Most Popular Books by Jenny Williams

Meet all of the Egyptian gods and learn how they came to be in this colorful and exciting celebration of mysterious ancient Egypt.

BOOK SUMMARY-Little Tommy Who Told You You Were Stupid, And Do You Believe It?. Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can break a spirit...Someone told Little Tommy he was stupid. With his dad out of the picture and Little Tommy''s confidence low, he believed them. Thanks to the prayers of his mother and the kindness of a teacher, Little Tommy overcomes the bullying. Dive into this story to see how Tommy grows and the surprise waiting for him at the end!

We need leaders who doubt. No playbook exists for the complexity, challenges and choices leaders are dealing with, so why do they – and we – expect certainty? Certainty does not guarantee success or the avoidance of failure. What if leaders can create better results by harnessing doubt effectively? Doubt is complex: it can both paralyze us and propel us forward. In Brilliant Doubt, Jenny Williams challenges how we think about doubt and reveals its power. She examines the role of self-doubt and external doubts – our own and others’ – shining a light on how leaders can work with doubt to inform their decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results. Her insightful and practical approach will change your relationship with doubt forever, and show you how to harness uncertainty to inform decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results. Jenny Williams (MCC) is a top Executive and Systemic Team Coach who has lectured at Cambridge University on leadership, entrepreneurship and creativity. She has spent thousands of hours working with exceptional clients who doubt, showing them how to leverage the power of doubt as a catalyst for clarity, creativity and confidence.

The aging Gypsy busker plays his concertina... His mind floods with memories... memories of the traditions of nomadic Transylvanian Gypsies, of his childhood marriage, her death in childbirth, Nazi persecution of his family and friends, life in the Nazi camps... and his survival.While he plays, a drama in the nearby shop unfolds. ''Murderer! Murderer!'' the woman screams...The accused old man denies and flees but she is sure he was a concentration camp commandant.Is he really who she thinks he is?Can she prove his identity? Is it too late for him to be prosecuted?Questions, but are there answers..."

This paper explores the Inquiry into Lifelong Learning''s theme of prosperity, employment and work and its implications for lifelong learning. Part of the IFLL Thematic Paper series, this paper explores the Inquiry''s theme of prosperity, employment and work and its implications for lifelong learning. It examines the evidence on learning for work, locates it in the context of strategies for prosperity, employment and good work, and identifies the implications for the creation of an overall strategic framework for lifelong learning. The bestselling full report of the Inquiry is also available: Learning through Life: Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (ISBN 9781862014336).

Preferences and attitudes to illicit drug policy held by individuals are likely to be an important influence in the development of illicit drug policy. Among the key factors impacting on an individual''s preferences over substance use policy are their beliefs about the costs and benefits of drug use, their own drug use history, and the extent of drug use amongst their peers. We use data from the Australian National Drug Strategy''s Household Surveys to study these preferences. We find that current use and past use of cannabis are major determinants of being in favor of legalization. These results control for reverse causality from favorable attitudes to use. We also find that cannabis users are more in favor of legalization the longer they have used cannabis and, among past users, the more recent their own drug using experience. This may reflect that experience with cannabis provides information about the costs and benefits of using this substance. Finally, we uncover some evidence that peers'' use of cannabis impacts on preferences towards legalization.

In this paper we investigate the effects of delinquency and arrest on school leaving using information on males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. We use a multivariate mixed proportional hazard framework in order to account for common unobserved confounders and reverse causality. Our key finding is that delinquency as well as arrest leads to early school leaving. Further investigation reveals that the effect of delinquency is largely driven by income generating crimes, and the effect of both income generating crime and arrest are greater when onset occurs at younger ages. These findings are consistent with a criminal capital accumulation mechanism. On the basis of our sample, we show that taking into account the proportion of young men affected by delinquency and arrest, that the overall reduction in education due to delinquency is at least as large as the reduction due to arrest. This highlights the need for crime prevention efforts to extend beyond youth who come into contact with the justice system.

"This paper investigates whether college students'' response to alcohol price and policies differ according to their drinking intensity. Individual level data on drinking behavior, price paid per drink, and college alcohol policies come from the student and administrator components of the 1997 and 1999 waves of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College Alcohol Study (CAS). Students drinking behavior is classified on the basis of the number of drinks they typically consume on a drinking occasion, and the number of times they have been drunk during the 30 days prior to survey. A generalized ordered logit model is used to determine whether key variables impact differentially the odds of drinking and the odds of heavy drinking. We find that students who faced a higher money price for alcohol are less likely to make the transition from abstainer to moderate drinker and moderate drinker to heavy drinker, and this effect is equal across thresholds. Campus bans on the use of alcohol are a greater deterrent to moving from abstainer to moderate drinker than moderate drinker to heavy drinker"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Indiana Jones tries to save his father from the Nazis as they all search for the Holy Grail.