn&’t require special skills, artistic ability, or even nature knowledge, and it is a tool everyone can use to record observations and experience the benefits of a stronger connection to the natural world.
Keeping a Princess Heart in a Not-So-Fairy-Tale World
by Nicole JohnsonKeeping a Princess Heart is a deeply thoughtful exploration into the tension of the two worlds in which a woman lives-her dream world and the real one.
Keeping the Faith: How Applying Spiritual Purpose to Your Work Can Lead to Extraordinary Success
by Ana Mollinedo MimsMore than an average author of a how-to-succeed book, Ana Mollinedo Mims is on a mission. A devout Christian herself, Ana has blended what has brought her to the top of her game, as an executive at a Fortune 500 company, with the faith–based philosophy she believes is the foundation for her finding meaning, and thus success, in all aspects of her professional life.The principles Ana discusses in this book–faith, integrity, humility, prayer, forgiveness, stewardship, and legacy–are concepts which have carried her well into a very distinguished career. They are principles that underlie a spirit–led career she believes is possible for anyone wanting to give purpose to the single most time–consuming aspect of all our lives: work.Keeping The Faith looks at some of the common struggles all people face at various stages of their working lives–helping readers to remain true to what they deeply believe. From her own experiences, Ana shows us that when difficulties and doubts are confronted using her unique take on spiritual pragmatism, each difficulty can extend itself into success, growth, and a clearer understanding of one's self, and one's own sense of professional purpose.Ana believes that the answers or the outcomes in each case will become clearer, more deeply satisfying, more "right," when one is able to shift one's line of sight, and consider what it means to blend a working life together with devoutly spiritual one.
Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America
by Tavis SmileyCommentator, advocate, and author Tavis Smiley brings together a collection of almost one hundred original accounts drawn from African Americans in all walks of life, with a sprinkling of more famous individuals (Cornel West, Iyanla Vanzant, and Danny Glover). These stories, reminiscences, and testimonies share lessons learned about family, heritage, and black culture, illuminating moments that touched the contributors' lives in special ways. A stirring celebration of the abiding and profound inner strength, passion, and spirituality that nurture and sustain so much of the African-American community, Keeping the Faith is a book of affirmation and inspiration for us all. Book jacket.
Keeping-up-your-spirits Therapy
by R. W. Alley Linda Allison-LewisHas illness, loss, or emotional pain worn you down? If so, this affordable and uplifting attitude-adjuster is just the book to bolster your spirits and help you smile in the face of life's inevitable rough spots.
Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, Answers
by Ken HamA Powerful Resource to Equip You with Biblical Truths for Everyday Life Ken Ham Daily: 365 Musings, Inspirations, Answers is an essential resource for Christian parents looking to strengthen their family’s faith and equip their children to stand firm in today’s culture. This collection of 365 daily readings by renowned apologist Ken Ham offers a unique opportunity to guide your family through biblical truths that address the most pressing spiritual and cultural issues of our time. Perfect for family devotions, Ken Ham Daily encourages parents to take the lead in discipling their children. With each reading, you can easily guide your family through topics like the nature of God, salvation, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of the church. These reflections are also a powerful resource for your church community, offering daily lessons that can be shared in small groups, Bible studies, and Sunday school classes. Ken Ham’s fifty years of ministry experience have culminated in this incredible resource, designed to help Christian families like yours live out their faith with confidence. Ken Ham Daily isn’t just a book—it’s a tool for cultivating a strong, lasting biblical foundation in your home and church. Let this resource help you lead your family in faith, one day at a time.
Kentucky Passion: Wildcat Wisdom and Inspiration
by John Huang Del DuduitWildcat Wisdom for the Big Blue Nation!For more than a century, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has built a winning tradition that feeds the Big Blue Nation. The history of the winningest program in college basketball is peppered with unforgettable moments and personalities.In Kentucky Passion, Del Duduit and John Huang help fans reexperience some of the most memorable seasons and shots and meet key players and coaches. Readers will learn how they too can rise to challenges and find success through the inspiring stories from Wildcat history. Weekly stories showcasing legendary coaches including Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and John Calipari, standout players including John Wall, Kyle Macy, DeAndre Liggins, Goose Givens, and Aaron Harrison, and indelible highs and lows (yes, the BBN still hates Laettner) illustrate the value of persistence, hard work, resiliency, teamwork, and more.Kentucky Passion is for every citizen of the Big Blue Nation and for every sports fan who relishes well-deserved victories, moans at surprise defeats, or wants to learn more about one of the most storied teams in college sports.
