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This book explores the need to recognize and account for institutional-level factors that shape academic belonging, thereby improving student experience and outcomes.
From basic life and household tasks to managing your finances and health, you’ll learn how to achieve your goals in each area of your life that matters to you. You’ll also discover how to balance the different parts of your life so you don’t get overwhelmed in any one area.
Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience.The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
How do you maximize engagement when a screen sits between you and your coworkers? In Business Meeting & Event Planning For Dummies, expert author Susan Friedmann shares her tips and insider tricks for navigating virtual and hybrid gatherings without missing a beat. Armed with top-notch guidance and insider tips from Dummies, you’ll be able to streamline meetings to maximize efficiency and save money – on or offline. Create effective and exciting business events and presentations Keep on time and on budget, maintain group engagement, and use social media to your advantage Discover best practices, proven tips, and technical advice. If you’re a professional who wants to make the most of business meetings,
In this helpful resource, the authors address how student supports are delivered in validating ways, rather than focusing solely on what supports are offered, as has typically been the way institutions address the issues that at-promise students face.
This book shows you how to support students with issues like parental loss, low body image, bullying, addiction, and more—with practical language that you can use anytime you are on-the-spot with a struggling student.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech's CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.
This book covers everything you need to know to take the sting out of those monthly repayments, offering strategies for coping with personal loans, car loans, mortgages, home equity loans, and beyond.
High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict and how they break free.
Packed with practical advice, actionable steps, and inspiring success stories, this landmark book serves as an invaluable roadmap for college educators seeking to empower their students and revolutionize their institutions.
Written for homeowners with little or no knowledge of home maintenance or repair, How Your House Works is your illustrated and updated guide to understanding how appliances, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and more work.
This book combines up-to-date research with portraits of students, parents, and educators who share ways to foster positive identity development and achievement.
Strategies for creating a welcoming, equitable, and high-performing work environment Inclusive Leadership For Dummies helps leaders successfully navigate the nuances of a diverse workforce and create a culture where ALL talent can thrive. Toss out the one-size-fits-all leadership approaches, because the workforce is not a monolith—it’s a rich and beautiful tapestry made up of people from all backgrounds, cultures, skills, and experiences. This book enables you to develop the knowledge and competencies needed to lead diverse teams successfully.
.Based on the author's 30+ years of experience as a trained physical therapist treating musculoskeletal conditions, this book's nonpharmacological and nonsurgical focus allows clients to feel empowered in taking charge of their health through a plethora of resources and techniques.
The book elaborates on three major areas, which include what you can do to live a long life, what your doctor should be doing to help you achieve this goal, and what society, of which we are all part, should be doing to better accommodate a growing number of older people in the coming decades.
You’ll discover how to make the nuts-and-bolts changes to reach your potential in your new lifestyle: from finding a job you love to navigating educational opportunities and keeping yourself mentally strong.
In this guide, you will learn: What if having an agenda has no effect on whether you have a great meeting? What happens when you actually do the work in the meeting? What are the five common elements of every meeting that sucks, and how do you avoid them? Douglas and John show you how to adopt and adapt the non-obvious Meeting Mantras they developed at their company, Voltage Control.
Personal Finance For Dummies offers sound advice for all ages and levels of personal money management. It’s never too early or too late to start making sense of your finances.
Drawing from new research in social psychology, neuroscience, biology, and more, as well as from more than ten thousand people in thirty-five countries around the world who responded to his World Regret Survey-the largest of its kind ever conducted-Pink challenges the idea of regret being a drag on our self-esteem and outlook.
The author shares her own personal debt story and how she accumulated over $105,000 in credit card debt through tiny, seemingly insignificant, actions. She also demonstrates how equally small steps—when taken intentionally—can help you climb your way out of debt and into a place of financial security.
Chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what a cookbook can be, teaching home cooks of all skill levels how cooking really works.
Offering answers to challenges jointly faced by thousands of institutions, James Shulman lays out a compelling new vision of how to reduce spending while enabling schools to maintain their particular contributions.
Discover all the life hacks you’ve been missing with this perfect compendium of skills to answer all of life’s most asked questions from BuzzFeed’s popular lifestyle destination Tasty Home.
In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud leverages his expertise of human behavior, neuroscience, and business leadership to explain how the best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve performance and increase employee and customer satisfaction. In a voice that is motivating and inspiring, Dr. Cloud offers practical advice on how to manage teams, coach direct reports, and instill an organization with strong values and culture. Boundaries for Leaders: Take Charge of Your Business, Your Team, and Your Life is essential reading for executives and aspiring leaders who want to create successful companies with satisfied employees and customers, while becoming more resilient leaders themselves.
When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love.
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before. In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two bestselling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
Packed with true stories of people's regrets as well as practical takeaways for re-imagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.