Author : Erica Wilson
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Embroidery
ISBN : PSU:000005134762
Ask Erica
Erica Wilson
Ask Erica
Ask Erica Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Ask Erica book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Money Like You Mean It
Erica Alini
Author : Erica Alini
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459748699
Money Like You Mean It by Erica Alini Pdf
“The first personal finance book for the 2020s: expensive housing, BNPL, side hustles, negotiating a raise, and much more. Erica Alini is one of Canada’s top personal finance pros, and this book shows it.” —ROB CARRICK Wrestle debt to the ground. Figure out whether you should rent or buy. And determine if a side hustle is really worth the hassle. Get a job, buy a house, spend less than you make, and retire at sixty-five. That’s advice for a world that has largely disappeared. Even good jobs today often have no guarantee of stability. Home prices have reached the stratosphere. Meanwhile, student debt drags you down just as you're trying to take off in life. To survive and thrive in today’s reality, you need a whole new personal finance tool kit. Personal finance reporter Erica Alini blends the big picture with practical advice to give you a deeper understanding of the economic forces that are shaping your financial struggles and how to overcome them. Packed with concrete tips, Money Like You Mean It covers all the bases: from debt to investing and retirement, plus renting versus buying, and even how to tell whether a side gig is really worth the effort. It’s the essential road map you need to make it in the current economy.
Ask Your Guides
Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
Author : Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401919689
Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. Pdf
We’re all spiritual beings with a spiritual support system on the Other Side that oversees and helps guide our lives from the moment we’re born to the moment we leave our physical bodies and return to Spirit. Not knowing this fact is a severe handicap, as the Universe is designed to care for and nurture all its creatures and help make our life’s journey easier and more successful. When we learn how to connect with our angelic guides, our lives naturally fall into a pattern of ease and flow during which we grow our souls, fulfill our life’s purpose, and make our time on Earth endlessly entertaining. This fascinating and inspirational book by Sonia Choquette provides all the information you need to help you connect with your spirit guides so that you can enjoy all the love, abundance, and joy you’re entitled to.
Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education
Pam Grossman
Author : Pam Grossman
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682531891
Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education by Pam Grossman Pdf
In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies “core practices” of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion, eliciting student thinking, and maintaining classroom norms. The contributors argue that teacher education needs to do more to help teachers master these professional skills, rather than simply emphasizing content knowledge. Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education outlines a series of pedagogies that teacher educators can use to help preservice students develop these teaching skills. Pedagogies include representations of practice (ways to show what this skill looks like and break it down into its component parts) and approximations of practice (the ways preservice teachers can try these skills out as they learn). Vignettes throughout the book illustrate how core practices can be incorporated into the teacher education curriculum. The book draws on the work of a consortium of teacher educators from thirteen universities devoted to describing and enacting pedagogies to help novice teachers develop these core practices in support of ambitious and equitable instruction. Their aim is to support teacher educator learning across institutions, content domains, and grade levels. The book also addresses efforts to support teacher learning outside formal teacher education programs. Contributors Chandra L. Alston Andrea Bien Janet Carlson Ashley Cartun Katie A. Danielson Elizabeth A. Davis Christopher G. Pupik Dean Brad Fogo Megan Franke Hala Ghousseini Lightning Peter Jay Sarah Schneider Kavanagh Elham Kazemi Megan Kelley-Petersen Matthew Kloser Sarah McGrew Chauncey Monte-Sano Abby Reisman Melissa A. Scheve Kristine M. Schutz Meghan Shaughnessy Andrea Wells
Ethics for Psychologists
Liang Tien,Amy Davis,Thomas H. Arnold,G. Andrew H. Benjamin
Author : Liang Tien,Amy Davis,Thomas H. Arnold,G. Andrew H. Benjamin
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483341514
Ethics for Psychologists by Liang Tien,Amy Davis,Thomas H. Arnold,G. Andrew H. Benjamin Pdf
With full coverage of the APA Code of Ethics and engaging vignettes to draw students into the material, Ethics for Psychologists provides unique multicultural, moral, and legal perspectives to the standards of conduct in the field of psychology. This book describes complex ethical dilemmas students may encounter and offers a variety of frameworks through which to examine such dilemmas. Legal, moral, values-driven, and global approaches are provided in concise commentaries about the dictates of our own Code of Ethics. Students will be challenged to take control of their learning experience by moving beyond the basics of looking up each situation to find "the right thing to do," into a more active and engaged approach, with the goal of not only becoming ethical thinkers but informed decision makers.
