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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)
Chris Franchetti Michaels
Visual, 2007
Ideal teaching tool for the dedicated beader
If you want to get into beading & jewelry-making, Chris Franchetti Michaels's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading is a fantastic place to start. It's a thick book loaded with photographs, and it tackles a comprehensive spread of topics.
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Dressed to Kill
Rick Renner
Teach All Nations, 2007
This book is Awesome, you need to read and reread!
I do not know what I had gotten my hands on, then I realized how blessed to be able to read this information. It is such valued information, that anyone that desires to live rightous and to prayer for the out pouring of the holy spirit, we need this applied to our ...
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Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
Wendy Lamb Books, 2007
Great book!!
Once again, Amazon was able to recommend a book that my son loved. I used to say that I had a son that didn't enjoy reading, but I feel like I can't say that anymore. He loved this story and kept reading parts out loud to the rest of the family. We all ended up ...
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass, 2007
My favorite book about education
I love this book! I loved it when the first edition came out ten years ago -- and I love it even more now, with the new beginning and ending. I also love the CD that comes with the book -- the wonderful conversation between Parker and his colleagues. Parker puts into ...
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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2007
When the going gets tough - read the Dip
You will get better at anything you attempt if you put in the effort. After a while you will need to put in more and more effort for less and less gain. If you stick to your guns you will emerge as one of the few experts at whatever it is you chose to do. If you don't ...
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Business Plus, 2000
Rich in other ways too!
When I first purchased this book, it was for the simple purpose of trying to educate myself more on the concepts of how the millionaires create their success. While I was not disappointed in any way with the context, what surprised me was that many of the fundamentals ...
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The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children ...
Tony Wagner
Basic Books, 2008
Beyond "test-prep" and towards "life-prep"
This is a scholarly and accessible book that addresses the need to rethink the education system. It recommends that schools should focus on teaching mental processes through teaching content rather than making content the end goal. The need to facilitate the ...
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, ...
Fireside, 1986
A good place to start!
I didn't realize that reading is hard and how much work it takes to learn how to do it until I started teaching. As an adult, I took it for granted and didn't realize how many connections children have to make in order to learn how to read. I am now teaching my ...
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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)
Ben Forta
Sams, 2004
PERFECT! AWESOME! Need I say more?
When I went for a job interview a few months ago all I knew about SQL was that it had something to do with databases. When I informed the interviewer I didn't know SQL, the look on his face let me know I was doomed. So as soon as I left that interview I got online and ...
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Parenting Children With Adhd: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (APA Lifetools)
Vincent J., Ph.D. Monastra
American Psychological Association (APA), 2004
learn something in every chapter
great book. very helpful. I learned something new in every chapter. easy to read and understand. helps the whole family.
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Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fourth Edition (Teach Yourself)
Stan Gibilisco
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2006
Carefully written
This book presents difficult topics in an easy-to-understand fashion. Its sparing use of math equations (for instance, the differential equation for inductance is not covered, but its effects are) may be a boon or hindrance, depending on your needs and math skills. ...
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Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to ...
Randy Larson
Cottonwood Press, Inc., 2007
The title says it all!
I would give this book more stars if I could! First of all...it is spiral bound! All teacher books should be make this way. It is so easy to make nice photocopies without having to break the binding of the book.
The activities are wonderful and captivating for ...
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Child Psychiatrist's ...
Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz
Basic Books, 2007
Brilliant and heartening
Assisted by a talented science writer, child psychiatrist Bruce Perry presents a series of heartbreaking stories of children severely damaged by trauma. But that's only one side of this remarkable book. The other side is how many of these profoundly damaged children ...
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The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach
Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian
North Atlantic Books, 2007
Excellent!
My husband loves this book and uses it as a companion to The Crystal Bible by Hall. There is a lot of information packed in the book and it is very easy to read. There are quite a few pictures if you need help identifying a stone as well. This is a large book and ...
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Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age
William E. Linney
Armfield Academic Press, 2007
Wow! Best language book I've ever used.
My husband and I are homeschooling our children, and have studied Russian, French, and Biblical Greek between us. When we decided to introduce Latin to our 2nd grader, we both dreaded finding a book that would be easy to learn from and interesting for our daughter. ...
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