Michael Pastore

Child Maintenance is the art, and the loving work, of keeping a child in optimum physical and mental health. The goal of Child Maintenance is to nurture happy, resilient children: kids who are able to play, to appreciate Nature, to create, to love life, and to love learning.Written for parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors, psychologists - and everyone who works with children - this book offers a lively blend of sound ideas and practical advice. This book will help you to: ◎ Find responses to misbehavior that are caring & calm. ◎ Give up the negative never-ending cycle of punishing, threatening, and yelling at kids.◎ Understand what misbehavior is, and why children misbehave.◎ Prevent misbehavior by encouraging active play, and nourishing the child's creativity.◎ Transform problems into opportunities that teach the child the essential skills of resilience and self-reliance

The Ithaca Manual of Style: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction that is Clear, Concise, and Captivating. Most traditional style guides are mere reference books containing countless tedious rules and reminders about SPUG: spelling, punctuation, usage, and grammar. The Ithaca Manual of Style is not about the fanatic obsession with correctness. In a lively style, The Ithaca Manual illuminates how professional writers write with precision, power, energy, and passion.From the book: "What is style? ... It is more, vastly more, than the sum of the diction (the choice and use of words), the syntax (the arrangement of words in phrases and sentences), and the careful crafting of sentences to transmit an idea or evoke a feeling. Style, in great writing, is the sincerest expression of the author's inmost self. Great style is clear, concise, and captivating - nothing is lacking, nothing is superfluous. Whenever we read great writing something genuine in it moves us, in waves of resonance and recognition, with rays of wonder and delight."

Here is a feast of wise sayings, remarkable remarks, electrifying passages, and original haiku, each one pointing a way to happiness, inner peace, and the wisdom of the heart. These 500 mind-opening quotations include more than 50 never-published-before gems of Eastern enlightenment by Ming Li and Hokkumeboshi. This bright book also includes Pastore's captivating parable - "The Wise Woman and the Dying Man". Zenlightenment is a book for dreamers and seekers, and for everyone who desires a life of more creativity and love. This wisdom of the heart is epitomized by H.D. Thoreau: "Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her Spring," and Hokkumeboshi: "This is not a book/ it's a bright path calling you / home to your true self. "

Lark's Magic is the story of the four wildest and cleverest kids to romp through the pages of a book since Tom Sawyer, Tom Brown, Alice (of Wonderland), and Huckleberry Finn. Here you will meet Brains, the eloquent boy-genius; the rambunctious Zerp, who's been to the principal's office so many times, they had to put in a revolving door; Larquest Nova, who wears a mask to hide a shocking secret; and PDQ, who lives in his unique and hilarious imagination. Mingled with the fun, games, riddles, stories, and songs are great themes: friendship, reading good books, the joy of nature, the power of play and creativity, and finding the courage to follow your own true heart. Published by Zorba Press.