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Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design...

Everyone gets homesick. And Nic is no different. She's so excited about spending the entire summer on a small New England island with her grandparents that she counts down the days through winter and spring. But when the grand adventure finally begins, she finds...

Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added...

Praise for Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon: "One of the most compelling novels I have ever read. . . . A work of remarkable importance."--The Village Voice"One of the best books of the year. . . . Compelling, honest and unselfconscious."--The Toronto Star"Truly...

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt -- or in this case, the dirty water -- on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas...

Winner of the Angus Book Award, THE EDGE is crackly with tension. How will this mother and son escape their abuser and start a new life? We've got to go. Now. It's early morning and Danny's mother is at his bedside, urging him to...

"Downton Abbey meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries " "A Child Lost is undoubtedly a novel that should not be missed--the story is genius, flawlessly written, and wildly entertaining A thrilling five stars " -- The Red Headed Book Lover "Once again, Cox delivers the...

In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and...

Get ready for a parenting makeover If you re a parent today, you face extreme pressure to get everything exactly right a pursuit of perfection that probably makes parenting feel hard. It encourages you to worry about whether you re doing a good enough...

Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day, Presentations provides the quick guidelines and expert tips you need to: Craft your message Prepare and rehearse effectively Engage your...

Many are familiar with teacher and poet Mark Nepo's books on inner transformation, relationship, and the emergence of purpose in our lives. But less well-known is the journey that shaped his vision as a teacher that began in 1987 when he was diagnosed with...

A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program's data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel's characters struggle to survive apocalypse, they are...

A 2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman...

In Love Cycles, veteran couples therapist Linda Carroll presents a groundbreaking model of the five natural stages of romantic relationships -- the Merge, Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment, Decision, and Wholehearted Love -- and a guide for navigating through them toward lasting love. Love Cycles...

Fremont is a culture (ca. 300-1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent reassessments of the Fremont assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont...

The colorful flowers in Mama's garden reveal a strange-looking creature. -What is it? Does it sting, does it bite?- Join in this photographic journey as the young girl and her mother care for the caterpillar. Watch as it transforms into a chrysalis and then...

Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, Westchester Fiction Award CommitteeLuke King, whose father is a black-ops infiltrator, uses the skills his father taught him to figure out his family's paranormal secret and save his kidnapped father and his own friends.Luke King knows a lot of...

WINNER 2011 IACP Judges Choice Cookbook Award (International Association of Culinary Professionals)WINNER 2011 IPPY Gold Award (Independent Publisher Book Awards)Best Italian Cookbook of 2010 - Publisher's Weekly American chef Jessica Theroux spent a year traveling throughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers, learning...

On August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march began at the Washington Monument and ended with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial,...

Author: Christiana SlawikPublisher: Willow Creek PressPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.71lbsSize: 9.80h x 10.26w x 0.82dISBN: 9781595435965Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal WinnerAward: Benjamin Franklin Award - WinnerThis title is only available via back order