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  Quotes That Will Change Your...

  Russ Kick

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  The right quotation can change your life. That condensed idea—expressed in just a few words or a sentence or two—can shift your thinking, trigger an epiphany, and alter your way of seeing the world. The wisest, most experienced, and most thoughtful people in history have left us these little thought-bombs, and this book collects them. Surprising, jolting, discomforting, and comforting insights urge us to live a full, unbridled life, question authority and reality, relate to fellow humans, create, risk, love, live with uncertainty, and stay sane in an insane world.Poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, presidents, mystics, activists, academics, and others rub shoulders here and give us the benefit of their hard-earned wisdom, breakthroughs, breakdowns, bad choices, sudden illuminations, and lightning wit. Sharing some of life's most important lessons are William Blake and Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln and Lorrie Moore, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Terence McKenna, René Magritte and St. Teresa of Avila, Zelda Fitzgerald and James Baldwin, and hundreds more.Neatly arranged into topics that everyone wonders about, this inspirational volume is filled with rousing insights and challenging thoughts that will appeal to anyone who is searching, anyone who doesn't fit in, anyone who questions the way things are . . . which is to say, everyone.*Previously published as Flash Wisdom, 9781609259730

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  Police Officers at Work

  Karen Latchana Kenney

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  The Meet Your Community Workers illustrated nonfiction book Police Officers at Work teaches young readers about the education, tasks, tools, and role in society of police officers.  Easy-to-read text combines with colorful illustrations to provide entertainment and facts for even the youngest audience. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades PreK-4.

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  Provoking Curiosity -...

  Angela Eckhoff

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  Sure, you know that children learn best through hands-on explorations. How does that work in a real classroom? With jam-packed days and mounting expectations, you're pressed for time and pushed to follow standards-based curricula. It's no wonder you struggle to incorporate STEAM activities each day.Provoking Curiosity brings new and easy-to-execute STEAM learning experiences that encourage children to think, explore, and wonder. Each exploration builds on core ideas in the STEAM disciplines, develops higher-level thinking skills, and uses readily available materials in early childhood classrooms.  Learn how to use STEAM provocations throughout your busy day: Jump-start the morningDecompress and reenergize middayOccupy children who complete assigned classroom work earlyIncentivize children to complete a goalTransition between the busier times of day and planning classroom work timesEnd the day building children's collaboration and communication skills

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  Dignity for Deeply Forgetful...

  Stephen G. Post, Jade C. Angelica

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  For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's.How do we approach a "deeply forgetful" loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing selfidentity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging caregivers to become more aware of—and find renewed hope in—surprising expressions of selfhood despite the challenges of cognitive decline.In this book, Post offers new perspectives on the worth and dignity of people with Alzheimer's and related disorders despite the negative influence of "hypercognitive" values that place an ethically unacceptable emphasis on human dignity as based on linear rationality and strength of memory. This bias, Post argues, is responsible for the abusive exclusion of this population from our shared humanity. With vignettes and narratives, he argues for a deeper dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, music, and a self that is not "gone" but "differently abled." Post covers key practical topics such as:• understanding the experience of dementia• noticing subtle expressions of continuing selfhood, including "paradoxical lucidity"• perspectives on ethical quandaries from diagnosis to terminal care and everything in between, as gleaned from the voices of caregivers• how to communicate optimally and use language effectively• the value of art, poetry, symbols, personalized music, and nature in revealing self-identity• the value of trained "dementia companion" dogsAt a time when medical advances to cure these conditions are still out of reach and the most recent drugs have shown limited effectiveness, Post argues that focusing discussion and resources on the relational dignity of these individuals and the respite needs of their caregivers is vital. Grounding ethics on the equal worth of all conscious human beings, he provides a cautionary perspective on preemptive assisted suicide based on cases that he has witnessed. He affirms vulnerability and interdependence as the core of the human condition and celebrates caregivers as advocates seeking social and economic justice in an American system where they and their loved ones receive only leftover scraps. Racially inclusive and grounded in diversity, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People also includes a workshop appendix focused on communication and connection, "A Caregiver Resilience Program," by Rev. Dr. Jade C. Angelica.

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  Healing Child and Family Trauma...

  Janet A. Courtney

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  Healing assessments and interventions from disparate areas of knowledge such as art, nature, and storytelling. 
  There are many ways to help children and families heal from trauma. Leaning on our ancestral wisdom of healing through play, art, nature, storytelling, body, touch, imagination, and mindfulness practice, Janet A. Courtney helps the clinician bring a variety of practices into the therapy room. 
  This audiobook identifies seven stages of therapy that provide a framework for working with client's emotional, cognitive, somatic, and sensory experiences to heal from trauma. Through composite case illustrations, practitioners will learn how to safely mitigate a range of trauma content, including complicated grief, natural disaster, children in foster care, aggression, toxic divorce, traumatized infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and young mothers recovering from opioid addiction. 
  Practice exercises interspersed throughout guide practitioners to personally engage in the creative expressive and play therapy techniques presented in each chapter, augmenting professional self-awareness and skill-building competencies.

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  Choose Life - Answering Key...

  John K Goodrich, Jeanette Hagen...

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  You’re pro-life. But can you explain why?You already believe in choosing life.  But when the counterarguments are coming at you from every angle—legal, biological, medical, ethical, moral, philosophical,  and biblical—how do you defend the pro-life view? And as you defend it . . . how do you speak with wisdom, humility,  and compassion?Now more than ever, the times call for a balance of truth and mercy. There are good, wise, and thoughtful  rebuttals of every claim made by pro-abortion advocates. Collected here in one place, Choose Life offers you reasonable  responses from leading experts in their respective fields. The authors are accomplished women and men from all walks of  life. They’ll help you know what to say—and why to say it—when you’re faced with claims like:“The  courts have already settled the issue.”“The fetus is not a person.”“My body, my  choice.”“I shouldn’t have to raise an unwanted child.”“My circumstances  justify ending my pregnancy.”“Abortions are helpful to women and society.”“The  pro-life movement doesn’t care about social justice.” 
   
  It’s time to set aside the  strident fist-shaking and hurled insults. Learn to make the pro-life case with intelligent arguments and compassionate love—just  the way a Christian should.

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