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A Great Day for Pup: All About Wild Babies (The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
by Bonnie WorthLaugh and learn with fun facts about wild baby animals—joeys, cubs, chicks, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss&’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat! &“Climb in, Dick and Sally. It is time now to go to wherever on earth the wild babies grow.&” The Cat in the Hat&’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! Meet wild baby animals from around the world and learn: how joeys stay safe in their mothers&’ poucheshow baby crocodile eggs hatch undergroundhow elephants help raise each other&’s youngand much more!Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, A Great Day for Pup: All About Wild Babies also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat&’s Learning Library series!High? Low? Where Did It Go? All About Animal CamouflageIs a Camel a Mammal? All About MammalsThe 100 Hats of the Cat in the Hat: A Celebration of the 100th Day of SchoolWould You Rather Be a Pollywog? All About Pond LifeHappy Pi Day to You! All About Measuring CirclesI Can Name 50 Trees Today! All About TreesFine Feathered Friends: All About BirdsMy, Oh My--A Butterfly! All About ButterfliesOh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering PlantsInside Your Outside! All About the Human BodyIce is Nice! All About the North and South Poles
A Green Christmas!
by Ray O'Ryan Colin JackZack wants to go back to Earth for a white Christmas--but it turns out a green Christmas is just as cool!Christmas is just a few days away and Zack Nelson can't wait to get back to Earth and spend it with his relatives in Vermont. He's looking forward to sledding and having a white Christmas! But when a cosmic storm hits Nebulon, the Nelsons have to cancel their travel plans and spend Christmas on their new home planet. Zack is distraught....until the storm hits. What are those green flakes falling from the sky? Could they be...snow? A white Christmas would have been nice, but maybe a green one is even better! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Galaxy Zack chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
A Green Christmas! (Galaxy Zack)
by Ray O'Ryan Colin JackZack wants to go back to Earth for a white Christmas--but it turns out a green Christmas is just as cool. Christmas is just a few days away and Zack Nelson can't wait to get back to Earth and spend it with his relatives in Vermont. He's looking forward to sledding and having a white Christmas But when a cosmic storm hits Nebulon, the Nelsons have to cancel their travel plans and spend Christmas on their new home planet. Zack is distraught. . . . until the storm hits. What are those green flakes falling from the sky? Could they be. . . snow? A white Christmas would have been nice, but maybe a green one is even better With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Galaxy Zack chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
A Grief Out Of Season: When Your Parents Divorce In Your Adult Years
by Noelle Fintushel Nancy HillardFrom the book: "This book is divided in two parts. Part I, "A Map of the Terrain," lays the groundwork, seeking to understand the underlying sources of the adult child's pain. Part II, "The Journey," focuses on the more practical issues that confront the adult child at each stage of development." The authors provided many case histories to illustrate their points. In writing this book, the author used research results, case material, and their experience in dealing with the effects of divorce on adult children. Not only is this book scholarly, it is also applicable to some readers.
A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom
by Dan GartrellA GUIDANCE APPROACH FOR THE ENCOURAGING CLASSROOM, 5/E, is for students in two- and four-year early childhood programs as well as graduate courses. It easily can function as a primary text in classes that address group management, the learning environment, child guidance, child behavior, challenging behavior, conflict management, and peace education topics. The text addresses ages 3 - 8 years in three parts. Part 1 explores the foundation of guidance in early childhood education and covers key concepts such as conventional discipline versus guidance, mistaken behavior, the guidance tradition, and innovative theories about child development with guidance. Part 2 focuses on building and organizing an encouraging classroom, as well as providing key elements of an encouraging classroom, including daily schedule, routines, use of thematic instruction, importance of working with parents, and leadership communication. Part 3 addresses problem solving and challenging behavior in the encouraging classroom, including a practical illustration for how to use and teach conflict management and coverage of the five-finger-formula. The book also covers nontraditional families as well as the effects of societal violence in the classroom. Throughout, this experience-based resource includes real-life anecdotes that allow professionals to make the shift from conventional classroom to developmentally appropriate guidance.
A Guide for the Young Economist: Writing and Speaking Effectively about Economics
by William ThomsonThis book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model for what he advocates--William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and efficient. Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience's attention.
A Guide for the Young Economist: Writing and Speaking Effectively about Economics
by William ThomsonThis book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model for what he advocates--William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and efficient. Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience's attention.
A Guide to Computer User Support for Help Desk and Support Specialists
by Fred BeisseCurrent or future user-support professionals discover the critical people skills and exceptional technical knowledge to provide outstanding support with Beisse's A GUIDE TO COMPUTER USER SUPPORT FOR HELP DESK AND SUPPORT SPECIALISTS, 5E. This useful guide focuses on the informational resources and technical tools needed most to function effectively in a support position. Readers learn to handle troubleshooting and problem solving, successfully communicate with clients, determine a client's specific needs, train end-users and even handle budgeting and other management priorities. This edition prepares readers to work with the latest developments, from Web and e-mail-based support to Windows 7 and cloud computing. Leading HelpSTAR and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2010 software accompanying the text further reinforce user-support knowledge and skills.
A Guide to Crisis Intervention
by Kristi KanelThis book is written for college students and beginning mental health professionals who might benefit from a step-by-step practical guide on how to work effectively with clients in a variety of settings. There are many case examples and practice opportunities woven throughout the text. This text works great in courses in which students are given opportunities to practice what they are reading through role-plays with one another, or with actual clients, under the supervision of the instructor or other mental health counselors and also useful for professionals such as police, firefighters, military personnel, as well as mental health counselors.
