Minns charts the emergent literacy learning of 5 four-year-old children from different cultural backgrounds in their crucial move from home to school, and shows how children's early understanding of reading is learnt within their family.

Have you ever heard someone say, 'If only life came with a set of instructions'? Success coach Lisa Stephenson has - hundreds of times. Almost every client utters this at some point in some form. Read Me First is the book she now gives them. It is also the book she wishes someone had given her when she found herself suddenly single with three young children and needing a new plan. Read Me First will challenge your thinking then provide a structured way to reflect and take action. You'll find quotes for inspiration and questions to ask yourself. Most importantly this is about doing the work on you - do that, and you will grow, you will change, and you will succeed. When you change, so does the world around you. That is Lisa's promise.This book alone will NOT change your life, but YOU can, especially after reading this first.

A romantic comedy... about cancer. It's that old "Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Girl gets life-threatening disease. Boy tries to make it better. Boy screws up A LOT" story.

This book presents poems, stories and journal work spontaneously written by people, young and old, who have suffered serious abuse. The editors' explanations and commentaries suggest how health and social care workers can facilitate creative writing as a potential contribution to emotional healing in work with both individuals and small groups. In addition to individual contributors, the book records the activities of groups developed by Barnardos for children and young people and by Beyond Existing for adults. Although not written as a training manual per se, the book offers photocopiable exercises and an appendix of writings for use in staff training. Can You Read Me? illustrates the great potential for applying our creative imaginations and personal qualities like sensitivity in work with survivors of abuse and those with mental health and disability problems. .

Many pastors feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to deal with the counseling issues in their congregations. But pastors are actually better equipped for counseling than they realize. Hermeneutics, homiletics, pastoral care, and counseling all share a common foundation in the field of "interpretation." With this book, pastors can learn to interpret people with the same expertise they use to interpret Scripture. Read Me Like a Book offers a simple, practical, and theoretically sound approach to help pastors leverage their exegetical skills to improve their pastoral counseling.

These are poems that tell a story. Sometimes our relationships are not quite going the way we want them to, but don't know how to express ourselves exactly. Sometimes we love the wrong people, but are so in love it's difficult to let go. What we want is for them to understand us and how we feel. We want to say something, wake someone up, or simply tell them you love them, but they are hurting you inside. Maybe you can't find the right words or maybe they just never seem to get it. Well, I understand, and although they may not understand the poems, hopefully it will bring you some comfort to know that you are not alone....I hope they help. Italian girl from Brooklyn, NY. Moved to Florida at age 10. Started writing at 13, but due to a few relationships, took it more seriously as I got older. Thanks to the encouragement of friends in Orange Park and Jacksonville, Fl., I put them in a book.

In her first novel for young adults, New York Times best-selling author Liz Kessler tells a story about finding a kindred spirit and becoming your true self. Ashleigh Walker is a mediocre student with an assortment of friends, a sort-of boyfriend, and no plans for the future. Then a straight-from-college English teacher, Miss Murray, takes over Ash’s class and changes everything. Miss Murray smiles a lot. She shares poetry with curse words in it. She’s, well, cool. And she seems to really care about her students. About Ashleigh. For the first time, Ash feels an urge to try harder. To give something — someone — her best. Before she knows it, Ashleigh is in love. Intense, heart-racing, all-consuming first love. It’s strong enough to distract her from worrying about bad grades and her parents’ marriage troubles. But what will happen if Miss Murray finds out Ashleigh is in love with her?

How do you choose a book in the shop? Which of the thousands of titles appeals to you? Wouldn't it be great if one book just jumped off the shelf and said: 'Read me! I'm the best! I'm full of beautiful writing, adventure, love and drama ... ' Well, here you go! We just made life a bit easier for you. Read Me will lead you from a tiny village in Eastern Europe to the emperors of China. You'll meet peasants and kings. Sailors, lovers and brilliant inventors will cross your way. And once you've finished you'll hear the pages whispering: 'Read me again.'

SEX! Now that I have your attention, writer's block can be frustrating, especially when you desperately want people to read your work. If it's not finished, how do you do that? After some thought (lots of it), it came to me; put it all in one book. Contained in this book is sex (the graphic kind that will make you crave a cigarette), historical romance, scifi, contemporary romance and some stuff that falls in the grey areas. None of them are finished but I still want you to read them! You'll also be along for an impromptu "find yourself" journey that I went on. The good news, I did find myself (strange right? you typically never find what you're looking for on those journey's) and you get to read some of my work.

Society is in the throes of a fundamental change with the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones. The exchange of ideas and opinions occurs instantaneously and across the globe, representing the apex of our achievement as a species, founded as it is on our ability to communicate and coordinate. Building on learned experiences, we disseminate, refine, and spawn innovative ideas. The pace at which we extrapolate concepts results in an explosive expansion of knowledge and supporting data. Social media as a technology is barely twenty-five years old, hinting at undreamed-of potential as it matures in the future. In parallel, harnessing our newfound communication tools, science continues its relentless march in exploring our place in the universe at the macro and micro levels. Unimagined possibilities lie before us such that it is folly to discard what currently seems unlikely. This forms the basis of the fiction in this book. In barely a century, DNA has traced how people migrated out of Africa to inhabit every corner of the world. Forensic science has also used this foundational building block of life to bring to justice so many crimes. It is entirely feasible that undiscovered technologies lie on the near horizon. What happens when communication, the cornerstone of our success, goes beyond the social media frenzy that is already pervasive?