World Heritage Authentic Stories comprises four stories: In Soccer Sam, Sam finds difficulty in trying to entertain his cousin Marco from Mexico due to the latter’s in ability to communicate in English. However, when the fourth graders challenge the fifth graders in soccer, Sam was impressed by Marco’s skill and energy! But who turns out to be the winner? In Field Day, Rosie and Sally are not on good terms while their teams are competing. Rosie is on the team with red jerseys, and Sally is on the team with yellow ones. With every game the two teams played, scores go up and down until the two teams play the water balloon game and finally the race. Who do you think the winner is? Will the two girls be friends again or not? In The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea Julian’s father makes a wonderful pudding for his wife who is out shopping and decides to take a nap. He asks his two kids stay away from the pudding and not to touch it! However, he wakes up after a while to find out that his two sons have tampered with the pudding and spoiled it! What do you think the punishment they will receive? Sun and Moon presents an interesting dialogue between Earth and the Sun in which the latter complains that the wind, the rainbow, and even children are not good enough to be his friends. The Moon, in its turn, suffers from loneliness, too and refuses to regard the stars, the comets and the children as his friends. Earth finally solves the problem, but how?

Authentic relating is a groundbreaking relational practice that creates profoundly enriching, enlivening, trustable, and vulnerable relationships in all social domains of life. It works at home and in business, among friends and colleagues, and between individuals and in groups by teaching people the practices and principles of skillful relationship and human connection.Authentic relating consists of skills and tools that are potent, versatile, and easy to learn and apply. It combines cutting edge research into the science of relationships with the timeless tenets of ancient wisdom to produce a relational practice that is non-dogmatic, eminently practical, and immediately accessible by a mainstream audience.Ryel Kestano has been at the leading edge of the rapidly expanding movement of authentic relating around the world, and the company he co-founded and still leads - Authentic Relating Training International - is the largest and most well-known of the world's many authentic relating schools and organizations. Ryel has trained thousands of people and dozens of companies in over forty locations on five continents, and is also a co-founder of The Realness Project, an organization dedicated to teaching the skills of authentic relating to inmates.

World Heritage Authentic Stories comprises four stories: In Soccer Sam, Sam finds difficulty in trying to entertain his cousin Marco from Mexico due to the latter’s in ability to communicate in English. However, when the fourth graders challenge the fifth graders in soccer, Sam was impressed by Marco’s skill and energy! But who turns out to be the winner? In Field Day, Rosie and Sally are not on good terms while their teams are competing. Rosie is on the team with red jerseys, and Sally is on the team with yellow ones. With every game the two teams played, scores go up and down until the two teams play the water balloon game and finally the race. Who do you think the winner is? Will the two girls be friends again or not? In The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea Julian’s father makes a wonderful pudding for his wife who is out shopping and decides to take a nap. He asks his two kids stay away from the pudding and not to touch it! However, he wakes up after a while to find out that his two sons have tampered with the pudding and spoiled it! What do you think the punishment they will receive? Sun and Moon presents an interesting dialogue between Earth and the Sun in which the latter complains that the wind, the rainbow, and even children are not good enough to be his friends. The Moon, in its turn, suffers from loneliness, too and refuses to regard the stars, the comets and the children as his friends. Earth finally solves the problem, but how?

World Heritage Authentic Stories comprises four stories: In Soccer Sam, Sam finds difficulty in trying to entertain his cousin Marco from Mexico due to the latter’s in ability to communicate in English. However, when the fourth graders challenge the fifth graders in soccer, Sam was impressed by Marco’s skill and energy! But who turns out to be the winner? In Field Day, Rosie and Sally are not on good terms while their teams are competing. Rosie is on the team with red jerseys, and Sally is on the team with yellow ones. With every game the two teams played, scores go up and down until the two teams play the water balloon game and finally the race. Who do you think the winner is? Will the two girls be friends again or not? In The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea Julian’s father makes a wonderful pudding for his wife who is out shopping and decides to take a nap. He asks his two kids stay away from the pudding and not to touch it! However, he wakes up after a while to find out that his two sons have tampered with the pudding and spoiled it! What do you think the punishment they will receive? Sun and Moon presents an interesting dialogue between Earth and the Sun in which the latter complains that the wind, the rainbow, and even children are not good enough to be his friends. The Moon, in its turn, suffers from loneliness, too and refuses to regard the stars, the comets and the children as his friends. Earth finally solves the problem, but how?

