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View book details for Educating Latino Students
A Guide to Successful Practice
R&L Education
Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. …
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hm Learning & Study Skills Program
R&L Education
Level B: Grades 3-4Children of the elementary school age think differently than do older children, adolescents, or adults. They are more holistic in their interaction with the world. The hm Program presents study skills appropriate for young children, teaching them …
View book details for A Broadening Conversation
Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship
Scarecrow Press
As the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) celebrates the important milestone of its 60th anniversary this year, the editors have brought together in a single-volume anthology some of the best contributions to this field. Essays and papers from the past …
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His Rise and Fall
J.S. Sanders books
Written early in Tates career, this study of the Confederacys fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.
J.S. Sanders books
Warrens first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warrens innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by …
View book details for Elizabethan Jacobean Drama
The Theatre in Its Time
New Amsterdam Books
The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries …
View book details for Smile When the Raindrops Fall
The Story of Charley Chase
Scarecrow Press
At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore. Charley eventually became a local vaudeville attraction, but Baltimore could not contain the ambitious young man. After a brief, but memorable, stint in …
View book details for Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
University of Delaware Press
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 811, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more …
AltaMira Press
How do archaeologists explore the various dimensions of religion? Lars Fogelin uses archaeological work at Thotlakonda in Southern India as his lens in a broader examination of Buddhist monastic life. He discovers the tension between the desired isolation of the …
View book details for The Horse in Early Modern English Culture
Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse …
Scarecrow Press
The Republic of India is the second most populous, the seventh largest by geographical area, and has the fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity in the world. While it has always been an important country, it has …
View book details for Religion and Spirituality in America
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Scarecrow Press
The United States has more religious groups than any other country in the world. Religion and Spirituality in America: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides an introduction to some of the diverse religious practices, traditions, and expressions in the United States …
Scarecrow Press
History is full of surprises, but rarely has there been a turnaround as unexpected, and momentous as what occurred to a formative Russia during the medieval period. Attacked and invaded from all sides, it hardly looked as if the small …
Bucknell University Press
Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth centurya uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong …
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Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembranceand Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked …
View book details for Can You Name that Team?
A Guide to Professional Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey, and Basketball Teams and Leagues
Scarecrow Press
Now in Paper! The only single source collection of over 950 teams in 36 major professional leagues_baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and hockey_this book also contains the first genealogy ever compiled on all these leagues, giving each team franchise and its …
View book details for The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun
An Early Modern Autobiography
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alferez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives: the picaresque novels La vida …
Sheed & Ward
Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline …
Scarecrow Press
Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. …
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America's Forgotten Sweetheart
Scarecrow Press
Ruth Etting (1897-1978) was among the most important performers of the early 20th century. Her influence extends from the Broadway stage to radio and film, and her successes included more than 60 popular recordings, such as her 1928 rendition of …
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An Invitation to Jubilee
Cowley Publications
The concept of jubilee has its roots, notes Nancy Roth in her foreword, in the idea of sabbatha time of re-creation, reordering, and release. We discover that sabbath first in our own prayer, as our hearts are re-created, reordered, and …
J.S. Sanders books
As the straight-man narrator, observer, and regular butt of hundreds of hilarious trials and mishaps, Major Yeates never ceases to be surprised, is usually not amused, and cant stop himself from loving his Irish neighbors.500 Great Books by Women.
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A Jesuit in the Ming Court
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Matteo Ricci (15521610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography …
Scarecrow Press
The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in …
View book details for Harlem Jazz Adventures
A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969
Scarecrow Press
Timme Rosenkrantz (19111969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the Jazz Baron because of …
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