New Releases by Joan Ryan

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From baseball to biology, an award-winning journalist highlights the power of team chemistry in this "terrific" data-driven investigation of human relationships (Billie Jean King). Does team chemistry actually exist? Is there scientific or mathematical proof? Is team chemistry as real and relevant as on-base percentages and wins above replacement? In Joan Ryan''s groundbreaking book we discover that the answer to all of the above is a resounding yes. As Ryan puts it, team chemistry, or the combination of biological and social forces that boosts selfless effort among more players over more days of a season, is what drives sports teams toward a common goal, encouraging the players to be the best versions of themselves. These are the elements of teams that make them "click," the ones that foster trust and respect, and push players to exceed their own potential when they work well together. Team chemistry alone won''t win a World Series, but talent alone won''t win it, either. And by interviewing more than 100 players, coaches, managers, and statisticians, as well as over five years of extensive research in neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychology, Ryan proves that the social and emotional state of a team does affect performance. Grit, passion, selflessness, and effort matter -- but never underestimate the power of chemistry.

PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY, Third Edition, covers the most current and relevant financial topics that impact today''s students, including budgeting, identity theft, saving, investing, risk management, and careful use of credit. This text teaches students how to plan and manage their personal finances; how to live a financially successful life; and what their financial responsibilities are as citizens. It is aligned with the Jump$tart Coalition''s National Standards for Personal Financial Literacy. The personal focus of this course makes it relevant and meaningful to those just starting down the path to personal financial independence. MindTap for Personal Financial Literacy, Updated Precision Exams Edition, 3rd edition is the digital learning solution that helps teachers engage and transform today''s students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap for this course includes the full, interactive eBook as well as auto-graded reading activities throughout the eBook for each lesson as well as student tools like flashcards, practice quizzes, and auto-graded homework and tests.

The New York Times bestseller about Major League Baseball’s Molina brothers and how they became Gold Glove, World Series–winning catchers: “A simply told, deeply moving story, quite unlike the usual baseball book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. These were in the pocket of Bengie Molina’s father when he died of a heart attack on the rutted Little League field in his Puerto Rican barrio. The items are powerful symbols in Molina’s beautiful memoir about his father, who through baseball taught his three sons about loyalty, humility, courage, and the true meaning of success. Bengie and his two brothers—José and six-time All-Star Yadier—became famous catchers in the Major Leagues with World Series championships among them. Only the DiMaggio brothers can rival the Molinas as the most accomplished siblings in baseball history. Bengie was the least likely to reach the Majors. He was too slow, too sensitive, and too small. But craving his beloved father’s respect, Bengie weathered failure after deflating failure until one day he was hoisting a World Series trophy in a Champagne-soaked clubhouse. All along he thought he was fulfilling his father’s own failed dream of baseball glory—only to discover it had not been his father’s dream at all. Written with the emotional power of sports classics such as Field of Dreams and Friday Night Lights, Molina is a love story between a formidable but flawed father and a son who, in unearthing answers about his father’s life, comes to understand his own. “It’s this year’s baseball book most likely to be made into a terrific movie” (Chicago Tribune).

This student workbook is designed to accompany the Personal Financial Literacy student textbook. The workbook includes activities for each chapter in the textbook and the Unit Projects. The following kinds of assignments are provided: Review of chapter key terms, True/false multiple choice questions, Building communication skills, Building math skills, Careers, Activites related to content.

Joan Ryan began her formal chef training at age seven cooking omelets in the kitchen of their family home in Chicago. She continued her apprenticeship through her teenage years when she learned to bake Christmas cookies, Chicken Kiev, pasta, crepes, and fondue. She religiously watched Julia Child on PBS, then graduated to the food network and is a big fan of Top Chef, which has expanded her culinary repertoire. Joan''s passion for cooking stems from her love of eating and entertaining friends and family. Many of the recipes in this cookbook were first tasted by Joan at the homes of her family and friends. She shamelessly stole these wonderful recipes and has made these same celebrated dishes many times over the years for hungry fans. Joan counts herself as a very lucky person who is blessed with friends and family who not only provide wonderful recipes but who keep her laughing and perpetually fascinated with their conversation. This is Joan''s first book.

A sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.

As the one-semester, senior high school economics course evolves to include personal finance concepts, South-Western''s ECONOMICS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM is the ideal text to introduce students to the basic concepts of land, labor, and capital. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

When students need to review chapter material, the supplemental Workbook provides a pen and paper method. Using objective questions and activities, students can prepare for classroom instruction or review for quizzes and tests.

Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, The Water Giver is Joan Ryan''s honest account of her doubts and mistakes in raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal accident gave her a second chance as a parent. Joan Ryan tells the powerful story of how her son’s near-fatal accident, and his struggle to become whole again, gave her a second chance to become the mother she had always wished she could be. • Acclaimed journalist and author: Joan Ryan’s sports columns earned her thirteen Associated Press Sports editors Awards, the National Headliner Award, and the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Journalism Award, among other honors. Her first book, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters was named one of the Top 100 Sports Books of all Time by Sports Illustrated. • Medical drama: When Ryan’s sixteen-year-old son fell off of a skateboard, it wasn’t obvious at first how serious his injuries were. With a journalist’s eye for the telling detail and the rhythms of a natural storyteller, she captures his medical ordeal as he lurches from crisis to crisis—and with harrowing honesty and astonishing insight, relates her own journey through unknown emotional terrain. • A mother’s story: Ryan’s son was diagnosed with Sensory Integration Dysfunction as a toddler; by the time he reached school age, it was clear that he suffered from ADHD and other learning disabilities. Though she loved him fiercely, she never stopped trying to fix him. When he is restored to her after his accident, she realizes she has the opportunity to be his mother all over again—only this time she lets go of the illusion of control. Now she not only accepts, but also embraces her son for who he really is.

When students need to review chapter material, the supplemental Workbook provides a pen and paper method. Using objective questions and activities, students can prepare for classroom instruction or review for quizzes and tests.

Contains study guide problems and activities for each chapter. Examples are vocabulary, fill in the blank, true/false, multiple choice, and problem solving questions. Also includes activities tied to the Student CD.

A portrait of the three-time National Coach of the Year winner includes a chronicle of VanDerveer''s rise as a coach of women''s basketball, and her work with twelve unique women athletes

This research documents Dogrib traditional justice as it has been practiced in Lac La Martre, Northwest Territories, over the last century. Relying on information received from the elders, it describes a sophisticated body of Dogrib law, the understanding of which has important implications for how both the Dogrib people and the Department of Justice deal with social control. By examining the very different values and legal systems of the Dene and non-Dene, it sets the framework for the possibility of a Dene-controlled and culturally appropriate justice system.

Examines the bureaucracy facing Canadian Indians when dealing with the federal government.

Biographies of six women athletes: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Kathy Kusner, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Peggy Fleming, and Melissa Belote.