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This guide intends to serve parents, educators and professional coaches in instilling values in children via game playing (gamification), storytelling and tales. The central piece of the paper is a tale that has been carefully crafted to provide an interesting adventurous journey that capture children´s attention. Albeit its simplicity, the story is very empowering: it is about three young children, members of the same family, who join a magic flying carpet into three different islands. At the end of each journey/island, the children learn an important lesson about some values. At the end,...

Grab your partner and join the spirits on the dance floor. Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is a grand ball of fear and nightmares. This sinister collection is bursting with 14 tales of terror - more than enough to keep you dancing with demons all night long.

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable.

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

The Magic Drone tale falls within this general framework. It is a story of a magic drone (very creative hence it was built in a high school with a visionary teacher), that is equipped with many elements of artificial intelligence (AI) (bring the kids to our time and age) and facilitate travel to different islands (each with a unique set of dominant values ----- culture). The tale blends Información about culture and values in a unique and adventuress manner that children can relate to. The tale also talks about the challenges that the future of work might be holding for the children when ...

This children Tale was originally published in 2014 as part of a series of tales for children. Helping parents and educators instilling values in them. The tale has been carefully crafted to provide parents, educators and coaches with an additional tool aims to help them instill positive values in children. Albeit its simplicity, the story is very empowering. It is about three young children, members of the same family, who join a magic flying carpet to different adventures that take place in three different islands. At the end of each Journey/Island, the children learn an important lesson ...

In iLeadership, Jay Elliot gives the listener the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs as only his closest associates have ever seen him, and to learn what has made him - and the mystique of his management style - capable of creating tools so extraordinary that they have remade three industries and have transformed the way we create, consume, and communicate with each other.

Learning Spanish as a beginner is exciting and rewarding. It facilitates communication, cultural comprehension, and professional development. It improves career prospects, sharpens cognitive abilities, and enhances cultural appreciation. Whether you begin learning Spanish as a child or an adult, it is an invaluable investment in your personal and intellectual development.

Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of more than twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of honored crime writers Agatha Christie, Malice Domestic, Volume 6 jumps the pond between Britain and America to deliver 100 percent pure suspense in all its spine-tingling glory. The ten mysteries included here are read by Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Reed Diamond, Judy Geeson, Patrick Macnee, and Emmy winners Juliet Mills and William Windom.

In this encore to his classic 1987 unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward), Jeffrey Young examines Jobs' remarkable resurgence, one of the most amazing business comeback stories in years.

Whatever happened to Dan Gelber - the divorced screenwriter who journeyed to Nepal in his seventies, only to plunge to his death off of Mt. Everest? And just who is Jay Reynolds, the mysterious 20-year-old tennis prodigy who appears out of nowhere to battle Rafael Nadal at the French Open and Roger Federer at Wimbledon and become the new hope of American tennis, possibly "the greatest of all time". Roger L. Simon answers these questions and more in The Goat, his first stand-alone novel in years.

Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and more.

Un bajo nivel de autoestima junto a un estrés elevado forma un peligroso cóctel para el bienestar físico y psíquico, tanto en el entorno laboral como en el ámbito personal. En esta obra desarrollamos las claves que juega la percepción que cada persona tiene de sí misma, su autoestima, que no sólo impacta en los logros profesionales, sino que también explica y predice el estado de salud psíquico y físico. La escasa valoración de uno mismo influye en el estrés y, por tanto, en el peor de los casos, en el riesgo de padecer depresión o incluso el suicidio. Cuando termines de leer ...

Few artists have captured the unsettling beauty of the fusion between flesh and machine as hauntingly as Hans Ruedi Giger. His biomechanical visions, cathedrals of bone and chrome, embryonic nightmares suspended in steel wombs, eroticism bound in cold circuitry, have etched themselves into the collective unconscious. Giger unveiled a world that feels eerily familiar, as if drawn from the depths of a shared ancestral dream or a post-human future already unfolding. Born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1940, Giger studied architecture and industrial design, disciplines that would later inform the ...

Times have certainly changed for Moses Wine since the days of his first case in 'The Big Fix'—he's gone from cheap detective to respected private investigators in just twenty-five years. Add in a beautiful girlfriend and a lucrative business with a roster of corporate clients, and he should be feeling on top of the world. But he's not. In fact, he feels as though he's lost touch with his roots, now 'living the kind or bourgeois live I once reviled, 'as he notes. Moses Wine of the sixties has been pushed aside by the lure of vacations at Lake Tahoe, expensive meals, and unlimited access to...

La storia è stata accuratamente concepita per fornire ai genitori e agli educatori uno strumento importante per aiutarli a trasmettere valori ai loro figli. Questo avviene combinando storie e informazioni sugli abitanti che vivono su diverse isole, ognuna con la propria cultura unica. Si noti che definiamo la cultura semplicemente come valori condivisi. La storia racconta le avventure di tre bambini preadolescenti, membri della stessa famiglia, che si uniscono a un drone magico chiamato AYÉ per un breve tour su 4 isole diverse, ognuna unica dal punto di vista culturale. Le isole sono ...

The story has been carefully crafted to provide parents and educators with an important tool to help them instill values in their children. It is done by combining stories and information about inhabitants living on different islands, each with their own unique culture. Keep in mind that we define culture simply as shared values. The story is about three pre-teen children, members of the same family, who join a magical drone called AYÉ on a short tour to 4 different islands, each of which is unique in terms of its culture. The actual islands were carefully selected; some are unknown to ...

L’histoire a été soigneusement conçue pour fournir aux parents et aux éducateurs un outil important pour les aider à inculquer des valeurs à leurs enfants. Cela se fait en combinant des histoires et des informations sur les habitants vivant sur différentes îles, chacune ayant sa propre culture unique. Notez que nous définissons la culture simplement comme des valeurs partagées. L’histoire raconte l’histoire de trois enfants préadolescents, membres d’une même famille, qui rejoignent un drone magique appelé AYÉ pour un court tour sur 4 îles différentes, chacune étant ...

Coaching by Values © is an amazing book endorsed by some of the foremost celebrated global coaches. It was written for coaches, managers, educators and any concerned parent or professional. The book includes a chapter with an overview of coaching. But primarily, this book is about values; it is about life values, work values, community values, world values and all the values that power our lives and our organizations. It is also about value alignment. Throughout the chapters, a distinct framework, methodology and tools for conducting a value audit, re-engineering and alignment is provided....