The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader's Guide for Building Inner ExcellenceLessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind

Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little (if any) understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. 

Best Practices in ELL Instruction

In this indispensable work, prominent authorities review the latest research on all aspects of ELL instruction (K-12) and identify what works for real students and schools. Provided are best-practice guidelines for targeting reading, writing, oral language, vocabulary, content-domain literacies, and other core skill areas; assessing culturally and linguistically diverse students; and building strong school-home-community partnerships. Chapters include clear-cut recommendations for teaching adolescent ELLs and those with learning disabilities.

Balloon Magic: 260Q Figures

This book is designed for beginners as well as experienced balloon artists. Those who are new to the art can easily follovv its directions. It's divided into sections, with each section building on the skills and techniques taught in the previous sections.
So it's important to start at the beginning, working your way through the sections and building on learned techniques.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Six year old Isaiah leaps to his death from the roof of the apartment building in which he lives with his mother.  Smilla Jaspersen, who lives in the same building and has come to love the little boy as her own, does not believe Isaiah would go willingly on the roof as he's very afraid of heights. Although there is only one set of footprints on the roof, she still suspects foul play as supported by her "reading" of the footprints.

The $50 and Up Underground House Book

The $50 & Up Underground House Book  teaches how to build the lowest cost, most sunshine-filled, best ventilated and driest underground houses of all. It teaches how to incorporate greenhouses, root cellars and fallout shelters into an underground home. It covers both hillside and flat land design, and explains how to solve drainage problems with dependable gravity rather then expensive, failure-prone building materials. It also details ways to pass or otherwise deal with the building codes.