Transformative Books
Transformative Books Testimonials
$14
HOW SHOULD WE BE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN? In this insightful and inspiring book Arthur Biffis and Arthur Lockhart demonstrate the importance of Human Touch in the quest for personal achievement and positive relationships in our schools. Biffis and Lockhart introduce seven Human Touch principles to inspire optimism, goodwill, and a highly respectful classroom.
Here for the first time are simple but powerful ideas for creating personal awareness and effectiveness for teachers and principals. Exploring the principles of Human Touch in schools Biffis and Lockhart have a long track record of fostering healthy educational settings.
This is an invaluable and illuminating guide filled with brilliant insights into human relationships. The Human Touch is a tool that any teacher can use to bring about positive change in the classroom.
$8.99
Story by Brad Hutchinson Illustrated by Duncan Seton A class camping trip in Algonquin Park turns into a horrible nightmare when five students are flung deep into the forest by a violent storm.
They must fight their fears as wolves, bears, and other wild animals threaten their lives.
Through tremendous trials and tribulations the five classmates learn about teamwork, loyalty, and perseverance. If they survive, they will share a strong bond of friendship and a deep appreciation for the natural world of Algonquin Park.
The Eye of the Storm is a thrilling adventure featuring five extraordinary characters that must find courage in face of adversity. Easy reading and full of suspense each chapter ends leaving the reader wondering what will happen next.
Praise for The Eye of the Storm
$25
Transformative Book Restorative justice is an ancient wisdom, once lost and now being rediscovered. It is the wisdom based on the 5 tenets of community, Capacity, Connection, Voice, and Sacredness.
Restorative justice goes much deeper than the exclusive experience of a mediation process between a single offender and a single victim. Rather, it demonstrates how we can all deal with the harm, pain, trauma that comes into our lives, by attending to the building of community. Restorative justice demonstrates that within community we finally understand that we are all interconnected. In essence, restorative justice is about all of us.
This book encourages justice practitioners, educators, students, in fact all of us to engage chronic issues of crime, people in conflict, and states of non-community with new eyes and new ways of being.
This book outlines:
* The philosophy of restorative justice
* The distinctions between retributive and restorative justice
* The features of the aboriginal healing paradigm
* The voices of those who have been victimized, as well as voices of those who have victimized others
* The specific steps of facilitating restorative justice circles
* The meaning of community capacity building
* The specific role facilitating a restorative justice circle
* Specific illustrations of restorative justice circles being integrated within the organizations of school systems, community agencies working with youth at risk, and whole neighborhoods
* Specific links of restorative justice to the federal legislation of the Youth Criminal Justice Act
$25
Ideal as a text for Capacity Building and Community Development courses. Workbook format complete with practical exercises.
Arthur and Michael have decades of experience on the streets and with people who have been excluded. They have created sucessful programs for people who most say cannot succeed. This book is about their experiences - and how they did it - so you can do it. It is a guide with practical experience and lessons. If you are 'organizing complex progreams for people labels difficult, or if you are wondering 'what should I do?" - this is the book for you.
"As our organization engages students in positive social change, this book provides the background and the strategy we need to realize our vision."
Dave Kranenburg, Meal Exchange
$14
The Engaged Mind: Your Creative Call to Action
Discover a Peaceful Channel to Release that Awesome Power dwelling within You Right Now. "The Engaged Mind" Facilitates the Honest Expression of Your Natural Creative Energy. If You understand these little black symbols (words) then You can Do, Be, or Have Anything on which You Focus Your mind.
More Transformative Books are forthcoming. If you have and idea for a Transformative Book and don't know how to get your ideas into print please visit Transformative Publishing.
$17
(Suspense/Drama)
When Charlie, a 19 year old scientific prodigy, realizes that the men in power are using his intelligence to build and use weapons of mass destruction his beautiful visions turn into horrifying nightmares.
August 30th 1945 he disappears without a trace. 55 years later an aristocratic young artist, Melissa, is on a mission to save the homeless. She discovers that an old man named Charlie has information on a 15-year-old girl that died on the streets. After an explosive beginning, Melissa finally convinces Charlie to come forward and bring justice to the man that killed the girl he loved.
Completely intrigued by this intelligent homeless man, Melissa's personal life begins to crumble. Her obsession impels her into the peril of an abandoned complex where Charlie flees after testifying. There she encourages him to hide out in the safety of her apartment. As Charlie's life-story unravels before Melissa, she is driven to the brink of despair by the futility of her ambition. The power structure will never allow the life-saving gifts of creative geniuses to enter their tightly controlled world. Time is catching up with Charlie, Melissa, and humanity as American authorities hone in on their position.
In this thought-provoking social novel about loss and awakening a story unfolds with vibrant imagery and ideology that shows how the atom first became the ultimate tool of destruction instead of the definitive power of medicine and longevity.
