Rick Smith

"[This] book takes a magnifying glass to great teaching, revealing the key assumptions that allow teachers to organize their teaching and discipline students in ways that invite student cooperation."—From the Foreword by Spence Rogers, Founder and DirectorPeak Learning Systems"Rick Smith peeks behind the invisible veil of good teaching to discover numerous enlightening clas

Have you ever asked yourself, "Is this it?" Maybe you're trapped in a dead-end job that you're afraid to leave. Or maybe you already have a good job-one that gives you room to grow and exercise your talents-but you don't really feel like you're doing your best work. Your life is plain vanilla, yet you know in your heart that you can be a triple scoop banana split. You just don

The fundamental security question facing us all today is how to allow everyone access to more information services, while not compromising our own freedom and security. Security is about the environment, the processes and the policies involved. This book offers you help in finiding the right balance and will save you time and money getting there. This book is written for you if you are working in

In October of 1967, Rick Smith was a college journalist covering a huge Vietnam War protest march at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Three years later he was drafted into the military - as thousands were - and found himself on his way to the war itself. This is a different story about having served in Vietnam. There are notales of battlefield terror or glory. It's as much a love story as a war sto

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Picture This! Visuals and Rubrics to Teach Procedures, Save Your Voice, and Love Your Students

Find out all about the FIRST REAL ALTERNATIVE to smoking cigarettes Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping provides the first real alternative to smoking tobacco. So how does it work, and why should you consider it? Smokers die, on average, nine years earlier than non-smokers Over 8m Americans live with smoking related disease Vaping eliminates the harmful ca

Overwhelmed with all the choices available in the App Store? There are so many options that it's hard to know which ones are the best. We only have so much money to spend on apps, and we don't want to waste our hard earned cash on apps that will fall flat and disappoint.In this concise booklet, you will get a great list of the best iPhone apps, learn about the best iPhone a

The Process and FAQs for Home Buying Mortgages and Refinance Home Loans. Buying a home is an exciting yet stressful time, especially if you're a first time homeowner. Many buyers don't realize that there's a lot of prep work to do before you even start looking at homes. For example, did you know that real estate agents and sellers consider a pre-approved buyer's offer more attractive

ONE MORE WOULDN'T HURTBy Rick Smith A Novel of Booze, Birds and Getting Banged up Tommy Bradman is on the downward spiral of alcoholism. In his mid-twenties, he is treacherously good looking, a compulsive womaniser and a criminal. The one constant in his life is Val, his long suffering girlfriend, who loves him with a passion, but knows she must eventually leave him. One More Wouldn't Hurt i

The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford’s Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg’s printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be t

Much has been written about the architect Frank Gehry and his artistic experimental architecture. Not much has been written about the implementation of process, software and computers in his office that made it all happen. The latter has been vague because there is an inside story that has never been told.This book is about that untold story, written in great detail by the person who b

This is the story of how my wife Grace and I, after forty years of living in traditional housing, were suddenly forced into the small-space world. Without money to build or buy, we had to get creative with what we had. There were some hard choices involved in moving a life lived in 1800 square feet to 300 square feet. In this book, we share why and how we started on our journey to tiny house livin