New Releases by Mark Herrick

Ripley, Pele, Kapo and their Bamboo Forest friends enjoy a day of bird watching and sharing stores about their amazing feathery friends! Have fun meeting twenty different types of birds, who all love flying into Ripley''s backyard to eat, make lots of noise and splash in the bird bath. A wonderful book for elementary school readers, filled with vibrant watercolor illustrations and engaging, funny animal adventures. Welcome to Ripley''s Bird Buddies, book 4 in the Ripley and Friendz collection!

This book contains the full and complete daily gongyo meditation service for Nichiren Shu Buddhists. Nichiren Shu practitioners perform a twice daily gongyo meditation service that involves all six senses in an act of celebration, fully immersing themselves into the sublime reality of the Lotus Sutra while taking refuge in the Sanctuary of Awakening. Every gongyo meditation service is a re-creation of the Lotus Sutra''s mystical Ceremony in the Air.This book''s unique sutra recitation design matches the Japanese Shindoku with English in a side by side, line by line format, making it easy to recite either Shindoku or English while seeing what is the meaning of each line. The English translation is graciously provided with permission by Kosei Publishing of Japan, from their newest translation of the Threefold Lotus Sutra. Their translation is carefully balanced for ease of recitation in English and updated neutralizing gender references making this translation relevant for today''s modern practitioners.This book includes the full and complete daily gongyo service, as well as optional Shodaigyo Meditation, memorial service, healing service, meal service, Dharanis, Shomyo hymns, and two silent guided meditations. It provides detailed instructions how to celebrate the various services as well as a short introduction to Nichiren Shu Buddhism.May this book bring you joy and peace and find you well and free of suffering.

Great Pyramid Hidden Murals

This research study sought to understand the associations between father involvement and paternal self-efficacy, partner support, co-parenting alliance, and relationship satisfaction. Recognizing that fathering occurs in a complex system of relationships and influences, this research sought to examine the association between father involvement and other factors that measure fathering behaviors in a co-parenting relationship. The study is a cross sectional research design using a snowball sampling method for surveying fathers and mothers about their perceptions of fathering factors. Data from a sample of 191 electronic surveys were collected from February 2014 to June 2014. The survey consisted of five previously validated scales measuring variables of co-parenting alliance, father involvement, partner support for parenting, relationship satisfaction, and paternal self-efficacy. Findings indicate consistent parental role expectations for father involvement, report of actual involvement, and report of paternal self-efficacy. The discrepancy between paternal expectations and reported father involvement was related to paternal self-efficacy: Fathers who reported high levels of involvement were three times more likely to have high paternal self-efficacy than fathers with lower levels of involvement. Among all other relationship factors, paternal self-efficacy was the strongest factor related to father involvement. A father with strong paternal self-efficacy was 1.5 times more likely to be involved. Other factors influencing father involvement included co-parenting alliance and income earner status.

A complete introduction to the world of fishing for small fry of all ages. This is the hardcover version of a previously released softcover book. Includes 18 different freshwater fish with illustrations.