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Happy Teacher Revolution

The Educator's Roadmap to Claiming and Sustaining Joy

By: Danna Thomas

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Happy Teacher Revolution

The Educator's Roadmap to Claiming and Sustaining Joy

By: Danna Thomas

Preserve your mental health while meeting the demands of the education profession using proven tools and research Happy Teacher Revolution helps educators address burnout and jumpstart their own practices to claim joy. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and her experience as a teacher, author Danna Thomas introduces you to self-care practices that help you prioritize your wellbeing while handling the difficulties of a demanding profession. This research and evidence-based handbook amplifies the voices of a wide range of changemakers, providing data and deliberate action steps to support well-being on both an individual and systemic level in order to enact transformational change. Realize increased self-worth and learn to decrease prolonged stress by pushing back on expectations of time, money, and emotional capacity. You will: Access tools and videos that explore caregiver burnout, vicarious trauma, and the importance of self-care in the field of education Understand why it’s essential to claim happiness as your own "best practice" to help students Discover practical techniques for identifying your limits and authentically setting boundaries Learn to support peers in your community and work together to address the social-emotional and intellectual demands of teaching Educators, including both teachers and school leaders, will appreciate the practical and person-centered approach in Happy Teacher Revolution. With the techniques in this book, you can build a more resilient classroom, a more resilient community, and, most importantly, a happier you.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394195737

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9781394195732

Lean Body, Fat Wallet

Discover the Powerful Connection to Help You Lose Weight, Dump Debt, and Save Money

By: Ellie Kay,Danna Demetre

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Lean Body, Fat Wallet

Discover the Powerful Connection to Help You Lose Weight, Dump Debt, and Save Money

By: Ellie Kay,Danna Demetre

What’s good for the wallet is good for the body—an innovative approach to improving both your wealth and your health. What would you do if you finally lost that weight and had energy to burn? How different would your life be if you were completely out of debt and in control of your finances? And what if you could do both at the same time with just a few simple, sustainable lifestyle changes? It can happen for you—without drastic dieting or austerity budgets, and even if you’ve tried and failed in the past. Ellie Kay and Danna Demetre are life experts in two seemingly different fields—finance and fitness. Working together, they realized the principles and habits that help you balance your budget are the same ones that help you lose weight and keep it off. The result is an innovative “two for one” approach that can literally transform your life. Here’s just a sampling of what you’ll find in Lean Body, Fat Wallet: Four essential habits for satisfying, sustainable change—and how to make them part of your life Ten “failure factors” that trip us up—and how to steer clear of them The single key that makes it all work: “renewing the mind” Proven strategies to overcome emotional eating and spending An all-purpose investment principle to keep you moving forward in hope A wealth of stress busters that don’t rely on food or money A game plan for raising fit and frugal kids Why giving is an essential part of achieving physical and financial health

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Thomas Nelson

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1400205549

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9781400205547

From Gethsemane to Pentecost

A Passion Study

By: Elizabeth Danna

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From Gethsemane to Pentecost

A Passion Study

By: Elizabeth Danna

From Gethsemane to Pentecost is an eight-week Bible study for small groups or individuals. Drawing from the study of history, archaeology, literary studies, and the original languages, this in-depth look at the inspired texts of the Gospels and Acts provides a one-of-a-kind walk down the Via Dolorosa, from the Garden of Gethsemane, to Calvary and a borrowed tomb, to the wind and fire of Pentecost. On the way, you will gain both insights into the texts and practical lessons to apply to the Christian life.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498273408

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9781498273404

Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science

By: Daniela Danna

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Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science

By: Daniela Danna

The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis in a nondogmatic way. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor and mediated by the role of women in society. Procreation and Population is a critical text, opposing the current disciplinary fences that demonstrably hinder our comprehension of social phenomena. Attentive to gender relations, the book boldly tracks “the big picture” of population dynamics and its most reliable theories in times of postmodernist taboos on generalizations and on the search for the historical laws of human society.

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Anthem Press

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1785277170

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9781785277177

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

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Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

From the author of Nursery Earth, a “nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word” (Sy Montgomery) exploration of the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs—a Science Friday Book Club Pick Cephalopods, Earth’s first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, octopuses, nautiluses, and more. The inventors of swimming, cephs presided over the sea for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, cephs had to step up their game (or end up on the menu). Some evolved defensive spines. Others abandoned their shells entirely, opening the floodgates for a tidal wave of innovation: masterful camouflage, fin-supplemented jet propulsion, and intelligence we’ve yet to fully measure. In Monarchs of the Sea, marine biologist Danna Staaf unspools how these otherworldly creatures once ruled the deep—and why they still captivate us today. Publisher’s Note: Monarchs of the Sea was previously published in hardcover as Squid Empire.

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The Experiment, LLC

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1615197419

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9781615197415

Joan, Lady of Wales

Power and Politics of King John's Daughter

By: Danna R Messer

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Joan, Lady of Wales

Power and Politics of King John's Daughter

By: Danna R Messer

The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joans is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joans place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526729326

