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As our population ages, more and more people will find themselves in caregiver roles for their parents and/or their spouses, though caregivers can be involved in the care of loved ones at any age. The Mindful Caregiver shows caregivers how to care for themselves even as their time and daily lives are consumed by the necessities of their loved one.

This book provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies. It addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the various roles, and examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on stage. Includes a listing of classic ballets in standard repertoire.

This book focuses on the emotional, physical, and often financial upheaval that many young people experience when parents divorce. The book addresses such issues as money concerns, self-blame, getting caught in the middle, living in a stepfamily, and depression. With an emphasis on how teens can cope with parental divorce, the book includes informational sidebars as well as a list of resources.

From the sandy beaches of the Outer Banks to the rugged mountains of the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina offers something interesting around every turn. Author Laurence Parent describes thirty drives covering the state's most fascinating and beautiful places.

Drawing on biocultural perspectives, How Real Is Race? Second Edition employs an activity-oriented approach to engage readers in unraveling-and rethinking-the contradictory messages we so often hear about race.

Career Errors is the next best thing to having a professional career counselor in the room. While written for the individual experiencing the various life and work activities, this book is also of significant value to counselors, educators, and others playing important roles in these transitions.

Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive.

The Crisis of Classical Music in America by Robert Freeman focuses on solutions for the oversupply of classically trained musicians in America-a growing problem in a diminishing niche job market. Freeman calls for music colleges to focus on vital job skills in order to better equip their graduates for the real world.

In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer's Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and teachers of singers critical information on solo vocal works by three major classical composers, all active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern.

In this book, James W. Messerschmidt explores how masculinity is created through life histories on very different subjects-genderqueers, boys who have been bullied at school, and presidents-that illustrate theory in action. Taken together, Masculinities in the Making is compelling insight into masculinity today.

Conferencing lets educators - teachers, principals, district administrators - examine and reflect on instructional practice. Academic conferences are intentional interactions that place learning at the center of the conversation. They open eyes and lines of communication and can lead to sustained academic growth at every level.

Influencing Hemingway documents the places, people, and activities that influenced and intrigued Ernest Hemingway. Arranged chronologically and punctuated with photographs, the book traces Hemingway's encounters and reflects upon how they impacted one another and influenced his decisions, actions, and philosophy of life--and of course, his novels, short stories, and nonfiction works.

As the United States engaged in a campaign to pacify its Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong. What happened next was a struggle for survival. A sweeping military epic drawing on international primary sources, this book tells their extraordinary story.

In The British Invasion, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop culture's default flow of influence, goods, and ideas-orchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into "The Sixties."

Despite China's importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this survey of contemporary China illustrates. Offering a comprehensive geography of the reform era, it traces the changes occurring in this ancient nation across both time and space.

The Classroom Management Training Handbook is cued to the textbook Preventing Classroom Disruptive Behavior, Grades K-12, Fourth Edition. It uniquely provides private, confidential self-training for a troubled teacher, or it can be used by professors of education, teacher-trainers, or school administrators to train or repair the problems teachers have in their classrooms.

This book helps real teachers deal more effectively with administration, parents, substitute or cluster teaching, bullying, creating a safe classroom environment, and with students who demonstrate a variety of behavioral problems. The author, Howard Seeman, demonstrates how to handle and prevent these common classroom problems.

This work presents important background information on the reading and process and classroom tested strategies that include implementation, information, and ideas for modifying the strategy to diverse needs.

These young children now experience the stress of having to "pass" the test in order to be promoted (a process continued through high school graduation.). Standardized Testing Skills provides the materials that prepare teachers, parents and students for this undertaking.

A Teacher's Guide to Successful Classroom Management and Differentiated Instruction is a practical, straightforward conversation with teachers about two key aspects of their work. Illustrating concepts with examples from both elementary and secondary classrooms, the guide also offers strategies, checklists, and activities to help teachers improve their practice.