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Set against the backdrop of a crime-ridden town, the narrative explores the life of Sal, who navigates his upbringing shaped by organized crime and his father's involvement in it. His experiences are juxtaposed with the influence of '80s sitcoms and movies, creating a unique lens through which he views his world. This blend of reality and pop culture shapes Sal's identity and understanding of life, highlighting the complexities of growing up in such an environment.

The collection delves into the essence of humanity, offering poignant reflections on self-acceptance, personal experiences, and emotional landscapes. Through its verses, it invites readers to confront their nature and engage with the world, fostering a deeper understanding of both themselves and their surroundings.

A warmhearted story of a family seeking direction, Crumbs from Heaven follows the reminiscing of J.D. Harrison and his family when they visit his childhood home in a small southern town. Humor fills every moment of Crumbs from Heaven as J.D.'s family remember shared moments of happiness and sadness while facing an uncertain future.

Emphasizing the transformative effects of positive play, this book explores how engaging in playful activities can enhance both mental and physical well-being. It provides insights and practical strategies for incorporating play into daily life, fostering a sense of joy and connection. Readers will discover the benefits of play in reducing stress, improving relationships, and boosting creativity, ultimately leading to a healthier, happier lifestyle.

Exploring the transformative effects of positive play, this book emphasizes its role in enhancing both health and happiness. It offers practical strategies and insights to incorporate playful activities into daily life, highlighting how such engagement can improve mental well-being and foster social connections. Readers will discover the benefits of play as a powerful tool for stress relief and personal growth, encouraging a more joyful and fulfilling lifestyle.

The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout. It's amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers and tuna sandwiches. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children and damaged our health. To expose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon and other pollutants. The ease with which ordinary activities caused dangerous levels to build in their bodies was a wake-up call, and readers all over the world responded. But did government regulators and corporations? Ten years later, there is good news. But not much. Concise, shocking, practical and hopeful, this new combined edition of one of the most important books ever published about green living will put the nasty stuff back where it belongs: on the national agenda and out of our bodies.

Conscious Classroom Management II makes visible the invisible elements of effective classroom management and provides teachers, regardless of grade, experience or student population, with effective tools to start improving tomorrow. This fully updated edition is even more powerful, more practical and more user-friendly than the original, with more step-by-step help for new teachers and more support for administrators, professors and teacher leaders.

Pollution is not only an abstract, distant problem seen in belching smokestacks and contaminated waterways; it’s also personal. Some of the most dangerous pollutants come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces—shampoos and toothpastes, carpets and children’s toys. To prove this point, leading environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie conducted their own research by ingesting and inhaling a host of things that are part of our everyday lives. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. This book—the testimony of their experience—exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives.

Jak zásadně zlepšit svůj život pomocí tří jednoduchých změn Autor zažil neobyčejné věci: dlouho žil neuspokojivě, pak během osmnácti měsíců napsal knihu, která se stala bestsellerem, založil firmu, díky níž přišel do úzkého kontaktu s předními osobnostmi, a vydělal peníze, o jakých se mu ani nesnilo. Ptal se, proč právě jemu se podařilo změnit nudný život v mimořádný úspěch, a rozhodl se pátrat, co spojuje ony mimořádné „obyčejné“ lidi, osobnosti, které dosáhly úspěchu, aniž by byly obdařeny nějakým oslňujícím nadáním. Proč právě jejich kariéry nabraly jiný směr, a co se my – kteří se stále pachtíme v průměru – můžeme od nich naučit? Kniha je výsledkem pěti let intenzivní práce, kdy autor zpovídal úspěšné lidi, ochotné mu své příběhy vyprávět. Kniha obsahuje praktické rady, jak se můžeme i my bezpečně připravit na svůj vlastní skok k výšinám.