Bücher von Kate Russell

Remember that watery, tasteless tomato you got from the grocery store? How about those strawberries that grew fuzz faster than you could eat them?If you grow some of those groceries at home, you will be amazed at how much better they taste!Imagine opening your backdoor onto a garden filled with attractive herbs and berry bushes, where fruit and nut trees share space with bell peppers, pole beans, artichokes, and the sweetest, most flavorful tomatoes you've ever eaten, still warm from the sun. Where a quick snip of parsley and basil, some dusty garlic cloves, and an onion bulb are free for the taking. You can't buy that in a grocery store. But you can grow it at home.And this book is going to help you do just that!You don't need to know anything about gardening. You don't need to rip out your landscape. You can do it over time, a little here, a little there. Stop Wasting Your Yard! shows you how simple it is to transform your ornamental landscape into an edible sanctuary.

Throughout the Universe, Ancient Aliens travel the Grid, a slipstream wormhole-connected portal system. However, the descendants of the creators of the Grid have forgotten their shared heritage and some live by plundering, pillaging, and murdering.Vashla is one such space pirate. She lives on her own planet, VaLinta. Her cousins, Zorn and Rakal, are estranged. Zorn rules over his polluted mining planet called Zamba with malice, cruelty, and careless disregard for his expendable workforce. Rakal now lives on Earth after partnering Tam, a dual-gender citizen. He''s adopted a peaceful life, although always on guard to protect his human family from the threat of his cousins in space.Gardt Ness lives on Ghaur, an overpopulated planet where the Government rules every aspect of the citizens'' lives. Gardt, a trained space pilot who has returned from a failed mission, is now an outcast within his world community. As a non-citizen, he has only the right to live in the home he grew up in, tending the needs of his estranged wife, her new husband, and their family. Gardt wants to warn the people of Ghaur of the dangers in space. He fears the folly of a colonization program and is frustrated when his warnings are ignored.Orthama is a dead planet with a scientific outpost space station orbiting it. The scientists are working to develop a breeding program to repopulate the dead world once it becomes habitable. The Elders on the space station research their records of the ancient past as they continue their experiments.Zorn wants his cousin, Vashla, to be his partner, but when she rejects him in favour of Gardt Ness, he retaliates. Meanwhile, the reunion of Gardt with his former captor, Vashla, sets in place a chain of events that culminates in a battle between all five worlds - Earth, VaLinta, Zamba, Ghaur and Orthama - to survive against a common foe.

Are you getting the most out of your team? Do you find managing people stressful? Does your team achieve the results you expect of them?As leaders, we need our teams to perform well to ensure success - whether that's meeting budget, achieving goals or making money. If we are stressed out, we can start to focus on all of the things that go wrong. We notice when people make mistakes and when they let us down. We might inadvertently create a culture of dobbing and gossip. Drawing from her extensive experience as a mediator and conflict expert, Kate Russell has developed a model which identifies how to create a harmonious and thriving workplace.In Leaders Who Lead, you will discover that to get the most out of our teams we need to focus on our team's strengths and all the good work that they do. People need to be appreciated, trusted and respected and it's the leader's responsibility to set this standard. This book is for leaders who love their teams.