Sixteen of America's foremost experts in youth leadership development provide strategies, ideas, and wisdom for student leaders. This is the ultimate handbook for anyone in a position to influence others in a school, club, chapter, or organisation. The authors are top speakers, writers, and trainers for young people and have ample publishing credentials. Includes: 16 characteristics of an effective leader; Fills important niche for effective teen leadership text and curriculum; Straightforward, no-frills, how-to approach; Substantial follow-up and discussion activities at the end of each chapter.

Wonder Woman! Hunks! Great men and women of history! Step aside - Kate Beaton is coming for you. The author of the smash hit Hark! A Vagrant returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that showcase her irreverent love of history, pop culture and literature. Collected from her wildly popular website, readers will guffaw over 'Strong Female Characters', the wicked yet chivalrous Black Prince, 'Straw Feminists in the Closet' and a disgruntled Heathcliff. Delight in what the internet has long known - Beaton's humour is as sharp and dangerous as a velocipedestrienne, so watch out!

Leadership used to mean a position or a role in a hierarchy. Today, leadership is more of a skill than a role. You can be in a leadership role and have absolutely no expertise in leadership. With this ebook you will learn the secret to become a great leader in your life. You will learn how to develop your leadership skills, no matter what role you play in your career. The skills you will learn is a life skill that you can use at work but also in your daily interaction with your family, in your volunteer work or any relationships. Here are what you will learn in this guide: What is leadership and the top abilities to become one; How you can be a leader in your everyday life; How you can benefit from leadership skills; 6 things you must know to move from a good to a great leader; What is emotional intelligence and how it can help you; 15 questions that will define your leadership abilities; 7 barriers to leadership development; How values are essential to leadership and how you can define yours; 2 powerful techniques to become a better leader; How you can lead yourself with the GROW Model, a method to reach success; Ways to increase your self-awareness and personal growth; How embracing change and become an inspiring agent of change; 11 steps plan to become a fearless leader; 9 qualities to become a great leader and how to apply them; 3 ways to successfully respond to criticism; 4 characteristics of mindful leaders and why you need to become one; How to practice mindfulness with 2 techniques that will help you succeed as a conscious leader; Over 50 additional resources that will deepen your knowledge on how to master your emotions and be free of anxiety; And much more!

National Bestseller “Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.” —New York Times In this national bestseller, Stew Friedman gives you the tools you need to achieve “four-way wins”—improved performance in all domains of life: work, home, community, and self. Friedman, celebrated professor and founding director of the Wharton School’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project, explains how three simple yet potent principles—be real, be whole, and be innovative—can help you, no matter what your age or what you do for work, become a better leader and have a richer life. In this engaging adaptation of his hands-on Wharton course, he offers step-by-step instruction to help you create positive, sustainable change in your world. This proven, programmatic method teaches you how to produce stronger results at work, find clearer purpose, feel less stressed, strengthen connections with the people who matter most to you, contribute further to important causes, and gain greater support for your vision of your future. If you’re ready to learn to lead in all parts of your life—this is the book for you. For a full array of Total Leadership tips and tools, visit totalleadership.org. Also look for Stew Friedman’s book, Leading the Life You Want, which builds on Total Leadership by profiling well-known leaders—from Bruce Springsteen to Michelle Obama—who exemplify its principles and demonstrate how success in your work is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of your life, but as the result of meaningful attachments to all its parts.

The international bestseller and winner of the Campiello Prize for Literature—“Moving and lyrical writing . . . Belongs in the canon of great war fiction” (Paste Magazine). Andrea Molesini’s exquisite debut novel portrays the depths of heroism and horror within a Northern Italian village toward the end of World War I. While a family’s villa is requisitioned by enemy troops, they are forced to intimately confront war’s injustice as their involvement with its sinister underpinnings grows more and more complex. In the autumn of 1917, Refrontolo—a small community north of Venice—is invaded by Austrian soldiers as the Italian army is pushed to the Piave River. The Spada family owns the largest estate in the area, where orphaned seventeen-year-old Paolo lives with his eccentric grandparents, headstrong aunt, and a loyal staff. With the battlefront nearby, the Spada home becomes a bastion of resistance, both clashing and cooperating with the military members imposing on their household. When Paolo is recruited to help with a covert operation, his life is put in irrevocable jeopardy. As he bears witness to violence and hostility between enemies, he grows to understand the value of courage, dignity, family bonds, and patriotism during wartime. “Wonderfully alive—often terribly so—as a wartime adventure and story of youth arriving at manhood.” —The New York Times Book Review “War and Peace meets The Leopard in a novel set among Italian aristocrats during the Great War . . . Rich and moving.” —The Wall Street Journal