New Releases by Steven Foster

One Golden Nugget Founder, Steven Foster takes a whirlwind ride across the glistening landscape of one of the wealthiest cities in the Middle East, searching for ambitious, innovative and visionary leaders all calling Dubai their home. Success in this city is not measured purely by wealth, but by the positive transformation of lives and communities. Dubai Business Leaders encompasses a wide and varied group of successful entrepreneurs, and business leaders from all walks of life who have come together to share their insights, wisdom and modus operandi. Learn from the very best on how to start your business, scale up, overcome obstacles, keep your finances in check, and ultimately, reach for the stars. With practical tips on how to keep moving forward, without losing your purpose, Dubai Business Leaders is a must-have reference book for anyone with an appetite to succeed and climb the lofty ladder of success. Co-Authors: Dariush Soudi, Eleni Kitra, Mahmoud Bartawi, Chris Wright, Alex Meurer, Pegah Gol, Lucy Chow, Omar M. Almahmoud, Nina Seredai-Udalova, Shamaila Nawaz, Vyara Tosheva, Lameen Abdul-Malik, Dr John Francis, Dr. Mariam Shaikh, Katleen Penel, Marius Bogdan, Bijay Rajnikantt Shah, CFE, Silvia Mogas, Talha Shaikh and Dr Mohammad Nami.

The One Golden Nugget series once again returns to take you on a journey of discovery. Still on a mission to improve himself by asking for Nuggets of wisdom this book documents the story of Steven Foster steering his cashless tiny Nugget empire through a pandemic. And at times clinging onto the dream by only his fingernails. It tells the story of meeting a man who had built a global empire and how that meeting forever changed the course of his journey. Nuggets change lives!

After 28 years serial entrepreneur Steven Foster was tired of building his dream only to watch it crumble, over and over again. In the pages of One Golden Nugget, you join him on a journey in which he discovered that if anything was to change, first he had to change himself. He interviewed more than 600 people from all walks of life - from CEOs and Vice Presidents of businesses like Fed Ex, Starbucks and Apple as well as the guy who sold his business to Twitter and the entrepreneur who just lost everything - through their nuggets of wisdom and experience, he rediscovered the way forward. The nuggets are powerful and as you go through the book there will be times when one jumps off the page and sparks a dialogue within - a single nugget that might just change YOUR life and lead you to the very things that have so far eluded you.

Positive Discipline Tools for Early Childhood Educators is intended to present powerful tools for training educators (and parents), and for helping them understand the importance for young children of social and emotional skills, kind and firm discipline that teaches, encouragement, and training in life skills, resilience, and character.

A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper’s classic book on herbal remedies. “[An] updated and beautifully designed guide . . . ” —Booklist For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper’s historic guide to herbal remedies has been THE definitive book on the subject. Culpeper, an English herbalist, is the author of the bestselling herbal guide of all time. He offered valuable and sometimes unusual advice on using, gathering, and preparing herbs. Now, this beautifully illustrated new edition, edited and with commentary by acclaimed US herbalist and bestselling author Steven Foster, combines the charm and information of Culpeper’s original seventeenth-century text with up-to-date, modern, practical usage. It includes details about where to find each herb, astrology, and medicinal benefits. [back flap] Bestselling author, photographer, consultant, and herbalist Steven Foster has forty years of experience in the herbal field. He started his career at Sabbathday Lake (Maine) Shaker Village Herb Department—America’s oldest herb business, dating to 1799. Foster is the author or coauthor of eighteen books, including the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America, 3rd ed. (with James A. Duke). Foster is also senior author of National Geographic’s A Desk Reference to Nature’s Medicine (with Rebecca Johnson). An acclaimed photographer, his work appears in countless publications. He is a contributing editor to HerbalGram, the journal of the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas. He lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. [back cover] Spectacularly illustrated, this is an annotated edition of Nicholas Culpeper’s bestselling herbal book on using, gathering, and preparing herbs. With new commentary on modern usage by acclaimed US herbalist and bestselling author Steven Foster supplementing Culpeper’s seventeenth-century text, it provides information on where each herb can be found, its astrological correlations, and all of its medicinal benefits.

Spirit of an Eagle is a deeply moving story about Army Medic, Anthony Lorenzo, after he returned home from the Vietnam War in 1968. Haunted by horrific memories and a Vietnamese baby girl, who died in his arms, he tried to drown his demons with alcohol. As a result, he made a tragic mistake that caused the death of someone he loved. Hopelessly lost in grief and remorse, Lorenzo set out on a journey that led him into an unforgiving wilderness. Just as he faced death in a blizzard, a mysterious eagle appeared with a strange mountain man, who guided him further on a quest that changed numerous lives. It is a miraculous story of tragedy and a second chance to overcome trauma. In a world of hatred and division, Spirit of an Eagle will inspire anyone with a message of love, redemption and renewed hope for a better life.

"For more than 45 years, Rabbi Steven and Senator Joyce Foster have been leaders in Denver and Colorado, nationally and internationally, through their work on issues of civil rights, gay rights, mental illness awareness, and stricter gun control laws. They have traveled to Israel more than 30 times, helping emigrants resettle there and raising money for the Jewish Federations of North America. Through topics as diverse as interfaith marriage, legalized marijuana, handling backlash when speaking on controversial issues, and maintaining a strong marriage and family in the public spotlight, their story chronicles how religion and politics can successfully marry for the greater good"--Back cover.

A Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Reflections on God's Eternal Faithfulness When Steve Graham accepted a friend's invitation to play golf, he never dreamed that after he played he would wake up three days later from a medically-induced coma, after having a sudden cardiac arrest that caused his heart to stop. But thanks to the grace of God, through a newly-installed automatic defibrillator unit and a staff trained to use it he was brought back to life. Steve's close brush with death prompted him to reflect on his life; a life that began under unpromising circumstances, but was redeemed by a loving God. Here are the lessons of a life well-lived; a life spent walking with God through good times and bad. Here are Steve's insightful reflections on faith, family, and God's eternal faithfulness.

Over 2 Million Positive Discipline Books Sold! A Positive Approach To Helping Children With Special Needs Realize Their Potential Every child deserves to lead a happy and fulfilling life. For parents and teachers of children with special needs, helping their child to not only negotiate daily challenges, but to live fulfilling, meaningful lives, can be the most difficult challenge they will face. Over the years, millions of parents and teachers have come to trust Jane Nelsen’s classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commonsense approach to childrearing. Now, the bestselling series addresses the specific challenges that parents and teachers of children with special needs face, and offers them straightforward advice for supporting them in positive ways. In these pages are practical solutions to challenges such as: Learning to look beyond diagnostic labels ● Believing in each child's potential regardless of his/her stage of development ● Helping children integrate socially and interact with their peers ● Coping with the frustration that inevitably occurs when a child is being difficult ● Strengthening a child’s sense of belonging and significance ● And Many More! Use this book to answer such questions as: • How do you accommodate a disability, while still teaching a child to try their best? • How do you help a child cope with anger they may have trouble expressing, especially when that anger may on some level be justified? • How do you teach a child who may struggle with seemingly straight forward tasks to contribute to the world around them in a way that will be meaningful to them? “If you are raising or teaching a child with special needs, this book is a must-read. As the mother of a child with autism, my hopes and dreams for my son were no different than those of other parents. I wanted a parenting approach that helped my child grow up to be self confident, happy, and prepared for success in relationships, work, and life. I also needed practical, effective methods for addressing the significant, challenging behaviors I faced on a daily basis. Finally, in this amazing book, I found both….Thank you, thank you, thank you to the authors of this groundbreaking book.” - Rachel Fink Parks, MS, PCC

America's first professional songwriter, Foster wrote lyrics that have entered our country's cultural bloodstream. Emerson presents a fully and delightfully annotated selection of Foster's most famous songs, and augments them with lyrics that either influenced Foster or were inspired by his genius.

An illustrated compendium of information on plants and their diverse therapeutic properties and benefits brings together folklore, scientific research, and medical theory to describe hundreds of plants and their origins.--

This book considers the constitutional position of the judiciary and its role in shaping the individual's relations with the state. This textbook provides an important, accessible introduction to an area of current widespread concern.

A modern handbook about growing, using, & understanding herbs. Each herb is carefully & thoroughly documented with a written description, a sensitive drawing or clarifying photograph, & identifying chemical information. The book also contains: culinary tips; in-depth information on the traditional uses of herbs; the latest in health & safety research (much of which vindicates & supports the traditional medicinal use of herbs); inspirational ideas for herb garden design, for both the home gardener & the commercial grower; & practical & effective methods of cultivation, propagation, & harvesting. Steven Foster is a well-known botanical researcher, writer, & photographer. Numerous color photos.

Features more than five hundred plants and herbs of North America providing information on their location and medicinal uses.

At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.

A modern classic of practical eco-therapy. Wholistically defines a very old, startlingly contemporary therapeutic paradigm for self-healing in a natural setting. The four faces of human nature, the wheel as initiatory path, the rites of the summer, fall, winter, and spring shields, the initiatory experience, passage as season, the mirror of the elders, shield dynamics. Overflowing with true life stories of healing in nature. If you're looking for the flesh and blood -- as well as the bones -- of a radical new form of "therapy, you will find it here. Unique, unprecedented, spacious, insightful, wise, practical, lyrical, gently humorous evocation of the true nature of "human. A book tailored to fit the hunger of the 21st century for healing in the wilderness. A psychological paradigm of great value to ecologists, anthropologists, ministers, wilderness guides, and professionals in the health and helping fields. The drawings of James Wright add interpretive luster to a comprehensive, multidimensional text.

"Researchers, get busy!" and "caveat emptor" are the messages of this iteration (last, 1993; first, 1982) by herbalists Tyler (pharmacognosy, Purdue U.) and Foster, as they cull herbs' healing virtues from the hype. Alphabetical entries from alfalfa to yucca provide: a brief description, proper nomenclature, plant from which derived, comments on usage, accessible discussion of the chemistry/pharmacology of its active components, evaluation of probable utility, and references. A 16-page summary chart may alone be worth the price. No illustrations, though. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

For many people who want to use herbs for good health, Stephen Foster provides the ultimate overview of how to use herbs for health and healing. 101 color photos.

A Guide to knowing and using 50 common herbs.