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At last, we have the scientific evidence that documents the many biological gender differences that influence learning. For instance, girls talk sooner, develop better vocabularies, read better, and have better fine motor skills. Boys, on the other hand, have better auditory memory, are better at three-dimensional reasoning, are more prone to explore, and achieve greater abstract design ability after puberty. In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes the current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts.

In the last few years there has been a big expansion in the range of applications of mentoring in business and in the scope of particular schemes in specific organizations. This book draws upon valuable case study material and includes advice on best practice from leading companies on setting up, running and evaluating mentoring schemes. The book is an easy-access compendium of collected wisdom with a multitude of insights, ideas and shared experience from the most successful and effective mentoring schemes.

Patricia Veryan's delightful Regency novels have inspired Library Journal to call her "the superstar of the period romance" and The Chattanooga Times to hail her as "a worthy successor to Georgette Heyer at her very best." In Logic of the Heart, once again she brings us an irresistible blend of love and danger when she matches the enchanting Susan Henley with dashing Valentine Montclair...

Fertile Repository holds poems that grew from the life experiences of the 16 authors in this book, whose combined 1000 plus years of living experience is fertile ground indeed. Out of this Louisiana soil came each poem, a unique flower that stemmed from the mind of the poet, gathered here to form the bouquet that is this collection of personal emotions, experiences, and memories of life in the 20th and 21st centuries. The biographies of the contributing writers illustrate the wide variety of backgrounds the poets have, though they all now live in the fertile clay and loam of South Louisiana.The writers in this book do have a common root; they have all been students of Patricia Ward's Poetry Class at People Program of New Orleans, a school offering classes for people aged 50 and above. At the request of then director, friend and former colleague LaVerne Kappel, Patricia Ward, a retired New Orleans public school teacher, started the class in 2008. When in 2010, LaVerne said "Pat, we need to have a poetry reading," then began yearly Sunday afternoon poetry readings by noted Louisiana poets, some sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Arts. Many Louisiana Poets and Poet Laureates have presented, including poets John Gery, Jerry Ward, Gina Ferrara, Nivi Osundare, and Kelley Harris-DeBerry, and Louisiana Poet Laureates Darrel Bourque, Julie Kane, Ava Leavell Haymon, Peter Cooley and Jack Bedell. Pat's class and the public at large are always invited to listen, ask questions and attend the reception. This book collective of various poets associated with the People Program of New Orleans, an educational outreach for seniors over the age of 50 offered through the Sisters of Saint Joseph in New Orleans, LA. Life affirming poetry offerings in the form of haiku, sonnets, villanelles, ballads, odes, and free verse. Many of the poems are illustrated by New Orleans' artists Lisette Copping, Craig Berthold, Miriam Hirsch and various illustrations of the authors.