Sheryl Bayliss, is head of public relations for Hittite Chemicals. When Hittite's lawyer, Jim Kirsten, suggests that it is her department's job to meet and reassure the head of the local environmentalist group of Hittite Chemicals good intentions, Sheryl discovers it is her ex-fiance Jed Hollis she has to meet. Discovering that someone is deliberately manipulating the Greenies into turning radical, Sheryl and Jed need to work together to find out who is laundering bribes and payouts. But can they get past resurfacing attraction and unresolved relationship issues to get the job done?
Sylvia's Itch is an endearing story of friendship, tenacity and problem solving. A suitable book for classrooms, families, libraries and educational institutions. Sylvia is a beautiful young sugar glider. She should be happy, but she has a problem. She has an itch that just won't go away. Even worse, it's right in the middle of her back in a spot she can't reach. Sylvia and her best friend Penelope just can't get to the bottom of Sylvia's mysterious itch, so they set out together to find a cure.
Patrick is the youngest and smallest pirate on the Salty Sardine. Patrick has lots of jobs to do but is always in trouble because he loves to read. What happens when the ship reaches a small island? Why is Patrick suddenly a hero? A light-hearted story about pirates, reading and relationships.
How many kids know how to find gold? Probably not many! Jake's Golden Handbook is a non-fiction book for kids about finding gold. It gives insider tips about panning and detecting for gold, what you'll need if you ever go gold fossicking and about keeping safe. It also has interviews with real-life prospectors and gold jokes.
Jake and his Grandpa head off to the goldfields to search for gold. It's much harder for Grandpa to find gold than he expects. What they find just proves that one man's trash is indeed another boy's treasure. A warm-hearted story of a boy and his grandfather sharing an unforgettable adventure.
Brave Danny is about a small boy who makes a difference by being brave enough to speak up.---Danny is frightened of his dad. Every night he goes to bed and pretends to be asleep. He listens to his dad mistreating his mum. Danny thinks his life is normal until he goes on a sleepover at his best friend Alex's house. Alex's dad is kind and fun to be with, and Danny feels happy.Danny wishes his dad could be more like Alex's dad. But what can he do?
It is the yearly eventIn the neighbourhood streetWhen bikes, boards and scootersAll meet to compete.Who will take out the race?Crowds gather to seeBut no-one can guessWho the winner will be.
Eddie can't play with the other emus as he always trips and falls over. So Eddie decides to something he's always wanted to do. He learns how to make bush tucker recipes. Little does Eddie know his life is about to change forever. This is an Australian story about following a dream and never, ever giving up.
There's a secret going around in Monsterville! A little monster has a secret he shares with his friend. The secret is so big, that the second little monster can't keep it to himself, so he shares it too. What is the secret? And why are the monsters so excited? The secret is revealed in the end and you'll never guess what it is!
Bright Sparks Literacy Project is a set of reading materials that provide staged opportunities for the progressive acquisition of literacy skills in the early years of schooling. Each title draws on a broad base of literacy skills, yet focuses on one or two skills, enabling teachers to appropriately select texts according to student's perceived need. Readers are exposed to a range of appropriate text types and language structures. Texts and activities have been developed around common themes explored in contemporary classrooms, allowing teachers to capitalise on the use of context when reading and writing.
Bright Sparks Literacy Project is a set of reading materials that provide staged opportunities for the progressive acquisition of literacy skills in the early years of schooling. Each title draws on a broad base of literacy skills, yet focuses on one or two skills, enabling teachers to appropriately select texts according to student's perceived need. Readers are exposed to a range of appropriate text types and language structures. Texts and activities have been developed around common themes explored in contemporary classrooms, allowing teachers to capitalise on the use of context when reading and writing.
A definitive reference--now extensively revised with 70% new material--this book presents cutting-edge knowledge on how learning disorders develop and how to diagnose and treat them effectively. In addition to dyslexia and mathematics disabilities, the book covers speech and language disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability. Accessibly written, it is grounded in genetics, neuroscience, and developmental neuropsychology. Clinicians and educators are guided to make sense of children's impairments and strengths and make sound diagnostic decisions. Best practices in intervention are reviewed. User-friendly features include case examples and summary tables in each disorder-specific chapter. New to This Edition *Revised throughout to reflect major theoretical, empirical, and technological advances. *Chapters on etiology, brain development, and comorbidity. *Chapters on DSM-5 diagnosis of specific learning disorder, evidence-based assessment, and achievement gaps.
Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology. Human Evolutionary Psychology is a comprehensive, balanced, and readable introduction to this burgeoning field. It combines a sophisticated understanding of the basics of evolutionary theory with a solid grasp of empirical case studies. Covering not only such traditional subjects as kin selection and mate choice, this text also examines more complex understandings of marriage practices and inheritance rules and the way in which individual action influences the structure of societies and aspects of cultural evolution. It critically assesses the value of evolutionary explanations to humans in both modern Western society and traditional preindustrial societies. And it fairly presents debates within the field, identifying areas of compatibility among sometimes competing approaches. Combining a broad scope with the more in-depth knowledge and sophisticated understanding needed to approach the primary literature, this text is the ideal introduction to the exciting and rapidly expanding study of human evolutionary psychology.
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