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View book details for Summary and Analysis of The Alienist
Based on the Book by Caleb Carr
Worth Books
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Alienist tells you what you need to knowbefore or after you read Caleb Carrs book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and …
View book details for Summary and Analysis of Americanah
Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Worth Books
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Americanah tells you what you need to know before or after you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality …
View book details for Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
Worth Books
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to knowbefore or after you read Jared Diamonds book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for …
View book details for Negotiating Under Fire
Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The impact of severe security crises on peace negotiations represents one of the most significant facets of modern conflict resolution theory to remain under-researched. It also stands out as the factor most likely to derail inherently sensitive negotiations. Negotiating Under …
Falcon Guides
This pocket guide documents the best trails around Portland from urban walks to gorgeous waterfall hikes. Also included are hikes that explore the magnificent Columbia River National Scenic Area and the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Southwest Washington. …
View book details for Portland, Oregon Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes from the City of Roses
Lyons Press
Portland, Oregon Chefs Table celebrates the food and culture of what the New York Times calls the citys Golden Age of dining and drinking. The citys food scenelargely a celebration of the farm-to-table movementhas grown and evolved tremendously in the …
Jason Aronson, Inc.
This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought.From time immemorial, the Hebrew alphabet has been considered to be more than a collection of individual letters. Indeed, the essence of each …
View book details for The South Pole
An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912
Cooper Square Press
Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the …
View book details for Law In and As Culture
Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new …
View book details for Teaching Reading and Writing
A Guidebook for Tutoring and Remediating Students
R&L Education
Providing a wealth of simple, research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals. Teaching Reading and Writing demonstrates that effective literacy instruction does not have …
View book details for Teacher-Student Relationships
Crossing into the Emotional, Physical, and Sexual Realms
R&L Education
Why are so many public school teachers, administrators, and coaches choosing to become romantically and sexually involved with teenage students and players? Since 2000, numbers of intimate relationships between teachers and students have skyrocketed. Teacher arrests are at all-time highs. …
View book details for Seder Olam
The Rabbinic View of Biblical Chronology
Jason Aronson, Inc.
Seder Olam is the basic text on which all historical understanding of Jewish tradition in the Talmud is based. This book is a translation with commentary of this classical text, making Seder Olam: The Rabbinic View of Biblical Chronology available …
View book details for Broken Harts
The Life and Death of Owen Hart
M. Evans & Company
Owen's wife Martha, tells the story of their life together from the days as high school sweethearts, through Owen's rise to fame in the WWF.
View book details for After the Last Man
Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System
Lexington Books
In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from …
View book details for Fun with the Family Southern California
Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids
Globe Pequot Press
Written by parents, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Southern California leads the way to amusement parks, …
View book details for Mindful Teaching and Learning
Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being
Lexington Books
Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and examining contexts that support mindful teaching, mindful learning, and a pedagogy of well-being. Collectively, these chapters document …
View book details for Education Under Siege
Frauds, Fads, Fantasies and Fictions in Educational Reform
R&L Education
We Americans seem prone to bandwagon onto fads, particularly now that reforming education has become a national priority. Unfortunately, many of those fads now caroming across our continent are outright frauds; some are fantasies, even fictions. Even more unfortunately, many …
View book details for Quick Escapes From Portland, OR
The Best Weekend Getaways
Globe Pequot Press
Quick Escapes From Portland, OR takes the work out of trip planning and features easy-to-follow, carefully planned itineraries for 36- to 48-hour getaways from the metropolitan area.
View book details for Fun with the Family Upstate New York
Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids
Globe Pequot Press
Written by a parent, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Upstate New York leads the way to …
View book details for Florida Keys Cookbook
Recipes & Foodways of Paradise
Globe Pequot Press
The Florida Keys Cookbook is a fascinating combination of food history, local lore, and over 175 mouth-watering recipes showcasing the Florida Keys' bounty from Keys restaurant chefs and home cooks. Archival photographs and informative sidebars round out the newly designed …
Insider's Guide
Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be.Dallas & Fort WorthFort Worth is where the West begins, its said, and Dallas is where the East peters out. A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, …
View book details for Basic Needs
A Year With Street Kids in a City School
R&L Education
In Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids in a City School, Julie Landsman chronicles one year as a teacher in a program for students in such serious trouble they are asked to leave their middle schools and attend a …
View book details for Hiking North Carolina
A Guide to More Than 500 of North Carolina's Greatest Hiking Trails
Falcon Guides
From the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Piedmont and the Outer Banks, this thoroughly updated and revised guide features more than 200 hiking trails in all regions of the state.
Templar
They've got to stick together - whatever it takes . . .Vicky and Rhianna are twins but they couldn't be more different. For their fourteenth birthday, Vicky wants a card from the hottest boy in school. Rhianna wants a Furby. …
View book details for Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems
Jason Aronson, Inc.
This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. Harm reduction is a …
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