'Useful, practical and non-preachy' Financial Times

Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality everywhere - that is more than the GDPs of the US and China combined. But it is so much more than that. Gender balance is one of the best levers we can pull to build better managers and leaders at every level, improve team performance and create better cultures where everyone can thrive.

In the Penguin Experts: Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace, Ann Francke, the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), introduces her solution to combating the problems at the heart of the continued imbalance and offers clear, actionable strategies for making a positive change in your organisation.

This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever.

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for todays communication challenges. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversationespecially difficult onesleads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. Youll learn how to:

• Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you
• Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it
• Communicate more effectively across digital mediums

Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, Crucial Conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a Crucial Conversation again.

Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources and Resources, is the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Judith Rubins landmark 1999 text, the first to describe the history of art in both assessment and therapy, and to clarify the differences between artists or teachers who provide ""therapeutic"" art activities, psychologists or social workers who request drawings, and those who are trained as art therapists to do a kind of work which is similar, but qualitatively different. This new edition contains downloadable resources with over 400 still images and 250 edited video clips for much richer illustration than is possible with figures alone; an additional chapter describing the work that art therapists do; and new material on education with updated information on standards, ethics, and informing others. To further make the information accessible to practitioners, students, and teachers, the author has included a section on treatment planning and evaluation, an updated list of resources  selected professional associations and proceedings  references, expanded citations, and clinical vignettes and illustrations. Three key chapters describe and expand the work that art therapists do: ""People We Help,"" deals with all ages; ""Problems We Treat,"" focuses on different disorders and disabilities; and ""Places We Practice,"" reflects the expansion of art therapy beyond its original home in psychiatry. The authors own introduction to the therapeutic power of art  as a person, a worker, and a parent  will resonate with both experienced and novice readers alike. Most importantly, however, this book provides a definition of art therapy that contains its history, diversity, challenges, and accomplishments.

Discovering that you are pregnant can be both exciting and daunting and there will be hundreds of questions you want answered. Produced in conjunction with Practical Parenting magazine, this authoritative and accessible book tells you all you need to know in an easy-to-understand and reassuring way. It includes:

-A detailed week-by-week guide to your baby's physical, mental and sensory development from the moment of conception through to birth.

-Life-size artworks, photographs from the womb and the latest in ultrasound 3D scans to show you how your baby is changing and growing.

-Advice on health, emotional wellbeing, antenatal care, diet and exercise to keep you and your baby in tip top condition.

-Expert information plus Practical Parenting readers' anecdotes give the most up-to-date and authoritative account of what women really experience and want to know.

-Explanations and advice on labour and birth to ensure you are well prepared for the big day.

Dame Karlene Davis is one of the most eminent midwifery professionals at London South Bank University. As general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, she was also Britain's first black female trade union leader. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has remained a steadfast advocate for the rights of women to good quality maternity care, and an outspoken champion for midwives.

Karlene has also worked to improve midwifery services internationally. In 1997, she was appointed director of the World Health Organisation's Collaborating Centre for Midwifery, with a remit to advance midwifery practice and education worldwide and improve services for women. She also represented Europe in the International Confederation of Midwives for 11 years, serving as its president from 2005 to 2008. In 2001, she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in recognition of her services to midwifery and the NHS.