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Features thirty-six event ideas and provides checklists, recipes, crafts, and activities to help young people plan philanthropic parties.

Describes a four-step process for creating a comprehensive information literacy plan for libraries, outlining the preliminary steps, offering advice on how to prepare the writing group for its task, discussing the key points of the document, and covering assessment, maintenance, and promotion. Includes support material, model plans, and a CD-ROM.

"Hare and Dillon walk educators through a series of questions and ideas on how learning spaces can support collaboration, creation, showcasing learning, and a learner's need for quiet. In addition to nudging thinking forward, Space provides practical design tips and uses images and testimonials for hacking learning spaces on a realistic budget. This book is designed to motivate, grow capacity, and energize educators to begin shifting their learning spaces to support modern learning for all students"--Amazon.com.

Change the course of your retirement and cut through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly.

Told in a series of essays that mimics the course of a traditional wedding, from engagement to walking down the aisle, to honeymoon and beyond, The Best Party of Our Lives invites readers to reflect on what makes their own relationships unique, and the significance of public celebrations of love. With chapters each focusing on a different couple's love story, the challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, the book offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the changing face of marriage.

Walks educators through the process of designing spaces to accommodate new modes of learning.

The kids in this book are all growing gardens. They need math to measure and build garden beds, calculate growing seasons, figure out the right greenhouse temperatures, and compare the costs of growing and selling their own produce.

Presents viewpoints about transportation infrastructure that is selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications.