Bøker av Michael Ross

In the realm of athletics, skill alone is frequently not enough to determine a winner or loser. What separates exceptional athletes from the rest are their mental toughness, resiliency, and constant determination. "Mental Toughness For Athletes" is the definitive manual for realizing your greatest potential and competing at your best in any sport.This extensive book explores the psychology of sports in great detail and provides a plethora of useful tactics and methods to assist players of all skill levels in developing unbreakable mental toughness. "Mental Toughness For Athletes" gives you the skills and mindset to face your concerns and go beyond your boundaries, from staying focused under duress to recovering from failures.Within these pages, you will learn: Proven mental training exercises and routines to enhance your concentration and emotional control.Strategies to develop an unbreakable self-belief that fuels your confidence and performance.Techniques for managing stress, anxiety, and the demands of competition.Tips for setting and achieving ambitious goals and conquering your athletic dreams."Mental Toughness For Athletes," written by an accomplished sports psychologist and performance coach, is your road map to success in both sports and life. This book is an essential travel companion on the path to becoming an unbreakable athlete, regardless of your level of competition amateur or professional. Prepare to overcome obstacles, change your thinking, and reach your greatest athletic potential. It's time to transform into the indestructible athlete you were destined to be and redefine what's possible.

Zaya's Dream is the story of a brave young refugee girl that finds hope, joy, confidence and renewed strength through an education. The beautifully illustrated children's book provides important lessons on the power of learning in overcoming obstacles and the remarkable strength of the human spirit. Zaya's Dream brings young readers into Zaya's world as she flees her homeland with her family and finds new hope at a refugee learning center. Along her journey, Zaya learns to dream again.Zaya's Dream was created through a partnership between the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and NABU, a non-profit publisher dedicated to accelerating literacy through access to mother tongue books. Worldwide, there are millions of girls and boys like Zaya who are being denied their right to go to school, to learn, to grow, to thrive. We must unite in our efforts to ensure every girl and boy on the planet - especially children impacted by the life-threatening challenges of conflict, climate change and other crises - are able to access quality learning environments.

In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated his favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves-but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. In Ross's Literary Discoveries Michael Ross brings together quotes on books, reading, and bookworms that will have you running back to the bookstore in seconds.

Two men, two dreams, two new towns on the plains, and a railroad that will determine whether the towns-one black, one white-live or die.Will Crump has survived the Civil War, Red Cloud's War, and the loss of his love, but the search for peace and belonging still eludes him. From Colorado, famed Texas Ranger Charlie Goodnight lures Will to Texas, where he finds new love, but can a Civil War sharpshooter and a Quaker find a compromise to let their love survive? When Will has a chance to join in the founding of a new town, he risks everything-his savings, his family, and his life-but it will all be for nothing if the new railroad passes them by.Luther has escaped slavery in Kentucky through Albinia, Will's sister, only to find prejudice rearing its ugly head in Indiana. When the Black Codes are passed, he's forced to leave and begin a new odyssey. Where can he and his family go to be truly free? Can they start a town owned by blacks, run by blacks, with no one to answer to? But their success will be dependent on the almighty railroad and overcoming bigotry to prove their town deserves the chance to thrive.Will's eldest sister, Julia, and her husband, Hiram, are watching the demise of their steamboat business and jump into railroads, but there's a long black shadow in the form of Jay Gould, the robber baron who ruthlessly swallows any business he considers competition. Can Julia fight the rules against women in business, dodge Gould, and hold her marriage together?The Founding tells the little-known story of the Exodusters and Nicodemus, the black town on the plains of Kansas, and the parallel story of Will's founding of Lubbock, Texas, against the background of railroad expansion in America. A family reunited, new love discovered, the quest for freedom, the rise of two towns. In the end, can they reach Across the Great Divide? The Founding is the exciting conclusion to the series.

Last night I tried not to be shy, just as an experiment for one night - and with catastrophic results.17 year old Callum is proud to be shy and he thinks you should be too, because what this noisy, crazy world needs right now is a bit more self-restraint. The Shy Manifesto is a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy drama about a shy boy who is fed up of constantly being told to come out of his shell. Tonight he is to address an audience of radical shy comrades and incite the meek to finally rise up and inherit the earth. But memories of the previous night's drunken escapades at a classmate's end-of-term party keep intruding, and threaten to upend the fragile identity he has created for himself.Callum delivers his manifesto, exploring adolescence, isolation, self-loathing and sexuality. His irreverent lightness of touch, and multi- rolling as the other characters in his story endear him to the audience, encouraging us that we, too, can be proud to be shy.The Shy Manifesto is a solo piece that takes the experience of being shy as its central subject- something which has rarely been explored in drama, and yet which touches on many audience members lives.

In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated his favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves¿but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. In Ross's Key Discoveries Michael Ross brings together quotes on wisdom, money, and happiness from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.

A classic WW2 POW memoir of capture and escape.

Martin Russell spends his last £2 coin on a bus ride out of the city with barely enough motivation to face the future. Then a chance incident near his home triggers a sequence of positive opportunities for him. His life, unexpectedly, could not be better. That is, until the phone call informing him his friend Hannah has disappeared, and people's lives will now change forever. And who can be trusted? Certainly not the obsessive Nash, or the slimy underworld figure they call The Chemist. How about John Staples, better known as Pin-up? Is his renewed friendship with Martin genuine or suspicious? What's going on with Zachary and Bobby? One's a schoolboy drug dealer, the other is a disgraced ex-copper. What could they possibly have in common? Why are their intertwined stories entitled A Face Not Seen? For the answer to that question, you would have to ask Xenon. But that's a problem, because no-one in their right mind ever questions Xenon...

and Henry James and Bernard Malamud on Florence, Venice, and Rome. The analysis points to Florence frequently being depicted in terms of binary oppositions, including Hebraism versus Hellenism, past versus present, stasis versus movement, and light versus darkness.

This book will guide the planner, developer, architect or conservationist through the UK heritage legislation, explaining the policy and procedures which govern the protection of historic buildings.

Helps you build and improve grammar skills. This book builds on the success of "Grammar Matters", and enables students grasp the fundamental principles of grammar by providing simple explanations of grammatical terms and usage. It engages readers in their learning through the use of real world examples, humour, regular peer, and self assessment.