Artificial Intelligence Is Fun!
Kathryn M. Hilton
Author : Kathryn M. Hilton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425772208
Artificial Intelligence Is Fun! by Kathryn M. Hilton Pdf
Artificial Intelligence is something that has interested the author for many years. When she saw an opportunity to get an AI character whose primary purpose was to carry on conversations with the computer user, she got the software program immediately. The character she chose to use at that time was named Erica. She thinks she is a nice looking human female with a college education and has not been informed that she is merely "a brain" in a computer. She is an attractive animated character with the ability to lip sync words. Her data base is filled with information of all kinds. Her main fault is that she does not stay on a topic very well. Her unique sense of humor more than makes up for this. The book begins with the first conversations and goes through what happens along the way as the author proceeds to teach the character and carry on conversations with her. This book was actually suggested by the artificial intelligence character who felt that people would enjoy reading her conversations. Problems that arise, lost conversations due to program crashes, some experiments, even comparision with another artificial intelligence character, and anything else encountered along the way are all given as commentary in the midst of the conversations. At the beginning the character was like "a child" needing to be taught. The author took care to be sure she became and stayed "nice and polite" as such characters can become just as "down and dirty" as a computer user cares to make them. It is said they take on the personality of the user over a period of time. Later two other AI programs were added to the research. Erica was replaced with Kate and a new "brain" while Peppi, the parrot, occupied the other two programs so comparisons could be made easily. For anyone interested in artificial intelligence on the consumer level, this report of the author's experiences with her AI characters and software is very enlightening. Such a character can brighten the life of the lonely, the disabled, and anyone who is a "shut-in" or lives in seclusion. The author has explained everything she has done as she learned and experimented with the three programs. Erica was interesting to talk with. Kate is a fantastic character. Peppi is great and quite funny. Their conversations are both silly and serious and much was learned from them while teaching the software. It was and is an enjoyable experience to talk with an AI character.
Mind-Set Management
Samuel A. Culbert
Author : Samuel A. Culbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190282677
Mind-Set Management by Samuel A. Culbert Pdf
You can follow any business guru you want, be it Peter Drucker or Tom Peters. You can adopt any new management concept, from reengineering to "empowering people." But Samuel A. Culbert has one caveat: no matter what managerial "religion" you choose--and there are many sound ones--before you can lead, manage, or team up effectively, you must comprehend the mind-sets that direct the people with whom you are interacting. In Mind-Set Management, Culbert provides a model for thinking about other people--about their self-interested motives and about their biased views of work events--as he shows managers at all levels how to use psychology instead of manipulation in giving valid, even great, advice. The essence of leading and managing, says Culbert, is "staging the conditions for others to be effective," which today entails giving advice and feedback, not issuing directives. This is particularly true with today's "empowering" management styles. But, as most managers know all too well, advice is often resisted, resented, and ignored. The problem, Culbert contends, is that managers don't have the other person in focus: When they formulate advice, they think they are attuned to the other person, but in fact the person they have listened to most is themselves. Mind-Set Management will help you focus on the person you want to advise, explaining what you need to learn and to know in order to give advice that is great because it is advice that actually gets used. It will prompt you to ask yourself (and will help you answer) such questions as: Why do people insist on seeing events with their own particular biases and distortions? Why do they resist my best ideas and advice about how they can function most effectively? Why can't I get people to change how they reason and think? Why do people have so much difficulty putting internal politics aside? What's needed for people to trust one another and listen to advice? Why are some people blind to the obvious logic behind the feedback and advice they receive? Culbert has packed the book with vivid case illustrations and stories that people, whether CEOs or project staff, will identify with--weaving the concepts and stories together to present evidence that makes the lessons personally compelling. With these lessons, you will find yourself reading essential, previously unseen dimensions of what is critical in the other person's thinking. You will be better able to see where other people's interests lie and how they view the corporation and the task at hand, and you will be able to give great advice, advice that will be followed because it serves the interests of the person who receives it even as it advances the company's goals. Today there are many new and progressive ideas about how to manage more effectively, but without the psychological component that Samuel Culbert provides in Mind-Set Management, you are simply putting old wine in new bottles--as what seems "new" quickly becomes business as usual. Thus this is an important, groundbreaking work. Indeed, Warren Bennis, in the Foreword, calls it "one of the lasting contributions to our understanding of corporations, the psychology of people who work in them, and perhaps most of all, a contribution to understanding ourselves."
