Testing 3, 2, 1 is the story of how Australian education fell behind the world’s best and how Finland came to lead. It is also a guide to how some of Finland’s ideas can be used by teachers and schools to begin to reverse the current malaise of Australia’s education system.Part memoir, part investigative journalism, part call-to-action, this easy-to-read and highly compelling plea for an improved education system can’t be ignored ... Lawrence reminds us tha...

A tiny collection of private writings for private musings. Spontaneous and brings forth a natural flavour. The small collection of poems will entice and enamor.

Creating Schools reminds us that while we argue about reading and instruction styles, the teaching profession is being strangled, and students (and teachers!) in record numbers are feeling alienated from education. The implications of this play out in crime, violence and an inestimable cost to society. “Creating Schools Where Teachers and Students Want to Be by Michael Lawrence and Dr. Fabio D’Agostin is a deep, comprehensive and much needed exploration of what’s broken in the Australian e...

Get Ready Yeti takes Yeti through the process of dressing for outside on a cold day. What should Yeti put on first? And after that? But what if a Yeti doesn't NEED to get ready....Then what happens?Get Ready, Yeti! Takes children through the process of dressing for the cold as they follow along with Yeti getting reday. But Yeti's aren't children, and their needs for outdoor play may be quite unexpected, setting up and ending that will elicite giggles from children of all ages.

It's a bad day.You have offended the wrong people.A million dollars has been offered for your life.So what do you do?Why, make a run for it, of course.But where to?Well, why not that house youknew as a boy when it was a ruin?Bleakridge.Perfect. They'll never find you there.But sometimes things get a littleconfused at Bleakridge.Past and present overlap, get mixed up.At such times you're ...

Love in the GardenBy: Lawrence Michael LenoirLove in the Garden is a lyrical journey about one man’s devotion to a beloved woman. This collection of poetry is a revelatory celebration of love, beauty, faith, and fate.About the AuthorLawrence Michael Lenoir is a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He assists individuals with employment and job training as well as working with disadvantaged and disabled peoples to increase their quality of life. Lenoir is a fo...

Perspectives on Christian Worship presents in counterpoint form five basic common beliefs on Christian worship that have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter is written by a prominent person within each tradition, and each writer has the opportunity to respond to each differing view.

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as these traverse geographies, affects, and memories, and exploring the reaches of disco as an expansive field of music, image, and dance. Illustrating how disco shows up i...

This newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.Written for people who want to understand audio at a technical level without needing an engineering degree, it uses an easy-to-read conversational tone as well as more than 400 figures and photos to ...

When a newly married couple holds hands, everyone knows why. When a ten year married couple holds hands, everyone wonders why. Conflicts in marriage often arise due to lack of lively communication, proper understanding and the much needed patience. A common discovery regarding marriage is that harsh thoughts criticize, condemn, and cause the decline of happiness in spousal relationships. To understand the other without any presumptions. To listen to the other without judging and ti be avai...

A short collection of poetry for the busy traveler or a busy you. Made akin to the style of instant coffee, it is a short collection containing a single comma in the entire collection! For a busy you, catching a bite or a cuppa! For that perfect complement. Instant Poetry.

Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours?Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39.And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,