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A guide to improving child-parent relations urges the restructuring of relationships while offering practical advice on how to overcome damaging past history and untangling unhealthy economic arrangements.

Provides practitioners with an overview of adult learning, and practical information regarding methods and techniques for use in a range of educational settings. The third edition is oriented toward a more formal instructional environment than were previous editions. --From publisher description.

For Barbara Bjorklund, the subject matter in Journey of Adulthood 5e has never been far from home: as a middle-aged adult who is on this very journey along with her husband, looking ahead toward their parents who are in late adulthood and back toward their children who are making their own way through adulthood, she has found that there is always room to learn - always room to grow. One of the major goals of this text is to capture this dynamic process...

Youth is no longer an age? It's a commodity. 'YouthNation' is an indispensable brand roadmap to the youth-driven economy. Exploring the idea that youth is no longer an age, it's a commodity that's available to everyone. This book shows what it takes to stay connected, agile, authentic, and relevant in today's marketplace. Readers will learn the ins and outs of the new consumer, and the tools, methods, and techniques that ensure brand survival in the...

Presents alphabetized profiles of authors and illustrators of children's and young adult literature, providing personal data, mailing addresses, career summaries, membership and award information, primary and secondary bibliographies, and details on adaptations. This volume covers Aar-Bri.

Presenting numerous activities--for both individuals and groups--designed to foster self-knowledge and growth in teaching, the authors examine the primary elements of the teaching-learning exchange. They explain how teaching style is developed, and they suggest specific approaches for matching methods to style. Valuable special resources, including scales for measuring beliefs and values about teaching, help describe individual teaching styles.The...

What happens after bodily death? This program, hosted by NewsHour's Ray Suarez, explores how beliefs about an afterlife affect the way people live their lives and approach death. In a lively, insightful dialogue, Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and teacher/author Rabbi David Wolpe discuss the concepts of heaven and reincarnation while presenting their different views of what they believe may lie beyond the mortal veil.

Explores some of the devastating ways in which children are affected by growing up in a home in which there is domestic violence. Profiles four families, including adults who are perpetuating domestic abuse in their families in response to domestic abuse they experienced growing up.