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The key to students' success in math lies in a way of teaching that provides clear evidence of how students are thinking about problems and builds on that thinking to take them to a deeper level of understanding. Seasoned math educators Ted Hull, Don Balka, and Ruth Harbin Miles offer teachers a sequential and developmental plan for integrating visual thinking into current classroom practices, and gradually, but steadily, initiating successful instructional changes in mathematics. Their new book provides teachers with numerous sample problems and classroom scenarios, showing successful teacher interventions at work, and offers guidance on how teachers can adapt traditional problems to promote visible thinking in their own classrooms.
What happened since the honeymoon? Are you mad at your partner all the time?Do you feel like your partner is selfish?Do innocent conversations suddenly escalate into arguments?Does your partner misinterpret what you say?Do you feel emotionally distant from your partner? If you answered YES to any of the above questions, this book was written for you! For more than 40 years, Dr. Rugel has observed how quickly spouses feel disregarded in marriage and respond in a manner that upsets the partner.Their tranquil interactions then spiral into an unpleasant argument or into emotional distancing. Based on concepts from family systems theory, Dr. Rugel guides the reader through the process of recogniz...
This biography is an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure. This account follows her story from her beginnings in the Australian bush, through her publishing success and time spent in Chicago, USA.
Praise for Living for the Weekday "If you want to have a team where leaders and employees are working hand-in-hand to build a culture of employee engagement, then you need to read this book. I'm confident it will help you become a weekday warrior." —Jon Gordon bestselling author of The Energy Bus and Soup "In Living for the Weekday, Clint Swindall has rounded out a powerful message. Each individual has a personal responsibility, a singular opportunity to be highly engaged as an employee and, more importantly, highly productive and happy in all aspects of life."—Barry Malcolm, Managing Director, Scotiabank Bahamas Ltd. "If you want to unlock your potential and the potential of those aroun...
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In North America's Last Frontier, there are still untrammeled wildernesses where a man can stand alone in a region the size of entire states, where deep cold quiets every whisper of life and vast emptiness reigns. Alaska remains a mysterious place that, thanks to reality television, has captured the imagination of millions. Yet a minuscule fraction have acquired an understanding of the land afforded by exploring in their most vulnerable state -- on foot, towing all of their supplies, wholly independent. This is the perspective of Tim Hewitt, an employment lawyer from Pennsylvania with a unique hobby -- racing across Alaska on the Iditarod Trail.What compels a man to run, walk, and trudge a t...
The explosive sequel to Neil Hunter's Scorpion novel! Nature Gone Wild! The colony of deadly scorpions at Long Point Nuclear Plant that killed scores of locals was eradicated. Or so people thought... Over a year later, entomologist Miles Ranleigh receives a worrying telephone call. A man has been fatally poisoned by toxic venom, identical to the Long Point scorpions’ — but far more powerful. Miles and his companion Jill Ansty must race to destroy the fresh infestation. But this is a new strain of scorpion. Mutated and irradiated. They’re larger, more savage—and infected with a deadly virus fatal to humans. And they’re breeding...
Miles Franklin wrote the first of these letters at Brindabella in 1887. The last letter was written only 16 days before her death. As well as Miles Franklin's own witty and provocative correspondence, the selection includes letters from her life-long friends. This collection offers a rare insight into the mind and times of a brilliant woman.
A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.