Bøger af Susan Benjamin

About the BookNorman lives in Mrs. B.'s classroom. He even has his own little bed! He is one very happy cow! Mrs. B. and Norman love to welcome all the new kindergarten students into the classroom at the start of each year.Inspired by a true story from author Susan Benjamin's own kindergarten classroom, Norman the Kindergarten Cow shows the importance of making new students feel welcome and secure on their first day of school.About the AuthorSusan Benjamin taught elementary school for thirty years and has also worked as an educational consultant where she traveled to many states to share her ideas. Her husband taught physical education in the same school, and together they coached women's gymnastics. She and her husband have two sons, one daughter, three granddaughters, and one grandson, as well as three pups whom they love. She enjoys skiing, walking, and kayaking.

The history of fun foods is fast, energetic, and full of surprises. Ever-present and multi-faceted, fun foods have made appearances at birthday parties and lunch boxes in numerous guises, from Twinkies to energy bars. No mere high calorie treats, fun foods were instrumental to the core of how we live, and integral to the influence of Domestic Science, the shifting power of women at home, the use of fun foods as a weapon during war and the corporate swells that swallowed fun foods whole...and turned it into virtually everything we eat today. Each chapter contains recipes, interviews about fun foods with everyone from the 90-year-old daughter of a West Virginia coal miner and an African American great-grandmother raised in a sharecropper family in the South. Fun Foods of America will take them to free web sites to find online cookbooks dating back to the 1600s (with transcriptions!) and those with original paintings, drawings, and photographs of venues such as the World Fairs, where the newest fun food was introduced.

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism.Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment. Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino survey dozens of influential houses by architects whose contributions are ripe for reappraisal, such as Paul Schweikher, Harry Weese, Keck & Keck, and William Pereira. From the bold, early example of the "Battledeck House" by Henry Dubin (1930) to John Vinci and Lawrence Kenny's gem the Freeark House (1975), the generation-spanning residences discussed here reveal how these architects contended with climate and natural setting while negotiating the dominant influences of Wright and Mies. They also reveal how residential clients--typically middle-class professionals, progressive in their thinking--helped to trailblaze modern architecture in America. Though reflecting different approaches to site, space, structure, and materials, the examples in Modern in the Middle reveal an abundance of astonishing houses that have never been collected into one study--until now.

Offers ready-to-use phrases that help readers avoid disasters, steer clear of sticky circumstances with coworkers, and leave them in control. This guide provides words for various situations, including: handling criticism and being heard criticizing; picking up the ball when someone else has dropped it; and deflecting a flirtatious client.

Words at Work gives you quick-and-easy recipes for the most important letters, reports, and proposals. It steers you around the potholes of punctuation, usage, and grammar. Soon all your business documents, from press releases to e-mail, will reflect your best work--and leave you enough time to do that work!

Part of the "Perfect Phrases" series, this work provides the tools for precise, effective communication in various situations. Whether it's hiring employees or creating teams, it gives you the phrases you need to get things done.