Educational Books and Text Books
SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map
Ever take a SOLO Wilderness First Aid Course?
Ever wish you had a cheat-sheet for everything you learned?
Well once again SOLO has come through with the goods.
The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is a one page fold out map with the contents of the course broken down by section on one side of the map. From Patient Assessment, Shock, Anaphylactic Reaction, to the principles of managing Soft Tissue Injuries, it is all reviewed on one sheet. On the flip side is a completely visual guide to bandaging and splinting.
The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is 19inches by 37 inches and folds up to 4 by 9 inches. It will fit easily in a backpack, daypack, or glove compartment. Nothing can take the place of proper training, but even the best-trained need a reminder now and then. The SOLO Wilderness First Aid Map is a great addition to your first aid toolbox and it makes a great wall decoration too! $5.0
The SOLO Field Guide To Wilderness First Aid
The principle mission of TMC Books is to provide quality text materials for Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO).
The first edition of the SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid sold over 17,000 copies in three years.
Designed specifically to be used with SOLO courses, this beautifully illustrated, spiral bound workbook, is filled with resource and support materials. The SOLO Field Guide to Wilderness First Aid third edition, ISBN:978-0-9962181-2-2 is now available as a paperback through Amazon.com.
Educational Memoirs
Boys Should Be Boys
A Headmaster’s Reflections.
By Brian R. Walsh
After forty-two years in independent education and thirty of those years as a Headmaster, Brian R. Walsh shares his reflections on how boys learn and relate to their world.
Praise for Boys Should Be Boys
“As the mother of two sons who benefited from Brian Walsh’s wisdom, I am delighted that he is finally sharing his insights with a wider audience. Every page of Boys Should Be Boys reflects Brian’s understanding of the special nature of boys from early childhood through adolescence. With clarity and great sensitivity, he tells stories that can help parents and educators alike nurture the best of boys and help them reach their full potential.”
Sally Bedell Smith, author of For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
“This book is not only an essential operating manual for educators; it is a highly entertaining and valuable guide for all parents of boys.”
“In an unstuffy clear fluid prose, laced with many anecdotes, Brian Walsh provides real insight into the educating of boys and their unique and very different ways of learning.”
John F. Lehman Jr., former Secretary of the United States Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission.
Author of Command of the Seas
From the Introduction of Boys Should Be Boys
“Boys not only learn differently than girls of the same age, they make friends differently, have entirely different issues of self-esteem and motivation, react to their parents and teachers differently, and, in fact, process just about everything differently. In addition, their responses to competition and physical contact are in marked contrast to those of girls, almost to the point of an opposite hierarchy of values.
What is particularly frustrating to boys during the formative years of elementary school is that they are almost universally under the guidance and care of women – mothers and teachers – who innately gauge boys’ behavior, learning and interpersonal relationships on the model of girls, simply because they were girls and can relate to girls most naturally.
These are the conclusions of a headmaster from thirty years of running two independent kindergarten-ninth grade schools, one coeducational and the other all boys. Most of the natural differences, however, became especially obvious after only a few months of directing the boy’s school, for there was a pronounced difference in their attitudes about themselves and in their social challenges. In Boys Should Be Boys these observations are presented through anecdotes of actual school situations and, more significantly, through the voices and actions of the boys themselves.”
You can read more about Boys should be Boys and the author by going to the web-log of Brian R. Walsh
Arlene’s Book
Two short memoirs and one unfinished manuscript by Arlene C. Walsh
On May 31st 2007, Arlene Walsh was killed in a car accident in a remote area of northeast New Mexico. She was 71-years-old.
At the time of her death, she had been a semi-retired kindergarten teacher, student pilot, and the president of her local chapter of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). She had also helped found a local chapter of the Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Woman Pilots in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lived.
She left behind three grown children, four grandchildren, two cats, two pet snakes, and a half-built biplane that had been under construction bit-by-bit for years. She also left behind a manuscript for a book on which she had been working, The Sky’s The Limit, about being an older woman fulfilling her dream of learning to fly.
The Sky’s The Limit was not only incomplete but also in very rough draft form. It was not the only manuscript that Arlene left behind either. Arlene’s Book is a compilation of the The Sky’s The Limit with two earlier, more complete manuscripts that she wrote about different parts of her life. Pot Roast on the Ceiling is a series of remembrances of her girlhood in Connecticut, and Door to the Rainbow chronicles one year of her life teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in rural New Mexico. Together, these three manuscripts form a memoir of an independently-minded, talented woman who passionately followed her dreams. On May 31st 2007, Arlene Walsh was killed in a car accident in a remote area of northeast New Mexico. She was 71-years-old.
At the time of her death, she had been a semi-retired kindergarten teacher, student pilot, and the president of her local chapter of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). She had also helped found a local chapter of the Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Woman Pilots in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lived.
She left behind three grown children, four grandchildren, two cats, two pet snakes, and a half-built biplane that had been under construction bit-by-bit for years. She also left behind a manuscript for a book on which she had been working, The Sky’s The Limit, about being an older woman fulfilling her dream of learning to fly.
The Sky’s The Limit was not only incomplete but also in very rough draft form. It was not the only manuscript that Arlene left behind either. Arlene’s Book is a compilation of the The Sky’s The Limit with two earlier, more complete manuscripts that she wrote about different parts of her life. Pot Roast on the Ceiling is a series of remembrances of her girlhood in Connecticut, and Door to the Rainbow chronicles one year of her life teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in rural New Mexico. Together, these three manuscripts form a memoir of an independently-minded, talented woman who passionately followed her dreams.
