Here the nationally acclaimed educator who transformed the way our children learn to read and write in school shows us how to nurture our children's imagination at home, from the earliest days of babytalk to the time when we see them off to school. Drawing upon her influential philosophy of active learning, as well as her personal experience as a parent, Calkins shows parents how to stimulate curiosity and spark creative thinking in children. Having an open and creative approach to conversations, chores, and games can matter just as much as reading, writing, and math. And even in traditional skills like reading and writing, we need to encourage our children to read for meaning and write for expression, rather than focus only on mechanics like phonics and spelling.By giving parents new and imaginative techniques for educating children, and by providing them with an insider's view of what goes on in the early grades, Raising Lifelong Learners creates the ultimate partnership in learning between home and school, parents and teachers.

Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide

Health, Fitness & Dieting

CALKINS, LUCY

Bellino, Lydia

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Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Lifelong Books

Most children fall into five basic personality types that stem from inborn physical characteristics: the sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., is the first to show parents how to match their parenting to the challenges of their particular child. He identifies and vividly describes these five universal temperaments and then, with great empathy, shows parents how each of these children actually experiences the world and how to use daily childrearing to enhance an individual child's strengths and talents.A profoundly optimistic book, The Challenging Child reassures parents that they do not have simply to ”live with” or adjust to their child's temperament, but that by creating new parenting patterns based on the child's characteristics, they can help the child overcome behavior problems and develop his or her emotional and intellectual capacities to the fullest. Parents will learn how to spot personality differences in the earliest years, and also how to build relationships that nourish growth from the start.”As parents,” writes Dr. Greenspan, ”we are not the cause, but we can be the solution.”

The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, And Enjoying The Five ""Difficult"" Types Of Children

Greenspan, Stanley I.

Salmon, Jacqueline

Parenting by Heart is an empowering book that emphasizes real-life parenting situations and practical, compassionate solutions. Filled with specific advice tried by thousands of families, this authoritative guide shows what actually works rather than what theoretically should” work. Here is the step-by-step guide with hundreds of tested solutions that will help make you feel more confident about how to instill your values, be in charge, and stay connected with today's kids in these modern and often difficult times.

Parenting By Heart: How To Be In Charge, Stay Connected, And Instill Your Values, When It Feels Like You've Got Only 15 Minutes A Day

Taffel, Ron

Blau, Melinda

Centenarians, once a rarity, are the world's fastest growing age group: there are currently about 50,000 people over 100 in the United States alone, almost three times as many as there were in 1980. Centenarians are setting the gold standard for healthy aging. What can we learn from these pioneers? How can people decades younger apply the centenarians' longevity lessons to their own lives? These are the questions Harvard scientists Thomas Perls and Margery Hutter Silver set out to answer when they launched the New England Centenarian Study.As they probed beyond disease to identify the parameters of an energetic later life, Perls and Silver realized that the key to preserving health and vitality lies not in learning how people stay young, but in understanding how they age well. By identifying lifestyle patterns, vitamins, and medications that contribute to aging well—and may even help slow down the aging process—they show how all of us can maximize the healthy portion of the life-span.Filled with personal profiles, informational sidebars, and quizzes, Living to 100 offers inspiration and solid scientific information to the more than seventy-five million people alive today who can look forward to their ninth and tenth decades.

Living To 100: Lessons In Living To Your Maximum Potential At Any Age

Silver, Margery Hutter

Lauerman, John F.

Perls, Thomas T.

Basic Books

Mission To Abisko: Stories and Myths In The Creation of Scientific ""Truth""

In May 1997, acclaimed science author John Casti led a dozen gifted writers to a remote Swedish village called Abisko, far above the Arctic Circle, to discuss the nature of scientific truth. Their discussions and debates focused on one major question: How do the stories that scientists tell each other, and the public, affect the way they do their science? This book is the outcome of that lively meeting of the minds. Each chapter is by a noted scientist who writes, or science fiction writer who practices science, and the cast includes John Barrow, Greg Bear, Ian Stewart, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, and John Casti himself. In this fascinating look behind the scenes of science, eleven of the world's top scientist-authors examine the phenomenon of science as storytelling.As these authors demonstrate, the tales scientists tell each other are often even more mysterious or fanciful than those they tell the public. Many of these tales are called ”thought experiments,” and their purpose is to focus and encapsulate large amounts of knowledge into short, pithy pictures, that capture the essenceand the shortcomingsof a scientific theory. Nevertheless, some of these talessuch as ” Schrödinger's Cat ” and ” Hilbert's Infinite Hotel ”have worked their way into the public consciousness, almost to the point of being household words. Mission to Abisko is a must-read for people curious about our perception of scientific ”truth.”

Mission To Abisko: Stories and Myths In The Creation Of Scientific ""Truth""

CASTI, John L.

