This accessible guide helps streamline the process of planning weddings and special events. It features nearly 200 locations, including private estates, wineries, museums, luxury inns, and yachts, all with details about capacities, services, and pricing. Also included are profiles of 75 of Southern California's best event services, and valuable tips on saving time and money.
Thousands of professors claim Christian as their primary identity, and teaching as their primary vocational responsibility. But how does being a Christian change one's teaching? Indeed, should it? The Outrageous Idea of the Christian Teacher explores the responses of more than 2,300 Christian professors from 48 different institutions across North America to find out.
Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education focuses on preparing educators who use socioculturally sustaining practices, curricula, and instruction through an intersectional lens. This book empowers preservice students and special education practitioners and administrators to meet the needs of disabled individuals. Understanding the full range of requirements relating to socioculturally sustaining practices is imperative to working with individuals with disabilities as well as with their families and caregivers. Being able to understand and explain this complex issue to others is important and often necessary. Social injustices in special education are historical and systemic. Special education practitioners are typically unaware of the importance of intersectional differences because they have been prepared to address cultural perspectives only during awareness days or through specific units in curricula. At other times they discuss the topic diagnostically—for example, as part of an educational plan or when teaching English as a second language. Other issues stem from the value system of the special education practitioners themselves; some are not willing to engage in these concepts, while others prioritize treating all students the same by using the terms “fairness,” “equity,” and “colorblindness” to justify this treatment. Even when special educator practitioners attempt to address injustices on behalf of their students, they tend to center on only the student’s disability, which means they are ignoring or erasing other aspects of their students’ identities. These concerns highlight the importance of building the sociocultural competence of our teaching force. This book will help practitioners build this competence in their own spheres of influence.
Cursed wedding gowns, haunted houses, and mischievous ghosts wreak havoc as romance brews in this value-priced digital bundle. The Bride’s Curse: Three brides in a row return a gorgeous vintage wedding dress to Kelly Andrews’s Wedding Bliss store, claiming it’s cursed. Kelly thinks it’s nonsense, but these returns are bad for business, so she’d better get to the bottom of the problem. Researching the gown, she meets Brett Atwell, the handsome nephew of the dress’s original owner, and a mischievous spirit sends the two of them on a goose chase for a groom who went missing decades ago. Will love get its due at long last? Always and Forever Love: Lacy Aegar is comfortable living with her husband’s ghost as they raise their son and run her PI business. That is, until Jackson Carter, the son of powerful and influential business tycoon, starts siphoning her business. But he has an ulterior motive along with his sexy smile, and soon Lacy will have to come to grips not only with her business plans but her feelings about love as well. The Kindred: When it comes to being psychic, Janice Kelly is the best of the best. But she didn’t foresee falling in love with Adrian while fleeing the anger of thwarted ghosts in a haunted house. His Lass Wears Tartan: Independent Rogue Bruce enjoys running a Scottish bed-and-breakfast with the ghosts that walk the halls. Then Bruce MacKenzie, the local heartthrob, suddenly begins hanging around while roguish Jonathan Olson arrives at the castle to teach a writing seminar. With two men after the heart she’d thought safely locked away, Rogue is torn. But when things start to take a sinister turn, only true love can save the day. Jennifer by Moonlight: Lucy Dorset came to Moorgate as the happy bride of a dedicated young doctor. But she soon discovers that the old stone house is inhabited by a pale and lovely ghost, a victim of a fatal romantic triangle long ago. It’s possible the unhappy spirits of Moorgate are pushing Lucy toward a reenactment of a violent, century-old tragedy—and she alone must rid the house of the menacing presence threatening her marriage. That Ol’ Team Spirit: Someone’s haunting the Sharks’s stadium and creating some major league mischief. So psychic Peg Noonan and her granddaughter Trish are determined to discover who’s menacing their concessions stand. With the help of Trish’s high school love, sportswriter Rob Hanks, they just might have a ghost of a (second) chance. Sensuality Level: Sensual
Lynn Stegner’s acclaimed novels and story collections have drawn comparisons to the works of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, and John Updike. Now in her new novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, Stegner tells the story of Clair Bugato and Mason Comstock. Together they journey to the world’s largest saltworks in Baja California, where a proposed expansion threatens the California gray whale population, recently come back from the brink of extinction. In the midst of a conservation battle, they meet a mysterious son of Mexico, Rubio Cantú, who leads them to the powers that be. Their two-week journey sends Clair deep into the past, where she reviews the divergent paths she and her near-identical twin sister have taken away from a childhood tragedy. At the same time, Mason confronts his own unhappy past in Cornwall, England, with a father whose hate was stronger than his love. No other work of fiction patterns the warp and weft of human guilt, the homesickness only love can cure, environmental crises, the intrinsic conflict between international commerce and planetary health, and the necessity of forgiveness. The Half-Life of Guilt is woven from these themes, delivering to the reader an engrossing and transformative literary experience.
A collection of ideas from David Payton and his two sons, Orrin Lynn Tolliver III, and David C. Tolliver. A father and sons' collaboration of poetry, spoken word and other concepts for future books and movies. There are a few words of vulgarity within. For the discriminate reader. Young minds exhaling their inner thoughts, and a very proud father. This is a "rough" so it is not error free. The works are raw, and a compilation of material from over the past two or three years.
