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About Canada: Childcare

 In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and … ; 176 View

Coming Back to Life

The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

 Authors Joanna Macy and Molly Brown address the anguish experienced by those who would confront the harsh realities of our time. In this fully updated edition of Coming Back to Life, they show … ; 379 View

Cracking the Boy Code

How to Understand and Talk with Boys

 All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their … 163 View

Degrees of Failure

University Education in Decline

 In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … 152 View

Hiding in Plain Sight

Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence

 Immigrant women are not only at greater risk of experiencing domestic violence but they also under-utilize mainstream services because their needs are not adequately met there. Understanding … 136 View

Mediator’s Handbook

Revised & Expanded fourth edition

 The popular Mediator’s Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the … ; ; 210 View

Pilgrim Souls

Caring for a Loved One with Dementia

 This memoir focuses on an experience all of us dread. Pat Lotz was an accomplished author and editor, active in her community, and a loving wife and mother. She succumbed to dementia which was … 224 View

The Mediator’s Toolkit

Formulating and Asking Questions for Successful Outcomes

 Learn how to formulate and ask penetrating, paradigm-shifting questions for successful outcomes in any conflict. Knowing how to formulate and ask incisive questions to get to the core of a … 258 View

To Wawa with Love

 When Tom Douglas’s father returned home after the Second World War, he was forced to move his family from Sault Ste. Marie north to Wawa, where he was the timekeeper at the Helen Mine. … 160 View
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Acknowledgements

From: Hiding in Plain Sight

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Glossary & Introduction

From: The Mediator's Toolkit

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 This book introduces the S Questions Model, which focuses on the development and asking of questions for clarifying existing information, gathering new information and creating new insight in … 6 $0.60 Add
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Why Universal Childcare?

From: About Canada: Childcare

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Introduction

From: Pilgrim Souls

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 Outlines the purpose of the book, why he wrote it, important information about cargiving, the progress of Pat’s diagnosis, and talks about the hope of the book to inspire, help and give … 12 $1.20 Add
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Message from the Dalai Lama

From: Coming Back to Life

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 We live at a time when human actions have developed a creative and destructive power that has become global in scope. And yet we fail to cultivate a corresponding sense of responsibility. Most of … 2 $0.20 Add
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Preface

From: To Wawa with Love

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 Briefly discusses the living conditions in the northern mining towns in the 1940s and outlines how the authors family ended up going to one. 3 $0.30 Add
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Preface

From: Mediator's Handbook

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 The handbook focusses on round-the-table mediations with up to eight participants, where the mediators primarily faciliate discussions and decisions to meet particpants’ goals for the … ; ; 2 $0.20 Add