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New eBook Source

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CBD now offers 1000’s of Christian eBooks!


Whether you’re new to eBooks  or an experienced eBook reader, you’ll love being able to:

  • Read your books just seconds after purchasing.
  • Take a whole library with you without the weight and space of a library (on the portable devises you already own.) (They don’t take up space at home either.)

These eBooks do not require a dedicated eReader. You can read them on your computer, as well as other devises that have a browser, such as iPod, iPad, Android, and more – with the FREE CBD Reader (no app to download.) Your books will always be bookmarked at the place you left off, regardless of how many different devises you use to read them. And you can customize size and font for your reading comfort.

If you do have a dedicated eReader, such as Sony Reader, Nook, or Kobo, you can read your eBooks from CBD on those too. (Sorry, because of Kindle’s propriety format, Kindle devises are not supported.)

Pick up a few FREE eBooks to give it a try today. (I found 3 great ones that I’ve already read in paper format.)

And you can read a FREE sample of any and all eBooks that CBD offers.

or watch the introductory video here!

Productivity through Mind Mapping

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How much would it be worth to you to save
a day of your time every week?

Mind Mapping is a super tool for increasing productivity. Plan, teach, brainstorm, solve problems, make decisions. Mind Mapping will help. NovaMind is one of the computer based Mind Mapping tools we recommend. Read below for a Special Offer for our readers from NovaMind.

Get NovaMind Platinum today and increase your productivity…and as a special offer, receive a free eBook valued at US$39.95 – either the “Business Guide to Mind Mapping” or “Teacher’s Guide to Mind Mapping”.

Isn’t it so frustrating that despite our best intentions we so often fail to meet the levels of success we desire? You probably started this year thinking about how you were going to do much better this year, but like most people, you probably suffered from:

  • Feeling overwhelmed by everything you need to do
  • Getting stuck, and procrastinating on important tasks
  • Having a lack of direction and finding it hard to make decisions and prioritize tasks
  • Missing tasks out when planning projects

But it doesn’t have to be like that.

Click here for a free video based course that will teach you how you can benefit from using Mind Mapping for:

  • Note taking
  • Problem solving
  • Decision making
  • To-do lists
  • Presentation preparation
  • Presentation delivery
  • Project planning
  • Knowledge management
  • Strategic planning
  • Business planning
  • Brainstorming
  • Writing articles, technical documents and books using Mind Maps
  • Life planning

Get the free video based training to ensure your success now.

Why let another year go by with sub-par results? You can fix this right now very easily – all you need is a few easy to use tools and easy to learn techniques. Research has proved that most people increase their efficiency by at least 20% just by using these Mind Mapping tools. That gives you back at least an extra day a week.

NovaMind is Mind Mapping software which helps you understand, remember, and communicate complex information and solve problems. NovaMind Platinum supports brainstorming, boosts Business Planning and Project Management. NovaMind is quick to learn and easy to use, and is a proven solution for enhancing productivity and effectiveness. NovaMind Pro is available for Windows and Mac.

Alex O’Neal of Mascot Pictures in United Kingdom says:

“This is by far the most brilliant, liberating and creatively valuable program on my computer.”

A long time NovaMind user said:

“I have owned NovaMind for a while and have seen it improve greatly over the years. I now use it for brainstorming, putting together my weekly to-do list, project planning, website design, speech development… you name it.”

We have a very exciting offer for you: Buy NovaMind Platinum Today and get either “Business Guide to Mind Mapping” or “Teacher’s Guide to Mind Mapping” thrown in.

All you have to do is:

  1. Click this link to download and try out NovaMind Platinum:
  2. Choose whether you want to receive the “Business Guide to Mind Mapping” or “Teacher’s Guide to Mind Mapping” when you make your purchase. Click the relevant button below:

Stop Press: Free upgrade thrown in! When you purchase now, you will receive a license key that will work for both the current NovaMind 4, and the upcoming NovaMind 5!

Joshua Kuhl of Bridgewater, United States says:

“What great software! Every once in a while you find something that is truly worth the price paid – and this is certainly it!

