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Compiled by members of the Midwest Academy this book is a bible for anyone who wants to effectively organize to change the quality of their lives or the lives of others. Now in its third edition this book has already sold 60,000 copies in all of its editions since 1991. With new information on the trends, technology, and concerns of the new millennium, this edition of Organizing for Social Change will help concerned citizens bring about needed changes by learning from the experiences of those who have succeeded.
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Not as good as their old mimeographs.......2005-09-09
This book is disappointing. While it may help a college student or other really new person grasp some of the concepts of organizing it is not useful to practioners.
The Midwest Academy used to have a very good training manual covering many issues. As the book got slicker looking the information got worse.
Get Shel Trapp's old Basics of Organizing instead - much more useful, and free on the internet.
This is it!.......2002-04-13
This manual takes you through waht you need to know about organizing. From strategy development to research to implementation, this book shows you how to do it. Well written and simple to understand. Outstanding reference for novice to experienced organizer.
The best purchase you can make and you won't need to buy others.
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First published in 1990, The Survival Guide for Kids with LD has helped countless young people with LD—and the adults who care about them. Meanwhile, laws have changed and technology has advanced. This revised and updated edition retains the best of the original edition: the warmth, affirmation, and solid information kids need to know they're smart and can learn, they just learn differently. It answers the many questions they have, like "Why is it hard for kids with LD to learn?" and "What happens when you grow up?" It explains what LD means (and doesn't mean); describes the different kinds of LD; talks about what happens in LD programs; helps kids deal with sad, hurt, and angry feelings; suggests ways to get along better in school and at home; and inspires them to set goals and plan for the future. Includes resources for parents and teachers.
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For parents, teachers, tutors, day-care staff and more.......2002-12-09
Now in a revised and updated edition, The Survival Guide For Kids With LD* (*Learning Differences) by University of Nevada-Reno professors Gary Fisher and Rhoda Cummings, is a simply presented and easily accessible guide written especially for those dealing with children who have "learning differences". Emphasizing that having one of the many kinds of learning disabilities or cognitive restrictions doesn't preclude a child from learning, from having friends, or from growing up to be a successful adult. The readable prose is packed with tips for dealing with teasing, providing encouragement, simple black-and-white artwork, study tips, and more. The Survival Guide For Kids With LD* is highly recommended reading for parents, teachers, tutors, day-care staff members, -- and most especially, for kids ages 10 and up. Also highly recommended for teen readers is The Survival Guide For Teenagers With LD (0915793512; [$$$]); for parents, When Your Child Has LD (0915793873; [$$$]); and for educators, The School Survival Guide For Kids With LD (0915793326; [$$$]).
The Survival Guide for Kids with LD.......2000-03-14
This book is a GREAT way for kids to learn about their own Learning Disabilities (the book calls them Learning Differences). I read this book to my son to help explain to him why he's noticing that he's different from some of the other kids in school. The book creates such a relaxed, non-threatening attitude about LDs, and asks some really great questions to help the kids see which LD(s) fit them. It addresses ADHD as well! It has picture drawings of kids having trouble in school that my son could really relate to! He was at once interested, urging me to read more and more, even though he was learning that he was in fact "different". What a wonderful tool for families and kids to learn about each other and themselves. It's a positive book about the harsh reality of LDs - and it's written specifically for kids! Do your child a favor - read this book with them! It will open up conversations and give you both the language and courage you'll need to tackle the days and years ahead!
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Jackie O Handbook is a groundbreaking new interpretation of the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the extraordinary influence of the image she so carefully crafted. It is illustrated with some 300 photographs and other images which bring to life Jackie's iconic status. Ten years since her death, fascination with Jackie O remains as strong as ever, especially among women and in the fashion world. The authors explore the woman behind - and in many ways the creator of - the many myths by which we remember a woman of extraordinary poise and single-mindedness. In the Jackie O Handbook, the authors venture behind Jackie's trademark dark glasses and regal bearing to reveal the insecurities, the playfulness, the wit, the loyalty to friends and the ruthlessness with enemies of a woman who seemed more a figure from 18th century Versailles than from 20th century America. The book chronicles Jackie's life from childhood through her student years, her marriages to America's most charismatic politician and to the richest man in the world, her dedication to her children, and her last quiet years in New York. The authors have searched archives from London to Boston, and from Washington to Paris. The book contains five original interviews with contemporaries from the worlds of fashion, design and the arts who Jackie befriended.
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Osborne & Little Style: Decorating Themes and Combinations
Jackie Cole
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The Osborne & Little design concepts grew from the swinging '60s, when innovation was the watchword of the day. Updated for the 1990s, the look has mellowed and matured but retains a tiny bit of the raffishness of its wilder years. There's something to suit everyone--everyone, that is, with an inclination for a sort of toned-down grandeur, whether it's in a spacious city flat or the country cottages of Antony Little and Peter Osborne themselves.
