Development First

You spent years making yourself small, smiling while inside you were collapsing, saying yes when you wanted to scream no. They taught you that being loved meant pleasing, understanding, enduring. But now a voice inside you has rebelled, and this book is here to give it strength. First You, Then Everything Else is a motivational jolt. 120 sessions of uncomfortable truths that will force you to look at yourself in the mirror, to question everything that made you "too good," and to remind you of one thing you had forgotten: you were not born to be walked all over.

What if the place to begin isn't your thoughts—but the state you're living from? Many of us spend our lives trying to improve our thoughts, habits, decisions, and behaviors while overlooking the internal state that shapes them all. Stress, pressure, overthinking, exhaustion, and disconnection quietly become our baseline, influencing how we experience life without us even realizing it.

Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

Keeping the trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year is easier to listen to and new-family friendlier than ever - packed with even more practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than before. Illustrations are new, too.

In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The controversial book that Helen Garner wrote about the resulting Ormond College sexual harassment case caused a social media storm. Prominent feminists were outraged at Garner's perceived support for the man involved, but many saw her approach a necessary and much welcome nuance towards the power dynamic between men and women.

Becoming a parent transforms you. From the moment your baby arrives, the pace of life shifts. Time begins to move in strange new ways—excruciatingly slow during sleepless nights and impossibly fast when you realise your baby has grown out of their newborn clothes again. In this first year, everything is new: the feelings, the routines, the worries, the joys. Your baby is learning the world—and you’re learning your baby.

Un bestseller del New York Times dall'autore de "Le 7 regole per avere successo" Stephen R. Covey! "First Things First. Le prime cose al primo posto" è un libro fondamentale sulla gestione del tempo, nel quale l'ascoltatore troverà un approccio innovativo basato su principi universali e non su rimedi superficiali. L'autore spiega perché nella pianificazione del tempo è importante trasferire l'attenzione dalla "urgenza" alla "importanza".

People don’t open restaurants just because they want to start a business. People open restaurants because they are building a dream. You can create the restaurant of your dreams. You can also be profitable, pay your vendors, your staff, and yourself, and savor the joys of hospitality without stress and uncertainty.

Communication should be clear and concise, and we should get to the point quickly. The problem is we don’t always know how to do this. What does it mean to be concise? How can a complex topic be summarized in just a few lines? This award-winning book is a step-by-step guide for clear, concise communication in everyday work conversations. Being concise is not about trying to condense all the information into 60 seconds. It is about having clear intent, talking about one topic at a time, and focusing on solutions instead of dwelling on problems.

Toddlers don’t come with a manual, but here’s the next best thing. We’re Parenting a Toddler! is a comprehensive guide to parenting toddlers, with tons of practical strategies and sympathy for first-time parents. Get sound advice and funny stories from a four-time parent who’s been in the toddler trenches, covering key situations from eating, sleeping, and tantrums, to potty training, communication, and so much more.

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people's opinions (FOPO).

Whether you're nervous, exhilarated, or overwhelmed by the idea of motherhood, this is the perfect chance to learn what normal newborn behavior is really like and how best to care for yourself and your little one.

Are you an entrepreneur in a creative industry? Does your business struggle with consistent profitability and cash flow? Do you feel it is a never-ending struggle to choose between doing the work you are passionate about and staying in business? Christian Brim is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with over twenty-five years of working with small business owners to grow profitably. Heavily influenced by a family riches-to-rags experience in his formative years, Christian has dedicated his life’s work to helping entrepreneurs have businesses that work for them.

An inspiring and effective collection of strategies for prioritizing what really matters in life In Happiness First: 14 Habits Draining Your Joy (and How to Reclaim It), motivation and personal development expert, Jackson Ogunyemi, delivers an inspiring new discussion of how to achieve happiness...

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.

Real Help for Real Moments in Foster Care When you don’t know what to do, this book is here to help. Parenting a child in foster care comes with unique challenges that most parenting books don’t cover. Between trauma responses, court dates, system constraints, and well-meaning advice that...

Imposter Syndrome is different for people of colour. You don’t just feel like an imposter, you are one. You’re the only one in the room. There are no leaders who look like you. The system is broken and has to change. But in this book, Caroline Flanagan challenges you to step up and play your part too. Caroline has always been an imposter. She knows what it’s like to feel like a fraud and fear being found out. From being the only black girl at an all-white school, through to being the only person of colour in meetings at a top City law firm and beyond.

From From Fear to Joy: The First Mom is your all-in-one guide to navigating pregnancy with clarity, confidence, and calm. Created especially for first-time moms, this book delivers compassionate, expert-backed guidance to help you move from uncertainty to empowerment—step by step.

Respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving you the wisdom and understanding to enrich your child's natural development in the right way at the right time. A trusted classic for over 20 years, this newly revised edition contains updated resources and additional information on discipline, early childhood programs, toilet training, using home life as curriculum, and more. From language and cognitive development to appropriate toys, Dancy speaks up for a rational approach to child-rearing.

Many of us didn't have a perfect childhood. But that doesn't mean we can't be good parents. In Parent Yourself First, licensed family therapist Bryana Kappadakunnel argues that the secret to successful parenting is to UN-learn the unhealthy patterns you grew up with, so you can find a better way...