Best Selling Books by Amy Brown

This is an introductory-level text that covers the basic elements of food, food service, and food preparation. The text also incorporates valuable information about the nutritive value and the chemical composition of food. A rich illustration and photo program and unique pedagogical features help to make the information easily understandable and interesting to students.

A personal collection of poetry from love, heart break and inspiration. It is a journey for the reader through the personal journey of the writer.

From the moment you share the news that you are pregnant or have a new baby it feels like everyone becomes an expert. Did you see that headline? Did you hear that story on TV? Have you heard the latest about what they say is best? In a world overflowing with information telling you what is best for you and your baby, making decisions can feel overwhelming. Who do you trust? Who is telling the truth? And how do you know if what they are saying is right for you? How? By becoming your own expert in sorting the media spin and politics from the actual facts and data. This isn''t a book that is going to tell you which decisions to make, or that there is ever one right answer. It is not going to tell you that the same thing is always best for everyone. Instead this is a guide to help you evaluate information and evidence to decide what is right for you, your body and your baby. In three main parts it will firstly open your eyes to how information is shared in the media and how this can affect our thinking and decision making. Next it will help you spot who is funding, leading and promoting research and how this can affect the content of what is shared. Finally it will talk you through reading, understanding and evaluating evidence for yourself across topics in pregnancy, birth and caring for babies. You''ll learn how to spot weaknesses in methods used, how to determine the real risk for you and your baby, and how wider context and other factors can influence what research means for you. Information is power. Making your own decisions that are right for you is empowering. #Informed is best.

In relation to the psychological essence of the various kinds of people who prey on others, dark psychology can be seen as studying the human condition. The truth is that there is the potential for any single human being to victimize other people or other living creatures. Most people prefer to suppress their dark impulses and prevent themselves from acting on any desire they have because of social norms, a human conscience, and other factors. There is, however, a small percentage of the population that is unable to hold their dark impulses in check. If you know techniques used by these people not only you can defend yourself but you can use these techniques for your advantage and become more successful. Dark psychology is continually being used by those who want to regulate their behavior to get what they want. All in all, everyday survival requires awareness of this subject. This book covers: · What are the dark psychological tactics used by mental manipulators? · What are the side effects that dark psychology has on the minds of people? · Why individuals with dark personality traits act to govern their lives · How toxic individuals pick their preferred victims · How persuasive individuals use dark psychology to regulate the minds of their victims · How to interpret non-verbal contact used to manipulate individuals · Precise techniques for quickly interpreting body language · How to spot dark psychology techniques for NLP

Recognising the emotional impact not breastfeeding can have on women and helping them heal.

While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world. Sliding Doors meets Wifedom. Stella Miles Franklin’s autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career launched one of the most famous names in Australian letters. Funny, bold, often biting about its characters, the novel and its young author had a lot in common. Miles went on to live a large, fiercely independent and bohemian life of travel, art and freedom. Not so her beloved sister Linda. Quiet, contained, conventional, Linda was an inversion of Stella. A family peacemaker who married the man Stella would not, bore a son and died of pneumonia at 25. In this reflective, witty and revealing novel, Amy Brown rescues Linda, setting her in counterpoint with Stella, and with the lives of two contemporary women: Ida, a writer whose writing life is on hold as she teaches and raises her young daughter; and Stella, a singer-songwriter who has sacrificed everything for a career, now forcibly put on hold. Binding the two is the novella that Linda might have written to her sister Stella – a brilliant alternative vision of My Brilliant Career. Innovative and involving, My Brilliant Sister is an utterly convincing (and hilarious) portrait of Miles Franklin and a moving, nuanced exploration of the balance women still have to strike between careers and family lives. It gives a fresh take on one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and an insight into life now.

As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, pregnancy and maternity services underwent a rapid transformation in an attempt to deal with transmission of the virus and the growing pressure on healthcare services. In a climate of fear, and with many unknowns about the virus and the risks to pregnant women and their babies, restrictions and hastily implemented policies often overrode years of work to improve maternity care, with devastating consequences for new families. Covid Babies: how pandemic health measures undermined pregnancy, birth and early parenting considers how policies put in place to protect us from the immediate threat of the virus ultimately had the unintended consequence of harming many who needed maternity and postnatal care. It highlights how hard-won gains, even when supported by overwhelming evidence, can be lost at the drop of a hat in a crisis. By learning the lessons of the pandemic – through close examination of the evidence base that is now emerging – Amy Brown shows how we can begin to move forward and unravel what has gone wrong. This is no easy task when our health services continue to face significant challenges, but one that is necessary to ensure the health and wellbeing of our new families and those who care for them.

How often does my baby really need to feed? How do I know my baby is getting enough? Is it normal for my baby to wake at night? When you''re expecting a new baby, suddenly everyone around you becomes an expert – particularly when it comes to how to feed them. It is easy to become overwhelmed by conflicting advice, myths and exaggerated stories. The Positive Breastfeeding Book cuts through the anecdotes, giving you clear, no-judgement, non-preachy, evidence-based information to help you make the right decisions for you and your baby. It will… help you understand how breastfeeding works give you tips for planning for your baby''s arrival help you cope with those early months support you to make sure that whilst you''re looking after the baby, you''re getting taken care of too point you to how to seek help if challenges come up guide you through feeding in public, going back to work, and even rediscovering a glass of wine You''ll find plenty of real stories and guidance throughout from mothers and experts in supporting breastfeeding. There are handy chapters on formula and mixed feeding, which cut through advertising spiel and give you the facts you need to choose and use formula safely. The Positive Breastfeeding Book doesn''t promise to make it easy, nor will it get up in the middle of the night for you, but it will empower you with the knowledge and encouragement you need to feed your baby with confidence.

Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a worthy investment. To this end, students and teachers tried to seem needy and deserving, hoping to make supporters feel generous, important, and not threatened. How much, Brown asks, does competition for financing in urban public schools depend on marketing and perpetuating poverty in order to thrive? And are the actors in this drama deliberately playing up stereotypes of race and class? A Good Investment? offers a firsthand look behind the scenes of the philanthropic approach to funding public education—a process in which social change in education policy and practice is aligned with social entrepreneurship. The appearance of success, equity, or justice in education, Brown argues, might actually serve to maintain stark inequalities and inhibit democracy. Her book shows that models of corporate or philanthropic charity in education can in fact reinforce the race and class hierarchies that they purport to alleviate. As their voices reveal, the teachers and students on the receiving end of such a system can be critically conscious and ambivalent participants in a school’s racialized marketing and image management. Timely and provocative, this nuanced work exposes the unintended consequences of an education marketplace where charity masquerades as justice.

TFBC: The Arrival is a compilation of comics from the Tales From Band Camp website. TFBC is a comic strip about life in a marching band.

Breastfeeding Uncovered reveals the complex barriers that society places in the way of breastfeeding, and shows how we can increase breastfeeding rates if we support, encourage and enable new mothers.

Music programs have been scaled back or eliminated altogether from the curricula of many schools. Luckily, storytimes offer ideal opportunities for music and songs. In this collection of easy-to-use, easy-to-adapt library programs for children in grades K-3, Brown connects songs and musical activities directly to books kids love to read. Offering several thematic programs, complete with stories, songs, and flannelboard and other activities, her book includes Music activities, lists of music-related books, mix-and-match activities, and additional web resources Terrific tips on how to teach songs to young children Ways to develop original songs and rhythms to enliven children’s books Even if you can’t carry a tune in a bushel basket, this handy resource has everything you need to start the music in your storytimes.

Let the countdown begin! Counting down the days until Christmas is fun and exciting. Each day brings you one day closer. One day closer to presents, filled stockings, and new toys. What if it brought you one day closer to an amazing miracle? One that started with a baby boy being born in a stable. This story will show you that Christmas is about more than presents and Santa. Discover the real meaning of Christmas.

Families aren''t one-size-fits-all, so let''s talk about you and your needs, rather than compare to other families.

From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant evidence about Christian women in the second through fifth centuries. It highlights the social and theological contributions they made to shaping early Christian beliefs and practices, integrating their influence into the history of the patristic church and showing how their achievements can be edifying for contemporary Christians.

Insightful and intelligent, this compelling collection of poems touches on themes of memory, travel, and the unconscious. With images and scenes carrying the burden of disclosure, these pieces create a thoughtful and provocative narrative along with a palpable and engaging outside world.

8.5x11 coloring book with 20 single sided pages of faeries. This is a re-print of Amy Brown''s first Faeries coloring book originally released in 2009.

How and when babies eat their first solid foods can be an exciting stage for new parents, but it can also bring confusion and anxiety due to conflicting advice and opinions. When should babies have their first sold foods? What should it be? How much? Is milk still important? Does any of this really matter? Why Starting Solids Matters aims to help readers find answers to these questions by exploring the science behind the headlines. It provides a gentle introduction to the importance of the first year and beyond for the development of long term healthy eating habits and weight with much of the information just as relevant for thinking about the diet of older children and even the rest of the family too.

