Readers will learn the importance of showing kindness and helping others in Winning By Giving. This title includes full-color photographs, vocabulary, comprehension and extension activities, and more to enhance readers' comprehension and application skills. The Social Skills series helps young readers learn how to handle the many different situations they'll face as they grow. Each 24-page book features real-world examples, tips, and more to help teach everything from respect and teamwork to internet safety and beyond.

Everyone needs help sometimes. Helping others is called philanthropy. You can give time, work, or money to someone who needs it. Small acts of kindness add up to big results. Good citizens help each other. This title will allow students to refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Think Again and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Life is naturally tough-so stop looking for problems. Instead, look for solutions to bring quality and purpose to your life. All his life, Chuck Schmandt heard people tell him, "No, it can't be done." He grew up poor with two parents who were deaf. It seemed like his road forward wouldn't be easy. But he realized that all those people were really saying was it couldn't be done their way. Schmandt took their nos and found his way. Winners in Life Don't Always Win-They Just Don't Give Up: Reflections of a Pro Baseball Player Turned Architect and Developer is about his unique experience-in life and in work-but readers can take lessons for their own lives from it. Following Schmandt's example, be a student of your own life. By changing your perception of success, you too will find it.

Popular author and conference speaker Thelma Wells inspires readers to fight the good fight of faith and win the raging wars that they battle each day as the enemy tries to steal their joy, kill their hopes and dreams, and destroy their lives. In her personable and enthusiastic style, Wells helps readers understand: what spiritual warfare is why they fight who they are fighting how to dress for the war how to win the war who ultimately is in control of the fight "Don't Give In--God Wants You to Win!" will cause readers to understand that the battles they fight are really not theirs. Those battles belong to the God of "Peace, be still," who will give them the strategies and courage they need to resist Satan's tricks. Wells writes for anyone fighting battles over family, relationships, finances, health, broken dreams, disappointments, and just the dailyness of life that can cause so much distress and hurt. Through instruction from God's Word and stories of modern-day as well as biblical people, Wells shows how to relinquish those troubles to the only Person who can guarantee winning strategies for life.

You were created to win. You are built to last. Designed for Greatness. Crafted in love. Made by love to love for love. Crafted with creativity. Rooted in genius. You are a winner and a true worshipper by Goda??s Design. Lead. LAUGH. LIVE. GIVE. LOVE. BELIEVE. Reach for the impossible. Turn impossibilities into fresh possibilities. Dream Big. Reach high. Have Faith. Take Courage. Work smart. Work hard. Recognize your worth. Your best days are ahead of you. Today is your day. This is your time. This is your turn. Be your very best. Live your best. Accept Responsibility For Your Now and Soar Higher in your tomorrow. Go Further. Grow Stronger. Think Smarter. Wear Wisdom. Speak Life. Go Harder. WIN DAILY. Be Better.

In a world where we need encouragement, salvation, faith, hope, and love, this book serves as a springboard to all of those things—and to success. Manassé A. Dorival challenges you to never give up toward fulfilling your God-given purpose. By writing this book, he seeks to provide a wake-up call for those who want to win but have thought it’s impossible. Get answers to questions such as: • How can you devise a strategy that leads to success? • Who is God and what does He stand for? • Who is Satan and what does he stand for? • Do God and Satan have anything in common? The author highlights individuals from the Bible who drew on their faith to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges. By focusing on people who did not give up, he reveals transformative principles and strategies that you can put into action to achieve your goals. Prepare yourself for victory by leaning on your Lord and Savior and applying the lessons in You Will Win If You Don’t Give Up.

During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists’ undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most extensive study ever done on the topic, these promises ring hollow—not because politicians fail to keep them but because lobbies are far less influential than political rhetoric suggests. Based on a comprehensive examination of ninety-eight issues, this volume demonstrates that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying. Why? The authors find that resources explain less than five percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessful efforts. Moreover, they show, these attempts must overcome an entrenched Washington system with a tremendous bias in favor of the status quo. Though elected officials and existing policies carry more weight, lobbies have an impact too, and when advocates for a given issue finally succeed, policy tends to change significantly. The authors argue, however, that the lobbying community so strongly reflects elite interests that it will not fundamentally alter the balance of power unless its makeup shifts dramatically in favor of average Americans’ concerns.