"A powerful guide for both parents and coaches who want kids to have fun, enjoyable, and meaningful youth sporting experiences . . . I highly recommend it!" —John Ballantine, president and co-founder, Kids in the GameThe modern-day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of thirteen, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. Th...

How do the world's most successful coaches get the best from their athletes? How do top coaches design practices, inspire their players, and build teams that sustain their excellence season after season? How do they instill high-performing behaviors? Do they coach men and women differently? What about coaching their own children? Most importantly, are these secrets available to the rest of us coaching youth, high school, and college teams? In Every Moment Matters, renowned coach educator J...

America and the West are now in the penultimate stage of a revolution defined by “wokeness.” What we call “partisanship” is essentially the effect of the late but growing realization of the revolution’s opponents that they face a major threat to their interests, convictions, and ways of life. It is not the “wokerati,” but their likely victims who are waking up. What they see is how a large number of social trends that may have posed little danger separately—mass migration made more divisiv...

This is the most comprehensive educational technology guide for special education. The best technologies are highlighted in each chapter. You can completely transform your teaching practices with the technologies within this book. You will learn about the best technologies for executive function, visual impairment, learning disabilities, speech and language, and technology for engaging hands-on projects for special needs students. Only the very best technology makes the book. The informati...

In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the “mind” is little more than an illusion. René Descartes, one of the fathers of philosophy, imagined the mind and body as separate entities, a concept known as “mind-body dualism.” Ryle rejected this notion, arguing that mental processes cannot be isolated from the physical world and that our distinction between concepts pertaining to the mind and those pertaining to matter arises from a problematic use of language. Th...

More than two centuries after its initial publication in 1781, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason remains perhaps the most influential text in modern philosophy. Kant wanted metaphysicians to move away from their endless battles about whether or not human knowledge must conform to independently given objects. Instead, he argues that progress in philosophy is only possible by agreeing that objects conform to forms of human cognition, or awareness. ¶Much of the history of philosophy can be recou...

In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself. Wittgenstein begins from the insight that most philosophical problems trace back to incorrect assumptions about the nature of language. While previous works typically described a problem and debated solutions, Wittgenstein takes the unique approach of treating philosophy not as a theory, but as an activ...

Learn how to translate documents, eBooks, and videos for English language learners. Both Chromebooks and Windows platforms are explored in this book. The Google Translate extension can translate eBooks on Overdrive Sora. Closed captioning on YouTube can be used to translate to various languages. Google Translate can translate documents into different languages. Google Documents and MS Office have built-in translation tools and speech-to-text that work with many languages. Video conferencin...

The Japanese Military Field Code was explicit: 'Japanese forces do not surrender to the enemy under any circumstances.' How then would the eight hundred or so prisoners who found themselves in the first Japanese prisoner-of-war camp anywhere in the world behave? They had been brought from the Soloman Islands to Featherstone in 1942. Six months later an incident occurred in which forty-nine prisoners and one New Zealand guard were killed. Vincent O'Sullivan explores the implications of this...

This easy-to-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell. You'll learn how to use Haskell in a variety of practical ways, from short scripts to large and demanding applications. Real World Haskell takes you through the basics of functional programming at a brisk pace, and then helps you increase your understanding of Haskell in real-world issues like I/O, performance, dealing with data, concurrency, and more as you move through each chapter.

This free book will dramatically improve your district's (ELL) English language learners’ program by translating and creating materials into hundreds of languages for free. Translate Sora eBook into 243 languages with the Chrome browser and learn how to add more Sora eBooks for free. Learn how to translate documents and create lessons in countless languages with artificial intelligence and Google Translate. Use closed captioning to translate YouTube into many languages. Google Translate ca...

Halloween Boxed Set: 200+ Horror Classics & Supernatural Mysteries maps the long literary history of fright, from ancient spectral testimony and Gothic romance to Victorian sensation fiction, psychological terror, and early cosmic horror. Its capacious selection moves among ghost stories, haunted houses, curses, doubles, revenants, occult investigations, and grotesque satire. Canonical tales of vampirism, murder, maritime dread, and inexplicable visitations stand beside lesser-known curios...