New Releases by Jill Williams

Searching for Rosanna was inspired by a family legend of Revolutionary War heroism. Rosanna Waters Farrow rescued her three Patriot sons from imminent execution by the British Colonel John Cruger. Or so the story goes. The author's quest to determine the veracity of the tale sparked a journey to the beginnings of colonial America. This family history winds through Jamestown and Bermuda, the Northern Neck of Virginia, and the backcountry of South Carolina. The author's ancestors were ordinary colonists, all of whom lived extraordinary lives. She comes to know them through the history of the times in which they lived. Her family's story is one many Americans share: ancestors who left family, home and country for an uncertain life in a New World.(More)The author learned about Rosanna through her grandmother's application to the Daughters of the American Revolution; coincidentally, her husband's grandmother applied to the DAR also citing Rosanna and her legendary heroism, thus revealing a shared ancestral line. Research took the couple to battlefields and gravesites, which are included in the appendices. Narratives by family members on both sides are included as a gift to future generations.

I wrote this book after a nasty incident of discrimination when my daughter was three. She is nineteen now. I want to put this book in the public domain as a child-friendly approach to the dos and don'ts of interacting with people with differences. This book explores how my daughter would feel after a shopping trip when she is perceived with positivity and then negativity. I've read so many delightful children's books to pupils over the years. I wanted to capture a message and a memory in mine.

Operating on two levels, this book aims to help students and practitioners understand how to plan and use time effectively within the foundation stage setting. The book examines how children learn and play at different times of day, how they fiction when they might be tired or hungry and how best to organize the learning day with this in mind. The authors discuss the issue of environment, how children relate to different areas within their own room, and what happens when routines of time and place are altered. The book also discusses how to develop children's understanding of time and how to incorporate the theme of time into children's play. The book includes: practical activities and examples that will allow children to fully comprehend the concept of time advice on how to create time for children to learn through play, inquiry and investigation sections on how time can be used to include parents, colleagues and the local community. This book provides in-depth analysis of how effective use of time can be beneficial for parents, children and staff in early years setting.

Marriage Coaching is an essential book for any couple motivated to heal, strengthen or protect their own marriage and interested in helping other couples. It is written by a Master Coach and Master Coach Trainer with a background in Professional Clinical Counseling and his wife of 26 years who has helped to develop Marriage Coaching for their own relationship and to help couples globally. It is filled with stories from their own marriage and work with other couples. Part I presents the uniqueness of Marriage Coaching and illustrates how a couple can learn to coach their own marriage. Part II details the core skills of the process that includes loving listening, curious asking and effective goal-setting. A step by step process is laid out for couples to set goals for their relationship that they are motivated to achieve. The book concludes with an exhortation for couples to help other couples as a way to enrich the purpose of their marriage even while they enjoy abundant hope, pleasure and purpose in their own marriage. A bonus chapter provides practical help to couples in crisis. Marriage Coaching is a great introduction to a proven method couples can use to build a great marriage and to help other couples.

The author recounts her struggles trying to let go of a relationship that she knew was unhealthy, but to which she was addicted.

Mark, my son was born in 1963. The nurse began asking me about my husband's nationality. It was then that I realised that Mark's skin was much darker than mine or my husband's. I was angry at being questioned and resented the raised eyebrows. I knew that Mark was our son.

This report is one in a series of reference documents designed especially to assist educators who are directly involved in the revision and improvement of content standards. It presumes a basic understanding of the purposes for standards and the process of standards review and evaluation. This document is intended to be a desktop reference volume that curriculum specialists might use to focus and revise existing mathematics content. This report also may be useful to educators and policymakers who want to ensure that the mathematics standards they hold for high school graduates are adequate to satisfy the expectations of post-secondary institutions and employers. This report focuses attention on student knowledge and skills in mathematics that recently have been identified as important for success beyond high school but that are not found even among state standards that have been highly rated. Identification of this important but missing mathematics content resulted from a comparison of national and highly rated state documents that describe what students should know and be able to do by the end of 12th grade against documents that describe the knowledge and skills that incoming college students should acquire to be successful in their first year of college. The analysis showed that most of the content identified as important for post-secondary schooling does indeed appear in state and national standards documents; however, a small number of concepts in skills important for incoming college students are not.

This report presents mathematics benchmarks organized into instructional sequences by topic. Each sequence is based upon an analysis of the order of content as it appears among a set of highly rated state standards. The report is intended to inform and guide state or district curriculum directors or others who, starting from content that is placed within broad grade bands, need to assign specific grades to benchmarks or objectives. Alternatively, those who have benchmarks or objectives already placed at specific grades may wish to compare the sequence of content outlined in this report in order to confirm the commonality of that sequence. Teachers may find the sequence of content useful for organizing instruction. The product of this analysis across the standards documents is presented in 31 topic sequences. Each sequence represents the articulation of that aspect of a topic that was supported by evidence from state standards documents. The topics that could be sequenced in this report comprise 123 unique benchmarks. Reviewing each topic in turn, users can compare the content to their own state standards document.

Continues the poetic tradition begun by Edna St.Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker. Why have relationships at all if they can't be used and reused to creative advantage? Here's a collection of formal poetry that is also a most informal catalog of a great many moments with men. These poems are unswervingly proper when it comes to form and delightfully improper when it comes to content. Aficionados of classical poetry will delight in a tumble of pantoums, villanelles, trolets, rendeaus, kyrielles and sonnets. Readers of all stripes will revel in the situations the poems describe--both in and out of bed.

Presents advice on throwing a themed bridal or baby shower, covering such topics as invitations, decorations, table layouts, games, and entertainment.

Scare up a boo-tacular Halloween at your house with excellent decorations and party ideas. Shock everyone silly with nibbles from creepy containers--everyone will want handfuls of Ghost Sticks and Yummy Mummies, not to mention a Hand Full of Candy. Dare little trick-or-treaters to enter at their own risk by making a witch-hat light and flying bats--they'll get a real thrill when they see cool decorations like these. Then give them a frightful feast of Dracula's bow-tie pasta washed down with a fizzy clear drink chilled with spider ice cubes. The bat napkins and black mask candles will guarantee that the table sets a perfect Halloween mood and get all of the festivities going. An awfully good time is guaranteed for all.

A flea market find, a yard sale bargain, a store-bought steal: decorate at a discount--but with panache! Dip into these creative, innovative ideas that take almost no time and require only minimal skills. Choose from such colorful categories as Think Pink, Stars and Jars, Quite Bright, Leopard Spots and Pots, and Right with White, and transform those everyday items into candle bottles, animal print table settings, frames, scrapbooks, picnic baskets, bedroom decor, vases and lots more!

An innovative collection of sonnets that speaks to the cycle of nature and life, crafted with wit and clarity. "Refreshing and pleasing."--Miles David Moore

Turn ordinary gifts into cherished mementos that won't soon be forgotten, with common, everyday items, such as craft paper, mail tags, drapery tassels, and found objects. Personalize all of your gifts with these decorative wrapping, trim, tag, and card ideas that show you really care. Fully illustrated, full-color Christmas, birthday, wedding, and all-occasion gift projects allow you to add your own creative touches to your presents. See how to incorporate each recipient's hobbies and interests into their wrapping: for example, wooden fish on loops will delight any rod-and-reeler. Your present will look "pretty in pink" with a big rosy chiffon bow, and all that glitters is gold with shiny metallic leaf and mesh.