Cooking Up Change is both a celebration of Black history and an invitation to experience it through the lens of food. With biographies of figures who shaped important events and mouthwatering recipes that carry their essence, this book will inspire future leaders with real stories of trailblazers who helped to change the world.

One event per month is highlighted. After sharing the story of a person related to each event--such as Dorothy Height for International Women's Day in March--Platt pairs each moment with a delectable recipe that carries the essence of the occasion. All the stories and recipes featured are inspired by his grandmother; the person who guided him in unearthing his Black heritage and moved him to fall in love with cooking.

Each page features engaging color illustrations from Alleanna Harris.

Recipes include:

• Macaroni and cheese for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Key lime pie for Black History Month
• Deep dish peach cobbler for International Women's Day
• Grilled fish for Jackie Robinson Day
• Molasses cookies for Memorial Day
• Red hibiscus drink for Juneteenth
• Apple pie for Independence Day
• Potato salad for the Great Migration
• Sweet potato pie for Labor Day
• Pork chops for Black Poetry Day
• Green gumbo for Election Day
• Coconut cake for Kwanzaa

Praise for Recipes for Change:
Beautifully weaves together important Black history with delicious recipes. --Kwame Onwuachi, James Beard Award winner and Top Chef contestant

From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Black Lives Matter movement, food has played a vital role in strengthening and shaping Black empowerment. Join Michael Platt on a stunning visual journey as he retells moving and authentic accounts of 12 months in Black history. Featuring mouthwatering recipes accompanied by biographies of important figures, Recipes for Change will inspire leaders of the future with real stories of trailblazers who helped to change the world.

Recipes include:

• The Black Panther Party's Creamy Grits
• The Greensboro Sit-In's Cherry Protest Pie
• The Selma March's Carry-On Cornbread
• The Underground Railroad's Freedom Fish
• The Freedom Riders' Gumbo
• Juneteenth's Red Ice Pops
• Bakers Against Racism's Sweet Potato Hand Pie
• Martin Luther King's Favorite Pecan Pie
• Paschal's Fried Chicken
• The Black Power Salute's Olympic Gold Cookies
• The Christmas Sacrifice's Banana Pudding
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott's Pound Cake

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals how brain science can transform how we think about leadership, team-building, decision-making, innovation, marketing, and more.

Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers.

The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative director Michael Platt explains how.

Over two decades as a professor and practitioner in neuroscience, psychology, and marketing, Platt's pioneering research has deepened our understanding of how key areas of the brain work--and how that understanding can be applied in business settings.

Neuroscience is providing answers to many of leadership's most vexing challenges. In The Leader's Brain, Platt explains:
Why two managers, when presented with the same set of information, make very different decisions;Why some companies (Apple) build strong social and emotional connections with their customers and others do not (Samsung); How some of the most significant events in sports history, like the Miracle on Ice, contain insights for how to build a team; Why even some of the most visionary business leaders can make disastrous decisions, and how to fix that.
The Leader's Brain relates findings like these, and many more, to help enhance leadership in an ever-shifting world entering a new normal.

In this fast-reading and engaging guide, you'll gain actionable insights you can put into practice as a leader. You will also learn what's going on in your team's brains when they are working in sync with one another, how you can tweak your message delivery to make sure others hear you, how to encourage greater creativity and innovation, and much more.

Combining a fun cookbook with Michael's mission to bring awareness to food and poverty, Sweets for a Cause will quickly become a favorite teen baking book that builds skills in the kitchen, celebrates history, and inspires activism. The desserts recipes collection includes Michael's signature Freedom Fighter Cupcakes themed around figures from the history of civil rights and activism--Martin Luther King Jr., Grandpa Kitchen, José Andrés, Maya Angelou, Malala Yousafzai, Rubin Hurricane Carter, Harriet Tubman, and more--as well as chapters on pies, tarts, cakes, snacks, and breads. Each dessert features stunning photography, a list of ingredients, easy-to-do step-by-step instructions, and insightful tips from Michael that will make baking tons of fun.

Truly a cookbook for all ages, whether baking with kids or wanting to support Michael's incredible mission, adding Michael's Desserts: Sweets for a Cause to your collection will bring hope to heart and tasty treats to your table. For teaching your teenager to bake--or for those whose kids cook already--Michael serves up sweet recipes for desserts and a drive towards social activism!

Paperback; 128 pages; 7.5 in W by 9.5 in H.

In the fall of 1598, the First Secretary of the United Italian Republic, the nigh-immortal Machiavelli sets out for England on a diplomatic mission, in hopes of enlisting Shakespeare in his grand enterprise. Then ensues a correspondence on Shakespeare's first Henriad, which moving to the second Henriad, intensifies, and come spring, as Shakespeare works on Henry V and as they grow close, Shakespeare invites Machiavelli to Stratford to converse face to face. But will it be eye to eye?

From their lively engagement, thick with fell incensed thoughts, the wiser sort may discover both how much these mighty opposites-one the founder of modern political philosophy and the other the greatest modern poet-both agree and disagree, on how cities may prosper and souls may thrive.

FELL INCENSED POINTS OF MIGHTY OPPOSITES

Everywhere today human life is judged guilty if it swims and innocent if it drowns.

Xenophon knew Socrates. Xenophon looked up to Socrates. You're no Xenophon.

... though tyrannical Richard III is repulsive to your audience, that only swaddles the insights in his witty use of Christian teachings to justify his crimes, to mock Christians, and to blaspheme God, from detection, and leaves them a foundling on the doorsteps of the few, and shields you, the only begetter.

No...evil is not always the best policy.

Richard II made tyrannical by divine right; Richard III made a tyrant by damnation from birth; Henry VI rendered contemptible by clerical education; and the people acquiescent to the tyrannical 'powers that be.' Could a more powerful case against Christianity be made than your Histories!

Your 'comedies' ... so devoid of merriment. And your tragedies...none.

It is not true I recognize no noble failures. I recognized Cesare Borgia. His failure to unite Italy...and drive out the barbarians, was the noblest failure in modern times.... Only fortune defeated Cesare. As to tragedy, what is more tragic than Christianity?

You say a lot about murder, how good it can be, but nothing about death. The men I put on stage, like the ones I know, like myself, think about death. Does something or nothing come after? We don't know, not for sure. We wish we did. And we think about it. It's there all the time. After a fit of anger, a rush of activity, an hour of love, after the day's labor, or the evening's festivity, there it is waiting for us. And that is why my characters always give a speech as they are dying.

Demand me nothing.

So apt for philosophy, were he not so unsure of truth.

♥ THANK YOU FOR A REVIEW I WISH YOU EVERY SUCCESS ♥

Unearth a range of beautiful forest wildlife and incredible scenes with this relaxing coloring book
Animal lovers everywhere will adore this charming coloring book.
This book definitely contains a rich variety of awesome Coloring pictures, which are sure to delight and thrill any Animal loving kid with hours-and-hours of Coloring Fun.
Why You Will Love this Book -
Relaxing Coloring Pages
Beautiful Illustrations
Great for All Skill Levels
Makes a Wonderful Gift