Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows takes a clear, fresh look at the physical world around us and finds it more startling and more heartening than the media would have us believe. It raises many questions and even answers some of them. How can a cat be a portal to the universe? Why did our ancestors make cave paintings? Who is Mr Bun? How do you write a tree? And, above all, what is it that your lowly hedgehog knows?Like the previous volume Do Not Call the Tortoise, Hedgehog offers a quietly revolutionary new/old world-view with the help of poets, biologists, woodlice, trees, John Lennon, cats (of course), a record-breaking vulture and, most of all, an openness to wonder.
We are all pioneers by nature, Of the soil, sea, mind, and soul.Now, if you will, take this journey with me...Fill your lungs, Sweet scent of life, Steady your legs, Winding road ahead, Ready to spring, Fearless of the fall, Spread your wings, Born to soar...You are the salt of the earthAnd the light of the stars-Earth AngelEarth Angel is a poetic journey that invites you to explore the depths of the human spirit, the beauty of nature, and the boundless power of love. Through evocative verses and tender prose, Gareth Massey weaves a tapestry of hope, healing, and self-discovery. This collection speaks to the dreamers, the seekers, and the soul-searchers, offering a space for reflection, solace, and inspiration.Whether you're drawn to the sacred connection between earth and sky, or simply looking for words to soothe a weary heart, Earth Angel will resonate deeply with those who long to find meaning in life's quiet moments. Perfect for fans of spiritual and inspirational poetry, this book is a reminder that we are all connected to something greater than ourselves.
Meet Kai, the friendly fox Kai's feelings run deep, and his magical tail changes colours to show how he is feeling. When Kai dives into his emotions, he learns to understand others, and enjoys a world full of adventure. His feelings are also a helpful way for his body to tell him to respond to something, but sometimes they become so big that they take him by surprise. Join Kai on his journeys and watch as he discovers that his tail is a unique treasure that helps identify and manage his feelings. By getting in touch with how his body feels, he learns to make sense of the world around him and all the emotions that come his way. Kai's adventures are not only fun for kids but also a great way for parents and trusted grown-ups to have meaningful conversations about emotions together. Whether you're a kid, a parent, or a trusted adult, these stories offer an open minded and empathetic resource for understanding and managing emotions.
Meet Kai, the friendly fox Kai's feelings run deep, and his magical tail changes colours to show how he is feeling. When Kai dives into his emotions, he learns to understand others, and enjoys a world full of adventure. His feelings are also a helpful way for his body to tell him to respond to something, but sometimes they become so big that they take him by surprise. Join Kai on his journeys and watch as he discovers that his tail is a unique treasure that helps identify and manage his feelings. By getting in touch with how his body feels, he learns to make sense of the world around him and all the emotions that come his way. Kai's adventures are not only fun for kids but also a great way for parents and trusted grown-ups to have meaningful conversations about emotions together. Whether you're a kid, a parent, or a trusted adult, these stories offer an open minded and empathetic resource for understanding and managing emotions.
