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What are some good theme ideas for a surprise 50th birthday party?

I’m throwing a surprise party for my mom who will be 50. Any good ideas you’ve heard of for themes for a 50th birthday party.

Make it a destination party. Love to ski, then head to the mountains.

Take a cruise. “Destination Parties” are popular and travel agencies compete to find the cheapest packages.

Enjoy music and theatre, go to New York and take in the symphony or Broadway.

Love the islands, go to Maui.

If you need to stay closer to home and cut the costs think about having a “This Is Your Life Party” at the recipient’s favorite restaurant. Decorate to the nines, have a slideshow from birth to the present, have people give speeches and roast the birthday person.

An Over The Hill Party equipped with black decor and foods, along with all the grim-reaper accents. Everyone comes dressed in black. The guest of honor may be picked up in a hearse. You could do a more modern version of the Over the Hill Party and have a sit-down dinner affair equipped with elegant black and silver serving pieces. Hang classy black lantern lights and serve a elegant fondant cake with black accents.

How about a Golden 50th soiree. Send out formal invitations, fancy set table, lots of gold table decor (candlesticks, silverware, napkin rings, etc.) Make sure the cake is an extravaganza. Perhaps a white cake with gold icing or a dusting of gold decorating glitter.

Wine and cheese tasting party with lots of fancy crackers. Decorations should be classic with linen tablecloths, crystal, china, silver, etc.

A 70′s costume party which would have an emphasis on the birthday person’s hay-day. Or opt for another era like the roaring 20′s, fabulous 50′s, etc.

A Murder Mystery party where all of the guests come in costume to coincide with the theme, but you hire actors to act out the murder story. They will draw in your guests during the evening into the murder and help them to become a part of solving the crime.

Well, that’s all I have for now. Have a wonderful time planning the party. I know the planning stage can be quite a bit of fun and doing things around the birthday recipient without he or she knowing, only adds to the drama and intrigue, and ultimately the got-cha! Have a great time!

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40+ and Fabulous: Moving Forward Fierce, Focused, and Full of Life! $14.95 A tender, witty and down-to-earth collection of stories from women who willwarm your hearts, tickle your funny bones and completely reshape your perspective on aging. This is clearly not your mama”s mid-life experience. Today”s boomer women have reshaped what it means to grow older and have given aging a whole new look. As these ladies proudly recount their personaljourneys of self discovery, by challenging ideas and reinventing lifestyles, there is one central theme: at 40+ we truly come into our own in bold and exciting ways. Whether it”s wisdom or hot fl ashes we are saucier andmore outspoken than ever before.The book started with just the women in mind. But after the ladies had their say, it was time for a male”s perspective. Just wait until you discover what men of all ages find most irresistible about women in their forties and beyond. Get ready to laugh, cry and celebrate your greatness with every delightful turn of the page.

40+ and Fabulous: Moving Forward Fierce, Focused, and Full of Life! $2.89 Used – A tender, witty and down-to-earth collection of stories from women who willwarm your hearts, tickle your funny bones and completely reshape your perspective on aging. This is clearly not your mama’s mid-life experience. Today’s boomer women have reshaped what it means to grow older and have given aging a whole new look. As these ladies proudly recount their personaljourneys of self discovery, by challenging ideas and reinventing lifestyles, there is one central theme: at 40+ we truly come

444 Surprising Quotes about Jesus: A Treasury of Inspiring Thoughts and Classic Quotations $41.98 New – This thought-provoking and inspirational collection of quotes paints a fascinating picture of Jesus as God, man, teacher, and Savior. It includes ideas about life in Christ, the love of Christ, the power of the cross, and His spiritual legacy. Drawn from sources ancient and modern, it cites everyone from famous political leaders to humble pastors. Organized by theme and providing an index and bibliography, readers will find it easy to use. Who is Jesus? Long-time Christians as well as spir

444 Surprising Quotes about Jesus: A Treasury of Inspiring Thoughts and Classic Quotations $0.99 Used – This thought-provoking and inspirational collection of quotes paints a fascinating picture of Jesus as God, man, teacher, and Savior. It includes ideas about life in Christ, the love of Christ, the power of the cross, and His spiritual legacy. Drawn from sources ancient and modern, it cites everyone from famous political leaders to humble pastors. Organized by theme and providing an index and bibliography, readers will find it easy to use. Who is Jesus? Long-time Christians as well as spi

50 Fabulous Parties for Kids $15 If your child loves parties, but you don’t always love planning them here’s a collection of 50 ideas for new, unusual, and easy-to-create celebrations for every occasion — birthdays, national and religious holidays, special family days like a new home or a new baby — that will not only thrill children but adults as well. 50 Fabulous Parties for Kids will show you how to choose a theme, make an invitation, select party crafts or games, and decorate a fun-shaped cake to go with the theme. Parties are age appropriate, from three to twelve, have themes popular with all children and will not require expensive materials or excessive amounts of time. 50 Fabulous Parties for Kids is an invaluable sourcebook for any special event involving children.

