J J Howard: 225 books

Almost all adults suffer a little math anxiety, especially when it comes to everyday problems they think they should be able to figure out in their heads. Want to figure the six percent sales tax on a $34.50 item? A 15 percent tip for a $13.75 check? The carpeting needed for a 12½-by-17-foot room?...

To show from the Big Bang to the end of this universe observers and their souls are the reason for it all. How? By using published scientific facts, figures, and extrapolations from the bio-geo-chemo-physics fields of discoveries. Most of these discoveries are by the worlds top scientists and are...

Every day, school leaders across the country are having to make difficult decisions in this economically demanding environment. If you are a leader facing this challenge in your own school or district, this is the book you need! Experienced educators Johnston and Williamson offer practical advice...

Michigans Upper Peninsula is one of Americas hidden treasures. Overlooked and ignored as a place to visit compared, say, to Vermont or coastal Maine. It is decidedly not Yellowstone Park, Disney World, or New Orleans. The UP and the yoopers, as they are called, like it just that way. They enjoy their...

Negotiating Group Identity in the Research Process: Are You In or Are You Out? focuses on researcher identity and the role it plays in conducting research, whether as a member of the culture being studied (i.e., an insider) or as an outsider to that culture. Contributors address the problems researchers...

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings. This book follows the development of several threads of the concept of landscape as they have evolved across disciplines and across countries, leading to the European Landscape Convention and the designation of cultural landscapes as World Heritage...

THE STUDENT EQEDGE Facilitation and Activity Guide This Facilitation and Activity Guide is a companion to the book The Student EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Academic and Personal Success . It offers faculty and facilitators a hands-on resource for helping students reach their potential...

Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children. By outlining a range of lenses...

"The Legend of a Blues Guitar" is a collection of short stories with the same anti-hero: a haunted guitar. Its journey spans the years 1900-1971. The journey of the blues guitar spans the years 1900-1971. Forrest Gump comes to mind if, that is, he were a conflicted spirit getting passed around during...

Where do those who have no one to turn, turn? Being thrown into a world that you hate... How can one save a world that rejects the savior? Sometimes it is not the angels that save us, it is the demons. With humanity on the brink of extinction and hope a faint memory, a being from Hell searches for...

The Savings Book is the first book of a series developed to teach children at a young age Grown Up Business For Kids. Grown Up Business For Kids Inc (GB4KInc) concept is to teach our children the language of money and financial matters. GB4K books are designed to be fun and interactive giving children a head start to becoming a successful adult.

For Nolan Wylie, high school graduation was his proudest accomplishment. With his friends Henri and Emmett beside him, Nolan proudly planned to become the big fi sh in their small town of Middlecreek, Texas. As they attended their last end-of-year carnival, plans were changed. When threatened by the...

Time travel has always had a special interest for the author. Is it possible, and what would it be like? How would it feel to be in another century with knowledge of the present? So when a dusty Humvee was discovered during the spring cleanup of Washington’s Gardens at Mt. Vernon, Virginia, there...

Helping students think more critically, communicate ideas more effectively, and work more cooperatively with others are goals widely recognized as indispensable to a proper education. Adventures in Reasoning: Communal Inquiry Through Fantasy Role-Play provides middle school, high school, and even...