New Releases by Rachel Williams

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Patience... is an anti-instant gratification book from Rachel Williams, the best-selling author of Slow Down, and illustrator Leonie Lord, showing that for everything there is a season and good things are worth the wait! A lot of life is spent waiting—waiting for the day to start, waiting for the toast to cook, waiting for the school bus. Waiting is not easy, but as life happens, things change and grow while you are waiting. Discover how good things take time, and how there is a season for everything. Discover how long it takes for Light from the sun to reach Earth A barn owl to hunt The moon to rise and fall A nymph to grow wings A bird to incubate its eggs A camel to cross the desert to drink A bear to wait for spring An apple tree to grow fruit A coral to grow A patch of rainforest to regrows A tortoise to complete its life cycle . . . and more! By understanding how everything has a time and place, readers will be better able to cope with not having things instantly. They will discover that everyday wonders require patience and process.

The concept of time is hard to grasp. From a single minute to a full century, hearts beat, trees bloom and grow - and a human lives a lifetime. The book takes 18 different periods of time - from a single minute; to an hour; to over a century - to show the process of life, looking at biology in all its forms, from plants, animals and human biology too. In one minute, learn that your heart beats over 100 times. In one day, learn how a dragonfly unfurls a pair of wings. In a season, watch a bear hibernate for winter. In over 80 years, see a human live a lifetime. Packed with real science but rooted in the deeper things in life, this poetic non-fiction anthology is sure to prompt questions between a parent and child.

In author Rachel Williams and illustrator Ksenia Bakhareva''sPicture Puzzler: A Natural History Hide-and-Seek, step into the world''s wildest places to solve 72 picture riddles and search for camouflaged animals. Explore six real world habitats: the Sahara, the Rocky Mountains, European beech forests, the Amazon Basin, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Arctic archipelago Svalbard. A dozen camouflaged animals are hidden within a large illustration of each habitat. How many will you spot? A rhyming riddle for each animal offers clues. If you''re still stumped, a second set of pages offers additional hints for the hardest-to-spot creatures as well as more information about the animals and the habitat they call home. Ksenia Bakhareva is a Russian illustrator who specializes in weird and wonderful natural history drawings. Picture Puzzler is her first book for children. Rachel Williams studied literature before becoming an editor and publisher of children''s books. She is also the creator of bestselling natural history and adventure books, including the Atlas of Adventures series, Slow Down, and Illuminature. She lives with her husband and two small children in London.

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad explores the different ways in which charities, voluntary associations, religious organisations, philanthropic foundations and other non-state actors have engaged with traditions of giving. Using examples from the late eighteenth century to the Cold War, the collection addresses a number of major themes in the history of philanthropy in the United States. These examples include the role of religion, the significance of cultural networks, and the interplay between civil diplomacy and international development, as well as individual case studies that challenge the very notion of philanthropy as a social good. Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape – and at least nominally to improve – people''s lives both within and beyond the United States.

This charming addition to the Slow Down series brings a sense of calm with short nature stories for little ones Discover a magical world of nature on your doorstep. Charming rhyming verse presents six mindful moments—including a squirrel burying a nut and a rainbow forming on a rainy day—to the youngest readers. Slow Down . . . on Your Doorstep is a fabulous introduction for first readers from the team that created the international bestseller Slow Down.

Calming nature stories for little ones Discover a magical world of nature on your doorstep. Charming rhyming verse introduces six mindful moments–including a squirrel burying a nut, and a rainbow forming on a rainy day–to the youngest readers. A fabulous introduction for first readers, from the team that created international bestseller Slow Down.

THE ORNAMENT HOSPITAL is a children''s lesson about caring for others, set around the scenes that many will recognize from their own recollections of the Christmas holidays. It''s a gentle reminder that tending to the little things brings joy and happiness; and shares the secrets of faith, hope, and love through its tale of broken and redeemed ornaments brought back to life. You''ll enjoy reading this children''s Christmas classic with family and friends, and will want to revisit it year after year.

All around us, nature is turning, growing and working. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it''s not always easy to see them. Discover 50 nature stories, paused just long enough for you to watch them unfold. Then go outside and explore and see what you find when you take the time to slow down.

