Recipient of the 2017 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Chronologically organized, Lifespan Development: Lives in Context offers a unique perspective on the field by focusing on the importance of context—examining how the places, sociocultural environments, and ways in which we are raised influence who we become and how we grow and change. Author Tara L. Kuther integrates cutting-edge and classic research throughout the text to present a unified story of developmental science and its applications to everyday life. Robust pedagogy, student-friendly writing, and an inviting design enhance this exciting and inclusive exploration of the ways in which context informs our understanding of the lifespan.
Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want high-stakes stories that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, brave characters in life-and-death situations? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! Colton's Secret Stalker (A The Coltons of Owl Creek novel) By Kimberly Van Meter When Frannie Colton meets mysterious Italian Dante Sinclair in her bookstore, neither can deny their instant attraction. She has no idea Dante is lying about his identity. But when Dante’s past catches up with him, it comes for Frannie, too… Deadly Mountain Rescue (A Sierra's Web novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn Police officer Stacy Waltz and her partner, Jesse “Mac” MacDonald, are known all over the state as the ultimate dream team. Then Stacy is targeted by a stalker. Will Mac put his life—and heart—on the line for the colleague who has become so much more? Hunted Hotshot Hero (A Hotshot Heroes novel) By New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Lisa Childs Hotshot firefighter Rory VanDam is on high alert—and not just from the saboteur targeting his team. Brittany Townsend is an ambitious reporter determined to uncover the truth about him, but what happens when her big scoop leads to a world of danger and desire? Undercover Cowboy Protector (A The Secrets of Hidden Creek Ranch novel) By USA TODAY bestselling author Kacy Cross Navy SEAL turned bodyguard Ace Madden has one mission: protect Sophia Lang. Working undercover as a ranch hand gives him full access to the workaholic executive. But when peril and passion collide, Ace’s job becomes personal.
They have a perfect partnership… But an attempt on her life changes everything. When Officer Stacy Waltz is abducted and stranded on the mountainside, police corporal Jesse "Mac" MacDonald risks his own life to save hers. She’s the best partner he’s ever had. Working together to find her would-be killer brings them closer together than ever—something Mac can't admit he wants, even to himself. Finding the man who left Stacy for dead might prove easier than resisting the desire that pulses between them… From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Sierra's Web series: Book 1: His Lost and Found Family Book 2: Reluctant Roommates Book 3: Tracking His Secret Child Book 4: Her Best Friend's Baby Book 5: Cold Case Sheriff Book 6: The Bounty Hunter's Baby Search Book 7: On the Run with His Bodyguard Book 8: Their Secret Twins Book 9: Old Dogs, New Truths Book 10: Not Without Her Child Book 11: A Firefighter's Hidden Truth Book 12: Last Chance Investigation Book 13: A Family-First Christmas Book 14: Danger on the River Book 15: Deadly Mountain Rescue Book 16: A High-Stakes Reunion
Like children themselves, development is dynamic. In the chronologically organized Child and Adolescent Development in Context, award-winning author Tara L. Kuther frames development research in real-life contexts, including gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more. Kuther presents highly relatable examples, vivid cross-cultural stories, and case studies of real individuals, consistently prompting students to reflect on chapter content with What do you think? questions. The book emphasizes three core themes: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science; students will come away with an understanding of these themes that they will immediately be able to apply to their own lives and future careers. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. “/li> LMS Cartridge (formerly known as SAGE Coursepacks): Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Teach a course on infants and children? Kuther′s Infants and Children in Context covers ages 0-12 and is available now.
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: #143 RECIPE FOR REDEMPTION by Anna J. Stewart To save her town's landmark inn, Abby Manning enters a cooking competition. There's only one problem: she can't cook. Who better to teach her than newcomer Jason Corwin? The disgraced celebrity chef is hoping to keep a low profile. Only thing is, he can't keep away from Abby. #144 THE BULL RIDER Cameron's Pride by Helen DePrima Joanna Dace lost her father years ago, but she's never stopped trying to understand why. That's the reason she's profiling yet another adrenaline junkie, bull rider Tom Cameron. But Tom isn't what she expected… #145 THE BRIDAL BOUQUET The Business of Weddings by Tara Randel Florist Kady Lawrence wants to win more wedding business until undercover DEA agent Dylan Matthews walks into her life and turns her well-planned goals upside down. #146 WANTED: THE PERFECT MOM Home to Bear Meadows by T. R. McClure Holly Hoffman is determined to make her coffee shop a success. She's got no time for love…especially when John "Mac" McAndrews isn't just looking for a wife. He wants the perfect mom for his little girl, Riley.
