Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Other | 12 April 2009
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A deeper probe into relationships starts with our heart’s desires At last, a “relationship book” that looks past what separates us to examine what connects us! Dr. Mark and Debra Laaser go to the heart of the matter. Instead of focusing on how to sidestep or compensate for perceived differences, they dig deeper, to the core of our souls, to examine how the basic desires and needs of all people make us more alike than different.
The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50 pages before deciding whether to continue; but readers over 50 must read the same number of pages as their age) became a standard MO.
Review "The single best one-volume reference on British Educational awards in print." Synopsis
"British Qualifications" is the definitive one-volume guide to every recognized qualification on offer in the United Kingdom. With full details of all institutions and organizations involved in the provision of further and higher education, this publication is an important reference source for careers advisers, students and employers. It also includes a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the structure of further and higher education in the UK.
Nearly half of all adults participate in some form of adult education every year in an effort to keep up with changes in their fields and technological advances that may affect their lives in various ways. This thirst for knowledge creates many career opportunities for adult education teachers who can lead courses for career advancement, skills upgrading, and personal enrichment. The demand for qualified instructors is expected to increase as more adults seek additional training and education. Employment in adult education is expected to grow faster than the average of other fields over the next ten years.
We do accumulate facts and information as we read a manual or watch the news, certainly. And we digest this knowledge into opinions. But we also continue throughout life to develop know-how: how to use new technology, how to ride a bike, how to make a souffle, how to tell a good story, how to write, how to play the trumpet. We learn to make new discriminations: to tell a new friend's mood from their voice on the phone, to tell a bordeaux from a burgundy, to tell Brahms from Mendelssohn. We learn new preferences: our likes and dislikes change as we grow up and keep different company. A drink that at one time seemed peculiar or unpleasant becomes an acquired taste.
