Unique in its creativity and depth of understanding, The Colors of Learning will change the way that teachers think about and react to children’s artwork. Promoting the integration of visual art into allearly childhood curriculum areas, this volume will help early childhood professionals present in-depth art experiences to children so that they become engrossed in expressing their ideas and newly learned concepts through art media. This user-friendly volume features actua...

The Only HR Book You’ll Ever Need!“Whether you’re a small business owner, a manager in a business without an HR department, or even a seasoned HR professional, this book will help you handle any personnel problem—from on-boarding to outplacement—quickly and easily.”—Solutions ReviewFor more than a decade, busy managers by the tens of thousands have turned to this best-selling book as a handy guide to the ins and outs of human resources. And...

Becca Feldman keert terug naar Goodrich County om een alpacaboerderij te beginnen op het land van haar ouders, zodat ze niet langer het lachtertje van het dorp hoeft te zijn. De boerderij is de enige houvast die ze heeft, totdat haar buurman, cowboy Stan Mason, volhoudt dat hij zijn vee niet kan voeren zonder dat stuk land.Stan huurt al jaren het stuk land en is ervan overtuigd dat Becca's alpacadroom gewoon een kinderdroom is. Maar hoe vaker hij met haar in discussie gaat over hekk...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Een onverwachte meet-cute op het platteland van Goodrich countyWanneer Mona Edmunds een vervallen huis in Goodrich county erft, voelt het als haar kans om niet langer anderen op de eerste plaats te zetten. Het huis is een bouwval en haar veeleisende familie blijft maar bellen - maar misschien kan ze voor het eerst zelf haar toekomst bepalen.Cowboy Reid Manson staat onder grote druk om het ouderlijk huis draaiende te houden. Het laatste waar hij behoefte aan heeft, is een ge...

If you like realistic stories, compassionate characters, and overcoming adversity, then you'll adore these stories of love and family.Book 1 - A single dad. An autistic boy. A teacher. Can they be what each other needs?After suddenly receiving custody of his five year old son, Ben must learn how to be a dad. The fact that he'd even fathered a child was news to him. Not only does this mean restructuring his sixty-hour workweek and becoming responsible for another human being,...

How far would YOU go to get what you believed you deserved?Jackson saw how some people had it all. Life came so easily to his wife's privileged family.Would it kill them to share more of their bounty with him?Maybe.When a Plan Comes Together is a 90 page story. You'll get to know Jackson and his struggles, and how far he'll go to get what he deserves.

Sharon Mitchell sat and looked at the man who was going to change her life. He was mesmerizing.'So you want to be rich, thin and happy?' he asked.Sharon nodded as she stared past him to look at the Buddha statue behind, and wondered how she, an ordinary mother and wife, from an ordinary suburb, had ended up sitting with a monk on the dry, hard dirt of a remote town in Southeast Asia.'I can help you with that,' the monk said, 'because your journey is actually the uni...

Music therapists are trained to use their first study instrument in clinical practice, yet existing literature focuses almost exclusively on the use of piano, basic percussion and voice.This illuminating book brings together international music therapists who use a diverse range of musical instruments in their clinical work: the clarinet, the piano accordion, the flute, the cello, the trumpet and flugelhorn, the bassoon, the violin, the viola, the harp, the guitar, lower brass instr...

Once thought rare, now every teacher will have an autistic child in their classroom. Maybe not last year, but this coming year....Our rooms are full of diverse learners. Sadly, most university programs don't prepare teachers for this reality. With all those bright little faces gazing at you, the needs can seem overwhelming. How can you be everything to each one?This book is for you. It will calm those panicky worries. You can do this.By learning abo...

Sharon Mitchell sat and looked at the man who was going to change her life. He was mesmerizing.'So you want to be rich, thin and happy?' he asked.Sharon nodded as she stared past him to look at the Buddha statue behind, and wondered how she, an ordinary mother and wife, from an ordinary suburb, had ended up sitting with a monk on the dry, hard dirt of a remote town in Southeast Asia.'I can help you with that,' the monk said, 'because your journey is actually the uni...

While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social work) ethnography is used to demonstrate the efficacy of programs and interventions that create a...