Ellen Michaud

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Living a Grateful Life

Blessed is a book of heartwarming stories about women and hope--and the courage to change no matter where you are in your life. Sometimes we just need to stop for a moment and absorb the quiet moments in the world around us--to take a deep breath and appreciate the things in life that make us thankful and bring us joy. Blessed is a call to do just that. In this heartfelt collection of her online columns from Diane, the flagship magazine of the Curves women's fitness center organization, author Ellen Michaud reminds us of the everyday blessings that surround us, but we all tend to overlook. Entries include: Summer in a Jar: On a 200- acre farm known for its Jersey cows and prizewinning cheese, two women harvest a cornucopia of produce that looks like it came from the Garden of Eden. Although the visit was intended to pick up ingredients for "one of the finest salsas in the near world," the end result is a view of a fertile valley, the rich smell of vegetables freshly tugged from the earth that speaks to the soul, and the natural rhythm of friendly conversation. The Teapot: During a snowy winter storm, the author pulls her great- grandmother's worn silver teapot down from a shelf. As she polishes the teapot's tarnished surface, she contemplates its long journey over an ocean and through the generations. As she discovers engraved hallmarks that lead to a deeper understanding of its 200-year history, her appreciation for the women who traveled with it grows. Welcome Home: As an Airbus 321 begins its descent toward the coastal lights of Los Angeles International Airport, the pilot makes an overhead announcement that stills the restless and rustling passengers. What follows are moments of contemplation about the sacrifices of soldiers and, how regardless of one's politics, there is still a shared sense of love and respect for those who fight for our freedom. The Courage to Change: After a lifetime of self-built barriers, the author's 88-year-old aunt overcomes discouraging memories and years of grief to prove that it's never too late to open yourself to new experiences, take risks, and start over.

Blessed

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Barbara Ann Kipfer

3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity

The creator of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About and Instant Karma offers a comprehensive and accessible list of hundreds of meditation practices and techniques that can be done during the course of one's everyday life, drawing on such spiritual practices as Zen, yoga, Sufism, and insight meditation. Original.

Self-Meditation

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Open any page of this volume to find an optimistic, healing or uplifting thought to brighten your mood and motivate you.

Pocket Positives for Inspiration

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Alison Davies

Declutter Your Life

"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul." - Mark Twain Do you often feel like you're drowning in your to-do lists, or becoming overwhelmed by the number of possessions you own? Tidying presents opportunities, to not only transform the spaces around us, but also to free the mind of daily stresses. This inspirational book simplifies the art of tidying, and reveals the benefits you will experience from getting yourself in order. Negative thoughts can hold us back from living the life we want to lead; consumed with worry, we often seek comfort in surrounding ourselves with stuff. Clean up your act, rid yourself of mental clutter, and gain control through motivating quotes, practical tips, and simple exercises. The Little Book of Tidiness will teach you how to make the most of less.

The Little Book of Tidiness

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Luca Taglietti

Gabriele Atripaldi

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

As you gaze at these evocative images and read profound reflections from sages throughout history, you'll immediately feel joy, serenity, and beauty wash over you. The awe-inspiring photos capture nature in all her glory, from sea to trees to sky, while the quotes come from such inspirational figures as Mother Teresa, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Heraclitus, Nelson Mandela, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Francis Bacon, Bob Dylan, and the Dalai Lama.

365 Thoughts of Peace and Hope

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Kathleen M. Cox

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Creating a Home for the Soul

Feng shui, the ancient Chinese art and science of finding harmony with nature, has become widely adopted in the West. Like Buddhism, which migrated from India eastward, feng shui is recognized by Eastern scholars as having originated not in China but in India, where it is referred to as Vastu Shastra, or the science of architecture. In Vastu Living, Kathleen Cox introduces readers to the art, science, and practice of vastu. Cox explains vastu's origins in the Vedas, its relationship to the Hindu gods, its principles and guidelines, and its traditional uses. Vastu Living shows readers how to practice vastu at home and in the workplace--from understanding its teachings on room layout and furniture placement to bringing the divine into every dimension of one's environment.

