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Websters Instant Word Guide

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With Webster's Instant Word Guide, you can find the word you're looking for in a flash. The easy-to-use alphabetical listing lets you quickly check the spelling of a word and find where to divide it at the end of a line. This practical guide includes entries for 35,000 words that often raise questions about spelling or hyphenation.

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Writing That Works - Third Edition

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Writing That Works will help you say what you want to say, with less difficulty and more confidence. Now in its third edition, this completely updated classic has been expanded to included all new advice on e-mail and the e-writing world, plus a fresh point of view on political correctness.

With dozens of examples, many of them new, and useful tips for writing as well as faster on a computer, Writing That Works will show you how to inprove anything you write:

• Presentations that move ideas and action
• Memos and letters that get things done
• Plans and reports that make things happen
• Fund-raising and sales letters that produce results
• Resumes and letters thar lead to interviews
• Speeches that make a point

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Writing with Precision: How to Write So That You Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood

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One of the most popular and respected style guides ever written, this handbook by a seasoned writer with more than forty years of experience offers ten principles and seven axioms that professional writers use to express their thoughts clearly and effectively. This latest edition is expanded to include an extensive glossary of American idiomatic expressions, developed to assist users from other backgrounds and cultures; new chapters with tips on little-known facts of usage, such as compound words, hyphenation, numeration, and capitalization; and explanations of technical problems encountered in writing and editing with tips and exercises to help solve them. For anyone faced with the challenges of written English, Writing with Precision can help readers write more clearly, more effectively, and more precisely than they ever have.

Previous editions of Writing with Precision have been selected by the Writer's Digest, McMillan, Fortune, and Reader's Digest book clubs.

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A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom

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Laying the basis for the guidance approach, this edition links the well respected and innovative theories about child development and developmentally appropriate practice with principles and practices of guidance for the preschool through primary grade age group. Appropriate for intermediate and advanced coursework in two and four-year programs, this book places an increased emphasis on democratic life skills as the primary outcome in the use of guidance. Each chapter includes a section on building and maintaining parent-teacher relationships from a guidance perspective, and numerous anecdotes allow students to observe the balance between research and application in validating the guidance approach. The text also examines the connection between societal violence and mistaken behavior in the classroom, and provides new information on bullying. Developing the concept of liberation teaching as the guidance response to societal violence, it shows how liberation teaching can be used to prevent stigmas and build resiliency in vulnerable children. Key terms, chapter summaries, recommended readings, application and What You Can Do activities give students abundant opportunities to expand and use their knowledge. The appendices offer helpful references, guidance tools, and resources for parent involvement. An instructor?s manual and online resource are also available.

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Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners

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Revised and updated from the award-winning classic Effective Teaching and Mentoring, this second edition is a practical, engaging exploration of mentoring and its power to transform learning. Filled with inspiring vignettes, Mentor shows how anyone who teaches can become a successful mentor.

"Nowhere else are learning, development, and mentoring so vividly and engagingly written about than in Daloz's book. . . . Already a classic in the field, this second edition updates us all on the awesome power and responsibility inherent in the mentor's role."
--Sharan B. Merriam, professor, Department of Adult Education, University of Georgia

"Essential reading.... This book will help more of us grow into one of the most life-giving relationships we can have with another person, one that will bring deep fulfillment to our own souls. Daloz has given a great gift to all who teach and learn."
--Parker J. Palmer, author of The Courage to Teach

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Educating Young Children: Active Learning Practices for Preschool and Child Care Programs

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The updated chapters include information on phonemic awareness and preschool reading, additional references, the latest Perry Preschool research results, recent research relating to brain development, and a complete description of a consistent approach to problem solving. Written for early childhood practitioners and students, this manual presents essential strategies adults can use to make active learning a reality in their programs. Describes key components of the adult?s role: planning the physical setting and establishing a consistent daily routine; creating a positive social climate; and using High/Scope?s 58 ?key experiences? in child development to understand and support young children. Other topics include family involvement, daily team planning, interest areas, appropriate materials, the plan-do-review process, small- and large-group times. Offers numerous anecdotes, photographs, illustrations, real-life scenarios, and practical suggestions for adults. Reflects High/Scope?s current research findings and over 30 years of experience.

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Coaching Youth Lacrosse

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Coaching Youth Lacrosse is an excellent introduction to youth coaching and teaching young lacrosse players valuable skills. It provides all the information you need to coach effectively and help 6- to 14-year-old athletes, both boys and girls, learn and enjoy the game.

This second edition features the games approach to coaching lacrosse, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach. Also included are chapters on communicating with athletes and parents, planning and conducting practices, coaching during games and specific programs for both boys and girls lacrosse.

Developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP), the nation?s No. 1 coaching education program, Coaching Youth Lacrosse provides volunteer coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on fulfilling that role.

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Family Law and Practice: The Paralegal's Guide (2nd Edition)

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This book is set apart by its balance between the theoretical underpinnings of family law and the processes and procedures that govern daily practice. Covering a wide range of topics, it discusses issues such as: same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships, covenant marriage, premarital agreements, parenting plans, reproductive technologies and custody battles, alternative dispute resolution and adoption.  A priority is placed on the coverage of the procedural aspects of the divorce process and post-judgment matters. Filled with practical advice, it is easy to use and designed to prepare the new paralegal  for the realities of family law practice.  Addresses the need for a concise book that shows paralegals how to respond successfully to the numerous demands in a family law practice.  Examines areas of family practice that represent a majority of a family practitioner's workload.  National examples, including common law.  Sample family forms are referenced throughoutand provide examples of the types of documents prepared in family law and practice.  Shows how to draft typical family related pleadings such as, complaints, motions, orders, and agreements. New Paralegals.

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Cheetah Negotiations (Cheetah Success)

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Communicate Your Way to Success with Cheetah Negotiations! Get what you want, FAST! Become a Cheetah Negotiator. Project Managers spend their days in continual negotiations - project team members, project sponsors, project customers, and suppliers. You will learn how you can get what you not only want, but truly deserve with this step by step method for setting up and conducting successful negotiations focused on mutual gain.

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Business Grammar, Style & Usage: The Most Used Desk Reference for Articulate and Polished Business Writing and Speaking by Executives Worldwide

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Based on the actual writing and speaking styles of leading business executives worldwide, this book features easy-to-follow instructions and techniques for preparing polished written documents and writing and speaking in an articulate manner. Focusing on how leading business professionals really communicate, the basics of writing and speaking, including traditional grammar and speaking dos and don'ts, are covered. Examined are the particular styles in which business professionals communicate with each other and how to develop a personal professional style. Featured are special sections on writing memos, offer letters, e-mails, and other business documents that business professionals need to master.

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