&>For First Year Experience, Student Success, Introduction to College courses, as well as a companion to ‘Intro’ courses such as English, Composition, Speech Communications, and Business. This book takes a human resource development approach to college success to guide students to take charge of their education and perform at the highest of levels. Make College Work for You challenges students to become strategic, self-disciplined learners who develop college success and behavioral skills through effective communication and clear reasoning that reinforce ongoing growth toward well situated careers and lives. MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com) helps students to 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by acquiring the skills they need to succeed for ongoing personal and professional development. Teaching & Learning Experience: Strategic, Self-disciplined Learning Make College Work for You is a guidebook, a roadmap, a primer to help college students learn how to develop and practice the skill sets and discipline needed for success in class, extracurricular activities, and jobs. This program provides: · Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab: Whether face-to-face or online, MyStudentSuccessLab helps students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews, interactive practice exercises, and activities that provide academic, life, and professionalism skills. · Academic Excellence: Practice and achieve excellence in academic learning, through grit, in-class performance, effective study habits, and intential selection of programs and courses. · Skill Set Development: Learn and hone marketable abilities: communication skills, critical and creative thinking, teamwork and leadership, networking and mentoring, and wellness management. · Experiential Learning: Discover and build crucial skills and character development through hands-on volunteerism, apprenticeship, and leadership roles on campus and in the larger community. Note: This is the standalone book, if you want the book/access code order the ISBN below: 0321952286 / 9780321952288 Make College Work for You Plus NEW MyStudentSuccessLab 2013 Update -- Access Card Package
Container Topiary puts a new twist on a popular hobby for the sculpting gardener. These living ornaments can be the perfect focal point for an expansive garden, trained to frame a window or doorway, or act as an evolving centerpiece in a rooftop or balcony garden.Complete fundamentals of technique, from choosing containers for shape and size to basic cultivation, launch this art of shaping trees and shrubs. Aimed at gardeners of various levels, 16 step-by-step projects are illustrated to walk readers through simple and fancy shapes; flowering, foliage and grafted standards; and even faux topiary using fast-growing ivy or flowers. Advice on displaying topiary and a complete directory of plants and suppliers round out this guide for beginners with inspiration for more experienced gardeners.
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless of discipline, academic ethnographers who conducted their field work research during the twentieth century were trained in the accepted scientific methods and theories of the time that prescribed observation, objectivity, and evaluative distance. In contradistinction to such prescribed methods, regarding the ethnographic work conducted among Native Americans, it turns out that the intersubjectively relational work of women (both ethnographers and the Indigenous storytellers with whom they worked) has produced far more reliably factual, historically accurate, and tribally specific Indigenous autobiographies than the more “scientifically objective” approaches of most of the male ethnographers. This volume provides a close lens to the work of a number of women ethnographers and Native American women storytellers to elucidate the effectiveness of their relational methods. Through a combined rhetorical and literary analysis of these ethnographies, we are able to differentiate the products of the women’s working relationships. By shifting our focus away from the surface level textual reading that largely approaches the texts as factually informative documents, literary analysis provides access into the deeper levels of the storytelling that lies beneath the surface of the edited texts. Non-Native scholars and editors such as Franc Johnson Newcomb, Ruth Underhill, Nancy Lurie, Julie Cruikshank, and Noël Bennett and Native storytellers and writers such as Grandma Klah, María Chona, Mountain Wolf Woman, Mrs. Angela Sidney, Mrs. Kitty Smith, Mrs. Annie Ned, and Tiana Bighorse help us to understand that there are ways by which voices and worlds are more and less disclosed for posterity. The results vary based upon the range of factors surrounding their production, but consistent across each case is the fact that informational accuracy is contingent upon the the degree of mutual respect and collaboration in the women’s working relationships. And it is in their pioneering intersubjective methodologies that the work of these women deserves far greater attention and approbation.
A literary study of Native American literature analyzes its sources in oral tradition, offering a theory of "conversive" critical theory as a way of understanding Indian literature's themes and concerns.
MICHAEL BERRY is the fascinating biography of the first Muslim attorney to practice law in the State of Michigan. Throughout his 50 years as an attorney in partnership with a diverse group of attorneys, who joined the firm on a handshake and stayed for many years, Michael Berry amassed many notable achievements and an equally impressive roster of awards and recognitions. A savvy politician, Michael Berry rose to chair the largest Democratic congressional district in the United States. Michael Berry eventually was appointed to the powerful Wayne County Road Commission, which oversaw the vast network of roads in Detroit's home county, known as the automobile capital of the world. Under his 16-year chairmanship, the Detroit Metropolitan Airport was greatly expanded and became one of the top 10 airports in the United States. In 1974, Detroit's international terminal was named after Michael Berry. Throughout tragedy and triumph, Michael Berry always found time to help anyone along the way to improve his or her life. His community service and humanitarian efforts span decades and great distances, including his ancestral land of Lebanon. Overriding in this remarkable journey through the octogenarian's life is the example he set in everything he undertook. He practiced law by the book, often putting principle above payment. He ran a tight ship at the Road Commission, instituting a bidding system for all work undertaken by that influential body and clearly proving that stewardship can be, as it should be, the cornerstone of public service. Arab Americans in fact, all Americans everywhere should look to Michael Berry as a gentle giant who rose from childhood poverty and achieved great success without compromising the values instilled in him at a young age. His biography serves as a living legacy for those who seek to blaze similar trails.