Award-winning author Tara L. Kuther presents Lifespan Development in Context, a topically organized version of her bestselling Lifespan Development text that provides a panoramic view of the many influences that shape human development. Kuther’s student-friendly narrative illustrates how the places, sociocultural environments, and ways in which we are raised influence who we become and how we grow and change throughout our lives. Three core themes resonate throughout each chapter: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the value of applied developmental science. Foundational theories and classic studies are combined with contemporary research and culturally diverse perspectives for a modern introduction to the field that is both comprehensive and concise. Visual overviews, case studies, and critical thinking questions encourage self-reflection and class discussion, ensuring students have the tools they need to apply course concepts to their lives and future careers.
Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness probes the social, political and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, Digital Dieting provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal. In April 2010, and for the first time, Facebook received more independent visitors than Google. Increasingly there is a desire to share rather than search. But what is the impact of such a change on higher education? If students complain that the reading is ’too hard’, then one response is to make it easier. If students complain that assignments are too difficult, then one way to manage this challenge is to make the assignments simpler. Both are passive responses that damage the calibre of education and universities in the long term. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness provides active, conscious, careful and applicable strategies to move students and citizens from searching to researching, sharing to thinking, and shopping to reading.
A comprehensive review of the laws and regulations governing the shipmaster including customary law, case law, statutory law, treaty law and regulatory law, covering: • A brief history of the shipmaster • Manning and crewing requirements in relation to vessel registration • Comparison of regimes of law of agency for shipmasters and crews across jurisdictions • Examination of shipmaster liability (civil and criminal)
Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking contribution to the field of southern studies, Tara Powell considers the evolving ways that major post--World War II southern writers have portrayed intellectuals -- from Flannery O'Connor's ironic view of "interleckchuls" to Gail Godwin's southerners striving to feel at home in the academic world. Although Walker Percy, like his fellow Catholic writer O'Connor, explicitly rejected the intellectual label for himself, he nonetheless introduced the modern novel of ideas to southern letters, Powell shows, by placing sympathetic, non-caricatured intellectuals at the center of his influential works. North Carolinians Doris Betts and her student Tim McLaurin made their living teaching literature and creative writing in academia, and Betts's fiction often includes dislocated academics while McLaurin's superb memoirs, often funny, frequently point up the limitations of the mind as opposed to the heart and the spirit. Examining works by Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Randall Kenan, Powell traces the evolution of the black American literacy narrative from a stress on the post-Emancipation conviction, which saw formal education as an essential means of resisting oppression, to the growing suspicion in the post--civil rights era of literacy acts that may estrange educated blacks from the larger black community. Powell concludes with Godwin, who embraces university life in her fiction as she explores what it means to be a southern female intellectual in the modern world -- a world in which all those markers inscribe isolation.
Chronologically organized, The Essentials of Lifespan Development examines the ways in which contexts—culture, society, socioeconomic status, home, family, and even community—impact each stage of a person′s life.
When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner of the sultry Florida swampland... When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner of the sultry Florida swampland" --Amazon.com.
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: #151 FOR LOVE OR MONEY by Tara Taylor Quinn Janie Young has to win the Family Secrets cooking show competition. The single mom needs to think of her son, and their future. Anything else is a luxury she cannot afford. Even if her handsome opponent, Dr. Burke Carter, seems to have other plans… #152 THE BRIDESMAID WORE SNEAKERS The Daughters of Dancing Falls • by Cynthia Thomason Unexpectedly meeting buttoned-down banker Liam Manning at her sister's wedding changes Jude O'Leary's life—the military widow and single mom figured she'd already had her one chance at happiness. But Liam sets out to prove that a second shot is worth the wait. #153 CAROUSEL NIGHTS Starlight Point Stories • by Amie Denman June Hamilton is back at Starlight Point amusement park for the summer. Once she's choreographed the new live shows, she's heading back to Broadway. And there's no way spending time with her first love, Mel Preston, and his adorable five-year-old son is going to change her mind. #154 FORGET ME NOT by Marion Ekholm When Trish Lowery inherits her grandmother's Victorian home, she hires contractor Craig Cadman to help her get the place in shape. But reconnecting with her childhood friend makes Trish start to question everything about her plans for the future.
