Tougher Times shows how to address the worry and anxiety that accompany difficult changes and matters which are beyond our control. Readers learn to tear down the wall of worry that keeps them from facing tougher times and dealing with them effectively. The book contains solid, sensible advice and examples for taking control of your money, getting a handle on your health, recognizing early emotional warning signs, and creating an inventory of your life. Turn Tougher Times into Better Times starting now.
English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts. Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy. It actively engages students with texts at a variety of levels: • Develops language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking • Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences • Underlines the importance of visual literacy • Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts
Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian, thus finding themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies that dominated the South. This progressive view of race stressed the biblical unity of humanity, encompassing all races and transcending specific ethnic divisions. In All According to God's Plan, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention. He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South.
Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape. This first-of-its-kind volume sketches the diversity implicit in United States criminal law doctrine through its examination of a range of criminal laws pertaining to murder, sexual assault, drug offenses, the insanity defense, and more and the way in which different states deal with those issues. In addition to providing insights into the most widely invoked standards in criminal law, it raises awareness of the enormous discrepancies among the criminal laws of states, documenting them using dozens of visually coded maps that showcase geographic, political, and socioeconomic differences to explain patterns of agreement and disagreement. Mapping American Criminal Law: Variations Across the 50 States is for political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars, policy advisors, legislators, lawyers, judges, and scholars and students of these fields. In addition, each chapter is highly accessible to laypersons and includes an explanation of the subject matter as well as explanations of the various approaches to criminal law taken by states.
In this engaging - and disturbing - book, a leading historian of the Court reveals the close fit between its decisions and the nation's politics. Drawing on more than four decades of thinking about the Supreme Court and its role in the American political system, this book offers a new, clear, and troubling perspective on American jurisprudence, politics, and history.
Students don't have to be convinced of the need for competent communication skills. By the time they enter business communication classes, students know enough about the business environment to appreciate the critical role communication plays in the contemporary organization; they're also aware of the role communication will play in helping them secure an internship or get a job and be successful at work. To sustain this inherent interest, students need a textbook that is current, fast-paced, and interesting, just like business itself. Thus, a major objective of [the book] is to present comprehensive coverage of real-world concepts in an interesting and lively manner. This edition has been extensively revised to provide students with the skills they need to communicate effectively in the complex and ever-changing contemporary work environment. The revision was based on helpful feedback received from the current users around the country(and, indeed, around the English-speaking world), changes in the discipline, and, especially, changes in the workplace itself. The following discussion highlights the features of this complete learning and teaching system: Business communication-in context--technology-centered--Work-team communication--Spotlights on contemporary issues--The 3Ps (problem, process, and porduct) model--Annotated models and checklists--basic skills first--Unprecedented instructor support--Additional student support materials.-Pref.
This complete, 120-lesson program teaches skills that will serve your students throughout their school and employment careers. The program uses Word 6.0 or WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows. The textbook is designed with an easy-to-open and user-friendly binding.
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