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  • How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be

    Josh Kaufman

    eBook (Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC, Oct. 23, 2018)
    A survival manual for ambitious artists entrepreneurs ADVENTURERSYou have a Hydra: a grand, ambitious project you’ve always wanted to tackle. It feels overwhelming, unconquerable. Chop off one of a Hydra’s heads, and two more grow in its place.How will you ever defeat such a terrifying monstrosity – and live to tell the tale? In this illuminating fable, productivity expert Josh Kaufman explores the uncertainty and fear inherent in facing down any ambitious challenge, from starting a new business to completing a work of art.The risks involved can never be eliminated, but they can be understood, anticipated, and mitigated. Armed with an adventurer's insights into tackling unknown and fearsome challenges, you can tame a project of epic proportions.How to Fight a Hydra is an essential handbook for artists, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs tired of ignoring the call to adventure. So prepare for battle, brave soul. Draw your sword. Light your torch. In the darkness ahead, your Hydra awaits.

  • How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be

    Josh Kaufman

    Paperback (worldlywisdomventures.com, Oct. 21, 2018)
    A survival manual for ambitious artists entrepreneurs ADVENTURERSYou have a Hydra: a grand, ambitious project you’ve always wanted to tackle. It feels overwhelming, unconquerable. Chop off one of a Hydra’s heads, and two more grow in its place.How will you ever defeat such a terrifying monstrosity – and live to tell the tale? In this illuminating fable, productivity expert Josh Kaufman explores the uncertainty and fear inherent in facing down any ambitious challenge, from starting a new business to completing a work of art.The risks involved can never be eliminated, but they can be understood, anticipated, and mitigated. Armed with an adventurer's insights into tackling unknown and fearsome challenges, you can tame a project of epic proportions.How to Fight a Hydra is an essential handbook for artists, creative professionals, and entrepreneurs tired of ignoring the call to adventure. So prepare for battle, brave soul. Draw your sword. Light your torch. In the darkness ahead, your Hydra awaits.

  • Joe Kaufman's How We are Born, How We Grow, How Our Bodies Work, and How We Learn

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Books, May 1, 1975)
    Introduces the parts of the body and their functions and discusses relevant topics such as health, heredity, dreams, and food.
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  • Joe Kaufman's What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float?

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Pr, June 1, 1971)
    Colorful drawings and text explain the way in which one hundred devices work ranging from clocks and bicycles to escalators and lunar modules
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  • Joe Kaufman's Book About Busy People and How They Do Their Work

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Pr, Sept. 1, 1973)
    Text and illustrations introduce such occupations as firearms, doctor, zoo keeper, and circus clown.
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  • Joe Kaufman's Big Book About the Human Body

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Pr, Aug. 1, 1987)
    Introduces the parts of the body and their functions and discusses relevant topics such as health, heredity, dreams, and food.

  • Joe Kaufman's Wings, Paws, Hoofs and Flippers: A Book About Animals

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Press/Western Publishing Co., Sept. 1, 1981)
    A brief introduction, with plentiful illustrations, to the world of animals, organized under such chapter headings as "Early Ideas about Animals," "Mammals," "Domestic Cats," "Rodents," "Training Circus Animals," and "Why Birds Migrate."
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  • Joe Kaufman's About the big sky, about the high hills, about the rich earth ... and the deep sea

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Press, March 15, 1978)
    An illustrated introduction to the earth sciences, including the stars and planets, weather, rocks and minerals, and water.

  • Joe Kaufman's Big Book About Earth and Space, A golden Book

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Western Publ. Co., March 15, 1987)
    Children Earth and Space

  • Joe Kaufman's Slimy, Creepy, Crawly Creatures

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Pr, Aug. 1, 1985)
    Teaches children about the natural world of animals, from arachnids and amphibians to fish and reptiles
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  • Things in My House

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Goldencraft, Dec. 1, 1984)
    Labeled drawings show a hammer, pencil, shoe, clock, umbrella, block, hat, coat, toothbrush, ruler, candle, lamp, scissors, orange, puppet, and window

  • What Makes it go? What Makes it work? What Makes it Fly? What Makes it Float?

    Joe Kaufman

    Hardcover (Golden Press, March 15, 1971)
    While the information in this book is somewhat dated (published in 1971) it contains good cut-away pictures and explainantions of basic everyday methods of transportation (boats, planes, cars) as well as telephones, rockets, etc. that are easy to understand for the younger child (not toddler). ( Amazon customer)