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View book details for Dog Body, Dog Mind
Exploring Canine Consciousness and Total Well-Being
Lyons Press
With extraordinary insight and vision, veterinarian and animal behaviorist Dr. Fox explores the minds and hearts of dogs. Dogs, and all animals, have much to teach their human companions, if only humans knew how to listen. In Dog Body/Dog Mind, …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers. Teachers, however, are the individuals expected to conduct the heavy lifting of school improvement. Teachers Guide to School Improvement is the first book …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
U.S. leadership in global health advances core U.S. interests. It fulfills shared humanitarian values by saving and enhancing lives. It strengthens health security against common and emerging threats. And it promotes stability and prosperity in far-flung communities in the developing …
View book details for Society, the Classroom, and Instructional Practice
Perspectives on Issues Affecting the Secondary Classroom in the 21st Century
R&L Education
Society, the Classroom, and Instructional Practice has been developed to help middle and high school teachers speak to the difficult 21st century issues in a rational, thoughtful manner.
View book details for Irish Boston
A Lively Look at Boston's Colorful Irish Past
Globe Pequot Press
The fascinating story of the Irish in Boston unfolds in this engagingly written history-cum-guidebook. Full of heroism and romance, politics and brawls, it tells the stories behind the well-known history and vividly portrays what life was like for the Harrigans, …
View book details for Operation Fortitude
The Story of the Spies and the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day
Lyons Press
Operation Fortitude tells the thrilling tale of an ingenious decption that changed the course of the Second World War. The Story is one of intrigue, drama, and good fortune, practically a Hollywood script. It is the tale of double agents, …
View book details for Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms
Essays on Gender, Race and Culture
Scarecrow Press
Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films and Hammer's Technicolor representations that followed, iterations of Dracula have been cemented in …
View book details for Monty Python's Flying Circus
An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References
Scarecrow Press
In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a total of 45 episodes. …
View book details for The Ecopolitics of Consumption
The Food Trade
Lexington Books
Todays highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health …
View book details for Intellectuals and the Communist Idea
The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
Lexington Books
Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Makerspaces, sometimes also referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, and more. …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Libraries are perpetually faced with the challenge of balancing ever-shrinking budgets while steadily improving library services. One way to meet that challenge is to maximize the use of free applications and resources in the library. Free Technology for Libraries will …
Down East Books
When a beaver family's lodge becomes overcrowded, it's time for the young beavers to begin lives on their own. While Beau Beaver's siblings settle easily at a brook and a pond, Beau can't find a place to call home. He …
View book details for Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Lexington Books
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the …
View book details for Backpacker Magazine's Outdoor Knots
The Knots You Need To Know
Falcon Guides
Backpacker magazinebranded and fueled by FalconGuides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Perfect for pack or pocket, it breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and …
View book details for Orchids for the South
Growing Indoors and Outdoors
Taylor Trade Publishing
Flamboyant and fantastic, orchids are the world's most highly prized plantsyet home growers think they're difficult to grow. Orchids don't have to be a challenge: the secret is to find plants that share similar growing conditions. With more than 100 …
View book details for Living on the Horns of Dilemmas
Superintendents, Politics, and Decision-Making
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book is based on the professional experiences and research findings of Drs. Litchka, Polka, and Calzi who possess a combined total professional experience of over 100 years as educators in the United States, including over 75 years as public …
View book details for Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia
The Treatment of Choice
Jason Aronson, Inc.
Inevitably, every psychotherapist has some experience with severely disturbed patients. Consequently, they will turn with excitement to this important new book which is a stunning attempt by two knowledgeable, persevering psychotherapists to present their understanding and sound therapeutic approach to …
View book details for Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems
Case Studies with DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses
Jason Aronson, Inc.
This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the therapist at the moment. It is a well-thought-out, …
R&L Education
Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, a desktop resource, focuses specifically on distance education for researchers and practitioners. It provides key information about all levels of education (that is, KD12, higher education, proprietary education, and corporate training), allowing for comprehensive …
View book details for The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools
The Impact of Common Core on American Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Wrong Direction for Todays Schools: The Impact of Common Core on American Education is an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves …
View book details for Hiking Yellowstone National Park
A Guide to More than 100 Great Hikes
Falcon Guides
Lace up your boots and sample more than one hundred hikes in Americas most famous national park. Geysers, paint pots, and glowing blue pools; deep canyons with plunging waterfalls; broad river valleys with seemingly endless views; and tall rugged mountainsYellowstone …
Falcon Guides
Best Easy Day Hikes Tallahassee includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty easy-to-follow hikes in greater Tallahassee and the Big Bend. From wooded trails along wild rivers to hilly paths connecting streams and lakes to soothing strolls in parks, …
View book details for Bloc Politics at the United Nations
The African Group
UPA
In Bloc Politics at the United Nations, Endeley presents a detailed analysis of the structure and functioning of the African Group at the United Nations (UN). At the heart of the UN system is a series of regional caucusing blocs, …
View book details for Eminent Pittsburghers
Profiles of the City's Founding Industrialists
Taylor Trade Publishing
These biographical essays, many reprinted from The Pittsburgh Quarterly, describe the men who transformed Pittsburgh into one of the leading industrial cities in the world. Included here are such essays as "The Amazing Career of George Westinghouse," "The Judge and …
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