550 Home Landscaping Ideas $115.59 New – A rich source of information and inspiration, with 550 full-color photographs of some of the most beautiful gardens in the world. More than 80 design topics are featured in chapters on international and regional garden styles, color and plant theme gardens, seasonal gardens and more.

7-day Menu Planner for Dummies $19.99 Flavorful, nutritious meals that can be prepared quickly, easily, and economically 7-Day Menu Planner For Dummies is the perfect book for any family looking for a structured, nutritional approach to daily meal planning. It contains over a year”s worth of weekly dinner ideas and recipes that take an average of thirty minutes to prepare, contain an average of thirty percent calories from fat, and use common ingredients to save time and money.Features budget-friendly family meals that are both quick and healthyDinner for each week of the night is associated with a theme–for example: Family Sunday, Kids Monday, Express Tuesday, Budget Wednesday, Heat and Eat Thursday, Meatless Friday, and Easy Entertaining SaturdayIn this time of budget, time, and health consciousness, 7-Day Menu Planner For Dummies gives families just what they need to easily plan the right meals!

77 Talks for 21st Century Kids $13.61 New – This is a collection of ideas which should be useful in a variety of contexts: school assemblies, Sunday clubs and family services. Each one, based around a theme, provides a talk in outline form, a list of requirements, an activity, a Bible reference and a prayer or reflection. The combination of ideas plus activities aims to ensure that children listen closely and retain more than conventional talks. The themed talks can be presented as short series. Themes include: “Buried Treasure”, “W

77 Talks for 21st Century Kids $0.99 Used – This is a collection of ideas which should be useful in a variety of contexts: school assemblies, Sunday clubs and family services. Each one, based around a theme, provides a talk in outline form, a list of requirements, an activity, a Bible reference and a prayer or reflection. The combination of ideas plus activities aims to ensure that children listen closely and retain more than conventional talks. The themed talks can be presented as short series. Themes include: “Buried Treasure”, ”

77 Talks for 21st Century Kids $13.73 New – This is a collection of ideas which should be useful in a variety of contexts: school assemblies, Sunday clubs and family services. Each one, based around a theme, provides a talk in outline form, a list of requirements, an activity, a Bible reference and a prayer or reflection. The combination of ideas plus activities aims to ensure that children listen closely and retain more than conventional talks. The themed talks can be presented as short series. Themes include: “Buried Treasure”, “W

77 Talks for 21st Century Kids $13.67 New – This is a collection of ideas which should be useful in a variety of contexts: school assemblies, Sunday clubs and family services. Each one, based around a theme, provides a talk in outline form, a list of requirements, an activity, a Bible reference and a prayer or reflection. The combination of ideas plus activities aims to ensure that children listen closely and retain more than conventional talks. The themed talks can be presented as short series. Themes include: “Buried Treasure”, “W

77 talks for 21st century kids $0.99 Used – This is a collection of ideas which should be useful in a variety of contexts: school assemblies, Sunday clubs and family services. Each one, based around a theme, provides a talk in outline form, a list of requirements, an activity, a Bible reference and a prayer or reflection. The combination of ideas plus activities aims to ensure that children listen closely and retain more than conventional talks. The themed talks can be presented as short series. Themes include: “Buried Treasure”, ”

99 Bath Time Treats $0.99 New – This illustration-filled, idea-packed title makes a great gift book, but most gift buyers will also want to bring home a second copy for themselves. Its theme is as simple as it is delightful: Pamper yourself in the bath. The author touches on everything from bathroom design to skin care, and suggests ideas that include: Color therapy — transform walls and bathroom appointments with restful cool colors such as blue, green, or violet Mood music — play CDs of favorite songs, or alternatel

