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Learning Disabilities - Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges

Learning Disabilities - Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges

by Etta Brown

http://www.understanding-learning-disabilities.com/

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

by Douglas Stone

Members of the Harvard Negotiation Project--which brought you the mega-bestseller Getting to YES --show you how to handle your most difficult conversations with confidence and skill. Whether you're dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid... (more)

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-ExupÃ©ry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing... (more)

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)

by Robert Michalko, Michael, Michael Michalko

THINKERTOYS will teach you how to generate new ideas for businesses, markets, sales techniques, and products and product extensions. Packed with fun and practical tools and exercises, it outlines 30 practical linear and intuitive techniques that can be used by individuals or groups to tackle and solve business problems in fresh, creative ways. An updated edition of the best-selling business creativity book,... (more)

Breakthrough Rapid Reading

by Peter Kump

A previous National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. "Speed reading is one of the truly useful educational ideas of the last few years, and this book can be the least expensive and most efficient way you can learn it." --William Proxmire, United States Senator The perfect answer to today's... (more)

100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (100 Words)

100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (100 Words)

The newest title in the popular 100 Words series is an informative and entertaining resource that can help anyone be right on the money when looking for words that will make a point, seal the deal, or just keep folks listening. Chosen by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, these words will appeal to anyone who wants to be a more compelling communicator—as a worker, consumer, advocate, friend, dinner... (more)

Foundation Flash 5

by Sham Bhangal

Foundation Flash 5 gives you all the skills you need to get started in the latest version of Flash. It takes you from your first drawing and animation project in Chapter 1 through to a strong foundation in the sophisticated ActionScripting capabilities now built into Flash 5. It is a thorough and practical, tutorial led book, where each chapter builds into a complete design example - reinforcing what you've... (more)

Teaching As a Subversive Activity

by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Shadow Children sequence: Book 1

Among the Hidden

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Following the futuristic storylines of "1984" and "Brave New World" comes "Among the Hidden". Luke is a third child in a family with already two boys. This is breaking a decree established by the government. He's successfully hidden in his parent's home without discovery for 12 years, but a stray glimpse through an air vent reveals his prohibited existence. Does this spell freedom from secrecy?.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

by Howard Rheingold, Stephen Laberge

"<A> solid how-to book...For amateur dream researchers, this is a must." WHOLE EARTH REVIEW This book goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming--that is, consciously influencing the outcome of your dreams. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships... (more)

Mindmapping, Yn

by Joyce Wycoff

Readers can finally break down the blocks that hinder free thinking and discover their vast stores of innovative ideas involving whole-brain thinking techniques presented here. "A no-nonsense, practical guide to help put creative powers to work!"--Michael LeBoeuf, author of Imagineering.

Pocket Scientist (Usborne Pocket Science)

Pocket Scientist (Usborne Pocket Science)

by Susan Meredith

This bind-up contains 12 titles from the "Pocket Science" series. It explores topics such as: why people eat; where babies come from; how flowers grow; where dinosaurs have gone; how birds fly; and what is under the sea. There are safe and easy experiments to clarify explanations.

Shaping The Earth: Erosion (Exploring Planet Earth)

Shaping The Earth: Erosion (Exploring Planet Earth)

by Sandra Friend

Our planet is a growing, changing entity, with wind and water carving rock in one place and depositing new material in another. Erosion and deposition work hand-in-hand through such awesome forces as glaciers, floods, and tides to shape the earth. Discover the how and why of erosive forces, and how human activity has contributed to a dangerous acceleration of erosion around the world.

Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence

Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence

by Joseph Chilton Pearce

It's time for the way we think about our families, our schools, and our lives to evolve. This passionate and provocative critique of the way we raise our children and undermine our society's future delineates the ways in which we thart our creative progess, and reveals a new landscape of possibilities for the next step in human evolution. Brilliantly synthesizing twenty years of research into human intelligence,... (more)

How to Write about Yourself (Allison & Busby Writers' Guides)

How to Write about Yourself (Allison & Busby Writers' Guides)

by Alison Chisolm; Brenda Courtie

We all have a story to tell, and this book explains in an easy-to-follow and practical manner the best way to tell it. Whether you want to write a complete autobiography or simply recount some small anecdote, it will show you how to tackle the writing and where you may get it published. This book includes advice on a wide range of approaches, including: * readers` letters * articles * fiction which draws on... (more)

For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Child-Life Book)

For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Child-Life Book)

by Susan S. MacAulay, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

For the Children's Sake is a book about what education can be--for your child, in your home, and in your school. It is based first on a Christian understanding of what it means to be human and on the Christian meaning of life.

Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education

Better Late Than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education

by Dorothy N. Moore, Raymond S. Moore

Florida

by Sandra Friend

Grade 3-5-This trip around the sunshine state, counterclockwise from Pensacola to Jacksonville, is more of a travel brochure than an information book for children. Friend's mission is to show visitors that the state is more than beaches and theme parks, and she accomplishes this by featuring many of the lesser-known historical and environmental sites. The book is heavily illustrated with realistic, bright,... (more)

101 Ways to Use Your First Sewing Machine

101 Ways to Use Your First Sewing Machine

by Elizabeth Dubicki

So you bought your first sewing machine....now what? Expert sewing author Elizabeth Dubicki will take you from fashion to home dec with 101 useful and money-saving ways to use your first sewing machine. Learn to shorten pants, alter a neckline or update last-year's suit. Decorate your home with simple pillows, a variety of drapes, or updated the look of that garage-sale find. Whether you are a... (more)

How to Win an Argument: Surefire Strategies for Getting Your Point Across

How to Win an Argument: Surefire Strategies for Getting Your Point Across

by Michael A. Gilbert

Proven techniques for getting your point across and winning arguments If you've ever felt the frustration of losing an argument—even when you knew you were right—to someone more skilled in pressing their point (and your hot buttons), this book is for you. This practical, often amusing guide gives you the tools you need to make your point clearly in any disagreement, from a formal debate to a roaring shouting... (more)

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by Etta Brown

by Douglas Stone

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

by Robert Michalko, Michael, Michael Michalko

by Peter Kump

by Sham Bhangal

by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

by Howard Rheingold, Stephen Laberge

by Joyce Wycoff

by Susan Meredith

by Sandra Friend

by Joseph Chilton Pearce

by Alison Chisolm; Brenda Courtie

by Susan S. MacAulay, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

by Dorothy N. Moore, Raymond S. Moore

by Sandra Friend

by Elizabeth Dubicki

by Michael A. Gilbert