The perfect customized notebook for DODGEBALL lovers to keep notes. A funny gift to DODGEBALL Lover to make them laugh and have fun. Book details: Cover Finish: Matte Size : 6 x 9 inches Page Count: 100 pages SCROLL UP AND GET YOURS !!

This book includes detailed information suggesting ways in which you can avoid, improve, maintain, or sometimes, eliminate the twenty most common medical problems many of us struggle with daily. In order to target the information of utmost interest to each reader, this book has been divided into three companion books. This method hopefully will reorder the books more reasonably priced. In turn, this should make the books available to all who wish to explore the knowledge derived from personal experiences, observation, informal training, and a lifetime of study and learning.

“The Philosophy of Dodgeball” is a first-of-its kind treatise on the many facets of play found in the popular playground game, now played on the professional level by the National Dodgeball League and the National Collegiate Dodgeball Association. The book's sixteen chapters examine many different aspects of the game, including a history of dodgeball, the philosophy of play, and what it means to play with sportsmanship and honor. Many physical skills and techniques are discussed and examined, including methods of throwing, catching, and ducking. Not ignoring the namesake of the game, in-depth looks on the mindset and methods of dodging are presented, including details on how to jump and land, both properly and safely.Each of these topics participate in a study of what it truly means to play dodgeball, and how to treat the sport as more than exercise or mere competition. Less common is the player who studies these many talents and techniques not for simple victory, but for a higher appreciation into what it means to excel at this sport, which for the player becomes art.Written for both the player and the instructor, “The Philosophy of Dodgeball” is fully illustrated with over sixty illustrations and several graphs and charts to indulge the player who loves the sport. Topical quotes from significant and popular authors appropriately introduce each chapter. This treatise, available in print and for Kindle makes a great entry-level book for the beginner's learning, and provides an interesting and enjoyable read with a new trick or two for seasoned players to consider.

Bamba and Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Their innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography and action research. Although child advocates from around the world share certain goals and challenges, there is substantial cultural variation in how child maltreatment is understood, its origins, impact on children and families, as well as societal responses deemed appropriate. The authors step outside of the Western cultural context to illustrate creative ecologically and developmentally based strategies for supporting the psychosocial well-being of maltreated children in state care, provide an alternative but complementary model to the prevalent large-scale survey strategies for conducting international research in child welfare, and provide a resource for educators to enhance the international content of human development, education, social work and child welfare courses.

Freckleface Strawberry loves the Early Bird program at school because it means extra time on the playground–except when it rains. Rain means indoor playtime...and facing the school bully Windy Pants Patrick in a bruising game of dodgeball. Ignoring him seems the safest thing, but what's our freckled heroine to do when she's forced to confront the bully alone? Beat him at his own game, of course. A funny, inspiring story about an all-too-common problem that kids, parents, and teachers will easily relate to.

This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture. Contributions about picture-books include analyses of variants of the folktale “The Little Red Hen” and bullying. Race and gender are explored in essays about picture-books featuring children as consumable objects, about books focused on African American female athletes, and about young adult dystopian fiction. Gender itself is further explored in articles about Monster High, Joyce Carol Oates’s Beasts, and The Hunger Games and Divergent. Essays about fantasy literature include an exploration of environmentalism in Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus, a discussion of Severus Snape as a Judas figure, an explication of Chapter 5 of The Hobbit, and an analysis of ghosts and nationalism in Eva Ibbotson’s The Haunting of Granite Falls. An essay about Horrible Histories explores television, genre, and the way history is coded. Other contributions explore how teaching literature to reluctant readers can be effective through multimodal texts and how Harry Potter has played a role in the popularity of young adult literature for adult readers.

From award-winning young adult author Paul Volponi comes the true story of his unforgettable summer spent proving himself as a legitimate New York City streetballer, only later discovering that he had gained a set of skills that would enhance his life off the court, as well. During the sweltering summer of seventeen-year-old Paul Volponi’s life, he had only one goal—he wanted, no, needed to become a legitimate and respected New York City street basketball player. It was a passion that consumed him night and day, and at times even isolated him from his friends and family. So he entered through the gates of the Proving Ground, the roughest streetball yard in the city. It was a place where the fouls resembled felonies, and the atmosphere mirrored that of the Roman Coliseum more than Madison Square Garden. It was where teens and adults contested pickup games with a ferocity seemingly greater than that of the NBA Finals. The Proving Ground was a difficult place to cultivate friendships and an easy environment to make enemies. This is the story of Paul’s summer-long initiation at the Proving Ground. It is truly a streetball testament of a teenager who wanted more than anything else to earn his stripes in streetball society. Only what he didn’t understand at the time was that this experience would deliver to him, as it does today for so many young adults, a set of skills that would enhance his life far beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.