Enter the amazing world of birding with this practical, pocket-sized, and beginner-friendly guide to the must-see species found in the Pacific Northwest. From the Olive-sided Flycatcher and Clark’s Nutcracker to Barrow’s Goldeneye and more, this easy-to-use book will help you identify the commonly occurring birds that help make the Cascades and Columbia River Gorge natural wonders. While following hiking trails and scenic byways, exploring riverside shorelines or remote forests, you’ll learn where and when to find the most beautiful birds by their sound, appearance, habitats, and migration habits. Perfect for experienced and budding birders alike, this sleek, compact guide is the ideal travel companion for every trip to the mountains.
Must-See Birds of the Pacific Northwest is a lively, practical guide that helps readers discover 85 of the region’s most extraordinary birds. Each bird profile includes notes on what they eat, where they migrate from, and where to find them in Washington and Oregon. Profiles also include stunning color photographs of each bird. Birds are grouped by what they are known for or where they are most likely to be found—like beach birds, urban birds, colorful birds, and killer birds. This is an accessible guide for casual birders, weekend warriors, and families looking for an outdoor experience. Eight easy-going birding weekends, including stops in Puget Sound, the Central Washington wine country, and the Klamath Basin, offer wonderful getaway ideas and make this a must-have guide for locals and visitors alike.
A Practical, Pocket-Sized, and Beginner-Friendly Birding Guide Oregon’s coast is teeming with scores of beautiful birds, and the Best Little Book of Birds: The Oregon Coast will help you find them. From regal ospreys and iconic eagles to frenetic sandpipers and colorful kingfishers, this easy-to-use book will help you identify more than 100 commonly occurring birds that help make the Oregon coast the natural wonder that it is. An emphasis on best practices and habitat sustainability help empower conservation and ensure that birding on the coast will be possible for years to come. Perfect for budding and experienced birders alike, this sleek and compact guide is the ideal travel companion for every trip to the coast.
Overweight, Bullied, and Blessed: My Life's Journey Struggling with Weight and Self-Esteem shares Sarah Swanson Greene's very personal account of being bullied for being overweight as a child. She has lived with low self-esteem and self-worth ever since. Now, the Lord placed on her heart the mission to tell her story so that it might show others the everyday struggles of bullied overweight children and the lifetime of devastation it can cause. She seeks to help overweight children and adults, especially those bullied because of their weight, to understand that there are others who have had the same experiences and who have survived with God's love. Exploring the challenges that she has faced, she offers hope because with God's guidance everything is possible. We all need to learn that our self-worth does not come from outward appearances. If your child has faced bullying due to weight, Overweight, Bullied, and Blessed offers solace, insight, guidance, and hope for the future with God's help.
Hee-hee! Ha, ha ha! Laughter is contagious and it's spreading all through Sesame Street and beyond. Come laugh along in this funny Christmas tale. This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Embodied Performance presents a methodology by which performer-interpreters can bring their intuitive interpretations to the scholarly conversations about biblical compositions. It may not be comfortable, for scholarship is out of practice in listening to emotion and intuition. It may not be the only way to bring the fullness of human meaning making into scholarly discussions. It is a beginning, as Sarah Agnew, storyteller and scholar, places herself as the subject and object under examination, observing her practice as a biblical storyteller making meaning through embodied performance, and develops a coherent method rigorously tested with an Embodied Performance Analysis of Romans. Follow Sarah's story as she searches within Biblical Performance Criticism for such a method, before determining the need to strike out in a new direction from within an already innovative field. All biblical scholars are complex human beings, making meaning through their embodiment, their emotions, their embeddedness in community. Embodied Performance Analysis offers a way to attend to and incorporate the full range of human meaning making in our engagement with biblical compositions, for richer discussion closer to the intent of the compositions themselves.
Celebrate Christmas with Elmo--and this new board book format with a cool die-cut in the cover! In this hilarious Sesame Street version of "The 12 Days of Christmas," Elmo and friends celebrate the holidays as only they can! Young children will get a kick out of counting to 12, both forward and back, as they sing about three French friends, two yummy cookies, and a red monster up in a tree.This new board book edition has sturdy pages and a diecut in the cover showcasing everyone's favorite red monster, Elmo. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, aims to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder through its many unique domestic and international initiatives. These projects cover a wide array of topics for families around the world.
When first published in 1962, Sarah Patton Boyle's narrative of personal growth and change was highly praised and quickly sold more than sixty thousand copies, though few of them in the South. In it we witness Boyle's journey from sedate Virginia housewife to civil rights activist via an often naive, but ultimately courageous path. Catalyst for Boyle's conversion was African American attorney Gregory Swanson's successful suit for admission to the University of Virginia Law School in 1950. Boyle wrote Swanson a friendly note of welcome—and prided herself on addressing him as "Mr." Her awkward efforts to help led her to T. J. Sellers, editor of Charlottesville's black newspaper, The Tribune, and to what they came to call "The T. J. Sellers Course for Backward Southern Whites." It was the beginning of a remarkable friendship which is traced in their correspondence, selections from which are published here for the firt time. Although she could not have imagined it when she wrote that note to Gregory Swanson, by 1962 Sarah Patton Boyle had become the most outspoken white integrationist in Virginia. In addition to writing, speaking, and organizing for the NAACP and other groups, she gained national attention when an article she had originally titled "We're Readier Than We Think" appeared in the Saturday Evening Post under the inflammatory title "Southerners Will Like Integration." A wave of hostile reactions from across the country included crosses burned on her lawn. This reprinting of The Desegregated Heart, long out of print, adds significantly to the new work that attempts to unravel massive resistance. For all who seek to understand the civil rights movement in this country, it recaptures the contribution of not one but two people who proved themselves part of the very backbone of a new racially progressive South that is still in the making.
A collection of accounts about Porter Rockwell that provide insight into his character, his incredible physical stamina and skill, and his devotion to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
You only have a short time, so why not grab a short story? A collection of writers and stories, and you enjoying a moment to yourself. Romance, mystery, sci-fi, adventure, non-fiction, comedy. crime, fantasy, personal essays, and ghost stories are all in here, waiting to take you far away from your pressures and stress. Read about others. Laugh and chill with these nine terrific writers. From murder to ghosts, gardens to grannies, Covid to travel, there is much to keep you entertained and interested. Take a break with Caroline Munro and family in England, Greece, Georgia, Chicago, New York and finally Minnesota. Follow Sarah Bromage around the world, Sybil Swanson on her faith journey, and David Zander on his path to old age and retirement. Look for strong characters, complex plots, perfect descriptions, and scenes. Join us for a good read.
In The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante's work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club.
Time-saving, low-cost solutions for self-paced learning or instructor-led training! Developed for health care professionals who provide care to pregnant women and newborns, the Perinatal Continuing Education Program (PCEP) is a comprehensive, self-paced education program in four volumes. Completely updated and revised with leading-edge procedures and techniques, Book IV: Specialized Newborn Care, 3rd Edition features 6 units dealing with complex neonatal therapies, such as assisted ventilation, as well as a unit on continuing care for at-risk babies and those with specal problems following int.
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