For many years I have been looking for some way of getting the ideas that flow through my brain onto some kind of paper to be used later. The traditional methods of outlines just don’t work for me. NovaMind does!

It’s fast, it’s easy and it works!

Many thanks! I look forward to being more productive using NovaMind!”

100% Money Back Guarantee – for a whole year

NovaMind software are so sure of the value you will receive from NovaMind that you get a one year money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with the software, your money will quickly be refunded in full.

… Get your free upgrade to NovaMind 5 thrown in!

NovaMind 5 is the next big thing in productivity software. The leading industry experts agree:

Bruce Eisner of Mindware says:

“I believe that NovaMind in its new Version 5 is will now be ranked in the top tier of software programs in the mind mapping genre … and it may be heading for the Number 1 position.”

Chuck Frey of Innovation Tools says:

“In the 3+ years I have been reporting on the world of mind mapping tools and software, NovaMind have consistently been the innovators – the ones to watch who tend to come up with the cool yet practical capabilities that no one has thought of yet. NovaMind 5 promises to deliver yet another leap in what’s possible.”

NovaMind 4 is a great Mind Mapping program, but NovaMind have not sat still. Far from it. They have gone right back to the drawing board and developed a completely new program from the ground up, taking all the ideas and feedback from 7 years of NovaMind, and building the next great thing in Mind Mapping. NovaMind 5 will be rolled out this year.

Great Offer:

NovaMind 4: value US$249.00
+ NovaMind 5 Upgrade: value US$65.00
+ eBook: value US$39.95
Total Value US$353.95

Now only US$249.00

All you have to do is:

  1. Click this link to download and try out NovaMind Platinum:
  2. Choose whether you want to receive the “Business Guide to Mind Mapping” or “Teacher’s Guide to Mind Mapping” when you make your purchase. Click the relevant button below:

Get your copy of NovaMind now and increase your productivity, success and happiness.

Offer expires March 31st, 2010. Your license key will work for both NovaMind 4 Platinum and NovaMind 5 Platinum. License keys work for both the Mac and Windows versions of NovaMind, and you can use a single license key for both your work and home computers, so long as there is only one user using it concurrently. Multiple user licenses are available at the online store – volume discounts are applied automatically.

Handbook of Nature Study

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Do you have this great resource? The Handbook of Nature Study is a large, comprehensive, helpful guide to nature by Anna Botsford Comstock, written in 1911. This book has been reprinted and is used by many home educators, especially those incorporating Charlotte Mason methods, which includes nature study as a major component of the home “curriculum.”

If you don’t have this book yet, and don’t want to buy one (yet,) you can download a free ebook version from Homeschool Freebie of the Day (today’s the last day,) or if you miss that, download for free from from archive.org.

Having second thoughts? Don’t want to read on screen or print out that big book? Order here:

93846: Handbook of Nature Study Handbook of Nature StudyBy Anna Botsford Comstock / Cornell University Press

Witness the wonders of God’s creation with naturalist Comstock as your guide! From dandelions, toads, and fireflies, to robins, rocks, and weather, she takes you on a lively trek through the natural world, vividly describing the habits, habitats, and physical structures of common living and nonliving things. Includes study questions and black-and-white photographs. 887 pages, softcover from Cornell University.

If you’d like some help in application, check out The Outdoor Hour Challenge, a blog of one ” family’s online nature journal using Anna Comstock’s book Handbook of Nature Study as our textbook and the great outdoors as our classroom.”

Catch Up

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I haven’t updated this blog since my post on Chris Klicka, the day he was hospitalized in Colorado Springs, during the HSLDA Leaders Conference.

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The lack of posts hasn’t been because things have been dull here, or because I had no more updates on Chris, or because I had nothing education related to post. Health and Life Skills have been emphasized and I’ve been posting on that on my ‘from me’ blog. I’ve also updated on Chris over there, and today posted on his homecoming. Today he sees Jesus face to face. I also was tempted to rename my ‘from me’ blog – Never a Dull Moment. Life has been busy at Me and My House.