And the Leader Is... Gareth Chick's second leadership coaching book, is a critical mentoring guide in business culture, management and organisational behaviour, showing us how to lead effectively with heightened Corporate Emotional Intelligence (CEQ). Drawing on his 40 year experience in every aspect of the Corporate World, from CEO to performance coaching; from manager to trainer, Gareth Chick covers the fundamentals of emotional intelligence coaching to create high performance teams through transformational leadership and authentic change management. In his first book Corporate Emotional Intelligence Gareth provided a compelling analysis of Corporate Psychology; giving us a profound new understanding of how working in the business environment can cause thoroughly decent human beings to behave in unnatural and inhuman ways. The book concluded by outlining the 4 Pillars of Corporate Emotional Intelligence (CEQ), equipping us with personal development strategies to raise our leadership effectiveness. And the Leader Is... completes Gareth's personal corporate life mission to give hard pressed modern managers the practical competencies to be more effective leaders, more fulfilled and more sustainable. While each of his two leadership books stands on its own merits, the combination of the two forms arguably the most important work on corporate leadership since Dr Edwards Demings' writings of the late 20th Century. It is fitting therefore that the Foreword is written by Tony Barnes, the last surviving member of the Deming team that revolutionised Japanese business and manufacturing practices in the 1950s and 1960s. A bible of common sense; a book that cuts to the core of achieving great business results whilst caring for the people you lead.Fionnuala Meehan, VP EMEA Global Marketing Solutions and Head of Ireland, Google.It's like no other book I've ever experienced. It's intensely personal - the insights, the examples, the honesty. This is much more than a book. It's a deep journey.Alison Platt, Non Executive Director, Tesco Plc. I have read many great books on coaching, leadership and teams. However, this is even greater, with all of these areas more expertly placed in one book. Becky Ivers, People Director - Expansion, Heathrow Airport.I was transported into `And the Leader is....Tina'. Easy to read `brain food' providing simple strategies to unlock human potential. This book is becoming my own personal coach.Tina Jennings, HR Director, Global Consumer Brands, Walgreens Boots Alliance.
As part of the series Leadership and Executive Coaching, Corporate Emotional Intelligence is a seminal work for business communication, management and organisational behaviour in the 21st Century, setting a new precedent for business leadership and management books. It analyses how human behaviour is conditioned within corporate cultures, how managers come to adopt unconscious controlling habits that are counter-productive and which create cultures of fear. It shows how through the art of coaching and mentoring, breaking habits and personal development, transformational leadership within teams can result and, through theory and practise, shows us how to lead when managing people in the business environment. Unique to this leadership coaching book is the introduction of the Corporapath- the Corporate Hostage and to the anxiety disorder CTSD - Corporate Traumatic Stress Disorder, yielding a profound new level of self-awareness for all corporate citizens. Success now requires a different kind of business intelligence: IQ + EQ is no longer sufficient. We now need CEQ - Corporate Emotional Intelligence - the ability to read, understand and manage the psychological states and behaviours that are unique to corporate cultures and emotionally intelligent leadership.
The future.A girl is dead. That in itself needn't be suspicious - people die, even in arcologies. But as obstruction and evasion await him at every turn, Inspector Percy Gordon begins to suspect that there are things someone doesn't want him to know. The question is, to what lengths will they go to stop him finding out?The past.Alex is not who she says she is. The sacrifices she's made to infiltrate this sinister rich-boys' club really don't bear thinking about, but now she's almost got what she needs, and then she can go public - assuming they don't find out who she really is first, of course. Because that really would be game over.The weird and twisty world of Tidelands continues in Part 2: The Winter Queen, which collects together instalments 18-34.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. Since the goal of this textbook is to facilitate the use of these statistical learning techniques by practitioners in science, industry, and other fields, each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in R, an extremely popular open source statistical software platform.Two of the authors co-wrote The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, 2nd edition 2009), a popular reference book for statistics and machine learning researchers. An Introduction to Statistical Learning covers many of the same topics, but at a level accessible to a much broader audience. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. The text assumes only a previous course in linear regression and no knowledge of matrix algebra.This Second Edition features new chapters on deep learning, survival analysis, and multiple testing, as well as expanded treatments of naïve Bayes, generalized linear models, Bayesian additive regression trees, and matrix completion. R code has been updated throughout to ensure compatibility.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. Since the goal of this textbook is to facilitate the use of these statistical learning techniques by practitioners in science, industry, and other fields, each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in R, an extremely popular open source statistical software platform.Two of the authors co-wrote The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, 2nd edition 2009), a popular reference book for statistics and machine learning researchers. An Introduction to Statistical Learning covers many of the same topics, but at a level accessible to a much broader audience. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. The text assumes only a previous course in linear regression and no knowledge of matrix algebra.This Second Edition features new chapters on deep learning, survival analysis, and multiple testing, as well as expanded treatments of naïve Bayes, generalized linear models, Bayesian additive regression trees, and matrix completion. R code has been updated throughout to ensure compatibility.
