Twelve tales written between the two parts of Don Quixote - the gypsy girl, the glass graduate who believed he was made of glass, the two dogs who talk one night in a hospital yard. Cervantes said he was the first to write novellas in Spanish, and he was right.

This delightfully illustrated children's book is a parable of purpose. Follow our little wheat stalk from life in the field all the way to becoming bread and every adventure in between. Your child will see how to endure hard things and learn to trust God's plan for their life. Full-color illustrations and rhyming lines bring this character to life.Follow the adventures of this brave little seedAs he finds out he is wheat and not just a weed.

Feeling exhausted, cynical, or overburdened in your ministry? There is hope ...We suffer burnout because we overwork ourselves. We suffer burnout when we experience disappointment, betrayal, and rejection, or when we fall short of our own expectations. No one who dares to venture great things escapes burnout symptoms. But we don't have to succumb to burnout or let it destroy our ministry calling.When I feel the pressure of where I must be next, I am learnin...

Since the heyday of research on aggression in the late 1960s, developments in several varied areas had enabled us to take a new look at this important though difficult topic. Recent findings and sophisticated new techniques in behavior genetic analysis at the time had made it possible not only to enhance our understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior, but also to provide some reasonable suggestions as to the role of aggression in evolution.Originally pub...

From the Other Side is a collection of poetry that captures different life challenges and difficult themes including family, love, and self-discovery. From the Other Side was initially written on the backs of receipts and random envelopes during several roadtrips.

Anecdotes of an FBI AgentBy: Phil K. WalterAnecdotes of an FBI Agent chronicles the experiences of an FBI agent from 1966-1995. Phil K. Walter investigated bank robberies, extortion, kidnappings, espionage, and major drug cases.The broad range of cases he worked were in St. Louis, MO; Los Angeles, CA; and Glenwood Springs, CO. These are his personal experiences expressed as anecdotes and as a reminder that FBI agents are still “the good guys.”About the Autho...

Whatever your profession, a common base of knowledge and standards of performance are required for admission to practice. As an educator, while it is true that the individual states administer actual licensure procedures, they do so based on core standards established across states. These case studies, which cover a cross-section of these core values, are highly useful for people preparing to become educational leaders and for current practicing administrators.

Designed to teach the principal to efficiently and effectively accomplish noninstructional roles, the third edition of The Principal as School Manager offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous editions, this book is an essential guide to practice and procedure. Its chapter on school legal issues will be especially useful for principals dealing with improper Internet usage, drug testing, and off-campus search...

Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again.Arguing that commonplace ...

Designed to teach the principal to become efficient and effective in accomplishing noninstructional roles, this book offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous edition, it provides a practical guide to practice and procedure in these vital areas. This second edition has updated the chapter on law dealing with pertinent issues such as: Internet usage, drug testing, off-campus searches. Other chapters include t...

The science of rheology remains a mystery to most people, even to some scientists. Some respectable dictionaries have been quite cavalier in their attitude to the science, the small Collins Gem dictionary, for example, being quite happy to inform us that a Rhea is an three-toed South American ostrich, whilst at the same time offering no definition of rheology. This maybe due to the fact that the science is interdisciplinary and does not fit well into any one of the historical disciplines.T...