A Guide to Crisis Intervention (4th edition)
by Kristi KanelWritten for beginning paraprofessional counselors, this textbook on crisis intervention outlines skills and strategies that Kanel (crisis intervention, California State U., Fullerton) found useful as a psychotherapist. She describes what can be defined as a crisis, the history of the field, ethical and professional issues, cultural sensitivity, and the ABC model of conducting mental health interviews with clients, which consists of three stages: developing and maintaining contact, identifying the problem and providing therapeutic interaction, and coping. She then outlines crises that are dangers, including suicide, self-mutilative behaviors, and psychotic breakdowns, and discusses gravely disabled mentally ill persons. Types of crises associated with stages of development, loss, AIDS and HIV, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress, disaster, and child, spousal, and sexual abuse are detailed. Indexes are divided by subject and name. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A Guide to Crisis Intervention (Fifth Edition)
by Kristi KanelThis practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides readers with the skills necessary to handle any crisis situation. The book utilizes the comprehensive ABC Model of Crisis Intervention, which can be used as effectively for day-to-day interactions as for emergency situations. A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION, 5th Edition addresses such crises as drug abuse, secondary PTSD, crisis worker burnout, AIDS, suicide, death and dying, Alzheimer's, and victimization and abuse.
A Guide to Econometrics (6th edition)
by Peter KennedyThis book designed to illuminate the logic of econometrics without formulas, providing intuition, skepticism, insights, humor, and practical advice. Designed for use in a range of courses, from undergraduate to graduate and PhD level.
A Guide to MLA Documentation: with an Appendix on APA Style
by Joseph F. TrimmerBriefer, more affordable, and easier to use than the MLA's own handbook, this popular booklet features current MLA guidelines, a new section on evaluating online sources, and an up-to-date APA appendix. The guide also provides numerous examples, a sample research paper, and helpful hints on such topics as avoiding plagiarism and taking notes.
A Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 for Information and Communications Technologies
by Beth Brown Elaine Malfas Jones Jan MarrelliNIMAC-sourced textbook
A Guide to Microsoft Office 2010
by Jan MarrelliA Guide to Microsoft Office 2010 focuses on teaching students business application software, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop publishing, presentation graphics, and business-oriented utilization of the Internet through a project-based, hands-on approach. It also introduces computer terminology, hardware, software, operating systems, and information systems as they relate to the business environment.
A Guide to Practical Toxicology: Evaluation, Prediction and Risk
by Adam WoolleyAn experienced toxicologist researcher and consultant provides an overview of toxicology for practicing toxicologists and students in the field, with 15 chapters addressing topics from the necessity of measurement and definitions and maintenance of normality to larger issues of risk assessment and management in the workplace and environment and the future of toxicity testing. Pedagogical tools include text boxes with necessary background information; tables and case studies; and study design and interpretation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A Guide to Web Development Using Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5, with Fireworks® CS5 and Flash® CS5
by Jan MarrelliA Guide to Web Development Using AdobeA(R) Dreamweaver CS5 teaches Flash Fireworks and Dreamweaver in a full-color format. Students learn about Web development HTML CSS and how to use Dreamweaver to create websites. Each chapter discusses concepts which are then reinforced within hands-on activiesAll explanations problems and answers have been produced using Dreamweaver CS5 Fireworks CS5 and Flash CS5. Students are introduced to the history terminology and concepts of networks and the Internet. Email protocol and careers associated with web development are also discussed.
A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
by David Mcmurrey David BeerWritten for engineers, this book provides more than technical know-how and focuses on how to be an effective communicator. This new edition helps to eliminate the glitches that trip up the busy reader or listener, causing annoyance, confusion, or misunderstanding'so that their writing and speech are crystal clear. This text also focuses on the technical writing and speaking issues encountered in day to day work, writing reports, business letter, memoranda, proposals, emails, presentations, and more. The new edition includes new coverage of social media, including coverage of popular forms, best practices, dangers and ethics of using social media, and expanded coverage of informal communication.
A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health (2nd edition)
by Teresa L. Scheid Tony N. BrownThe 2nd edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Contexts, Theories, and Systems provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers. The volume presents an overview of historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, the theories that explain the definition and treatment of mental disorders, and cultural variability in mental health. Part II investigates effects of social context on mental health and illness. Individual chapters consider the role of social statuses including class, gender, race, and age. Several chapters focus on the critical role played by stress, marriage, work, and social support, with a concluding chapter focusing on terrorism. Part III focuses on the organization, delivery, and evaluation of mental health services, including a discussion of the criminalization of mental illness, the mental health challenges posed by HIV, and the importance of stigma in meeting the mental health needs of individuals. A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health is a key research reference source that will be useful to both undergraduates and graduate students studying mental health and illness from any number of disciplines.
A Handbook of Biological Investigation (Seventh Edition)
by Harrison W. Ambrose Katharine Peckham Ambrose Douglas J. Emlen Kerry L. BrightThis book is written as a reference aid to be used by biology students at any time they are first exposed to the scientific method and to original research. It guides the beginner through elementary experimental design, data collection and analysis, and the subsequent writing of a scientific report. In addition, it provides an introduction to the literature of biology and a basic search strategy for finding relevant, published information in a library.
A Handful of Salt (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 5)
by Joan Nichols Thomas GonzalezA Powerful Weapon When Indians faced unfair laws from British rulers, one man led the fight for change. He showed the world how to win battles with the most powerful weapon of all. NIMAC-sourced textbook
A Hands-on Manual For Social Work Research: How To Stop Worrying And Start Loving Research
by Amy Catherine RussellA hands-on approach to teaching research that overcomes the resistance of the most apprehensive student.