You will find this book to be funny, enjoyable and most of all inspirational in your quest to find the right gifts. This book is intended to give gifts to shower your special someone with love regardless if you are celebrating a special day, a birthday for one to 50 years. You will not go wrong if you are thoughtful, kind & loving. The recipient of the gift will feel special and appreciate you! Please take the time to enjoy the suggestions and the journey of 50 Gifts!

Do snakes and salamanders fascinate you or make you squeamish? Have you ever listened closely to the birds chirping in your neighborhood? Can you identify the flowers growing in Philadelphia’s urban parks? (Moreover, are the mushrooms safe to eat?) Exploring Philly Nature is amateur naturalist, urban herper,* and Grid contributor Bernard Brown’s handy guide to experiencing the flora and fauna in Philly.This compact illustrated volume contains 52 activities from bi...

The transition from student to classroom teacher presents many opportunities and challenges. Introduction to Education welcomes pre-service teachers to the field of education, providing an overview of the context, craft and practice of teaching in Australian schools. Each chapter poses a question about the nature of teaching and explores authentic classroom examples, contemporary research and literature, and the professional, policy and curriculum contexts of teaching. Thoroughly updated, ...

Introduction to Education provides pre-service teachers with an overview of the context, craft and practice of teaching in Australian schools as they commence the journey from learner to classroom teacher. Each chapter poses questions about the nature of teaching students, and guides readers though the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Incorporating recent research and theoretical literature, Introduction to Education presents a critical consideration of the professional, pol...

Voices of the heart is a collection of poems and lyrical bits of real life emotions, pains, joys, moments and dreams captured in words. This collection of poetry spans over 45 years. I wrote my first poem as I can recall when I was but a teenager. I, remember seeing some beautiful red birds in the trees, it was a thing of beauty and in those day, I did not have a camera. Through the years as things touched my heart are bothered me I wrote about them. At that time, I only wrote about it so ...

Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search...

Since the founding of Project Head Start in 1965, there has been intense public as well as academic debate about the effectiveness of early intervention programs in producing lasting gains in children's intellectual development. In the past few years, new evidence has accumulated at a rapid pace, and there are now over 100 major studies of longitudinal experiments and Head Start program evaluations. A series of longitudinal studies of early intervention experiments was begun in the 1960s. ...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume III contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including the first ever Conan novella by Robert E. Howard, a science fiction story evidently about autism written in 1955, and an original Vonneguttian tale by author Robert Westley, writer of Natural Magic: A Helminverse Novel.Volume III contains stories by:Leigh Brackett...

Somya Hilton has known nothing but a life of ultimatums. From a young age, it was her and her sister Eliza against the world. When both of them find love and start families of their own, Somya finally feels like she has the life she deserves.Then tragedy strikes, leaving both her sister and brother-in-law dead and Somya to care for her niece Jazlynn, who is ten at the time. For Somya there is no question that Jazzlyn should be with her. Her husband, however, has a difference of opi...

Saint Joan is the remarkable story told by George Bernard Shaw.

The Great Time Travel Collection brings together sixteen unforgettable science fiction adventures from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that explore one of humanity’s greatest fascinations—and greatest dangers. What happens when the barriers between yesterday, today, and tomorrow disappear?Inside these pages, time is never simply a road to the past or a shortcut to the future. It’s a force that twists lives, reshapes history, and turns even the smallest decision into a ...

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Idris Elba, Blair Underwood, Taraji P. Henson, ...