Lunch Buddies

Lunch Buddies
Author: Lynette Fleming
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0578001365

Want to cash in on the movement back to the brown bag lunch? Are memories of soggy sandwiches and salty chips holding you back? We will teach you how to turn the old "brown bag" lunch into dining at its finest in the comfort of your office breakroom ... saving you money, time, and calories in the process. Inside the cover of this fascinating book filled with amusing anecdotes and historical tales about the world's healthiest foods, you will find more than 90 delicious recipes which easily can be adapted to the brown bag. This book, as no other does, will teach you how to rely on friendship to achieve a better diet, while lowering your food costs and saving time. For years fitness experts have recommended exercising with a buddy as a way to retain our interest and motivation. If you've ever tried it, you know it works. Now it's time to apply that principle to lunch, and this book is just the tool to help you do it.

Overcoming Autism

Overcoming Autism
Author: Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0698157435

There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.

Case Studies in Educational Psychology

Case Studies in Educational Psychology
Author: Patricia P. Willems
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475839162

This case study book serves as a valuable tool for professors and instructors of educational psychology. It contains 18 cases that represent current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges that teachers face in today’s elementary grade classrooms. The cases are organized into six major parts: Human Development, Individual Differences and Diversity, Learning Theories, Motivation, Classroom Management, Instructional Approaches, and Assessment and Evaluation.Each case describes a detailed teaching scenario written from either the student or the teachers’ perspective. To engage students in critical thinking, perspective-taking, analysis, problem solving and decision-making, the cases have been intentionally written without a conclusion. Because the cases are open-ended, it allows the professor or instructor more flexibility and autonomy in how they use the cases. Each case is followed by thought-provoking questions, highlighting the significant issues in the case, from which to analyze the case and apply various theoretical viewpoints. While the cases do not replace actual classroom experience, they present a way to immerse students in the classroom’s culture by providing them with real-life teaching examples.

Dudes Take Over

Dudes Take Over
Author: Tyler Reynolds
Publisher: Epic Spiel Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 194921205X

It’s 5th Grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school. The mission: Inflate the class economy, Rock down the walls, Race to the state capitol, and Take over the governor’s office. The Goal: To take possession of the most powerful dart gun ever invented! You won’t want to miss Deven’s hilarious election speech, Jayden’s Dude-themed birthday bash, or the battle with baby-stealing bandits! Guard your garden gnome because Dudes are taking over! In 5th Grade, you have to be totally mature and responsible. That’s why the Dudes are taking their wacky brand of humor to the school! You’ll crack up when these five friends take on babysitting, back yard downhill skiing, and a spy mission to the principal’s office. You'll LOL through the talent show, the election, and a robot bidding war. Sherwood Elementary will never be the same! Fun on an epic scale for your kids! Book Two of The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series of realistic but zany suburban adventures featuring kids who know how to make their own fun! This modern series is for intermediate readers 8-14 who can’t get enough madcap adventure and hilarious hijinks. Each chapter book provides several stories realistic enough and wacky enough to keep kids reading to the delicious conclusion. The Dudes are a diverse group of preteen boys whose clever mischief turns their suburban neighborhood upside down. The books can be read as a series or in any order. Fun for boys that will run a mile from an award-winning novel. Spoilers: Classic humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to middle grade readers who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. Classic middle grade humor with modern kids and realistic misadventures make for better-than-real-life hilarity. If you like Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins or Barbara Robinson's The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you'll love the Dudes! Warning to Parents: The Dudes’s insane take on parents, school, and the PTA just might be catching. Anecdotal evidence suggests that readers of the Dudes may imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own. Can be read as a series or in any order. Makes a Great Gift or a Perfect Stocking Stuffer for preteens. Great choice for summer reading or as a read-a-loud for the whole family. Easy to take along for travel. Crazy funny!

The Dudes Adventure Chronicles Collection: Books 1-3

The Dudes Adventure Chronicles Collection: Books 1-3
Author: Tyler Reynolds
Publisher: Epic Spiel Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1949212157