At the time, offering to take home the worst-behaved pony at the Showjumping Champs seemed like a brave decision. Now, back in Mr White s paddock, too nervous to even mount her five-year-old monster, Taniwha, Jade is feeling stupid. ''Have you ever been hunting? It s probably exactly what your feisty Kaimanawa boy needs.'' Two years older than Jade, and home from boarding school, Zoe Death couldn t be much more intimidating. But maybe she s right? Persuaded by her friends Becca and Laura, Jade spends the winter holidays on the Deaths sheep station. Is this the perfect opportunity for Jade to recover her confidence and bond with Taniwha, or a dangerous mistake?

Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well -- usually programs they wrote themselves -- and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another''s mistakes rather than building on one another''s successes.This second volume of The Architecture of Open Source Applications aims to change that. In it, the authors of twenty-four open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program''s major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.

It must be Fate. After a family tragedy, Jade Lennox has moved to tiny Flaxton to live with her grandfather. A whole year in the middle of nowhere, and the future looks bleak. Until, that is, she finds someone else who s lonely and despairing - a pony under a death sentence. Jade can t let the black pony die. But what can she do? She has no money, no land for grazing, and doesn t know the first thing about looking after horses. What she does know is that she must save the stray . . .

Do you often feel insecure in your relationship? Does negative thinking stop you from connecting with your partner? Are you an over-possessive or jealous partner? if your answer is yes to any of these questions read this book now! Often negativity, jealousy and being overtly possessive spoils a relationship and leads to couple conflicts. This book will provide you with various ways to stop you from doing things that are harming your relationship with your partner.

In the second of the Pony Tales series, Jade Lennox faces a new challenge. Now that her dad is out of prison and has a job in Flaxton, she can prepare her beloved pony, Pip, for the national Pony Club Champs.

Just when Jade has found pony heaven for her old horse Pip, a ruthless developer promises to destroy the idyllic seaside riding school Jade''s summer is not looking too good. She needs to find a new home for Pip, her beautiful old mare, and is resigned to schooling troublesome taniwha. then she gets some good news. Becca''s Aunt Flora, who has a riding school by the beach at Ocean Bay, is looking for a bombproof beginner''s mount - namely, Pip! Better still, would Jade like to spend a few weeks helping out around the school and learning about endurance riding? Of course. to Jade, Samudra Riding School is heaven. Unfortunately, a property developer thinks so, too, and is determined to build luxury beach houses on the horses'' land. Jade must find a way to save perfect Pip''s new home.Ages: 8-12

As we pointed out in The Architecture of Open Source Applications, architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study the critiques of many more. But most software developers only ever get to know a handful of programs well - usually programs they wrote themselves. This book provides you with the chance to study how 26 experienced programmers think when they are building something new. The programs you will read about in this book were all written from scratch to solve difficult problems. A web server, a pedometer, a Python interpreter, a web-based spreadsheet, and many more applications are written, in 500 lines of code or less, and described by their creators so that you can learn from their insights and their mistakes.

55% Discount for Bookstores! Now at 34,95$ instead of 44,95$ Are you interested in loosing some weight easily, then the complete mediterranean diet cookbook is for you! Your customers will never stop using this amazing book! Bring the Mediterranean from Italy and Greece to Morocco and Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon with these new delicious recipes in your kitchen. This extensive cookbook combines the well-known balanced Mediterranean diet for home cooks with a wide range of innovative recipes, most easy enough to be made on a weekend, using ingredients from-your-local-supermarket. People who follow the Mediterranean diet are known to have longer life expectancy and lower rates of chronic diseases than do other adults. Indeed, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans point to the Mediterranean diet as an example of a healthy-eating plan. Based on numerous studies that have shown that it can cause weight loss and help prevent heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and premature death, the Mediterranean diet has become the world''s most popular and reasearched diet plans. The Mediterranean diet has been approved by the American Heart Association and is considered to be the healthiest by many health organizations and dietitians. By following an easy and delicious diet plan, containing 100 fresh and flavorful recipes, you can shed off extra pounds without any effort. This book covers the following topics: - Birth of the Mediterranean Diet - Benefit of Mediterranean Diet - How To Manage the Diet - What To Eat And What To Avoid - Mediterranean Pyramid - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Recipes and Side DiShes - Lean and Green Meatless and Vegetable Recipes ...And so much more ! Let''s learn how to live a healthy life. Buy it NOW and let your customers become addicted to this incredible book.

8.5x11 inch SOFTCOVER journal. 100 pages alternate blank and lined.