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Virtual Schooling

A Guide to Optimizing Your Child's Education

By: Elizabeth Kanna,Lisa Gillis,Christina Culver

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Virtual Schooling

A Guide to Optimizing Your Child's Education

By: Elizabeth Kanna,Lisa Gillis,Christina Culver

Today, millions of school-age children are learning outside of a traditional classroom and using cutting edge educational options. Policy experts predict that in a decade half of all education will be delivered virtually. In Virtual Schooling three top authorities help you navigate the fastest growing movement in education -- regardless of whether your child attends public school, private school or is home schooled. You'll discover how to: · Find opportunities and programs to optimize your child's learning, strengths and aptitudes. · Create a personalized learning plan for your child, which can remove barriers, ignite their passions and propel your child to new levels of learning. · Prepare your child for success in the workplace in any future economy.

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St. Martin's Press

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ISBN 10

1466886404

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9781466886407

So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition

Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It

By: Lisa Whelchel

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So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition

Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It

By: Lisa Whelchel

Discover the Diversity of Homeschooling Confused and intimidated by the complexities of homeschooling, many parents assume it could never work for them. Now an updated edition of So You're Thinking About Home Schooling by Lisa Whelchel—herself a homeschooling mother of three—introduces to readers fifteen composite portraits of homeschooling families who show how every family can successfully face the unique challenges of its situation. The story-based approach deals with common questions of time management, teaching weaknesses, and outside responsibilities, as well as children's age variations, social and sports involvement, learning disabilities, and boredom. Seeing a wide variety of homeschooling families in action gives parents the information and confidence they need to make their own decisions about home-based education. Includes a new chapter from Lisa and an all-new resource guide with recommendations from real-life homeschooling families! "I'm Thinking About Homeschooling" You're also probably thinking, But can I really teach my children? Where do I start? What if I need to work outside the home? Must I have twelve children, raise goats, and bake my own bread? And what about socialization? I could tell you the answers to these questions, but I would rather show you. Beginning with my own, I want to introduce you to fifteen families in fifteen unique situations who have all chosen to homeschool for different reasons, using a variety of learning methods. So… let's rap lightly on the homeschool door and peek inside before we decide if we are ready to move in! Story Behind the Book "My hope is that by the end of the book, and a stroll through the neighborhood, you will feel more confident as you identify a family situation and teaching method that resonates with your personality and philosophy of education. From there, you can simply look to the end of each chapter to find a sample schedule for the homsechool day and list of curriculum suggestions for that particular teaching method." —Lisa __________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Deciding if homeschooling is right for your family just got easier with this warm, entertaining, information-packed portrayal of its flexibility, diversity, triumphs, and challenges. Grab a cup of tea and enjoy!" —Linda Dobson, author of The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child

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Multnomah

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0307563456

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9780307563453

The Quick Home School Starter Guide: A Question and Answer Collection

By: Lisa Powell

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The Quick Home School Starter Guide: A Question and Answer Collection

By: Lisa Powell

The Quick Home School Starter Guide lists questions and answers for families that are making or considering a transition to home education themselves. It includes information on: Law Philosophies Curricula Testing and Evaluation Disabilities and Health Support Materials Post-secondary Socialization Support Organizations Reasons to Homeschool Perks and Costs The Tough Questions Dad's Point of View Resource Links

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Lulu.com

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1387872141

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9781387872145

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German, 4E

By: Alicia Müller,Stephan Müller,Lisa Graham

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German, 4E

By: Alicia Müller,Stephan Müller,Lisa Graham

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Learning German, Fourth Edition couches the more academic topics, such as verb tenses, in useful travel-themed chapters dealing with everything from shopping, renting cars, banking, making a phone call, visiting a doctor, going to the post office, to banking. This editon includes a new audio CD with nearly an hour of listen-and-learn exercises to get you speaking German like a native.

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434

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Penguin

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1615643494

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9781615643493

Out Of Control And Loving It

Giving God Complete Control of Your Life

By: Lisa Bevere

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Out Of Control And Loving It

Giving God Complete Control of Your Life

By: Lisa Bevere

DIVAre you holding on so tightly that God can't work in your life? In this revision of her best-selling book, Lisa shows readers how to give God complete control./divDIV/div

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Charisma Media

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1599796368

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The Secret Life of Literature

By: Lisa Zunshine

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The Secret Life of Literature

By: Lisa Zunshine

An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works. For over four thousand years, writers have been experimenting with what cognitive scientists call “mindreading”: constantly devising new social contexts for making their audiences imagine complex mental states of characters and narrators. In The Secret Life of Literature, Lisa Zunshine uncovers these mindreading patterns, which have, until now, remained invisible to both readers and critics, in works ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Invisible Man. Bringing together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary studies, this engaging book transforms our understanding of literary history. Central to Zunshine’s argument is the exploration of mental states “embedded” within each other, as, for instance, when Ellison’s Invisible Man is aware of how his white Communist Party comrades pretend not to understand what he means, when they want to reassert their position of power. Paying special attention to how race, class, and gender inform literary embedments, Zunshine contrasts this dynamic with real-life patterns studied by cognitive and social psychologists. She also considers community-specific mindreading values and looks at the rise and migration of embedment patterns across genres and national literary traditions, noting particularly the use of deception, eavesdropping, and shame as plot devices. Finally, she investigates mindreading in children’s literature. Stories for children geared toward different stages of development, she shows, provide cultural scaffolding for initiating young readers into a long-term engagement with the secret life of literature.

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MIT Press

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0262367645

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9780262367646

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic

By: Lisa E. Bloom

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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic

By: Lisa E. Bloom

In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni Horn, Isaac Julien, Zacharias Kunuk, Connie Samaras, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. In their films and visual and conceptual art, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom’s examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world.

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Duke University Press

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147801864X

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9781478018643

Travellers in Magic

Stories

By: Lisa Goldstein

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Travellers in Magic

Stories

By: Lisa Goldstein

Fifteen stories of ordinary lives that take fantastic turns Robert never quite feels at home with Cassie’s family, a gang of eccentrics including a reptile smuggler, a worshipper of Osiris, and an old woman who believes her photographs can see into the future. When he breaks up with Cassie, she is so upset that she gives him the most terrible thing she can offer: an envelope of her grandmother’s photos, which show in detail the path that Robert’s life will take. At first, this vision of the future gives him strength—but soon it becomes a prison on glossy paper. A Nebula and Hugo Award finalist, “Cassandra’s Photographs” demonstrates all the power of Lisa Goldstein’s imagination. Whether she is writing about shape-shifting aliens or kind-hearted ghosts, Goldstein’s fantasies remain grounded in reality, supported by the kind of crystalline prose that takes a lifetime to master. This collection also includes the Nebula Award finalist “Alfred.”

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Open Road Media

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149767364X

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The Handbook for Catholic Moms

Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul

By: Lisa M. Hendey

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The Handbook for Catholic Moms

Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul

By: Lisa M. Hendey

The Handbook for Catholic Moms, Lisa M. Hendey’s eminently practical and award-winning resource, has helped new parents balance and integrate the deeply personal needs of their hearts, minds, bodies, and souls with the demands of family life and faith commitment. Since the first edition was published in 2010, it’s become an indispensable resource for two generations of Catholic moms, offering a unique perspective on all aspects of life and honest advice from fellow moms on topics ranging from marriage and finances to stress management and parish life. The Handbook for Catholic Moms is not a typical parenting book: It doesn’t offer tips for calming a fussy baby or dealing with adolescent angst. In caring for yourself—heart, mind, body, and soul—you can better love and care for your family, community, and Church, according to Lisa M. Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com and bestselling author of The Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Grace of Yes. Hendey provides her personal stories and observations on a number of topics, including: stress reduction and sleep nurturing your marriage engaging in Mass as a family modeling lifelong learning to your children balancing your career with your vocation as a mother Each chapter includes relevant scripture references, quotations from saints or noted Catholic figures, commentary and perspectives from other Catholic writers, and checklists of suggested steps moms can take in bringing better balance and integration to their lives.

