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A guide to improving ones basketball skills through fifty dynamic drills, covering the fundamentals of footwork, offensive and defensive strategies, and more.

Explains how to teach dogs to perform different types of tricks, including walking, limping, spelling their name, begging, and playing dead, with simple instructions for each trick.

"Using the secrets of professional dog trainers, this fully illustrated guide with hundreds of step-by-step photos shows how to teach your pet 118 tricks and stunts. Organized from beginner level to pro, these tricks run the gamut from the kind of thing any well-behaved dog should know to stunts that will delight your friends and family"--OCLC.

"What Your Dog Knows" explores the fascinating world of canine cognition. It examines the five basic senses and presents a dog's-eye view of the world, helping you to understand and communicate with your own pooch.

"This book will help you solve the riddles of your dog's behavior--and put your own into context. Presents a range of situations and explains them from your dog's point of view and presents strategies for dealing with common problems"--Provided by publisher.

"Jet is a border collie puppy tired of feeling hungry and lonely. He's tired of the collar that yanks at his neck and the leash that makes things worse. When his owners move away and leave him tied up in the backyard, it seems like Jet is running out of time. When Jet is saved by a home inspector, he's taken to the Sterling Center, where he shows all the classic signs of a great rescue dog, but he's terrified of the leash. When a plane goes down in the wilderness and a snowstorm is moving in, will Jet be able to overcome his fear in time to become a hero?"--Amazon.

Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.

When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many- the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered.

"Provides teachers, administrators, and other school professionals a step-by-step guide to . . . components of technology-enabled professional development . . . A detailed account of how teachers and other school professionals can use today's technology to improve their practice and ensure their students are fully engaged and learning"--Back cover.