Author: Tom Batiuk
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Presents a selection of the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strips that follows the character of Lisa as she copes with a diagnosis of breast cancer, and offers a listing of resources for breast cancer survivors and their families.
Lisa's Story
Author: Tom Batiuk
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Presents a selection of the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strips that follows the character of Lisa as she copes with a diagnosis of breast cancer, and offers a listing of resources for breast cancer survivors and their families.
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Presents a selection of the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strips that follows the character of Lisa as she copes with a diagnosis of breast cancer, and offers a listing of resources for breast cancer survivors and their families.
Lisa's Airplane Trip
Author: Anne Gutman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375811142
Category : Air travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lisa travels on an airplane by herself to visit her uncle in New York.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375811142
Category : Air travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lisa travels on an airplane by herself to visit her uncle in New York.
Only One of Me
Author: Lisa Wells
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1802581731
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Only One of Me is the product of Lisa's lifelong love of writing and friendship with award-winning children's author Michelle Robinson. The two collaborated on this tender and moving rhyming poem, with charming illustrations by Tim Budgen, which is both a love letter to Lisa's own daughters and a testament to the unwavering strength of parental love, a timeless message for families facing the challenges of bereavement.The Only One of Me project grew from Lisa's determination to leave a lasting legacy for her daughters and her desire to help other families rally against the difficulties of loss. Her activities have raised thousands for charity and huge public support through JustGiving has enabled the publication of these beautiful books. Sadly Lisa passed away in August 2019.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1802581731
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Only One of Me is the product of Lisa's lifelong love of writing and friendship with award-winning children's author Michelle Robinson. The two collaborated on this tender and moving rhyming poem, with charming illustrations by Tim Budgen, which is both a love letter to Lisa's own daughters and a testament to the unwavering strength of parental love, a timeless message for families facing the challenges of bereavement.The Only One of Me project grew from Lisa's determination to leave a lasting legacy for her daughters and her desire to help other families rally against the difficulties of loss. Her activities have raised thousands for charity and huge public support through JustGiving has enabled the publication of these beautiful books. Sadly Lisa passed away in August 2019.
Stories in Mental Health, 2e
Author: Debra Nizette
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0729588890
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Stories in Mental Health 2nd edition is an insightful collection of personal stories from a range of mental health consumers, carers and mental health nurse clinicians who openly share their experiences. Through listening and observing, this extraordinary resource offers nursing students and health professionals a unique perspective on what it is like to live with a mental health disorder, care for a family member with a mental health disorder or work within various mental healthcare settings. Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and appropriate responses when working in a range of mental healthcare settings. Most importantly, Stories in Mental Health provides a much-needed consumer voice to mental healthcare. All videos embedded within the eBook Part 1 Behind the scenes provides an overview of the structure of, and how to use, the resource. Part 2 Setting the scene provides the foundational concepts for practice and includes seven video and audio stories that reinforce the concepts underpinning the treatment of mental illness. Part 3 Stories from consumers, carers and clinicians presents 22 video and audio stories to provide insight into a range of mental health issues. Reflection, inquiry and action provide the framework for the teaching and learning strategies for each story. Weblinks and references are included for further reading and research. Transcripts of all interviews are included in the back of the book An eBook included in all print purchases
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0729588890
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Stories in Mental Health 2nd edition is an insightful collection of personal stories from a range of mental health consumers, carers and mental health nurse clinicians who openly share their experiences. Through listening and observing, this extraordinary resource offers nursing students and health professionals a unique perspective on what it is like to live with a mental health disorder, care for a family member with a mental health disorder or work within various mental healthcare settings. Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and appropriate responses when working in a range of mental healthcare settings. Most importantly, Stories in Mental Health provides a much-needed consumer voice to mental healthcare. All videos embedded within the eBook Part 1 Behind the scenes provides an overview of the structure of, and how to use, the resource. Part 2 Setting the scene provides the foundational concepts for practice and includes seven video and audio stories that reinforce the concepts underpinning the treatment of mental illness. Part 3 Stories from consumers, carers and clinicians presents 22 video and audio stories to provide insight into a range of mental health issues. Reflection, inquiry and action provide the framework for the teaching and learning strategies for each story. Weblinks and references are included for further reading and research. Transcripts of all interviews are included in the back of the book An eBook included in all print purchases
Lisey's Story
