Bertie: The Best Stuttering King is a children's story about a timid, stuttering prince who is thrust unexpectedly on the throne and becomes one of the best kings of the 20th Century. A history book in rhyme for children and children who stutter, this story highlights England's most reluctant monarch, King George VI, and his early struggles with stuttering, knock knees, and bullying - topics still relevant today.

"Serial Grave Robber Plays Dress Up With the Dead." While one detective searches for a grave robber another searches for an accomplice to a jail break as three unidentified youths somehow vanish from Des Moines PD lockup; both, unknowingly on the trail of the same person who committed neither crime, unless the obliteration of a soul is a crime.Amelia Spector has suffered a disfiguring accident leaving the once lovely athlete a quadriplegic resident of Mercy hospital where her roomma...

Read About Two Young Brothers who live on a ranch in Texas. Find out how longhorns spend the day. See if they seem to be a little bit like you. Get to know Gus and Buddy, two real live Texas longhorns.

Read about two miniature donkeys, Jack and Jasmine, as they await the birth of their first foal. See if you learn anything new about donkeys and why they are so special. Get to know Jack, Jasmine,and baby Glory on their ranch in Texas

Guidebook to Community Consulting provides advice for people interested in starting or growing a career in community consulting. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as community consultants, it offers a wealth of practical guidance to anyone considering or establishing a successful career serving and empowering communities. It includes guidance about the personal qualities, values, and technical skills needed; how to start a consulting practice; how to collaborate with colleagues, ...

While fancy and sophisticated foods continue to grow in popularity, ask most people what their favorite foods are, and the answer will invariably be classic comfort foods: lasagna, meat loaf, mac and cheese, and cake. Unfortunately, most people think that having diabetes means the days of enjoying these hearty classics are long gone and that their favorite foods are a thing of the past. Author Robyn Webb shows that healthy eating doesn't have to mean giving up on favorite foods! Diabetes c...

Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach imposed by increasing resistance in the aphids and government restrictions on pesticides. The bo...

In 1-2-3 Parenting with Heart, Dr. Thomas W. Phelan and pastor Chris Webb teach Christian parents to take charge while refraining from yelling, leading to better behaved children, happier parents, and a more peaceful home environment. Complete with relevant Bible verses, explanations, and exercises, this guide allows you to get back in charge of your home and enjoy your kids again by helping you set limits for your children, and by breaking down the complex task of parenting into ...

Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer these questions by presenting a comprehensive overview of the state of party organization in nineteen contemporary democracies. Using a unique new data collection, the book's chapters test pro...

This book, part of the series Cave and Karst Systems of the World, begins with a review of the interaction between people and caves in Australia (including conservation), followed by descriptions of the spectacular cave diving sites, before comprehensively covering all the major carbonate and noncarbonate karst areas, subdivided by rock type and region, and including the origin of the caves. This is followed by broad overviews of cave minerals and speleothems, cave biology and cave fossils...

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. Examining a range of geographic contexts, the editors and contributors aim to address these c...

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or other has been seen as the starting point for analysis, but this volume argues that it is the study of the inter-relationships between these three factors that offers a way forward. The contrib...