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Berkeley, CA: James & Kenneth, 2001. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/New & Bright. 2001, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated soft cover/Fine. Basic good citizen training for the first three months of raising puppies that they may mature to be enjoyed by all. Author Dr. Ian Dunbar (1947 -) is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist & dog trainer. British TV host, and founder of the Assoc. of Pet Dog Trainers. He received his veterinary degree w/Special Honours in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College, London Univ, a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Depart at UC Berkeley, specializing in development of social hierarchies & aggression in domestic dogs. At the point of publication, Dunbar happily shared his Berkeley home w/two dogs & a cat. 157 pgs with b/w photos, 8 chapters: 1, Developmental Deadlines; 2, Household Etiquette. 3, Home Alone; 4, Socialization With People; 5, Learning Bite Inhibition; 6, The… Read More

New York, NY: Silver Burdett Press, 1941. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/Near New. Vintage 1941 First Edition, First Thus. Grey linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to corner tips, upper/lower spine edges, & lower front edge; marked discoloration to spine. Exposition on the role of music in democratic living. Professor Wilson of Columbia Univ, Teachers College endeavors to explain the "why", "what" and "how" of music in high schools. Text in 3 parts: I, Modern Trends in Secondary Education; II, Musical Experience; III, Administration followed by two appendices. Strong copy.

Washington, D.C.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1919. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Gray soft cover/VG; sound w/soiling. Former school department reference copy w/attendant stamps to front/rear pgs. First published in 1919; this is a 1955 reprint. Collection of 10 number stories from many lands w/Question Boxes at the end of each tale. Illustrated with color plates and line drawings. Frontispiece is titled "Ching and His Three Turtles", showing a clean scrubbed, well-groomed, sage-like Chinese man wrapped, rather incredulously, in a sarong of leopard skins. Other color plates are likewise fanciful & imaginative. Common theme is man's fascination with numbers and number puzzles.

Belmont, CA: Fearon Teacher Aids, 1982. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Sam Cherry (Photographer). Text/NEW & Bright. 1982, First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Reference/ resource & assistance for teachers & parents w/out-of-the-ordinary disruptive & uncooperative children needing special care. For some, an alternate approach less coercive punishments, threats, and physical & verbal abuse can be more effective. 184 pgs, 21 chapters filled with alternative ways to foster social responsibility & self-respect, in 2 parts: Part I, Discipline: Problems of Control for Children & Adults; and Part II, The Magic List: Alternatives to Punitive Discipline, followed by Index.

London, UK: Routledge, 1992. 1st Paperback Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. First Paperback Edition, First Thus. Documentation of research in the development of social cognition accompanying aquisition of communicative competence as demonstrated in children. Rules for approriate language use vary culturally but the same factors of context, suitable topics of discourse pending sex, age. familiarity and relative social status of speaker and listener are in play --- communicative competence, in any culture, is defined as the ability to speak both grammatically and appropriately . Volume examines how children absorb sensitive rules governing appropriate language and use of linguistic devises towards that end. Subject matter is both linguistic and social cogition. Children under study are young, prose style suitable for a wide audience. Excellent book for parents and teachers guiding young towards socially esteemed patterns of speech and appropriate expression, for… Read More