Build and deepen your personal spiritual practice with this empowering, radical reframing of prayer as a secular tool for healing, personal growth, societal change, and profound joy.Prayer is an ancient practice—one that has been utilized and embraced by cultures around the world and across time. There is not one correct way to pray, and no tradition holds a monopoly on what prayer is or means. In The Uncommon Book of Prayer author, psychosomatic therapist...

AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF A GLOBAL GAMEFor 140 years, women's soccer has been a powerful global force and a vehicle for sparking change. That power has shone through 140 years of obstacles and setbacks, bans and ridicule, dismissal and devaluation. Today, investors and audiences recognize the value of women's soccer not because it can raise money for charity or inspire young girls (although it can) but simply because it is good business. This sport and the women who play it have ...

Fleeing the Holocaust in Europe, Marcus moves with his family from Berlin to Shanghai, where he doubts this unfamiliar city will ever feel like home. But with help from his new friend Liang, and the answers to a rabbi's riddle, Marcus sets out to build a unique sukkah in time for the harvest festival of Sukkot.

Do you marvel at the patience and poise of your child’s preschool teacher and secretly wish you could act with the same calm demeanor? Now you can. Detachment Parenting allows you to break out of fight-or-flight mode and respond mindfully, even when emotions run high. This practical e-book shows you how to: • Stay calm when kids are out of control • Engage kids in helpful discussions of intense emotional issues • Coach kids to unders...

Containing the largest bank of test questions on the market, ***How to Pass Numerical Reasoning Tests***provides advice, practice and exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence.An overview of the basics is followed by a step-by-step guide to numerical tests, covering:- Fractions and decimals- Rates- Percentages- Ratios and proportions- Data interpretationA...

Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and wellbeing.Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school teachers to systematically incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into thei...

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews, thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book highlights how feminist mentoring happens between professor and student; junior faculty and tenured; and occurs repeatedly. Featuring contributions from scholars...

What Are We Doing About It?By: Heidi SmithHeidi Smith wrote What Are We Doing About It? in response to school violence as a way for children and young adults to process and have opportunities to discuss their fears, concerns, and feelings of helplessness surrounding traumatic events. This book will provide an experience for kids & teachers/counselors/parents to share feelings and ideas around these emotional subjects.About the AuthorHeidi Smith is currently a...

Pavel is a new American, excited about his new country. When his rabbi tells him that the Civilian Conservation Corps is hiring young people, Pavel is thrilled. As a member of the Corps, he learns to plant trees, build dams, and take care of the land. But not everyone in the Corps thinks Pavel belongs in America. It's not until he and his immigrant friends learn to sing the country's new national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" in time for Independence Day celebrations, that they're wel...

Angry that his father is afraid to kindle the Hanukkah lights, Emanuel stows away on a whaling ship. When a storm overtakes the boat, it is his father’s change of heart and the family menorah that light the way home.

A boy finds his great grandfather's accordion in the attic and with it the sweet history of klezmer music and the role the old accordion played in Jewish life through the years.

A loving father carves carousel horses that represent members of his family as he saves money to bring them from Europe to America. This book is a work of historical fiction based on the stories of Jewish woodcarvers who came from the Old Country and turned their talents to carving carousel horses on Coney Island.