Marie Phillips

Many of our 6-12 grade students are struggling in public schools. Approximately 2 million students dropped out of high school last year-that's one student every 26 seconds, or over 7,000 per day. 25% of high school freshmen will fail to graduate. Students without diplomas face unemployment, homelessness, the pipeline to prison, and more. More than one-third of secondary teachers are leaving their occupation or transferring to other schools-about 270,000 teachers. Teachers also face serious concerns including difficulties with students, parents, and community members. Many administrators use their teacher evaluation tools to find fault in teacher performance with minimal emphasis on ways to improve and support teachers. We need to stop using the military model of discipline and order to control our students and teachers. Using punishment through isolation, embarrassment, bullying, and other physical and emotionally negative treatment have to stop. Education Humanely Applied by Dr. Marie Phillips supports other ways to use time differently and to use humane methods of dealing with both students and teachers. Many schools are successfully applying these methods with excellent results. Change isn't easy, but the possibilities are tremendous when schools use the time to assist teachers and students, staff development to support the addition of student-centred teaching and learning, and when attitudes change to a supportive, creative, and uplifting atmosphere in schools. Dr. Phillips presents not only her views based on professional experience with this change process, but she also provides the research so readers can find many other educators and schools that have successfully moved from a negative system to a positive, supportive, actually thriving educational process.

Livet är hårt för en grekisk gud 2004: ingen tror på dig längre och du är fast i ett ruckel i London med för många släktingar och inte nog med varmvatten. Men för Artemis (jaktens gudinna, professionell hundvakt), Afrodite (skönhetens gudinna, telefonsexförsäljare) och Apollon (solens gud, TV-medium) finns det ingen väg ut ur eländet. Inte förrän ett par vanliga dödliga kommer in i deras liv.

We all ask ourselves 'how did I get here?' So try running away or sexting without ruining your life, and create your own midlife crisis with Marie Phillips' hilarious book.

Shakespeare clone and would-be playwright Billy has just arrived in an English seaside town with his sister Sally, who was cloned from a hair found on the back of a bus seat. All Billy wants is a cheap B&B, an ice cream and a huge hit in the West End. Little does he know that their fellow clones Bill and Sal are also residents of this town. Things are about to get confusing – cue professional rivalry, marital discord and a family reunion like no other.This modern update of The Comedy of Errors is what you get when Gods Behaving Badly author Marie Phillips decides to write an important, scholarly work about the life of William Shakespeare, reads the complete works, including the long poems nobody likes, and then decides to turn it into a witty, delightful romp that you can probably finish reading in an afternoon with two tea breaks.

Financial fables (of which this book is one) are short tales - often using animals - to teach a moral or lesson about money and finances. As part of my efforts to help bring financial literacy to the next generation, the Whinny Series of financial fables joins a universal girl favorite (horses) with stories of self sufficiency, learning to earn, moving ahead and dealing with all the expensive things life can throw at us. Whinny Gets Help is the fourth story in the series. In it, Whinny finds that even though she has had extensive formal training and has been on the job learning more for awhile, a mentor and a sponsor would greatly help her get to the next level in her career as a police mount. Will she find the help she needs to do the job right?

From Marie Phillips, author of the #1 national and international bestseller Gods Behaving Badly, comes a charming, funny story about a down-on-his-luck knight of Camelot, his eccentric band of misfits and their madcap quest to restore order to their lives, and the realm. Sir Humphrey du Val has had enough. Relegated to the Table of Less Valued Knights--Camelot's least prestigious spot, boringly rectangular in shape and with one leg shorter than the other so that it has to be propped up with a folded napkin to stop it from rocking--he has been banned by King Arthur from going on quests, and hasn't left the castle in 15 years. After a chance meeting with Elaine, a young maiden in search of her kidnapped fianc , Sir Humphrey, along with his squire Conrad (an undersized giant) and Jemima (Conrad's elephant), sets off on a journey to find the distressed damsel's betrothed, hoping to restore himself to a place of honour at the Round Table. Meanwhile, Martha, an errant queen on the run from her new power-hungry husband, is in disguise and on a quest of her own to find her long-lost brother, the true ruler of her realm. Martha soon runs--literally--into Humphrey's eccentric group, who take the incognito queen captive, believing her to be a boy. As they journey through countryside, castles and villages, they gather unlikely friends and enemies along the way. While each member of the party secretly harbours their own ambitions for the quest, their collective success, and the fate of the realm, rests on their grudging cooperation and unexpectedly interconnected lives. The Princess Bride meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail in this funny, charming, and delightful tale about lesser-known heroes in Arthurian England.

Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionSir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights â?? Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others so that it has to be propped up with a folded napkin â?? doesn't do quests ...

The world's first gay, equine, military, epistolary romance.Newly discovered letters written from Wellington's warhorse (Marengo) to Napoleon's warhorse (Copenhagen) and vice versa.Includes extra material not featured in the Radio 4 series, both elements of the letters cut from the final scripts and additional material not featured in the shows at all, including the letters from Marengo to his hygienist and the horse he plays chess with, and the notes between Copenhagen and the annoying dog he has to share a stall with.Initially written as a series of letters between the authors (each choosing a stretch of the Napoleonic wars between them to examine and write into the most recent letter). They were then performed with great success at the Tall Tales evenings in Kilburn until the letters were picked up by the BBC for broadcast in autumn 2011.

In this "witty and entertaining" twist on Greek mythology (James Urquhart), the once all-powerful gods find themselves scraping by in a run-down London townhouse as they learn how to be human--and try not to destroy the world in the process. Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse--and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ. Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning, and even turning mortals into trees--a favorite pastime of Apollo's--is sapping their vital reserves of strength. Soon, what begins as a minor squabble between Aphrodite and Apollo escalates into an epic battle of wills. Two perplexed humans, Alice and Neil, who are caught in the crossfire, must fear not only for their own lives, but for the survival of humankind. Nothing less than a true act of heroism is needed--but can these two decidedly ordinary people replicate the feats of the mythical heroes and save the world?

But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out...