"Gorgeously vibrant"—Financial Times Tortoise is on the hunt for a friend, but only encounters huge Elephant and Hippo, who are mean about his small size and wrinkly skin. But although Tortoise isn't big, he is certainly brainy! He sets out to show Elephant and Hippo that biggest doesn't mean best by challenging them to a tug of war. They sneeringly accept… but little do they know that they have really agreed to fight each other! A funny, heart-warming retelling of this well-known folk tale about brains vs brawn with beautiful, stylish illustrations. A special book that teaches that wit and wisdom are more important than size and physical strength, and friendship is what matters most.
This graduate textbook provides a detailed introduction to the probabilistic interpretation of nonlinear potential theory, relying on the recently introduced notion of tug-of-war games with noise. The book explores both basic and more advanced constructions, carefully explaining the parallel between linear and nonlinear cases. The presentation is self-contained with many exercises, making the book suitable as a textbook for a graduate course, as well as for self-study. Extensive background and auxiliary material allow the tailoring of courses to individual student levels.
Explaining complex family law concepts and procedures in a jargon-free style, this resource includes detailed information on how family court works, offers easily understandable case examples, and describes alternatives to litigation that are designed to help prevent families with children from entering the legal system to resolve disputes. Exploring subjects that apply to all parties involved in resolving separation, divorce, and custody conflictsjudges, lawyers, mediators, parenting coaches, psychologists, family counselors, and social workersthis reference demystifies the role of lawyers and judges, debunks the myth that parents can represent themselves in court, and examines each parents responsibility to ensure that post-separation conflicts are resolved with minimal emotional stress to children.
ACT for Depression adapts the research-proven techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a powerful set of conceptualization, assessment, and treatment techniques clinicians can use to help clients with depression, the second-most common mental health condition.
In the winter of 2016 author Richard M Jones had exclusive access to the personal collection of a Mr George Cutcher, a former Royal Marine who had fought in the First World War and had gone on to live a full and active life. Now for the first time his story is told with his entire diary published along with the story of his life. How he joined the Marines too young, how he trained future Kings in the gymnasium, going on to fight in both Gallipoli and the Somme before being medically discharged. His own accounts of the fighting in the trenches brings it home to the reader just how bad conditions were and his collection makes his entire story so very real.
Lammas (or Lughnasa) is now one of the most obscure of the eight festivals of the witches' Wheel of the Year. This book features practical advice on how to celebrate the festival, themes to explore, recipes, incense, spells, traditional types of divination, and information about several full rituals.
A fun, dynamic form of play, drama games help children explore their imaginations and discover their own creativity. By improvising a wide variety of scenes and situations, participants learn to express themselves physically and emotionally while gaining increased awareness of the feelings and experiences of others. Drama games also offer a wealth of possibilities for all kinds of group and educational play. The games can be led by parents, teachers, camp leaders, day-care providers and other group leaders. Participants gain as much as they contribute, and the games change every time they are played. A follow-up to the popular 101 Drama Games for Children, this book contains completely different games to take children's imaginations -- and those of their leaders -- in countless new directions. Book jacket.