Most Popular Books by Ann Thomas

This is a stimulating series for young learners discovering the wonderful world of Mathematics for the first time. At the core of the programme is a comprehensive Teacher's Guide for each grade that provides teaching support, strategies and assessment ideas for the teacher. Each Guide is supported by material for the learners in the form of a - full-colour Learner's Book, relating mathematics to the learners' everyday lives - Workbooks with worksheets that will allow the learners to practise their newly acquired skills.

Study & Master Mathematics has been especially developed by an experienced author team for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). This new and easy-to-use course helps learners to master essential content and skills to build their Mathematics knowledge. Study & Master Mathematics Grade 1 has 3 core components: A Learner's Book, Workbook and Teacher's Guide. The comprehensive Learner's Book provides: * graded activities that develop learners' skills and understanding in each of the content areas specified by the CAPS document. * examples and activities based on learners' own experiences.

Canwe move beyond borders that divide us without losing our identity? Overthe past decade, theyearning for rootedness, for being part of a story bigger than oneself, hasflared up as a cultural force to be reckoned with. There's much to affirm in thisdesire to belong to a people. That means pride in all that is admirable in thenation to which we belong - and repentance for its historic sins. Afocus on national identity, ofcourse, can lead to darker places. The new nationalists, who in Westerncountries often appeal to the memory of a Christian past, applaud whengovernments fortify borders to keep out people who are fleeing for their lives.(Needless to say, such actions are contrary to the Christian faith.) Is ouryearning for roots doomed to lead to a heartless politics of exclusion? Doesmaintaining group or national identity require borders guarded with lethalviolence? Theanswer isn't artificial schemes for universal brotherhood, such as a universal language. Our differencesare what make a community human. Might the true ground for community lie deepereven than shared nationality or language? After all, the biblical vision ofhumankind's ultimate future has "every tribe and language and people andnation" coming together - beyond all borders but still as themselves. In this issue: - Santiago Ramosdescribes a double homelessness immigrant children experience as outsiders inboth countries. - Ashley Lucasprofiles a Black Panther imprisoned for life and looks at the impact on hisfamily. - Simeon Wiehlerhelps a museum repatriate a thousand human skulls collected by a colonialist. - Yaniv Sageecalls Zionism back to its founding vision of a shared society withPalestinians. - StephanieSaldaña finds the lost legendary chocolates of Damascus being crafted in Texas. - EdwidgeDanticat says storytelling builds a home that no physical separation can takeaway. - Phographer RiverClaure reimagines Saint-Exupéry's LePetit Prince as an Aymara fairy tale. - Ann Thomas tellsof liminal experiences while helping families choose a cemetery plot. - Russell Moorechallenges the church to reclaim its integrity and staunch an exodus. You'll also find: - Prize-winning poemsby Mhairi Owens, Susan de Sola, and Forester McClatchey - A profile of Japanesepeacemaker Toyohiko Kagawa - Reviews ofFredrik deBoer's The Cult of Smart,Anna Neima's The Utopians, and AmorTowles's The Lincoln Highway - Insights onfollowing Jesus from E. Stanley Jones, Barbara Brown Taylor, Teresa of Ávila,Oscar Romero, Martin Luther King Jr., Eberhard Arnold, Leonardo Boff, MeisterEckhart, C. S. Lewis, Hermas, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Plough Quarterly features stories,ideas, and culturefor people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-deptharticles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus'message into practice and find common cause with others.

The goal of this study was to provide insight into two research questions: 1) Does trauma type (interpersonal versus non-interpersonal) relate to how posttraumatic stress (PTS) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) develop in relation to one another? and 2) Do differences in individuals' reports of PTS symptoms or PTG domains exist based on trauma type? Adults seeking behavioral health or medical treatment (N = 158) were recruited from a community integrated health care agency and a men's residential support program located in the Southeastern United States. The results of the study did not show a significant curvilinear relationship between PTS and PTG for interpersonal or non-interpersonal trauma types. A significant negative linear relationship was observed between the post-trauma outcomes for non-interpersonal trauma, but no significant linear relationship was observed for interpersonal trauma. Additionally, individuals who reported an interpersonal trauma had significantly higher scores on total PTSD symptom severity, as well as specific symptom clusters, than those who reported a non-interpersonal trauma. Finally, there was no significant difference in PTG scores for those who reported interpersonal and non-interpersonal trauma. Results from the current study indicated that trauma type may be an important factor in the nature of the PTS and PTG relationship, and seems to be associated with PTSD symptom severity, but less important in the reporting of PTG.

Nancy accompanies her grandfather to his factory night job and learns about people who work when most others sleep.

Stories from a Funny Little Farm follows the lives and adventures of various animals living on a farm in Tennessee.These tales of friendship, love, and kindness are told through the eyes of the farm dogs, Scrappy and Charlie, along with goats, horses, cats, and more!Children will be captivated by the wide variety of stories and pictures of farm scenes with just a twist of imagination.Featuring actual photographs of Ann Thomas' animals, the Stories from a Funny Little Farm series is appealing to all ages.

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A variety of family groupings are highlighted in this story about preparations for a special school program.

Renewable fuels are essential to environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, air and water quality, and national energy security for a transportation sector that is almost totally dependent on petroleum. Cellulosic biomass is the only natural resource from which liquid organic fuels can be made sustainably on a large scale due to its abundance, widespread geographic availability, and low cost. In order to reduce the capital and operating costs of cellulosic biorefineries, consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) has been identified as a powerful biotechnology platform that combines enzyme production, saccharification, and fermentation, into a single unit operation using microorganisms capable of enzyme production and sugar-to-fuel fermentation. Although much research has been devoted to obtaining microorganisms able to achieve high sugar conversion, conservation of the available sugars proves to be an equal challenge in light of the preceding pretreatment step where the greatest sugar losses may occur. However, research devoted to the study of pretreatment with organism-free enzyme systems may not be applicable to CBP as organism-mediated hydrolysis operates by a different mechanism than free enzyme cocktails. Thus, studies which combine real biomass, pretreatment, and CBP are vital to establishing commercially successful bioconversion systems. In order to determine synergies between pretreatment, feedstock, and CBP, various studies were expounded through a diversity of feedstocks, pretreatment methods, and biocatalysts. These studies included: (1) sugar release optimization for C. thermocellum CBP and free, fungal enzymes across hydrothermal pretreatment severity for Populus, (2) characterization of Populus natural variants by comparing biological catalysts while applying a suite of characterization techniques to the biomass, and (3) evaluation of a newly developed pretreatment method, co-solvent enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation (CELF), through comparison with dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment across multiple feedstocks and biological catalysts while aligning our results with insights from ultrastructure characterization. Contrasting sugar release from pretreated biomass by C. thermocellum CBP and fungal enzymes was used as a means of evaluating synergy resulting in reduced recalcitrance while biomass characterization informed of structural properties potentially indicative of low recalcitrance. By considering real biomass under industrially relevant process scenarios, we develop fundamental knowledge towards the design of superior bioconversion systems and improved sugar yields.