Kenzie's Rules for Life: How to Be Happy, Healthy, and Dance to Your Own Beat
by Maddie Ziegler Mackenzie ZieglerAn inspirational, upbeat collection of relatable lessons from the teen sensation, Mackenzie Ziegler—an award-winning dancer, singer/songwriter, and actress.Growing up is hard, but growing up in the spotlight is even harder. However, Mackenzie Ziegler is taking it all in stride, thanks to her positive attitude on life. From getting her start on Dance Moms, to her sold-out tour alongside Johnny Orlando, there’s nothing that she can’t do. In Kenzie’s Rules for Life, the dance prodigy, singer/songwriter, actress, and model offers her advice on friendship, family, fitness, style, and positivity. She shares lessons drawn from her own experiences for those navigating through their tween years on how to be happy, healthy, and confident in all aspects of their lives.
Key Skills for Professionals
by Alan Pannett Shalini Sequeira Andrew Dines Andrew DayKey Skills for Professionals will help you to acquire and develop the key skills that will enable you to stand out as a consummate professional in a fiercely competitive environment - the world of professional services.The skills covered are applicable across all professions and are of use both to those qualifying for a profession and those already working in a professional services business. Through demonstrating and effectively implementing these skills, you will enhance your career progression. The authors make use of realistic and relevant case studies based on their knowledge, experience and expertise. There are also practical exercises, management exercises and tools for analysing self-awareness and communication styles and summaries with ideas for further reading.
Key to the Science of Theology: An Introduction to the Christian Principles of Spiritual Philosophy, Religion, Law and Government
by Parley P. PrattKey to the Science of Theology by Parley P. Pratt is a seminal work that offers a unique and comprehensive exploration of theology from a Latter-day Saint (LDS) perspective. Originally published in 1855, the book reflects Pratt’s pioneering vision of theology not merely as a system of faith but as a science—a discipline governed by divine laws and eternal truths. A leading figure in early Mormonism, Pratt presents a bold synthesis of philosophy, religion, and governance, aiming to illuminate the deeper principles that govern both spiritual and temporal realms.In this work, Pratt discusses key Christian doctrines, including the nature of God, the role of Jesus Christ, the importance of revelation, and the eternal potential of humanity. He emphasizes the idea that spiritual knowledge is acquired through obedience to divine laws, portraying theology as a living, dynamic pursuit of truth. Pratt also addresses themes such as the resurrection, spiritual gifts, the afterlife, and the eternal progression of souls, offering a profound vision of the purpose of human existence.Beyond theology, Pratt’s writings extend into practical matters of law and government, reflecting the Mormon belief in the integration of spiritual principles with societal order. He argues that true religion encompasses all aspects of life—personal, communal, and governmental—each governed by eternal laws that promote peace, justice, and freedom.Key to the Science of Theology remains a thought-provoking text for those interested in the relationship between faith and reason. Pratt’s innovative blend of theology and philosophy challenges readers to see religion as a pursuit of knowledge governed by universal truths. For students of LDS theology, philosophy, or religious thought, this work offers a fascinating insight into the early development of Mormon beliefs and the visionary spirit that continues to shape the faith today.
Khushwant Singh on Women, Sex, Love and Lust
by Khushwant SinghAn anthology of Khushwant Singh’s best writings on his favorite subjects, Women, Sex, Love and Lust is at once witty, informative, thought-provoking and flagrant. Definitely a book you can’t afford to miss! If you are looking for answers to eternal questions like which came first – love or lust, or debates pertaining to celibacy, chastity or arranged marriages, Khushwant Singh delivers his unique exposé. Whether he is analysing the fine dividing line between obscenity, pornography and erotica, describing sex from ‘Chaturbhani’ (200-350 B.C.) or his ideas of a composite Indian woman, Khushwant holds the reader’s attention effortlessly. But that isn’t all – years before terms such as ‘gender issues’ or ‘gender divide’ became popular, he was writing, thinking and sharing his views on them. His deliberations reveal an unexpected side to Khushwant . . . in these pages you’ll also find a rare glimpse of Khushwant the feminist. Women, Sex, Love and Lust abounds with Indian as well as foreign myths, legends, proverbs, and poems ranging from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman to Kalidas, Iqbal and Faiz. Almost each page offers you delectable quotes from Russell to Wodehouse along with special anecdotes which could only come from the inimitable Khushwant. Only he could share with you his intense experience of nudo-phobia suffered in Sweden, his acute observation of Indian whoremongers when abroad, scandals amongst the literati and glitterati – H. G. Wells as a compulsive fornicator or Georges Simenon hammering away at his typewriter (and his women) at the age of eighty are only a few revelations.