Many factors potentially influence a young athlete''s sport enjoyment and commitment. Social agents, such as parents, explain a large part of the variance in youth sport experiences. While research suggests the environment created by parents'' impact athlete sport experiences, it is unknown if this is true for young children in the early stages of sport participation (5-8 years of age). Previous research has failed to address the reasons why parents are initially enrolling their children in youth sport which could be associated with parent-initiated motivational climate and child enjoyment and commitment to year-round swimming. The purposes of this study were to: a) to determine the reasons parents enroll their children in year-round competitive swimming, b) to examine the relationship between parent-initiated motivational climate and child''s swim enjoyment and commitment, c) to study the relationship between parent-initiated motivational climate and parent''s motive for enrolling their child in year-round swimming, and d) to study the relationships between parent motives for enrollment in year-round swimming and child enjoyment and commitment to swimming. Forty parent-child dyads were recruited from registered USA Swimming club teams in Southeast United States. Parents completed questionnaires to measure parent and child demographics, child swim history, parent motives for year-round swim team enrollment, and parent-initiated motivational climate. Children completed a questionnaire assessing their enjoyment and commitment to year-round swimming. Overall, the primary reason parents enrolled their child in year-round swimming was for fitness benefits (M = 4.54 ± .45). The highest-rated parent-initiated motivational climate was a learning (mastery) climate (M = 3.72 ± .28). Children, on average, year-round swimming was rated very enjoying (M = 4.35 ± .65) and commitment was also rated high (M = 4.29 ± .89). Pearson-product correlations uncovered notable relationships. No relationships were found between any of the parent-initiated climates and child enjoyment and commitment in year-round swimming (p u003e.05). No significant relationships were found between a parent-initiated learning climate or parent-initiated worry-conducive climate and any of the seven parent motives for year-round swimming enrolment (p u003e .05). A success-without-effort climate was strong and moderately negatively associated with the fitness (r = -.50, p [less-than] .01) and skill/mastery of skill (r = -.38, p [less-than] .05) motives, respectively. Lastly, the only statistically significant relationship observed in respect to parent motives and child enjoyment and commitment was between the fun/excitement parent motive and child commitment to swimming (r = .43, p [less-than].01). The current findings illustrate why parents enroll younger children in year-round swimming and help explain the relationships between the parent motives for enrollment and child enjoyment and commitment to swimming. Thus, research suggests that between ages five and eight years of age, a parentinitiated motivational climate may not be related to a child0́9s enjoyment and commitment to swimming. Understanding parent motives for enrollment could be associated to the type of climate the parent is likely to create but may not necessarily be associated with child enjoyment and commitment in the first years of year-round swimming participations. The overarching goal is for parents and coaches to understand how motives for enrollment and motivational climates may associate with enjoyment and commitment to year-round swimming in young athletes.

‘He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun – a sawn-off shotgun.’ Featured on ITV''s Lorraine with Michael Sheen and Rachel Williams. Darren was funny and attractive, and 21-year-old Rachel fell head-over-heels for him; it wasn’t long before they moved in together, and she fell pregnant with his child. But his inner demons soon surfaced... Weakened and alone, Rachel was beaten and tormented by him for 18 years, until one day, Darren turned up at her place of work with a shotgun and left her for dead. But her ordeal wasn’t over… Devastating yet inspiring, Rachel’s story of hope tells of how you can always find the light, even in the very darkest of times. ‘Incredibly poignant and powerful.’ – Victoria Derbyshire ‘Transformative. Life changing.’ – Michael Sheen

‘He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun – a sawn-off shotgun.’ Featured on ITV''s Lorraine with Michael Sheen and Rachel Williams. Darren was funny and attractive, and 21-year-old Rachel fell head-over-heels for him; it wasn’t long before they moved in together, and she fell pregnant with his child. But his inner demons soon surfaced... Weakened and alone, Rachel was beaten and tormented by him for 18 years, until one day, Darren turned up at her place of work with a shotgun and left her for dead. But her ordeal wasn’t over... Devastating yet inspiring, Rachel’s story of hope tells of how you can always find the light, even in the very darkest of times. ‘Incredibly poignant and powerful.’ – Victoria Derbyshire ‘Transformative. Life changing.’ – Michael Sheen

