What does it mean to make good choices? Best friends, Stanky, the jeep, and Cece the dog, soon discover that each adventures holds the opportunity to make the right decision and take responsibility for their actions.In "Stanky & Cece: Break the Rules," the friends head out for an adventure, and one bad decision lands them into trouble--creating havoc for a family of rabbits. Ultimately, Stanky & Cece learn a valuable lesson about making good choices, apologizing for their mistakes, and taking responsibility to fix what they destroyed.Adventures can be fun and safe--when we follow the rules--and make the right decisions.Co-authors Chad Hanstedt and Kathy Sparrow team with Illustrators James Koenig and Jacob Gray to share the adventures and valuable lessons of Stanky & Cece in this, the first of a series. "Stanky & Cece: Break the Rules" is a wonderful way to introduce kids ages 3-8 to new adventures in exploring nature, being responsible for their actions, and making amends. This engaging book:* encourages children to look for opportunities to make the right choices* affirms that everyone makes mistakes* teaches children that mistakes can be forgiven* appeals to kids' enjoyment of animals, trucks, and nature* can be read aloud for story time or enjoyed as an independent read

In this book, eleven of Jack Canfield's prestigious Success Principles Trainers share proven tools to ignite your leadership. They reveal how to energize your teams, influence real change, and create better results faster.

American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

When we become acutely aware of the surroundings of our life, we discover that art is not only found in museums, but it also appears in food, music, nature, and so much more. Beyond what the eye can see, this book is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of a seasoned designer, depicting how art and design flood our everyday lives through music, food, nature, and so much more.Laura Ballerini, a designer who started much of her creative journey at a big city newspaper and now owns her own digital design boutique, seamlessly weaves together an unlikely array of stories about her inspiring mother, museum visits, online shopping, designing in the dirt, and many other adventures (including a visit to Graceland). Some of these essays are funny, some poignant--all are memorable snippets of universal experiences meant to spark our awareness and awaken us to the rich fields of design all around us.While this is Ballerini's personal journey spanning over forty years of working in the design industry, those of us who are willing to be awakened will realize that art and design are the glue that hold all of life together.

The Passionate Life: Creating Vitality and Joy at Every Age is a guide for all who want to live a more vital, joyful life! After all, Passion, Joy, and Vitality are not just for the young! They are meant for the young at heart no matter what our age. In The Passionate Life: Creating Vitality and Joy at Any Age, with the Foreword by The Barefoot Doctor, Dr. Mara interweaves her twenty-six plus years of expertise as a psychologist, her own personal experience, and the wisdom of today

Ali Stephenson has it all--a secure position at Southern Style Magazine where she's risen to the ranks of managing editor, and all the trappings that a six-figure salary makes possible. She has good friends, practices yoga daily, and takes long strolls on the beach near her home on the Chesapeake Bay. Yet, little does she know, she's about to be set-up to take over Joe Driscoll's role as publisher. Before that occurs, however, Joe sends Ali on assignment to write about fly fishing on the Lower Laguna Madre in deep South Texas. There, Ali is forced to face a past that she has been diligently keeping at bay. Like many women, Ali has a history of choosing unavailable men, stemming from childhood wounding by an abusive father who murdered her mother, leaving her to be raised by her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains. However, all of that changes when the feisty lodge owner, Mama Kate, who has a deep devotion to the divine feminine, challenges Ali to face her demons and embrace her inner wisdom. The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout is best described as the feminine version of A River Runs Through It, combining nature, spirituality, and the complexity of navigating human relationships. While it is a woman's coming of age novel, men connect with the prominent male characters, especially Captain Jack Cooper, Ali's fly-fishing guide, and Gus Gammons, Mama Kate's faithful companion, whose complicated relationship with Kate mirrors Ali's resistance to trust her.

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