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When children are kept in the dark regarding their origins, nobody
wins
Only rarely does a memoir come along that taps into the heart of
the human condition. The Sound of Hope is such a story, told by
Anne Bauer, an adoptee who cannot pretend that she had another life
and another family before being adopted.
Much of Anne's childhood was spent wondering about her other
mother. She desperately wanted to know where she was, what she
looked like and most importantly, why she placed her for adoption.
Living in the closed adoption system, her questions were met with a
wall of silence. This aura of secrecy only intensified Anne's quest
to eventually discover her own story. Faced with anger and
contempt, secrets and revelations, Anne sets out to uncover the
truth. This powerful memoir traverses family and relationships and
carries the unforgettable message that nobody should be cut off
from their origins.
For undergraduate students taking classes in behavior management
and behavior analysis. A popular, practical, and comprehensive
guide for educators regarding how to create positive, healthy, and
pro-social classroom settings. Long an established and popular text
in its field, Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for
Educators successfully balances theory and practice to provide
readers with a comprehensive manual for creating a positive,
pro-social educational environment in which all children can truly
learn and enjoy that learning experience. By presenting students
with both research and the proven practices that developed from
that research, the authors are able to fully explain behavior
management from four perspectives-behavioral, psychodynamic,
biophysical, and environmental-in straightforward, jargon-free
prose. At the same time, real-life case studies, classroom
techniques, clear examples, and helpful plan designs allow
preservice and inservice teachers to easily bring what they have
learned into the classroom. The new tenth edition has been revised
and rewritten to improve its usability and readability, and
includes recently identified evidence based practices. A new
chapter on response-to-intervention, and its relationship to
functional behavioral assessment has also been added, as well as
updated information on designing individualized behavior plans.
Mitch Omer reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a
pleasure seeker's destination, including inventions like his tart,
ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes; dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread;
and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. These dishes have the hungry
and eager queued up out the doors of Hell's Kitchen, often for
hours, and now you can make them at home. Food writer Ann Bauer
also gives us a glimpse behind the scenes, revealing Omer's darker
side, the side responsible for the decor of Hell's Kitchen,
described as the "nightmare side of Sesame Street". Bipolar,
obsessive-compulsive, and a former addict, Omer's roller-coaster
ride of a life has taken him through many towns and love affairs,
numerous jobs, and even more controlled substances. But through it
all, there has been food--recipes inspired by places and people,
including Omer's own close-knit family, reworked and made his own.
He beats back his demons every day with his dad's caramel rolls and
coleslaw, locally raised bison burgers smeared with his mum's
mustard, and his own famous home-made peanut butter, and he invites
you in to share it all.
As personal computers have become more available, there has been a
great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer
use, both at school and in the home. Beyond Technology's Promise,
first published in 1994, takes a hard look at the home computer
scene. The research reported in the book focuses on whether
families are using computers to help children learn academic skills
and, if so, how well they are doing it. The three year, qualitative
investigation provides contextual information crucial to our
understanding of how computers are really being used. The authors
draw the not so surprising conclusion that most children use
computers to play games. They therefore propose directions that
must be taken in order to facilitate the educational use of home
computers or any other promising educational technology. In so
doing, they examine such topics as parental leadership, the
home-school computer connection, and the role of gender in home
computing use.
As personal computers have become more available, there has been a
great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer
use, both at school and in the home. Beyond Technology's Promise,
first published in 1994, takes a hard look at the home computer
scene. The research reported in the book focuses on whether
families are using computers to help children learn academic skills
and, if so, how well they are doing it. The three year, qualitative
investigation provides contextual information crucial to our
understanding of how computers are really being used. The authors
draw the not so surprising conclusion that most children use
computers to play games. They therefore propose directions that
must be taken in order to facilitate the educational use of home
computers or any other promising educational technology. In so
doing, they examine such topics as parental leadership, the
home-school computer connection, and the role of gender in home
computing use.
When children are kept in the dark regarding their origins, nobody
wins
Only rarely does a memoir come along that taps into the heart of
the human condition. The Sound of Hope is such a story, told by
Anne Bauer, an adoptee who cannot pretend that she had another life
and another family before being adopted.
Much of Anne's childhood was spent wondering about her other
mother. She desperately wanted to know where she was, what she
looked like and most importantly, why she placed her for adoption.
Living in the closed adoption system, her questions were met with a
wall of silence. This aura of secrecy only intensified Anne's quest
to eventually discover her own story. Faced with anger and
contempt, secrets and revelations, Anne sets out to uncover the
truth. This powerful memoir traverses family and relationships and
carries the unforgettable message that nobody should be cut off
from their origins.
Edward is nearly four when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal
from the world. For those who love him - his father, Jack, and
mother, Rachel, pregnant with her third child - the transformation
of their happy, intelligent firstborn into a sleepless feral
stranger is a devastating blow. As Rachel delves into family
history in search of answers, flashbacks from the past afford
insight into the coping mechanisms of different families and
marriages. A WILD RIDE UP THE CUPBOARDS poses questions not easily
answered. How much should a mother sacrifice for her children? When
do parents' ambitions for their offspring become counterproductive,
even destructive? And who should decide what is best for the child?
Ann Bauer's spellbinding fiction debut is a brilliantly nuanced
portrait of a marriage - and a family - under siege.
DRAWN PARALLELS By JoAnne Bauer, Ph.D. Coining the term poemoir to
describe her book, prize-winning author JoAnne Bauer tells stories
from her life in this two-part collection of narrative and lyric
richness. Her past surfaces deftly and often humorously, through
complex layers of poetic imagery and memory. This ekphrastic
project provides thought-enriching overlays and echoings, as Bauer
references work of master artists, musicians, philosophers and
other literary folks, as well as offering her original mixed media
collages and altered photographs. In five sections, we travel with
her --from a sheltered childhood into armored feminism and past the
twists and turns of loves vicissitudes, emerging into good-natured
fun and transformed by earned wisdom, ready to reckon with
mortality s abrupt shortcomings. From the immediacy of captured
details, her personal and unique path flowers into universal
revelations about a woman s life fully lived."
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