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  To Kill or Be Killed - A True...

  Joni Ankerson

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  A convicted murderer tells the story of the years of domestic abuse she endured that drove her to kill her police sergeant husband. The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and the like. People shuffling in and out, everyone taking care of their important business with court appearances, document filings, paying tickets, fines and bonding loved ones out of jail. I loved my job. It was extremely satisfying and interesting with constant interaction with all walks of life, including people on either end of the judicial spectrum and many in between. Suddenly, there he was. Tall, handsome, and looking so impressive and important in his Michigan State Police uniform with his hat, gun belt and badge. A powerful man who had chosen a profession to serve and protect. He was extremely friendly and upbeat, smiling profusely. Best of all, he, too, was unattached. What could go wrong? He was like a dream man. We clicked, immediately, and began dating exclusively. But he was not a dream man. He was a nightmare . . . as I learned over the next twelve years. Twelve years of enduring domestic violence at its absolute worst. Constant abuse, control, manipulation, and threats. Sadistic sexual deviance and sexual violence. It was only going to end one way: someone would die in our bed and someone would go to prison for murder. This is my story about domestic violence, resilience, reckoning and survival.

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  Say Good Morning Like a Human -...

  Greg Campion

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  What if career success was about more than following your passion? What if triumphing on the job had little to do with the latest career-guru buzzwords, and everything to do with the small, seemingly insignificant choices you make every day? 
  In this practical, funny and refreshingly honest take on the modern workplace, Wall Street veteran, author and podcaster, Greg Campion calls on 20 years of personal experience—and mistakes—to bring listeners 50 Unwritten Rules that take the guesswork out of success in today’s workplace.Avoid common pitfalls that can derail your career, and build a foundation for long-term success.Learn to love routineAvoid email battles like the plagueConsider (gasp!) taking the earphones outHandle compensation discussions with tactBite your lip (more than you think)And remember to keep it all in perspective

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  How To Become The Best Teacher...

  HowExpert, Rachel Sawyer

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  When we look back at our lives, we always remember those few amazing teachers that have made a positive impact in our lives. The term 'favorite teacher' doesn't mean you are always the popular teacher, but the teacher that the kids respect and remember the positive impact you had on them. 
  This book is written by a teacher who has impacted the lives of her students and has been labeled a 'favorite teacher' by many of her students. In this guide, you will learn how to become the best teacher you can be, impact the lives of students, and experience great fulfillment in your career of teaching. 
  This book provides expert opinions, tips, and personal experiences on how to become a favorite teacher, including: 
  - What it means to really get to know your students by memorizing their names early on, showing an interest in what they do outside of school, and simply paying attention. 
  - How to remind your students that you are a person—just like them! 
  - How to get in the right mindset to not only laugh with your students, but to be available when they need you and be a model of politeness and kindness. 
  - What it means to teach children who need role models and how to show them how to be a decent person. 
  - How to create a democratic community of learners in which you are fair, consistent, and firm in your interactions with students. 
  - How to create lessons, assignments, and activities that are authentic and interest-based and which reflect the ways in which people actually function in the real world. 
  - Why it’s important to allow yourself time to engage in professional development and to take personal leave time. 
  About the Expert: 
  Rachel Sawyer teaches middle school language arts in the Pacific Northwest. She took a nontraditional route to teaching, first earning undergraduate degrees in English Literature. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  A Chance to Make History - What...

  Wendy Kopp, Steven Farr

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  As “the stunningly successful nonprofit organization, Teach For America” (New York Times) celebrates its 20th anniversary, its founder Wendy Kopp issues a passionate and inspiring summation of what she and TFA corps members have learned: that educational inequity—the achievement gap—is a solvable problem, and that the key to solving it—in a single classroom, a school, or system-wide—is leadership.For twenty years, Teach for America has been working to end educational inequity, sending some of our nation’s most promising college graduates to teach in some of our nation’s most under-resourced communities. TFA and its corps members know from experience that the contributing causes of the achievement gap—dysfunctional inner-city and rural economies, poor healthcare, broken families, among others—are daunting. But they have also come to the exciting realization that educational inequity is a solvable problem. Highly effective teachers are achieving transformational progress in their classrooms despite the obstacles; and the skills and strategies that make them highly effective are specific and identifiable.In this inspiring, optimistic book, TFA’s founder and president Wendy Kopp shows concretely that the achievement gap can be closed, and delineates what it will take to close it. Through stories from classrooms and schools across America, she distills the key lessons TFA has learned from the experiences of 24,000 corps members. The heroism and hard work of an individual teacher can transform a child’s life. But to transform the educational experience and opportunities of all America’s children, and to ramp up the pace of change, individual teachers should be supported by schools, school systems, and policies dedicated to nurturing, fostering, and spreading their efforts.America’s failure to educate millions of its children to enable them to fulfill their potential has always been an injustice. Given the challenges we face in a competitive global economy, it has also become a national crisis. This clarifying and passionate book is must reading for anyone involved in or concerned about education—as a teacher, student, administrator, policymaker, community activist, or parent.

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  Family First - Tracing...

  Ruth A. Symes

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  Discover the history of family roles and relationships—and how to learn more about your own ancestors.   A blend of social history and family history, Family First looks at relationships and our attitudes and experiences surrounding them—fathers, mothers, babies, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and the elderly, friends and neighbors. This book examines how readers might learn more about how their own ancestors functioned in these relationships, and what records might tell us more.   Each chapter starts with a guide on how to interpret the most common and direct of family history sources, then goes on to examine each relationship in its changing historical contexts—how, for example, did the role of a father differ in the Victorian period from earlier periods? What similarities and differences were there in behavior and roles between fathers of different social classes? How did fatherhood change in the context of the two world wars? How has family size changed? How have opinions shifted about marriage between cousins? Explore these questions and more in this intriguing book.

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  The Therapist in the Real World...

  Jeffrey A. Kottler

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  Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus on academic preparation, but there's a lot more that a therapist needs to know to be successful after graduation. With warmth, wisdom, and expertise, Jeffrey A. Kottler covers crucial but underaddressed challenges that therapists face in their professional lives at all levels of experience.PART I, "More Than You Bargained For," covers the changing landscape of the mental health profession and the limits and merits of professional training.PART II, "Secrets and Neglected Challenges," explores important issues that are often overlooked during training years, including the ways our clients become our greatest teachers, the power of storytelling, and the role of deception in psychotherapy.And in PART III, "Ongoing Personal and Professional Development," Kottler focuses on areas in which even the most experienced therapists can continue to hone their talents and maximize their potential, laying out effective tips to navigate organization politics, and much more.As honest and inspiring as it is revealing, this book offers therapists and counselors at all levels of experience key ideas for thriving after formal education.

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