Tag: Leap

With Wings Extended A Leap into the Wood Duck’s World


Free Download Greg Hoch, "With Wings Extended: A Leap into the Wood Duck’s World "
English | ISBN: 1609386957 | 2020 | 190 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
A century ago, many people had given up on the wood duck, dooming it to extinction along with the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. Today, it’s one of the most familiar and most harvested ducks in the eastern half of the country, and one of America’s great conservation success stories.

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China in Space The Great Leap Forward (2024)


Free Download Brian Harvey, "China in Space: The Great Leap Forward"
English | 2013 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 146145042X | PDF | 416,6 mb
This book details China’s current space program and looks at its ambitious future. It includes coverage of much generally unknown information on the missions, personalities, spacecraft, launchers, budgets, and future plans.

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LEAP Learning English for Academic Purposes, Reading and Writing 4 (Advanced) with My eLab


Free Download LEAP: Learning English for Academic Purposes, Reading and Writing 4 (Advanced) with My eLab By Julia Williams
2019 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 2761352289 | PDF | 47 MB
Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) uses high-interest international content to prepare students for the English academic world. The texts encourage students to apply critical thinking skills as they engage in academic reading and writing and listening and speaking tasks across a range of disciplines. Each strand (Reading and Writing, Listening and Speaking) follows a parallel chapter structure that builds from a warm-up activity to increasingly challenging skill-building assignments and a final speaking or written presentation that synthesizes all the skills learned. Features: ¿Academic vocabulary development, including two Vocabulary Build activities in every chapter, gives students ample opportunity to expand their vocabulary. ¿Three authentic readings per chapter prepare students for the text length and genres they will encounter in academic courses. ¿Wide range of audio presents different viewpoints to encourage students to think critically while developing comprehension of academic content. ¿Linear and guided writing tasks take a process approach to guide students in writing various types of essays and assignments in each chapter. ¿The LEAP Companion Website Plus provides self-graded exercises for reading, listening, vocabulary, and grammar. Also includes teacher access to answer keys, teaching notes, tests, and a gradebook to track student progress.

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Leap Why It’s Time to Let Go to Get Ahead in Your Career


Free Download Leap: Why It’s Time to Let Go to Get Ahead in Your Career by Jessica Galica
English | September 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1639080554 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 0.51 MB
More than three million women left the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, and even more are considering leaving or downshifting. Corporate women feel misled. Told they could "have it all," women instead feel dissatisfied and exasperated. They have not lost ambition or dreams for their career, but they are reckoning with their corporate reality: environments that are designed for men, the burden of caretaking labor at home, and bias in hiring and promotions. These factors leave many women stuck-feeling unfulfilled but fearful about making the leap to reinvent their careers.

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The Leap to Leader


Free Download The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1647824893 | 196 Pages | EPUB (True) | 1 MB
The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But you’re ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization’s strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way.

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