Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective (5th Edition)
While arranged in the conventional ages-and-stages format, this book diverges from convention to take a multicultural approach to all facets of development in children from birth to age 8. Throughout the book, case studies and examples provide future teachers with a hands-on guide to how children develop, how children’s skills develop, and how that development should inform sensitive, successful teaching practice. Every topic is examined through the lens of diversity—from intellectual development to attachment patterns, from peer relations to motor skills. Coverage of atypical development and the challenges of special education is woven seamlessly through each chapter. Includes expanded coverage of children with special needs. For professionals in the field of teaching.

Customer Review: Great book
This book was great and even though it was used, it was still in great condition!

Customer Review: Racisim In Text
I bought this book for my child development class. Although I found the physical and motor development of children to be very interesting, I was very bothered by the authors frequent references to stereotypes. He often “sugar coats” his statements that whites are perfect, blacks are aggressive, and Asians are timid. Page 191 states, “Children of Japanese and Chinese familes are often taught–through direct guidance or example–to avoid outward expressions of anger. African and African American children, in contrast are encouraged to express feelings openly. Euro-American [White] children display a moderate amount of emotional expression.” This is clearly his opinion and he is entitled to it, but it is very unprofessional to put this in a text where multiculturalism is concerned. Another stereotype that he refers to is that women mainly suffer “anxiety and depression,” while the father has concerns of bonding with a child with down syndrome. This book is easy to read; however I would not recommend it for any student or instructor.

Your Child: Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Birth through Preadolescence

What does a typical three-year-old think about and feel? What can you anticipate from your five-year-old about to begin school? What does it mean that your eight-year-old seems to lie regularly?

Your Child takes you step-by-step through the developmental milestones of childhood, discussing specific questions and concerns and examining more troublesome problems. From choosing your baby’s doctor to dealing with steep problems, from helping a child develop selfesteem to discerning when certain behaviors call for professional help — and how to find it — this book offers comprehensive and accessible information for parents on the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of children from infancy through the preadolescent years. Expertly and definitively offering practical advice and invaluable information, Your Child will guide you through every stage of your child’s growth and help you meet the daily challenges of parenting.

The Complete Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments

Get Answers to All Your Questions About Financing Real Estate Development — and Tailor a Finance Package that Meets Specific Your Needs

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The Completee Guide to Financing Real Estate Developments offers a detailed roadmap to navigate the complex process of financing small to large-scale real estate projects, such as office buildings, apartment complexes, and hotels.

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Real estate expert Ira Nachem explores the pros and cons of large versus small institutions; how to structure and present a loan proposal, the approval and closing processes; the truth about appraisals, guarantees, insurance and lien law; financial and physical bonuses and constraints, environmental issues and many other topics.

The Threads of Reading: Strategies for Literacy Development
How can teachers make sure that all students gain the reading skills they need to be successful in school and in life? In this book, Karen Tankersley describes the six foundational “threads” that students need to study in order to become effective readers: phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order processing.

For each area, the author explains how students acquire the reading skills they need and offers a series of skill-building strategies and activities that teachers can use in the classroom. Although reading is perhaps most intensely taught in the kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms, Tankersley emphasizes that helping students become lifelong readers is a task for all teachers, including content-area teachers in middle and high schools.

The Threads of Reading addresses key questions about literacy, such as

- What makes a difference in reading achievement?

- How much reading time is enough?

- How can teachers use writing to build reading skills?

- How can teachers help students make meaning from their reading?

The strategies in the book address many situations, from individual instruction to small- or large-group instruction, from kindergarten to high school. Teachers will appreciate the multitude of activities provided, and administrators will learn to better evaluate the reading programs in place in their districts and schools. Grounded in both research and “teacher lore” from actual classrooms, this book is a solid guide to helping students become lifelong readers.

Customer Review: Great Book for K-3 Teachers
This is a great book for K-3 teachers. I am using this book as a book study in my school district and have had great responses and feedback. The book provides many strategies for the “threads” of reading. It is a user-friendly book that teachers can use and refer back to easily. I highly recommend this book! Karen Tankersley also has a book for 4th-12th grade teachers titled Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12: Reinforcing the Threads. This book is a great follow-up to this one.

Customer Review: An enthusiastic promotion of reliable techniques
The Threads Of Reading: Strategies For Literacy Development by education administrator Karen Tankersley focuses upon the six foundational “threads” that contemporary students require in order to become skilled readers: phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order thinking. Discussing strategies to better aid students in acquiring these skills; assessing how much reading time is enough; manners of using writing to build reading skills; and a great deal more, The Threads Of Reading is a superb aid for grade school teachers and home schoolers alike. The Threads Of Reading is highly recommended as an enthusiastic promotion of reliable techniques to spread the passion and joy of reading, as well as developing the technical skills required.

Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development
Now a finalist in the careers section of the Foreword Awards!

Are you looking for a career with professional rewards and personal satisfaction? Perhaps you’d like to find meaningful employment in the field of international relations? Working World is the perfect resource for making sound career choices, and is particularly valuable for those interested in a career in international education, exchange, and development.

