How can you become the best team coach you can be? Written by highly experienced and award-winning authors and speakers, this book will help to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional team coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for team coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is both well informed by evidenced...

This new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your ...

**WINNER OF THE 2026 EISNER AWARD - BEST REALITY-BASED WORK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR • From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force"Passmore raises the scale from the personal to the historical . . . with his characteristic acerbic wit and impetuous visual style."—NPR**It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re not out in the stree...

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilli...

A bubbly, outgoing young woman spirals out of control in a habitual cycle of addiction and alcoholism, indulging in immoral and criminal behaviors. Amy Wickes-Passmore pays a hefty price: a six month prison sentence that continues for almost 4 years, at times alongside of inmates serving life sentences. She is overwhelmed with the loss of her kids to the system as she tries to make sense of her situation while battling her newly diagnosed Bipolar I diagnosis.  Amy’s ...

COACHING PRACTICEDExplore the foundations of evidence-based approaches to coachingA collection of the best papers over the last 15 years from the journal The Coaching Psychologist.In Coaching Practiced: Coaching Psychology Tools, Techniques, and Evidence-Based Approaches for Coaches, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful and complete handbook for practicing coaches. From wellbeing to the workpl...

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy ...

Top Business Psychology Models is a quick, accessible overview to the fundamental theories and frameworks that will help you understand human behaviour, emotions and cognition at work. Each model is presented in a short and crisply written summary, which could be easily converted into materials for use in training or in coaching conversations. Clear, succinct and well-referenced chapters also offer routes into accessing further information. Free of academic jargon...

For parents who find themselves faced with an endless spiral of conflict, poor behaviour and ineffective discipline, this is the evidence-based parenting program they need. It first focuses on developing a strong relationship between parent and child, before moving on to effective discipline. The principles can be used in each of the child’s environments (at home, at school, with grandparents, etc.), and it also works with children who have been diagnosed with behavioural disorders.

The book "The Old Testament: Poems of Hope and Warning" are poems written from various perspectives in a layered message style. The divine treasure of the Old Testament was given to us to use by those earthly vessels seeking God in the eternities. Is God still talking to us? Genetically we have remained unchanged for thousand of years. We think the same, communicate the same, and have the same basic dreams and ambitions we have always had since recorded history began. Though the Old Testam...

The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a discipline and the major theoretical developments that have informed historical writing. Instead of focusing on theory, this book offers succinct explanations of key concepts that illuminate the study of history and practical writing, and ...

A comprehensive review of the practice and most recent research on coachingCoaching Researched: Using Coaching Psychology to Inform Your Research and Practice brings together in one authoritative volume a collection to the most noteworthy papers from the past 15 years from the journal International Coaching Psychology Review. Firmly grounded in evidence-based practice, the writings are appropriate for the burgeoning number of coaching researchers ...