The long hello: Memory, my mother, and me

The long hello: Memory, my mother, and me is a 236-page memoir from a daughter who spent seven years caring for her mother with Alzheimer's. The book is beautifully written with heart-wrenching passages, that are painful to read and uplifting at the same time. Although haunting, the prose is, at times, almost lyrical.

In short excerpts, we get a glimpse into the life of a woman caring for her mother who doesn't always remember who she is. We are privy to Borrie's memories of growing up with a distant, alcoholic father as well as learning about her beloved only brother's brutal death at a very young age. Interspersed with her mother's increasingly random conversations, the story of the author's past gets told in a halting progression through the crushing anxiety of watching her mother's deterioration to Borrie's eventual acceptance of her mother's passing.

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Mobile App Monday - Wheels on the Bus

"An award-winning tribute to a childhood classic, Wheels on the Bus, is a fun, interactive experience encouraging motor, language and cognitive skills through fresh illustrations, creative interaction and music. AGES: 2-6."

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Blindness Prevention in Diabetics

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in American adults according to an article from the Indiana University Newsroom. IU researchers have created a virtual tissue model of diabetes in the eye which can hopefully be used to develop new treatments for the disease.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2016/07/diabetic-retinopathy-study.shtml

Overcoming Anxiety in Children and Teens

Overcoming Anxiety in Children and Teens is 146 pages of techniques, strategies, tips, and exercises to help kids and teens lower their anxiety enough to be able to confront their fears. Written in an easily accessible style, the author offers parents, teachers, and other professionals some treatment ideas for kids who are excessively burdened with anxiety. The author is the director of the Social Skills Training Project, a private organization serving individuals with autism and social communication problems and is an award winning author of nine books covering topics on autism and social skills.

This book covers treatment strategies that can be used in a variety of situations. General components of treatment such as using rewards and relaxation techniques are found in the first five chapters while chapter six reveals how to adapt treatment for children who may have a limited language ability. Chapters seven through fifteen offer case studies to learn how treatment can be applied in specific circumstances. A summary of key points is also included in the back.

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Community-based qualitative research: Approaches for education and the social sciences

Community-based qualitative research: Approaches for education and the social sciences is 208 pages of guidance on designing and implementing community-based qualitative research projects. Written by an associate professor at Northern Illinois University, this text offers students and researchers handouts and templates to help them apply their own research to the concepts broached in the book. Questions for reflection and discussion can be found at the end of each chapter.

Part one of this book, the introduction, takes a look at similar and related types of research approaches such as participatory action research and community-based action research and discusses relevant theories and concepts. Part two highlights the design and implementation of community-based qualitative research. Part three then looks at findings and results of research performed with this methodology and how and where to disseminate them. Case studies and real-life examples are offered to help cement the concepts throughout these chapters. Student activities for the classroom are also included.

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Mobile App Monday - Reading Rainbow Skybrary Family

Remember Reading Rainbow from the '80s and '90s? Host LeVar Burton is back in a new app format! Features include unlimited reading of over 500 quality children’s books, 7 themed islands that excite and inspire, more than 200 educational video field trips with LeVar Burton, new content every Friday, and much more. Keep the excitement for reading alive with your struggling readers!

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Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences

Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences offers 202 pages of author David L. Weakliem's, PhD, thoughts on statistical methods for model selection. As a professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and a past fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Australian National University, Weakliem provides knowledgeable guidance on existing thinking and methods of applied quantitative research for social scientists.

The book starts off with a summary of conventional and alternative procedures of hypothesis testing and then goes on to discuss model selection. Criticisms of hypothesis testing follow along with a discussion of the classical approach, Bayesian Hypothesis tests, the Akaike Information Criterion and three-way decisions. Separate chapters on model selection and hypothesis tests are found near the end. Real life examples are found throughout the book and recommendations for practice are offered.

A companion website supplies data and syntax files for examples found in the book.

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