Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Geminis is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Gemini (May 21 - June 20). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Cancerians is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Cancer (June 21 - July 22). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Leos is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Leo (July 23 - August 22). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Mantras and Affirmations Coloring Book for Virgos is one in a series of adult coloring books with a purpose. Adults all over the world are rediscovering the joy of coloring and the calming, centering effect it can have. This book combines that calm with specific phrases chosen to focus the mind. This edition is created specifically for those born under the zodiac sign of Virgo (August 23 - September 22). Each of the 30 coloring pages is a visually rendered phrase intended to motivate, encourage, and challenge you as you color.
Bridget Brennan, CEO of Female Factor, shows readers how to beat competitors and grow overall market share by applying the fundamentals of creating a customer experience that appeals to the most powerful consumer decision makers: women.When people think about the world’s growth markets, they often envision countries like China and India. Yet they miss the largest one right here at home: women. With women driving 70 to 80 percent of consumer purchasing, it would seem an obvious strategy to learn how best to appeal to this continually expanding market. Common sense? Yes. Common practice? No.In Winning Her Business, Bridget Brennan, advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands and businesses, provides a roadmap for selling in a world dominated by the rise of women’s economic power. She points out how classic sales practices that focused on simply offering product knowledge are no longer enough in today’s Google-informed world. Instead, savvy business people must adapt by learning how to deliver transformational customer experiences that speak to women, and by developing stronger interpersonal skills, value-added knowledge, and emotional-engagement techniques that inspire sales, referrals, and repeat business.Bolstered by a dozen years of research, Brennan offers invaluable insight into women as consumers and shows readers how, at the end of the day, mastering an inclusive customer experience is something everyone appreciates.
Bridget Brennan, CEO of Female Factor, shows readers how to beat competitors and grow overall market share by applying the fundamentals of creating a customer experience that appeals to the most powerful consumer decision makers: women.
This handbook offers a way in to reading Anthony and Cleopatra theatrically. Through analyses of key productions, an account of the historical conditions in which the play was first produced, and a scene-by-scene account of how the play might be approached in performance, this book focuses on the challenges of staging the notorious lovers.
Fall in love with this perfect summer read that will sweep you away . . .'Shimmering with sun-soaked magic' Ashley Herring Blake, author of DELILAH GREEN DOESN'T CARE__________When Garland Moore's husband gifts her divorce papers on Valentine's Day, it feels like she'll never find love again. So when some friends invite her to their camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the summer, she jumps at the chance to escape.Garland can't believe it when, at Camp, she runs into Mason - a gorgeous man she met briefly years ago. But when she's given a bedroom with his sister Stevie, it's the beautiful outdoorswoman - not her brother - who unexpectedly makes her swoon.The more time she spends with Stevie, the more it seems that love might be coming back into Garland's life in ways she'd never have predicted.Summer camp doesn't last forever. But Garland's second chance just might . . .
Mercy needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle.Eleven-year-old Mercy lives with her eccentric foster aunts – two elderly sisters so poor they can afford only one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eyeing their house, which suddenly starts falling apart – just as Aunt Flora does, too. She’s forgetting words, names and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school but when a classmate frames her for stealing the school’s raffle money, Mercy’s teachers decide to take a closer look at her home life. With the help of a neighbour, Mr Singh, who teaches Mercy about Gandhi and his principles of passive resistance, Mercy finds a tool that can help solve her problems. But first, like Gandhi, she needs to stand up for herself. She also needs a miracle. And to summon it she has to find her voice and tell the truth – and that truth is neither pure nor simple. A book that already feels like a classic, Small Mercies holds a strong message for children today. Full of heart, it will shine among the best children's literature for years to come.
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. This open access book argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. It is about moments in the theatre when excessive emotion is rewarded and applauded — and about moments when the expression of emotion is in excess of what is socially acceptable: embarrassing, shameful, unsettling or insane. The book explores the broader cultures of emotion that produce these theatrical moments, and the theatre's role in regulating and extending the acceptable expression of emotion. It is concerned with the acting of excessive emotion and with acting emotion excessively. And it asks how these excesses are produced or erased, give pleasure or pain, in versions of early modern drama in theatre, film and television today.Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us. The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. It is about moments in the theatre when excessive emotion is rewarded and applauded — and about moments when the expression of emotion is in excess of what is socially acceptable: embarrassing, shameful, unsettling or insane. The book explores the broader cultures of emotion that produce these theatrical moments, and the theatre's role in regulating and extending the acceptable expression of emotion. It is concerned with the acting of excessive emotion and with acting emotion excessively. And it asks how these excesses are produced or erased, give pleasure or pain, in versions of early modern drama in theatre, film and television today. Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus.
