A remarkable memoir that shows the capacity of the human heart to heal after the challenge of having to say goodbye.Even the hardest lessons contain great gifts.Jim Beaver and his wife Cecily Adams appeared to have it all-following years of fertility treatments, they were finally parents and they were building their dream home and successful Hollywood careers. Life was good. But then their daughter, Maddie, was diagnosed as autistic. Weeks later, C...

Actor Jim Beaver (Supernatural, Deadwood, Justified) and his wife Cecily Adams (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Moogie) were at the peaks of their careers and happily raising a beautiful two-year old daughter, Madeline. Then tragedy struck, not once, but twice. What followed was laid down by Jim in a moving, poignant, and uplifting journal of the following year, a year filled with heartbreak as well as enormous gifts and invaluable lessons, not just for Jim and his family but for readers who ...

"Sublime writing… a genuinely important book” --Ken Lussey.Hundreds of years after their extinction in these isles, beavers are back in Britain. These highly skilled engineers of the natural world have been reintroduced at several sites across the UK and, even as they become established, are already having a dramatic effect on our wild landscapes.Here, leading nature writer Jim Crumley reveals the pioneering lifestyle of these intriguing and secretive creatures and consider...

The people of Earth have largely forgotten the terror created years earlier by the evil space alien Smots. John and Regal Warpspeed, Earth’s valiant heroes of the Smot War, inspire young Goldilocks, James, and Baby Bear to form the Warpspeed Fan Club with the goal of educating the people of Earth about the still-present danger of Smot attacks. Using American Bear Language (ABL) to talk among themselves, the unlikely trio discovers that animals and people can work together to do great thing...

You dont have to dress like an artist, draw like a designer, or endure uncomfortably silly games to become more creative. But you do have to look at creativity in a dramatically different way. Idea-Links challenges the conventional wisdom around creativity, replacing it with a new way of thinking thats both surprising and simple. Creativity is not a latent ability unleashed through wackiness or play. Its a skill. And like any other skill, creativity is built by learning and applying the ri...

Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by real-life literature legend Jon Sci...

In its description and analysis of the current context of research and practice of HRD in small organizations, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of current approaches. This evaluation leads to an exploration of a number and range of HRD methods as they are applied in the small organization context and provid