Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designinga homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremosthomeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan toensure that your children will learn what they need to know whenthey need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based onthe traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home LearningYear by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child ateach level Recommended books to use as texts for every subject Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge isessential and which is best for more expansive study based on yourchild's personal interests Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects,such as sex education and physical fitness

Each woman has a special spiritual destiny, as unique andinalienable as the rhythms that govern her life. Maria Harristeaches women how to dance to the music of their own souls anddiscover the spiritual steps that can transform their lives.

In the first book to focus on the traumatic effects caused bycliques in our schools, an acclaimed parenting-advice team offers afresh perspective and an innovative eight-step program to turnaround the culture of cruelty that torments all students. There have always been "in crowds," but today's social pressuresforce children into explosive, destructive, and evenlife-threatening situations. No matter what role your child playsin this schoolhouse drama--clique leader, victim, or innocentbystander--this book is a must-read. Giannetti and Sagarese havehoned in on this little-understood phenomenon and come up withinsights that parents can use immediately. Read Cliques tounderstand: * Who the clique leaders are in your child's school * What you can do NOW to help your child avoid abuse * Times during the day when cliques are visible to adults * Where in your school you should start to lobby for change * Why your "innocent bystander" may not be so innocent * How you c

"[Rosenthal] told a stunning, tragic story and called each oneof us to account for averting our eyes—and hearts—and voices."-MikeWallace, 60 Minutes It remains one of the most notorious deaths in New York Cityhistory not because of who was murdered but because of thecircumstances: 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered, inan attack that took nearly thirty minutes and had thirty-eightwitnesses...not one of whom did a thing to stop the murderer oreven call for help. A.M. Rosenthal, who would later become one of the most famous andcontroversial editors The New York Times has ever had, was thenewspaper's city editor then; the murder happened on his beat. Hefirst published this book in 1964, the year of the murder. It ispart memoir, part investigative journalism, and part publicservice.

This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer JuliaBlackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with anaddiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatiouspainter with no boundaries.After Julia's parents divorced, hermother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become herlovers. When one of the lodgers began an affair with Julia,competitive Rosalie was devastated; he later committed suicide,shattering whatever relationship between mother and daughterremained. After thirty years, Rosalie, diagnosed with leukemia,came to live with Julia for the last month of her life. Only thenwere they allowed, at long last, to exist with an ease they hadnever known.

Someone has been writing "BINKY RULES"all over school property,but Binky denies hes the one doing it.Supersleuths Buster and Fern try to aolve the mystery but they cant seem to agree on anything.Will they be able to discover whos been writing the graffiti before Binky really gets in to trouble? Presented in chapter-book format,for children who are ready to read on their own,this mysterious tale will surely be a hit among Arthur fans. 作者简介:Marc Brown，is the creator of the best-selling Arthur Adventure book series and codeveloper of the number-one children's PBS television series, Arthur. He has also created a sec-ond book series, featuring D.W., Arthur's little sister, as well as numerous other books for children. Marc Brown lives with his family in Hingham, Massachusetts, and on Martha's Vineyard.

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward have travelled to Priestown for some unfinished business. For, deep in the catacombs of the cathedral, lurks the Spook's nemesis - The Bane. A creature he has never been able to defeat. As Thomas and his master prepare for the battle of their lives it becomes clear that The Bane isn't their only enemy in town. The Quisitor has arrived, searching the county for those who meddle with the dark - witches, warlocks and Spooks! When the Spook is arrested and sentenced to death it's up to Thomas, with a little help from his old friend Alice, to rescue his master and destroy the curse of Priestown.

