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2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Silver Medal Winner--Best Children's Illustrated E-book

Gertrude the goat and her best friend Toby the tortoise are adventurers. No sitting around on the boring farm for them They love to explore, and every Friday they sneak off the farm for some extra fun. One Friday, Gertrude and Toby decide to visit the local candy store in town. They discover yummy goodies and treats, but soon find that the treats are not free ? Uh oh The market owner grabs Toby. He demands money for the candy that Gertrude and Toby have taken by...

Farmer Sam and his son Ryan are taking their prize pig to the county fair today. Gertrude and Toby decide they will have plenty of time to sneak off the farm to try to save their new friend, the Gingerbread Man. He had become trapped in a giant vine the day before. Gertrude and Toby get to the top of the vine, only to find the Gingerbread Man locked in a cage. They come up with a plan to rescue him, but the Giant who was sleeping nearby wakes up in the middle of their rescue

This is the day, this is the day that I will rejoice and be glad in it. Even nature took notice of Hannah's song of joy that changed loss and sorrow of cancer into a nest of new life. God, our Creator, works all things together for good, and so He did, using one of His smallest creatures.

2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Silver Medal Winner--Best Children's Illustrated E-book

Gertrude the goat and her best friend Toby the tortoise are adventurers. No sitting around on the boring farm for them They love to explore, and every Friday they sneak off the farm for some extra fun. One Friday, Gertrude and Toby decide to visit the local candy store in town. They discover yummy goodies and treats, but soon find that the treats are not free ? Uh oh The market owner grabs Toby. He demands money for the candy that Gertrude and Toby have taken by...

Farmer Sam and his son Ryan are taking their prize pig to the county fair today. Gertrude and Toby decide they will have plenty of time to sneak off the farm to try to save their new friend, the Gingerbread Man. He had become trapped in a giant vine the day before. Gertrude and Toby get to the top of the vine, only to find the Gingerbread Man locked in a cage. They come up with a plan to rescue him, but the Giant who was sleeping nearby wakes up in the middle of their rescue

Gertrude the Goat and Toby the Tortoise are going fishing at Trout Lake for their Friday adventure. On their way, they make a new friend, but unfortunately he is carried off by a hungry wolf They follow the wolf and rescue their friend, but the wolf isn't giving up. He goes after them, determined to get his "lunch" back

- An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. .

- The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of collaborations, including working with a partner, with institutions and middlemen, outside your expertise, in a virtual partnership, with a friend,...

Commonsense Rules for Financial Freedom--Anyone Can Do It

Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom shows you how to know in 30 seconds whether you should be in or out of the market. The authors show you how great investors avoid mistakes--and win big. With Van Tharp's legendary risk-control techniques, learn how the world's most profitable investors reduce their risk and leave their wealth-generating potential unlimited, and how you can too. You'll learn how to invest wisely--in every type of market, protecting what you earn, and developing sources of regular income to...

An increasing number of investors are entering the high-risk world of electronic day trading--often before they've learned the basic principles and safeguards. Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading combines Van Tharp's mastery of trading psychology with Brian June's nuts-and-bolts expertise to give day traders the proven strategies and information they need to survive and succeed.

From little-known day trading entries and exits to techniques that foster winning attitudes and styles, these practical ideas will help readers develop their own personalized trading systems. The...

How to transform your trading results by transforming yourself

In the unique arena of professional trading coaches and consultants, Van K. Tharp is an internationally recognized expert at helping others become the best traders they can be. In Trading Beyond the Matrix: The Red Pill for Traders and Investors, Tharp leads readers to dramatically improve their trading results and financial life by looking within. He takes the reader by the hand through the steps of self-transformation, from incorporating -Tharp Think---ideas drawn from his modeling work with great...

Rousing Minds to Life is the education textbook for the '90s: A powerful synthesis of the theoretical advances in Vygotskian theory as applied to every aspect of teaching, learning, and schooling. Drawing on studies from preschool and elementary school through the university seminar, and on their own successful experience with thousands of students over two decades, this text integrates all recent work in the Vygotskian tradition with basic concepts in American and British behaviorism, cognitive science, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. Distinguished by a literate style and an...

Compelling essays which underline the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in women s writing. Embracing three centuries of prose and poetry, the anthology traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they struggled to transform themselves from objects into maternal subjects. Women as diverse as Anne Bradstreet, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich all labored to reclaim the birthing process by giving voice to experiences and emotions long devalued by a patriarchal culture. Their voices resonate...

This book demonstrates how school reforms of the past 200 years share many common flaws. Based on an intensive three-year study of school reform in the United States, Breaking the Cycle of Failed School Reform analyzes and critiques the following historical reform movements: Lancastrian Plan, 1806; Age-graded Plan, 1848; Gary Plan, 1906; Trump Plan, 1959; School Development Plan, 1968; and Coalition of Essential Schools, 1984.

The Old Order Amish of Elkhart-LaGrange, Indiana are distinctive in their acceptance of and reliance upon employment in local (non-Amish) industrial factories, which provides greater disposable income and greater leisure time than their farming brethren. Contrary to conventional notions of their asceticism, these Amish are engaged in consumptive activities such as riding in automobiles, eating in restaurants, and using some electric-powered technologies. This text explores (1) the notion of asceticism and the Amish reconciliation of their religiously-grounded tenets of industry, frugality,...