A Card a Day: Your Ultimate Resource for Inspiration, Design, Tips & Techniques: Over 365 Card Ideas $8.91 Used – Just as greeting card shoppers spend time selecting a card that best reflects their personality and that of the receiver, paper crafters like to browse for inspiration to create a handmade card. That’s why “Paper Crafts” has gathered together the largest collection of card-making inspiration ever for this new book. With a card for each of the 365 days in a year, the theme of each card is a holiday, special occasion, or everyday occasion that is appropriate for the date. Each month has an

A Guide to Good English $0.99 Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading.An excerpt from the author’s INTRODUCTION: Without prejudice to any useful purpose which the book may be made to serve, I suggest in what follows the work I have designed it to perform in college classes. Let the teacher begin with the assumption that in so far as sins against elementary principles are concerned, each student is innocent until he has proved himself guilty. Change the character of the prescribed course in English for Freshmen from one in composition to one which emphasizes primarily the study of literature. Choose literary material which is stimulating, study it intensively with reference to the ideas it contains, and hold students to exactness of comprehension, thought, and expression. At each meeting of the class have a written recitation of five or ten minutes, answering some question on the day’s lesson, usually a textual question or a question of fact, with the object of finding out whether the student has read the assignment and understood it. Then, having had a recitation from each student, the teacher may feel free to devote the rest of the hour to a discussion of the ideas in the lesson, or to any exercise which will make the students feel the value of what they are reading. Once in two or three weeks there may be written a theme, preferably in class, on topics that demand thought, something more than mere exercise of memory. As many as possible of his papers should be returned to the student, who should be left to study the mistakes marked in his papers by the passages in the book to which the symbols point him. The burden of training himself in elementary matters which he should have learned in school should be thrown on him. His progress should be measured by his improvement rather than by his skill in rewriting after specific errors have been pointed out to him. On the basis of these papers pick out as early as

A History of the United States $12.99 New – Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, “The American Journey” introduces readers to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. This new edition focuses more closely on the theme of the American journey, showing that our attempt to live up to and with our ideals is an ongoing process that has become ever more inclusive of different groups and ideas. Covering the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War to the pres

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level A $13.99 Used – 1st grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level A student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level A $37.17 New – 1st grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level A student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level B $28.99 New – 2nd grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level B student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level B $13.58 Used – 2nd grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level B student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level C $34.87 New – 3rd grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level C student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level C $14 Used – 3rd grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level C student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level D $13.09 Used – 4th grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level D student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level D $17.69 New – 4th grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level D student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level E $22.89 Used – 5th grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level E student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level E $37.17 New – 5th grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level E student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reason for Spelling: Teacher Guidebook Level F $9.95 Used – 6th grade spelling teacher guidebook for use with A Reason For Spelling Level F student workbook. Thoroughly lesson-planned to save time, guidebook includes weekly theme stories for Scripture values application, instructions for daily activities, enrichment ideas, placement tests, complete word lists, answer keys, and black-line masters for supplemental work.

A Reference Guide to Anti-Consumerism: Ideas, Theories, Social Movements, Popular Works, and More $26.77 Used – Anti-consumerism refers to the socio-political movement against the equating of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. Read all about anti-consumerism with chapters on its ideas, theories, social movements, popular works, key individuals and organizations. Also includes special reference to the movie “Fight Club” and the theme of anti-consumerism.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated in

A Reference Guide to Anti-Consumerism: Ideas, Theories, Social Movements, Popular Works, and More $26.77 New – Anti-consumerism refers to the socio-political movement against the equating of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. Read all about anti-consumerism with chapters on its ideas, theories, social movements, popular works, key individuals and organizations. Also includes special reference to the movie “Fight Club” and the theme of anti-consumerism.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated int

A Room of One’s Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity $6.27 Used – With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and the first theory of literary inheritance in which gender was the central category. As a theory of women’s literature, it presents general ideas and issues through which the lives and works of women writers might profitably be read. Woolf (in the persona of narrator) does not offer extended rea

A Room of One’s Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity $231.42 New – With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and the first theory of literary inheritance in which gender was the central category. As a theory of women’s literature, it presents general ideas and issues through which the lives and works of women writers might profitably be read. Woolf (in the persona of narrator) does not offer extended read

A Room of One’s Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity $231.42 New – With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and the first theory of literary inheritance in which gender was the central category. As a theory of women’s literature, it presents general ideas and issues through which the lives and works of women writers might profitably be read. Woolf (in the persona of narrator) does not offer extended read

A Treasury of Christian Wisdom: Two Thousand Years of Christian Lives and Quotations $7.73 Used – This is a collection of thoughts and ideas of men and women over the centuries, arranged by theme, from Abandonment to Zeal, and a compilation of biographies of the most prominent Christians of the last two thousand years.

