This book addresses the frustrating gap between research conducted on effective practices and the lack of routine use of such practices. The author introduces a model for reducing this gap, highlighting the roles of social networks, research evidence, practitioner/policymaker decision-making, research-practice-policy partnerships.
There is no such thing as an unimportant superhero with a useless superpower. Everyone has a superpower. When you find yours, use it to change the world one person at a time."-Abigail Perez (age 9)How to Be a Super Kid is a fun and inspiring book that offers tangible, kid-friendly ways to help kids (and adults) to develop grit, a positive growth mindset, and healthy habits. Using her ability to connect deeply with others, this beautifully kid ...
It has been twelve hundred years since the demons and their allies destroyed the last zdrell master, the only kind of wizard who could challenge their mastery of the world. Master Silurian, though not a zdrell master himself, has been fighting demon magic all his considerable life and hoping against hope that a new zdrell master would enter the world.Now as the demons and their wizards are nearly ready take over the continent and cement their ...
Esmeralda works for a housecleaning service during the day and as a restaurant hostess at night. Just out of high school, she is the sole support for her mother and two young siblings.She has drive and ambition. What she doesn't have is money.She knows of a home in the upscale town of Mendham, NJ, that will be empty for more than a month. The rich people who live there go away the same time every year to spend time at their vacation home. Havi...
You, Who Creates is a sequence of poems that treats grief, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and existential questions of self. It chronicles the author's journey through these stages of mental chaos during the period 2017-2018, while he was in therapy in Vancouver. The poems reveal the inner world of one who is depressed: they were written with an aim of chronicling the journey that the author was on, with the hope that late...
Boasting itself as the first symbolist kung fu novel ever written, the Unofficial History of Pi Wei, tells the story of the lowly Pi Wei and his path of retribution, in which mystical insight and martial training interweave. Organized into fifty-six chapters, and told with an absolute freedom of expression, this extraordinary tale offers a wealth of hidden knowledge and poetic excesses that is at once elegant and humane.This is a work of obvio...
All's fair in love, war, and hacking ...Stung by an epic betrayal, Camy Cavanaugh relies on the sure things: her best friend, her job as peer tutor, and her safe spot on the sidelines of life. But when she hacks into a secret, trash-talking website, it ignites a war between the sexes that won't end until the whole school is turned upside down--and Camy's world is turned inside out. Now the hottest girls in school refuse to date the A-List boys...
How did Sam end up in the rescue centre, not once, but three times? Was he responsible for a man's death? In Sixth Sense, find out how a woman somehow knows which dog people will choose. In Helping Bella, a badly treated animal helps to mend a man's broken heart but it's not all rescue centres.In Cuddles Muddles and Puddles a single mother struggles to cope with a puppy, a gift from her ex-husband. Discover how a dog trainer copes when a dog r...
Deeply rooted in spiritual truths, challenging, and yet relatable to your life.>Fae has carefully selected passages, prayers, and scriptures to coincide with your journey to a better relationship with God and with those around you. Today's news is full of strife, discord and bad news - however, the daily entries in Faithful Promises of God shine light on what is good in the world, challenge you to find healing and strength, and show you how yo...
Here there be dragons...From sleeper ships long lost, two new royal houses are born. But in deepest, darkest space, other sleepers are beginning to stir. Will a usurper unleash unspeakable, Lovecraftian terror across the Andromeda galaxy?Intrigue and horror, combined with interstellar assassins, robots, and meatballs, continue in Book Two of the Imperium Chronicles. Explore the stories of the Imperium and W. H. Mitchell's dark, dry humor.
Emigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering, and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated and articulated in art, literature, music, and theater. The art he pioneered and promoted--Maori rock drawings, the drawings of a psychiatric patient, Maori moko and kowhaiwhai, the abstract patterns of geother...
How do you keep a healthy spirit?
More importantly, what exactly is spirit? And how does one care for the spirit? It is a seemingly abstract and often mind-boggling concept that gets lost in the many other day to day things we have to worry about such as caring for our body and, more increasingly, our mental health. But could these aspects of our life intertwine with our spirit?
How do you feel? Close your eyes and take a moment to reflect on ...
The latest novel from Edward GloverIt's February, with no respite from winter's long encore of darkness and bone-numbing cold. A lone figure steps outside, drawn by the soft, beguiling fragments of music in the distance.Immersive yourself in mystery, obsession, rage, joy, demons, death and secrets in Edward Glover's latest novel, as you follow Johannes on a journey where nothing, especially Khadra the lute player, is ever quite what it seems.
