Product Description: When David Sobel’s children were toddlers, he set out to integrate a wide range of nature experiences into their family life, play, and storytelling. Blending his passion as a parent with his professional expertise, he created adventures tailored to their developmental stages: cultivating empathy with animals in early childhood, exploring the woods in middle childhood, and devising rites of passage in adolescence...read more

Product Description: Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community...read more

Product Description: Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the audio version of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language.A box set with 11 CD's and a complete table of contents, it explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions...read more

Product Description: Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the audio version of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language.A box set with 11 CD's and a complete table of contents, it explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions...read more

Product Description: Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, the French language version of the Canadian 3rd edition of this best-selling guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions...read more

Product Description: Minimally invasive techniques have become the standard in human healthcare over recent years. The advantages of are considerable, and the techniques have become cost-effective in general veterinary practice. The manual details the features and use of both flexible and rigid endoscopic equipment...read more

Product Description: Public discussions of global climate change and other threats to the planet are making children more aware of environmental issues. As increasing numbers of kids come to school wishing to take action, educators want to know how to teach in a way that fosters a love of nature and an understanding of the complexity and seriousness of these issues...read more

Product Description: The Children's Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica is a great place to hear howler monkeys, see algae-covered sloths, and discover that strangler figs make great hideouts! Join young Peter on a hike through this inspiring forest - a rainforest that has been preserved forever by the efforts of children all over the world! (Hardcover) 32 pages - Fully illustrated - 9 x 11 inche...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the British pastime of "letterboxing," questing has become one of the fastest growing recreational-educational activities on this side of the Atlantic. In scores of communities, people from toddlers and teens, parents and grandparents follow maps, clues, and rhyming riddles seeking treasure boxes hidden in natural and cultural locations...read more

Product Description: Before professional sports became the behemoth industry that it is today, the game of golf gave rise to one of the most gifted natural athletes the world has ever known. A man whose extraordinary talent and will to win earned him the Grand Slam of golf--a record he still holds to this day--and an universal recognition as one of the greatest sports figures in history...read more

Product Description: Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws, published by EPIC and the James Madison Project, is the standard reference work covering all aspects of the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Government in the Sunshine Act, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act...read more

Product Description: Through academic research, practical examples, and step-by-step strategies drawn from classrooms throughout the United States, Sobel celebrates teachers who emphasize the connection of school, community, and environment. Place-Based Education uses the local community and environment as the starting place for curriculum learning, strengthening community bonds, appreciation for the natural world, and a commitment to citizen engagement...read more

Product Description: Filled with hundreds of tips, suggestions, and strategies, this guide offers practical medical solutions in clear language. It explains how to develop and maintain exercise and nutrition programs, manage symptoms, determine when to seek medical help, work effectively with doctors, properly use medications and minimize side effects, find community resources, discuss the illness with family and friends, and tailor social activities for particular conditions...read more

Product Description: An examination of the secret world of children tat shows how important special places are to a child's development. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Breakthrough discoveries about how the brain keeps us healthy.  (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top-down model that ignores children's interests. Mapmaking with Children presents an inspired alternative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Beyond Ecophobia speaks to teachers, parents, and others interested in nurturing in children the ability to understand and care for nature. This expanded version of one of Orion Magazine's most popular articles includes descriptions of developmentally appropriate environmental education activities and a list of related children's books...read more

An anthology of key writings reassesses and integrates humanistic ancient healing systems and the technical achievements of modern medicine to arrive at a more complete, holistic approach to health