Kick Up Your Heels#Before You're Too Short to Wear Them: How To Live A Long, Healthy, Juicy Life
by Loretta LarocheFor the last 20 years, Loretta LaRoche has been delighting readers, audiences, and PBS television viewers with her wacky and wise insights about life, love, and the insanity of the modern world. Now, in her most deeply personal book yet, Loretta addresses the most exciting challenge that we all face —one that she now finds herself facing every day: How do we age well? And can humor, dignity, honesty, wisdom, and other virtues ease the path? Our society is youth obsessed: Beauty products, special exercises, designer vitamins, plastic surgery, and certain medications are promoted as "the’ ways to enhance life. While these formulas may have some merit, they’re not enough to prepare us to have a rich, authentic life filled with passion and juiciness. Why do we wait until we’re almost dead before we focus on how to age well? Every school system in the country should be preparing us for the inevitable process of aging and how to do it well. Our parents, our schools, and the media should all be teaching us that aging is a process that begins at birth . . . not something to be feared and avoided. Those who continue to be hardy and live long and healthy lives understand that the real path to vitality requires connection, playfulness, flexibility, grace, tenacity, resiliency, curiosity, learning, and good humor. With her trademark humor and practical wisdom, Loretta tackles how to live a long, healthy, juicy life —using herself and many of her friends and mentors as metaphors. Filled with practical advice, lifestyle skills, wisdom, and spirituality, Kick Up Your Heels . . . is a mental health spa that will inspire you and your family to live with joy, harmony, and peace while you still have the time!
Kick Your Addiction: How to Quit Anything
by Susan Shapiro Frederick WoolvertonIs a smoking, alcohol, food, gambling, Internet, drug, or sex addiction holding you back from getting what you want most? Over the past twenty-five years, renowned addiction therapist Dr. Frederick Woolverton has used his dynamic, empathetic approach to help thousands of addicts achieve long-term recovery-including himself. He sees the specific habit as less important than the underlying chaos and fear that motivate the urge to soothe ourselves with bad habits. The solution, he has found, requires only a better understanding of yourself and a change in attitude.Using real patient examples as well as research and his own experience, Dr. Woolverton and coauthor and former patient Susan Shapiro show how to thrive without self-medicating. Woolverton's specific instructions do not require an expensive therapist, rehab, a twelve-step program, or a higher power (though he does make readers aware of those viable options). Let him help you beat your addiction. When you conquer a toxic habit, you are leaving room for something beautiful to take its place.
Kick-Ass Closings: A Guide To Giving The Best Closing Argument Of Your Life
by Barry Scheck Gerry Spence Johnnie Cochran Clarence Darrow James Bell Mark Geragos Jose Baez Michael Waddington Eric Romano Jerome Buting Robert Casale Dean Strang Ian Friedman Cheney Mason Brian Bieber Stacy Walsh Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington Paul Bergrin Mark O'Mara Thomas Mesereau Timothy BileckiKick-Ass Closings is a powerful resource for new and experienced criminal defense lawyers, so they can deliver devastating closing arguments with minimal prep time. This book provides a simple and straightforward template that can be used in any criminal trial and hundreds of sample closing arguments that can be crafted to fit the facts of your case. Used properly, this book can save you time, and increase the power and effectiveness of your closing arguments. More importantly, it will help save lives, and protect the freedom of those whom we defend.
Kick-Ass Creativity: An Energy Makeover for Artists, Explorers, and Creative Professionals
by Mary Beth Maziarz“A lively and personable guide to higher creativity . . . [that] will catalyze all levels and types of creativity. . . . a bright lantern on the creative trail.” —Julia Cameron, national bestselling author of The Artist’s WayThere are over forty million people who work in creative careers. You may be one of them. Or, perhaps, you would like to join their ranks. If either of these statements is true, this book is for you. Maziarz offers a concrete program for helping you tap into and develop your creative potential. In fact, if you incorporate these teachings into your life, you can be not only creative, but kick-ass creative. Maziarz provides a framework full of fun and practical tips for kick-starting the creative process. Included are: An examination of energy and what it has to do with art. How to connect with your deepest motivations, desires, and feelings. Concrete tips about time management. How to develop a support group. How to get rid of those flimsy excuses that block your creative output.“Incorporating equal parts positivity, practicality and visualization, writer and workhorse songwriter Maziarz presents a guide to tapping and fostering creativity with broad appeal for button-down and artsy types alike. . . . Her] encouraging tone and practical, common-sense approach should resonate even with skeptics” —Publishers Weekly
Kickass Recovery: From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams
by Billy ManasWISE, WITTY, AND RELENTLESSLY REAL STRAIGHT TALK FROM A RECOVERING ADDICT As Billy Manas can attest, getting sober is easy compared to living sober. But if he can do it, so can you, and he&’s going to help you with nuts-and bolts suggestions for finding financial, personal, and emotional well-being to live your own version of a kickass life. Billy&’s techniques for getting there are simple yet profound — tackling manageable goals, finding inspiration (in whatever way works for you), asking for help (even when you don&’t want to), practicing gratitude and meditation (even if you think they&’re silly), and steering clear of people who rain on your parade. Straightforward and doable, these strategies build confidence and build on each other until recovery means not just living but living better than ever.
