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For being a first year Science teacher, I thought that this book was a huge help. It gives you a lot of good tips and resources(ones that they have created and tons of websites). I would definitely recommend this book to anyone teaching middle school.

A great guide to the practical aspect of teaching inquiry-based middle school science. Also, this book is fun to read--not only did I finish with it in no time, I also enjoyed the content and wanted more! I highly recommend this book for any novice middle school science teacher or any veteran who just wants some great advice!

Author Adrienne Furness (Children and Family Services Librarian, Webster Public Library) draws upon her extensive work with homeschoolers in a variety of settings to present Helping Homeschoolers in the Library, a straightforward guide for library professionals to helping homeschooling parents who use public libraries as their primary resource for learning materials. Chapters focus on the practicalities of helping homsechoolers, and cover the different homeschooling and unschooling movements; a thorough discussion of the resources that best serve homeschooling populations; ideas for programs and social opportunities the library can offer; annotated lists of recommended readings and online resources; and much more. A thoroughly useful guide that extends beyond common stereotypes to fill a growing need nationwide.

I have been homeschooling for more 13 years. The library is my primary source of educational materials. In fact, according to the National Center for Education, this is true for 78% of homeschooling families.

Ms. Furness' book, Helping Homeschoolers in the Library, should be on every public library's resource shelf.

The book is broken into two parts. First: Defining Homeschoolers. This section explores the history of homeschooling, trends, and demographics. Ms. Furness interviews several homeschool leaders, including myself.

Part Two is: Serving Homeschoolers. Here you'll learn how to connect with homeschoolers, create programs with their special needs in mind, and how to help them use the library more efficiently.

This book will help you and your library better serve a fast growing group of patrons. I highly recommend it.

Thank you so much for sending me the High Cotton Cookbook. I graduated from Marvell Academy and I have always wanted one of there cookbooks. The mothers assocation does not sell them anymore so it has been very hard to find one. My moms recipe for doughnut is in there.
It was in such good shape also. This is something that I will keep forever. Thank you so much

I received this cookbook as a wedding present from mom 20 years ago and I have used it so much the cover and some pages are lost!!!!...This cookbook is the best I have ever seen for good home or southern cooking. It has my Nana's Sugar cookie recipe I use every year for Christmas cookies. It has cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving Dinner just like my mom used to make and Turkey Gravy and Chicken & Dumplings just like my dear friend Pat taught me to make!It also has recipes that have been passed on by friends and family- Shirley in Florida and Aunt Sara in Arkansas passed on the same Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake-go figure-it's in there too! It also has some recipes I have never seen but use religiously now- like Monkey Bread and Peanut Brittle. This cookbook has everything and more-and I use no other!

When packing for a trip to the Smokies, the double checked list of essentials that I pack include a camera, cash, and this book of trails.

I highly recommend this book. It's not filled with lots of photos and graphs that make the novice feel comfortable about hiking in the Smokies. It's exactly what you need before the trip to plan a good hiking trip. I use it before day hikes and multi-night trips. I highly recommend this book. However, the 2003 version can be bought on the publisher's website for $20 + $6 for shipping.

This book is an excerpt from a broader history and was written in the 19th century. It chronicles the struggles & persecutions of a European fundamentalist christian sect. It traces the Waldenses' roots back to the 11th century. If historical chronicling is tedious to you, I recommend James Byron Huggins' epic historical fiction work titled RORA. It is an easy read and might entice you into reading "The Waldenses".

The Waldenses were a people that lived in the Italian Alps and, despite living hundreds of years before the reformation, made the Bible their only rule of faith and rejected such papal innovations as the mass, the celibate priesthood, confession, purgatory, indulgences, and infant baptism. The Waldenses rejected the whole complex of pagan practices adopted by the Roman Church during the middle ages, and held that the Pope was anti-Christ.

This work is excerpted from a much longer one; it is a reprint of the Sixteenth Book of Wylie's "History of Protestantism." This is a obviously a protestant view of the Waldenses, and assumes the correctness of their religion vis-a-vis the Roman church. For a Roman Catholic perspective, read the article on the Waldenses in the Catholic Encyclopedia, or read the recent book by a Euan Cameron that is listed on Amazon.com.

Most Catholic and liberal protestant scholars have accepted the view that the Waldenses began with Peter Waldo, a rich man of Lyon, France, who, around 1160 AD, gave all his money to the poor and became an itinerant preacher. The Waldenses themselves, however, who might better be called Vaudois, traced their religion back to apostolic times. Wylie notes that even some Catholic researchers admitted that the Vaudois were "not a new sect in the ninth and tenth centuries . . ." Even if they only date to the 12th century, the Vaudois religion predates the reformation by 300 years.

The Vaudois translated the Scriptures into both Italian and French. From their mountain strongholds, the Vaudois sent out traveling salesmen whose real mission was to witness and give away copies of the Scripture in the people's language. These missionaries were liable to be imprisoned or burned at the stake if Papal authorities discovered their clandestine religious mission, but they were not typically molested in their homelands. Notable exceptions were in the years 1400 and 1488, in which unsuccessful attempts were made to suppress them.

Ironically, the most savage persecution of the Vaudois began only after the protestant reformation was well underway in northern Europe. A major campaign of extermination was mounted in 1561, but again met with only partial success. Finally, in 1655, the valiant Vaudois were very nearly wiped out. Wylie considers the atrocities committed against this simple and inoffensive people too grotesque to be described in detail. The 1655 massacre was so infamous and terrible, however, that the government of England, then under the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, lodged a protest with all of the governments concerned. John Milton was inspired to write the sonnet which begins:

"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, who bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold,
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones,
Forget not: in thy book record their groans
Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold
Slain by the bloody piedmontese that rolled
Mother and infant down the rocks."

The one bright spot in the story of the 1655 massacre was the remarkable leadership of Joshua Gianavello, of the Village of Rora. Gianavello has become the subject of an historical novel "Rora," for sale on Amazon and glowingly reviewed by no less than Newt Gingrich.

The work of extermination begun in 1655 was nearly completed in 1686, when the remaining Vaudois were either killed, imprisoned, or exiled to Switzerland and Germany. Remarkably, Henri Arnaud led a few hundred of the Vaudois back to their mountain stronghold in 1690 and reclaimed by force their ancient patrimony. Thus, the Vaudois have continued on to the present time.

Interestingly, in 1893, a company of Vaudois migrated to the United States and founded the town of Valdeses, Burke County, North Carolina. At the time, a local newspaper wrote:

"All the little Waldensian children are taught to read and write at a very early age, and their knowledge of the scriptures would put to shame many of our church people of maturer years. They speak both French and Italian very fluently, and are all apparently very bright and intelligent and very anxious to learn the language of this new country."

This tome is definitely for the in-depth holistic care giver.
Every aspect of care is covered in a complete and organized manner. This includes the very over looked self-care subject.If you are seeking the 'Bible' in holistic work, search no further. I can not imagine another source as complete as this one. A big thumbs up.

I bought this book because I admire the author's wonderful biography of Florence Nightingale. This is an essential reference for all nurses who want to be compassionate and effective care givers and who would like to be conversant with holistic medicine. We have so many patients who ask about that now that we owe it to them to be properly informed.

The review written in 1999 is accurate and I won't make comments along the same lines as it does so sufficiently.

However, an alternative to building a system is buying a system. They ain't cheap so the book is the better buy. However, one should know that systems are out there offered by people like Aquatic Eco Systems (their Fish Farm series) and Crop King.

This book has everthing that you need to get started into a aquaculture setup for your home. It explains the setup of your system and gives you the knowledge maintain it. They also show you how to build every thing from the bilogical filter to the clarifiers. large amount of information presented in an easy to read format.

This book is a blend of practical legal and management advice that is indispensable for homeowner association managers, directors and developers. It's organized logically in an easy to read format. I highly recommend it. Richard L. Thompson Regenesis.net

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My uncle sent this book to me and since my father died of ALS, I read it with great interest. I also found the book to be a starting point for me, a success story of sorts, as I battle with a recent diagnosis of another auto-immune disease without effective treatment. I'm the "monkey see, monkey do" sort, so I needed guidance from someone who's walked in very similar shoes and could offer perspectives and advice I'm not getting from the medical establishment. I am so grateful for this book, as it continues to help me persevere -- I recommend it highly to patients and caregivers alike.

David has an excellent way of telling his story and beeing able to beat his ALS. He has given me hope and a light at the end of the tunnel. It is a positive book that every PALS should read.

The effectiveness of treatment has routinely been attributed to the technique a therapist uses or the therapist using the techniques. Witness so much emphasis on the model of therapy at continuing education programs and in graduate education. Finally, someone has gathered together evidence about what really makes therapy work--or better said, who. Researchers Art Bohart and Karen Tallman have compiled a compelling, readable, and practical summary of the research on the client's contribution to change in treatment. As noted above, the client is the single largest contributor to change in treatment--accounting for the largest percentage of the variance in treatment outcome.

In the psychotherapy profession we spend so much time focusing on how therapists make therapy work. Bohart and Tallman, relying on numerous research studies, remind us that it is the client, not the therapist, who makes therapy work. Bohart and Tallman make clear we can do a more effective job as facilitors if we keep clear that the client, not our our techniques are what makes the difference. A great book, carefully researched, well-written and full of ideas worth thinking about. Phillip Ziegler, co-author of Recreating Partnership: A Solution-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy