Written by service learning expert Cathryn Berger Kaye and celebrity ocean spokesperson Philippe Cousteau, Going Blue educates young people about the earth’s water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action. With lively photos and practical suggestions, the book helps teens plan and do a meaningful service project that benefits our planet’s water system. Along the way, readers learn about issues such as clean water access, coral reef damage, runoff pollution, trash islands, factory fishing, bottled water, and much more. This combination of academic learning and community service is at the heart of the fast-growing teaching strategy known as service learning. Going Blue is divided into the five stages of service learning: investigation, preparation, action, reflection, and demonstration. Special sections include a history of ocean exploration with a profile of Jacques Cousteau; an interview with Philippe Cousteau; stories of young people around the world addressing water issues; book and Web resources; and an afterword for adults.
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, Saint Louis University, course: Time Orientation, language: English, abstract: Many psychologists agree that race is a socially created construct, used to categorize individuals into groups for social, political, and economical purposes. Despite its definitional ambiguity, race has a number of behavioral, affective, and cognitive implications within contemporary American society. This study seeks to provide evidence for the idea that the way that Black Americans view their racial group membership (racial ideology), is associated with how they view and organize time (time orientation). Thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between racial ideology and time orientation. Furthermore, this study seeks to investigate the degree to which relationships between racial ideology and time orientation might be modified by self-construal.
Encourage teens to learn about the water crisis and take action to protect and restore local waterways. Whether it’s in a drinking glass, flowing downstream, or miles underground, water is everywhere. And it’s essential for life on Earth. But our water planet is in crisis. Going Blue educates teens about our water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action. With color photos and illustrations, along with practical suggestions and activities, readers follow stories of young people around the world addressing water concerns and learn about issues such as clean water access, coral reef damage, runoff pollution, trash islands, factory fishing, and bottled water. The second edition of Going Blue includes: current statistics and updated facts new stories about real teens a focus on restoration and sustainability COVID’s impact on ocean trash information about setting up a hydration station at school updates on the restoration efforts ten years after the Gulf oil spill and on the Flint water crisis Teens are helping our environment by going green, and they can help rescue our ocean and waterways by going blue.
Demolished: We had one glorious night of passion and I fled, never expecting to see him again. Little did I realize the guy who put Blue Bay in his rear-view mirror was returning home. Shocked is the only way to describe what I felt when I saw him again…and arousal. Leveled: I was so tired of being the obedient daughter. Cue bad boy tattoo artist Jamie Owens, shirtless in a tool belt. Talk about the perfect opportunity to do something for myself. After I hired him to work on my home…hot days turned to scorching nights. Hammered: When I walked into Blue Bay’s pub, I sought out the biggest and baddest. The kiss we shared threw him off…just like I was hoping it’d throw off my stalker. But the guy I kissed…Oh boy!
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: A, Saint Louis University, language: English, abstract: The connections that exist between people and their primary caregivers early in childhood subsequently lay the groundwork for how they view attachment to relationship partners throughout life. Adult attachment is widely researched as an explanation for why people react to life situations in certain ways, and these explanations are portrayed as being relatively unchanging over time. Therefore, people with secure attachment styles are said to adjust well in all types of situations whereas people with insecure attachment styles adjust poorly.
A beautiful, informative first glance at the world of parrots. In this addition to the acclaimed About... series, author and educator Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children what parrots are, what they do, and how they live. With beautifully detailed, realistic paintings, noted wildlife illustrator John Sill introduces readers to the diverse population of parrots—from the colorful blue lorikeets of the Polynesian Islands to the rosy-faced lovebirds of southwestern Africa. An afterword provides more details for further exploration.
Cathryn Fox is always hot, sexy and delicious." - Lisa Renee Jones, New York Times bestselling author the of The Inside Out series. Veterinarian, Reese Scott can't believe it when her dossier contains vouchers to South Africa to go cage diving with sharks. And when not being intimidated by sea creatures, she's supposed to be having hot monkey sex with a stranger. So why would her best friend Cole Rayburn be involved in her adventure? Except when Cole takes his shirt off, and she sees he's filled out in all the right places, she can't help but want a closer look...touch. Too bad he'll always see her as the tomboy from next door. When she finds herself inside a shark cage and in his arms, she knows she has to do something about it. But what if she tries to seduce her best friend and he rejects her? More importantly...what if he doesn't? Each book in the Dossier series is STANDALONE: * Private Reserve * House Rules * Under Pressure * Big Catch * Brazilian Fantasy * Improper Proposal
These prose poems move by associative leaps and take their inspirations from cultural and personal icons. A shadow narrative moors the collection in the perspective of a woman who survives a difficult childhood to comprehend the paradoxes of adult life.
