Henry and the Chatty Cheetah By: Rachel Burns Henry has an amazing talent. He can talk to animals! In this adventurous story, Henry is on a search for the chatty cheetah. Come help Henry find the chatty cheetah and learn more information about big cats! With a rhyming pattern, this story is easy to read and understand.
The increase in suicides among military personnel has raised concern. This book reviews suicide epidemiology in the military, catalogs military suicide-prevention activities, and recommends relevant best practices.
Common Core implementation begins with asking the right questions! While the Common Core couldn’t be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That’s what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource. It offers teachers an inquiry-based professional development model for achieving greater understanding of the standards themselves, then determining best ways to realize desired outcomes. How exactly does the model work? Teachers take charge of their own professional development by posing questions, or wonderings, to stimulate action and higher-level insight into the big ambitions of the Common Core. At the very same time, they engage in a parallel process of inquiry with their students in service of the very same goals. Assisting teachers along the ways, Inquiring into the Common Core provides tools to systematically study teaching effectiveness while adapting to new standards classroom-ready, student inquiry techniques and strategies to apply within Common Core’s framework real life inquiry-implementation examples from a high-need, high-poverty school Ideal for both teams or individual teachers, there’s no better resource for laying the groundwork for successful and thought-provoking classroom actualization amid shifting times.
Private contractors have been deployed extensively around the globe for the past decade and may be exposed to many of the stressors that are known to have physical and mental health implications for military personnel. Results from a RAND survey offer preliminary findings about the mental and physical health of contractors, their deployment experiences, and their access to and use of health care resources.
Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access, and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how patients can be in control, how providers should be paid, and how disparities can be reduced – and they also identify the issues for which evidence is currently missing. It provides an antidote to frustration and a clear-eyed guide for forward progress, helping health care and insurance innovators make better decisions on deciding whether to go ahead now based on current evidence, to seek and wait for additional evidence, or to move on to different ideas. It will be useful to practitioners in hospital systems, medical groups, and insurance organizations and can also be used in executive and MBA teaching.
No university affiliations. No half-truths. No out-of-touch authors who haven't been in school for decades. A class project turned company, College Prowler produces guidebooks that are written by actual college students and cover the things students really want to know. Unlike other guides that jam everything into a five-pound book and devote only two pages to each college, our single-school guidebooks give students only the schools they want and all the information they need. From academics and diversity to nightlife and sports, we let the students tell it how it is. In addition to editorial reviews and grades for 20 different topics, more than 80 percent of each guide is composed of actual student reviews of their school. Whether readers are looking for "Best and Worst" lists, "Did You Knows?" or traditions, College Prowler guides have it all. Our books are the only place for local slang, urban legends, and tips on the best places to find a date, study, or grab a bite to eat.
The authors developed a new methodological framework for assessing military personnel and military family needs. This monograph describes the development and testing of a survey based on that framework that the Department of Defense and local military commanders can use to gauge the problems and problem-related needs of service members and their families, how well those needs are being met, and the barriers and bridges to accessing services.
A “wildly entertaining” (NPR), “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church. On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away, in the colored gallery, Cecily Patterson doesn’t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that, if he can impress the theater’s managers, he’ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater, but he’ll have to buy her freedom first. When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of Richmond’s theater fire, The House Is on Fire is a “stunning” (Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle), “all-consuming exploration” (E! News) that offers proof that sometimes, in the midst of great tragedy, we are offered our most precious—and fleeting—chances at redemption.
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
ABOUT THE BOOK Blame high-definition televisions or airbrushing, but for some reason, people expect perfection in every aspect of their lives, especially their relationships. Having the right kids, the right home, and getting into all the right schools have become a preoccupation for wives and husbands. In Heart of the Matter, everyone perceives the central relationship to be perfect, so much so that the people in that relationship are afraid to have people see them as having flaws. The result is that the husband and wife drive each other away. What this book can teach you is that all relationships have underlying secrets and the pressure to be perfect is what can keep you from being close. Even in the most successful of relationships, there are likely to be some underlying secrets. Also, just because you are in a committed relationship doesnt mean your significant other will stop making mistakes. Instead, people learn to accept their situations and limitations, but that doesnt mean theyre settling. A lot of people find themselves in a relationship situation they never imagined would happen Heart of the Matter definitely illustrates that with its dramatic turn of events that bring together people who would have never intersected otherwise. This book can teach you that if you have enough love and give up the idea that everything in your relationship is going to work out perfectly, you may find something else. And it may be something better. MEET THE AUTHOR Rachel Nall began writing in 2003 and holds an honors degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Tennessee, where she was selected as a Torchbearer, the university's highest honor. She is a former managing editor for custom health publications, including physician journals. She has written for The Associated Press, EverydayHealth.com and "Jezebel," "Charleston," "Chatter" and "Reach" magazines. Nall is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Emily Giffin never took a single writing workshop or tried to get her masters in writing. Unless you count her time as editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, she didnt really pursue writing as a profession. Though she was born in Baltimore, Maryland, she went to high school in a Chicago suburb. Giffin obtained her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, then graduated with her law degree from the University of Virginia. After years as a litigator in New York City, she says she decided she actually hated her job and what she really wanted to do was write. Moving to London to write full-time probably wouldnt work for most people, but Giffin has numerous New York Times bestselling books to show it worked out pretty well for her. After her first young adult novel was rejected, she tried again with a novel that would become Something Borrowed. The rest is successful writer history. Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Introduction + Want to Save Your Relationship? Read “Heart of the Matter” + Emily Giffin: The Lawyer Who Gave It All Up to Write Bestselling Books + About “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Overall Summary for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + ...and much more Chapter Summaries + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 1 and 2 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 3 and 4 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 5 and 6 + “Heart of the Matter” Summary, Chapters 7 and 8 + ...and much more Additional Reading + Related Online Content for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin + Trivia for “Heart of the Matter” by Emily Giffin Quicklet on The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin (Book Summary)
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