Karlqvist, Anders

Is your company bursting at the seams? Playing catch-up to your competitors? Trapped by rear-view mirror” management?Most businesseswhether large or small, public or private, profit or non-profithave one thing in common: they want to grow. How can business leaders tap into the entrepreneurial spirit that launched the enterprise, and channel it into sustainable, breakthrough growth?In The Next Level, James Wood draws on seven years of research and consulting with hundreds of companies, under the auspices of Inc. magazine and the Inc. Growth Strategy Consulting Groupthe preeminent sources of information for growing companiesto present a powerful approach for business owners, managers, directors, and advisers to analyze their organization's growth potential, identify the obstacles to future growth, and implement the critical priorities and actions to ensure long-term success.Through in-depth examples of such unusual and diverse companies as Group Publishing of Loveland, Colorado; Main Street Muffins of Akron, Ohio; and Discovery Toys of Livermore, California, Wood demonstrates that every organization reaches critical transition points that require fundamental changes, in systems and processes, capabilities and resources, philosophies and goals, and even management structures and leadership. Those who are willing to look forward to new challengesnot backward to past successesare poised to take a leadership position in the marketplace. The Next Level shows managers how to make these creative and strategic leaps. Wood presents a wide variety of strategic and tactical tools, including the Growth Strategy Analysis, a powerful, field-tested diagnostic assessment that allows you to identify your organization's relative strengths and weaknesses and determine whether you're behind the pack,” getting by,” or one step ahead,” along five key variablesmarket intelligence, strategic leadership, clarity of purpose, planning, and internal infrastructureand offers a wealth of practical guidance for mastering these critical elements.Written in the lively, hands-on, and incisive style that readers of Inc. have come to expect, The Next Level reminds readers that they control the destiny of their organizations, by virtue of the quality of decisions they make about their companies' futures. The Next Level will help you make those crucial decisions that lead to sustained and profitable growth.

The Next Level: Essential Strategies For Achieving Breakthrough Growth

Business & Money

Wood, James B.

Rothstein, Larry

Management & Leadership

For twenty years, International Jobs has been the authoritative guide to launchingand enhancingan international career. Newly updated and extensively revised, this fifth edition of International Jobs provides everything you'll need to navigate the rapidly changing, increasingly complex twenty-first century international job market. For the first time, this indispensable guide contains web sites for each organizationand a new section on how to most effectively use the Internet in a global job searchday-in-the-life” essays that tell you what some of these jobs are really like, and honest, practical advice to help you sort out which jobs present actual opportunities, and which just sound good on paper. With new chapters on consulting, non-profits, advertising, public relations, and multimedia, this edition of International Jobs is a must-have resource for today's savvy students and professionals alike.

International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them (International Jobs : Where They Are, How to Get Them, 5th Ed)

Kocher, Eric

Segal, Nina

Reference

While every parent wants an intelligent, emotionally healthy, and moral child, no one has yet shown exactly how and when these qualities begin. Now Stanley Greenspan, the internationally admired child psychiatrist, identifies the six key experiences which enable children to reach their full potential as human beings.In Building Healthy Minds, parents will learn not only the precise types of games, fantasy play, and conversations with and without words that encourage this development, but also how to tailor these to their particular child. Surprising insights, such the great value of extended parent/child arguments, or the complex intellectual achievements represented by a trip to the refrigerator, will amaze and delight parents. No one but Stanley Greenspan has looked so deeply into the very earliest stages of human development, and no other book makes such vital and effective information available to every parent.

Building Healthy Minds : The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence and Emotional Growth in Babies and Young Children : A Merloyd Lawrence Book

Lewis, Nancy Breslau

Greenspan, Stanley I. M.D.

Mental Health

Following the historic Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel, the future status of the Palestinian population living under Israeli occupation since 1967 has taken center stage. Effectively negotiated out of the agreement is the right of return or of compensation for almost four million Palestinians in exile. This book argues that because these Accords formally sever the Palestinians' historical claims from the present, it is crucial to understand the larger historical and ideological context in which the claims arose.In this broad and richly textured analysis, the authors examine the social, economic, and political development of the people of Palestine from antiquity to the present. The book opens with an overview of Palestine's place in regional and global history. Subsequent chapters discuss Palestinian society before and after the catastrophic division of Palestine in 1948 and explore the forces and constraints affecting the formation of Palestinian national identity, as embodied in popular institutions, the PLO, and resistance movements. The final chapter considers the prospects for Palestinian self-determination and statehood despite the limitations imposed by the Oslo Accords, as well as Palestine's future viability.

Palestine And The Palestinians

History

Hawatmeh, Christina

Farsoun, Samih

Zacharia, Christina E.

Middle East

Electronic Byways: State Policies For Rural Development Through Telecommunications

Many rural communities are experiencing an economic decline for which there is no obvious or easy remedy. Concerned community and state government leaders must seek new ways to forestall structural decline and construct a new economic vision for themselves. And, given the dynamics of today's global economy, any plan for economic development must provide links to national and international economies.In this groundbreaking study, rural development and communications policy scholars explore the role modern rural telecommunications infrastructures can play in facilitating these goals. The authors illustrate the ways advanced telecommunications can, in combination with strategic community development planning, serve as a catalyst for economic growth. In this regard, they provide prescriptive policy recommendations for governors, state legislatures, economic development departments, state telecommunications regulatory commissions, and the telecommunications industry.

Politics & Social Sciences

Dillman, Don A.

Williams, Frederick

Hudson, Heather E.

Parker, Edwin B.

Strover, Sharon

Social Sciences

Westview Press

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