Books with author Brenda C. Smith

Recover Your Speaking Confidence after Dentures!"Yikes! What just happened to my speech?" The shock of trying to speak right after your new dentures sure is a wake-up call! Your voice physiology changes after dentures. Naturally, it confuses your tongue, lips, teeth, palate, and jaw as these busy speech muscles scramble to shape the sounds coming out of your mouth. This can be a hard blow to your confidence, just when you thought everything was fixed.Speak with Confidence: Even with Dentures shows you simple targeted exercises to correct a variety of issues so common after being fitted for dentures, so that you can build back your confident voice. This book walks you through each major speech muscle (lips, tongue,teeth, palate, and jaw) with easy exercises to refresh your speech.It's a bit like learning to talk again—but you are the teacher retraining your own speech articulators to adjust to your new dentures—and you will discover that you can have fun doing them too!In Speak With Confidence: Even With Dentures, Speech Coach, Brenda C. Smith, offers a simple routine within each chapter which you can complete in only ten minutes each day:Warm-ups, exercises, and techniquesTips with a full description and explanationA favourite tongue twister to cherishAction notes and trackerLinks to additional online resourcesAs you practise these key articulation exercises you will learn how to:Pronounce clearlyAvoid mumblingPace appropriatelyAvoid miscommunicationBe understood easilySpeak distinctly and confidentlyCreate overall presence in conversations, and presentationsYou'll have fun refreshing your speech muscles just like you were at the gym for your mouth. These exercises will put a smile on your face and confidence in your speech again! Here's what one dental professional said:“Speak With Confidence: Even With Dentures is a valuable book, long overdue. It jumps right into the practical needs of a denture wearer, clearly divided into chapters with each chapter covering what,why, how to and action. This useful and practical guide then closes with a Weekly Tracking Calendar and Summary Chart of Consonants. As a retired dental professional, I consider this to be a must read' for denture wearers to dispel all concerns and insecurities around speaking clearly and confidently.”—D. Smith, Dental Hygienist (retired)So, if you have a hard time speaking clearly, this speech-after-dentures help book is for you.Click on Amazon's "Look Inside" feature to preview before you buy the book or scroll up now and order your Kindle or paperback today.

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith—a restorative ocean farmer—introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis. The ocean is a vast, untapped opportunity, home to thousands of edible plants. Using simple DIY techniques, we can grow more than enough delicious and nutritious food—without the use of fresh water or fertilizers—to feed the planet and mitigate climate change, to boot. A groundbreaking “climate memoir,” Eat Like a Fish interweaves Smith’s own life—from sailing the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers to pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement—with actionable food policy and practical advice on ocean farming. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, it is a powerful story of environmental renewal, and a must-read guide to saving our oceans, feeding the world, and—by creating new jobs up and down the coasts—putting working class Americans back to work.

Recover Your Speaking Confidence after Dentures!"Yikes! What just happened to my speech?" The shock of trying to speak right after your new dentures sure is a wake-up call! Your voice physiology changes after dentures. Naturally, it confuses your tongue, lips, teeth, palate, and jaw as these busy speech muscles scramble to shape the sounds coming out of your mouth. This can be a hard blow to your confidence, just when you thought everything was fixed.Speak with Confidence: Even with Dentures shows you simple targeted exercises to correct a variety of issues so common after being fitted for dentures, so that you can build back your confident voice. This book walks you through each major speech muscle (lips, tongue,teeth, palate, and jaw) with easy exercises to refresh your speech.It's a bit like learning to talk again—but you are the teacher retraining your own speech articulators to adjust to your new dentures—and you will discover that you can have fun doing them too!In Speak With Confidence: Even With Dentures, Speech Coach, Brenda C. Smith, offers a simple routine within each chapter which you can complete in only ten minutes each day:Warm-ups, exercises, and techniquesTips with a full description and explanationA favourite tongue twister to cherishAction notes and trackerLinks to additional online resourcesAs you practise these key articulation exercises you will learn how to:Pronounce clearlyAvoid mumblingPace appropriatelyAvoid miscommunicationBe understood easilySpeak distinctly and confidentlyCreate overall presence in conversations, and presentationsYou'll have fun refreshing your speech muscles just like you were at the gym for your mouth. These exercises will put a smile on your face and confidence in your speech again! Here's what one dental professional said:“Speak With Confidence: Even With Dentures is a valuable book, long overdue. It jumps right into the practical needs of a denture wearer, clearly divided into chapters with each chapter covering what,why, how to and action. This useful and practical guide then closes with a Weekly Tracking Calendar and Summary Chart of Consonants. As a retired dental professional, I consider this to be a must read' for denture wearers to dispel all concerns and insecurities around speaking clearly and confidently.”—D. Smith, Dental Hygienist (retired)So, if you have a hard time speaking clearly, this speech-after-dentures help book is for you.Click on Amazon's "Look Inside" feature to preview before you buy the book or scroll up now and order your Kindle or paperback today.

'I used to be a commercial fisherman, chasing your dinner on the high seas for a living, but now I farm twenty acres of saltwater, growing a mix of sea greens and shellfish.'In Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith - a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer - shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Part memoir, part manifesto, through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto our plates. There are thousands of edible varieties in the sea! Here he shows how we can transform our food system while enjoying delicious, nutritious, locally grown produce, and how restorative ocean farming has the potential to create millions of new jobs and protect our planet in the face of climate change, rising populations, and finite food resources. Also included are recipes from acclaimed chefs Brooks Headley and David Santos. Written with the humour and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, this is a monumental work of deeply personal food policy that will profoundly change the way we think about what we eat.

