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Great Minds and How to Grow Them is a handbook for parents that shows how they can grow the minds of their children and teenagers and guide them to success both at school and in life. The latest neurological and psychological research is proving that most children are capable of reaching high levels of performance that were previously associated only with the gifted and talented.

Brains are malleable and IQ is not fixed yet, without parental engagement in their learning, many children don't reach the levels of performance that are associated with academic success. Combining...

This is a quality paperback which includes over 40 full color photos illustrating various real life Montessori school exercises.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author took her AMI Montessori training at the Montessori Training Center, Palo Alto, California from Lena Wikramaratne (a colleague and friend of Maria Montessori). In 1985 she co-founded her own school, Independence Montessori and then later joined her husband's school, Minnesota Renaissance School. This book grew out of independent pamphlets she wrote over the years to help parents understand the Montessori...

These remarkable letters begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand, newly arrived in Chicago from Soviet...

Dieser Tierstudien-Band beschäftigt sich mit Fragen nach dem Personenstatus von Tieren und mit dem Phänomen tierlicher Persönlichkeiten. Dass Tiere Individuen und Subjekte ihres Lebens sind, unterschiedliche Charaktereigenschaften und eigene Interessen haben, wird kaum noch bestritten. Doch dass sie Personen sind, wird ihnen in der Regel abgesprochen.

Dabei kämpfen Tierrechtsorganisationen schon lange für die Anerkennung des Personenstatus von Tieren: Tiere sollen als Rechtspersönlichkeiten mit einem einklagbaren Recht auf Leben sowie körperliche und geistige...

"This volume ... risks being a future trend-setter in the anthropological study of memory and temporality, as it captures a historical moment of growing interest (in and outside the academy) regarding nostalgia as a social and political phenomenon, while simultaneously disentangling the multiple understandings and instrumentalisations that the concept entails..." - Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Bergen

"The ideas are original, noteworthy, and of value not just to anthropologists, but also psychologists, sociologists and others who are concerned with memory and the social world. Drawing...