Facilitating students’ unique paths towards identity development is the key to teaching young teens.Students face pressures that undermine the development of a solid sense of self, jeopardizing success in school and in life: Family issues, economic concerns, media influences, social pressures, physical changes, and more influence how students feel about themselves.When these go unnoticed, even the best teaching methods fall short. Reach Before Y...

Women are still underrepresented as public-sector organizational leaders, despite comprising half of the United States public-sector workforce. To explore the factors driving gender imbalance, this Element employs a problem-driven approach to examine gender imbalance in local government management. We use multiple methods, inductive and deductive research, and different theoretical frames for exploring why so few women are city or county managers. Our interviews, resume analysis and second...

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and communication, this handbook provides a foundation for identifying and understanding many of t...

How to Make Money in Stocks Getting StartedThrough both bull and bear markets, Investor’s Business Daily’s CAN SLIM® Investment System has consistently been the #1 growth strategy, according to the American Association of Individual Investors. How to Make Money in Stocks—Getting Started shows you how to put the CAN SLIM System to work for you.How to Make Money in Stocks Success StoriesThe most successful inv...

Proven Methods for Stock Market SUCCESS!"Amy's book is a treasure trove of success stories you should read carefully - each of these investors share what could help you find the top 2% of great stocks."-William J. O'Neil, Chairman & Founder of Investor's Business Daily and author of How to Make Money in Stocks"All you need are one or two great stock in a year and you can achieve some outstanding results."-David Ryan, three...

In a quiet farming family, a seemingly adorable little girl turns everyday life upside down. Sweet on the surface but bold at heart, she stirs chaos, outsmarts adults, and drives her entire household to the brink—yet somehow becomes the center of their world. With wit, charm, and unstoppable mischief, this “tiny trouble queen” proves that even the smallest can rule the biggest stage.

Dark Matter explores the thin line between lust and destruction, revealing a blasted spectrum where thirsty raindrops cause havoc between wet sheets, and from the windows view young girls are hanging by rope from the mango tree; from vast twisted tempests, where Miranda carries Caliban’s spawn, to the moist incubator of a breathless baby on the very edge of life, Amy Neilson Smith’sDark Matter work burrows into the bones of what is so viscerally here – and what is so nearly not.It’s the af...

Family genealogy research has grown exponentially over the past decade, making it an area worthy of scholarly inquest. Tracing Family Lines: The Impact of Genealogy Research on Family Communication, by Amy M. Smith, explores the connection between women and genealogy by examining the ways inherited familial narratives and data work to position women within American culture. Although studies of women’s lives are on the rise, the standpoint(s) of women has historically been marginalized, par...

The Magic Emporium. A place where you can purchase almost anything your heart desires. From elemental dragon eggs to potent potions, the Emporium has it all. What creatures wait beyond the doors, creatures you could only imagine?When Alec Salvatore and his class head off on their trip to the Emporium, he only has three things on his mind (dragons, mermaids and cake). Little did he know he would fall into his daydream featuring creatures of fantasy. Just wi...

Weeping Willows is the heart-wrenching story of a womans journey in life as she struggles to escape the horrific past that continues to haunt her present life. Ryan and Naomi Palmer have been happily married for five years and both maintain steady careers that provide financial stability for their fast-paced and comfortable lifestyles. One day an unexpected surprise surfaces that may alter the loving couples very predictable day to day lives forever. Naomi is dealing with the tormenting de...

After many years of dismissing “coincidental” events, no longer could I ignore the presence of spiritual influences in life—particularly after a dear friend and gifted medium called me out. That took me down a path I hadn’t expected to travel and gave me a new look at that institution we call, “Spirituality.”This book takes a look at intuition and the spiritual promptings everyone experiences, and answers the question in the back of everyone’s mind: So, how do I know this is re...

In the Paradox of Mental Health, the authors argue that our society is experiencing another pandemic—one of mental illness. This mental illness pandemic is maintained and escalated by conceptual "viruses" rooted in the normative, psychological medical model paradigm consistent with Western ideology. Therapeutic practice based on systems theory and social constructionism is offered as an antidote to alleviate the over-reliance on the medical model. The authors first "do therapy" on...