Kicking In the Wall: A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts, and Quotes to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals
by Barbara AbercrombieWhen Patti Smith was plagued with writer’s block — “scattered and stymied, surrounded by unfinished songs and abandoned poems” — playwright Sam Shepard advised her, “When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” In these pages, Abercrombie shows readers how to do just that. Like a workout with a top trainer, her writing exercises warm up, stretch, and build creative muscle. Quotes from famous writers inspire each day’s exercise. Though Abercrombie says readers need only commit five minutes to each exercise, she writes, “I’ve seen novels, memoirs, and many essays get started” in those five minutes, “and a lot ended up being published.” Her playful, powerful method is ideal — maybe even essential — fuel for writers trying to get off the starting block, persevere through challenges, and cross their personal creativity finish lines.
Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts
by Melanie D GibsonMelanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically.In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a white belt.In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.
Kickstart Your Life with NLP: Flash
by Paul JennerThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Kickstart Your LIfe with NLP is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning some basic NLP techniques to improve your life n a few short steps. Whether you want to lose weight, find love, or just be happier, in just 96 pages you will discover a complete toolkit for making positive and lasting changes.
Kickstart Your Life with NLP: Flash
by Paul JennerThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Kickstart Your LIfe with NLP is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning some basic NLP techniques to improve your life n a few short steps. Whether you want to lose weight, find love, or just be happier, in just 96 pages you will discover a complete toolkit for making positive and lasting changes.
Kid CEO: How to Keep Your Children from Running Your Life
by Ed YoungIn these days of corporate scandal, there's a far more pervasive and serious problem going on right under our noses.It's a family takeover orchestrated by our kids.That's right - children are taking control of family units in record numbers.When a man and woman marry, says author Ed Young, they occupy the leadership roles in their relationship.But in some cases, as children enter the family arena, that begins to change.The kids slowly become the center of the family universe as parents relinquish control to them.In effect, the children become Kid CEO's and the parents become the support staff.As parents, we have charge of our children for only a short time. It's up to us to prepare them for life.
Kidding: Childlike Solutions to Bullsh*t Adult Problems
by Laura Jane WilliamsKidding is the new adulting. Consider this your permission slip to relax, laugh, and finally find happiness. At once hilarious, irreverent, and downright inspiring, Kidding shows you how to connect with your inner child to make your mundane, complicated adult life much simpler (and happier). It's a book about using your imagination and creativity to find joy, and about being happier by being who you are-which is to say, by being a big kid at heart. Author Laura Jane Williams argues that you can be an adult but still embrace childlike (not childish) tendencies: you can own your own home and still want to build a pillow fort when the mood strikes; you can pay your bills on time and still snuggle something soft against your face because you're sad; you can run a business and still take time to play. Divided into 40 short lessons, it's an accessible, fun introduction to the self-help world that anyone can stomach. Laura's experience as a nanny to three young, precocious children has transformed her view on life, and in this book she passes along the lessons she's learned from them. Because kids live in the present. They lose themselves in what they love, they show off, and they like themselves. Kids are curious by default, and they don't have limits because they haven't learned they exist yet. Kids do whatever the f*ck they want, precisely because they want to. To put it simply, kids have the answers, man.
Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love
by John LippittThe problem of whether we should love ourselves – and if so how – has particular resonance within Christian thought and is an important yet underinvestigated theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. In Works of Love, Kierkegaard argues that the friendships and romantic relationships which we typically treasure most are often merely disguised forms of 'selfish' self-love. Yet in this nuanced and subtle account, John Lippitt shows that Kierkegaard also provides valuable resources for responding to the challenge of how we can love ourselves, as well as others. Lippitt relates what it means to love oneself properly to such topics as love of God and neighbour, friendship, romantic love, self-denial and self-sacrifice, trust, hope and forgiveness. The book engages in detail with Works of Love, related Kierkegaard texts and important recent studies, and also addresses a wealth of wider literature in ethics, moral psychology and philosophy of religion.