Most teachers accept that learning is most effective when it is enjoyable, but they are given little direct advice about how to achieve the creative and motivating classrooms that educationalists appeal for. This fascinating book creates a coherent picture of how teachers can make learning easier and more enjoyable for their pupils, including activity ideas, self-evaluation exercises and adaptable action plans for improving both classroom and whole-school ethos.

"This book gives seniors realistic, actionable tools to regain function and reduce pain-without fear, gimmicks, or false promises." -Dr. Ramin Raiszadeh, MD, Spine and Brain Institute of San DiegoIn Back Pain Solutions for Seniors, exercise therapist David Starbuck Smith draws on twenty-five years of clinical experience helping thousands-from everyday people to professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs-overcome even the most stubborn back pain. Using his ...

"...he's among the most talented healers I've ever seen."-Jim Dethmer, bestselling author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership"...a timely and necessary resource for true, lasting wellness."-Dr. Kian Raiszadeh, MD, QME, IME, Board Certified Orthopedic SurgeonDespite the best efforts of traditional Western medical care, millions of people worldwide are left suffering from a chronic pain condition they can't seem to shake. C...

“Despite our perfect and ingenious human design, everyone—regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sport or athletic skill—develops muscular and postural imbalances over time . . . And they’re all fixable.”It’s time to lose your outmoded concepts about getting older. In fact, it’s time to lose your out-of-date beliefs about the origins of muscle and joint injuries and afflictions altogether. Whether your goal is to finally cure your nagging pain and injuries and prevent them ...

While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that “all the best sites” were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers,...

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic states with coattails that extended to Republican Senate candidates and resulted in unified Republican government for the first time since 2008. This result broke with the pre-election convention...

As seen in Focus on the Family magazine.Should I sign up our seven-year-old son for the travel team? What should we do about our daughter's Sunday morning games? Am I the only one longing for a sane balance between children’s sports, family time, and church commitments?David King and Margot Starbuck offer good news for Christian parents stressed out by these questions and stretched thin by the demands of competitive youth sports. Join King, athleti...

Fort William Henry, America’s early frontier fort at the southern end of Lake George, New York, was a flashpoint for conflict between the British and French empires in America. The fort is perhaps best known as the site of a massacre of British soldiers by Native Americans allied with the French that took place in 1757. Over the past decade, new and exciting archeological findings, in tandem with modern forensic methods, have changed our view of life at the fort prior to the massacre, by p...

This timely collaboration by three prominent scholars of media-based performance presents a new model for understanding and analyzing theater and performance created and experienced where time-based, live events, and mediated technologies converge–particularly those works conceived and performed explicitly within the context of contemporary digital culture.Performance and Media introduces readers to the complexity of new media-based performances and how best to understand ...

In 1971, a small coffee bean seller in Seattle began a caffeinated journey towards this elite echelon that would eventually make them one of the most respected and successful brands in the world. This book explains how Starbucks made it from Corner Cafe to Coffee Kingpin with 23.000 locations around the globe.

A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield, The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a...

Third volume in the Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862.Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win with his ragged Company in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Star...