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I hope you’ve been following my musings and random ramblings over at ‘from me’. If not, click on over there and catch up. There are several new posts on nutrition, health helps, homemaking, and new RECIPES! Don’t forget to bookmark and/or subscribe to the ‘from me’ blog. If I’m not posting here, most likely I am there. And it’s all related.

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And don’t miss the upcoming, ultimate health and life skills class for you and your teens.

Freedom & Simplicity™ of Good for You-Naturally!™ Seminar

an full-day seminar on health through nutrition from a biblical perspective –
(that you can give school credits for)

Sat. November 7th, 9:30-5:30
in North Platte, NE

for more info click the title or here

See you there!

TR

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This summer I listened to a fun and interesting audiobook that your children would probably enjoy. Although we’d already studied the individual earlier in the year, I wanted to take the time to listen to this one when I found it. It proved to be a keeper.

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The Boy’s Life of Theodore Roosevelt was written shortly after his death, with the cooperation and approval of his family.

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You can download it in audiobook format for FREE from ejunto, a public domain audiobooks site with historical and philosophical works.

End of an Era

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littlebear-yorkSaturday morning found me and our daughter sitting in a General Session at the CHEC (Colorado) homeschool convention, listening to one of our long time favorite speakers, Little Bear (Richard Wheeler). He is a history reenactor, dressing in authentic costumes and telling the stories of God’s Providence in the lives and events of those who have gone before us.

Our family has followed Little Bear since nearly the beginning of our home ed journey. We’ve seen him in person, at many homeschool conferences and attended his Family Camp. We have audio Historical Devotionals, video reenactments, and books both by and published by Little Bear. One of our fondest memories, of course, is spending time personally with Little Bear, back in the early 90’s at the Wyoming homeschool conference, where he was the keynote speaker and we were vendors and there weren’t many people there. We went to dinner with him.

Saturday morning, before Little Bear mounted the platform, the conference hosts went through the normal announcements and preliminaries. As they introduced Little Bear, a bombshell was dropped. This would be Little Bear’s last performance. We weren’t prepared for that, and were so glad we’d gotten up early to make it to this sesson. No more Little Bear?

This got me thinking about us “first generation” homeschoolers. Are we fading away? What will the future in homeschooling look like? Has a stable, foundational legacy been passed on? Or will the next generation, like our President, prefer change? A “new” face? I still have many little ones, and will still be home educating right alongside the second gen-ers. What will that surrounding look like?

There’s been much change in home ed since we began in the early days of “legalized” home eductaion. Much of that change has been healthy growth. But some of the change is troubling. To quote Little Bear’s most quoted Scripture, Psalm 78, “I will open my mouth [saying that] which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of THE LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. … That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”

Future generations must know the history of what God has done in times past. Learn from it. Build on it. Not reject it. Little Bear helped us to do that. Who will be the “Little Bear” to our children’s generation in home education?

Mr. Wheeler will continue to pastor his flock, but he will be greatly missed in the home education circles. “See you there or in the air”, Little Bear. We will miss, but never forget you.

 

America: A Christian Nation?

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Perhaps you’ve heard the quote from the past, our early years as a nation, “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” Do you know where it came from or why?

I haven’t read this new ebook yet, but it addresses this issue.

America had tried to accommodate Islamic terrorists before. In 1797 a treaty was made with the Islamic leadership of Tripoli that stated that “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” Of course, this was false, but to appease the Barbary pirates and their Muslim protectors, the statement was put in the treaty.

Download America’s 200-Year War with Terrorism: The Strange Case of the Treaty of Tripoli from American Vision – for free (free offer ends May 20th):

American VisionIf you purchase other books from American Vision, consider using our link to give our ministry credit for the sale. Thanks.

Here’s a link to more Free Christian downloads from American Vision.

What else is new? Arrethtrae!

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Are you keeping up your reading in one of the most exciting family read aloud series there is? The sequel series to The Kingdom series (our favorite!) is the Knights of Arrethtrae series. The second book in the series came out 2 months ago and the next will be out soon. Order Sir Dalton NOW! so you can continue the adventure.

421265: Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart, Knights of Arrethtrae Series #3 Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart, Knights of Arrethtrae Series #3By Random House, Inc