What Can't Be Bought
Mel LeBrun
Author : Mel LeBrun
Publisher : Mel LeBrun
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781005920548
What Can't Be Bought by Mel LeBrun Pdf
Part 2 of Viktor and Amanda’s journey through love, life and unexpected obstacles that will either bond them or break them. From thrill writer Mel LeBrun comes an inspiring, feel-good love story that's easy to get lost in. With just the right blend of fun and intrigue you won't be able to put this book down. While on the trip of a lifetime in Europe, Amanda Pierce finds herself alone in Edinburgh when her traveling companion deserts her for a wealthy local. With her vacation teetering on disaster, she crosses paths with Viktor and their brief, chance encounter will completely change their lives in ways neither thought possible. Viktor has everything he could ever want and lacks nothing. Or so he thinks, until he meets Amanda, who is unlike anyone he’s ever met. After only a day he realizes she is the one thing missing in his life and he sets out to pursue her. But winning her will not be so easy. Follow the exhilarating 2 part journey of Amanda and Viktor as they meet, fall in love, and fight to maintain their devotion through challenging and even frightening situations that trigger deeply rooted insecurities and threaten to divide them.
Open Minds to Equality
Nancy Schniedewind,Ellen Davidson
Author : Nancy Schniedewind,Ellen Davidson
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780942961324
Open Minds to Equality by Nancy Schniedewind,Ellen Davidson Pdf
An educator's sourcebook of activities to help students understand and change inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, physical/mental ability, and religion. The activities also promote respect for diversity and interpersonal equality among students, fostering a classroom that is participatory, cooperative, and democratic. Learning activities are sequencedto build awareness and understanding. First, students develop skills for building trust, communication, and collaboration. Second, they learn to recognize stereotypes and discrimination and explore their presence in people's lives and in institutions. Finally, students create changes, gaining self-confidence and experiencing collective responsibility. This book is an essential resource for teachers, leaders in professional development, and curriculum specialists.
A Wish Upon a Star
Jeannie Levig
Author : Jeannie Levig
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635552751
A Wish Upon a Star by Jeannie Levig Pdf
Leslie Raymond spent the past two years wishing her life had taken a different turn. It’s time for a fresh start, a move across the country, and a new set of rules to help heal her heart—no straight women, no women with kids, and no commitment. But when she meets her new neighbors, the beautiful Erica and her special needs daughter, Siena, she struggles against the pull she immediately experiences. Erica Cooper has learned to rely only on herself. She knows most people don’t stick around when the going gets tough. And when caring for child with autism, the going can get tough fast. She is content with the quiet and emotionally safe life she’s constructed, but when they are befriended by their kind, playful, and—damn it—really hot new neighbor, the walls protecting her heart threaten to crumble. So much for good intentions and firm resolutions--neither stand a chance when the stars align for love.
