The Positively New York Puzzle Book

The Positively New York Puzzle Book
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 063508774X

Each Puzzle Book helps kids build higher order thinking skills and helps with deductive reasoning with these fun puzzles. Each Puzzle Book has a wide range of reproducible activities including logic, acrostics, word boxes, rebus, hidden pictures, crosswords, matching, word search, mazes and many more creative puzzles that will entice any child to learn more about YOUR state. Puzzles touch on history, geography, people, places, symbols, animals, and more!

How to Conquer the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

How to Conquer the New York Times Crossword Puzzle
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007-07-10
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780312365547

The New York Times is the gold standard of crossword puzzles. Drawing from the top puzzle constructors in the nation, the Times puzzles are considered the cleverest, most engaging and at times, trickiest puzzles of all. This guide will help puzzlers of all skill levels improve and enjoy the New York Times crossword. Along with helpful discussions and hints, every puzzle in How to Conquer the New York Times Crossword Puzzle is annotated with solving tips and insight from veteran constructors and solver to help you master the nation's #1 puzzle! This volume includes: *60 Times puzzles from easy Monday to devilish Saturday and giant Sunday, each with helpful tips and clues *Lists of most common crossword words, clues, and ways constructors try to trick you*Step-by-step solving instructions provide readers with instruction on how to tackle puzzles of every difficulty level*How to construct a puzzle: A chapter offers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making a great crossword *Introduction from puzzle great Will Shortz, crossword editor for The New York Times

The New York Times Will Shortz Picks His Favorite Puzzles

The New York Times Will Shortz Picks His Favorite Puzzles
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780312645502

For the first time ever, Will Shortz personally selects 75 of his favorite puzzles from his tenure as editor of The New York Times crossword puzzles. Special commentary will appear along with each puzzle and give clever insight into the puzzle-solving world that Will Shortz dominates. Getting to know the background on these puzzles will add a new dimension for the growing number of crossword buffs. Also included is a special introduction written by Shortz that explains why these puzzles qualify as his favorites among the thousands of puzzles he has edited in his career. Since Will Shortz has become crossword editor of the Times, the puzzles have featured increased wordplay, and a hip, contemporary attitude towards crosswording.

Bright-sided

Bright-sided
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0805087494

Exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which the author believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster.

Approaches To Emotion

Approaches To Emotion
Author: Klaus R. Scherer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317757637

This sourcebook is intended as a reader in the fullest sense of that word: a work that offers researchers and students alike the opportunity to examine the many different aspects and widely divergent approaches to the study of emotion. The contributors include samples of biological, ontogenetic, ethological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches.

Digest

Digest
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 924
Release: 1903
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology
Author: William C. Compton
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2019-01-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1544322933

Topically organized, Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing presents a highly engaging, up-to-date introduction to positive psychology. Authors William C. Compton and Edward Hoffman invite students to apply practices to their own lives, contexts, and experiences to ensure understanding. The text examines how positive psychology applies to stressors and health within such traditional research areas as developmental, clinical, personality, motivational, social, and behavioral psychology. Furthermore, the text offers perspectives on positive emotional states, research and theory on positive traits, coverage of positive institutions, and a look at the future of positive psychology. The Third Edition reflects significant growth in field with hundreds of new references and expanded content on topics including mindfulness, money and subjective well-being, and romantic love.

Coaching and Mentoring for Work-Life Balance

Coaching and Mentoring for Work-Life Balance
Author: Julie Haddock-Millar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000145042

The coaching and mentoring profession is facing a major challenge – helping clients cope effectively with life’s complexities and conflicting demands in a rapidly changing environment. Conversations around work-life balance need to address not only the interconnectedness of work, leisure, home, and social life but also the fact that these elements are in flux and require continuous rebalancing. This book is a practical and evidence-based resource to help coaches and mentors in supporting clients to achieve greater work-life balance. Written by an experienced academic-practitioner team, this book provides coaches and mentors with a way of addressing work-life tensions with their clients. It is grounded in research and practice and offers a wide range of tools and techniques which are supported with real-life case studies illustrating how they can be employed. On top of this, readers are also supported with reflective questions to enhance understanding and a series of downloadable worksheets for practical use. Coaching and Mentoring for Work-Life Balance is essential reading for professional coaches and mentors who are helping their clients to develop personal resilience and will also be a valuable resource for students in postgraduate coaching and mentoring courses. The authors present some of the latest thinking on this topic, underpinned by their own research and model for work-life balance, making the book indispensable to all those engaged in leadership, coaching, mentoring, and supervision.

Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law

Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law
Author: Mark Tushnet
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786437198

Mark Tushnet excels in updating the Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law. In this second edition Tushnet includes new material based on developments in practice and scholarship since the original edition’s publication back in 2014. Topics which are given substantial additional attention include abusive constitutionalism, the idea of the constituent power, eternity clauses and unconstitutional amendments, recent developments in weak- and strong-form constitutional review, and expanded consideration of third generation rights. This title will appeal to those who fell in love with the first edition and those who are interested in learning more about Comparative Constitutional Law.