A Tree on Turtle Island $2.06 In the fall of 2001, two Chicago women embark on a business trip to Pennsylvania. Quinn had grown up in Pittsburgh and while visiting her childhood neighborhood, her friend, Reed, uncovers a Native American artifact that begins to affect her dreams. In the aftermath of terrorist attacks on America, patriotism is soaring with the theme, ‘United We Stand.’ But the artifact provides a window to a colonial tale, threading the women’s journey into the period prior to the American Revolution when colonists were deciding what ‘union’ meant to them.The women meet fictional heroine, Maggie, who had been a student at the Moravian School for Girls and a blacksmith’s wife living among native tribes at the forks of the Susquehanna River. Shamokin was a multi-national village with a farm and blacksmith shop. Europeans shared tools, farming skills and cultural ideas among several native nations, living for years in peace. When the initial violence of the French and Indian War exploded a few miles away, everyone fled.After surviving an Indian attack, Maggie writes reflective letters to her family, also seen, via the artifact, by the contemporary women. Maggie bears witness to early treaty councils and Benjamin Franklin’s idea of ‘united’ colonies, based on the Native American concept of the value of every person in the village. She also witnesses a deep tear happening in the first fabric of America while colonial settlers try to piece together a patchwork revolution. The tear was born of prejudice, and as the modern travelers knit together their own journey, they find ties to a deeply rooted pattern of violence and bigotry in modern American culture.

A Woman of Confidence $2.42 New – These inductive Bible studies are built around the theme of confidence, guiding women to God as the only reliable source of confidence they can have. Prayer and journaling ideas will help the reader process what she is learning in the lessons.

A Woman’s Walk with God: A Daily Guide for Prayer and Spiritual Growth $29.99 New – Daily devotional time is important in order to grow in one’s devotion to Christ and to enjoy being in His presence. For women who hunger for that joy and for that discipline, Sheila Cragg offers this combination how-to and devotional, filled with ideas for deepening a woman’s spiritual relationship. A Woman’s Walk offers seven days of brief devotions on each week’s theme.

A Woman’s Walk with God: A Daily Guide for Prayer and Spiritual Growth $13.68 New – Daily devotional time is important in order to grow in one’s devotion to Christ and to enjoy being in His presence. For women who hunger for that joy and for that discipline, Sheila Cragg offers this combination how-to and devotional, filled with ideas for deepening a woman’s spiritual relationship. A Woman’s Walk offers seven days of brief devotions on each week’s theme.

A touch of Leri: The beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of an elementary student in Cyprus about his experiences in different music-making and learning practices. $49.99 This case study explores the music-making and learning practices of an elementary student from Cyprus in different settings, inside and outside school. The musical knowledge of the 6th grade boy was gained from a diversity of music settings that covered a broad educational spectrum from highly structured and sequential to informal and enculturative. The purpose of study was to investigate student's attitudes, beliefs and feelings concerning different learning settings; the student's perceptions of the value of music experiences in these settings; and the intersections of music learning inside and outside school. The settings were school music classes, private piano lessons, community choir rehearsals, traditional folk dance ensemble, drum exploration, and composition-arrangement at home. Three themes emerged from the data. The first theme centered around the influences from others that motivated Leri's attendance and continuation in music classes. The second theme centered around the elements inherent to the settings themselves that facilitated learning and that made Leri want to engage. The last theme focused on thoughts about his future music making and the factors that affected his plans. The participant's enjoyment and valuing of the music settings was connected to his need for active and meaningful participation through which he could express his musical ideas.

A touch of Leri: The beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of an elementary student in Cyprus about his experiences in different music-making and learning practices. $49.99 This case study explores the music-making and learning practices of an elementary student from Cyprus in different settings, inside and outside school. The musical knowledge of the 6th grade boy was gained from a diversity of music settings that covered a broad educational spectrum from highly structured and sequential to informal and enculturative. The purpose of study was to investigate student's attitudes, beliefs and feelings concerning different learning settings; the student's perceptions of the value of music experiences in these settings; and the intersections of music learning inside and outside school. The settings were school music classes, private piano lessons, community choir rehearsals, traditional folk dance ensemble, drum exploration, and composition-arrangement at home. Three themes emerged from the data. The first theme centered around the influences from others that motivated Leri's attendance and continuation in music classes. The second theme centered around the elements inherent to the settings themselves that facilitated learning and that made Leri want to engage. The last theme focused on thoughts about his future music making and the factors that affected his plans. The participant's enjoyment and valuing of the music settings was connected to his need for active and meaningful participation through which he could express his musical ideas.