Vastu Living

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Patricia Wayant

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Words to Inspire a Brighter Outlook on Life

Positive thinking is the key to a happy, successful and satisfying life, but it isn't always easy to be positive every day. This inspiring collection offers words of optimism and insight to keep readers looking on the bright side, no matter what is happening in their lives. It can be read cover to cover, or passages can be read from it daily, as a reminder of what is truly important in life. The uplifting quotes and poems offer suggestions and words of advice to encourage readers to keep believing in their dreams, expect only the best, and enjoy life to the fullest.

Think Positive Thoughts Every Day

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Laurence Heller

Aline LaPierre

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

An essential piece of trauma literature, this highly practical guide draws from somatic-based psychotherapy and neuroscience to offer tools for healing—and moving past—early trauma (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger) Although it may seem that people suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre maintain that most of these can be traced to five biologically based organizing principles: the need for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. They describe how early trauma impairs the capacity for connection to self and others and how the ensuing diminished aliveness is the hidden dimension that underlies most psychological and many physiological problems. Heller and LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM), a method that integrates bottom-up and top-down approaches to regulate the nervous system and resolve distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment that are the outcome of developmental and relational trauma. While not ignoring a person’s past, NARM emphasizes working in the present moment to focus on clients’ strengths, resources, and resiliency in order to integrate the experience of connection that sustains our physiology, psychology, and capacity for relationship.

Healing Developmental Trauma

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Beatrice Chestnut

27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge

The Enneagram—a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility—is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.

The Complete Enneagram

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Karla McLaren

What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

Emotions--especially the dark and dishonored ones--hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise. Here is a much-needed resource filled with revolutionary teachings and breakthrough skills for cultivating a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states through The Language of Emotions.

The Language of Emotions

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Neil W. Ashcroft

N. David Mermin

Physics

This book provides an introduction to the field of solid state physics for undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

Solid State Physics

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Carol Copple

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Social Studies

The book Developmentally Appropriate Practice has been an essential resource for the early childhood field since its first edition in 1987. This third edition is the most extensive yet, fully revised to align with the latest research on development, learning, and teaching effectiveness.

In this book, early childhood practitioners and students will find a wealth of information:

 * * NAEYC's official Position Statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice
 * * A chapter by Carol Copple and Sue Bredekamp that makes clear the connection between DAP and excellent teaching, and challenges the field to think about developmentally appropriate practice with more openness and precision
 * * Overviews of children's development and learning in four periods of life: the infant and toddler years, the preschool years, the kindergarten year, and the primary grades
 * * Pages of specific examples for each age period describing key practices seen in high-quality early childhood settings (centers and school classrooms as well as family child care)--and, by contrast, practices that are less likely to serve children well

A CD of additional resource material will further support learning:

 * * More than 60 readings (pdf format) taken from Young Children articles and NAEYC's books and position statements that relate to, expand on, and explain DAP concepts mentioned in the book
 * * Two dozen video examples from real early childhood classrooms, plus commentary text, that highlight significant elements of developmentally appropriate practice in action

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

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Miriam Beloglovsky

Lisa Daly

Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments

Loose parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. This book makes a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world.

Loose Parts 3

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Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers

The follow-up to the successful Loose Parts and your guide to inspiring infants and toddlers to safely explore objects through play.

Loose Parts 2

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

An ECERS-Based curriculum

All About Preschoolers 

An ECERS-Based Curriculum 

Has some handling on the covers but the inside is well kept

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Strategies and Tools for Responsive Teaching

Offers classroom-proven approaches and instructional strategies that make it easier for teachers to provide multiple learning paths for students.

Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom

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Juanita V. Copley

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Reflects recent developments in math education using vignettes from classrooms, activity ideas, and strategies for teaching young children about math processes and concepts. Incorporates standards and guidelines from NCTM and NAEYC.

The Young Child and Mathematics

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Matt Cole

The edges of the cover have some handling damage , the bottom has a stain on the corner, but the inside has no damages 

The Development of Children

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Sally Moomaw

Brenda Hieronymus

Science Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

Over 100 play-based activities for young children to learn about the physical, earth, space, and life sciences

More Than Magnets, Standards Edition

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Janina Fisher

A small see through tape over the barcode, the entire book is basically like new

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma: How We Become Fragmented -- 2 Understanding Parts, Understanding Traumatic Responses -- 3 Changing Roles for Client and Therapist -- 4 Learning to See Our "Selves": An Introduction to Working with Parts -- 5 Befriending Our Parts: Sowing the Seeds of Compassion -- 6 Complications of Treatment: Traumatic Attachment -- 7 Working with Suicidal, Self-Destructive, Eating Disordered, and Addicted Parts -- 8 Treatment Challenges: Dissociative Systems and Disorders -- 9 Repairing the Past: Embracing Our Selves -- 10 Restoring What Was Lost: Deepening the Connection to Our Young Selves -- 11 Safety and Welcome: The Experience of Earned Secure Attachment -- Appendix A: Five Steps to "Unblending"--Appendix B: Meditation Circle for Parts -- Appendix C: Internal Dialogue Technique -- Appendix D: Treatment Paradigm for Internal Attachment Repair -- Appendix E: Dissociative Experiences Log -- Appendix F: The Four Befriending Questions -- Index

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

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Jarlath Benson

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In this fourth edition of Working More Creatively with Groups, Jarlath Benson presents the essential knowledge required to set up and work with a group.

Working More Creatively with Groups

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Tina Stavredes

Foundations and Strategies for Student Success

Effective Online Teaching is an essential resource that offers a clear understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to online learning. This much-needed resource provides specific strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching that gets results. The book includes strategies on motivation, tailored instruction, interaction, collaboration, monitoring and communication, time and information management, student concerns, and legal and ethical issues.

Designed as a text for online instructors, the chapters can be used for self-directed learning or in a formal training setting in concert with the companion Training Manual and CD.

"Tina Stavredes has done something sorely needed in the online teaching world --she has successfully combined solid theory and research with the practical application of instructor training. Both the book and the training manual are a 'must' for any online education organization. Bravo!"--Dr. Darcy W. Hardy, assistant vice provost for Technology Education Initiatives, University of Texas at San Antonio, and chair emerita, United States Distance Learning Association

"Drawing from years of experience and solidly grounded in an understanding of the adult learner and learning, Stavredes offers dozens of helpful instructor strategies, activities, and resources to support adult learners' success in an online environment. Effective Online Teaching and its accompanying training manual is a 'must-have' set for online instructors in higher education, corporate, and government settings."--Sharan B. Merriam, professor emeritus of adult education, University of Georgia, and coauthor, Learning in Adulthood

"An eminently practical book that provides clear and unpretentious explanations of the learning theories that are essential knowledge for every online teacher, together with equally uncluttered and easy-to-follow guidance about how to apply this knowledge to achieve excellent teaching."--Michael Grahame Moore, Distinguished Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, and editor, The American Journal of Distance Education

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365 Thoughts of Peace and Hope

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Vastu Living

Patricia Wayant

Think Positive Thoughts Every Day

Laurence Heller; Aline LaPierre

Healing Developmental Trauma

Beatrice Chestnut

The Complete Enneagram

Karla McLaren

The Language of Emotions

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Solid State Physics

Carol Copple

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

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Loose Parts 2

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All About Preschoolers

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All About Preschoolers

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Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

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Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom

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The Young Child and Mathematics

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The Development of Children

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More Than Magnets, Standards Edition

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Working More Creatively with Groups

Tina Stavredes

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