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In Search of Hua Ma

Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level, Simplified Chinese Edition

by John Pasden, Jared Turner, Shishuang Chen ...

Series series Mandarin Companion
As a young boy is walking through the mountains in search of a gift for his mother’s birthday, he comes across an ancient house. An old lady beckons him inside and asks him to find “Hua Ma”. As he leaves, he finds himself inexplicably transported to the distant island of Hainan while the old lady and the house have disappeared. Unsure of who or what Hua Ma is, he sets out on a quest to find him, ... Read more

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As a young boy is walking through the mountains in search of a gift for his mother’s birthday, he comes across an ancient house. An old lady beckons him inside and asks him to find “Hua Ma”. As he leaves, he finds himself inexplicably transported to the distant island of Hainan while the old lady and the house have disappeared. Unsure of who or what Hua Ma is, he sets out on a quest to find him,
... Read more
The First Day: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids

The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2), #1

by Pomme Bilingual ...

Series Book 1 - The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2)
A warm, immersive way for children to learn Italian through story.The First Day: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids is the first book in a unique 52-story reading system designed for young learners who want to acquire Italian naturally through stories, not memorisation or grammar drills.Set in a gentle Italian neighbourhood filled with warm kitchens, sunny windows, small courtyards, quiet ... Read more

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A warm, immersive way for children to learn Italian through story.The First Day: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids is the first book in a unique 52-story reading system designed for young learners who want to acquire Italian naturally through stories, not memorisation or grammar drills.Set in a gentle Italian neighbourhood filled with warm kitchens, sunny windows, small courtyards, quiet
... Read more
Christmas Begins: Bilingual Italian–English Christmas Stories for Kids

The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2), #1

by Pomme Bilingual ...

Series Book 1 - The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2)
Christmas Begins: Bilingual Italian–English Christmas Stories for Kids is the first book in a gentle series of festive Italian stories for young readers learning Italian at beginner (A1–low A2) level.Follow Anna as December begins and her everyday world slowly fills with Christmas lights, a December calendar, the warm smell of freshly baked biscuits and a little Christmas tree.Across four ... Read more

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Christmas Begins: Bilingual Italian–English Christmas Stories for Kids is the first book in a gentle series of festive Italian stories for young readers learning Italian at beginner (A1–low A2) level.Follow Anna as December begins and her everyday world slowly fills with Christmas lights, a December calendar, the warm smell of freshly baked biscuits and a little Christmas tree.Across four
... Read more
Tomorrow: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids

The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2), #3

by Pomme Bilingual ...

Series Book 3 - The 52 Story Method – Foundations (A1–A2)
A warm, immersive way for children to learn Italian through story.Tomorrow: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids is the third book in a unique 52-story reading system designed for young learners who want to acquire Italian naturally through stories, not memorisation or grammar drills.From the comforting smell of freshly baked bread to the sound of bells across the rooftops, from a simple ... Read more

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A warm, immersive way for children to learn Italian through story.Tomorrow: Bilingual Italian–English Stories for Kids is the third book in a unique 52-story reading system designed for young learners who want to acquire Italian naturally through stories, not memorisation or grammar drills.From the comforting smell of freshly baked bread to the sound of bells across the rooftops, from a simple
... Read more
Ableism in Education

Rethinking School Practices and Policies

by Gillian Parekh ...

Series series Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
How we organize children by ability in schools is often rooted in ableism.Ability is so central to schooling—where we explicitly and continuously shape, assess, measure, and report on students’ abilities—that ability-based decisions often appear logical and natural. However, how schools respond to ability results in very real, lifelong social and economic consequences. Special education and ... Read more

$45.33 CAD

How we organize children by ability in schools is often rooted in ableism.Ability is so central to schooling—where we explicitly and continuously shape, assess, measure, and report on students’ abilities—that ability-based decisions often appear logical and natural. However, how schools respond to ability results in very real, lifelong social and economic consequences. Special education and
... Read more
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

Edited by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Diane J. Goodman, Davey Shlasko, Rachel R. Briggs, Romina Pacheco ...

For over 30 years, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition continues in the tradition of its predecessors to cover the most relevant issues and controversies in social justice education ... Read more

$119.54 CAD

For over 30 years, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition continues in the tradition of its predecessors to cover the most relevant issues and controversies in social justice education
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Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition

The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds

by Ruth E. Van Reken, David C. Pollock, Michael V. Pollock ...

The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible." Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible." Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity
... Read more
Eventyrlige Fortellinger: Engelsk-Norsk Språklæring

by Coledown English ...

Ta en spennende reise inn i en verden av bilinguale eventyr med vår samling Eventyrlige Fortellinger: Engelsk-Norsk Språklæring. Hver historie er en bro mellom to språk, perfekt for de som ønsker å lære engelsk eller norsk på en underholdende måte.Gjennom disse hjertevarme historiene vil du oppdage spennende verdener, følge karakterenes eventyr, og samtidig styrke dine språkkunnskaper. La deg ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Ta en spennende reise inn i en verden av bilinguale eventyr med vår samling Eventyrlige Fortellinger: Engelsk-Norsk Språklæring. Hver historie er en bro mellom to språk, perfekt for de som ønsker å lære engelsk eller norsk på en underholdende måte.Gjennom disse hjertevarme historiene vil du oppdage spennende verdener, følge karakterenes eventyr, og samtidig styrke dine språkkunnskaper. La deg
... Read more
Miss Kathi

Saving Lives in North Korea

by Kathi Zellweger, Mike Chinoy ...