Abingdon Preaching Annual 1998 Edition $0.99 Used – The 1998 edition of The Abingdon Preaching Annual provides everything busy preachers need for sermon and worship preparation for the entire year. This lectionary-based resource features all-new sermon ideas and illustrations for every Sunday of the year. The 1998 edition features: – Weekly worship services that include a worship theme, Pastoral Prayer, and Call to Worship – Three sermon briefs per week, each highlighting one of the Lectionary texts – Seasonal and special-occasion benedic

Abingdon Worship Annual 2012 $20.17 A trusted planning resource for traditional and contemporary worship! Includes interactive CD! The Abingdon Worship Annual 2012 offers fresh worship planning resources for pastors and worship leaders. Using a Theme Idea based on the lectionary readings, each week’s offering of prayers and litanies follows a basic pattern of Christian worship: Invitation and Gathering Proclamation and Response Thanksgiving and Communion Sending Forth. Alternative ideas for Praise Sentences and Contemporary Gathering Words are offered for those who work in contemporary worship settings. Searchable CD Extras! Along with the entire print text in PDF format for ease of navigation and use, the AWA 2012 offers some these great extras: Text hyperlinked to the Table of Contents Song suggestions for each week, hyperlinked to the text Annotated Resource List with links to helpful worship planning Web sites (NEW!) Prayers and Liturgies for Baptisms Now more than ever, The Abingdon Worship Annual is a must-have sourcebook offering countless opportunities for planning meaningful and insightful worship.

Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View $68.56 With a fresh geometric approach that incorporates more than 250 illustrations, this textbook sets itself apart from all others in advanced calculus. Besides the classical capstones—the change of variables formula, implicit and inverse function theorems, the integral theorems of Gauss and Stokes—the text treats other important topics in differential analysis, such as Morse’s lemma and the Poincare’ lemma. The ideas behind most topics can be understood with just two or three variables. This invites geometric visualization; the book incorporates modern computational tools to give visualization real power.Using 2D and 3D graphics, the book offers new insights into fundamental elements of the calculus of differentiable maps, such as the role of the derivative as the local linear approximation to a map and its role in the change of variables formula for multiple integrals. The geometric theme continues with an analysis of the physical meaning of the divergence and the curl at a level of detail not found in other advanced calculus books.Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View is a textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, the physical sciences, and economics. Prerequisites are an introduction to linear algebra and multivariable calculus. There is enough material for a year-long course on advanced calculus and for a variety of semester courses—including topics in geometry. It avoids duplicating the material of real analysis. The measured pace of the book, with its extensive examples and illustrations, make it especially suitable for independent study.

Adventures in Fantasy: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive Writing, Grades 5-9 $24.95 Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to teaching narrative and descriptive writing that stimulates a student’s creativity and imagination. Filled with mini-lessons, reading projects, and hands-on writing activities, the book shows teachers step-by-step how to introduce students to the “magic” of creating a complete story in the fantasy/adventure genre. Before fleshing out their stories, however, students are asked to construct actual maps of their ‘fantasyland’ – and then to write a travelogue describing the setting in vivid detail. This initial fantasizing encourages students to be wildly inventive in creating the drama, ogres, villains, heroes and heroines featured in their story, and on the way they learn about the mythic journey. With prompts, rubrics, and reader response forms on reproducible worksheets, the book provides instructions for helping students: Generate story ideas Craft compelling characters Develop a plotline rich with complications Bring the story to fruition Adventures in Fantasy offers teachers a creative method for teaching conventions such as voice, theme, point of view, and attention to the reader. The approach has proven to work well with both advanced and struggling students and is easily integrated with other writing curricula. Praise for Adventures in Fantasy “Follow step-by-step, or pick and choose from Gust’s exhaustive strategies for teaching setting, characterization, plot, dialogue, figurative language, and mechanics. A treasury of information and imagination for middle-grade writing teachers whose goal is to provide students with a means to discover the joy and accomplishment of good story writing.”—David Gifaldi, Vermont College faculty member;fifth-grade teacher, Vancouver, WA School District;and author of Listening to Crickets “Gust describes how he engages his students in order for them to achieve the creation of their

African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity $75 Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans’ image of Africans, Africans’ changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.

