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A comprehensive guide to whimsical sleeping spaces for every type of home.Everyone loves a bunk bed. Whether you are five or fifty-five, there is something about a cozy sleeping nook that excites the imagination. They also have to be an infinitely practical safe-saving solution. The Bunk Bed Book offers useful tips and advice for readers seeking bunks or nooks for their own. Chapters include The Basic Bunk (covering all varieties of two-bunk beds, both store bought and custom build), The Loft (covering single beds lofted above space or storage), The Nook (devoted to beds built into nooks in a bunk-like fashion), The Triple Bunk (stacked three high and traditional bunks with a trundle), and Bunk Rooms (the ultimate in bunk-bed room, featuring spaces with more than three beds).

A collection of essays detailing the necessary foci to build an effective classroom and school culture for students and teachers to succeed.CulturED: Pathways for Meaningful School Change discusses the primacy of effective school culture to effective teaching and learning. This book explores the shared experience of 6 authors that were teachers, department heads, and administrators as they build and maintained a school with their explicit decision to focus on culture first. Each author and essay provide focus on a critical topic which the group found to be essential to effectively running the school. Features contributions from Lyssa Bevan; Claire Wolters; Liz Wallace, M. Ed.; Nick Kiriazis, M.S. Ed.; Kevin Wasden, M. Ed.; and Jared L. Taylor, M. Ed.

A timely book that explores the critical need for social studies to be equally taught in American public schools. Provides a call to action for all that understand the need to build an active and informed citizenry through more effective social studies education.We have missed part of the equation for effective education. STEM became STEAM, but we forgot social studies and the importance of the skills and content it teaches. Ensuring a Better Future: Why Social Studies Matters explores the sacrifice of both many students’ inherent skills/interests and an effectively informed and effective citizenry through prioritized Social Studies education in public schools. This book seeks to accelerate the pendulum swing away from strict STEAM education that the author and Jared feel is starting. It names and explores the issues of equitable funding and curriculum focus delinquency, the historical story about the swing away from social studies education, and how to energize our country in support

Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning with Authenticity inspires readers to move beyond worksheets, lectures, notes, reports, and tests in culturally relevant, applicable, and highly engaging instruction.We must immediately move past the “Sage on the stage” yammering on about this battle and that President, then handing out a bubble-sheet test to certify learning. There is a better way, and a higher calling everyone must realize. That the facts of history are democratized…and the skills of studying history are where the essential value is in the modern Social Studies classroom. We must carefully teach and allow students to practice the science and art of synthesis, understand analysis, revel in communication, and eagerly understand the events of the past so they can learn to be creative in solving the future problems of humanity. This title explores the philosophical underpinnings of the modern Social Studies classroom and adds practicality to the narrative that can be employed

A book that explores the delicacy and critical importance of getting history right, and teaching it in an age-appropriate way in the classroom, every time.Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content explores the difficulty, delicacy, and ethical obligations of teaching accurate history to all students. It names and explores the issues with being the ‘tip of the spear’ in the classroom?after a long line of generally bureaucratic and political decisions are made and how to apply appropriate logic and decision making into what constitutes your scope and sequence and lesson plans as a social studies teacher. It features contributions from Alysha Butler, Kelly Reichardt, Gerardo Muñoz, Chris Dier, and accomplished author Bart King.

Meet the famous traveling adventure dog, Kicker, and his human, Andrew, in this photography book all about the duo that inspires readers to fall in love, chase their dreams, and live a more passionate life.In this adorable book all about the famous golden retriever that won over the Internet, Kicker and his human, Andrew, take readers on exciting adventures all across the world. Whether they’re paragliding down snow-covered mountains, exploring vast ice caves, kite surfing some big ocean waves, rafting down the Colorado River, or repelling off super high mountain cliffs, this celebrated duo are journeying together. And they’re sharing their story, for the first time all in one format, with the world. Now, never-before-seen photographs and untold stories are compiled into one book for fans, old and new, to enjoy page by page. Life is Golden champions bravery, wanderlust, and compassion by inspiring readers to fall in love, chase their dreams, and live a more passionate life.

A sizzling collection of 65 brat, hot dog, and sausage recipes for all occasions.Make your barbecues, tailgating events, camping trips, and sports games the talk of the town. Eliza Cross, founder of the BENSA society (Bacon Enthusiasts ‘N’ Swine Aficionados) and author of Bacon, Beans, and Beer, returns with a savory new cookbook that capitalizes on the ever-popular brats, dogs, and sausages. Hot Diggity Dog includes recipes for breakfast and brunch, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads and sides, and supper offerings.From brunch options and small bites such as Breakfast Dogs and Kielbasa-Jalapeño Poppers to hearty meals like Grilled Bratwurst Reuben Paninis, Sausage Tater Bombs, Corn Dog Casserole, and High-on-the-Hog Jambalaya, Hot Diggity Dog will be a new favorite among even your hungriest eaters.

Energetic, exuberant, personality-filled spaces from a 20-year interior design veteran.With exclusive projects and new photography, Vibrant Interiors features the best of Andrea Schumacher Interiors. Inviting, imaginative homes that draw the viewer in and ignite the desire to see more, ultimately revealing Andrea’s creativity and skill at developing energetic, exuberant, personality-filled interiors. Regardless of location or style, the skillfully designed homes are layered with a well-balanced mix of complexity and simplicity; sophisticated yet playful; layered but minimal. This dynamic interplay is compelling, unexpected, and creates conversation. In her debut interior design book, Vibrant Interiors, Andrea explores her creativity and ability to transform interior spaces into something unique for each client.

Coastal havens designed for laid-back living.The idea of a retreat―a place removed from one’s daily stressors, a secluded haven to be enjoyed by family--is more appealing than it has been in decades. But second homes are far from a novel concept. Families have built retreats since the late 1800s, when the well-to-do began to construct reprieves in coastal areas to escape the combustive atmosphere of city life. Homes on the water have been coveted and cherished for their particular restorative qualities. In an oceanside house, one can’t help but pause to contemplate the view.At Home on the Water?offers a history of coastal living and features twelve homes on the water on both coasts and?the gulf. This stunning title focuses on both the design of the homes and the way the homeowners live in them, embellished by interviews with?homeowners, designers, and/or?architects.