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Author
Publisher
Althea Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 150 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlines an action plan for living with less in order to focus on what matters, discusses how to create a minimalist mindset, offers strategies for de-cluttering the home, and presents tactics for getting the rest of the family on board.
Author
Language
English
Description
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers. We stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it. We know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don't avoid difficult conversations...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
13) Wash your hair with whipped cream: and hundreds more offbeat uses for even more brand-name products
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
ix, 177 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An authoritative handbook by the domestic-lifestyle expert shares hundreds of ideas and instructions for homemaker skills, from transporting a decorated cake and folding an American flag to playing a classic lawn game and bathing a cat.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 278 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents step-by-step instructions for more than one hundred basic domestic life skills from building a fire and hemming pants to rolling a pie crust and planting a vegetable garden, in a guide that includes tips for saving money.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the sublime pleasure and endless rewards of being self-sufficient. In two smartly designed and straightforward encyclopedias of DIY, Home Ec for Everyone and Shop Class for Everyone (previously published together as The Useful Book), here's everything you need to know to fix it, cook it, make it, clean it, build it, and sew it yourself. Each title features dozens of essential skills, practical how-tos, and projects, each explained and illustrated...