In 1902, Martha Berry founded the Industrial School for Boys to educate the children of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and in 1909 the school admitted women. The institution grew from a mountain industrial school to a two-year college in its first twenty-four years, became a four-year college in 1930, and has since become one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the South. This volume portrays, in word and image, the role of sports at Berry College throughout its 100-year history. Situating athletics within the social and cultural life of the college, the book includes both intramural and intercollegiate sport, and traces the evolution of the Viking tradition as it both parallels and reflects the development of sport in the United States. The story begins with the recreational and leisure activities of the early years of the school and traces the continuation of the sporting spirit from the days of the "Silver and the Blue" through the post-war "Blue Jacket" tradition, and ends with the Viking years of the last four decades. Of notable interest in the book is the development of the women's sports program, which has brought four national titles to the college; the importance of soccer to the college; the well-rounded intercollegiate program, which currently fields teams in seven sports; and an excellent intramural program.
In a garden we rediscover and refine our relationships with the earth, with all of creation, and with our Creator. Inspired Gardening invites us to participate in and become a witness to life in a garden, and it understands the fruits of our labor as nourishment for body and soul. The devotionals show how God can teach us whether we are growing peas or making compost. These timely meditations not only help us walk through the seasons with God in the ordinariness of a garden but also offer an abundance of practical and informative tips on gardening. Included are mouthwatering recipes that use the vegetables that are explored. "Gardening is good for the body and the soul, and no one makes this clearer than Susan Berry in her book, "Inspired Gardening." In "Inspired Gardening," Berry takes us on a spiritually uplifting and practical journey into the garden to explore the complex web of relationships among everything from faith to greens to soils, and even to interspecies intercropping. Not just a thoughtful inspirational devotional, this work is also filled with wonderful tips on how to think about vegetable gardens and gardening, useful methods for contending with specific pests and other growing challenges, and mouthwatering recipes that help you celebrate the harvest, feeding both body and soul. Whether an avid vegetable gardener or a cultivator of the spirit, this gardening companion will surely stand by your side to provide sustenance, peace, and understanding as you toil through the seasons. " -Hank Will, Mother Earth News Editorial Director Susan has written a beautiful and inspired devotional based on her love of gardening and serving the Lord. Her passion and talent for connecting with others bursts from the pages. It's like she is planting little seeds in our hearts. -Melissa Caughey, Founder Tilly's Nest at tillysnest.com
From the series Moments of the Heart, Book 1 Losing a parent to tragedy when you're young can snatch from you the life you were born to live. Maggie Campbell certainly knows how that feels. Her mother drowned when she was twelve leaving her with an uncaring father and a broken heart. As soon as she was old enough, she left the painful memories behind and headed for California. Just when she thought her life was settled, a letter from her sister forces her to face her past. Returning to the family home after a seven-year absence, Maggie finds little has changed except for the presence of a new neighbor, Desmond Kinsley, who is suspiciously entangled in all their lives. Maggie soon discovers that her family's finances are under the control of this handsome, charming stranger. But when once again tragedy comes to the ones she loves, Desmond is the only one who can help. It seems Maggie must accept his involvement for now, but at what cost? When she realizes her own happiness may be in jeopardy, Maggie must decide how much she trusts her own feelings and the man who seems to hold the key to all their futures. Will she choose to finally let her heart feel again, or will she run forever lost in grief?
A new guide to gardening techniques, containing valuable horticultural information and advice across a wide range of topics. The book covers over ninety techniques and projects from propagation to making your own compost; from sowing seedlings to basic weeding.
A lavish source of inspiration & practical solutions for the many gardeners who have limited space, with a full range of planting ideas, a detailed plant directory, & 300 color photographs.
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In this book, the authors show how to use fr esh, dried, pressed or waxed flowers, in myriad ways such as decorating the home and making gifts. All projects are show n with step-by-step photos that make even the more complex p rojects available to everyone.
An introduction to gardening that provides information on planning a garden, creating garden features such as walls and ponds, dealing with different gardening sites, choosing the right plants, and maintaining one through every season.
This is a guide to making the best of small spaces, from choosing a style to designing the garden, and from selecting plants to advice on planting up. It looks at plot shapes and shows you how to create the right style for the setting.
Shows you how to grow vegetables and fruit, using organic methods, even if you don't have a garden; all that is necessary is a couple of pots or a window box.
Designed for beginners and experienced gardeners alike this practical book provides inspiration and expert advice on choosing the perfect plants for every space in your garden, taking into account soil, sun, shade, wetness and mixes of color and scent.
China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study and provides a full account of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population.
This title sets out the basics of successful flower arranging including: selection of the right container; the use of foliage; shape, texture and colour; and gives ideas for 20 seasonally-based projects.
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