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AltaMira Press
The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfards life, the …
Hamilton Books
Equity, diversity, and social justice are the values to which global democracies aspire. These elements have strong implications for our children and their schools. They are truly timely issues for all educators. The experiences of the author as a teacher, …
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Practical Ideas and Enabling Questions
R&L Education
Successful Teaching: Practical Ideas to Make It Happen is written for all pre and inservice teachers, whether they are the 20 year veteran who needs a renewed sense of purpose, new to the profession, or planning to become a teacher. …
View book details for Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire
A Film Score Guide
Scarecrow Press
Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide examines the acclaimed score for Elia Kazan's much-celebrated adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Situating the score within the context of Alex North's life and career, the …
View book details for Alonzo's War
Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served two years and ten months as a Private in the Union Army. His unit served …
View book details for International and Comparative Studies in Information and Library Science
A Focus on the United States and Asian Countries
Scarecrow Press
Comparative studies in information and library science published in the past ten years have reflected a broad spectrum of backgrounds, interests, and issues. But until now, services between different countries have never been gathered or organized into a single source. …
View book details for Contractors in the Government Workplace
Managing the Blended Workforce
Government Institutes
As the government increasingly uses commercial augmentation to perform many of its most basic functions, it is critically important that all employees understand the rules, expectations and boundaries that define the government-contractor relationship. The enormous shortfall of experienced acquisition personnel …
View book details for Flyover Country
Baby Boomers and Their Stories
Hamilton Books
Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to …
UPA
Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of …
View book details for Philosophizing Rock Performance
Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie
Scarecrow Press
Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and David Bowie are among three of the most influential figures in twentieth-century popular music and culture, and innumerable scholars and biographers have explored the history of their influence. However, critical historiography reminds us that such …
View book details for Re-Awakening the Learner
Creating Learner-Centric, Standards-Driven Schools
R&L Education
Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners. Students, teachers, and principals must develop a learner-centric, standards-driven school. Reawakening the Learner is a guide to creating just such an environment. Continua describe …
View book details for The Edutainer
Connecting the Art and Science of Teaching
R&L Education
The Edutainer describes an educational approach that provides teachers with core operational and interpersonal skills to be an effective educator in the twenty-first century. These skills include communication, organization, management, planning, and building authentic relationships based upon respect and personal …
View book details for Baseball Myths
Debating, Debunking, and Disproving Tales from the Diamond
Scarecrow Press
Baseball followers have been perpetuating, debating, and debunking myths for nearly two centuries, producing a treasury of baseball stories and facts. Yet never before have these elements of baseball history been carefully scrutinized and compiled into one comprehensive workuntil now. …
UPA
This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the …
View book details for The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
A History and Annotated Bibliography
Scarecrow Press
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the …
View book details for Elvis In Texas
The Undiscovered King 1954-1958
Taylor Trade Publishing
Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.
View book details for Is Goodness without God Good Enough?
A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Morality and religion: intimately wed, violently opposed, or something else? Discussion of this issue appears in pop culture, the academy, and the mediaoften generating radically opposed views. At one end of the spectrum are those who think that unless God …
View book details for Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
Scarecrow Press
Titles in The Listeners Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how …
View book details for Literary Research and the British Eighteenth Century
Strategies and Sources
Scarecrow Press
The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature. Patronage, either by a benefactor or through subscription, lingered even as the publishing and bookselling industries developed. The practice of reviewing books became well established during the second half …
View book details for Consumer Research for Museum Marketers
Audience Insights Money Can't Buy
AltaMira Press
What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits from a deeper understanding of visitors: curators, educators, fundraisers, marketers, store and cafe managers, guards, and volunteers. …
View book details for Just Plain Data Analysis
Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Just Plain Data Analysis teaches students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence. The book addresses skills that are often not taught in introductory social science research …
Scarecrow Press
Metaphysics is what Aristotle described as 'the First Philosophy' or 'first science,' a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality. As such, metaphysics consists of a systematic study of the more general categories of being and of the more …
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Hard-Boiled Mythmaker
Scarecrow Press
James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, …
R&L Education
One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men. The dramatic increase in violent acts and the downward spiral of high stakes testing in our schools has confirmed that many …
View book details for Designing School Systems for All Students
A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools
R&L Education
Designing School Systems for All Students provides a clear methodology for school leaders, teachers, and school board members to follow as they redesign their schools for the benefit of students. The authors demonstrate how school leaders set the expectations for …
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