Most teachers accept that learning is most effective when it is enjoyable, but they are given little direct advice about how to achieve the creative and motivating classrooms that educationalists appeal for. This fascinating book creates a coherent picture of how teachers can make learning easier and more enjoyable for their pupils, including activity ideas, self-evaluation exercises and adaptable action plans for improving both classroom and whole-school ethos.

"This book gives seniors realistic, actionable tools to regain function and reduce pain-without fear, gimmicks, or false promises." -Dr. Ramin Raiszadeh, MD, Spine and Brain Institute of San DiegoIn Back Pain Solutions for Seniors, exercise therapist David Starbuck Smith draws on twenty-five years of clinical experience helping thousands-from everyday people to professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs-overcome even the most stubborn back pain. Using his ...

“Despite our perfect and ingenious human design, everyone—regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sport or athletic skill—develops muscular and postural imbalances over time . . . And they’re all fixable.”It’s time to lose your outmoded concepts about getting older. In fact, it’s time to lose your out-of-date beliefs about the origins of muscle and joint injuries and afflictions altogether. Whether your goal is to finally cure your nagging pain and injuries and prevent them ...

"...he's among the most talented healers I've ever seen."-Jim Dethmer, bestselling author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership"...a timely and necessary resource for true, lasting wellness."-Dr. Kian Raiszadeh, MD, QME, IME, Board Certified Orthopedic SurgeonDespite the best efforts of traditional Western medical care, millions of people worldwide are left suffering from a chronic pain condition they can't seem to shake. C...

While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that “all the best sites” were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers,...

Fort William Henry, America’s early frontier fort at the southern end of Lake George, New York, was a flashpoint for conflict between the British and French empires in America. The fort is perhaps best known as the site of a massacre of British soldiers by Native Americans allied with the French that took place in 1757. Over the past decade, new and exciting archeological findings, in tandem with modern forensic methods, have changed our view of life at the fort prior to the massacre, by p...

As seen in Focus on the Family magazine.Should I sign up our seven-year-old son for the travel team? What should we do about our daughter's Sunday morning games? Am I the only one longing for a sane balance between children’s sports, family time, and church commitments?David King and Margot Starbuck offer good news for Christian parents stressed out by these questions and stretched thin by the demands of competitive youth sports. Join King, athleti...

This timely collaboration by three prominent scholars of media-based performance presents a new model for understanding and analyzing theater and performance created and experienced where time-based, live events, and mediated technologies converge–particularly those works conceived and performed explicitly within the context of contemporary digital culture.Performance and Media introduces readers to the complexity of new media-based performances and how best to understand ...

Discover how a daily breathing workout can turn back the tide of stress and illness, and improve your overall quality of life."Clear, simple, powerful. . . . The ideas in this book—and Dr. Belisa's techniques—are a revelation." —Jason Fine, managing editor, Rolling StoneInsomnia? Gone. Anxiety? Gone. All without medication. Unpleasant side effects from blood pressure pills? Gone. A cheap and effective way to combat cardiovascular d...

A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain• Contains self-help exercises and ergonomics information to help correct unhealthy movement patterns• Teaches how to adopt suitable posture in the modern sedentary worldMany people cause their own back and body pain through their everyday bad postural and movement habits. Many sense that their poor posture is probably the root of the problem, but they are unab...

Live pain-free with a quick-and-easy program that treats common muscle and joint pains.End muscle and joint pain for good. You've probably heard that as you get older, you are guaranteed to have more muscle and joint pain. That's simply not true. These chronic ailments arise from years of decreased activity and poor posture—not aging. End Everyday Pain for fifty+ presents a complete ten-minute-a-day program to correct previous damage, devel...

What if you could reverse disease – or learn how to avert it before its onset? What if, instead of aging, you could feel younger, stronger, and happier with each passing year? What if you could maintain your health for your entire life?What if all the secrets to health and longevity were on the soles of your feet?The wisdom in this book has been passed down from master to student for thousands of years, but now you too can benefit from the...