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In The Adventures of Ooga and Zeeta, author Gretchen Burman introduces adults and children to The 12 Cs: 12 essential life tools that build boys' and girls' social-emotional intelligence to help them successfully navigate life, make good choices, and maximize their happiness. The 12 Cs become a common vocabulary that can be reinforced during childhood before social pressures and outside influences take a stronger hold - helping both adults and children be better prepared and respond more effectively when challenges arise.

Through relatable stories,...

• Broad in scope - covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
  
• Rich in detail - incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.
  
• Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.
  
• Considers...

Ordinsport was a backwater on the vast Ordin River before the Council of Wizards chose it as the site of their grand experiment. After a near-catastrophic war that saw orcs, elves, dwarves, and many other traditional enemies fighting alongside each other as uneasy allies, the Council intended Ordinsport to symbolize the new peace as a shining example of old enemies living and thriving together in a new era of hope and prosperity.

While the treaty has held, Odinsport itself has fallen some way short of these lofty aims. With so many races living side-by-side, and the potential for...

Conversations take place in every early childhood classroom--between teachers and children, and among children. Are You Listening? asks teachers to examine these conversations and their impact on children's learning.

Often, teachers use conversations to impart information to children instead of really listening to children and allowing them to make their own decisions. Grounded in child-centered, relationship-based theory, this book covers topics such as how to create an environment that supports quality conversations, how to encourage conversations that support learning and...

A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, RolandParadise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony ofthose who knew him and those he knew.

In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boygenius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, tohermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, theepicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Whereis he? Is he? Was he ever.?

His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machineknocked senseless by the insane attempts...

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.

Since the second edition was published, there have been many major changes. This book addresses how shifts in advanced capitalism have produced new understandings of children, and a new (and more punitive) range of institutional responses to children. It engages with the paradoxes of...