Reeling from her mother's death, an aimless 21st-century teen working at a historic village discovers new friends, new loves, and the courage to forge her own path.
Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.
Cold-blooded predators lurk in the Everglades—and not all of them are gators When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner of the sultry Florida swampland… As he probes these crimes, Jesse is drawn to the beautiful Lorena Fortier, a new hire at the local gator farm and research facility. Lorena is a little too interested in Jesse's investigation, but before he can uncover her true motives, they're both pulled into a dangerous web of greed, ambition and animal cunning. To survive, they'll have to decide whether they can trust each other…before the hunters become the hunted. BONUS BOOK INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! The Sheriff of Shelter Valley by USA TODAY bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn Six months ago, Beth woke up with no memory of her past, a bruised face and a little boy who called her "Mama." Until her memory returns, the most dangerous thing she can do is to fall for the sheriff—the one man who can uncover the truth and destroy the person she's become.
Get the award winning premier dog travel guide. DogFriendly.com is used by over 1 million people annually for pet travel information. This latest version of the winner of ForeWord Magazines Pet Book of the Year adds even more pet-friendly hotels, B&Bs and lodging (with detailed pet policies) that accept dogs of all sizes. Now includes nearly 100 dog-friendly city and resort guides with attractions, outdoor restaurants, stores, parks, beaches and camping. Also has beach guides, airline pet policies and road trip tips. Plus new to this edition are National Park Guides, an off-leash dog park directory and a section of photographs of dog-friendly places visited by the authors. The previous edition received positive reviews by Midwest Book Review, Heartland Reviews and Booknews. So whether you travel with a tiny toy poodle or a large black lab it's time to replace that old out-of-date or hotel only list with this all inclusive guide to everything dog travel.
A new series set in Cooper's Corner, Massachusetts, centers on Twin Oaks, a bed and breakfast run by sister and brother Maureen and Clint Cooper. When a travel writer vanishes during his stay at the B & B, news reporter and inn guest Laurel London wants to help, but she encounters policeman Scott Hunter, with whom she shares a painful past. Can cop and reporter mend their pain and join their hearts? (August)
This collection of men's sweater projects presents classic designs and trendy fashion-forward pieces, forgoing the stereotypical Mr. Rogers and Bill Cosby variety of sweater. Offering tips for overcoming men's reluctance to wear sweaters, this book provides the tools needed for making the right choices in fit, color, texture, and style to create beautiful, masculine knitted sweaters. Explored are how to understand his personal style and which colors and textures flatter particular physiques so that the sweater will be both enjoyable to knit and a favorite to wear. Patterns for Arans, Argyle, basket case, and cable rib are included for knitting cardigans, pullovers, V-necks, vests, and accessories such as scarves and gloves. Although intended for men, these sweaters have great unisex appeal and were developed for both new and seasoned knitters.
Mindful Knitting contains ten original and enjoyable knitting projects, each complemented by a meditation exercise. As knitters know the craft is much more than the finished project. By looking at the parallels between knitting and meditation--how simple repetitive actions can lead to a grater connection with the world--this knitting book shows you how to enrich your life by combining the two. Author Tara Jon Manning, a noted knitwear designer and practicing Buddhist, explores the spiritual rewards of knitting: Bring inner serenity to your knitting practice--and everyday activities Fully appreciate the objects you knit, making eah more significant and satisfying Connect to others by donating to charities, creating gifts, or knitting with a group. To help with with your knitting projects, Mindful knitting includes clearly written patterns, tips for intuitive knitting, and a helpful glossary of knitting techniques and resources. Whether you're an advanced or a beginning knitter or a new or seasoned meditator, this Buddhist knitting book will help you develop a renewed sense of self and an increased appreciation of the world around you.
Compassionate Knitting: Finding Basic Goodness in the Work of Our Hands is a knitting book unlike any other. The 20 original-design projects included in this book range from small accessory items and gifts to wearable garments-all of which include personal ritual in their creation or use. Each project is inspired by an element of the world around us, based on a contemplative theme drawn from Shambhala Buddhism and Eastern arts or, in some cases, Western notions of the magical and mindful.
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