Shea: 660 books

The Lord’s Prayer accompanies the lives of Christians. When we are happy or sad, when we eagerly wait for a child to be born or silently keep watch as an elder dies, alone in the woods or together in liturgy, filled with gratitude or emptied by grief, driven to praise or dragged to repent, the Our...

The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuring...

This outstanding work provides furniture makers and woodworkers with the principal antique country furniture designs used in North America during the past 400 years. Concerned only with provincial handmade designs — generally of simple solid-wood construction — John Shea's carefully researched and...

Mary Shea and Nancy Roberts walk educators through helping students develop authentic, real-world skills, focusing on Facts, Inferences, Vocabulary, Experiences, Summary, and applying knowledge acquired to write cohesive paragraphs and essays. In this book, the authors explore: • Intervention strategies...

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...' Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place in the universe. Threatened by the Inquisition for daring to contradict the literal truth of the Bible,...

6 great ways to help relieve stress – simply and naturallyStress builds up like steam in a pressure cooker – but how can we release that pressure?Use a release valve!This guide offers easy to follow stressbusting advice and tips, complete with quizzes to help you take control and...

With enchanting illustrations and sweet prose, Chris Shea has created a loving and delightful celebration for grandmas everywhere. "Grandchildren continue to take us places our hearts never knew were there."

This collection of adorable prayers, each accompanied with the cutest illustrations possible, are sure to please anyone who wants to share a bedtime prayer with a child. What better way to close the day with a special little one than with this warm and attractive gift book from Chris Shea?

It is difficult to know what to say or how to comfort someone after the loss of a beloved pet.  Yet author and illustrator Chris Shea offers sweet comfort in this thoughtful narrative that reminds us that cherished dogs are never really parted from their loyal owners.  Dogs stay.

In 2012 the hottest book of the year (in more ways than one) was an erotic novel called Fifty Shades of Grey. This book is not about that one. It is about many things Fifty Shades of Grey has women and girls thinking about. What is love? And who are we, as women, and what sort of love...

Raise your wine glasses high to toast the men of Dahlonia while they discover the secret to happiness – LOVE. For Nolan Woods, life had been a miserable existence that had left him lonely and depressed. Nothing had ever seemed to go his way. It was his own fault for being such a loser, but...

Christmas is unavoidable. But if it is going to happen for us, we need to take time. We need to slow down and do something out of the ordinary, something that has to do with the spiritual meaning of the feast and the season. Reading the Christmas poems of Seeing Haloes is one way of doing this....

Robert Shea has given his full time to writing novels since 1977. He is the co-author of the science-fiction novel ILLUMINATUS!, which won the Hall of Fame Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society and was produced as a play in the United States and in Europe. His historical novels are SHIKE, set...

"World Cultures" is an examination of pre-industrial human societies across the world. Designed to give readers a broad catalogue of social behavior, "World Cultures" covers:- Social norms and values- Authority and government- Gender and sexuality- Knowledge and technology- Fashion and art- Religion and spirituality