Sherry Mueller, head of a large nonprofit organization with an international focus, and Mark Overmann, a young professional on his way up, serve as spirited guidance counselors and offer valuable insight on launching a career, not just landing a job. The two authors–representing contrasting personalities, levels of experience, and different generations–engage in an entertaining dialogue designed to highlight alternative approaches to the same destination: making a difference in the world.

With a rich mix of anecdotes and advice, the two authors present their individual perspectives on career development: identifying your cause, the art of networking, the value of mentors, and careers as “continuous journeys.” Mueller and Overmann push job seekers to challenge assumptions about what it means to pursue a career in international relations and to recognize that the path to career success is rarely straight.

To help the job seeker chart the best course, Working World provides specific resources including annotated lists of selected organizations, websites, and further reading. Profiles of twelve professionals, from promising young associates to presidents and CEOs, illustrate the book’s main topics. Each professional provides insight into his or her career choices, distills lessons learned, and offers practical advice about building a career in international affairs. All of these resources were chosen specifically to help job seekers map the next steps toward the internship, job, or other opportunity that will give shape to the career they envision.

Customer Review: Excellent Resource
I highly recommend this resource. This is not a guide to “how to get a job”, but rather an engaging discussion of “how to build a career”. Although the focus is on international exchange, development, etc. — the concepts are broadly applicable to most career journeys.

Customer Review: For those who need a bit of direction in their lives
Reading this book led me to meet incredible people. Going to networking events, voluntering and finding mentors seemed more real. I found some websites and print that helped to figure out what I really want to do in life

Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

“Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book.”

–From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPath

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 offers breakthrough tools for gathering, managing, and integrating business-critical information, and creating efficient forms-driven processes. Two longtime members of Microsoft’s InfoPath product team have written the first comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful XML-based solutions with InfoPath 2007.

LifeSpan Development with LifeMap CD-ROM
Driven by learning goals, previous editions of this text have been widely adopted for their accurate, complete, and up-to-date coverage. While maintaining these hallmarks, this revision includes increased coverage of adulthood and aging, a new ?Interlude? feature on applications, and updated research with more 21st-century citations than ever before.

Customer Review: right on time
This book arrived in a quick time and is up to standards. I couldn’t have been more satisfied with this book.

Customer Review: good material, reading is somewhat dry
The book covers a lot of material. It is writen in very proffessional language. Must have good reading skills, a little boring.

Learning Drupal 6 Module Development: A practical tutorial for creating your first Drupal 6 modules with PHP
Walk through the development of complete Drupal 6 modules with this primer for PHP programmers, written specifically for Drupal 6 to get you started coding your first module. Are you a Drupal developer looking to update to version 6? This book covers the new and updated APIs to guide your transition to Drupal 6. The new menu system, the Forms and Schema APIs, and many core revisions are covered in this book. This book is written for PHP developers who want to add custom features to Drupal. You will need to know the basics of PHP and MySQL programming, but no experience of programming Drupal is required, although you will be expected to be familiar with the basic operation of Drupal.

Customer Review: Good book but glaring ommission with core code example
First off, I have to say that Matt Butcher is an excellent writer. I really like the way he takes a concept, let’s you know where he is going, and then follows up with a lucid explanation. He does a great job of explaining his code.

Child Development (4th Edition)

Appealing to the many different backgrounds and career goals of individuals interested in child development, this book offers current and balanced coverage of theory and research–with a focus on the application of that research. This chronologically arranged text is filled with useful learning tools. Feldman’s unique approach illustrates the scope and diversity of the field of child and adolescent psychology and capitalizes on readers’ inherent interest in the subject by asking them to relate what they are learning to their own experiences.  

Baby’s First Year Journal : A Day-To-Day Guide to Your Baby’s Development During the First Twelve Months
From the author of our best-selling Pregnancy Journal comes the long-awaited “sequel”-Baby’s First Year Journal. The first year of a child’s life is a magical time of growth and discovery. At no other time in life are physical changes and developmental achievements so dramatic. Baby’s First Year Journal is the perfect place for parents to record their little one’s accomplishments and their own observations while learning about baby’s early social, physical, and cognitive development. Personalized to baby’s own birthday, this journal helps parents anticipate their child’s next steps and provide the best possible environment for learning and growing. Baby’s First Year Journal is a wonderful resource for new parents and makes a perfect gift.

Customer Review: Great for Busy New Moms
My husband gave me this journal as a gift when we had our first child and I loved it! As a busy new mom who worked full time I just didn’t have time to keep a big journal (although I would have liked to). It was fun to read the blurbs about my baby’s development each day, and every couple of pages there was room to add my own notes, if I wanted to. I was still able to document all his milestones and other cute stories without having to complete a big journal entry ever day - it was perfect! Now that I have my second child I’ve been using the same journal for her but have been using a different color pen to write with. It’s been fun to read my old entries for my son and to compare his entries and milestones to hers. The quotes at the bottom of each page are great too!! Two thumbs up for this journal!

Customer Review: Daily Quick Read
I really enjoy reading the quick daily logs. It is fun to see if our daughter is on track or ahead of the curve.