Helping Hands

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Ocho is the best at helping others. But who will help him when he needs it? Character concept: Caring: Be kind.

Children love to imitate adult behaviour. This title helps you to encourage your child to help out and develop new skills as they share in the fun of more grown up activities.

Emerging readers can practice the alphabet and important life skills at the same time.

A boy helps his parents sow and water seeds, transplant small plants, weed, and harvest a home garden and share some of the produce with a neighbor.

In 1779 in Fairfield, Connecticut, Hannah and her family try to maintain a sense of normalcy as the Revolutionary War rages around them, threatening to destroy their way of life. Includes maps, historical notes and a recipe for traditional johnnycake. B&W illustrations throughout.

Written in a light-hearted narrative, Helping Hands is a contemporary romantic tale mixed with a family saga, a handful of mysteries and many heart-warming characters.

This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician. Taking the examination of the hands as a springboard – often the initial step in physical examination and from which a wealth of information can be gleaned – through real-life clinical cases readers are encouraged to refine their powers of observation and decision-making strategy. Key features: • Encourages a conscious approach to clinical reasoning – ‘see’ rather than just ‘look’ • Develops an understanding of why all clinicians can be responsible for diagnostic mistakes and how, with a raised awareness, they can work towards avoiding error • Outlines approaches that can be used when taking a history and when examining patients in any clinical setting • Bundled e-book for use ‘on the go’ while the companion website provides additional materials for students and lecturers including self-assessment questions and teaching guidance Outlining the process of formulating and refining an initial diagnosis, in using this book the medical student or junior doctor will develop a critical self-awareness of the strategies they employ in assessing patients, learn how to improve and enhance their skills, and feel enabled to craft an appropriate management plan.

Provides real-life examples of ways that young people and their families can reach out as volunteers to help others cope with tragedies or just to make their communities better places in which to live.

Jill Kreshky is recently divorced. She is doing her best to reclaim her life. After an accident causes her to spend six weeks alone in a hospital, she is haunted by the awareness that she must find a way to once again become part of her childrens lives. Unfortunately, Jill doesnt have a car, her job is temporarily on hold, her bank account is empty. There is no question that Jill needs encouragement from someone she can trust. After she learns that a church friend, Bill Wynchuk, has been more loyal to her than she ever realized, Jill decides to invite him for supper. As he relies on his faith and skills as a psychologist to lovingly lead Jill to appreciate her inner strength and need for the Lord, she gains insights that propel her down a path of reconciliation that helps her mend relations with her son and return to Ontario to face her greatest fears about her family and unveil a deeply buried secret. In this inspirational story, a woman attempting to reclaim her life is led on an emotional journey, with help from a devoted friend, that ultimately reveals the truth and prompts her to seek forgiveness.

This is a story of resilience, survival, and struggle; of appreciating how multi-storied our lives are; and to bearing witness to the alternating themes of economics, religion, and gender issues. Kimit Rai was born in a time of political turmoil and generational trauma. He knew the feeling of losing freedom, and losing family members; he understood the value of proactive thinking, foresight, and value of action. Through life experiences, Dr. Rai faced choices that would mark not only his own future, but also the future of hundreds more. He ultimately created connections across the world, sharing how stories can motivate people to accomplish and share good things. Since the creation of Operation Rainbow Canada, the organization has treated over 2000 children over the world and built great relationship with the host countries and Canada. There are no cultural, economic, or multiracial barriers in this venture. Just the drive to do the common good of helping another human being.