The remarkable story of Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, whose history of engagement with a secretive, isolated North Korea over nearly three decades is unprecedented in its scope, access, and humanitarian impact.One of the first book-length accounts in English by an aid worker operating on the ground in North Korea, Miss Kathi chronicles the story of a woman who has lived out her commitment to ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

The remarkable story of Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, whose history of engagement with a secretive, isolated North Korea over nearly three decades is unprecedented in its scope, access, and humanitarian impact.One of the first book-length accounts in English by an aid worker operating on the ground in North Korea, Miss Kathi chronicles the story of a woman who has lived out her commitment to
... Read more
Learning and Teaching While White

Antiracist Strategies for School Communities

by Jenna Chandler-Ward, Elizabeth Denevi ...

Series series Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
We need to name whiteness, in order to move toward antiracism.For too long, white educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until white educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.Learning and Teaching While White is an accessible guide to ... Read more

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We need to name whiteness, in order to move toward antiracism.For too long, white educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until white educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.Learning and Teaching While White is an accessible guide to
... Read more
Language, Culture, and Teaching

Critical Perspectives

by Sonia Nieto ...

Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that ... Read more

$119.54 CAD

Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that
... Read more
Back to Pakistan

A Fifty-Year Journey

by Leslie Noyes Mass ...

In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F. Kennedy and joined the fledgling Peace Corps. Leslie Noyes Mass was assigned to Pakistan and given the directive to start a program-any kind of educational program she could muster-in a small Muslim village where she was the only Westerner and the only Peace Corps volunteer. After a year, she left the village, ... Read more

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In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F. Kennedy and joined the fledgling Peace Corps. Leslie Noyes Mass was assigned to Pakistan and given the directive to start a program-any kind of educational program she could muster-in a small Muslim village where she was the only Westerner and the only Peace Corps volunteer. After a year, she left the village,
... Read more
Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

Mapping the Long View

Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...

Series series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational ... Read more

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Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational
... Read more
Street Data

A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

by Shane Safir, Jamila Dugan ...

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doingEducation can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ ... Read more

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Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doingEducation can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’
... Read more
Literatures, Communities, and Learning

Conversations with Indigenous Writers

by Aubrey Jean Hanson ...

Series series Indigenous Studies
Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities.Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations explore the pressing topic of Indigenous writings and its importance to the well-being of Indigenous ... Read more

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Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities.Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations explore the pressing topic of Indigenous writings and its importance to the well-being of Indigenous
... Read more
The Emergency Teacher

The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School

by Christina Asquith ...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified” teachers to fill the void. Asquith, a twenty-five-year-old reporter for ... Read more

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The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified” teachers to fill the void. Asquith, a twenty-five-year-old reporter for
... Read more
Spiritual Divorce

Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life

by Debbie Ford ...

Could the end of your marriage be the first step toward reclaiming your personal power and joyfully living the life of your dreams? If the answer is yes, this book is for you.Divorce rocks the very foundation of our beings, leaving us feeling lonely, flawed, enraged, undesirable, hopeless, and empty. In Spiritual Divorce, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford reveals how this devastation ... Read more

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Could the end of your marriage be the first step toward reclaiming your personal power and joyfully living the life of your dreams? If the answer is yes, this book is for you.Divorce rocks the very foundation of our beings, leaving us feeling lonely, flawed, enraged, undesirable, hopeless, and empty. In Spiritual Divorce, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford reveals how this devastation
... Read more
Stones into Schools

Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

by Greg Mortenson ...

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan ... Read more

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From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan
... Read more
Is Everyone Really Equal?

An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

$47.29 CAD

This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and
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The Doha Experiment

Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher

by Gary Wasserman ...

Gary Wasserman’s decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. “In the beginning,” he writes, “this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college.” But he quickly discovers that he has entered a world that gives him a unique perspective on the Middle East and on ... Read more

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Gary Wasserman’s decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. “In the beginning,” he writes, “this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college.” But he quickly discovers that he has entered a world that gives him a unique perspective on the Middle East and on
... Read more
Defining Moments in Black History

Reading Between the Lies

by Dick Gregory ...

NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including
... Read more
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

And Other Conversations About Race

by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...

The classic, New York Times bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America—now fully revised and updated.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” -Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latin... ... Read more

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The classic, New York Times bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America—now fully revised and updated.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” -Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latin...
... Read more
German Short Stories for Beginners Book 1: Over 100 Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn German in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your Vocabulary, with Crazy Effective Language Learning Lessons

German for Adults, #1

by Learn Like a Native ...

Series Book 1 - German for Adults
WANT TO LEARN GERMAN THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – German in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that ... Read more

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WANT TO LEARN GERMAN THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – German in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that
... Read more
The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

by Jessica Nordell ...

**Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un ... Read more

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**Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un
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