Get started with the first three books of the Dudes Adventure Chronicles unabridged in one complete volume. It's a digital box set for tweens or preteens! Easily navigate between books with the combined Table of Contents. Perfect for travel. 3 hilarious adventures for middle grade readers: Save the Dudes--Can the Dudes save Nate from the threat of private school? Dudes Take Over--See how the Dudes become kings of Sherwood Elementary and liberate a mega-weapon from the principal's closet. Summer of the Dudes--Know what to do in an emergency? Never fear, the Dudes are on the case! Five 5th-grade friends swing into action and Sherwood heights will never be the same! Middle-grade readers love the zany, action-packed, adventure! The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series of realistic but zany suburban adventures featuring a diverse group of boys who know how to make their own fun! For intermediate readers 8-12. Praise for Save the Dudes: "With one priceless, laugh-out-loud scenario after another, the mother and son team of Johnson and Reynolds delivers a fine tale... "...the story is given depth by emotional challenges each friend must face, described with subtlety. "Readers will likely be eager to read the next adventure. "Hilarious comic mayhem, rounded out by affection and insight." --Kirkus Reviews Situational humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to kids who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. Can be read as a series or in any order. Great choice for summer reading or family read-a-louds. Classic fun for modern kids! Save the Dudes: A Dude in peril? Operation Destiny is a go! A ninja stealth picnic? Supervillain jail? Zombie apocalypse anyone? The Dudes are on a mission to save Nate from the peril of private school. But code-names, battle training, and a camp-out of doom don't help as much as you'd think they would. Besides that, the girl next door has a teacup-sized pit bull, Tyler's mom has banned "screen time", and there's the rising cost of fake blood. Can the Dudes use inadvisable stunts and madcap plans to save the day? That's how they roll! Dudes Take Over: It’s 5th Grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school. The mission: Inflate the class economy, Rock down the walls, Race to the state capitol, and Take over the governor’s office. The Goal: To lay claim to the most powerful dart gun ever invented! You won’t want to miss Deven’s hilarious election speech, Jayden’s Dude-themed birthday bash, or the battle with baby-stealing bandits! You'll crack up when these five friends take on backyard downhill skiing, and a spy mission to the principal's office. Guard your garden gnome because Dudes are taking over! Summer of the Dudes: Leave No Dude Behind! It'll be a summer like no other. Luckily, the Dudes are prepared to take on: Being Lost at Sea! An Earthquake! Bigfoot! A Robot Invasion! And Teresa's pet Chihuahua! Don't miss the mayhem! Another suburban summer with nothing to do…unless you’re the Dudes! Come along as the Dudes become river rafting commandos, pull off a remote-controlled heist, and track a cryptid to its lair. Start your summer off with a laugh in Summer of the Dudes! WARNING: Evidence suggests that readers may imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own.

The Middle School Survival Guide

The Middle School Survival Guide
Author: Arlene Erlbach
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0802776574

A guidebook helps "tweens" deal with changes in school, families, social lives, and bodies that come during the middle school years, with specific advice for a variety of situations. Simultaneous.

The Power of Female Friendship

The Power of Female Friendship
Author: Paul Dobransky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-05-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1440637849

A compassionate, practical, and science-based guide to finding friends for life Psychiatrist Paul Dobransky, author of The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love, once again looks to the brain, this time to examine the full range of female friendships. A recent study has shown that women have fewer friends than they used to. In the years after college and before children (and even after that), many women find that they have fewer friends, and new ones are harder to make. Taking his three-parts-of-the-brain theory, Dr. Dobransky breaks down the primal codes of friendship that many women aren’t even aware of and gives scientifically grounded advice for understanding how to be a better friend and how to cultivate new friendships. Women of all ages who are searching for deeper relationships or are trying to break free of a toxic friendship will find help and hope in this enlightening and prescriptive exploration of how the brain makes friends.

Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts

Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts
Author: Tyler Andrew Barrett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498527000

Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts examines issues concerning the potential of English learning and teaching to go beyond the classroom and affect the multicultural realities of Asian societies. Asian societies often carry long histories and traditions that influence beliefs about identities,which are changing in our globalizing world. The authors in this volume explore the synthesis that occurs when culture is shared and re-constructed in different contexts. Specifically, the authors show how English is appropriated and refashioned through language and culture exchanges both inside and outside of traditional classrooms in East Asia (i.e., Japan, South Korea, China) and Southeast Asia (e.g.., Indonesia, Thailand). Inside the classroom, transcultural flows have the potential to result in take-up, exchange, appropriation, and refashioning of language and cultural practices that can generate transcultural realities outside the classroom. Understanding transcultural flows may also require understanding circumstances outside of the classroom—for instance, transcultural exchanges that lead to friendships and professional relationships; as companies embrace English and attempt to reach a global audience; as English facilitates access to global interaction in cyberspace; and as membership to nation states, recognition, and identity often confront the politics of English as a global language. For both teachers and students of English, the impact of transcultural connections reaches far beyond the teaching and learning experience. English connects people around the globe—even after students and teachers have finished their lessons or teachers have left the country. To examine the transcultural flows that result from English learning and teaching in Asia, this book addresses the following questions: What becomes of English when it is unmoored from local, national, and regional spaces and imaginatively reconceptualized? What are new forms of global consciousness and cultural competency? How is English rediscovered and reinvented in Asian countries where there are long traditions of cultural beliefs and language practices? How are teachers and students taking up and appropriating English inside and outside classrooms? How has English learning and teaching affected social, political, and business relationships? This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, anthropology, and education.

Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick

Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick
Author: Kia Corthron
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2010
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 057369897X

"'A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick' offers glimpses into the lives of Abebe, a young Ethopian man with a passion for the unlikely combination of Christianity and ecology, and the family that houses him during his college studies in Maryland." -- provided by the publisher.