Silver medalists, 2010 Independent Book Publishers AssociationBen Franklin Awards “A gentle and insightful approach to parenting children with highlyintuitive abilities or sensitivities. There are pearls of wisdomhere. Recommended.” ? Library Journal Is Your Child Trying to Tell You Something? We are all sensitive, intuitive and empathic to one degree oranother. But some of us are born more so. The highly intuitivechild may pick up on unspoken issues in the home and take on theemotions of friends, absorb the mood in a classroom or in the worldat large and even anticipate dangerous situations. The acutely receptive intuition of these children is always “on,”acting as a sixth sense. Because this emotional and sensory inputis added to what they take in through the other five senses it canbe difficult to cope with, and their sensitivity can resultin ? difficulty turning “off” and falling asleep ? deep fears and anxieties that are hard to relieve ? an exaggerated sense of responsibility about heal

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's no

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, WarisDirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five yearsold; running away through the desert; being discovered by TerenceDonovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, theworldwide bestseller, DESERT FLOWER. In DESERT DAWN she wrote aboutbecoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genitalmutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. DESERT CHILDRENtells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn haveinvestigated the practice of FGM in Europe - they estimate that upto 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. Atthe moment, France is the only European country in which offendersare convicted and no European country officially recognises thethreat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. Here are thevoices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by WarisDirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us toact

This invaluable resource helps K-3 teachers deal withrestless, energetic students including those with attention deficithyperactivity disorder. The book contains quick movement breaksthat can be used between other classroom activities to minimizedisruptions and maintain a positive learning environment for allstudents. The activities, labeled according to appropriate agelevels, length of play time, and group size, include shaperecognition, stretching and relaxing, pantomime and imaginationmovements, balancing, and team relays. None of the activitiesrequire special skills, and there are enough for every day of theschool year.

September 11th changed the face of America, but it alsorevealed the true face of heroism. The men of the New York FireDepartment fought with courage and endurance to save others. Thisis their story, told by a veteran firefighter. --This text refersto an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A KGB officer reveals for the first time the true story behind some of the Cold War's most important episodes, including the recruitment of two of its most infamous spies Victor Cherkashin's incredible career in the KGB spanned thirty-eight years, from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In this riveting memoir, Cherkashin provides a remarkable insider's view of the KGB's prolonged conflict with the United States, spanning his recruitment through his rising career in counter-intelligence to his prime spot as the KGB's number-two man at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Victor Cherkashin's story sheds a stark new light on the KGB's inner workings over four decades and reveals new details about its major cases. Playing a central role in global espionage through most of the Cold War, Cherkashin's career was rich in episode and drama, and he took part in some of the highest profile cases, including tracking down U.S. and British spies around the world. But it was in 1985, known

In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadtshows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vastamounts of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not onlycontinued to gain adherents but has become an internationallyorganized movement.