A unique, easy-to-use, and inspiring handbook filled with a year’s worth of insight, helpful tips, and practical advice into the feline-human relationship. Whether you’re a cat owner yourself or someone who just loves all things cat, this book will provide you with a lifetime’s worth of ways to enjoy and appreciate cats. The format—a year-long, day-minder-type book—is not meant to be read cover to cover; rather, the book can fall open on any given day and lend applicable information and inspiration. Cat Lover’s Daily Companion is also completely indexed so you’re able to easily search for specific content. Each day features essays, anecdotes, activities, and trivia that remind you why you love cats: Monday—Practical information, from welcoming a cat home to understanding its basic needs Tuesday—Engaging tales of cats in history and literature Wednesday—Feline health and wellness topics, from acupuncture to the zodiac Thursday—Household tips and ideas for cat-friendly home decor and crafts Friday—The world of cat breeds, from Abyssinian to York Chocolate Saturday and Sunday—Bonding, relationship building, and planning special occasions with your pet With Cat Lover’s Daily Companion, you’ll have a year’s worth of ideas, information, and activities to help you care for, understand, socialize, and honor your feline friend.
Cat Lover's Daily Companion is a unique, easy-to-use, and inspiring handbook filled with a year's worth of insight, helpful tips, and practical advice into the feline-human relationship for all cat lovers and owners. Whether you're a cat owner yourself or someone who just loves all things cat, this book will provide you with a lifetime's worth of ways to enjoy and appreciate cats. The format—a year-long, day-minder-type book—is not meant to be read cover to cover; rather, the book can fall open on any given day and lend applicable information and inspiration. Cat Lover's Daily Companion is also completely indexed so you're able to easily search for specific content. Each day features essays, anecdotes, activities, and trivia that remind you why you love cats: Monday - Practical information, from welcoming a cat home to understanding its basic needs Tuesday - Engaging tales of cats in history and literature Wednesday - Feline health and wellness topics, from acupuncture to the zodiac Thursday - Household tips and ideas for cat-friendly home decor and crafts Friday - The world of cat breeds, from Abyssinian to York Chocolate Saturday and Sunday - Bonding, relationship building, and planning special occasions with your pet With Cat Lover's Daily Companion, you'll have a year's worth of ideas, information, and activities to help you care for, understand, socialize, and honor your feline friend.
With Open Eyes, an original short story from The New York Times bestselling duo, Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen Blind for the first twenty years of her life, Kendra Michaels learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her. Kendra's astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. She cares little for investigative work but can't deny her unique skill, or the results she's been able to facilitate. Like a secret weapon, she is in high demand, but her talents are put to the test when her mentor calls on her to help solve a mysterious disappearance and she uncovers one explosive secret that not even the police want her to find.
They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life. Simultaneously, the super-rich - and celebrities - are raising awareness and spending multi-millions cleaning up the damage and, as never before, funding solutions to global problems of poverty, hunger, and disease prevention.
For Profit and For Good opens up for critical examination a sector of higher education that surprisingly is rarely scrutinized in depth: the corporate institutions that have made up the fastest growing sector of US higher education in this century. It explores in detail the development of one such institution, Walden University, from its emergence out of the social turmoil and progressive education movement of the 1960s, through the succeeding decades, characterized by changes on every front. It looks frankly at the impact of these forces on the university’s original mission and describes the university’s response to them. It investigates the idea of whether the resources and incentives of being for-profit have changed higher education in a way that benefits not only investors but also learners, their workplaces, and the larger community. Business models of management, technological developments, and changes in an ever-evolving society are issues every university faces and seeing how this institution grappled with them will be instructive. Fundamentally, this book addresses the essential ethical question of whether the for-profit sector in higher education adds value, and, if so, what that added value might be. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of education, alternatives in higher education, the economics of education, education administration, reform and new developments in higher education, online learning, and policy studies in education. It is also relevant for policy makers and other managers in edubusiness.
The wife of a high-stakes international financier, Nell Calder finds her life shattered when her husband and child are killed and she is disfigured, events that transform her from a quiet, unassuming wife to a determined woman bent on revenge.
Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.
Approaches to Behavior and Classroom Management focuses on helping teachers use a variety of approaches in behavior and classroom management in order to make good decisions when faced with the challenge of creating positive classroom communities. Today's classrooms often include children from a variety of backgrounds and with different needs - needs that must be met if these children are to thrive in school. This text will provide teachers and other educators with the historical and cultural framework necessary to understand approaches to behavior and classroom management, a deep understanding of each approach, and a tool belt of relevant methods from which to choose to meet the needs of various situations. Ancillaries available, including: Instructor's Resource CD-ROM (for qualified instructors) Student Resource CD-ROM Student Study Site (www.sagepub.com/scarlettstudy)
Assesses the current state of women's health care, discusses health issues that affect women, and suggests what must be done to improve women's health care services
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