Susan Allen

In a magical kingdom where red dragons breathe fire, white dragons shimmer with icy beauty, and ancient forests hum with secrets, one peculiar little dragon dares to be different. Meet the Little Green Dragon, a curious and lovable misfit whose breath carries... the stinkiest smell in all the land When a bumbling yet determined wizard stumbles into the dragon family's cave, he is tasked with solving the stinky predicament-a challenge that leads to laughter, mishaps, and a discovery that magic isn't just in spells, but in love, friendship, and acceptance. With vivid adventures, quirky mishaps, and a heartwarming message, The Little Green Dragon is a delightful tale of family, uniqueness, and finding the magic that makes us shine. Perfect for children and dreamers of all ages, this enchanting story proves that the greatest transformations often begin with kindness-and maybe a giant toothbrush

In a magical kingdom where red dragons breathe fire, white dragons shimmer with icy beauty, and ancient forests hum with secrets, one peculiar little dragon dares to be different. Meet the Little Green Dragon, a curious and lovable misfit whose breath carries... the stinkiest smell in all the land When a bumbling yet determined wizard stumbles into the dragon family's cave, he is tasked with solving the stinky predicament-a challenge that leads to laughter, mishaps, and a discovery that magic isn't just in spells, but in love, friendship, and acceptance. With vivid adventures, quirky mishaps, and a heartwarming message, The Little Green Dragon is a delightful tale of family, uniqueness, and finding the magic that makes us shine. Perfect for children and dreamers of all ages, this enchanting story proves that the greatest transformations often begin with kindness-and maybe a giant toothbrush

Good communication is central to all relationships, yet the unpredictability of interpersonal exchanges can cause significant anxiety for autistic people and create a barrier to successful communication. Understanding Me, Understanding You is a guide for anyone working with and supporting autistic people. The aim is to encourage the reader to consider how they can create 'autistic spaces' where there is predictability and trust, enabling autistic people to engage, contribute and grow. It seeks to promote mutual understanding, starting by encouraging the reader to understand themselves, their own beliefs and attitudes and the way that this can influence their behaviour; and then to understand another and, in turn, help them to understand. At its foundation is the 'Triad of Understanding', a beautifully simple model for successful communication conceived together by social work practitioner, Dr Jackie Robinson, and three autistic co-researchers over a three year period. Jackie successfully created an autistic space that allowed the autistic co-researchers to flourish and achieve. This communication model underpins all three sections of the guide, which includes specific guidance for professionals in different fields and tools to facilitate the move towards mutual understanding. CPD accredited: 'This well-written and informative book has learning value for the target audience. It has clear content and progress.'

One woman's story of career, leadership, and familyDiscover what is holding you back from the career you were meant to have, the promotion you didn't receive, and the risk you were afraid to accept. Count Me In is the memoir of the trailblazer, Susan Allen-a global leader and one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. She shares her deeply personal and professional leadership journey (including all her wrong turns), answering the question she's heard the most from young women: "How did you do it?" If you feel stuck in the talent pipeline at your company, suffer from imposter syndrome or perfectionism, or wish to achieve better work-life balance, Count Me In is for you. Susan's journey to the top gives professional women the opportunity to learn strategies to: ask for a promotion and accept you have earned it, avoid risk averse behaviours that limit your growth and potential, acknowledge and kick mom guilt to the curb, andovercome life's inevitable setbacks.

Even after seventy-five years, the UN Security Council meets nearly every day. They respond to a range of threats to international peace and security, but not all threats. Why does the Security Council take up some issues for discussion and not others? What factors shape the Council's actions, if they take any action at all? Adapting insights from legislative bargaining, this book demonstrates that the agenda-setting powers granted in the institutional rules offer less powerful Council members the opportunity to influence the content of a resolution without jeopardizing its passage. The Council also decides when to conduct public or private diplomacy. The analysis shows how external factors like international and domestic public reactions motivate grandstanding behaviors and shape resolutions. New quantitative data on meetings and outside options provide support for these claims. The book also explores the dynamics of the formal analysis in three cases: North Korean nuclear proliferation, the negotiations leading up to NATO bombing in Serbia over Kosovo, and the elected member-led process to codify the principles of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The book argues that while the powerful veto members do have great influence over the Council, the rules of the most consequential security institution influence its policy outcomes, just as they do in any other international institution.

Some tails are bushy and some tails are not, but this tale is full of excitement and love. Join in as a hapless squirrel leads the villagers of Southwell on a wild goose chase, overturning apple carts and narrowly escaping capture, and see how help suddenly arrives from a most surprising place Both children and adults alike will enjoy this touching story of friendship and compassion with its hand-painted watercolor illustrations.

When little Mary Ann happens upon an enchanted apple tree guarded by Fairies, she learns how the actions of one person can have a positive impact on many people throughout the world. This lovely tale teaches children that you are never too young to make a difference. The classic fairytale format and engaging lyrical quality of the rhyming verse, together with the exquisite illustrations, capture the imaginations of both young and old alike.

The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western, dichotomously structured thinking. Through offshoots of the civilised-versus-savage dichotomy, namely oral-versus-written, form-versus-content and music-versus-narrative, Batouala’s Signifyin(g) discourse spills beyond the novel’s borders to reveal the sterility of dichotomy as a conceptualising structure. Dichotomy’s anachronism is thrust upon it through the work’s faithful representation of African ontology, whose water-inspired philosophy precludes it. Batouala’s structural basis is compared with that of jazz, which similarly bridges European and African civilisations, and whose African philosophical stance also acts as a provocation to the dichotomous thinking model. As Batouala «Fixed» transmutes to Batouala «Free», the pejorative implications of its widely touted ambiguity evaporate to expose a novel that is both lucid and coherent when viewed as jazz-text and jazz performance.