Every teacher knows them - the students who are continuously balancing on their chair legs or who prefer to hide in their hoodies all day long. These students are using all kinds of tricks to be able to stay focused, as they are under- or overresponsive to sensory input and trying to restore their balance.Children who struggle with processing sensory input can experience a wide range of symptoms, including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor fine motor skills and easy ...

Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows. Compelled to leave home, they migrate irregularly without proper documentation to gain access to jobs, education, healthcare, food, and other essential services. Irregular migration exists because there are not enough opportunities for safety and prosperity at home and too few conventional means through which to remedy that lack of opportunity. Recognizing the critical, understudied, and often misunderstood nature ...

Make your mark your way!Every artist seeks to stand apart from the crowd. But how? Let author Carmen Torbus inspire you to new creative highs in this collection of hands-on techniques and heartfelt stories from 16 artists who have worked through their own artistic struggles and stalls to emerge triumphant, with looks uniquely their own.Whether art is new to you, or you have been at it awhile and are having trouble discovering your own style, this encouragin...

A stunning political thriller from a former CIA officer on the front lines of Mexico's drug war. Expect characters who leap off the page and a chilling border scenario that could be tomorrow's headlines.Longlist, 2020 Millennium Book AwardAs presidential elections approach and violence spills across the US-Mexican border, attorney Eduardo Cortez Castillo discovers collusion between a powerful Mexican official and a dangerous drug c...

The narrator turns her back on Berlin and the hectic throb of the big city for a summer, in order to recharge and reconnect with herself in the seclusion of a Greek mountain village. For the first little while she passes the time silently on a terrace. A terrace on the hillside, looking out over the great expanse of the ocean. She lives surrounded by insects and other animals that eventually become her friends. She takes time to experience changes in light and transformations of the sea, t...

Sur la Route de Marie Madeleine se présente comme un journal de voyage qui relate le périple de l'auteure, Carmen Goudreau, en France sur les traces de Marie Madeleine. Elle reçoit des instructions de ses guides qu'elle suit scrupuleusement et qui la ramènent sur les lieux où a vécu Marie Madeleine. Elle y a des visions, des ressentis bons ou pénibles, qui lui permettent de purifier les lieux en y apportant une nouvelle énergie. De nombreuses personnes, qui sont définies comme "Madeleine" ...

Empire Amethyst is a journey through themes of light, love, and madness with author Carmen F. Zumot. An abstract autobiography through the lens of poetry, her debut work as a poetess is raw, vulnerable, and mystical. Think of a yin yang symbol come to life. Each word rich with depth dancing from page to page, moments of humor laced with grace, a passionate desire to harmonize the dualities that plague us, will leave you breathless, mesmerized, and captivated. Journey with her on a poetic e...