For everyone interested in enhancing the beauty found in and around the home, The New Victory Garden promises to be the season's most valuable gardening tool. 230 full-color photographs and 100 line drawings. Size C. 50,000 paper. (Gardening/Indoor-Outdoor)

The New Victory Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thomson, Bob

Gardening & Landscape Design

Little,Brown & Co

A wonderful blend of facts and humor makes learning about vegetable gardening fun and easy. Learn about fiddleheads, munchkin pumpkins, snow peas, walla wallas, and more!Beautiful color illustrations lead children through a brief introduction to soil preparation and seed planting, as well as through a discovery of both common and exotic vegetables.

The Victory Garden Vegetable Alphabet Book

Children's Books

Pallotta, Jerry

Science, Nature & How It Works

Charlesbridge Pub Inc

First Steps in Coaching

First Steps in Coaching is an essential guide for anyone starting out in the coaching profession and for existing coaches seeking to develop their craft. It is a practical introduction to the theory, skills and art of coaching. The book′s structure follows the reader′s progression from novice to professional coach, making it an indispensable companion every step of the way. Part one, Learning to Walk, sets out the basics of coaching and considers the key skills of listening, questioning and playing back. Part two, Learning to Run, explores a variety of practical and ethical issues, and looks at coaching as a line manager and coaching a team. Part three, Learning to Dance, examines more advanced topics such as the coach′s use of the self and the nature of the coach-client relationship. The book: <ul>
<li>Uses clear, uncomplicated language throughout</li> <li>Explains key ideas through brief illustrations from the author′s practice and quotes from leading writers on coaching</li> <li>Contains a wide selection of ideas, models and exercises to stimulate the reader′s learning</li> <li>Encourages students to try things out in conversation, and reflect upon and make sense of their experiences</li> </ul>
First Steps in Coaching is a must-have book for anyone interested in coaching skilfully, ethically and effectively.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Sage Publications Ltd.

Disillusioned with his job in the City, idealistic Ben Lindsay joins Hathaway Publishing International, where he manages a team of people for the first time.  After some early disastrous meetings, Ben works with a coach who helps him to develop his own coaching skills, which Ben deploys to manage effectively and with integrity.  The story conveys the basics of coaching and its use in managing people through the experiences of a novice manager.      Bob Thomson is an experienced coach and management development professional. He currently works at the University of Warwick where he acts as a coach, facilitator, supervisor and mediator.  He was formerly the Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco.  His previous books include Growing People: Learning and developing from day to day experience; Don?t Just Do Something, Sit There: An introduction to non-directive coaching; and With No Attachment to the Answer.  Non-directive coaching: assumptions, approaches and applications.

The Coaching Dance: A tale of coaching and management

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond

How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond is an essential guide for anyone starting out in the coaching profession and for existing coaches seeking to develop their craft. It is a practical introduction to the theory, skills and art of coaching. This extremely practical introduction contains numerous case studies showing theory in action,&nbsp;aiding in&nbsp;understanding of how to apply theory to actual practice in a variety of settings. The book: <ul> <li>Uses clear, uncomplicated language throughout</li> <li>Explains key ideas through brief illustrations from the author&#8242;s practice and quotes from leading writers on coaching</li> <li>Contains a wide selection of ideas, models and exercises to stimulate the reader&#8242;s learning</li> <li>Encourages students to try things out in conversation, and reflect upon and make sense of their experiences</li> </ul> How to Coach is a must-have book for anyone interested in coaching skillfully, ethically and effectively. &nbsp;

How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond is an essential guide for anyone starting out in the coaching profession and for existing coaches seeking to develop their craft. It is a practical introduction to the theory, skills and art of coaching. 
This extremely practical introduction contains numerous case studies showing theory in action, aiding in understanding of how to apply theory to actual practice in a variety of settings. 
The book: Uses clear, uncomplicated language throughout Explains key ideas through brief illustrations from the author′s practice and quotes from leading writers on coaching Contains a wide selection of ideas, models and exercises to stimulate the reader′s learning Encourages students to try things out in conversation, and reflect upon and make sense of their experiences 
How to Coach is a must-have book for anyone interested in coaching skillfully, ethically and effectively.

Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience

Growing People offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organisations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences. It shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues.
<ul>
<li>Written by an experienced management development professional in clear and easily understood language</li>
<li>Aimed at busy line managers who want to take seriously their role in developing people</li>
<li>Chapters can be read as stand alone guides to topics such as coaching, feedback and talent management</li>
</ul>

Economics

Chandos Publishing

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The New Victory Garden

The New Victory Garden

The Victory Garden Vegetable Alphabet Book

First Steps in Coaching

First Steps in Coaching

The Coaching Dance: A tale of coaching and management

How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond

How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond

Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience

Growing People: Learning and Developing from Day to Day Experience