Teach elementary kids about the water crisis and empower them to take action. Water is one of the most critical issues of our time. Make a Splash! provides a kid-friendly overview of Earth's ocean and waterways and how kids can help protect and restore this water planet. Filled with facts about our waters, their inhabitants, and the threats they face, this book has inspiring stories of kids in action and ideas for kids to make a difference. In fun and age-appropriate language, kids are introduced to ways they can be water changemakers and advocates. Youth groups, science teachers, and teachers of restoration, sustainability, and environmentalism units will find this book to be a valuable resource. Also included are fluid facts, splashy sources, bubbly books, watery websites, and a glossary. New in the second edition of Make a Splash!: updated facts and statistics the importance of restoration and sustainability over conservation an update on restoration efforts 10 years after the 2010 Gulf oil spill and the Flint water crisis more information about ocean acidification advice for kids on creating an elevator pitch for their going blue efforts Authored by international educational (more...)
Afterimages is a journey of the eye, what the eye observes and what the eye cannot forget. Cathryn Hankla writes, the world I inhabit is a visual question, marked by a balancing line of light on distant water, a mirror horizon. These poems balance the death of family members against the monologue of a woman who comes to life under the coroner’s knife. Memories of a life-saving class counterbalance the image of drowned lovers in the film Women in Love. Photography, painting, and film all figure as arts that the mind uses to transcend loss and that the memory uses as aids to preserve the lost. Hankla’s eye for detail—soft down between the shoulder blades of a young cousin, silvery waves in the hair of two aunts remembering their flapper days and displaying the braids they bobbed—is as immediate as a touch on the shoulder and as fascinating as light flickering on a movie screen. There is no such thing as perfect communication as our train whistles north through fields of broken pines that my eyes climb branch after broken branch to their needled widow’s walks. I look out over this landscape, panning through the movie it becomes, and my mind wanders until I see, more clearly than ever before, your faces. Each window frames a changing composition, sometimes my own face, that registers only as afterimage. Hankla’s poems are a changing composition of the dead and the living, of black and white challenged by the light falling on peach, plum, and green apple in a Vermeer painting. Ultimately, these poems offer us, in the poet’s words, “courage not to save / our best for bitter ends” and “strength / to repeat that this earth wouldn’t have us forget.”
The blue elephant and a special friend is a journey where a girl named Patricia ultimately finds peace, tranquillity and stability in the weirdest places. Luckily, with the help of a couple of toy elephants, and Trish?s positive, steadfast attitude and the capable assistance of wonderful health professionals, family and friends, her situation would never be quite that bad.In the past Trish had endured cancer therapy and limb salvage surgery for Ewing?s Tumour. Trish is now a young adult, five years post-treatment and cancer-free. The most important aspects of life are to be healthy and happy. My personal wish is that this modern world of rapid change will find a cure to cancer and life threatening illnesses.
