CHAMPS provides practical tips on how to organize and manage a classroom. Excellent tips on how to reduce the probability of problem behaviors arising. I've begun to use it a part of a course I teach on classroom management. Response from students has been very positive. CHAMPS also serves as a good companion to the Encyclopedia of Behavior Management another book by Sprick that I highly recommend.

Easy to read, thoughtful and well written analysis of the work of Charlotte Bronte. Very useful for undergraduate students

This book is a must-read for those concerned about the Chesapeake Bay and those interested in environmental politics. Highly recommended.

Mandy's friend Libby is upset that her pet hen is always so sad now that she's going to school. Mandy and Libby figure out that to make Libby's hen happy they have to give her some eggs to lay on, but will it be too late to cheer Libby's hen up?

This colorful book uses a story of a Navajo weaver and her granddaughter to convey Navajo culture and history. The Chief is a northern Plains Indian, who trades with the Navajo, one often overlooked aspect of Native American history. Winner, Border Regional Library Association's 1998 Southwest Book Award.

Our school recently did a one-act play version of "Children of a Lesser God." Let me say that the subject is very embracing: a hearing-impaired woman's struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. I find that the most qouted line in our play was from Sarah: "It is a silence full of sound." Truthfully, the most gut-wrenching scene is near the end, as the two main characters have an argument over lip-reading as opposed to signing. If you'll take my opinion, you should definately purchase this playbook. I considered it to be a real eye-opener.

This is an excelent book which gives one insight onto the history of how the Chinese came to export porcelain to the west. This is an amazing book documenting the largest collection in the world of Chinese export porcelain for the West. While it is out of print, one can esaily get it.

For serious collectors of armorial porcelain this is the definitive work. Over 6000 coats of arms are illustrated and described in considerable detail. Howard is the generally recognized expert in the field.

In this compelling, daring work, its young author (for this was originally published in the 60's)tells of his search for God and his initial embracement of, and later his flee from, the exclusionary dogma of his youth. A dogma which made theater-going a sin, made Catholics (and other non-evangelicals) into the "lost" of God, and which tought that only the strictest formalist belief in "Jesus" would be acceptable to God, was what this young man found himself entrenched in upon going of to college. His subsequent fervent attempt to become acceptable to the harsh task-master God of his Puritanesque youth would become reminiscent of the despair which young Martin Luther felt when trying to find his God within the cold, formalist framework in which he had been raised. During the course of the work he becomes exposed to quite an eclectic array of dogmas, all pulling in various and opposite directions, all the while fervently seeking both freedom from the futile dogmatism he had left behind after many honest efforts in college, and, ultimately, seeking knowledge of a God who could not be imprisoned in stale, restrictive regulation but who could truly rule over everyone, regardless of personal tradition or background. Yes, this thoughtful young man gave weighty consideration to achieving his inalienable right to freedom of thought and conscience by simply abandoning the whole theistic idea, finding refuge in atheism. But this would have been to miss the ultiamte truth he was seeking- a real Father of All, and it is this reader's opinion that, even in the darkest of days, he was rather hesitant to quite give up the search altogether for the liberty he would have attained would have been at the cost of his hopes. He was at last able to see, despite the very real bitterness he felt at the straight jacket religion he had been forced to endure, that God can never be defined or restricted into a set of rules and qualifying features, that he is not answerable for the botched and harmful attempts at religion so common to humankind, and that he -the Father of All- will always have somthing to offer us if we can only seperate him from those who would attempt to codify the experience of God. This powerful work takes God out of the hands of humanity in much the same way that theologian Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans did back in 1919, and leaves him (or Her) in far more capable hands- his own. Thus in this breathtaking journey in Thomas Howard's Christ the Tiger, the reader leaves religous dogmatism in the dust and winds up -not with a hope-destroying loss of God- but with a hope-fulfilling discovery, perhaps for the first time, of an awe-inspiring, church-enraging God who speaks forever for Him(Her)self but is also forever the Sheperd of us all.

This book covers every aspect of Children's Ministry. This is one of those resources a Children's Minister can not do without. GREAT TOOL!!!!!