The Osborne & Little look is embodied in fabulous wallpapers and fabrics, and this book displays a dizzying assortment of patterns in some decidedly unusual combinations. There are also "quieter" rooms, with creamy walls, tasteful prints, and cushy furniture, for those who prefer a more traditional decorating approach. There's nothing particularly innovative about the design advice here, but it's not too fluffy, and the pictures are pleasant, making Osborne & Little Style a great coffee-table book for the well-heeled design maven.
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The firm's principles are tried and true: accents of bright color to jazz up neutral fabrics; bold wallpaper patterns for large-proportioned spaces...This is an aesthetic of abundance, dressed for success.
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Great pictures, interesting text.......2000-07-13
This book chronicles the products from Osborne & Little's company, providing some commentary about why and how they have done things. Many of the pictures come from their homes rather than from designers who have used their products with rich clients or in show homes. I found it fascinating to see inside the homes of the men who have lead this great design company, and to see how they have used their own products! The text is informative -- so many design books write things you can see for yourself in the pictures. After reading the text, I started to see much more in the pictures, which is my idea of a very good design book.
Great pictures, interesting text.......2000-07-13
This book chronicles the products from Osborne & Little's company, providing some commentary about why and how they have done things. Many of the pictures come from their homes rather than from designers who have used their products with rich clients or in show homes. I found it fascinating to see inside the homes of the men who have lead this great design company, and to see how they have used their own products! The text is informative -- so many design books write things you can see for yourself in the pictures. After reading the text, I started to see much more in the pictures, which is my idea of a very good design book.
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Jackie Roberts first handed her junior tennis player a tennis racquet when he was seven. He didn?t like it much so it went nowhere until two other junior players, who were friends, joined a local tennis program. He picked the tennis racquet back up and hasn?t put it down since. Tennis tournaments, tennis expenses, tennis programs, tennis coaches, nutrition, balancing school, family, and friends with being a junior tennis player, and finally going onto college to play tennis on scholarship are all in her tennis handbook for parents. In a voice that is warm, direct, and practical she offers junior tennis parents a guided tour through the maze of junior tennis. ?Roberts discusses the major facets of tennis for children and young adults: how to parent the player through the competition.? ? ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE Paperback: 87 pages; ISBN 0974357707 Publisher: Topspin Publications; 2002
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Known in the field as the "blue maneuvers book," this test prep guide covers all flight maneuvers required for obtaining private, commercial, and flight instructor pilot certificates. Designed to be used in the aircraft as well as on the ground, this handy, quick reference tool contains critical information for students and instructors alike. Detailed, one-page, views-at-a-glance for each flight maneuver with easy-to-use illustrations and descriptions are provided. The latest FAA practical test standards, regulations, and procedures for high-wing-type aircraft have also been incorporated into the new edition. Those working toward primary pilot's licenses as well as more advanced licenses will benefit from its coverage.
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First-Rate Illustrations and Step-by-Step Instructions.......2007-09-19
I found this book from ASA extremely helpful as I prepared for my PPC proficiency test in a Cessna 172.
Most flight maneuvers have double-to-quadruple fold-out pages so that you can really "see" what you need to do in order to execute all of the proficiency test maneuvers. Coupled with "Private Pilot Test Prep" (2007 version), also from ASA, the student pilot will be well prepared for both the written and flight proficiency exams.
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Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy
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"This volume examines early literacy research on a global scale and puts social, cultural, and historical analyses in the front seat--without losing sight of individual and family-level matters in the process. It is comprehensive, ground-breaking, and provocative, and should help literacy researchers to think differently about the field."
--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
"No other publication that I am aware of brings together views from such diverse disciplines, contributing to a comprehensive statement about early childhood literacy. The
Handbook not only reviews the current field of situated literacy but presents some important and exciting new research. It is a significant resource that promises to become a landmark text."
--Eve Bearne, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, U.K.
"This handbook brings together an astonishing array of writers who explore contemporary political, cultural, and cognitive understandings of early childhood literacy. Literacy and literacy acquisition are broadly defined here to encompass not just traditional notions of reading and writing, but multimodalities, multiliteracies, and critical literacies. . . It is rich and comprehensive, an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students of early childhood literacy."
--Elsa Auerbach, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"This book is unique in its broad consideration of topics and its global focus . . . I particularly appreciate how the editors have situated current research in an historical context. They have also included development issues, pedagogy, research, and the newest areas of interest--critical literacy and popular culture."
