Linda Smith: 78 books

        The practice of judo katas has changed over time as a result of perceived purpose. The chapters in this anthology were written by seven authorities in judo history and practice. Their writings clarify the purpose of kata and thus its mode of practice and their place in...

Helping Hands Press is proud to release their first “Uplifting Devotionals” bundle!Each month a new bundle of Devotionals will be released featuring different HHP authors.We plan to offer a variety of themes and perspectives with these bundles.The inaugural offering features Murray Pura, Patti J. Smith, Linda Wood Rondeau, David Stearman and Randall K. Harp.

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly...

Une promesse d'amour, Linda Goodnight En apprenant que son grand-père a embauché Jackson Kane dans le ranch familial, Shannon ne sait comment réagir. Car Jackson n'est autre que l'homme qu'elle a follement aimé dix ans plus tôt, avant qu'il ne quitte la ville sans lui donner d'explication....

Mind-body medicine has captured the popular imagination. More and more, people are turning to alternative, nontraditional therapies to take control of their physical and mental characteristics and attitudes and how they can affect our physical well-being. Discover what research tells us about the...

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today. Everyone’s...

The handwritten account of one woman's struggle to survive in a world gone DEAD. Something has happened to the world, and now the living are gradually becoming the living dead. This is the story of one young woman's struggle to live a life that has no future.

Amanda Storey was sent by her company to a tiny rural town to convince the community that having a chain mega-supermarket built there would be a boon to their economy and job market. She never showed up for the town hall meeting, even though the company insists she was scheduled to be there. ...

Making a critical contribution to the field of art history, this reader covers everything from sixth-century icons to contemporary art from a Christian perspective. Written by experts around the world, this book reflects the work of noted scholars, most especially John Walford and Hans Rookmaaker,...

Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O And on this farm he had some pigs, E I E I O With a hack hack here, and a chop chop there, Here a shriek, there a scream Everywhere the blood streams...                                           Old MacDonald had a farm,...

Four years ago Byron Shales was a manager for a department store. Now he hunts down and captures the newly zombie-fied dead, and resells them at auction to the highest bidder. What his buyers do with them after the sale is finalized is none of his business, and frankly he couldn’t care less. His...

A family on the run, searching for food, shelter, and others not infected. A plague is wiping out the population, stealing the humanity from people and turning them into monsters. Kem and Armand are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their daughter and survive. Nothing is promised,...

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...