This is a story of a frog who complains about his circumstances, oblivious to the fact that he himself has created the problem. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful singsong style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, yet it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with the externalization of blame and the need to look inward and accept responsibility for the consequences of ones own actions.
This is a simple counting story of a monkey who spends his time collecting things while ignoring the world around him. He eventually learns that focusing on items interferes with his ability to fully experience joy. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and Their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful singsong style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, yet it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with hoarding and stinginess and how collecting smiles can be much more fulfilling.
Sometimes bad things happen. Sometimes rescue never comes. Sometimes circumstances dont meet expectations. Sometimes we can only change from within and grow. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and Their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful singsong style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, yet it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with loss and abandonment and how an internal change of perspective can make all the difference.
When Harry Carey fired a shotgun at an unknown car that had been repeatedly trespassing on his rural property, he unwittingly triggered a series of events that would land him in jail and blow his family apart. CareyOn is the true story of the Carey family, who swapped their suburban home in Toronto for a hobby farm near Orangeville, Ontario in 1975. Told from the point of view of two teenage sisters, Cindy and Natalie Carey, CareyOn witnesses the unravelling of the family in the wake of Natalie’s premature departure, and explores the impact of being abandoned. Written with warmth, humour, and compassion, it is the story of first love, of coping and carrying on in the face of loss, the strength of a family bond that pulls one of its members back home, and ultimately, the power of a family’s love ... to forgive.
This is the story of a bullied hedgehog who initially experiences self-critical feelings of guilt and shame over her intrinsic protective qualities. She eventually learns that her defenses provide natural consequences which are beneficial to both the bullies and herself. As with all the books in the "Stories for Children and their Adults" series, this story is written in a delightful sing-song style and can be enjoyed by children and adults alike, although it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with the abuse cycle, victimization, low-self-esteem and setting boundaries.
This is a story about how a young child finds the courage to dream through the example of others and how a father finds the wisdom to support those dreams. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and Their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful sing-song style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, yet it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with empowerment and possibility while also exploring the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
This is a story about how a young octopus learns to control her ink by releasing it at the appropriate time and place. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and Their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful sing-song style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. It can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with how to gain control over oneself by expression rather than repression.
This is the story of a fly who discovers how to appreciate his place in the world by undergoing great trials and fortuitously finding happiness. As with all the books in the Stories for Children and Their Adults series, this story is written in a delightful, singsong style and can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike, yet it can also be used as a tool to explore deeper issues. Specifically, this story deals with differing perceptions, how expectations can limit manifestations, and how the worst that could happen can become the best that has happened.
For every child who's successfully living on his or her own, there's another who can't seem to cut the umbilical cord. He demands money and she can't make a decision without calling home. Dr. Stockton explains the causes for this behavior and outlines steps parents must take to free themselves from this dependency.
Cindy Styles was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and raised on the west coast with stops in both Stephenville and Corner Brook. In 2011, she became a founding member of the newly acknowledged Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band of Newfoundland and Labrador. She was honouring the heritage of her mother, her parents, her grandparents, their parents, her great-grandparents, and her great-great-grandparents.
This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
As centuries turn and decades pass, many wars and major historical events fade into the national memory as bold-face words in our history textbooks. However, the Civil War is unique, in that it still remains a heavily discussed, published, and debated topic in todays society. No other war has struck such a chord in our countrys consciousness, combining romantic notions of glory and chivalry with horrific images of death and devastation, both of the landscape and its people. Entire libraries of books are devoted to discussing the battles, the tactics, and machines of warfare, the strategies of notable and eccentric commanders, and the biographies of the many larger-than-life personalities conducting the war, both civilian and military. But like most wars, the Civil War was a rich mans war, but a poor mans fight. It is the story of the common soldiers plight that is most engaging, for it is in those stories in which one sees the true effects the war had on the people and time. The Tar Heel State provided much of the manpower behind the Confederate armies and thus, sacrificed many of its fathers and sons for the Confederate cause. An eclectic scrapbook of sorts, Piedmont Soldiers and Their Families details, in word and image, the lives of some of those common soldiers and their families in Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, and Davidson Counties, allowing todays readers an opportunity to explore the lives of their ancestors affected by the war.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health, Fifth Edition is an accessible and easy-to-use quick reference guide for midwives and women’s healthcare providers. Completely updated and revised to reflect the changing clinical environment, it offers current evidence-based practice, updated approaches, and opportunities for midwifery leadership in every practice setting. Also included are integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies. The Fifth Edition examines the transition to the use of ICD-10 codes, women’s health policy and advocacy, risk assessment and decision-making in practice, and inspiring trust in midwifery care. New clinical practice guidelines include health promotion and primary care practice, such as promoting restorative sleep, optimizing oral health, promoting a healthy weight, and caring for the woman with a substance abuse disorder.
Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON 911: UNDERCOVER HEAT (A Colton 911: Chicago novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Anna J. Stewart To get the evidence he needs for his narcotics case, Detective Cruz Medina has one solution: going undercover in chef Tatum Colton's trendy restaurant. But he doesn't expect the spitfire chef to become his new partner—or for the sparks to fly from the moment they meet. COLTON NURSERY HIDEOUT (A Coltons of Grave Gulch novel) by Dana Nussio After a pregnancy results from their one-night stand, family maverick Travis Colton must shield Tatiana Davison, his co-CEO and the daughter of an alleged serial killer, from the media, his law-enforcement relatives, and the copycat killer threatening her and their unborn child. THE COWBOY'S DEADLY REUNION (A Runaway Ranch novel) by New York Times bestselling author Cindy Dees When Marine officer Wes Morgan is drummed out of the military to prevent a scandal, he has no idea what comes next. But then Jessica Blankenship, the general's daughter whom he sacrificed his career to protect, shows up on his porch. Will he send her away or let her save him? STALKED BY SECRETS (A To Serve and Seduce novel) by Deborah Fletcher Mello Simone Black has loved only one man her whole life, but he smashed her heart to pieces. Now he's back. Dr. Paul Reilly knows Lender Pharmaceuticals is killing people, but he needs Simone's help. Now they're both caught in the line of fire as they battle a conglomerate who believes they’re untouchable.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health, Sixth Edition is an accessible and easy-to-use quick reference guide for midwives and women’s healthcare providers. Completely updated and revised to reflect the changing clinical environment, it offers current evidence-based practice, updated approaches, and opportunities for midwifery leadership in every practice setting. Also included are integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies.
This pathophysiology text offers a unique conceptual approach that facilitates learning by viewing pathophysiology as health care professionals do. Students will learn about general mechanisms of disease or alterations in human function—such as immune alterations or altered nutrition—and apply these processes to specific conditions. Chapters focus on fifteen core concepts of altered human function, selected by analyzing and clustering health conditions with high prevalence, incidence, and severity. Unlike a traditional systems-based approach, this novel approach shows how most diseases involve multiple body systems. A bound-in CD-ROM includes animations and an interactive game. Faculty resources include lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, additional case studies, and student assignment worksheets.
Complementing the second edition of The Parallel Curriculum, this guide offers workshops, scripts, agendas, activities, and more for facilitating professional development on the Parallel Curriculum Model.
Your Words Have Power DIVIf you want your life to change, it all starts with what you think and say. In her authoritative, declarative style, Cindy Trimm helps you achieve victory over your circumstances through spoken declarations that activate God’s power.You will put meaning and purpose back into your life when you positively direct your thoughts, words, and actions toward the realization of your goals. Begin each day by commanding your morning. As you do, know that whatever begins with God and His principles, has to end right./div
In Cindy Dees and Bill Flippin's 'The Sleeping King' our intrepid adventurers found the imprisoned echo of a long lost king on the Dream Plane. He told them how to wake him in the mortal realm: find his lost regalia--crown, ring, sword, shield, and bow--and rejoin them with his sleeping body. [Now], in 'The Dreaming Hunt, ' the heroes begin their quest. But they've caught the attention of powerful forces determined to stop them. Worse, their visit to the Dream Plane has unleashed chaos, and the fight is spilling over into the mortal realm. They frantically outrun old enemies and pick up new ones: imperial hunters, a secret cabal of mages, a criminal league, and a changeling army. Are they just pawns in larger political dramas, or are they crystallizing into the nucleus of a rebellion? Can they find the regalia necessary to wake the Sleeping King before they are utterly destroyed?"--Provided by publisher.
Included in this collection are some stories written more than 20 years ago and some that are fairly recent. Each story tells a different tale; some are humorous, some are witty, some carry a mild streak of pain and some just tell a simple tale with no frills attached. The characters in each story are normal people who lead normal lives, with successes, regrets, triumphs, humiliations, grudges and a little ‘shedding of baggage’ along with a healthy dose of laughter, sorrow and mystery. They make for quick reading on any day, any month of the year. In some stories, the writer pokes fun at herself. In others, she just relates mundane incidents, finding a silver thread of wonder in them. And there are those that you would call yarns – the type that are told around crackling campfires, late in the night under the distant stars.
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