Sitting in the Sandbox is a rhyming book for beginning readers. The story shows what children observe around them as they play. They see animals, birds, people, lawn equipment, and mothers. This book builds awareness of the world with new words and sounds. Words that rhyme help children learn by listening and remembering each line of the story.
Written by a team of international contributors and featuring case studies from a range of educational settings in Australia, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the USA, this edited book is the first in the field of early childhood and youth studies to draw on Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory to give insights into transitions in childhood, what they are and how they are differently experienced. Transitions are explored holistically so the chapters not only focus on the person transitioning but also the institutions in which the person is transitioning from and to, with a focus on schools and daycare. The contributors look at how societal values and policies impact these transitions and comparison are drawn between international settings. The book includes chapters on expatriate families, immigrant children, home-school transitions, the role of play and communities. Through interviews, case studies and the analysis of empirical material from fieldwork, Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions reflects on the best ways to engage children so that they may emerge as competent actors in their new settings and transition well.
Through careful integratation of theory with real-world clinical case application, each chapter in Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders shows clinicians how to make a diverse array of treatment approaches viable and effective.
The summer before she starts college, Melina Marquez goes on a road trip with friends to find out who her birth mother is, and why her father left her.
As a child, Peter Jacoby is plagued by terrible and extraordinarily realistic nightmares. His parents take him to a local psychologist, Dr. Raymond, to help him overcome the problem, giving him the chance to lead a normal life. As a young adult, Peter is a gifted university student studying to become a child psychologistbut the traumatic experiences of his early childhood seem to hide a secret of his past, one his parents have carefully kept from him. He remembers the dreams, however, and begins research on the topic, with the help of one of his professors, Dr. Haddenfield, and a fellow student named Jessica. Gradually, they learn the truth about Peters past and his conditionand it is stranger than they could have imagined. Peter soon finds himself traveling through his dreams to a strange and sometimes deadly new world, with intimate ties to the earth he knows. On his journey, however, he uncovers more than he bargained for, revealing an enemy that threatens to destroy not just Peter but the entire world. In this dark fantasy novel, a young man discovers the untold capabilities and potential of his own mindand in the process encounters an evil force intent on unleashing demons upon the earth.
He grew up in a hopeful time. But lately, Jesse hasn't been feeling too hopeful. Once he was young and unwavering. He searched for things that were lasting and true. But somewhere along the line he had given up the chase. Maybe he was too old for it now. Or maybe it was time for a second try. Jesse is at work on the morning of his fifty-second birthday when he receives an unexpected email from a long-lost friend that sends him slipping out the back door of his office building without a word to anyone. In this lyrical tale of renewal, Jesse retraces the paths of his youthful wandering from the deserts of Tucson, to the hills of San Francisco, and back to his hometown in Kansas. Along the way he rediscovers many of the beliefs that were once essential to him, and finds once more the possibility of wonder. Song of the Second Wind is the story of one man's journey to a new understanding.
This annual series presents fundamental research on the theory and practice of management. Volume 7 contains articles presented at the 2001 meeting of the International Conferences on Advances in Management (ICAM), held in Athens, Greece. ICAM's goal is to be truly comparative-in terms of the broad scope of management perspectives, in the broad-ranging locations of its research as well as its application, and in its comparisons of findings, methodologies, and operational definitions. This volume exemplifies ICAM's objectives. Part 1, "Organization Theory, Learning, and Effectiveness," revisits the management theory jungle, reports on the development organizational learning capabilities in Europe, encourages organizational learning through cultural diversity, and reviews the role of corporate parent . Part 2, "Behavior and Attitudes in Organizations," considers the relationships of religion to organizational citizenship and whistle-blowing behaviors, identifies antecedents of misbehavior among nurses and social welfare workers, and uses process framework as a method to depict encroaching processes and change in organizations. Part 3, "International and Cross-Cultural Management," looks at various issues of management abroad. Topics include the dimensions and levels of power bases and their relationships to subordinates' compliance and satisfaction in the U.S. and South Korea, the relationship between empowerment and quality of work life in Mexico, and case studies of organizational intellectual capital in China. Part 4, "Management in the Public Sector," turns attention to efforts to recognize and build on differences in public administration. Part 5, "Managing Human Resources," addresses the nature of researcher values in human resource management and considers recent publications in mainstream human resources in order to isolate the patterns of research. Part 6, "Role of Research in Management," discusses the need for processual thinking. It presents a list of factors contrasting two views of management: the classical view, and the "process view of management." This volume will be of particular interest to corporate executives, economists, and labor studies specialists.
A book in answers uniquely combines the dialectics, argumentation and beliefs of every religion. It is the UNIVERSAL KEY. It is the New Earth Bible. Here the thoughts of Eckhart Tolle are brought to an end, here Milarepa, Meister Eckhart, Spinoza and Buddha, Christ and Mohammed appear - all happily united in ALLEINS.The book of lightIt is a book of light. It is the all-embracing declaration of creation, love. The way. Here, in a wonderfully tender dissolution, the pulses of doubt pass. We know who we are. Every thought of fear, the cemented belief in transience, a god moved into the distance in a world of discord - no longer touch the one who is only trying to understand.
THE STORY: As described by the New York Times: When the play begins there is Harry Berlin, looking like a shaved, mustachioed beatnik who has sunk so low that honest beatniks would disown him. He has no future except to jump off the bridge and is about t