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9781526729323

Return to Aztlan

Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México

By: Danna A. Levin Rojo

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Return to Aztlan

Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México

By: Danna A. Levin Rojo

Long before the Spanish colonizers established it in 1598, the “Kingdom of Nuevo México” had existed as an imaginary world—and not the one based on European medieval legend so often said to have driven the Spaniards’ ambitions in the New World. What the conquistadors sought in the 1500s, it seems, was what the native Mesoamerican Indians who took part in north-going conquest expeditions also sought: a return to the Aztecs’ mythic land of origin, Aztlan. Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain—present-day New Mexico and Arizona. Return to Aztlan thus remaps an extraordinary century during which, for the first time, Western minds were seduced by Native American historical memories. Levin Rojo recounts a transformation—of an abstract geographic space, the imaginary world of Aztlan, into a concrete sociopolitical place. Drawing on a wide variety of early maps, colonial chronicles, soldier reports, letters, and native codices, she charts the gradual redefinition of native and Spanish cultural identity—and shows that the Spanish saw in Nahua, or Aztec, civilization an equivalence to their own. A deviation in European colonial naming practices provides the first clue that a transformation of Aztlan from imaginary to concrete world was taking place: Nuevo México is the only place-name from the early colonial period in which Europeans combined the adjective “new” with an American Indian name. With this toponym, Spaniards referenced both Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the indigenous metropolis whose destruction made possible the birth of New Spain itself, and Aztlan, the ancient Mexicans’ place of origin. Levin Rojo collects additional clues as she systematically documents why and how Spaniards would take up native origin stories and make a return to Aztlan their own goal—and in doing so, overturns the traditional understanding of Nuevo México as a concept and as a territory. A book in the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806145609

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9780806145600

A Colonial Affair

Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

By: Danna Agmon

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A Colonial Affair

Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

By: Danna Agmon

Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family. Agmon's compelling account draws readers into the social, economic, religious, and political interactions that defined the European colonial experience in India and elsewhere. Her portrayal of imperial sovereignty in France's colonies as it played out in the life of one beleaguered family allows readers to witness interactions between colonial officials and locals. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

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Cornell University Press

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150171306X

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9781501713064

Squid Empire

The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

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Squid Empire

The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods-the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, the ocean's former top predator became its most delicious snack. Cephalopods had to step up their game. Many species streamlined their shells and added defensive spines, but these enhancements only provided a brief advantage. Some cephalopods then abandoned the shell entirely, which opened the gates to a flood of evolutionary innovations: masterful camouflage, fin-supplemented jet propulsion, perhaps even dolphin-like intelligence. Squid Empire is an epic adventure spanning hundreds of millions of years, from the marine life of the primordial ocean to the calamari on tonight's menu. Anyone who enjoys the undersea world-along with all those obsessed with things prehistoric-will be interested in the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs.

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University Press of New England

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1512601284

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9781512601282

Through the Lens of Faith

Devotions on Life, the Universe, and Everything

By: Elizabeth Danna

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Through the Lens of Faith

Devotions on Life, the Universe, and Everything

By: Elizabeth Danna

There are spiritual things all around us, though some of them might not seem very spiritual at first glance. For the Christian, there are spiritual lessons to be drawn from everything around us, and there are spiritual (and practical) questions that many Christians ask. In these 120 devotional readings, Elizabeth Danna draws from sources as diverse as Tolkien and Conan Doyle, Star Trek and Shakespeare, comic books and cop shows, and science and nature (and the occasional night at the movies). She also draws from current events, her own life (including lessons learned from her pets), and her ministry experience.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666796336

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9781666796339

Wheat Free, Worry Free

The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Living

By: Danna Korn

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Wheat Free, Worry Free

The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Living

By: Danna Korn

A practical, comprehensive, and inspirational guide to living a wheat-free, gluten-free lifestyle. Millions of people are choosing to eliminate wheat and gluten from their diets because of medical conditions such as celiac disease (sprue), gluten intolerance, wheat allergies, and autoimmune disorders. Others believe that dietary intervention programs are effective in reducing or eliminating behaviors associated with autism, ADD, ADHD, and related syndromes. And yet still others are eliminating wheat or gluten from their diets for personal reasons. Wheat-Free, Worry-Free answers the many questions that people have concerning the unique challenges faced by people on a wheat-free or gluten-free diet. It helps take the fear out of eating, and teaches and encourages people to deal with the wheat-free or gluten-free lifestyle in an optimistic yet realistic manner. Loaded with practical tips, recipes, menu suggestions, and ideas for traveling and eating out, it also delves into emotional issues and psychological implications of the dietary restrictions. This book includes extensive research on several medical conditions that require a wheat-free or gluten-free lifestyle, as well as in-depth nutritional information, and a comprehensive, up-to-date Products and Services Guide that lists contact information for hundreds of companies providing products and services for people on a wheat-free or gluten-free diet. With a humorous, easy-to-read style, Wheat-Free, Worry-Free is a single source of information for anyone interested in leading a happy, healthy gluten-free life.

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Hay House, Inc

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1401935850

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9781401935856

Happy Teacher Revolution

The Educator's Roadmap to Claiming and Sustaining Joy

By: Danna Thomas

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Happy Teacher Revolution

The Educator's Roadmap to Claiming and Sustaining Joy

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The First-timer's Guide to Book Reports

By: Danna Voth

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The First-timer's Guide to Book Reports

By: Danna Voth

To first-timer's, writing a book report can seem like a mystery, but have no fear -- The First-Timer's Guide to Book Reports was made for beginners just like you. Just as you share real or make-believe stories with friends, writing a book report is like telling part of a story without giving away the ending. And even if you've never written a book report before, here you'll find everything you need to know to get started.

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Roxbury Park Juvenile

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0737304758

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Book's by Danna Thomas

Happy Teacher Revolution

Happy Teacher Revolution

Lean Body, Fat Wallet

Lean Body, Fat Wallet

From Gethsemane to Pentecost

From Gethsemane to Pentecost

Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science

Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

Joan, Lady of Wales

Joan, Lady of Wales

Return to Aztlan

Return to Aztlan

A Colonial Affair

A Colonial Affair

Squid Empire

Squid Empire

Through the Lens of Faith

Through the Lens of Faith

Wheat Free, Worry Free

Wheat Free, Worry Free

Happy Teacher Revolution

Happy Teacher Revolution

The First-timer's Guide to Book Reports

The First-timer's Guide to Book Reports

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