Do you want your training to have a lasting and unforgettable impact? Are you tired of seeing your trainees forget valuable knowledge soon after training is over? If yes, you need the 39 Ways to Make Training Stick. This book is a practical guide to create training that...well, sticks. • Improve retention and application. • Increase the value of your training. • Create lasting impact. Beyond the classroom, this book shifts the...

You think you are too old to be working out? Today, people are living longer and pursuing healthier lifestyles, but most 50 years old, and older, individuals are no longer interested in the long, physically demanding workout routines that they enjoyed over 25 years ago. "BE Age Defying" is about maintaining a sustainable, active lifestyle and using strength training as a tool to combat the loss of muscle mass and daily functioning due to aging. This...

"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...

"She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz? Poland, 1943. Dark skies and barbed wire fences were all Bluma saw as she stepped down from the train onto the main platform of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the Wehrmacht's decimation of her hometown, Bluma and what remained of her family were finally put on the long, harsh train ride through inhuman conditions that seemed to last an eternity. Then the freight...

When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the "ungovernable" adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York--a wicked prison infamous for its harsh treatment of inmates, especially Black ones. Determined to be free, Ella escapes and makes her way back...

"Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. They invented sport and they were also the first to understand how physical activity connected to our mental well-being. After a lifetime spent with her head and heart in the books trying to think like a Greek,...

A young pilot, fresh out of training, is called to join a Flight while they wait for the call to scramble. Throughout a single day, the skies of southern England are filled with deadly dogfights, and after every exhausting battle, the pilots return to the dispersal hut only to find another of their number missing. In a thrilling climax, the airfield comes under direct attack and the Flight takes off once again, ascending into action against fatally...

"The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity--by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place. The most famous man in South Carolina lives in prison. He stands convicted of a staggering amount of wrongdoing--more than 100 crimes and counting. Once a high-flying, smooth-talking, pedigreed Southern lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is now disbarred and...

"An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Ohio. In March 1945,...