Cathryn Fox is one of my go to authors for sexy romance. Her books always make my heart flutter and my pulse race." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely. The last thing I expected to find in my dossier was sexy stockings, a plane voucher to London and an invitation to dance at a gentleman's club. I'm a quiet museum curator for God's sake. No way, no how am I going to slide down a pole for a bunch of over privileged, narcissistic men—until I see Sean Fraser, my childhood crush, enter the establishment. Since I'm no longer that overweight teen with braces and mousey hair, there is no way he'll recognize me. Hmmm... Maybe I'll give him a fake name—and a private dance. That ought to make him finally notice me, right? What the hell is Kennedy Lane doing sliding down a pole in a private Gentlemen's club? I'm not sure, and while I know she's hands off, I want her. I've always wanted her. She might have been too young for me back in the day. Now, not so much. Hands off leads to hands on after a private dance, and while Kennedy spends the weekend pretending to be someone she isn't, I know full well who she is. And I'm not quite ready to let her hang up her stockings when the show is over. Each book in the Dossier series is STANDALONE: * Private Reserve * House Rules * Under Pressure * Big Catch * Brazilian Fantasy * Improper Proposal
“Cathryn Fox always writes with imagination, humor, and heat. She never disappoints.” – Sasha White, New York Times bestselling author. Daycare teacher Piper Young has five of the best friends in the world. Even though they did get her to agree to their crazy plan. Each friend is given a dossier outlining an adventure they must go on to get out of their dating ruts. When Piper finds herself in Brazil and sets eyes on the sexy billionaire her friends have in mind for her–she’s all in. Hell yes, Best Friend of the Year Award goes to... Except, there’s a glitch. Turns out she’s there to babysit his kid. Who the hell put that in her dossier? The point is to escape her normal life. Yeah, no award now. But the dark and mysterious widower is so much more than she could ever imagined, and the chemistry between them is off-the-charts. And now he’s using their two weeks to try to convince her to stay. Each book in the Dossier series is STANDALONE: * Private Reserve * House Rules * Under Pressure * Big Catch * Brazilian Fantasy * Improper Proposal
This award-winning beginner's guide to the natural world of fish from the creators of the About... series was named an "NSTA Recommends" book. Noted educator and author Cathryn Sill uses simple, easy-to-understand language to teach children the basic characteristics of what fish are, how they swim, breathe, and reproduce, and explains the different ways they protect themselves from predators. With beautifully detailed, realistic paintings, noted wildlife illustrator John Sill introduces readers to the diversity of the fish population, from an Arctic char to a porcupine fish. An afterword provides more details, inspiring further learning. This book is ideal for early childhood and elementary units in science, environment, and marine life.
Fox delivers sexy, smart stories with a triple dose of sizzle." –Samanthe Beck, USA TODAY bestselling author Harper Clark is lost. That is, until she's whisked to the castle to meet a welcoming family and is told they weren't expecting her for another week. Evidently, she was meant to be a surprise for someone. Since her friend sent her on a sexy adventure and didn't share the details, Harper figures she's right where she needs to be. Billionaire Will Thomas is back in England for a big surprise. Could Harper be it? One thing he is sure of...he wants her for himself. It's been a long time since he's been attracted to a woman like this. Harper takes one look at Will and her body burns. He's tall, hot, and looks at her with hunger in his eyes. But giving in to their desires means all kinds of complications for them both... Each book in the Dossier series is STANDALONE: * Private Reserve * House Rules * Under Pressure * Big Catch * Brazilian Fantasy * Improper Proposal
I just inherited an apple orchard in Nova Scotia. That’s definitely a sentence I never would have imagined saying in my life. But for this New York socialite, the orchard is a chance to prove to my family—and myself—that I can do more, be more. I may not exactly know what I want out of life yet, but I’m determined to stick to something. And no, I’m not talking about the crabby bee farmer next door. Here’s what I know: if I can’t tough out one full month of a rooster waking me at sunrise, a poolhall parrot with a foul mouth, and a llama that swings both ways, not only will I lose my self-respect, I’ll lose my trust fund too. What I don’t know is why my neighbor with the bad attitude and a whole lot of sexy seems hellbent on sending me home. Well, he can buzz the hell off. At least until I accidentally stumble into his apiary, and things start to get a whole lot stickier...
A sexy category romance novella from Entangled's Brazen imprint... Good girl, meet bad cowboy... Marketing Tycoon Tyler Mackenzie, a.k.a. Wildman Mac, has a knack for knowing what people want and, more importantly, what they need...so when he decides to show sweet and sexy yoga instructor Jess Gray that she's the one for him, he puts a seductive campaign into motion. When Mac defines the terms for the week and insists she do everything he says, Jess can't help but be intrigued. Since this good girl wants to break free and do something naughty, she agrees to his terms and soon finds herself embarking on a sexual journey that knows no limits. For Jess this is one week of living out her fantasies, but Mac is determined to make this wild ride last forever.
Bestselling Australian author Cathryn Hein returns with a moving and uplifting rural romance about facing hard truths and moving on in pursuit of life. Can this love story find a new beginning? After landing a major cookbook deal, star food blogger Tash Ranger swaps city life for the family farm. But Tash's homecoming is bittersweet, for now she can no longer avoid seeing her best friend Maddy, who was severely injured in a riding accident. No one knows that Maddy and Tash had a deep falling out and with every visit Tash must pretend to be the friend everyone believes her to be. Patrick Lawson, Maddy's fiancé, battles despair and hope daily as Maddy lies imprisoned in her body. When Tash returns to Castlereagh Road with her joy and boundless appetite for life, he realises finally what his loved ones have been trying to tell him for months – that Maddy wouldn't want him to throw his life away. It's time to move on. But letting go is no easy feat. Can these two friends step out of the shadow of Maddy's tragic life and accept love, or is the past forever destined to dictate their future?
The universe of time Book three Caassy and the tribe continue on fighting in space and also on earth. The newer dragons come into their own fighting all of the cloned dragons and a race of beings unknown to us.It is a live or die situation, with the tribe moving off earth to space. And out here still fighting for all they own, as their numbers diminish due to infiltration of traitors. It is about the tribes fight to save the last remaining. Flora and fauna on all of earth and move these through time to another planet, whilst the earth and goes back to be remade anew. They finally track down all of the traitors, family related and foreign, whilst one chilli eating dragon shows off comic antics in desperation to best his familys older queen in a chilli eating contest, leaving a planet melted as aftermath of a BBQ.
In this powerful poetic sequence wrought of deft tercets, Cathryn Hankla navigates the slippery, ever-changing territory between art and life. The death of the poet's father by car accident is the focal event for the collection, and all the poems reflect the collision of the physical and transcendent. Whether describing the abandoned nest of a Carolina wren or the excavation of the Kennewick Man, Hankla sounds a muted grief in these lines. But with wit, channeled through language and rhythm, the poet keeps traveling forward: by car and by camel, from San Francisco to Spain, with many stops between. As she takes us with her, finally off the map into regions of the interior, we discover what is at once weighty and wondrous, like ghostly snapshots left behind in a camera: "Everything and everyone who have carried / Us to this place." Only Thyme I pull you out by the roots, fierce love, But you still smell of thyme and lemon. What were you thinking, to die Instead of wintering, after so many seasons Of spring shoots and new greening? Surely your gnarled, woody fibers Are more alive than they look. Yet after patient weeks of rain, nothing Grows except the cutting I potted, A woolly patch dwarfed by purple basil. Making space for new plants, I pull up Withered stems, baring your roots, and The scent runs through me, like music Pouring through a sieve Of consciousness, leaving only this. "Only Thyme" published in Last Exposures: A Sequence of Poems by Cathryn Hankla. Copyright 2004 by Cathryn Hankla. All rights reserved.
This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habitats, with herbaceous, shrub, or young forest cover, are disappearing as abandoned farmland, pastures, and cleared forest patches return to forest. There are many questions about “why, what, where, and how” to manage for early successional habitats. In this book, expert scientists and experienced land managers synthesize knowledge and original scientific work to address questions on such topics as wildlife, water, carbon sequestration, natural versus managed disturbance, future scenarios, and sustainable creation and management of early successional habitat in a landscape context.
Negative history is a legal term referring to decisions that have been overruled or questioned in some way by an appellate court. Cathryn Hankla’s Negative History alludes to such ambiguity in the domain of a more personal justice—as the title poem suggests: “Petals of morning/open in lucid order/opposed to the law.//Here is a question without an answer.” Through these enthralling poems, the reader enters spheres of history and emotion in which there are more often ironies to be observed than answers to be found or justice served. And yet what can be discovered through vivid visual detail, through the poet’s eye, can lift us from our reliance on the world’s determinations and into an appreciation of life’s mysteries. With the issues tackled in Negative History—individual and familial identity, cultural and emotional heritage—Hankla skillfully balances keenest loss with the gains some losses paradoxically make available (“Submerging yourself, you learned/to search the darkness”). This remarkable collection plumbs the depths of sexual and transcendent love (“Let me die trying to tell you/one word that might matter”) and summons from those murky realms the feral nature of strong emotions and of our own fears (“I have unearthed/enough emptiness to survive”). In Negative History, Hankla professes the power of love to carry us from “where the press of heat healed the split.”
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