Most Popular Books by Julie Campbell

A poetry memoir telling the story of my childhood and digging deep into the traumatic events. Each poem is a snapshot in time taking you back to how a child views chaotic moments. Through all of it, she kept going forward.

A fun and funny story about how Jules can be a wonderful little grey wolf, even though she''s an elephant. She learns that what is most important is that she tries hard to be her best and that her family ""pack"" is full of love. This book teaches the importance of being yourself, not letting labels define you, and unconditional love within a family. The story is told in a cute, fun, and heartwarming way.

Young people worldwide are participating in ever-increasing numbers in online fan communities. Far from mere shallow repositories of pop culture, these sites are accumulating significant evidence that sophisticated informal learning is taking place online in novel and unexpected ways. In order to understand and analyze in more detail how learning might be occurring, we conducted an in-depth nine-month ethnographic investigation of online fanfiction communities, including participant observation and fanfiction author interviews. Our observations led to the development of a theory we term distributed mentoring, which we present in detail in this paper. Distributed mentoring exemplifies one instance of how networked technology affords new extensions of behaviors that were previously bounded by time and space. Distributed mentoring holds potential for application beyond the spontaneous mentoring observed in this investigation and may help students receive diverse, thoughtful feedback in formal learning environments as well.

Ginny tries to solve the mystery of a missing rare and valuable book that was mistakenly donated to the library.

Pesticide and fertilizer usage throughout the United States is coming under increased scrutiny from both the public and scientific communities due to potential negative environmental impacts and perceived health concerns. The three studies presented here focus on evaluating different management plans for home lawns and athletic fields, while also providing improved dissemination of information to athletic field managers. Results of the athletic field and home lawn management plan study indicate that pesticide treatments outperformed non-pesticide treatments across most measures. However, if a non-pesticide plan is desired then the high input organic or high input pesticide-free plan would be preferred over the low input organic or low input pesticide-free plan. Results for the fertility study indicate that a fertilization rate of as low as 5 g N m-2 provided statistically equivalent results across some color/quality measures, though exact rate would be highly dependent on the turfgrass manager’s goal and what time of year a high quality, dark green turfgrass was desired. Finally, the information dissemination study indicated that the large group setting performed better than the small group setting, most likely due to the structure of the small group meeting. Small group attendees had more flexibility to discuss issues that affected them directly. There was less flexibility for large group attendees to deviate outside the main subject matter being presented. However, the value of the small group meeting should not be discounted when specific information is needed. Large group meeting would be preferred when more general information is need by managers.

"Fourteen-year-old Dowty Ritter, an orphan, escapes the confines of the Sioux City, Iowa, orphanage he has lived in since his father''s death three years earlier. Heading for Des Moines, with hopes of joining the army, Dowty is stopped by the law, his plans are thwarted, and he, instead, ends up in the boys'' correctional facility in Eldora, Iowa. At Eldora, Dowty makes friends and enemies, and finds out that the pseudo-military school is far more penal than its name, the Iowa Industrial School, implies. From the beginning of his stay at Eldora, Dowty experiences problems with the headmaster of Cottage Four, a cantankerous bully that abuses the power he holds over the boys in his care. Dowty works in sweat-shop type conditions, and faces daily beatings after he and his friends are turned in for a possible escape plan. The camaraderie of friendship makes life at Eldora bearable, especially because Dowty and his closest friends, Carl Hoffman (a long-time resident) and Skinny Petersen (a twenty-two-year-old at Eldora in order to avoid jail time) share a supreme desire to escape the abuse at the school. One boy dies, others suffer extreme harm; a derailed escape ends in a riot that results in the overthrow of the existing administration, and through everything, Dowty tries to remember and remain true to his father''s teachings."--Abstract of thesis.

What happens when two badly behaved Sprollies and their daft human decide to set themselves two years of walking challenges in order to fundraise for wildlife and dog rescues? Lots of silliness, getting lost, falling over and poo. Combined with wonderful locations and fascinating adventures. Sold in aid of the rescues they support, this book will entertain you and leave you happy in the knowledge that your purchase of it is helping animals in need.

A memoir of caring for someone with Parkinsonism , PSP, CBD, or MSA

Hospitals are intentionally shirking their duty to identify and report incompetent medical practitioners and it is causing catastrophic injuries to patients. Why are hospitals doing this? Two decades of health care reforms have changed the way physicians and hospitals interact in the U.S. healthcare system, and as a result, the traditional health care oversight tools no longer work to ensure physician competence.With three out of four physicians now employees of hospitals or healthcare systems, hospitals have become the guardians of both the internal and external warnings systems designed to flag incompetent practitioners. As the guardians, hospitals are required to report incompetent practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”), the main quality control tool used to identify and weed out incompetent physicians. Hospitals, however, are intentionally circumventing their reporting requirements to avoid institutional embarrassment, medical liability, and physician alienation. This negatively impacts the ability of the more than 24,000 entities that query the NPDB to effectively determine whether a practitioner is competent for purposes of licensing, hiring, and credentialing.This Article offers a solution--switch the data bank from a blacklist of incompetent providers to a database of the employment and hospital affiliation histories for all medical providers. Have the NPDB or private accreditation organizations require hospitals complete a mandatory questionnaire for all practitioners during the credentialing process. Implementing these solutions will achieve three salient objectives: (1) improve the process whereby hospitals investigate whether a medical practitioner is competent to practice medicine prior to hiring or offering the practitioner privileges; (2) pave the way for state-based tort claims to hold hospitals accountable for inaccurate disclosures regarding a practitioner''s competence to practice medicine; and (3) eliminate the stigma associated with being listed in the NPDB which causes practitioners to practice defensive medicine and avoid admitting mistakes.

Written for students, teachers, caregivers and parents, this illustrated book provides a theoretical examination of critical issues related to the acquisition of one or more languages in early childhood education. Explains how early language and literacy develops and provides guidelines to develop children''s skills in all their languages. Each chapter includes an overview, summary and reader activities. Also examines Australian government policy statements on language and literacy. Includes a bibliography, glossary and index. The authors are university lecturers in early childhood education.

"Unimanual hand preference is a behavior in which one hand is used more often than the other when single-handedly manipulating objects. The progressive lateralization theory (Michel, 2002) of handedness proposes that handedness gradually concatenates during infancy as a cascade from initially a preference for contacting objects to acquiring them, to their unimanual manipulation, to the eventual emergence of a hand preference for role-differentiated bimanual manipulation (RDBM). Together, these behaviors represent the individual''s handedness expressed across most manual skills. Thus, the theory posits that an early hand preference for object acquisition will predict a later preference for single-handed object manipulations. This proposal was examined by describing the development of hand-use preferences for unimanual manipulation of objects for 90 infants (57 males) tested monthly from 6 to 14 months. These 90 infants were obtained from a larger sample of 380 infants: 30 infants from a group of 45 with left hand-use preferences for acquiring objects were matched for sex and development of locomotion skills with 30 infants with a right hand-use preference and 30 with no hand preference for acquiring objects. Results showed that the frequency of unimanual manipulations is stable during the 6-14 month period. Multilevel modeling of unimanual manipulation trajectories for the three acquisition hand-preference groups revealed that hand-use preferences for unimanual manipulation become more prominent with age and the preference is predicted by the hand-use preference for object acquisition. Also, infants with a right-hand preference for object acquisition develop a hand-use preference for unimanual manipulation sooner than those with a left preference and infants without a preference for acquisition remain without a preference for manipulation."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.