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A complete handbook for building leadership skills within any type of volunteer organization Starting with the basics of leadership for management positions, you'll learn to achieve your goals and to inspire the best, most productive work from volunteers. A comprehensive guide, packed with invaluable information and easy-to-use worksheets and forms. Any non-profit organization, volunteer group, board, auxiliary, fraternal organization, social service agency or club can use and adapt these forms to help their group achieve goals successfully. Discusses trends in voluntarism, who volunteers and why, community resources for training, guidelines and contacts. Learn how to conduct an effective meeting, establish goals, manage time, set priorities, create publicity and develop your career, Plus, how to: create unity within committees enhance motivation solve problems communicate effectively identify nonproductive behavior evaluate the group's effectiveness delegate responsibility develop commitment and involvement
Inspired by the question of her cartwheeling five-year-old niece, "Emmy, What Color is Goodness?," this poem was written to help readers find goodness in the most unexpected places. The poem does exactly this by exploring the universality of goodness. It does not look like one color, size, or shape and the subtleties and nuances, beauty and undersides are always waiting to be uncovered. Goodness is found in all of us, and it is up to each of us to search for and bring about goodness and to recognize it when we see it in the world. Emily Morrison offers a vision of kindness, acceptance and understanding for our unsettling times within this beautiful book of poetry, featuring the delightful il...
The path of a doctoral student can feel challenging and isolating. This guide provides doctoral students with key ideas and support to kick-start a doctoral journey, inspire progress and complete their thesis or dissertation. Featuring observations from experienced supervisors, as well as the reflections of current and recent postgraduate researchers, this intimate and entertaining book offers vital insights into the critical moments in any doctoral experience.
Emily Morrison was never a social girl. So it made little impact when her father moved her family from New Mexico to the island of Lune de Sang, South Carolina. Emily has a dark secret. She's a teenage werewolf. Emily soon discovers she's not the only one with a secret on the "Island of the Blood Moon." She reluctantly befriends two other outcasts, Morgan Bassett and Sophie Broussard. One a powerful teenage witch. The other, a 200 year-old vampire with the body and attitude of a 19-year-old. When they discover their "chance" meeting was orchestrated by a powerful enemy, the trio realizes they must band together if they are going to defeat this ancient evil from taking over the world. And Emily thought just surviving high school would be scary.
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS! A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
It’s called the “Black Widow”, a CIA gunship with three high-speed Gatling guns tasked with interdicting North Vietnamese weapon and supply convoys on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It has no insignias or markings. Painted black it is invisible in the night’s sky… until it strikes. The communist troops call it a “dragon” because of its red tongues of fire that reach down from the heavens and consume whatever they touch. Officially the Black Widow doesn’t exist and neither does Tom Coyle its pilot. Coyle and his crew fly the world’s most dangerous combat missions in the steep mountains of Laos. The jungle-covered slopes are impenetrable and a death sentence for any unlucky aircrews ...
Half-Life usually refers to the length of time it takes for half the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate. Or, it could describe Amanda Bellwood, a grief-stricken college freshman leading an empty and incomplete life. When Amanda's family is killed in a car crash near Chicago, she must reluctantly move in with Jeff Kipling, an attractive young professor who has been designated by her father as her guardian. Although it is determined that the Bellwood’s vehicle was sabotaged and its occupants murdered, this information is being withheld from the young woman…for her own protection. Conflicted and torn, Amanda unwittingly holds the key to the murder mystery…one that will involve her school and its faculty, the police and a nuclear weapons complex. While her guardian is responsible for keeping Amanda alive and unharmed, Jeff is becoming increasingly attracted to his young ward. It is not until the enemy strikes once more with deadly purpose, that the conspiracy is revealed and Amanda's life can become full once more.