We Love The Company


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Let's go to the table and all take a seat for this wonderful review of what to do and what not to do while dining. Join a diverse group of young children as they enjoy each other's company and explain table manners from their point-of-view. Illustrated in a colorful watercolor and batik style, this book engages children with relatable characters, lyrical prose, and healthy food imagery showcased in the borders. Easily enhance the literary experience by purchasing the downloadable companion song. This version of the book is printed-on-demand by Amazon and does not come with a physical music CD. Please notify the author (AbridgeClub.com) if you receive a book that is is not up to your expectations. ----------------- According to the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, and a voluminous body of research, the best strategy for improving a child's diet is simply putting food on the table and sitting down to dine together. "We Love the Company" emphasizes this strategy. This is an excellent teaching tool for educators, parents, and caregivers to promote the importance of using proper table manners, most of which can be transferred inside or outside of the home, and into the classroom. We don't reach over people to get what we need no matter what we are doing. We don't hog all of the strawberries or crayons. We offer to clean up when we are finished with an activity. Find a complete list of table manners and a coloring page on the publisher's site. -------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: Angela Russ-Ayon is an award-winning recording artist who specializes in creative activities and integrating music and movement to improve academic readiness skills and motor development. She has produced early childhood music for projects funded by WIC, Head Start, First 5, and Kaiser. Her music titles are featured in the national "I am Moving. I am Learning." (IMIL) Head Start Active Children campaign, designed to prevent childhood obesity. To learn more about Angela Russ-Ayon, her music, and books visit www.abridgeclub.com.Irina Mirskaya's artwork is inspired by memories of her childhood in Russia and the colorful world of folktales. She is also a creative designer of textiles, greeting cards, hand-made jewelry, and puppets. To discover more about Irina Mirskaya's unique style visit: www.imillustration.com ---------------- Music produced by Russ InVision Records, 32-pages, Ages 4-8. Other titles from this publisher: - Fruits and Veggies Making Faces, ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-3-6- We Eat Food That's Fresh, ISBN-13: 978-0998709000.- Comemos Comida Fresca, ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-7-4- Fruits and Veggies Row by Row: Children in the Garden, ISBN: 978-0-9987090-3-1- When You Find COLORS and SHAPES (Interactive), ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-6-7- Cuando Encuentres los COLORES y las FORMAS, ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-8-1- Quand Vous Trouvez les COULEURS et les FORMES, ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-0-5- Chalk It Up! 180+ Guide to Outdoor Chalk Activities, ISBN 13: 978-0-9799612-9-8- How to Self-Publish a Children's Picture Book, ISBN-13: 978-0-9987090-4-8 ----- Related terms and phrases: table etiquette, dining etiquette, dinner together, Thanksgiving, breaking bread together, dining together, eating with friends, table manners, preschool manners, sharing food, sharing company, table setting, setting a table, dinner party, holiday dinner, healthy choices.




Work Won't Love You Back


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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.




Love Your Church


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How to grow in love for your church. God calls us to be "devoted to one another in love" (Romans 12:10). What does this look like for us today? How can we be the kind of church member who makes a real difference? This engaging book by Tony Merida explores what church is, why being part of it is exciting, and why it’s worthy of our love and commitment. He sets out eight privileges and responsibilities of a church member: to belong, to welcome, to gather, to care, to serve, to honour, to witness and to send. As we see how wonderful it is to belong to God’s family and be a part of his amazing witness to both the earthly and the heavenly realms, we’ll grow in our love for and commitment to our local church. This is a great book for every churchgoer to read, whether they’re new or have been attending for some time but need re-energising with God’s vision for the local church. With a discussion guide at the end of the book, Love Your Church is also a great resource for small groups.




Love and Work


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A Wall Street Journal bestseller World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love—what engages us and makes us thrive—and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you'll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team. Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews. Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you. Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you. Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives—our work, teams, and classrooms. It's time we brought love back in. Love and Work shows you how.




Why We Love


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A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.




Love Company


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Beretning om et amerikansk kompagni, "Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division", under angrebene på de japanske øe, Leyte og Okinava, under 2. Verdenskrig. Forfatteren gjorde selv kampene med, først som menig senere som sergent og var den ene ud af 7 overlevne fra det oprindelige kompagni.




Do You Matter?


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“Definitely, a game changer! Design experience is the power shift to our era what mass marketing was to the last century.” John Sculley former CEO, Pepsi and Apple “Great design is about creating a deep relationship with your customers. If you don’t, you’re roadkill. This book shows you how and much, much more. Be prepared to have your mind blown.” Bill Burnett Executive Director, Design Program, Stanford University “Design is the last great differentiator, and yet so few really understand it. Do You Matter? offers a marvelous series of direct, in-your-face observations and drives home the means to an absolutely integrated design strategy.” Ray Riley Design GM, Entertainment and Devices, Microsoft “This book will challenge you to ask and answer what arguably are the most important questions an executive can ponder today. So open up.” Noah Kerner CEO, Noise and coauthor, Chasing Cool More and more companies are coming to understand the competitive advantage offered by outstanding design. With this, you can create products, services, and experiences that truly matter to your customers' lives and thereby drive powerful, sustainable improvements in business performance. But delivering great designs is not easy. Many companies accomplish it once, or twice; few do it consistently. The secret: building a truly design-driven business, in which design is central to everything you do. Do You Matter? shows how to do precisely that. Legendary industrial designer Robert Brunner (who laid the groundwork for Apple's brilliant design language) and Stewart Emery (Success Built to Last) begin by making an incontrovertible case for the power of design in making emotional connections, deepening relationships, and strengthening brands. You'll learn what it really means to be "design-driven" and how that translates into action at Nike, Apple, BMW and IKEA. You'll learn design-driven techniques for managing your entire experience chain; define effective design strategies and languages; and learn how to manage design from the top, encouraging "risky" design innovations that lead to entirely new markets. The authors show how (and how not) to use research; how to extend design values into marketing, manufacturing, and beyond; and how to keep building on your progress, truly "baking" design into all your processes and culture.




For the Love of White


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Create calming, peaceful spaces in your home with white and neutral tones with the first home decorating book from The White Company, published as this much-loved brand celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. “The thing about white is that it goes with everything, it is a canvas for life, whoever you are and whatever your tastes. You just can’t beat it.”—Chrissie Rucker Whether you live in a tiny city apartment, a rambling country cottage or an elegant town house For the Love of White offers the definitive book on decorating with white and neutral ones. From room schemes for light, bright family kitchens and calming bedrooms to the all-important finishing touches—this is a book to be inspired by again and again. Illustrated with specially commissioned photography by leading interiors photographer, Chris Everard and organized into three sections—Country, Town and Coastal—the book provides both the advice and the inspiration needed to transform your home.




Big Business


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An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen. We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.




Joy, Inc.


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“A guidebook for how leaders can motivate, engage, and recognize their people all the while growing the business profitably.” —Forbes.com Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture. CEO Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal, he and his team changed everything about how the company was run. The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine “audacious small company.” Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Menlo created its culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results.