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982147792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark, and Lisey Landon must confront both. King's most personal and powerful book to date is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982147792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark, and Lisey Landon must confront both. King's most personal and powerful book to date is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
Lisa's Legacy Trilogy
Author: Tom Batiuk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606353271
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les Moore's best friend and a pivotal character. Les and Lisa go to the prom, begin steady dating, and then break up. Over the summer, Les realizes how much he misses Lisa. When he gathers his courage and goes to her house, he is stunned to discover Lisa is pregnant with a child fathered by a jock from Walnut Tech. Lisa asks Les to be her coach in childbirth classes, and their friendship explodes from there. Prelude takes fans from the early days of their deep friendship through the birth of Lisa's baby and the baby's adoption. To be published simultaneously with Prelude, The Last Leaf is the sequel after Lisa's death from breast cancer in Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe. The Last Leaf recounts how Les and family cope with Lisa's death and continue their lives. Creator Tom Batiuk brings Lisa back in Les's imagination, and she helps him work out difficulties and decisions in his life and in the life of their daughter Summer. Fans will recognize Batiuk's gentle mix of humor and more serious real-life themes that heighten the reader's interest.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781606353271
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les Moore's best friend and a pivotal character. Les and Lisa go to the prom, begin steady dating, and then break up. Over the summer, Les realizes how much he misses Lisa. When he gathers his courage and goes to her house, he is stunned to discover Lisa is pregnant with a child fathered by a jock from Walnut Tech. Lisa asks Les to be her coach in childbirth classes, and their friendship explodes from there. Prelude takes fans from the early days of their deep friendship through the birth of Lisa's baby and the baby's adoption. To be published simultaneously with Prelude, The Last Leaf is the sequel after Lisa's death from breast cancer in Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe. The Last Leaf recounts how Les and family cope with Lisa's death and continue their lives. Creator Tom Batiuk brings Lisa back in Les's imagination, and she helps him work out difficulties and decisions in his life and in the life of their daughter Summer. Fans will recognize Batiuk's gentle mix of humor and more serious real-life themes that heighten the reader's interest.
Santa's Boardroom
Author: Lisa S. Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734203004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Santa's Boardroom: A Story of How a Company Built a Beloved Brand is a book that teaches the principals of branding. Set in the North Pole, the story starts when Santa's Workshop is on the brink of collapse after expanding their business beyond toys. With the help of a brand strategist, Santa and his executive team set out to turn around the Workshop. By engaging in a step-by-step branding process, the executives learn to refocus their efforts on their core consumers and build a brand-led company aligned with their consumers' needs.While told as a parable, this book is essentially a how-to on branding. These are just some of the practical lessons that you can learn alongside Santa's executive team: · What's a brand and why is it important· Why target marketing is essential and how to write a target profile· What's a consumer insight and how do you to use it to build a brand· How to create a brand blueprint and articulate a brand's promise to consumers· What are brand values and how do you craft them· How do you develop a visual brand identity for your brand · How to optimize your marketing mix to bring your brand to life Designed for marketers, product managers, strategists, designers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in branding, Santa's Boardroom will illuminate how one company built a beloved brand, so you can too.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734203004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Santa's Boardroom: A Story of How a Company Built a Beloved Brand is a book that teaches the principals of branding. Set in the North Pole, the story starts when Santa's Workshop is on the brink of collapse after expanding their business beyond toys. With the help of a brand strategist, Santa and his executive team set out to turn around the Workshop. By engaging in a step-by-step branding process, the executives learn to refocus their efforts on their core consumers and build a brand-led company aligned with their consumers' needs.While told as a parable, this book is essentially a how-to on branding. These are just some of the practical lessons that you can learn alongside Santa's executive team: · What's a brand and why is it important· Why target marketing is essential and how to write a target profile· What's a consumer insight and how do you to use it to build a brand· How to create a brand blueprint and articulate a brand's promise to consumers· What are brand values and how do you craft them· How do you develop a visual brand identity for your brand · How to optimize your marketing mix to bring your brand to life Designed for marketers, product managers, strategists, designers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in branding, Santa's Boardroom will illuminate how one company built a beloved brand, so you can too.
Lizzie and the Last Day of School
Author: Trinka Hakes Noble
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1633621316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Lizzie loves school almost more than anything. First she loved Nursery school. She loved Kindergarten even more. When the time comes for Lizzie to start First Grade, she can't wait. Everyone tells her it will be a whole year of school. And Miss Giggliano, the first-grade teacher, tells her class to make this the best year of school ever. Yippee! thinks Lizzie--a whole year of school! And what a year it is. Miss G.'s class wins the Centipede Reading Award. And they even win the Nature Study Award for their bee and butterfly garden. It's a great year! But all great things must come to an end. When the last day of school arrives, Lizzie is dismayed. How can this be? It was supposed to be a whole year! But good news soon arrives and Lizzie, along with Miss G., finds herself in a different classroom and eager to learn!
