Massage has been proven to enhance babies and toddlers brain development encouraging brighter happier children--and this beautifully illustrated guide makes it abundantly clear how easy it is to learn how.
Baby Massage offers parents and caretakers safe and easy-to-learn massage techniques that reinforce bonding and all-around wellbeing.
Step-by-step pictures show simple methods to soothe fretful babies help them to get to sleep and ease the pain of common ailments such as colic and teething.

If writing is one of your favourite things, but you feel that you need some help releasing the creativity that drives it, then this book is for you. It aims to get you writing, keep you writing, and enable you to enjoy it to the full. It will show you how to free your own unique voice and create original and individual work. Packed with exercises, the book includes: visualisation techniques, flow charts, dream-work, and word webs. Each of these is designed to help you to explore both your conscious and your subconscious mind and to harness your creativity with a view to developing your characters, settings, plot and dialogue. Additional exercises focus on sustaining your physical well-being, providing the perfect setting in which to develop your writing. Case studies charting the experiences of creative writing students show how these exercises can actually work to help find a way of writing that suits you. Best of all, this inspiring book fills you with the desire to write and reveals how best to fulfil this desire.

This guide shows you how to build an interactive website from design to deployment. Packed with solutions to website programming problems, this book will have you building well-engineered, extendable ASP.NET websites quickly and easily.

Alpha Teach Yourself Business Plans in 24 Hours is a step-by-step guide for writing a business plan that any entrepreneur can provide to bankers, venture capital firms, and other potential investors. The author explains what investors look for in a business plan and shows how to create a plan that will result in funding and support.

Do you love mighty tugboats or sleek fighter jets? Whatever your favorite ship or airplane, you'll soon be drawing these vehicles like a pro with the help of this fun book. Just follow the steps and you'll have a great-looking transporter before you know it. Fact-filled descriptions accompany the drawings, so you can learn all about planes and boats. You'll also find tips on adding details to your drawing - like a banner for your biplane or a skull and crossbones for your pirate ship. So get out some paper and grab a pencil. Then get ready, get set, and get drawing!

This second edition of the ACE Aerobics Instructor Manual began nearly 12 months ago with a comprehensive review of the skills and knowledge needed by group fitness instructors to perform their job with a basic level of competency. The outcome of this review, referred to as a role delineation, was used as the basis for developing the content of this manual. This new manual presents the most current, complete picture of the knowledge, instructional techniques and professional responsibilities group fitness instructors need to teach safe and effective exercise. It is designed to serve as a study aid for exam candidates preparing for the ACE certification exam and as a comprehensive fitness resource for new and veteran group fitness instructors.

Advances in technology are increasingly impacting the way in which curriculum is delivered and assessed. The emergence of the Internet has offered learners a new instructional delivery system that connects them with educational resources. Advances in Web-Based Education: Personalized Learning Environments covers a wide range of factors that influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning environments, and it shows how user and pedagogical considerations can be integrated into the design, development and implementation of adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning environments...