Brenda's Ward" by Helen Leah Reed is a heartwarming and engaging novel that delves into the lives of its characters, exploring themes of friendship, personal growth, and the transformative power of compassion. The story revolves around Brenda, a kind-hearted and compassionate young girl, who discovers that her life is about to change when she becomes a guardian to a young child, or a "ward," named Susie. As Brenda takes on this new responsibility, she finds herself navigating the challenges and joys of caregiving, all while learning important life lessons along the way. Set against the backdrop of a close-knit community, "Brenda's Ward" beautifully captures the dynamics of relationships, both old and new. Brenda's interactions with Susie, her family, friends, and other members of the community, are portrayed with authenticity and depth, allowing readers to connect with the characters on a personal level. As Brenda embraces her role as a guardian, she not only provides care and support for Susie but also embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Through her experiences, Brenda learns about the complexities of love, sacrifice, and the profound impact that one person's actions can have on the lives of others. Helen Leah Reed's writing style is both engaging and heartfelt, drawing readers into the emotional journey of the characters. The novel's themes of compassion and empathy are interwoven throughout the narrative, underscoring the importance of understanding and kindness in a world that can sometimes be challenging. One of the standout qualities of "Brenda's Ward" is its ability to evoke a range of emotions, from moments of laughter and joy to moments of reflection and introspection. The characters' growth and development are portrayed in a way that feels genuine and relatable, making it easy for readers to become invested in their stories. In summary, "Brenda's Ward" is a touching and uplifting novel that explores the bonds of friendship, the power of compassion, and the transformative journey of self-discovery. Through Brenda's experiences, readers are reminded of the importance of reaching out to others, embracing new challenges, and finding strength in unexpected places.
The first six years of Helen Martin’s life, living on a Saskatchewan farm in the 1950s, were idyllic. But everything changed when her mother passed away. The sudden and inexplicable cruelty and neglect that Helen endured at the hands of her stepmother—a much younger woman her father married within months of being widowed—are the subject of this distressing, but ultimately triumphant, memoir: Don’t Ever Call Me Mother: Homeless in my Own Home. In a voice that is clear, courageous, guileless, honest, and hopeful, Helen captures the innocence and bewilderment of her childhood. She shares with readers the various ways in which she managed to cope and endure the terrible trauma of her youth. At the same time, Helen uses the pages of this memoir to pay homage to her Ukrainian culture and traditions. She especially highlights the few individuals who offered her kindness and support at a time when she was so often hungry, cold, lonely, bruised, and unwashed: her two older sisters, a couple of neighbours, and an elderly hobo who became her best friend. Such unexpected and enriching relationships make all the difference in a young life and are explored here with feeling. This beautiful memoir serves as both a testament to the author’s resilience and a reminder that childhood abuse of any kind must never be tolerated.
When Race Breaks Out, Revised Edition, is a guide for instructors who want to promote more honest and informed conversations about race and racism. Based on the author's personal practice and interviews with students and faculty from a variety of disciplines, this book combines personal memoirs, advice, teaching ideas, and lively stories from college classrooms. A unique «insider's guide» to the main ideas, definitions, and opinions about race helps instructors answer students' questions and anticipate their reactions, both to the material and to each other. An updated annotated bibliography of over 225 articles, books, and videos with recommendations for classroom use is included.
Soldier Girls recounts the experiences of three women in the Indiana National Guard--one a young college student, one a single mother, and one a grandmother--who chose to enlist for different reasons, never expecting they would go to war."--Page [4] of cover.
Treasury of 300 puzzles features 3D and chess puzzles, connections, dissections, foldings, geometrical and number puzzles, logic problems, matchstick puzzles, mazes, moving pieces, put-togethers, strimkos, sudoku, and visual and word puzzles.