Are you rushed, super busy and so overcommitted? Do you ever find yourself downplaying your beauty, or not see your beauty at all? Are you tired of measuring yourself against an impossible beauty standard? Well, it''s time to unravel.It is time to unravel the negative self talk, the should haves and have to''s, and the beauty fears of the past, present and future. It is time to simplify.The Clean and Press, Lorde Beauty Makeup Techniques, The No Mirror Challenge, The Face Workout and more, are beauty practices and techniques I have created. You will feel and look your best, and understand your unique beauty in a powerful, wholehearted and loving way through real life stories and reflections from myself and from other women and girls like you. It''s time to unravel. Let''s press play.

Explore ten of the world''s most diverse environments and reveal their hidden secrets with a magic coloured lens that illuminates each page in a kaleidoscope of colour. Discover the dark and mysterious creatures of the night, whose super-sensory powers allow them to live and survive in the shadows, then switch the lens to step into daylight, where the heat of the sun supercharges the secret lives of creatures big and small. Finally, use the third lens to reveal the luscious plant life of every habitat as you travel through a jungle, a reef, grasslands, woodland and uncover a world that never sleeps. This is an animal book like no other, allowing you to view the natural world in full technicolour.

Head off on a journey of discovery with this follow-up to the best-selling Atlas of Adventures! This book collects together nature’s most unmissable events from between the two poles, including epic migrations, extraordinary behaviours, and Herculean habits. Find hundreds of things to spot and learn new facts about every animal.

"Though born in 1965, Rachel''s story could easily have been set in the 1800s. Wearing long dresses and broad-brimmed bonnets and living without modern conveniences including electricity, telephone, radio, television, or indoor plumbing, she and her two older brothers were shaped by the extreme religious views of her iron-willed, Vietnam-veteran father and malleable, practical-minded mother. The family separated from society and lived under often harsh conditions in an old, abandoned house atop a remote range of hills in Tennessee, awaiting the end of the world. Then at 16, Rachel was forced to face the world in which she was not raised to live. She struggled to adjust to an unsheltered life without casting aside the good along with the bad. Eventually she found her way to a full, balanced, and vibrant life. Rachel shares an amazing story that ultimately testifies of God''s faithful and restorative loving care."---Rear cover.

Set your spirit of adventure free with this lavishly illustrated trip around the world. Whether you''re visiting the penguins of Antarctica, joining the Carnival in Brazil, or a canoe safari down the Zambezi River, this book brings together more than 100 activities and challenges to inspire armchair adventurers of any age. Find hundreds of things to spot and learn new facts about every destination. With epic adventures from the four corners of the globe and discoveries to be made on your own doorstep, this book will inspire you to set off on your own journey of discovery. - See more at: http://quartoknows.com/books/9781847806956/Atlas-of-Adventures.html#sthash.kfeVPl0u.dpuf

Nicolai Francis is a 138 year old man locked in time by an evil force he innocently unleashed on himself. Unable to age, he lives two separate lives. One private and the other...public. A wealthy industrialist who is never seen and an executive assistant maintaining a very haunted castle built in the middle of the New York sound. Forced to endure one love affair after another, always ending in tragedy, Nick finds a way to redeem himself, find true love and rid himself of the curse and creature within him.

Paige and Paxton are puzzle pieces growing up in the magical island of Puzzleland. In Puzzleland, all the puzzle pieces are different, but each has a perfect fi t-something they love to do. This is just a piece of what makes the island the perfect place to learn new things. In this adventure, the precocious siblings visit the wise and lovable Grandpapa Puzzle, who always has a lot of fun things for Paige and Paxton to do. But fun is just a piece of it. While there are many lessons to be learned in this intergenerational tale that warms the heart and stimulates the imagination, the most important one is the indivisible link that binds us to our past and connects us to our future. Look for more titles in this delightful series that introduces young minds to science and technology in a fun and engaging way. Learn more about Paige & Paxton at www.PaigeandPaxton.com.