Against the Current $21.07 New – The main theme of this collection of essays is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom. The book offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life, and it also contains an updated bibliography of Berlin’s publications.

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas $15.58 Used – This is a collection of essays by Isaiah Berlin. His main theme is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom. Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Hamann, Herzen and Georges Sorel are the central examples. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation he brings to life the ideas of men with original minds who swam against the current of their times and often made entirely new contributions to our intellectual heritage. The book

Against the current : essays in the history of ideas $15.44 Used – This is a collection of essays by Isaiah Berlin. His main theme is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom. Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Hamann, Herzen and Georges Sorel are the central examples. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation he brings to life the ideas of men with original minds who swam against the current of their times and often made entirely new contributions to our intellectual heritage. The book

Agnes Grey $6.63 New – The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue.

Agnes Grey $6.63 Used – The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue.

Agorafobia: El Miedo Que Paraliza a la Iglesia $8.99 Agoraphobia is the clinical condition diagnosed on people who are afraid of market places and open spaces where there are many people with opinions and ideas that the patient cannot control.Following the theme of the book The Emerging Generation, Junior Zapata points out the necessary actions that Christian youth should take in order to be relevant in a gospel needy culture.At the same time, Zapata describes what he considers to be the condition of many Christians in Latin America concerning daily personal evangelism.In this book, Junior talks about how the Christian church should lose its fear of the world and how to approach the ”pre-believer” culture, as he calls it.

Algebra & Trigonometry $195 Three components contribute to a theme sustained throughout the Coburn Series: that of laying a firm foundation, building a solid framework, and providing strong connections. Not only does Coburn present a sound problem-solving process to teach students to recognize a problem, organize a procedure, and formulate a solution, the text encourages students to see beyond procedures in an effort to gain a greater understanding of the big ideas behind mathematical concepts.Written in a readable, yet mathematically mature manner appropriate for college algebra level students, Coburn’s Algebra & Trigonometry uses narrative, extensive examples, and a range of exercises to connect seemingly disparate mathematical topics into a cohesive whole. Coburn’s hallmark applications are born out of the author’s extensive experiences in and outside the classroom, and appeal to the vast diversity of students and teaching methods in this course area.Benefiting from the feedback of hundreds of instructors and students across the country, Algebra & Trigonometry second edition, continues to emphasize connections in order to improve the level of student engagement in mathematics and increase their chances of success in college algebra.

Algebra & Trigonometry: Graphs & Models $121.48 Used – With a visual, graphical approach that emphasizes connections among concepts, this text helps students make the most of their study time. The authors show how different mathematical ideas are tied together through their zeros, solutions, and x-intercepts theme; side-by-side algebraic and graphical solutions; calculator screens; and examples and exercises. By continually reinforcing the connections among various mathematical concepts as well as different solution methods, the authors lead

Algebra & Trigonometry: Graphs & Models $121.48 Used – With a visual, graphical approach that emphasizes connections among concepts, this text helps students make the most of their study time. The authors show how different mathematical ideas are tied together through their zeros, solutions, and x-intercepts theme; side-by-side algebraic and graphical solutions; calculator screens; and examples and exercises. By continually reinforcing the connections among various mathematical concepts as well as different solution methods, the authors lead

Algebra & Trigonometry: Graphs & Models $197.18 New – With a visual, graphical approach that emphasizes connections among concepts, this text helps students make the most of their study time. The authors show how different mathematical ideas are tied together through their zeros, solutions, and x-intercepts theme; side-by-side algebraic and graphical solutions; calculator screens; and examples and exercises. By continually reinforcing the connections among various mathematical concepts as well as different solution methods, the authors lead s

Algebra & Trigonometry: Graphs & Models $116.31 New – With a visual, graphical approach that emphasizes connections among concepts, this text helps students make the most of their study time. The authors show how different mathematical ideas are tied together through their zeros, solutions, and x-intercepts theme; side-by-side algebraic and graphical solutions; calculator screens; and examples and exercises. By continually reinforcing the connections among various mathematical concepts as well as different solution methods, the authors lead s

Algebra and Trigonometry $71.02 New – Three components contribute to a theme sustained throughout the Coburn Series: that of laying a firm foundation, building a solid framework, and providing strong connections. Not only does Coburn present a sound problem-solving process to teach students to recognize a problem, organize a procedure, and formulate a solution, the text encourages students to see beyond procedures in an effort to gain a greater understanding of the big ideas behind mathematical concepts. Written in a readable

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