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Join the growing number of people who are discovering the fun and excitement of team handball! With more points scored than soccer and more continuous action than basketball, team handball has been a popular international sport for years, and now its popularity is on the rise in the United States. No wonder--this fast-paced team sport lets players take full advantage of their running, jumping, and throwing abilities. Written by two former U.S. Olympic players and expert coaches, Team Handball: Steps to Success presents 12 easy-to-follow steps to becoming an accomplished player. Team Handball: Steps to Success features 62 drills that develop players shooting, dribbling, passing, and catching skills. The drills come with performance goals and a list of key points to remember in executing them. Plus, many drills include instructions for increasing or decreasing the difficulty of the drill..
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The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and reared in the tradition of the southern belle, tells of the hard days of war and the poverty brought on by emancipation and Reconstruction. Her entries illuminate experiences shared with thousands of other southern women..
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It's 1880 and Arizona Territorial mining and cattle interests have secretly hired the guns of Doc Holliday to protect their financial interests from the murderous Cow Boy criminal enterprise.

The Cow Boys, in league with Cochise County Democrats and Sheriff John Behan, have a death grip on Territorial politics. Pima, and later Cochise, County is described in newspapers of the day as a "condensation of wickedness and evil."

Tombstone is a Republican island of law and order in a virtual sea of Democrat crime and corruption while the gangsters are being tacitly facilitated by Republican Governor John C. Fremont.

Also, by secret protocol, Doc has agreed to act as a "lightning rod" to deflect any potential gun play away from Wyatt Earp, the Sheriff designee of newly formed Cochise County, thereby keeping him (Earp) alive and free of any public criticism that would certainly surround a shootout.

Backing up Doc will be some of the most lethal personalities ever gathered on the American frontier. The "deadly dentist" as Doc has become known, is also aided by his equally as lethal and volcanic mistress, Kate Elder, as well as members of the Mexican Secret Service--the Brevi--which has its own reasons for bringing down the Cow Boy organization and capture of the treacherous Mexican, Spider Arana, who has been leading Cow Boy raids into Mexico against the Hacendados--Mexican cattle barons. A Fistful of Thorns is their story.

Of his friend, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp will later say, "There was nothing in his soul but iron.".
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Children who are labeled at-risk often suffer from severe deficiencies in cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills that, if unaddressed, may lead to limited prospects for future success and well-being Tapping into the therapeutic potential of groups, this volume presents the theory and practice of cognitive-oriented group-centered counseling – combining intrinsic motivation, efficacy retraining, and targeted play therapy and social role-playing – that can be implemented to help children build core social skills and emotional regulation to complement their classroom instruction.

In addition to providing a complete framework for developing, facilitating, and evaluating group interventions with children in their natural learning environments, Group Interventions in Schools:

• Offers observational exercises to assist readers in gaining a deeper understanding of how group interventions work.

• Provides both the theory and research that supports real-world group-based motivational interventions.
• Explains how and why group-centered interventions support children’s psychological adjustment and bolster their academic achievement.
• Analyzes how efficacy retraining works, specifically in changing the child’s cognitive and academic motivations and perceptions.
• Features instructive case examples and proven, ready-to-use group-focused interventions that can be readily applied or adapted to specific situations.
• Shows how therapeutic gains translate into improved classroom performance.

Written primarily for school-based psychologists, counselors, and other school mental health personnel, this volume provides a solid foundation for those new to the field as well as a creative boost for group specialists. Other education professionals and mental health clinicians working with children and adolescents will find much of practical value here. Its accessible style makes the book worthwhile as a training text.

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In the political landscape of the late nineteenth century, the Populist party was recognized even by its critics as being ahead of its time. Its members saw themselves as bearers of a reform message vital to the nation, reflecting agrarian America's anxiety that the country was moving toward a new form of slavery in the face of changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. These issues were for many Americans the "Crisis of the Nineties," and Populists met that crisis with a stand against imperialism, a commitment to human rights, and a deep distrust of big business.

While most studies of Populism have focused on regional activities or on its intellectual and social underpinnings, little has been written about the record of this radical party in the national legislature. Now one of our foremost scholars of Populism presents the first comprehensive treatment of the party in Congress, revealing the programs and personalities that shaped and ultimately doomed the movement.

Gene Clanton has combed the Congressional Record to document how these visionaries performed on the national stage during that tumultuous decade. He examines the contributions of the fifty Populist legislators elected by sixteen states and one territory from 1891 to 1903-from Senator William Peffer of Kansas to Congressman William Neville of Nebraska-to show how they represented the party line on such issues as the gold standard, taxation, immigration, government railways, and the Spanish-American War.

Clanton demonstrates that congressional Populism was a positive and humane force in American politics totally distinct from the reactionary political movement that flouishes today under its name. He also suggests that the issues which Populist congressmen grappled with and the policies they advocated have continued to affect us even into the present. Long awaited by scholars of the Populist movement, Clanton's book is the crowning achievement of a career of research and shows how these forgotten radicals fit into the sweeping panorama of American politics..
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This book addresses heated debate among political thinkers concerned with the role of religious reasoning in the deliberation and justification of public policy and voting. The author critically examines various arguments drawn from mainstream liberal political theory, political theology, and American pragmatism, and offers a unique proposal for thinking through this issue..
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