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs ofLittle Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she andeight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But thejourney of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, wouldlead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, onethat would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, andforever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting throughthe door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs,racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D.Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escortthe Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of manytrials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for thefirst time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that isa testament not only to the power of a single person to make adifference but also to the sacrifices made by familie

The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner ToddOppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology toimprove our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what reallyworks. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades,our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads,empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education andpolitical leaders have offered their biggest and most expensivepromise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost ofapproximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s.Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transformingnearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts toclose the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for schoolreform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination.Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strikewith the business community, changing public beliefs about thedemands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframin

“I love those colorful, glamorous eyes I see in magazines andin movies,” you say. “They tempt me, they torment me! It all looksso simple $8212;but when I try it, I look like one of theundead. Help me!” No problem, honey, because Eye Candy ishere. In this handy new book, acclaimed makeup artist Linda Masonreveals the secrets of eye makeup with fifty hot looks. Eachselection, from everyday to night-on-the-town, is presented sosimply, so clearly, that anyone can have fabulous eyes in just afew steps. For each look, Mason provides a straightforward list ofwhat’s needed, a diagram showing what to put where, and a palettefor finding the right colors in a personal makeup collection or acosmetics aisle. Did anyone ever tell you you have beautiful eyes?Now everyone will tell you you have beautiful eyes $8212;thanksto Eye Candy !

The Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder allows you to enjoyinformative and entertaining discussions of English words derivedfrom Greek and Latin roots：and expand your working vocabulary atthe same time. Words that share the same root are grouped for easystudy. This is the ideal book for people who want to increase theirword power. Thorough coverage of 1,200 words and 240 roots whileintroducing 2,300 words. The Vocabulary Builder is organized byGreek and Latin roots for effective study with nearly 250 new wordsand roots. Includes quizzes after each root discussion to testprogress. A great study aid for students preparing to takestandardized tests.

Fresh from her triumph at lucent，Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-packard in july 1999.Ever since,there has been worldwide fascination with her even-tual destiny.She was Venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men's territory.This wasn't just the engineer's realm of bits and bytes;this was the guys'world of beer blasts,rolled-up shirt sleeves,and deer-hunting trips to the founders'ranch. Could Fiorina use her charismatic salesmanship,earthy wit,and iron will to rescus a $40 billion com-pany from a painful period of decline?If she failed,would her missteps destroy Hewlett-Packard,the revered computer and printer company that helped create Silicon Valley? Perfect Enough is the definitive account of the most dangerous year in carly Fiorina's life,chronicling her daredvil bid to remake HP with a record-shattering $20 billion acquistion of archrival Com-paq Computer.Not since the late 19805-when Wall Street operatives battled over the fate of RJR Nabisco-has t takeover drama

The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy rebound love affair. Awash in tears in the middle of the night on the floor of the bathroom, she begins to pray for guidance, "you know -- like, to God." God answers. He tells her to go back to bed. I started seeing the Star headlines: "Jen's New Faith!" "What Really Happened at the Ashram!" "Jen's Brazilian Sugar Daddy -- Exclusive Photos!" Please understand that Gilbert, whose earlier nonfiction book, The Last American Man, portrayed a contemporary frontiersman, is serious about her quest. But because she never leaves her self-deprecating humor at home, her journey out of depression and toward belief lacks a certain gravit

A worthwhile tale about true nourishment that comes not from[eating] but from engaging on a spiritual path. --Los AngelesTimes In this wrenchingly honest, eloquent memoir, Bullitt-Jonasdescribes a childhood darkened by the repressive shadows of heralcoholic father and her emotionally reclusive mother, whosedemands for excellence, poise, and self-control drove Bullitt-Jonasto develop an insatiable hunger. What began with pilfering extra slices of bread at her parents'dinner table turned into binges with cream pies and pancakes,sometimes gaining as much as eleven pounds in four days. When thefamily urged her father into treatment, the author recognized herown addiction and embarked on the path to recovery by discoveringthe spiritual hunger beneath her craving for food. Holy Hunger is abrave and perceptive account of compulsion and the healingprocess.

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer(“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) andcentral figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-classcocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of countryclubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage andmotherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growingdissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness ofthe social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join theSandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. Shewould be involved with them over the next twenty years at thehighest, and often most dangerous, levels. Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolutionand a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age underextraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both strikinglyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: abouther family, her children, the men in her life; about her po

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