Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire--and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before--and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, a powerfully reasoned account of how decades of mostly well-intended litigation have eroded the mora...

How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches.The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and reactive emotional patterns-called the Passions-as one becomes freer of the ego.Sandra Maitri shows how the sh...

Quick and Easy Remedies for Holistic HealthThis impressive book contains almost 200 recipes for herbal remedies that anyone can use, even if you've never worked with herbs. Expert Sandra Kynes shows how herbal remedies can treat everything from the flu to kidney stones and can be made from ingredients commonly stocked in your kitchen.Herbal Remedies for Beginners is cleverly organized and cross-referenced so you can look up remedies by ailment or b...

Our mental chaos is frequently made worse by a chaotic reality and sustained by our incapacity to control our errant ideas. Toxic thoughts, despair, and anxiety are just a few examples. The road to happier thoughts and maximum contentment may really be shorter than you believe. There is hope and assistance available to us.Sandra Robert offers a five-step, scientifically validated plan to identify and get rid of the source of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life ...

In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literatureembraces her first passion-verse.With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways presents her...

They were alone together during a three-day blizzard. They had to stay warm, didn't they?Elizabeth "Libby" Sinclair has everything figured out: a Victorian attic apartment in small-town Cauldron far from her indifferent mother; a job at a local store; and a plan to raise her baby solo—without the man who left his "emergency contact information" seven months ago then disappeared.Del Delaney has spent his adult life avoiding commitments. But when he shows up ...

The Way of the Teacher is the first comprehensive resource to support the full range of personal qualities needed for teachers to create safe and caring classrooms and develop an authentic presence – acting with compassion, insight, and integrity. Research has confirmed that personal growth is the foundation for professional fulfillment and increases student achievement yet few books exist which support teachers in this holistic way. This book is suitable for a broad audience including new...

"If you have an interest in optimum mental health, this book belongs on your shelf!"-AMY WEINTRAUB, author of Yoga for Depression"A must-read for anyone interested in overcoming depression and healing themselves naturally. A very important book that will elevate you in many ways. Everyone must seek it out."-DHARMA SINGH KHALSA, M.D., author of Meditation as Medicine and Dead Brain Cells Don't Lie

With 33 years of experience as a physical therapist treating back pain, Sandra Janocha brings us professional insight on how to reduce back pain at home, even when other methods have failed.Now you can learn the simple tools she gives patients that allow them to be a bigger part of their pain reduction team. Thousands of people have used these tools and seen significant and often times immediate reduction in back pain.Often people who suffer from back pain are at the mercy ...

A book your child can grow with. Read by use of colorful illustrations for the pre-reader, along with letter recognition. A word for every picture and pictures for every letter. Progressing readers can learn the words associated with each picture as they become more advanced readers.Help your young reader explore numbers, the alphabet, colors, animals and shapes in this colorful illustrated picture book.

While most of us aren't hoarders we can all benefit from assessing and reducing the clutter in our homes--and then organizing what's left. Many things stop us from succeeding: the sheer scope of the project, the tendency to lose momentum if the job takes too long, and the fact that we're always acquiring new clutter. But what if it really took only a week to de-clutter the whole house, and then you even had the weekend to relax and enjoy your new clutter-free space? Could it really be that...

Based on a full-colour rucksack-friendly printed guidebook, this fixed-format ebook respects the original page layouts, while also enabling instant cross-references, searchable text and (if the user is online) web links. Pinch-and-zoom allows the user to expand maps, graphics and panels with small type.The Great Glen Way runs for 77.5 miles (125 km) along Scotland's historic Great Glen between Fort William and Inverness. It follows the Caledonian Canal and passes several lochs, incl...