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View book details for Communicating Across Cultures
A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions
UPA
Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the complex task of interpreting and translating through reflection and practice. The book originated from discussions with those who perform the …
View book details for Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge
150 Tips for New Teachers
R&L Education
This book is vital for new teachers! Most of the tips in this book are not taught in education classes in college, but are learned through trial and error and only after years of experience. This book will help the …
View book details for Miklos Rozsa's Ben-Hur
A Film Score Guide
Scarecrow Press
In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema. Nearly 25 years later, the biblical epic was remade by William Wyler and received an …
View book details for Transatlantic Mysteries
Crime, Culture, and Capital in the 'Noir Novels' of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Bucknell University Press
Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vazquez Montalban from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain who both work in one specific genre'noir' detective fiction. In this so …
View book details for Medieval Fantasy as Performance
The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Scarecrow Press
In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval fantasy in popular culture. He explores the act of …
View book details for Moving into the Superintendency
How to Succeed in Making the Transition
R&L Education
Too often, new superintendentseven if they have succeeded in other administrative positionscan undermine their successes by making critical novice mistakes, such as failing to recognize political stumbling blocks or unintentionally inviting school board member micromanagement. Moving into the Superintendency: How …
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The Ultimate Teen Guide
Scarecrow Press
The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. These feelings may be compounded by the isolation they feel because most friends …
View book details for Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond
UPA
This book examines alleged superhuman powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these …
View book details for Barriers to Excellence
The Changes Needed for Our Schools
R&L Education
Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity …
View book details for Metaphysics of Infinity
The Problem of Motion and the Infinite Brain
UPA
Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages. The reason is the paradox or contradiction associated with motion. One fundamental contradiction is the conflict …
View book details for LGBTQ Families
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Scarecrow Press
According to the recent United States Census, there are 650,000 same-sex couple households in the U.S., and an estimated one-quarter of those households are raising children. In the past few years, several states across the nation have passed Freedom to …
Scarecrow Press
Considered the 'King of Poverty Row,' Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was an auteur of B productions. A filmmaker with an individual voice, Ulmer made independent movies before that category even existed. From his early productions like The Black Cat (1934) …
View book details for Socializing Care
Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into …
Scarecrow Press
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from …
UPA
The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide. A basic premise is that human well-being comes from a nations physical, social, economic, and political macro …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
SR Books is proud to make available the revised and enlarged edition of the classic text Modern American Diplomacy, first published in 1986. The editors have thoroughly updated this important work to reflect the advances in scholarship. In addition, three …
Hamilton Books
Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees. Written by Dr. Udoh E. Udom, a retired senior official in the World Health Organization, the book is a robustly critical but deeply informed view …
View book details for How to be Profitable and Moral
A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
Hamilton Books
A basic dilemma confronting todays manager is how to be both profitable and moral. Making profits through immoral meanssuch as deceiving investors or customersis unsustainable. Likewise, remaining moral while losing money will cause a business to fail. According to conventional …
View book details for A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
UPA
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found …
University of Delaware Press
This book analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers, active between 1800 and 1865, depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to adequately support them financially and intellectually. Without the traditional European forms of patronage from the church …
View book details for Enlightenment in Ruins
The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith
Bucknell University Press
Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has been characterized as a passive purveyor of enlightenment thought, a hack, a harried translator of the French enlightenment for an …
View book details for Polls, Expectations, and Elections
TV News Making in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
Lexington Books
In modern American presidential campaigning, scholars and citizens have bemoaned the effects of electronic media on voters. Much has been written about the effects of television ads, media management, perceived bias, and other issues, yet one element of todays media …
W. W. Norton & Company
The big picture of physical anthropology. Essentials of Physical Anthropology, Third Edition, is rich with stunning and photorealistic art, thoughtful pedagogy, innovative media, and up-to-date, student-centered content that illuminate physical anthropologys most important themes.
Thomas Nelson
Written BY Preachers and Teachers FOR Preachers and TeachersCombining fresh insights with readable exposition and relatable examples, The Preacher's Commentary will help you minister to others and see their lives transformed through the power of God's Word. Whether preacher, teacher, …
View book details for Wild Truth Bible Lessons--Pictures of God
12 MORE wild Bible studies on the character of a wild God and what it means for junior highers and middle schoolers
Zondervan/Youth Specialties
Here are 12 active Bible lessons for junior high Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God presented in Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God--energetically, relevantly, and scripturally. The lessons …
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