Documenting Learning with ePortfolios Documenting Learning with ePortfolios provides higher education instructors with a theory-to-practice approach to understanding the pedagogy behind ePortfolios and to helping students use them to record and reflect on their learning in multiple contexts. The authors outline a framework of six critical iterative tasks to undertake when implementing ePortfolios for student success. Filled with real-life models of successful ePortfolio projects, the book also includes guidance for faculty development to support the use of ePortfolios and covers the place of ePortfolios in institutional assessment efforts. Finally, the authors offer considerations for deciding on which technological tools to deploy in implementing a successful ePortfolio initiative. "These authors achieve the very rare accomplishment of combining their years of practical experience, broad conceptual and research underpinnings, and incredibly useful examples and applications into a single, concise volume for enhancing student learning through an ePortfolio approach to our shared educational purpose." TERREL L. RHODES, vice president, Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment, Association of American Colleges and Universities "Educators keep asking for more information about how to use electronic portfolios. This book provides answers, guidelines, examples, and scholarly insights about learning based in the wisdom of the ePortfolio community of practice what a powerful addition to our collective knowledge! I am thankful to the authors for this boost to our field and for providing a blueprint for implementers to follow." TRENT BATSON, executive director, The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Full Contact with DVD, Level 1B includes Units 7-12 of four key components of the Touchstone Second Edition series: Student's Book, Level 1; Workbook, Level 1; Level 1 Video Activity Pages; and Video on DVD.
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone uses a corpus-informed syllabus ensuring students are learning the language that people really use. Activities include a strong focus on inductive learning, personalized practice, and encouraging learner autonomy. Each Student's Book contains approximately 90 hours of material across 12 topic-based units - with additional grammar and pronunciation practice added for the Second Edition. Student's Book, Level 1 is at the beginning CEFR level (A1).
Picking Your Performance Puppy is more than a book! It also contains links to videos that demonstrate how structure determines movement and performance in dogs. This book is geared towards people who want to know more about what it takes to make a great performance dog. If you are getting ready to purchase a puppy, adopt an older dog or just want to know more about the dog you have, this book will help you understand what makes a great performance dog. If you have ever wondered why some dogs excel while others struggle and why some dogs have longer careers than others, Picking Your Performance Puppy will take the mystery out structure for performance and answer those questions. Never before has the performance dog sport world had a manual like this book. Picking Your Performance Puppy goes beyond traditional "conformational thinking" about a dog's structure. In my opinion this book is a must have resource for anyone selecting a new puppy or considering the impact of playing a sport with their dog. Susan Garrett Say Yes Dog Training Inc.
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone uses a corpus-informed syllabus ensuring students are learning the language that people really use. Activities include a strong focus on inductive learning, personalized practice, and encouraging learner autonomy. Student's Book, Level 1B, includes Units 7-12 of Level 1 Student's Book and is at the beginning CEFR level (A1).
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Full Contact with DVD, Level 1 includes four key components of the Touchstone Second Edition series: Student's Book, Level 1; Workbook, Level 1; Level 1 Video Activity Pages; and Video on DVD.
Do you see motherhood as a mission and divine calling? Today's Christian moms come from a full range of personal and professional contexts, whether they are homemakers, full-time workers in the marketplace, or somewhere in between. Yet many Christian mothers are living missional lives, using their gifts and abilities to further God's kingdom by engaging the world around them. They artfully, passionately, and sometimes messily juggle multiple callings and demonstrate in their modern-day contexts how they are emulating the woman of noble character in Proverbs 31. The Missional Mom will affirm Christian mothers who desire to not only to build their homes in a Christ-like way, but also engage the world with their skills, abilities, and interests. It won't minimize the importance of a woman's role in her home, but it will encourage her to not ignore the stirrings God has planted within her to extend her influence.
Written by a well-known intellectual freedom advocate, this book is a one-stop source for school librarians on intellectual freedom and privacy issues that blends principles with best practices. In order to sort out fact from fiction and become effective, critically thinking adults in a global society, children need access to diverse points of view from authoritative sources in their school libraries. This book provides school librarians with easy-to-read guidance on specific aspects of intellectual freedom and privacy, explaining how the core values of the library profession translate into everyday practice. The readings supply current information and targeted, practical advice on a broad range of topics, including privacy and confidentiality in the context of a school library; working with homeless students, English language learners, and other special needs students; challenges to school library materials; filtering issues; and advocacy for intellectual freedom. Each of the nine chapters begins with an introductory essay examining the topic and concludes with a "key ideas" summary; a list of annotated resources to lead the reader to more information on the individual column topics; and discussion questions. The volume's appendices include the text of the ALA Library Bill of Rights and the Code of Ethics as well as an annotated list of pro-First Amendment and privacy protecting organizations with contact information.
Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction embraces the full range of diverse gender identities and expressions to explore how gender influences communication, as well as how communication shapes our concepts of gender for the individual and for society at large. Authors Catherine Helen Palczewski, Danielle D. McGeough, and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco equip readers with the critical analysis tools to form their own conclusions about the ever changing processes of gender in communication. This comprehensive gender communication book is the first to extensively address the roles of religion, the gendered body, single-sex education, an institutional analysis of gender construction, social construction theory, and more. The Fourth Edition has streamlined the text to make it more accessible to students without sacrificing the sophistication of the book′s trademark intersectional approach.
With rumors that he has a mistress in every major city, rookie NASCAR driver Roberto Castillo is the quintessential playboy. That is, until Cargill Motorsports orders him to clean up his act. Fortunately, he's found just the girl to put a shine on his tarnished public image…. There's not a girl in America who could out-wholesome pretty actress Mallory Dalton. When Roberto suggests they date—for appearances only—Mallory knows that Roberto's bad-boy reputation could just as easily ruin her good-girl image. But the plan seems to have backfired…because now she really is falling in love with him!
One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all April Harlequin Presents with one click! Love and pride, jealously and betrayal, misunderstandings and redemption...these are the elements which give Harlequin Presents the kind of sexual tension that crackles with electricity, and make it one of the most popular romance series in history. Now get twelve new sizzling stories with one simple click of the mouse. Bundle includes The Martinez Marriage Revenge by Helen Bianchin, The Italian's Rags-to-Riches Wife by Julia James, The Sheikh's Chosen Queen by Jane Porter, Accidentally Pregnant, Conveniently Wed by Sharon Kendrick, Innocent Wife, Baby of Shame by Melanie Milburne, The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress by Sandra Field, Bought for the Frenchman's Pleasure by Abby Green, The Greek Tycoon's Convenient Bride by Kate Hewitt, Mistress in Private by Julie Cohen, In Bed with Her Italian Boss by Kate Hardy, My Tall Dark Greek Boss by Anna Cleary and Housekeeper to the Millionaire by Lucy Monroe.
When sixteen-year-old Abigail's mother dies in Scotland—leaving a faded photo, a weirdly cryptic letter, and a one-way ticket to America—she feels nothing. Why should she? Her mother abandoned her as a baby to grow up on an anti-nuclear commune and then in ugly foster homes. But the letter is a surprise in more ways than one: Her father is living in California. What's more, she has an eighteen-year-old sister, Becky. And the two are expecting Abigail to move in with them. While struggling to overcome her natural suspicions of a note from beyond the grave (not to mention anything positive) Abigail tries to fit in with her strange, new American family: a distant father with a closed past, a too-perfect stepmother, and most puzzling of all, her long-lost sister. Becky sweeps Abigail into a shadowy underground movement involving clandestine street art, jailbreaks, and a bizarre double life. Soon, Abigail uncovers something unimaginable: a plot with vast implications, one that is aimed not only at controlling her sister, but the behavior of rebellious teens across the globe.
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Full Contact with DVD, Level 3A includes Units 1-6 of four key components of the Touchstone Second Edition series: Student's Book, Level 3; Workbook, Level 3; Level 3 Video Activity Pages; and Video on DVD.
Co-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. You do not have to be an artist to be creative, and the book encourages students, researchers and practitioners to discover and consider new ways to explore the field of education. It illustrates how using creative methods, such as poetic inquiry, comics, theatre and animation, can support learning and illuminate participation and engagement. Bridging academia and practice, the book offers: • practical advice and tips on how to use creative methods in education research; • numerous case studies from around the world providing real-life examples of creative research methods in education practice; • reflective discussion questions to support learning.