Bridget Collins; Imogen Hermes Gowar; Natasha Pulley; Jess Kidd; Andrew Michael Hurley; Elizabeth Macneal; Laura Purcell; Kiran Millwood Hargrave; Stuart Turton; Catriona Ward; Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Susan Stokes-Chapman
FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES. 'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins, author of The BindingImogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs HancockKiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The MerciesAndrew Michael Hurley, author of The LoneyJess Kidd, author of Things in JarsNatasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetElizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactoryLaura Purcell, author of The Silent CompanionsSusan Stokes-Chapman, author of PandoraLaura Shepherd-Robinson, author of The Square of SevensStuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless StreetThe tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. These twelve stories - authored by some of today's most loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction - are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark secret,, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion for frosty nights. So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past . . . 'I absolutely devoured The Winter Spirits. Every story is a gem' LAURA SHEPPERSON'Another dazzling collection. Chilling, moving and incredibly satisfying' AMANDA MASON'Eerily macabre, hauntingly propulsive' JOANNE BURN
Bridget Collins; Imogen Hermes Gowar; Natasha Pulley; Jess Kidd; Andrew Michael Hurley; Elizabeth Macneal; Laura Purcell; Kiran Millwood Hargrave; Stuart Turton; Catriona Ward; Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Susan Stokes-Chapman
THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Chapman Laura Shepherd-Robinson Stuart Turton Catriona Ward The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. These twelve stories - authored by some of today's most loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction - are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark secret,, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion for frosty nights.So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past . . .
Bridget Collins; Imogen Hermes Gowar; Natasha Pulley; Jess Kidd; Andrew Michael Hurley; Elizabeth Macneal; Kiran Millwood Hargrave; Stuart Turton; Catriona Ward; Laura Shepherd-Robinson; Susan Stokes-Chapman; Stacey Halls; Michelle Paver
FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALESFeaturing new and original stories from:Michelle PaverStacey HallsBridget CollinsImogen Hermes GowarKiran Millwood HargraveAndrew Michael HurleyJess KiddNatasha PulleyElizabeth MacnealSusan Stokes-ChapmanLaura Shepherd-RobinsonStuart TurtonCatriona Ward_________There is something peculiar about the hour after midnight.It is the time when darkness reigns.And strange things roam the earth.In this dazzling collection of original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling and much-loved authors bring the old superstition of the witching hour to new and vivid life.Transporting you from the smog of London to the freezing mists of Svalbard, from an Irish town riddled with rumour to a sinister English boarding school, these thirteen stories will serve as your spinetingling companion to the long hours of winter.So curl up, light a candle, and wait for the clock to strike . . .
Bridget Brennan, CEO de Female Factor, la firma de consultoría más importante del mundo en marketing y ventas para mujeres, presenta los fundamentos para crear una experiencia de consumo centrada en el ser humano que ayude a las empresas a destacarse y hacer que la gente quiera entregarles su negocio.La primera pregunta que le hacen los vendedores a Bridget Brennan, CEO de Female Factor, es siempre la misma: «¿Cómo puedo sobrevivir cuando los clientes tienen tantas opciones respecto de dónde comprar mi producto?». Si bien hay muchas estrategias para crecer en ventas, la que ella visualiza es la que muchos vendedores pasar por alto, o sea, la más obvia: hacer que la experiencia del cliente sea tan grande que quieran invertir su tiempo y dinero con usted. Dado que las mujeres manejan entre el 70% y el 80% del presupuesto de consumo familiar y le otorgan un valor tan alto a la experiencia del servicio, esto parece no tener demasiada ciencia. ¿Sentido común? Sí. ¿Práctica común? No. En esta era tecnológica que se acelera vertiginosamente, hay una necesidad urgente de un nuevo modelo de ventas dirigido a la consumidora que empuña hábilmente su smartphone, instruida en Google, amante de las marcas, y que a menudo conoce más sobre los productos que desea adquirir que el mismo vendedor que se para frente a ella.En este nuevo libro, Brennan brinda a los profesionales de ventas una guía para dominar las habilidades necesarias para la comercialización en el siglo XXI. X
