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For children with ADHD in grades 1/n-/6, problems withhomework have been shown to contribute to academic skills deficits,underachievement, and significant levels of parent-childconflict. This manual presents the first empirically supportedhomework intervention approach specifically developed for familiescoping with ADHD. Grounded in a solid theoretical and empiricalrationale, the book provides detailed instructions for setting up theprogram, recruiting and selecting participants, and conducting each ofthe seven sessions. Practitioners learn how to implement specializedinstructional and behavioral interventions to facilitate collaborativehome-school relationships, foster effective study skills and workhabits, and enhance family functioning and children'sself-esteem. Special features include detailed case examples;checklists for monitoring the integrity of interventions; recruitinginstruments and outcome measures; and helpful parent handouts. Idealfor use with groups of parents and children, or with one family at atime, this manual is an invaluable resource for school psychologistsand counselors, clinical child psychologists and other mental healthpractitioners, and special education professionals. ... Read more

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This is a great resource for school administrators and families. It's definitely the type of book you want to keep handy to use as a guide for children with ADHD. It's very practical, useful, and easy to understand. ... Read more

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This volume discusses the constraints placed on root growth by various physical, chemical, and environmental factors. This basic research is at the heart of understanding how to maximize the output of long-term sustainable agriculture. Agronomists, soil scientists, and plant/crop breeders will be interested in the results presented here. ... Read more

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Incredible A Lost Treasure.
This book won the national book award in 1963 for fiction. Our hero Father Urban is a little quirky and self-centered; yet even with those faults it is hard not to sympathize with him. I approached this book with some regret. It was the last of Powers' works I would have the chance to read. So I took my time and slowly read chapter by chapter, savoring the book over a much longer period than I normally would. The book was both satisfying and a bit of a disappointment. It was satisfying in that I have now completed the published books of J. F. Powers. It was also sad because of this fact. It was a bit disappointing in that the story feels unfinished. Like a chapter was left out when it went to printing.

Some of the plot was inevitable, and predictable, but the characters you meet along the way make the book very engaging and entertaining. I am a post Vatican II baby. As such, I do not know the Latin Mass - have only read books, and seen films of what the church was like before that period. Powers is a master at creating characters, and characters that are believable. His priests, brothers, monsignors and even bishops are believable to anyone who has had serious interactions even with clergy of today. I know of a priest locally who could be an Urban walking off the page to take up ministry today.

Many segments of this book were previously published as short stories in a variety of sources. Powers was a master at the short story, but his creative genius was his ability to take those short stories and turn them into a convincing novel. He has done this with both his published novels - this book Morte D'Urban and Wheat That Springeth Green. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award and Urban won. That is the testament to Powers' power and prowess with the quill. It is also witness to his ability to transcend the short story, a genre that appears to be going by the wayside, and to compile books of great depth and insight. Modern author Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, wanted to write a book of short stories, but his publisher, even with his popularity after Fight Club, would not allow him a book of short stories. Then Palauniuk wrote Haunted a collection of characters' personal stories told by a group of writers locked in a building. Powers achieves what Palahniuk does not in that his stories flow together seamlessly, where Palahniuk's are obviously individual stories.

This book is worth the read for anyone wanting a glimpse of insight into post World War II Catholicism, especially in the Midwest. But it is also a great study of people and why they do what they do - what drives them to achieve, their dreams and ultimately their failures and defeats. Unfortunately I have now read all of Powers' fiction. Fortunately the 2 books and 3 collections of short stories can be savored again and again. I can predict I have not finished with reading Powers, or Urban.

Incredible A Lost Treasure.
This book won the national book award in 1963 for fiction. Our hero Father Urban is a little quirky and self-centered; yet even with those faults it is hard not to sympathize with him. I approached this book with some regret. It was the last of Powers' works I would have the chance to read. So I took my time and slowly read chapter by chapter, savoring the book over a much longer period than I normally would. The book was both satisfying and a bit of a disappointment. It was satisfying in that I have now completed the published books of J. F. Powers. It was also sad because of this fact. It was a bit disappointing in that the story feels unfinished. Like a chapter was left out when it went to printing.

Some of the plot was inevitable, and predictable, but the characters you meet along the way make the book very engaging and entertaining. I am a post Vatican II baby. As such, I do not know the Latin Mass - have only read books, and seen films of what the church was like before that period. Powers is a master at creating characters, and characters that are believable. His priests, brothers, monsignors and even bishops are believable to anyone who has had serious interactions even with clergy of today. I know of a priest locally who could be an Urban walking off the page to take up ministry today.

Many segments of this book were previously published as short stories in a variety of sources. Powers was a master at the short story, but his creative genius was his ability to take those short stories and turn them into a convincing novel. He has done this with both his published novels - this book Morte D'Urban and Wheat That Springeth Green. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award and Urban won. That is the testament to Powers' power and prowess with the quill. It is also witness to his ability to transcend the short story, a genre that appears to be going by the wayside, and to compile books of great depth and insight. Modern author Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, wanted to write a book of short stories, but his publisher, even with his popularity after Fight Club, would not allow him a book of short stories. Then Palauniuk wrote Haunted a collection of characters' personal stories told by a group of writers locked in a building. Powers achieves what Palahniuk does not in that his stories flow together seamlessly, where Palahniuk's are obviously individual stories.

This book is worth the read for anyone wanting a glimpse of insight into post World War II Catholicism, especially in the Midwest. But it is also a great study of people and why they do what they do - what drives them to achieve, their dreams and ultimately their failures and defeats. Unfortunately I have now read all of Powers' fiction. Fortunately the 2 books and 3 collections of short stories can be savored again and again. I can predict I have not finished with reading Powers, or Urban. ... Read more

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In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a singlevolume for the first time, Powers wrote about many things: baseball andjazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight tothe suburbs. His greatest subject, howeverand one that was uniquelyhiswas the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest. Powers sthoroughly human priests, who include do-gooders, gladhanders,wheeler-dealers, petty tyrants, and even the odd saint, struggle tokeep up with the Joneses in a country unabashedly devoted toconsumption. These beautifully written, deeply sympathetic, andvery funny stories are an unforgettable record of the precariousbalancing act that is American life. Publisher: Random House Author: J.F. Powers Format: 592 pages, paperback ISBN: 9780940322226 ... Read more