A fully-revised new edition of Australia and New Zealand’s most highly esteemed medical-surgical nursing text. The thoroughly revised third edition of Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing builds on the respected quality content of its previous editions. Authored by Di Brown and Helen Edwards with contributions from an impressive pedigree of leading academics and clinical experts, this latest edition cements Lewis’s position as the region’s premier medical-surgical nursing textbook. Fully updated, this hardback nursing text reflects recent changes in clinical nursing practice in Australia and New Zealand. Its local focus is strengthened by up-to-date research, data, policies, procedures and guidelines with an emphasis on current issues. All text in Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing is underpinned by evidence-based practice with an emphasis on the pathophysiological mechanisms of disease. Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing 3e provides nurses in Australia and New Zealand with clear and concise guidance on the assessment and management of conditions. The content is arranged by body systems and addresses myriad conditions relevant to medical-surgical nursing, including respiratory problems, cardiovascular disease, cancer, gastrointestinal problems, renal and urological problems, reproductive problems, movement and coordination and emergency care. Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing 3e by Brown and Edwards is accompanied by an impressive suite of resources for instructors and students including a test bank, image banks and PowerPoint slides available on Elsevier’s Evolve website. Also available for purchase separately are companion publications Simulation Learning System for Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing (9780729541060 AU $89.95) ANZ adaptation by Karen Wotton & Mark Neill and Clinical Companion for Medical-Surgical Nursing 2e (9780729539968 AU $ 49.95) by Gayle McKenzie and Tanya Porter together form a highly comprehensive learning package. • Learning Objectives • Key Terms • Each section is organised into two themes: Assessment and Management • Assessment chapters focus on the body systems; outlining anatomy and physiology, health history and physical assessment skills • Management chapters focus on pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, collaborative care and nursing management of disease and disorders • Features boxes include: o Nursing Research o Evidence Based Practice o Clinical Practice o Health Promotion o Complementary and Alternative therapies o Health Disparities • Tables featuring the most up-to-date data for ANZ • Boxed information across a range of nursing care issues • Nursing care plans • Case studies accompanied by critical thinking questions • Multiple choice review questions at the end of each chapter • Extensive References and Online Resources listed at the end of each chapter for further research • Evolve and resources
What's Your Angle is made up of two parts: The first part consists of the author's six step method that teaches the reader how to easily see canine angles. This unique method takes the reader through a step by step process to identify and mark each important point on the dog. This will help train the reader's eyes to see the angles. With practice, this process will become second nature, as will the ability to analyze canine structure at a glance. The second part of What's Your Angle explains what the angles mean and how they singularly and in combination, affect the way a dog moves, jumps, turns and accelerates. Whether you want to know more about structure before you start a search for your next dog, or just want to know more about the dog you have now, What's Your Angle will open your eyes to a whole new world of seeing structure for the performance dog.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find comes illuminating and inspiring advice on one of the most complicated issues facing couples today: receiving love. Many people know how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by never having learned how to accept it. We don't always realize the ways in which we reject appreciation, affection, help, and guidance from our romantic partners. According to Hendrix and Hunt, until we are able to understand the meaning behind our behavior, our relationships stand to suffer. Receiving Love prompts questions such as: -Are you reluctant to tell your partner what you really want or need? -When you do get what you've asked for, do you still feel dissatisfied? -Is it difficult for you to accept kind gestures, gifts, or compliments from your partner? With Receiving Love, you can learn how to break the shackles of self-rejection and embrace real intimacy. Drawing on their renowned expertise, the wide clinical experience of Imago therapists, and their own personal experience as a married couple, the authors offer detailed, sensitive advice on how to turn a relationship between two well-meaning yet misunderstood individuals into a true, everlasting partnership.
For those of you who never thought there was such a thing as a delicious low-calorie food, you're in for a treat. For those of you who knew such foods existed, but were frustrated because you had to buy six bottles of dressing to find the one that tasted just OK, your salad days are just beginning! There are over 590 foods in 43 different categories. Yummy Hunters provide reviews of their submissions. Then Eric and I add our own reviews. These product reviews take the guesswork out of shopping for you. They will give you important insights into each food and will help you determine if the product is something you want to try for yourself and your family. This translates into saving time and money and pays off with delicious-tasting, low-cal products that make your dieting more enjoyable and ultimately more successful.
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