New Releases by Don L

A collection of horror and ghost stories, including "Death Sight," "Fountain of Horror," and "Brain Pictures."

A comprehensive text which explores the foundation, principles, methods, administration and organization involved in teaching choral music to adolescents. It applies the history, philosophy and psychology of music to the teaching of choral music and includes study projects for each chapter.

This book presents a developmental model for peer helping which places less emphasis on students in crises and more emphasis on helping them in advance of serious problems. The first chapter introduces peer helping and the facilitative model and provides an overview of the book. The second chapter discusses principles of human behavior. The third chapter explores the concept of relating. Facilitative conditions of caring accepting understanding, trusting, and respecting are discussed. The fourth chapter focuses on listening skills. Four steps for attentive listening are outlined and discussed. The fifth chapter deals with responding. High facilitative responses, feeling-focused responses, clarifying and summarizing, open questions, acknowledging, linking, complimenting and confronting, reassuring and supporting, analyzing and interpreting, and advising and evaluating are all discussed. The sixth chapter focuses on giving feedback. The facilitative feedback model is presented, and guidelines are offered for giving feedback. The seventh chapter discusses decision making. Five focused questions are offered to help with making responsible and effective decisions. A problem-solving model is presented which encourages the use of high facilitative responses. The eighth chapter suggests helping projects for peer helpers such as helping interviews, peer support groups, planning leisure activities, peer tutoring, buddy systems, and large group presentations. (LLL)

This program leader''s guide provides suggestions for organizing, administrating, and evaluating a middle school peer helper program. The first chapter builds a case for peer helpers. The problems of youth, peer influence and personal growth, mobilizing student resources, peer facilitators and helpers, four basic helping roles, and advantages of peer helper programs are discussed. The second chapter focuses on selecting a training approach. The academic elective class, summer course, teacher-advisor group, retreat-workshop, school club, and project-focused team are explored. The third chapter examines the primary elements involved in organizing training programs. Program goals and objectives, the program trainer/coordinator, program support, how many to train, how to select the students, when and where to meet, and how to be helpful are discussed. The fourth chapter organizes the training program into four different phases. Getting organized, facilitative skills, decision making and problem solving, and getting ready to help others are discussed. Ethics and confidentiality, responsible referrals, critical moments in peer helping, pitfalls to avoid, and evaluating the training are also discussed. The fifth chapter focuses on implementing peer helper projects. The sixth chapter discusses teaching others in peer-led learning centers. The seventh chapter addresses preventing alcohol and drug abuse. Gateway drugs and illegal drugs are identified. The eighth chapter discusses networking, and the ninth chapter focuses on program evaluation. (LLL)

Traces the origin or invention of 28 common, everyday items, such as shopping carts, jigsaw puzzles, frozen foods, zippers, safety pins, vacuum cleaners, and rubber bands.

They were mutant children, the legacy of. With their bodies hideously deformed, they were unable to move--until one of them discovered that their minds could roam the world in any shape they imagined . . . and wreak unimaginable revenge!

Nine true adventure stories include the experiences of passengers when their airplane''s roof comes off, patrons trapped in a library during a flood, and explorers pursued by cannibals.

Theory of the Earth is a combination reference and textbook that every exploration geologist and research scientist should have on his/her bookshelf. It is also suitable for advanced undergraduate, as well as graduate level geophysics courses. The emphasis is on the origin, evolution, structure and composition of the earth′s interior. It treats the pertinent aspects of solid state physics, thermodynamics, geochemistry, petrology, and seismology in sufficient detail for all who seek current information on geochemistry, solid state physics, and physics of the earth or planets

Basic arts education must give students the essence of their civilization, the civilizations that contributed to it, and the more distant civilizations that enriched world civilizations as a whole. All students are potentially capable of experiencing and analyzing the fundamental qualitativeness of art; therefore, it is realistic to propose qualitative art education for all students at all grade levels. Basic arts education is not now being delivered to the majority of students. The artistic heritage that belongs to the students and the opportunity to contribute to its evolution are being lost to young people. Qualitative art education focuses on the development of the basic competencies of artistic intelligence, namely, qualitative differentiation and the grasp of structural dynamics. A sequentially organized program of qualitative learning activities, from primary through high school, should allow the student to develop a number of progressively more complex basic competencies. A variety of elementary, middle, and high school art experiences, developed from analysis of such works as Picasso''s "Guernica" or a comparison of the works of Henry Moore and Georgia O''Keefe, are described. The qualitative way of perceiving, thinking, and knowing that is developed through inductive and constructive processes of effective school art education should not be limited to the visual arts program, and suggestions are made for interdisciplinary qualitative art education. The book closes with a chapter on techniques for evaluating qualitative art education, and includes sample evaluative charts. A bibliography cites 57 references. (PPB)

Central America has fallen to Communist regimes, and now Mexico is tottering. A reporter is sent in to cover the bloody story, where he discovers a plot a gainst America by high level American officials. Only one woman remains loyal as he travels through this human maze.

Includes the experiences of a man caught in a tornado, a man who sailed around the Arctic in an upside-down ship, a man who took his family through the Iron Curtain in a tank, and a journey down Brazil''s mysterious River of Doubt.

The world of digital electronics. Basic concepts in microcomputer systems. How digital integrated circuits provide the functions. Fundmantals of microcomputer system operation. A system application with SAM. Programming concepts. An 8-Bit microprocessor application. A 16-Bit microprocessor application.

Centralamerikas militær-politik og dets forhold til USA i Kennedy-, Johnson- og Nixonperioden.

Structural studies have yielded important results in two general areas: a high resolution mean earth model has been determined through the inversion of a very large quantity of free oscillation, surface wave and body wave data. This model gives especially detailed information concerning the lower mantle and the core of the earth; and secondly, through a variety of new techniques, details of the structure of the transition zones in the upper mantle and their lateral variability and similar results for crust and upper mantle structure, has been determined especially within the continental United States. (Author).