‘Youthful Spark: Youth Energizers, Activities & Games (Igniting the Fun in Youth)’ is a dynamic and engaging guidebook designed to ignite the fun in youth groups, camps, and gatherings. This book offers a vibrant collection of 62 original icebreakers, energizers, and games tailored specifically for youth, aiming to promote teamwork, creativity, and active participation. Each activity is carefully crafted to appeal to the energetic and adventurous spirit of young participants, ensuring that every session is filled with laughter, excitement, and meaningful interactions. With detailed instructions, insightful trainer observations, and prompting discussions, "Youthful Spark" provides a comprehensive toolkit for youth leaders, educators, and organizers to create memorable and impactful experiences for young people. Whether you're planning a youth retreat, camp, or community event, this book will inspire you to spark joy, build connections, and foster a sense of belonging among youth participants.

This is the most extraordinary time for people with a desire to make things Spark for the Fire is for everyone who wants to excel. For the people who are passionate about what they want to do. For those whose imaginations demand to be put to use, in any discipline. it is for the youthful: in age, experience or attitude - and those who want to be - whether to kick-start a career or reignite an established one. Now more than ever, youthful thinking can help spark the fire of creativity. This must-read book reveals how. Featuring among others - Nick Park - Michael Wolff - Lord David Puttnam - Jean Oelwang - Rory Sutherland - Ajaz Ahmed - Jamie Oliver

The new radically social habit of tracking our behaviours and preferences is booming. From Facebook timelines to Google Navigator to Twitter, we generate enormous amounts of online data about our activities: where we go, what we do, how we feel. In The Virtual Self, journalist Nora Young examines this growing phenomenon of self-tracking - why it's compulsive, its attractions and benefits, the dangers surrounding privacy and information control, and moreover, what it means for our sense of self. Fascinating and entertaining, and offering unique insights into our emerging technological culture, The Virtual Self takes the personal, psychological reality of everything from smart phones to social networking and teases out the increasing impact of the virtual information we all produce on the real world around us.

So Runs the World is a novella by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. Excerpt: "I have a great respect for every accomplished work. Every time I put on the end of any of my works finis, I feel satisfied; not because the work is done, not on account of future success, but on account of an accomplished deed. Every book is a deed—bad or good, but at any rate accomplished—and a series of them, written with a special aim, is an accomplished purpose of life; it is a feast during which the workers have the right to receive a wreath, and to sing: "We bring the crop, the crop!" Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. A farmer, bringing the crop to his barn, has this absolute surety, that he brings wheat, rye, barley, or oats which will be useful to the people. An author, writing even with the best of faith, may have moments of doubt, whether instead of bread he did not give poison, whether his work is not a great mistake or a great misdeed, whether it has brought profit to humanity, or whether, were it not better for the people and himself, had he not written anything, nothing accomplished."

Norah Casey - former 'Dragon', broadcaster and publisher - offers a unique perspective on how to live a life less ordinary.

When mind and body come crashing to a halt after years in missions, can the passion be reignited? Shannon tells her story, amid calamity and risk, and faces the demands that come with dreaming big and the logistics of putting new missions paradigms into practice. This is a journey from passion to burnout, and the lingering hope of recovery that glows like burning embers amid the ashes.