In today’s work environment, the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurred more than ever before. Whatever is happening to us outside of our workplace—whether stressful, painful, or joyful—follows us into work as well. We may think we have to keep these realities under wraps and act as if we “have it all together.” But as Mike Robbins explains, we can work better, lead better, and be more engaged and fulfilled if—instead of trying to hide who we are—we show up fully and authentically. Mike, a sought-after motivational speaker and business consultant, has spent more than 15 years researching, writing, and speaking about essential human experiences and high performance in the workplace. His clients have ranged from Google to Citibank, from the U.S. Department of Labor to the San Francisco Giants. From small start-ups in Silicon Valley to family-owned businesses in the Midwest. From what he’s seen and studied over the years, Mike believes that for us to thrive professionally, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work that we do. Bringing our whole selves to work means acknowledging that we’re all vulnerable, imperfect human beings doing the best we can. It means having the courage to take risks, speak up, have compassion, ask for help, connect with others in a genuine way, and allow ourselves to be truly seen. In this book, Mike outlines five principles we can use to approach our own work in this spirit of openness and humanity, and to help the people we work with feel safe enough to do the same, so that the teams and organizations we’re a part of can truly succeed. “This book will offer you insights, ideas, and tools to inspire you to bring all of who you are to the work that you do—regardless of where you work, what kind of work you do, and with whom you do it. And, if you’re an owner, leader, or just someone who wants to have influence on those around you—this book will also give you specific techniques for how to build or enhance your team’s culture in such a way that encourages others to bring all of who they are to work.”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”

Volume 2 of the Research in Careers series focuses on the search for authenticity in one’s career. Although there has been growing interest in the topic within the popular press, relatively little academic research has been completed on authenticity and careers. Researchers are still refining the concept of authenticity and are just beginning to investigate how it influences the enactment of careers in today’s turbulent career landscape. This volume offers the first organized effort on the topic. This volume contains seven chapters which examine the search for authenticity derived from the Kaleidoscope Career Model (Mainiero & Sullivan, 2006). Chapters 1 and 2 present a review of the literature and an in-depth analysis of the construct of authenticity. Chapter 1 offers a new lens to view career authenticity based on two dimensions of self-awareness and adaptability. Chapter 2 uses two case studies to define how individuals are authentic in their career. Chapters 3 and 4 examine the authenticity of individuals in different career stages, with Chapter 3 examining recent college graduates and Chapter 4 examining mid to late stage careerists. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 focus on the interplay between social interactions and career authenticity. Chapter 5 offers a process model that traces how, through negotiation, a person’s identities shape and are shaped by relationships with others, leading to the enactment of an authentic career. Chapter 6 explores how individuals remain authentic in their career while negotiating the conflicting expectations of multiple interest groups. Chapter 7 examines the complex relationships among career authenticity, political behaviors, and strain.

Organized as a companion volume to Karl Rahner's master work, Foundations of Christian Faith, this book, now again available, also provides the most useful introduction to his theology as a whole. Each chapter presents a broad commentary on the corresponding chapter of Foundations, beginning with Rahner's method and anthropology and concluding with his theology of the church and eschatology. It includes a separate chapter on Rahner's moral thought. Valuable for classroom or individual use, this volume provides questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, and an extensive glossary of specialized terminology.

There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for children and young adults. The rise of multicultural literature is a political rather than a literary movement; it is a movement to claim space in literature and in education for historically marginalized social groups rather than one to renovate the craft of literature itself. Multicultural literature has been closely bound with the cause of multiculturalism in general and thus has been confronted with resistance from conservatives. This book discusses many of the controversial issues surrounding multicultural literature for children and young adults. The volume begins with a look at some of the foundational and theoretical issues related to multicultural literature. The second part of the book addresses issues related to the creation and critique of multicultural literature, including the authorship of such works and the role of the reader in determining whether or not a work is multicultural. The third looks at the place of multicultural literature in the education of children and young adults. Throughout its discussion, the book makes extensive references to a large body of multicultural fiction and provides a thorough review of research on this important topic.