Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empireFrom plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to show that the h...

Does your dog drag you down the street when you go out for a morning walk? Do you end up with sore shoulders from trying to keep him from pulling you down?In this book, certified dog trainer and behavior consultant Sarah Bond offers a training plan for turning your daily drag down the street into a relaxed, enjoyable walk for you and your dog. Using simple and effective positive reinforcement-based methods, you and your dog can master this training challenge without stress.

This comprehensive book reveals how guided play—the sweet spot at which child agency meets adult intention—creates optimal conditions for deep learning while addressing required standards.The authors present a practical, three-part framework that shows readers how to design responsive environments, facilitate meaningful guided play experiences, and document children's playful learning. Through compelling stories, authentic examples, and strategic advocacy approache...

Settle in for an extraordinary classic adventure with 'The Scientific American Boy Or The Camp at Willow Clump Island'. Perfectly balanced for any volume level, this audiobook provides hours of clean, distraction-free entertainment for standard fiction enthusiasts.

What do George Whitefield, Elisabeth Elliot, and J. Gresham Machen have in common? They were all Evangelical Heroes. In the Evangelical Heroes series, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From George Whitfield to Charles Spurgeon to R.C. Sproul, these men and women held firm to the authority of Scripture and the reality of Christ's death and resurrection in the face of risi...

The Stubbs family, cartoonist Richard, therapist Sarah, sixteen year-old Kate and 3 year-old Amy, who has Down's Syndrome, feature in this six part sitcom chronicling the highs and lows of family life.Richard (played by Peter Davison) and Sarah (Samantha Bond), juggle their way through life's minor disruptions, such as well-meaning TV crews turning up unannounced, summons to the headmaster's office to discuss teen Kate and the arrival of Sarah's sister with a horse-box full of expr...

The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence. The essays examine women’s lives in the broad sweep of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury history in Tennessee and reenvision the state’s past by placing them at the center of the historical stage and examining their experien...

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empireFrom plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to show that the h...

Trade and Taboo addresses the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. Tracking the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity, it follows particular groups of professionals—funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers—asking how they coped with stigmatization.In this book, Sarah E. Bond reveals the construction and motivations for these attitudes, and to show how...

Spring…It's a time of renewal and growth. A time to shake off the winter doldrums and let the sunshine in. A time to ditch the old and welcome the new. A time when things blossom and bloom — often when we least expect it.Spring is also a time for awkward first dates, fun flirtation, bad breakups, sexy men, hilarious misunderstandings and the first flush of new love.Fall in love this spring with six warm, funny and fabulous romantic short stories by some of Australia...

Before 1961, many psychologists believed that watching violence drained aggressive impulses (catharsis). Albert Bandura suspected the opposite. He showed children a video of an adult beating up an inflatable "Bobo doll." When the children were later left alone with the doll, they didn't just play—they mimicked the exact violent assaults they had seen, even using guns and hammers. This book details the experiment that founded Social Learning Theory. It argues that we are not born violent, b...

"Written with panache, A Drowning Tide announces the arrival of a duo that might just come to rival the Thursday Murder Club" DAILY MAILWhen her next-door neighbour goes missing, reclusive Merry dives into an irresistible puzzle.Merry lives a simple life on the Isle of Wight. For work, she creates cryptic crosswords. For pleasure, she swims in the ocean's cold embrace. In between, she keep...