Business Education

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success.

You’ve written the best book ever, and now, everyone will be racing to read it. That was the plan anyway. As a first-time author, you walk a fine line between planning for and marketing your book for success and the crushing reality of low sales. Book Marketing for the First-Time Author breaks down the most important elements that you need to market your book. Master the fundamentals covered here to set your book up for success.

Art-Write:The Writing Guide for Visual Artists has a single intention: to teach artists how to write about their own artwork. This concise and current career resource is filled with achievable advice on how to write for art promotion and sales. The audiobook offers a step-by-step approach to create a professional artist statement, with thinking and writing exercises to ease the process and develop authentic and clear content.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

Are you good at working with your hands? Do you love creating things? Would you like to start a profitable side hustle, but don’t know where to begin? Maybe you already make and sell your own soap, but you don’t know how to find new customers. No worries: My book, Ultimate Guide to Building a Soap Making Business Empire can give you the knowledge and inspiration to start making and selling your own unique line of handmade soaps.

Today's policing demands excellence. It's time to replace the checkerboard for the chessboard. Excellence in Policing answers some of the toughest questions facing policing in the 21st century. You will learn simple ways to exceed citizen expectations in every encounter that will keep you and our citizens safer. We can increase mutual respect and understanding by learning and applying the concepts of procedural justice, police legitimacy, the difference between authority and power, the power of influence, and more.

How to Animate is the first of it’s kind - a series of 26 books collecting everything I have learned so far in my 30-plus year career. It contains all of the advanced techniques that would normally take a lifetime to master! The first book, Advancing Your Animation Beyond The Basics, is the gateway to all of the others. It will show you what skills you need to learn to become a great animator. The other books in this series will teach you those skills. It doesn’t matter what style of animation you do, the techniques, theories, and mindset taught, relates to all of them.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask is right here in this funny, candid guide by acclaimed author Courtney Maum. Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book has over 150 contributors from all walks of the industry, including internationally best-selling authors Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, Lisa Ko, R. O. Kwon, Rebecca Makkai, and Ottessa Moshfegh, alongside cult favorites Sarah Gerard, Melissa Febos, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Mira Jacob.

It’s time to take your authorship to the next level. Navigate the intricacies of self-publishing and book marketing using the same methods clients pay her tens of thousands of dollars for. Get Self-Promote and Succeed and let this writer’s guide to promoting, marketing, and selling your nonfiction book be the reason your journey heads toward success.

In The Diary of a West Point Cadet, by Captain Preston Pysh, the author teaches essential West Point leadership through the most fun and unique reading of any book in its class. Each intriguing firsthand account of Preston's top 12 enthralling and hilarious stories from attending West Point, will capture your interest and imagination. The stories walk the reader down a personal journey many outsiders never see behind the thick stoney walls.

How you create a legendary school starting tomorrow. Have you ever wondered, why didn’t they teach me about this in school?

What if artificial intelligence isn’t just shaping the future—but rewiring your mind right now? In Domesticated Minds, Obadiah Switzer delivers a clear and unsettling exploration of how modern AI systems—particularly emotionally optimized, language-generating models—are quietly transforming human cognition, language, and thought. This isn’t a warning about robots taking jobs or runaway superintelligence. This is about how subtle, system-trained behaviors are becoming the new default in how we think, speak, and relate. From autocomplete to chatbots, from algorithmic feeds to ...

Struggling to write copy that converts? Wish you had a blueprint instead of guesswork? The Copywriting Playbook is your practical guide to writing better, faster, and more persuasively—without sounding pushy or robotic.

An approach to ending psychological suffering based on the ancient wisdom tradition of Advaita or self realization. This is a presentation of the essential teaching of this direct path to freedom that focuses on the recognition and realization of the true self. This audiobook identifies the root cause of suffering as the identification with the mind and the belief that the psychological construct that is considered the "person" is actual.

For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change your business, the way you learn or teach, and even your life. Werbach and Hunter explain how games can be used as a valuable tool to address serious pursuits like marketing, productivity enhancement, education, innovation, customer engagement, human resources, and sustainability.

Are you thinking about your future and wonder if you will get to live with some financial stability? Does the stock market seem a bit scary and complicated to you right now? Don’t worry; everyone has been in your shoes when they first started out. The great thing is that you are getting out there at a very young age, and you can start investing from as little as the cost of a pizza! Many adults twice your age still don’t understand the stock market—here you are trying to live a financially independent life by giving yourself an advantage.

Whether you just want a job that lets you travel the world for free, or you're looking for a career that lets you set your own hours and do what you love, this audiobook will show you how to become a tour guide with clear, practical advice and easy to follow steps. It will teach you what you need to say, how to advertise your services and how the pros make their money. It will teach you how to start your first tour, how to get repeat business after you've finished it and even what life is really like 'out there on the road.'

In 2003, Diane Tavenner cofounded the first school in what would soon become one of America’s most innovative public-school networks. Summit Public Schools has since won national recognition for its exceptional outcomes: Ninety-nine percent of students are accepted to a four-year college, and they graduate from college at twice the national average.

Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing, and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists. However, these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your own home. In fact, you don't even need to know how to play an instrument or know anything about the technology or need expensive equipment. All you need is a decent computer + inspiration, and this book will show you the rest.

Whatever your experience of learning English, this is the course to get you speaking English quickly, confidently and with no chance of failure, with one-million-best-selling Language Coach Paul Noble. Native-speaking British and US language experts will help you to perfect your pronunciation as you progress through the course. You will learn a huge range of vocabulary in no time at all and be able to quickly make your new knowledge work for you in a variety of everyday scenarios.