A disturbing letter from Cheney’s great-aunts brings her to their New Orleans plantation—but what she discovers is more dangerous than she imagined! Performing rituals and “warnings”—leading to mysterious illnesses and crop failure—a cult is trying to scare Cheney’s relatives off the land. Can she unearth the group’s sudden interest in the plantation before it’s too late?
West Palm Beach was established in 1894, two decades after pioneers first arrived in the wilderness at Lake Worth. In 1893, Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil magnate and Florida railroad mogul, finalized plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railroad south in order to turn Palm Beach into a winter playground for the rich. He designed West Palm Beach as the mainland commercial and residential support for his new resort. From its humble beginnings, it has become Palm Beach County's largest city and the seat of government. The city has suffered fires, hurricanes, boom times, and hard times, always emerging triumphantly. This installment of West Palm Beach's fascinating story shares its unique settlement and growth through the end of World War II.
This is the first comprehensive firefly guide for eastern and central North America ever published. It is written for all those who want to know more about the amazing world of lightning bugs and learn the secrets hidden in the flash patterns of the 75+ species found in the eastern and central U.S. and Canada. As an independent researcher working with numerous university teams, naturalist Lynn Frierson Faust, “The Lightning Bug Lady,” has spent decades tracking the behavior and researching the habitats of these fascinating creatures. Based on her twenty-five years of field work, this book is intended to increase understanding and appreciation of bioluminescent insects while igniting enthusiasm in a fun and informative way. Species accounts are coupled with historical background and literary epigraphs to engage and draw readers young and old into the world of these tiny sparklers. A chart documenting the flash patterns of the various species will aid in identification. Clear photos illustrate the insects’ distinguishing physical characteristics, while habitats, seasonality, and common names are provided in clear, easy-to-understand yet scientifically accurate language. The guide will be welcomed by everyone who wants to learn more about fireflies' and glow-worms' unique traits and about their fragile niche in the ecosystem. FEATURES Over 600 color photographsDetailed accounts and anatomical diagrams of 75+ species, as well as aids in distinguishing between similar speciesA first-of-its-kind flash-pattern chart that folds out on heavy-weight paper • Extensive scientific details written in an understandable and engaging wayColorful, common names—Twilight Bush Baby, Shadow Ghosts, and Snappy Syncs, and more—for easy species identification based on flash patternsTips on ideal sites and times of year for firefly watchingConservation-oriented approach
Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit Woman). Follow her to the Yucatan, where the medicine wheel leads her, and she is faced with the terrifying reality of the butterfly tree (Jaguar Woman). Enter the Dreamtime with her, where she emerges in medieval England as Catherine, and encounters the Grandmother, who offers to show Andrews how to make her life one of goodness, power, adventure, and love (The Woman of Wyrrd). Not all these stories describe the author's own spiritual experiences. Meet Sin Corazón, an initiate into the Sisterhood, whose husband abandons her. She nearly succumbs to her inner dark power and unleashes her rage on men and the Sisterhood (Dark Sister). Andrews also writes about the elder women of the Sisterhood: their loves, their lives, their losses (Tree of Dreams). Andrews shows us how to channel our own spiritual and intellectual energy and balance the need for love with the desire for power (Love and Power). She takes the reader on numerous spiritual journeys that inevitably uplift.
This guide describes 300 sites, from wineries to quaint Victorian inns, for weddings, special events, and business functions. Thorough and up-to-date descriptions and charts help save countless hours in selecting a location. 300 illustrations.
Here Comes the Guide: Southern California is the premier guide to locations and services for weddings and special events in Southern California. Often called The Location Bible, this authoritative resource helps streamline the process of planning weddings, business functions, and special events. It features nearly 300 locations -- including private estates, wineries, historic gardens, B&Bs, four-star resorts, museums, luxury inns, and yachts -- all with an illustrated description and details about capacities, services, and pricing. In addition, Here Comes the Guide also profiles dozens of Southern California's best event services, and offers valuable tips on saving time and money. This ninth edition features completely updated text and 95 new facilities and services.
If you're looking for the perfect location for a wedding or special event, you've picked the right book This is the only book with real solutions to finding the perfect site. From San Luis Obispo to San Diego, and from Santa Monica to the Inland Empire, Here Comes The Guide puts many of Southern California's most beautiful, extraordinary and unusual places for weddings, receptions and special events at your fingertips: Hotels, Restaurants, ResortsYachts, Private Clubs, MuseumsPrivate Estates, Gardens, LandmarksChapels, Wineries, InnsThere's also a service directory highlighting Southern California's best event professionalsCaterers, PhotographersFloral Designers, InvitationsDisc Jockeys, CoordinatorsEntertainers, Videographers Here Comes The Guide Southern California has everything you need to evaluate and select an event site or service: an illustrated description of each location, including details about fees, capacities, services and site amenities; Valuable tips on how to plan your event, and save time and money; a screened selection of event professionals you can trust.
This accessible guide helps streamline the process of planning weddings and special events. It features nearly 200 locations, including private estates, wineries, museums, luxury inns, and yachts, all with details about capacities, services, and pricing. Also included are profiles of 75 of Southern California's best event services, and valuable tips on saving time and money.
This location bible is the last word in finding the ideal place for weddings, business functions, and other special events. Hundreds of sites are featured, including private estates, gardens, historic landmarks, and wineries.
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