Develop children’s problem-solving and critical-thinking skills? Check.Support children’s communication and collaboration skills? Check.Inspire children’s creativity and innovative thinking? Check.Meet early learning standards in literacy, math, and more? Yes, please!How can early childhood teachers do all this? By engaging children in outdoor STEM discoveries!Dig In: Outdoor STEM Learning with Young Children provides strategies, ideas, real-li...

Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issuesFor the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the world is to be neutral, balanced, with a similarly gently flowing pattern. States of imbalance, tension, or agitation are indicative of physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual illness and whether caused i...

Desire. Conviction. Character. Story. Practice. Institution.The Shape of Our Lives digs into how these six factors—often operating beneath our consciousness—profoundly affect our spiritual formation, both as individuals and congregations. As Christians across America grapple with the value and purpose of church, this accessible volume provides a roadmap for exploring what motivates and forms us. The Shape of Our Lives equips readers to look beneat...

"The hilarious story of one of St. Nick's alligators who was left behind after the toys were delivered one Christmas Eve" ( Foreword Reviews).Boudreau needs to get away. His children are hollering as they play with their new toys, and his wife has cleaned out their pocketbook after buying Christmas gifts and treats. As he drifts down the bayou on a moonlit night, Boudreau spies Pierre, one of St. Nicholas's alligators that has been left behind! Boudreau of...

He’ll do anything to defend her. She can’t stay away from him. With sexual tension high and danger even higher, will desire lead to disaster?Shapeshifter Cole Masters ferociously protects his community. Sent in to defuse an escalating hostage situation, he and his fellow SWAT members pull out all the stops to save the innocent victim from his brutal captors. But he’s shocked to scent his fated mate at the crime scene… standing on the side of the kidnappers.Maya Danvers is...

This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience England travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from punting on the River Cam through the elegant grounds of the University of Cambridge; to watching graffiti artists at work underneath the arches of London's ...

He was raised to hate the lion pride. She was raised to hate the hawk flock. When the mate bond unites them, their families threaten to tear everything apart.FBI agent Ramon Miguel is fiercely protective of his extended family. A hawk shifter, and eldest son of the flock's leader, it's not just his nature but his duty. When he discovers a young cousin has gatecrashed a party at the lion’s den, he can only hope to get him out before blood is spilled. The very last thing he expects...

He’d do anything for her. She’s trapped in a loveless marriage. When duty and destiny are pitted against each other, will desire lead to disaster?Bear shifter Nash Barnes is a relentless agent of justice. Sworn to his FBI SWAT team, nothing comes between him and protecting his community. Until he meets Aria. But when he discovers his fated mate is already married to another man, his distress puts his teammates’ lives at risk.Aria Morgan is desperately unhappy. Trapped in ...

Chloe Elizabeth Hart despises the conceited antics of the popular crowd, or more importantly, one very annoying self-possessed guy, Taylor Anderson, who seems determined to make her the president of his fan club! As if! Every girl in the whole city of Farmington, New Mexico, is in love with him, but he seems to be only interested in Chloe. This modern high school adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is a battle of wits as Chloe desperately tries to remain the only girl who can avoid the inevitab...

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and A...

Sometimes love is blind.Emmalee Bradford thinks she's an expert at matchmaking, and she won't rest until all her friends are as happy as she is. Especially Hannah, the girl she's decided to make popular. Everyone loves Emmalee's advice -everyone, that is, except her annoying neighbor Chase Anderson, who has taken it upon himself to "fix" her.This modern version of Jane Austen's Emma is the hilarious journey of a girl who believes she knows all about love. But when it comes to rec...

They serve and protect. Now it’s their hearts under siege. Can this team of six shifters claim their fated mates?Enjoy over 900 pages of scintillating desire as a crew of locked-and-loaded heroes meet their perfect matches.For Cole Masters, it’s supposed to be a routine assignment. But when a hostage situation reveals the heady floral scent of his destiny, the dependable wolf shapeshifter is shocked at the alluring woman’s connection to the kidnapper. And as danger dogs t...