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In this book, Steve Davidson offers an innovative approach to psychotherapy and to personal development that builds upon operations theory and the idea that by methodically building operational competence, by identifying needs and wants, and then taking necessary action, we have a better opportunity to find happiness and personal fulfillment.

This book is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits for small to medium-sized museums. It covers the complete process of exhibit development, from concept through curation, design, fabrication and installation to evaluation with a focus on proven, practical, and cost-effective techniques and ideas.

In an updated companion title to the 9th edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits, Lawrence Cahill draws from nearly forty years of experience in over twenty-five countries to address important EHS audit issues that audit program managers and auditors must deal with routinely and when special circumstances arise.

Inside the Star Wars Empire is the very funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades author Bill Kimberlin spent as a department director at LucasFilm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas.

Growing Leaders Within: A Process toward Teacher Leadership will aid school administrators in the task of growing and empowering teacher leaders. It is through this transformation that teacher leaders help school administrators to create a laser focus on student success.

This guide for instructors of Shakespeare examines six of his most familiar tragedies, with the goal of inspiring students who are largely unfamiliar with them. Proceeding scene by scene through each play, Cahn focuses on character, language, and theme to help students appreciate that these works' issues and implications remain universal.

This guide for instructors of Shakespeare examines seven of his most familiar plays, with the goal of inspiring students who are largely unfamiliar with them. Proceeding scene by scene through each work, Cahn focuses on character, language, and theme to help students appreciate that these plays' issues and implications remain universal.

Raising Your Kids to Succeed: What Every Parent Should Know describes what parents can do to be effective and help their children succeed, both in school and in life.

This book is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection.

This book includes everything you want to know about the core competencies of songwriting, elements of music, and lyrics.

This guide will help library managers understand the underpinnings of technology and how to powerfully manage tech to serve patrons and staff alike. You'll find easy-to-follow exercises and tools that have been tested in real-world situations. Step-by-step instructions for crucial processes including technology planning are included.

Psychology Graduate School: A User's Manual is an enjoyable description of what being a graduate student in clinical, counseling, or school psychology programs is really like. Rather than a mere how-to, punctuated by quotes and stories from real-life graduate students, this book describes the nitty-gritty of the graduate student experience.

The third edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Gross's sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture.

This comprehensive text provides a balanced survey of the Cold War in a genuinely global framework. Tracing the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions before World War II, the authors conclude with its ongoing legacy. Written in an engaging style, this book will bring the Cold War era to life for readers who didn't experience it directly.

Because in a giant city, sometimes the smallest things get overlooked. Meet the tiniest standouts in the Big Apple, from the littlest dinosaur to the smallest basketball court.

This book presents 29 rules on personal mastery. Each rule contains a number of tools, which aim to pave the access road to your own ego and your preferred reality constructs; in a journey of continual improvement towards becoming who you could be.

This book will facilitate meeting the Core Music Standards for grades 5 through 8, and the novice/intermediate Harmonizing Instruments Strand.

This book addresses concrete strategies to help principals, teacher educators and mentors give constructive feedback on lesson plans that can impact teachers' content, pedagogy or classroom management.

White Teachers, Black Students is a provocative look into the dynamic of White teachers and Black Students.

Adaptive Implementation focuses on how practitioners and researchers together continue to improve their craft by systematically collecting data on adaptations, testing them out, and figuring out what works.

The theme of this book is: If you can't lead a party of one - yourself - how can you expect to be the boss of other people and of organizations?

Math is Everywhere has 365 math activities you can do with your kids.

Graphic Novels in High School and Middle School Classrooms is the ultimate guide for using graphic novels and learning how the graphic novel format can support critical thinking and help reach disciplinary goals in any subject. Using specific graphic novels, this book helps students read, question, and write about both fiction and non-fiction.

Combatting the Achievement Gap empowers educators to make meaningful change in the educational outcomes of African American, Latino, and low-income children by addressing structures, messages, and beliefs that are within educators' sphere of influence. It will be of interest to leaders, teachers, and policymakers.

The intent of this book is to provide a guide for parents to help them navigate the thirteen years of their children's math education (K-12). The book will provide parents with the knowledge and skills they will need to proactively advocate for their children's preparation for the 21st century workforce.

This book provides educators with two critical components of the assessment dialogue: understanding the historical and legislative perceptions that have created the current climate of school accountability, and deconstructing complexities to offer concrete solutions to make assessment an enjoyable, productive, student-owned endeavor.

This authoritative book guides both library graduate school students and seasoned librarians from academic, health sciences, and public libraries, to develop, maintain, nurture, and advertise consumer health collections. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

Registration Methods for the Small Museum covers all aspects of the registration process and provides practical solutions for the small museum professional. The fifth edition updates the handbook to fit the registration systems in today's small museums and provides additional forms that weren't in previous editions of the book.

Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and world view of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. This book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture.