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1) Aging Wisely
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Growing older brings many thoughts of "I wish I knew that before" This book provides information to help us age as well as possible. Surprisingly, our feelings do not age. Pleasure and contentment interface loneliness, loss, fears and sorrow. At a time when life is thought easier, new problems and situations that are challenging arise. Four stages of aging include the initiation to aging at about fifty years of age, changes in life following retirement,...
2) Involving Parents in the Common Core State Standards: Through a Family School Partnership Program
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This book provides practical strategies for involving parents in the Common Core State Standards through a family-school partnership program, including positive research relating to the benefit of parental involvement, a Common Core State Standards implementation plan, and procedure for developing a family-school partnership team for the purpose of Common Core State Standards implementation in a school or district setting. Also discussed is the big...
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Why Knocked Up? The Paradox of Sex, Magical Thinking, and Accidental Pregnancy in This Age of Contraception. The United States birth rates are at record lows, yet our rates of accidental pregnancy are still sky high1 out of 2-- is unplanned, unwanted. Peeling back the layers of conflict, denial, hope, dreams, and myths about pregnancy, this provocative book unravels the paradox of why we have so much Knocked Up pregnancy even though contraceptives...
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The world is filled with uncertainties, and we will never know what tomorrow holds, when it comes to whether we will be here or not, but still we live as if it is promised. I prepare for tomorrow because maybe it will come, I prepare for next week being optimistic that next week might come, I prepare for next year knowing that it might not come but I am hopeful, and I prepare for my birthday next year by thanking God for the birthdays that I have...
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Synopsis In the year 2551, a pair of West Point Military Academy senior cadets find themselves during graduation week. During this important week they find a file. That file had been lost for over a half of a millennium. The file could change everything they learned of the human history. The file is called Darkness of Humanity. The file holds the dirtiest, darkest, and the most corrupt history of humanity from the early 1990s to the first shot of...
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Usually someones life story starts with chapter 1, but not in this case. When many women become slaves in the world even before they were born and they are raped before they have a chance to become a young woman and are uprooted the day the age of a teen ends to become a full grown-up, they will not have any chapter. Especially in the third world, for them, chapter 0 comes to life before their life starts and stays with them until they are old and...
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You either get it or you don't. Empowerment Strategist, Byron Rodgers has cut straight to the heart of surviving the depths and peaks of life. A former marine, this extraordinary life coach has written a book that will fill the well and quench the thirst of every man seeking fulfillment in life. Byron Rodgers has lived, experienced and survived to thrive, every tenet and principle set forth in this book. Based on real world experience, Human-needs...
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I wrote this book not to give a negative or bleak outlook on how our culture has evolved with the digital age but to show that the vast and rapid expansion of technology can be and is a double-edged sword. This is to share my perception as to what many are experiencing and what my experiences not only as an adult but as a parent with small glimpses looking back at my own childhood! Most importantly, I share the experiences of the many wonderful parents...
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The Thing About Bullies was written in simplicity to assist individuals in knowing the steps that need to be taken when faced with bullying inside and outside of the workplace. Many believe that bullying is something that happens in youth situations but studies show 41.4% of American workers experience aggression at work, representing 47 million U. S. Workers (Schat, Frone & Kelloway, 2006). The Thing About Bullying contains the lessons that were...
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If you have ever met someone and they said to you that Ive got this thing called life figured out! I never sin, I am always happy and life is perfect! Then you should run, and run as fast as you can! From Journey, Not Arrival is a story about love, hurt, disappointment, peace, joy, and forgiveness. Its a story about how going through things, sometimes great and not so great, really teaches you how to navigate through life; the longer you live life,...
12) Purposefullwork
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This five-part book leads the reader through a process to attain work that fulfills their purpose. They learn to self-coach thanks to a Make It Real section at the end of each chapter filled with self-discovery exercises. 1 Understand the basics and lay the groundwork: define purposeFULLwork; discuss who seeks it and why; learn the benefits; understand how to attain it; and discover the reality. 2 Find your purpose by connecting with your mind/body/inner...
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This book is a credit to Jesus Christ, who sustained the author through repeated and prolonged abuses of unmentionable proportions for several decades. The #1 purpose of this book is to glorify Jesus who is the Great Physician of impossible shatters, abuse, and heart-shreds, even amid emotional comatose and poly-fragmented dissociation. The #2 purpose of the book is to identify with the broken, rejected, and abused and to commend you all for your...
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Managing Dual Diagnosis in the Family A Mother's Story An Uphill Struggle is an insightful and heart warming blend of memoir and research as a mother sifts through past attempting to understand the devastating connection between ADD and Chemical Addiction (Dual Diagnosis) as it played out in life and death of her two sons. It speaks from the heartof their struggles with the undiagnosed and untreatable disorder of ADD and their attempts to self medicate...
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If you have ever considered becoming a vegetarian, have lost interest in the love for being a vegetarian you once were, or just want to eat healthier and enjoy food more on a daily basis, this book is for you. You do not have to be a vegetarian to read this book, and you do not have to become a vegetarian. This is simply my story about how I became a vegetarian after growing up on a farm in Iowa, and answers to questions about why I'm a vegetarian,...
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This book features testimonials from 4 backpacking manufacturers and a world thru-hiker. Quickly learn to embrace sub-lightweight backpacking with full utility and comfort. FAST's "777" solution is only 7-17 lbs. over 2-7 days, including ample food and a bear-resistant food container, It is ideal for anyone desiring a breezy carrying weight, including adolescent, petite, senior, pre-natal, and those with joint discomfort. FAST is also valuable for...
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My book is about being diagnosed with breast cancer and all the wonderful games I got to play. It starts out with the mammogram and further testing and continues with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. I was fortunate to have a less-invasive type of cancer and didnt need the kind of chemotherapy that makes your hair fall out, but I still had problems. I am a nurse, but I was unaware of most of the processes involved in the treatment of breast cancer....
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Stop wasting time with the wrong men. If finding the right man is what you want, this book has everything a single girl needs to stay on track. Todays dating scene may seem different but the game is the same. Avoid being played for a fool. Finding the right man means redefining what you want. Know the difference between a bad date and a dating rut. This book offers a modern approach to traditional dating etiquette. Proven techniques that can be applied...
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