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Who says best friends can' t be cruel, they are angels with horns. Radhika Gupta has always lived a peaceful life. Until she enters college and befriends a few crazy people. Nishi, the short and confident girl who soon becomes …
This book explains the rapidly changing, complex flow of information in the context of 21st-century culture, policy, technology, and economicsan essential resource for librarians and information specialists in all types of settings.The role of information professionals today is to interact …
This important book translates evidence and examines policy, proposing a plan to save America's schools by rewarding teachers with professional-level salaries distributed wisely.Profit of Education makes it clear that rethinking the teaching profession is the key to repairing America's broken-down …
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Absolute Relativism and Relative Absolutism
Centore's work is an inquiry into the weaknesses and strengths of the two basic positions in ethics: the man-centered model and the God-centered model for deciding between right and wrong behavior. The philosophical paradigm for the man-centered approach is absolute …
Written by a clinical psychologist and illustrated with vignettes from the author's experience, this book offers a clear understanding of how suicidal thought develops, how we can help prevent death from suicide, and how suicidal people can recover and change …
View book details for Cancer Causes and Controversies
Understanding Risk Reduction and Prevention
This book offers clear, accessible information on the causes of cancer and the multiple ways people can reduce their risk for this insidious disease.Like no other work, this much-needed volume gathers the latest research and understanding about the causes of …
View book details for Game Worlds Get Real
How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline
This book explores how after 20 years of existence, virtual world games have evolved: the social landscapes within digital worlds have become rigid and commodified, and "play" and "fun" have become rational and mechanical products.Twenty million people worldwide play Massively …
This book presents a curricular framework for students grades 612 that school librarians and teachers can use collaboratively to enhance reading skill development, promote literature appreciation, and motivate young people to incorporate reading into their lives, beyond the required schoolwork.Supporting …
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A Practical Guide to Children's Poets
Dr. Sylvia Vardell's new children's poetry reference book provides a comprehensive introduction to more than 60 contemporary young people's poets. Focusing primarily on those who are still actively writing today, the author includes poets appropriate for young children through young …
View book details for The First Global War
Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775
By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North …
View book details for Being Called
Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives
This unique book is an essential resource for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on the phenomenon of feeling called to a life path or vocation at the interface of science and religion.According to Gallup polls, more than 40 percent of Americans …
View book details for Theme Play
Exciting Young Imaginations
Out of his years of experience in working with children, Zingher identifies some of the powerful and evocative themes of childhood, and explores why these touch children so deeply. He encourages professionals who work with children in school, camp, club …
View book details for Understanding Religious Experiences
What the Bible Says about Spirituality
Today most people feel less interested in religion and more interested in spirituality. If you ask what they mean, they will tell you that organized religion tends to turn them off, but, nonetheless, they feel a hunger in the heart …
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A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand
This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well. Following the introduction are four chapters cataloguing original works for the right hand …
View book details for Campus Action against Sexual Assault
Needs, Policies, Procedures, and Training Programs
A practical guide to prevention of and response to sexual assault on college campuses, this invaluable resource will help ensure Title IX complianceand can also help reduce the incidence of these all-too-prevalent events.The frequency of sexual assault on college campuses …
This book examines the range of new theories, research, and applications in the most generative areas of positive psychology, at the dawn of a new wave of positive psychology scholarshipone that is increasingly sensitive to real-world issues, adversity, culture, and …
In theory, managers serve as guides, directors, decision makers, and energizers for their employees. Unfortunately, few managers have, themselves, been trained in the skills and techniques to get the best results from their employees, and managerial styles can run the …
View book details for The Rise of Christianity
History, Documents, and Key Questions
An outstanding resource for high school readers and first-year college students, this book explores early Christianity from its beginnings in the first century through the fourth century when Christianity went from a persecuted faith to the only legalized faith in …
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The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon
This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and former Nixon Administration officials to examine the Watergate controversy and its legacy. Particular attention is paid to Nixon's misuse of government power for political ends, his administration's obsession with …
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Success and Ethics
The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States presidenta former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activistserved as a catalyst for the coalescence of trends in …
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Librarians as Professional Developers
Presenting examples of school librarians leading professional learning in numerous contexts and for diverse learning goals with remarkable success, this book will inspire other practitioners to initiate and refine professional learning in their schools and districts.School administrators are recognizing that …
View book details for More Science through Children's Literature
An Integrated Approach
Due to popular demand, the Butzows have put together more fascinating thematic units that make science more exciting for young learners. Each chapter focuses on an individual book and includes vocabulary; concepts; applications; and a wide variety of activities, including …
View book details for Medical Anthropology and the World System
Critical Perspectives
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the …
The Parthenon. Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Homer's epic poems. Gods and goddesses lounging around, indulging in pleasures on Mount Olympus. All of these images bring to mind the traditional icons of Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization. But what do …
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Alexander Zemlinsky, His Songs, and the Second Viennese School
Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protege of Brahms and Mahler. Despite this, he was overshadowed by the composers of the second Viennese school, and for many years after …
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