“Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.”--Michele SmithTwo-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building drills developed especially for coaches of fast-pitch recreation league, travel ball, and high school softball players, ages eight to eighteen.Straight from t...

"The Quick Guide to Healthcare Marketing" provides you powerful recommendations to begin expanding your healthcare practice and selling more healthcare products. This intuitive guide is designed to be a fast read that delivers complex marketing solutions in precise way. You will learn how to avoid wasting money, find your potential patients, clarify your message, and fix your practice's reputation. Finding your market and developing direct ways to cater to them doesn't just help alert peop...

The Fruit of the Spirit book is an addition to the Fruit of the Spirit coloring/activity book. In this book you will find illustrations that represent the 9 fruits of the spirit along with scriptures from the NIV and ESV bible. It also has questions pertaining to each fruit of the spirit, that will enhance the child's knowledge of the fruit of the spirit. An enjoyable, family friendly book.

This book is my journey after receiving my husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's/Dementia. I am sharing my own story to inspire others who are embracing grief while navigating through their own whirlwind journey of a loved ones diagnosis. I never gave myself credit for something I did not know I had, resiliency. Writing this book gave me the inspiration to share my story in an effort to help other caregivers paralyzed by the diagnosis of their loved one. Working as a State Certified Ombudsman...

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesThis groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international tr...

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse societies of t...

In The Praise that Speaks, Author C.H.O.S.E.N, Michele Lee Smith presents discernment on how to develop or strengthen the reader's relationship with God through praise.

Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women during the turbulent period of the Viking Age. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, this is a book dedicated to the lesser-known...

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5 is a practical guide to new, innovative, and natural composition techniques for young composers. Music Educators Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith bring a wealth of experience to bear a unique and thoughtfully curated series of materials that help teachers connect music education to young composers' everyday emotions and activities . Divided into four sections, Kaschub and Smith's book illustrates a creative roadmap for instilling a sens...

This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century. Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at all levels, the role of contemporary musical practices in teacher education, and the communication challenges that surround institutional change. Models of programs that feature i...

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K–2 is designed to help teachers and students create original music through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote the development of the compositional capacities of feelingful intention, musical expressivity, and artistic craftsmanship. With instructional materials aligned to real world tasks from the genres of songwriting/choral musi...

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born.These new humans beings are our children—thumbelina (petite pou...