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  • Winnebagos on Wednesdays

    How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education

    by Scott Cowen ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America’s colleges and universitiesIn 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal on the table, Cowen was unable to retain the school's football coach. The coach wanted something the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Inevitable City

    The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America

    After seven years of service as the president of Tulane University, Scott Cowen watched the devastation of his beloved New Orleans at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. When federal, state, and city officials couldn't find their way to decisive action, Cowen, known for his gutsy leadership, quickly partnered with a coalition of civic, business, and nonprofit leaders looking to work around the old ... Read more

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    How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

    How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to prepare children now for the challenges of the future. ... Read more

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  • When There Is No Doctor

    Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times

    Series series Process Self-reliance Series
    A field guide to survival medicine, improvisation, and emergency care when professional help is unavailable. When There Is No Doctor by Dr. Gerald S. Boyle is a practical guide to emergency and improvised medical care for situations where professional treatment is delayed or unavailable. Drawing on clinical experience and disaster-preparedness knowledge, Boyle outlines basic principles of first ... Read more

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  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times"The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist"A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our ... Read more

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  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

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  • K9 Scent Training

    A Manual for Training Your Identification, Tracking and Detection Dog

    Series series K9 Professional Training Series
    Whether you’re searching for drugs or a missing person, K9 Scent Training will improve your K9 team’s capabilities in the field.Use proven techniques to train your dog for:Scent identification line-ups to indicate a scent connection between crime-scene evidence and a suspect.Tracking along a wide variety of track types, including the cold track, the broken-off track and tracks that run over or ... Read more

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  • The Wrong Kind of Different

    Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms

    How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain ... Read more

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  • How to be a "HIP" College Campus

    Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education

    Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples about HIPs’ implementation in and out of the classroom.HIPs have been proven to improve student learning, ... Read more

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  • The Mindful Teacher

    Series series the series on school reform
    This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the ... Read more

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  • Christchurch Ruptures

    by Katie Pickles ...
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    The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling.In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what was lost that February day, drawing out the different threads of Christchurch’s colonial history ... Read more

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  • Circulating Communities

    The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing

    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only history and analysis but extended samples of the community writing produced. Rather than feature only the voices of academic scholars, this ... Read more

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