PLAYING RULES FOR MORE THAN 250 GAMES AND SPORTS FOR CHILDREN OF EVERY AGE, INCLUDING INDOOR, OUTDOOR, PARTY, TRAVEL, WATER, MEMORY, AND CARD GAMES Games galore! From Capture the Flag to Stickball and Volleyball, from Jacks and Old Maid to Word Lightning, here are easy-to-use instructions, recommendations, and scoring for more than 250 popular ...
Overcoming procrastination is one of those things we'll get around to--eventually. "It's About Time!" goes beyond time management books on this eternal problem by tracing procrastinating behavior to personality traits and early family dynamics. Using quizzes and case studies, psychologist Linda Sapadin helps readers find their own personal style ...
This book is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that tells readers about the following aspects of storytelling: sources & types of stories; how to gear stories toward children of different ages & interests; techniques for remembering & adapting stories; & how to utilize personal experiences to create new stories. Provides specific tips on tone, ...
You're stuck in an endless, dull conversation. As the speaker drones on, your mind wanders, until you hear the words, "I remember once when I was..". Your ears perk up. You become engrossed. An anecdote unfolds, and suddenly, the speaker is alive and excited and you know just what he means. He has used the age-old technique of storytelling to ...
A fully comprehensive and throughly researched guide to one of the oldest and least understood religions in the world. Four hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it? ...
You'll find step-by-step instructions in this book for installing a spa, hot tub, sauna or exercise room. Includes testing for pH and calcium levels, sanitizing the water, and making repairs. More than 300 drawings and photographs help illustrate the projects.
Here is the most up-to-date advice available on how to write better business and social letters. Readers will find more than 200 models for resumes, memos, and letters of reference, promotional letters, thank-you notes, invitations and responses, acceptance/rejection letters, applications, sympathy and condolence notes, and letters of introduction.
Here is the one tool that belongs in every home workshop. Based on the experiences of hundreds of skilled handypersons, it covers such areas as how to select and maintain tools, restore furniture, paint and wallpaper walls, make roofing, plumbing, and electrical repairs, and much more. Two color throughout.
A guide to overcoming procrastination, written by a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping individuals and families overcome self-defeating behavior.
Wise, authoritative, and indispensable, here is the first encyclopedic family reference on children's emotional well-being. In nontechnical language, it covers issues relevant to each age group from birth to late teens: toilet training and day care, sibling rivalry and separation anxiety, sexuality, dreaming, discipline, and more.
The first family self--care guide to integrate Chinese medicine and Western mainstream medicine At the heart of this concise, easy--to--use reference is a healing plan for over forty common health problems that integrates traditional Chinese medicine and mainstream Western medicine. Whether you or a loved one have a cold, hives, asthma, insomnia, ...
Lavishly illustrated throughout with two-color art and line drawings, this guide features tips, advice, and step-by-step instruction on home repair, maintenance, and improvement.
The author of "The Power of Personal Storytelling: Spinning Tales to Connect with Others" reveals what it's like to spend a week inside a Zen Buddhist monastery: the physical work, common meals, conversations with the monks and other residents, meditations, and other activities that fill an ordinary week. Photos.
This first complete fitness program for the mind provides mental workouts that will stretch, bend, and energize the way we think, respond, dream, and create. 11 black-and-white illustrations.
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