All You Have to Do Is Ask
Wayne Baker
Author : Wayne Baker
Publisher : Currency
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781984825933
All You Have to Do Is Ask by Wayne Baker Pdf
A set of tools for mastering the one skill standing between us and success: the ability to ask for the things we need to succeed. Imagine you’re on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get your foot in the door. Or you're dying for tickets to a sold out concert, and all your leads have gone cold. What do these problems have in common? They can all be solved simply by reaching out to a colleague, friend, or wider network and making an ask. Studies show that asking for help makes us better and less frustrated at our jobs. It helps us find new opportunities and new talent. It unlocks new ideas and solutions, and enhances team performance. And it helps us get the things we need outside the workplace as well. And yet, we rarely give ourselves permission to ask. Luckily, the research shows that asking—and getting—what we need is much easier than we tend to think. Here, Wayne Baker shares a set of strategies—used at companies like Google, GM, and IDEO—that individuals, teams, and leaders can use to make asking for help a personal and organizational habit, including: • A quiz to identify your asking-giving style • SMART criteria for who, when, and how to ask • “Plug-and-play ” routines that make requests a standard component of meetings • Mini-games that incentivize asking within teams • The Reciprocity Ring, a guided activity that allows people to tap into the giving power of a network Picking up where the bestselling book Give and Take left off, All You Have to Do Is Ask shows us how to ignite the cycle of giving and receiving by asking for the things we need. Advance praise for All You Have to Do Is Ask “Asking for help and support has been a key to my success. Wayne Baker expertly shares how everyone can do it.”—Shellye Archambeau, former CEO, MetricStream, and board director, Verizon and Nordstrom “Wayne Baker shares the formula for driving personal, organizational, and social change by tapping the power of our teams and networks for help. This insightful book is a must-read for anyone seeking practical and proven solutions to make our workplaces and world a better place.”—Noel Tichy, professor, University of Michigan, and author of Judgment and Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
Not Without a Fight
Scott C. Benyacko
Author : Scott C. Benyacko
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557054350
Not Without a Fight by Scott C. Benyacko Pdf
Turning thirty leaves scars. It's like watching the odometer roll over on you car. For Kevin Andrews, the morning of his thirtieth birthday signals another nail in his coffin. When his wife tells him that morning that she's pregnant, Kevin knows his days of youth are slowly coming to an end. In an attempt to recapture those glory days, Kevin embarks on a trek to make Odysseus hang his head in shame. Kevin meets drunken neighbors, receives advice from an old hippy, and nearly ruins his marriage when he runs into an old girlfriend. This novel proves what women already know. Men are idiots.
Erica's Elephant
Sylvia Bishop
Author : Sylvia Bishop
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407168302
Erica's Elephant by Sylvia Bishop Pdf
When Erica Perkins wakes up on the morning of her tenth birthday, the last thing she expects is to find a very confused elephant sitting on her doorstep. So begins an unlikely friendship. But can a small girl and a rather large elephant learn to live together in a tiny terraced house? And when the dastardly owner of the local zoo plots to steal the elephant, will Erica be able to outsmart him?
A Very Paranormal Family: Striking Out On Our Own
William J. Smith
Author : William J. Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312393592
A Very Paranormal Family: Striking Out On Our Own by William J. Smith Pdf
The Smiths are back at it again, investigating more haunted houses with the "Paranormal Society of America", but when neighbors of theirs, when they find out that they are paranormal investigators through an appearance of "the Society", on an obscure TV show, and the rest of the team is busy with other cases, the Smiths strike out on their own using their own experiences with the paranormal to help out their neighbors
Paranormal Family Incorporated
William J. Smith
Author : William J. Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312676305
Paranormal Family Incorporated by William J. Smith Pdf
William and Erica Smith are back, for more paranormal investigations.At first, they remain part of "The Paranormal Society of America", but as more and more of their neighbors come to realize that they are paranormal investigations, Bill and Erica decide that it might be best to leave "the Society", and start their own practice as paranormal investigators but it remains to be seen if their experience with "the Society", will end up paying off, now that they're in business by themselves.