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Ave Maria Press

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159471312X

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9781594713125

Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

By: Kimberly Duncan,Lisa Tomer Rentz

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Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

By: Kimberly Duncan,Lisa Tomer Rentz

A comprehensive guide to this legendary resort community, from golf courses and beaches to shopping and nightlife. Whether planning a vacation or a permanent move, this guide has it all.

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Insiders' Guide

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0762726814

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9780762726813

The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

By: Denise Mullen,Lisa T. Rentz

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The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

By: Denise Mullen,Lisa T. Rentz

Popsicle-blue skies, sun-bleached sand and golden sunshine. Scores of culinary delights, world-class golf, dazzling nightlife and amusements galore. This indispensable guide covers it all with vivid detail to the Southern hot spot the American Automobile Association (AAA) found to be the second-busiest summer destination in the country.

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Falcon Guides

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1573800635

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9781573800631

Challenging Children

A Puzzle to be Solved : Stories from Parents who Were Empowered by the Whole Child Institute

By: Linda Vettrus,Mary Topero,Lisa C. Ragsdale

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Challenging Children

A Puzzle to be Solved : Stories from Parents who Were Empowered by the Whole Child Institute

By: Linda Vettrus,Mary Topero,Lisa C. Ragsdale

Presents methods used by the Whole Child Institute to help children who manifest out of control or hyperactive behavior. These include diet modification, allergy desensitization, and structured environment.

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0965471411

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9780965471411

Lois Lowry

The Giver of Stories and Memories

By: Lisa Rondinelli Albert

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Lois Lowry

The Giver of Stories and Memories

By: Lisa Rondinelli Albert

Describes the life and accomplishments of the author of "Number the Stars," "The Giver," and the Anastasia Krupnik stories.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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0766027228

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9780766027220

Five Sites, Five Stages: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

By: Lisa McInerney

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Five Sites, Five Stages: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

By: Lisa McInerney

A story from Lisa McInerney to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008303193

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9780008303198

Abigail and the Lost Purse

By: Lisa Riggin

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Abigail and the Lost Purse

By: Lisa Riggin

A search for Abigail's lost purse leads to a game of dress-up .

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1595303596

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9781595303592

Politics and Power

Barbara Castle (Large Print 16pt)

By: Lisa Martineau

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Politics and Power

Barbara Castle (Large Print 16pt)

By: Lisa Martineau

Barbara Castle was only the fourth woman ever to hold a Cabinet post. She might well have been the first woman prime minister but for a fatal decision which almost brought down the government. This in - depth biography look at both the pioneering woman politician, who was unafraid to speak her mind and who was a vociferous campaigner against colonialism and nuclear arms amongst other causes, and the woman behind the political mask - a daughter of socialist believers, a wife (of a Fleet Street newspaperman) and a lover (of William Mellor, one of the most important socialist thinkers of the 20th century). Her career is a history of the Labour Party from its radical beginnings as the Independent Labour Party through to the reigns and compromises of government. She became an MP in 1945 and remained in the House of Commons for 34 years. She was the first woman to hold more than one portfolio in successive Wilson administrations and her life has as much resonance in today's political climate as it did in her heyday. After her time in the House of Commons, she went on to become and MEP in 1979 and then a peer in 1990. She died in 2002, but her memory lives on and Politics & Power is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman.

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1459662113

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9781459662117

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Virtual Schooling

Virtual Schooling

So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition

So You're Thinking About Homeschooling: Second Edition

The Quick Home School Starter Guide: A Question and Answer Collection

The Quick Home School Starter Guide: A Question and Answer Collection

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German, 4E

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German, 4E

Out Of Control And Loving It

Out Of Control And Loving It

The Secret Life of Literature

The Secret Life of Literature

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

Travellers in Magic

Travellers in Magic

The Handbook for Catholic Moms

The Handbook for Catholic Moms

Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

Challenging Children

Challenging Children

Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry

Five Sites, Five Stages: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Five Sites, Five Stages: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Abigail and the Lost Purse

Abigail and the Lost Purse

Politics and Power

Politics and Power

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