--Diane Barone, University of Nevada, Reno
In recent years there has been a virtual revolution in early childhood studies, with a mass of books and papers seeking to re-examine and reposition childhood. At the same time an equally significant area has developed within literacy studies, reflecting a growing interest in the nature of literacy as a socially situated phenomenon. There is increased interest in literacy as a multimodal concept in which symbolic meaning is a central concept, rather than more conventional and narrower notions of literacy. The
Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy is central in providing access to all these different perspectives.
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Handbook offers a way through the vast diversity of publications on early childhood literacy by providing comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of research and thinking in early childhood literacy.
The arrangement of chapters reflects a contemporary perspective on research into early childhood literacy. Major sections include: the global world of early childhood literacy; childhood literacy and family, community and culture; the development of literacy in early childhood; pedagogy and early childhood literacy and researching early childhood literacy.
Contributions by leading authorities focus on literacy as a socially situated and global experience, one that is evolving in relation to changes in contemporary culture and technological innovation.
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Tourism Development Handbook: A Practical Approach to Planning and Marketing
Kerry Godfrey , and
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The Tourism Development Handbook describes steps and activities relevant to places either just beginning to develop tourism, or seeking to enhance their tourism product. It examines the changing nature of tourism and its impact, showing how planning and marketing can maximize revenue without destroying the destination.
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Almost but not quite.......2007-08-27
Ignore the rants of the left. If you have to buy just 1 get the Almanac. That being said this is very good and I will be getting both 2008 issues in a week. Why is it that a moderate conserveative writer (Barone certainly not Cohen) is viewed as being incapable of objective reporting but those on the left are oh so neutral. Here's a thought I watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Russia Today and the English German news. I wonder who has a wider world view, me- a libertarian con.- or the liberal who would never think of listening to a different view. Long live cable TV and diversity in reading material
A standard, up-to-date volume with some flaws.......2005-09-21
CQ's "Politics in America" is certainly still a very helpful tool, not only for Beltway insiders, political junkies, and Congressional scholars - via biography, it presents a panorama of the American political landscape as it really is, and it traces the most recent history as well as quite current events. There are two handbooks like that; this is supposed to be the more "liberal", and also the more objective, as compared to the "Almanac of American Politics", which however is not out yet (the last edn. is for 2004). The GQ 2006 version is certainly up to date, quite well written, and with a lot of good information. This is the rare case of an encyclopedia-like book that one actually might want to read, rather than only use for reference.
That said, there are some flaws with this edition, especially if compared to the Almanac and to earlier editions of CQ. After all, this is the kind of ressource that today would be typically found on the internet or CD-ROM. Because of the reading quality, it's good to have the book, but publishers and editors must make most of typical book advantages.
The list of deficiencies of GQ 2006 includes, then, a very small font, confusing maps, and a generally convoluted layout. Contents-wise, there is no description of governors, or of states; in the personal profiles, there is no general indication of subcommittee chairships/ranking position anymore; and the general introduction is also a bit brief.
That said, CQ 2006 would rank *** within the context of handbooks as they can be and have been, and ***** as such, especially seeing that right now at least there is no alternative (and one has to admit that the Almanac likewise has the similar technical problems).
A Very Good Guide to Congress.......2005-08-24
CQ's Politics in America is a very good guide to Congress. The writers go into detail about where the members stand on issues and what they do in Washington. Compare that to the Almanac of American politics which is more interested in election results (which can be good) and as a forum for Michael Barone's conservative views, which is fine for conservatives but can irritate those just looking for the facts. Also what CQ does is treat members equally (except the leaders) unlike the Barone practice of playing favorites.
Thorough...a must have for political junkies.......2005-08-22
"Congressional Quarterly's Politics in America" is one of two well-known (to political geeks, at least) registers of congressional facts. I considered the other, National Journal's "The Almanac of American Politics" prior to deciding on CQ. Both versions appear to contain the same basic information: district maps, congressional bios, voting proclivities, and basic state information. However, the editing of "The Almanac of American Politics" by Michael Barone elicited concern that Barone couldn't withhold his ultra-conservative views and edit an unbiased guide. All other things being equal, I went with the version which I felt comfortable would leave out the partisan slant. In CQ's "Politics in America", every returning member of the 109th Congress gets two pages of biography, history, key votes and election results. Those serving their first term in the 109th still get one page. In addition, there's a state info page, a congressional district map (my one disappointment: the maps could be more detailed) and pages of interesting facts about the 109th (did you know that the Utah 3rd--encompassing suburban Salt Lake City, south through Provo and the southern part of the state to the Nevada border--is, by over 2 years average, the youngest congressional district with an average age of 24.5 years?). Not to mention a race-by-race 2004 campaign finance report. Politics in America weighs in at a hefty 1218 pages. For any political junkie, it's a great bi-annual investment.
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