Explore Outdoor ABCs with Bud and Sis

Explore Outdoor ABCs with Bud and Sis
Author: Jess Houle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2017-06-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548111717

Explore the ABCs with nature. Bud and Sis go on an outdoor adventure that inspires children everywhere to love the outdoors and reading. This is a perfect alphabet book to take camping or on any outdoor adventure.

A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857207148

A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.

Torch

Torch
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2012-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345805623

The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a bad marriage and rebuilta life with her children, Claire and Joshua, and their caring stepfather, Bruce. Their love for each other binds them as a family through the daily struggles of making ends meet. But when they received unexpected news that Teresa, only 38, is dying of cancer, their lives all begin to unravel and drift apart. Strayed's intimate portraits of these fully human characters in a time of crisis show the varying truths of grief, forgiveness, and the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living.

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0309142393

Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.

The Abcs of Cbd

The Abcs of Cbd
Author: Shira Adler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Marijuana
ISBN: 9780997554212

The ABCs of CBD: The Essential Guide for Parents (And regular folks too) explains "Why Pot Is NOT What We Were Taught". Accessible for any reader, this practical, educational and comprehensive guide is alternatively humorous and hard hitting when it needs to be, answering all the things you've ever wanted to know about cannabinoids, but were afraid to ask. CBD is the "other" ingredient in Hemp & Pot - the one that doesn't get you stoned - but can still help make you better. Discover how the ancient wisdom of plants combined with cutting edge scientific research could change your life. This is the moment in culture where the medical marijuana revolution is transforming our belief system and the way we perceive this once highly stigmatized substance. Learn, partake and educate. You will not be disappointed.Why read "The ABCs of CBD"? Every day there is one more person / parent who becomes canna-curious or an inadvertent advocate based on their needs, and those of their family. From aging parents to disenfranchised millennials to children with disorders, addictions, and diseases that boggle the mind and break the heart. Anxiety, ADHD, autism, Alzheimer's, colitis, chronic pain, cancer and much more... this is our new reality. The antidote? Science points to CBD, and daily headlines agree! Yet for the average American, they have no idea what it is, how to use it, or if it's legal to do so! Stigma, fear, social injustice, and misinformation continue to loom large in the psyche of America. That's why author, speaker, advocate, and entrepreneur, Shira Adler, (#MAMA: Modern Alt. Mom Advocate and #ThePotMom), is once again using her voice to provide information, education, and awareness for what is happening at this moment in cannabis culture.Shira's book is edutainment at its best covering the full spectrum of all things CBD, cannabis, hemp, and more... from ancient history to pop culture, trends in industry/commerce, the endocannabinoid system, social justice, what science is proving, and why politicians posture. There is even a section for parents who want to know how to talk to their kids about CBD.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008-03-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307454835

A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Seraphina

Seraphina
Author: Rachel Hartman
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0385668406

A new vision of knights, dragons, and the fair maiden caught in between . . . Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered. While a sinister plot to destroy the peace is uncovered, Seraphina struggles to protect the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life. Seraphina's tortuous journey to self-acceptance will make a magical, indelible impression on its readers.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

The Homegrown Preschooler

The Homegrown Preschooler
Author: Kathy Lee
Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876594513

Transform your home into a learning environment that rivals the best preschool classroom Find exciting learning opportunities in everyday occurrences, from using laundry to teach sorting to exploring growth cycles in the garden, with the easy-to-organize, simple-to-start ideas, advice, and activities. As straightforward as a parenting how-to book and as easily applicable as a set curriculum, this book will inspire parents to use their homes as classrooms and take advantage of the naturally rich learning opportunities existing in everyday life.