What is a mother to do when she struggles to enjoy her children? The love for them is without question, but in her day-to-day life a lack of joy is entirely too common. This book is Karen Harris' journey to learn to be happy as a mother. Her very practical, debut book has been successfully used in group and personal studies.
Each chapter/hour of the day proposes a variety of fun and practical actions one can take to help overcome domestic and global poverty. The chapters are short and pithy full of specific facts and a menu of alternative action steps. Each chapter connects with your day, from breakfa.
“From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events. Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its intellectual depth and international reputation, and loved by its alumni for the community fostered by residential colleges, moderate size, and diverse campus organizations, Rice University celebrates its centennial in 2012. This collection of unique images, artfully supplemented by brief narrative, explanatory captions, and carefully chosen text sidebars, presents vignettes of significant episodes, characters, and events. A splendid commemoration of one hundred years of distinguished academics, groundbreaking research, and the spirited students and faculty who have made this institution unique among American universities, Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures pays fitting tribute to an eminent citadel of learning and the people who have made it great.
The East Beach writers are at it again, this time offering 14 new fictional tales about life along the Chesapeake Bay. The neighborhood of East Beach in Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for these vignettes of family, friendship, mystery, history, adventure, love, and light-hearted fun. Join the characters as they walk the tree-lined streets, stroll the sandy shores, or relax on a rocking chair on one of the deep front porches that define this community. By the Bay 2: More East Beach Stories is the perfect beach read, whether you've got your toes in the sand or simply wished you did. All proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to local non-profit groups dedicated to improving literacy. For more information on the designated charities, please visit our website, www.BythebayStories.blogspot.com and click on the Charities tab.
Veronica Darling is a regular girl. She's got normal friends, normal parents and an average life, and in a few months she'll be off to college to find out what the world has to offer beyond the sleepy little mountain town of Thornewood. But when a life-changing event reveals the birthright her parents desperately tried to keep hidden, Veronica begins to learn that Thornewood is not the picturesque haven it appears to be. Frightening things are hiding in the shadows, and every uncovered truth just raises more questions. Oliver Hawthorne has loved Veronica since the day they met but kept his distance. He has a very big secret, and he plans to keep it from her. In just a few months she'll move away to begin a new life and she'll be safe. Far away from him and Thornewood. A violent destiny awaits him and he plans to face it alone. But tragedy strikes and Veronica is thrown headfirst into his blood-drenched world of secrets and betrayal. Oliver soon discovers that he may actually be the only one that can keep her alive.
Welcome to the universe of Galactic Dreams, where fairy tales are reimagined for a new age-the future. Galactic Dreams is a unique series of science-fiction novellas from Blue Zephyr Press featuring retellings of classic tales from different authors, all sharing the same universe, technology, and history. In each Galactic Dreams Volume 2 novel you'll find an old tale reborn with a mixture of romance, technology, aliens and adventure. But this time, each prince and princess, each band of intrepid heroes, is fighting the same enemy - an entity so vast that he can span centuries and not everyone is guaranteed to survive.In The Little Nebula, Luminous, the most active nebula in the solar system, loves Earth. She loves its reckless tiny humans and their vibrant attempts at self-improvement. But when mysterious alien travelers arrive and all signs point to a system-devastating nuclear war, Luminous makes a desperate deal with the being who inhabits dark Planet IX to become human. Now Luminous and handsome Prince Nik are racing to prevent a war that seems inevitable and create a peace that may cost them not only their new found love, but their lives.
Technology has become an indispensable aspect of most mathematics education. This is a full-color textbook, abundant with graphics, algorithms, and assignments, that both introduces Sage, a free, open-source computer algebra system, and reinforces important mathematical ideas of undergraduate mathematics, including some that a transitioning student will not yet have seen. This book should be useful for any situation where an individual is moving from "high school" mathematics, in which we include basic calculus, to "university" mathematics, which includes intermediate calculus and a lot of stuff besides, and is willing to experiment with a computer.
Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.
Project Management The one-stop resource for project management documentation and templates for all projects The success of any project is crucially dependent on the documents produced for it. The Practical Guide to Project Management Documentation provides a complete and reliable source of explanations and examples for every possible project-related document-from the proposal, business case, and project plan, to the status report and final post-project review. The Practical Guide to Project Management Documentation is packed with material that slashes the time and effort expended on producing new documents from scratch. Following the processes in the Project Management Institute's PMBOK® Guide, this one-stop, full-service book also offers tips and techniques for working with documents in each project process. Documentation for several project/client scenarios is addressed, including internal and externally contracted projects. A single project-the construction of a water theme park-is used as the case study for all the document examples. An included CD-ROM provides all the documents from the book as Microsoft Word(r) files. Readers can use these as a framework to develop their own project documents. The Practical Guide to Project Management Documentation is an unmatched reference for the numerous documents essential to project managers in all industries. (PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Karen Campbell-Scroggins has been researching her African-American family history. A native Kansan born in Council Grove and raised in Russell, she shares family history.
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