Nelsen's popular Positive Discipline philosophy is used in hundreds of schools as a foundation for fostering cooperation, problem-solving skills, and mutual respect in children. In this latest edition, teachers learn how to create and maintain an atmosphere where learning can take place--and where students and teachers can work together to solve ...
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a book that listed just about every child-raising problem one could imagine, in alphabetical order so it could be easily found--and included suggestions that would help prevent such problems in the future? Now there is such a book, and many of its answers utilize the Positive Discipline Principles.
An updated and expanded edition of Dr Spock's famous baby and child care book. Collaborating with Dr Steven J. Parker, Dr Spock revised the work, aiming to meet the changes and challenges of the 21st century.
These cheerful and intelligent little dogs make fine pets, but have long, flowing hair that demands regular grooming. All "Complete Pet Owner's Manuals" are heavily illustrated with color photos and line art, and are filled with reliable, easy-to-understand information on pet care. The many titles in this series show and tell pet owners how to ...
Given the varied backgrounds of children and the many intrusive influences in the classroom, maintaining a learning environment is difficult for teachers. Here three parenting experts address the popular concept of class meetings, where students and teachers work together to solve problems. The first edition of this book sold over 61,000 copies.
In recent years, with the transformation of political economies and the influence of new theoretical frameworks, especially in cultural studies, older approaches to area studies have become increasingly inadequate. This landmark volume charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the ...
Following in the footsteps of Rigoberta Menchu, Maria Teresa Tula describes her childhood, marriage, and growing family, as well as her awakening political consciousness, activism, imprisonment, and torture. The human side of the civil war in El Salvador and decades of repression come to the fore in this woman's tale of extraordinary courage and ...
Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, "Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas" presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in 1994. Drawing ...
From the composer and lyricist of Ragtime, this new musical is based on the beloved Dr. Seuss characters. Titles are: All for You * Alone in the Universe * Amayzing Mayzie * Biggest Blame Fool * Havin' a Hunch * Horton Hears a Who * How Lucky You Are * It's Possible * The Military * Notice Me, Horton * Oh, the Thinks You Can Think * Solla Sollew.
Lynn Stephens innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxacathe Mixtec community of San Agustn Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitln del Vallewho periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the ...
-- Expressed through the words of presidents and poets, of writers and statesmen, Celebrating America is a paean to the enduring American spirit. -- From Eleanor Roosevelt's outlook on equal rights to Tony Blair's praise of American opportunity, both foreign dignitaries and American icons pay homage to the diversity, equality, and benevolence that ...
Although neural network models have had a dramatic impact on the cognitive and brain sciences, social psychology has remained largely unaffected by this intellectual explosion. Bringing these various approaches together in one place, this text allows readers to appreciate the breadth of these approaches, as well as the theoretical commonality of ...
The authors reveal how, for 60 years, there has been an unprecedented cover-up by both the British Establishment and successive generations of historians about the flight of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Long dismissed as the misguided attempt of a madman to make contact with a non-existent British peace party, "Double ...
Friendly Fire explores the intrigue and treachery between - and within - the nations that were ostensibly allies during the Second World War. It demonstrates the extent to which the Allied war effort was driven by vested interests, primarily concerned with the balance of power in the post-war world rather than the defeat of Germany and Japan. ...
This adaptation of Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking has been revised to meet the needs of Canadian nurses. Content has been expanded on health promotion, symptom analysis, client teaching, and documentation, with individual chapters added on pain, nutrition, and psychosocial assessment to be consistent with the needs of ...
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations ...
This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen documents the rise of the Zapatista rebellion in ...
What happens when indigenous culture is packaged for sale in the United States ? How does capital accumulation affect relations between men and women, local politics, kinship, and reciprocal exchanges of goods and labor? In this innovative study of several Zapotec communities in and around Oaxaca, Mexico, Lynn Stephen explores these questions, ...
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico have changed in ...
In Classical Antiquity, beginning in 573 BC, Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious and athletic festival centre where ...
In a glorious celebration, readers are taken behind the scenes of the longest running musical revue in American history, "Beach Blanket Babylon" known for outrageous humor, great music, fabulous characterizations of the famous and the infamous, and absolutely the biggest hats ever seen on stage. 80 full-color and b&w photos and illus.
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. This comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil and Chile. For each country the author synthesizes the the historical political ...
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