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1633621316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Lizzie loves school almost more than anything. First she loved Nursery school. She loved Kindergarten even more. When the time comes for Lizzie to start First Grade, she can't wait. Everyone tells her it will be a whole year of school. And Miss Giggliano, the first-grade teacher, tells her class to make this the best year of school ever. Yippee! thinks Lizzie--a whole year of school! And what a year it is. Miss G.'s class wins the Centipede Reading Award. And they even win the Nature Study Award for their bee and butterfly garden. It's a great year! But all great things must come to an end. When the last day of school arrives, Lizzie is dismayed. How can this be? It was supposed to be a whole year! But good news soon arrives and Lizzie, along with Miss G., finds herself in a different classroom and eager to learn!
Leave Me Alone!
Author: Vera Brosgol
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1626729379
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book that The New York Times calls “both classic and ultracontemporary,” Leave Me Alone! is an epic tale about one grandmother, a giant sack of yarn, and her ultimate quest to finish her knitting. One day, a grandmother shouts, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and leaves her tiny home and her very big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting. Along the way, she encounters ravenous bears, obnoxious goats, and even hordes of aliens! But nothing stops grandma from accomplishing her goal—knitting sweaters for her many grandchildren to keep them warm and toasty for the coming winter. Vera Brosgol's slyly clever and unexpectedly funny modern folktale is certain to warm even the coldest of hearts. A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book A New York Times Notable Children's Book A National Public Radio Best Book of 2016 A Horn Book Best Book of 2016 A Huffington Post Best Picture Book of 2016
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1626729379
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book that The New York Times calls “both classic and ultracontemporary,” Leave Me Alone! is an epic tale about one grandmother, a giant sack of yarn, and her ultimate quest to finish her knitting. One day, a grandmother shouts, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and leaves her tiny home and her very big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting. Along the way, she encounters ravenous bears, obnoxious goats, and even hordes of aliens! But nothing stops grandma from accomplishing her goal—knitting sweaters for her many grandchildren to keep them warm and toasty for the coming winter. Vera Brosgol's slyly clever and unexpectedly funny modern folktale is certain to warm even the coldest of hearts. A 2017 Caldecott Honor Book A New York Times Notable Children's Book A National Public Radio Best Book of 2016 A Horn Book Best Book of 2016 A Huffington Post Best Picture Book of 2016
Family Violence and Abuse [2 volumes]
Author: Sonia Salari
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440871418
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This two-volume encyclopedia surveys all aspects of violence and abuse in domestic/family environments, including specific types of abuse, laws and legal issues, and the impacts of abuse. Wide-ranging and authoritative, this resource provides extensive coverage of widely recognized forms of violence and abuse in family settings, including physical, verbal, and emotional abuse of spouses and intimate partners (both female and male) as well as children. In addition, the encyclopedia scrutinizes less recognized types of violence and abuse in households, such as abuse of siblings by other siblings and abuse of parents or grandparents by children and grandchildren (both minor and adult). Family Violence and Abuse is a valuable resource for readers seeking a better understanding of the true scope and impact of these various forms of violence and abuse; important factors that contribute to incidence of family violence and abuse; and the various laws, programs, and therapy alternatives that have been created to help victims of abuse and rehabilitate offenders.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440871418
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This two-volume encyclopedia surveys all aspects of violence and abuse in domestic/family environments, including specific types of abuse, laws and legal issues, and the impacts of abuse. Wide-ranging and authoritative, this resource provides extensive coverage of widely recognized forms of violence and abuse in family settings, including physical, verbal, and emotional abuse of spouses and intimate partners (both female and male) as well as children. In addition, the encyclopedia scrutinizes less recognized types of violence and abuse in households, such as abuse of siblings by other siblings and abuse of parents or grandparents by children and grandchildren (both minor and adult). Family Violence and Abuse is a valuable resource for readers seeking a better understanding of the true scope and impact of these various forms of violence and abuse; important factors that contribute to incidence of family violence and abuse; and the various laws, programs, and therapy alternatives that have been created to help victims of abuse and rehabilitate offenders.