Description Brenda and Peter’s son Jonathan was killed in 1991 by a falling homemade goalpost which fell and hit him rupturing his heart. The goalposts were made from scaffold poles that weighed 200lb or more and had been welded. The children playing were in the under 11’s team and probably only weighed no more than 60-70lbs or even less. They were all members of the Football Association which is mandatory. At the time there was no legislation for safety standards for goalposts, and there still isn’t, but now there are some standards that the Football Association has worked hard to achieve, and these have been copied in Ireland and Australia. The whole world needs to be aware of unsafe football goalposts, which is what Brenda has tried to achieve over the last 17 years. After Jonathan died, and also after campaigning began, another 10 children have died in the UK and others have been injured. Had legislation occurred then these deaths could have been prevented. Brenda has campaigned vigorously for 17 years in the hope of getting legislation for safe goalposts. She has come close at times to achieving this but still it evades her. In desperation, after feeling that no one else cares, even though the Football Association have supported her in getting safety measures in place, Brenda decided to write a book about the campaign and list the support that she has had from famous footballers and the media that have helped with coverage. It would have been so easy for her to sit back and say, “Well, I tried! I did what I could” but she didn’t sit back. She pushed and pushed and pushed again to try to get somebody to take notice and realise that the deaths of these children are not just accidents, but the goalposts used are accidents waiting to happen, and the unsafe goals are still out there!!!!!!!!!!!! The book’s aim is to make parents, carers, football coaches and schools aware of what can happen when safety is ignored. It also aims so show the Football Association that she still needs support to get legislation for safe goalposts. This is not a paranoid mother, who is frightened of sport. The family love football and support West Ham United avidly, but she wants everyone else’s son or daughter to be safe when playing the game. About the AuthorMrs Brenda Smith is 53 and the mother of an autistic daughter with complex special needs. She is a wife, mother and grandmother and is employed as a Clerical Assistant with the Civil Service. Brenda lost her young son in a tragic accident involving unsafe goalposts and has campaigned for 15 years to try to get legislation in place for all goalposts to be safe in an effort to protect other children. She had lost a much loved child and been given a child that needed so much care and attention, and she always will. Brenda enjoyed writing the book and feels that if she had read a similar book it would have given her the strength and hope that she needed after she heard the news that Laura had such complex special needs. Book ExtractJonathan died on Sunday the 13th of January after an unsafe goalpost fell on him and ruptured his heart. That day was the worst day of my life and nothing can put into words the loss that all my family has felt. At the time it was reported to be a tragic accident but it has turned out that is was a needless unnecessary preventable death. I was to find myself discovering more about football goalposts then I ever thought possible. I have leaflets, diagrams, photographs and booklets on them relating to assembly, fixing use, storage, you name it I have researched it. Over the next seventeen years I have fought mainly on my own, to get legislation in place so that everyone playing football is safe.

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith—a restorative ocean farmer—introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis. The ocean is a vast, untapped opportunity, home to thousands of edible plants. Using simple DIY techniques, we can grow more than enough delicious and nutritious food—without the use of fresh water or fertilizers—to feed the planet and mitigate climate change, to boot. A groundbreaking “climate memoir,” Eat Like a Fish interweaves Smith’s own life—from sailing the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers to pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement—with actionable food policy and practical advice on ocean farming. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, it is a powerful story of environmental renewal, and a must-read guide to saving our oceans, feeding the world, and—by creating new jobs up and down the coasts—putting working class Americans back to work.

Description Brenda and Peter's son Jonathan was killed in 1991 by a falling homemade goalpost which fell and hit him rupturing his heart. The goalposts were made from scaffold poles that weighed 200lb or more and had been welded. The children playing were in the under 11's team and probably only weighed no more than 60-70lbs or even less. They were all members of the Football Association which is mandatory. At the time there was no legislation for safety standards for goalposts, and there still isn't, but now there are some standards that the Football Association has worked hard to achieve, and these have been copied in Ireland and Australia. The whole world needs to be aware of unsafe football goalposts, which is what Brenda has tried to achieve over the last 17 years. After Jonathan died, and also after campaigning began, another 10 children have died in the UK and others have been injured. Had legislation occurred then these deaths could have been prevented. Brenda has campaigned vigorously for 17 years in the hope of getting legislation for safe goalposts. She has come close at times to achieving this but still it evades her. In desperation, after feeling that no one else cares, even though the Football Association have supported her in getting safety measures in place, Brenda decided to write a book about the campaign and list the support that she has had from famous footballers and the media that have helped with coverage. It would have been so easy for her to sit back and say, "Well, I tried! I did what I could" but she didn't sit back. She pushed and pushed and pushed again to try to get somebody to take notice and realise that the deaths of these children are not just accidents, but the goalposts used are accidents waiting to happen, and the unsafe goals are still out there!!!!!!!!!!!! The book's aim is to make parents, carers, football coaches and schools aware of what can happen when safety is ignored. It also aims so show the Football Association that she still needs support to get legislation for safe goalposts. This is not a paranoid mother, who is frightened of sport. The family love football and support West Ham United avidly, but she wants everyone else's son or daughter to be safe when playing the game.

Mansa Musa, being the richest King ever in history, is often told stories of his conquests and spreading wealth all over the world. Here we tell the story (historically fictional) of his relationship with his one and only daughter, Niani, and how they fared in times of war and peace.A tale of supernatural beings, great men and women and the relationship between the different kingdoms of the world are told in this first edition of the Diamond Legacy series, which will tell of ancient kingdoms and civilizations that have long since been forgotten.