“Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.”--Michele SmithTwo-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen.Straight from t...

"The Quick Guide to Healthcare Marketing" provides you powerful recommendations to begin expanding your healthcare practice and selling more healthcare products. This intuitive guide is designed to be a fast read that delivers complex marketing solutions in precise way. You will learn how to avoid wasting money, find your potential patients, clarify your message, and fix your practice's reputation. Finding your market and developing direct ways to cater to them doesn't just help alert peop...

There are millions of new motorcyclists hitting the blacktop every year. But being part of the American motorcycle culture takes more than just wanting to be cool. It takes a passion for the open road, freedom, and a lifestyle that even the best financing cant buy. This book, by someone who knows motorcycles as few do, provides a road map to biker culture for anyone new to the experience. Jay Barbieri explains everything a new rider needs to know to become a real biker. He begins with a br...

The Fruit of the Spirit book is an addition to the Fruit of the Spirit coloring/activity book. In this book you will find illustrations that represent the 9 fruits of the spirit along with scriptures from the NIV and ESV bible. It also has questions pertaining to each fruit of the spirit, that will enhance the child's knowledge of the fruit of the spirit. An enjoyable, family friendly book.

We knew you existed. . .we knew we weren't the only ones. There are so many of us. . .all after the same thing. . . The challenge we all face is that in our search for 8 million answers we often spend time asking too many of the wrong questions. Both of us have spent over 20 years, working on figuring ourselves out, all the while searching for direction. The biggest navigation tool we found was discovering the right questions to ask ourselves first---"The Six Questions." Find your Answers....

This book is my journey after receiving my husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's/Dementia. I am sharing my own story to inspire others who are embracing grief while navigating through their own whirlwind journey of a loved ones diagnosis. I never gave myself credit for something I did not know I had, resiliency. Writing this book gave me the inspiration to share my story in an effort to help other caregivers paralyzed by the diagnosis of their loved one. Working as a State Certified Ombudsman...

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse societies of t...

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesThis groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international tr...

As community colleges continue to be significant in the national landscape of higher education by providing access to education and job training to diverse constituents, conversations about the support for strategic diversity leadership are paramount. Now more than ever, senior leaders must be intentional in aligning strategy with outcomes and guidance in relation to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Leaders must be diligent in pursuing an inclusive excellence agenda and promoting a strate...

In The Praise that Speaks, Author C.H.O.S.E.N, Michele Lee Smith presents discernment on how to develop or strengthen the reader's relationship with God through praise.

Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking Age. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, this is a book dedicated to the lesser-known...

This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century. Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at all levels, the role of contemporary musical practices in teacher education, and the communication challenges that surround institutional change. Models of programs that feature i...