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Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game. Patterned after an actual project undertaken with 25 middle school students, this book features all you need to know to teach kids to play well and reinforce their reading and writing skills at the same time.

This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. All activities are linked to the NCTE/IRA national standards for language arts. Lesson plans, over 100 chess diagrams,...

"Maelstrom" is an apt metaphor for the inexorable deterioration many children experience inside the mental health system. "Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and "Therapeutic" Drugs Hurt Children and Families" challenges current treatment practices and addresses the critically important issue of excessive prescribing of psychiatric medications to children.

This encyclopedic work reveals "inside the system" information, emphasizing the theoretical divide at the root of the controversy over diagnosis and treatment. It explains how the 1990s, "decade of the...

Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with "People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess." In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and...

Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." With "The Living Chess Game: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14," any parent, librarian, teacher, or after-school instructor can successfully stage an educational and entertaining living chess game. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.

The book's chess instruction enables children to...

Distilled small business advice for accounting practices

Many accountants in small and mid-size practices are experts when it comes to their professional knowledge, but may not have considered their practice as much from a business perspective.

Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Accountant fills this void, giving you powerful advice on everything you need to run your practice as a successful business, allowing you to achieve your goals and grow your practice. Featuring Gerber's signature easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement style, The E-Myth Accountant features
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