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How to Teach Children to be Sex Offenders    by Jane Gilgun
Price: Free! 7260 words. Published on February 23, 2010. .

This small book outlines steps parents can take to teach children how to be sex offenders. It's easy. This part is satire. Next I discuss what parents and a concerned public can do to prevent children from becoming sex offenders. Prevention is hard. People must really want to do it. Apparently, not enough of us do. So, we will keep on raising children to be sex offenders. Is that what we want?
Disabling Environment and Innovations: New Provocative Courseware for New Media / Interactive Media Design    by Oguzhan Ozcan
Price: $2.73 USD. 1060 words. Published on March 8, 2010. .

Despite this abundance it is not easy for designers to create aesthetic novelties in new media /interactive media design, to break free from ordinariness. In this courseware, we explore answers to the problematic of how to begin to stimulate more designer creativity in new media/interactive media design while at the same time preserving the design’s functionality
Saba (Sā-bə)    by Mary Jane
Price: $0.99 USD. 114070 words. Published on March 20, 2010. .

While diving in the Caribbean, Aaron and Erin Sandkuhler visit exotic Saba. There they have the Perfect Day: the weather, the diving, the food, everything is perfect. When they return to Washington D.C. and find life lacking they decide another vacation is in order - a permanent vacation. They move to Saba to live in paradise. Of course, not even the Garden of Eden met such lofty expectations.
Silent Genocide: American Education and the Massacre of the Black Mind    by Joel Plummer
Price: $2.99 USD. 24730 words. Published on March 22, 2010. .

Silent Genocide is an examination of the devastating effect that the American educational system has had on the minds of Black students. Everyday, schools thoroughly train Black students to be obedient servants and defenders of the social, political, and cultural order that oppresses them. This text succinctly explains the problem and offers a solution that frees Black minds from their bondage.
Parenting and Partnering with Purpose    by Natalie Francisco
Price: $3.99 USD. 25590 words. Published by St. Paul Press on March 30, 2010. .

This book is an inspirational resource designed to motivate parents, educators and church leaders to form and maintain strategic partnerships in the education of today's youth. Sound principles for parenting and teaching, as well as suggestions for establishing a Christian day care and school, are shared from a biblical perspective given Francisco's professional training and years of experience.
The NEATS: A Child & Family Assessment    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $5.99 USD. 39010 words. Published on March 31, 2010. .

This book describes five areas of human functioning that are fundamental to child and family development. They are neurobiology, executive function, attachment, trauma, and self-regulation. Parents and professionals will find this handbook helpful as they work together to promote children's optimal development. Includes case studies to illustrate main points.
Memories of an Eastern Sky    by Andy Zhang
Price: $6.99 USD. 76350 words. Published by Aberdeen Bay on April 5, 2010. .

Memories of an Eastern Sky is a fiction based on the true story of a boy born into a loving family in the freezing, lawless, and foreboding confines of China. The main character quickly learns that the government wields crushing power. When officials accuse his father of being counterrevolutionary, his family makes the courageous decision not to succumb to the Cultural Revolution.
Community Education A discussion on Paulo Freire’s Liberation Education    by Martin Rait
Price: $0.99 USD. 2220 words. Published on April 12, 2010. .

The theories of Paulo Freire on social oppression and liberation are quite a profound statement on the modern world. Although his work mainly focuses on the third world, it does have a lot of bearing on the situation in Western countries. This document will attempt to identify some of the key issues of Freire's social and educational concepts.
Under The Apple Tree - Picnic with God    by cate ni riain
Price: $12.00 USD. 40690 words. Published on April 13, 2010. .

A delightful walk and picnic with the "Man" or indeed "Woman" above. Answering all those soul searching questions that nag at us all from time to time. The author was in fact working on a completely different project when this burst upon the scene and refused to go away!! An enchanting book - available also beautifully illustrated online. All ages from young to old should have a copy of this.
Three-Sixty    by Sean Capelle
Price: $0.99 USD. 1610 words. Published on April 17, 2010. .

William Johnson is a substitute teacher locked in a classroom until dismissal at four p.m. But when the clock on the wall is stuck at "3:60," he wonders if he'll ever be able to leave. The younger versions of himself that are stuck in the classroom as well don't think so.