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Project-Based Learning in the First Year

Beyond All Expectations

Edited by Kristin K. Wobbe, Elisabeth A. Stoddard ...

Published in association with This book has two goals: First, to show the value of significant project-based work for first-year undergraduate students; and Second, to share how to introduce this work into first year programs. The authors spend the bulk of the book sharing what they have learned about this practice, including details about the administrative support and logistics required. They ... Read more

Was $55.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

Published in association with This book has two goals: First, to show the value of significant project-based work for first-year undergraduate students; and Second, to share how to introduce this work into first year programs. The authors spend the bulk of the book sharing what they have learned about this practice, including details about the administrative support and logistics required. They
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A Retired Art Teacher Tells All

One Hundred Simple Tips to Help Teachers Become Efficient, Inspiring, and Happy Educators

by Marlene Nall Johnt ...

As a young art instructor, new on the block, Marlene Nall Johnt went looking for an instructive manual about successful art education techniques. To her dismay, she never found one. Now retired, Johnt realized what needed to be done: she needed to write just such a manual for the young teachers of today. A Retired Art Teacher Tells All is an educational guide and workbook with detailed tips for ... Read more

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As a young art instructor, new on the block, Marlene Nall Johnt went looking for an instructive manual about successful art education techniques. To her dismay, she never found one. Now retired, Johnt realized what needed to be done: she needed to write just such a manual for the young teachers of today. A Retired Art Teacher Tells All is an educational guide and workbook with detailed tips for
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Breakthrough

How to Overcome Doubt, Fear and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self

by Todd Mitchell ...

Break free of toxic success myths.Transcend the suffering artist paradigm.Actualize your immense creative potential.If you've ever struggled with doubt, fear, procrastination, or disappointment while trying to create, this book is for you. Breakthrough goes where no other books on creativity dare to tread―exposing the toxic success myths that hold people back and revealing radical, perspective ... Read more

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Break free of toxic success myths.Transcend the suffering artist paradigm.Actualize your immense creative potential.If you've ever struggled with doubt, fear, procrastination, or disappointment while trying to create, this book is for you. Breakthrough goes where no other books on creativity dare to tread―exposing the toxic success myths that hold people back and revealing radical, perspective
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Helping Foster Children In School

A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

by John DeGarmo ...

Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often
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Alive on the Andrea Doria!

The Greatest Sea Rescue in History

by Pierette Domenica Simpson ...

A breathtaking minute-by-minute account of the most catastrophic tragedy-at-sea since the sinking of the Titanic—told by a survivor.More than one half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner, the SS Andrea Doria in 1956, is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the ... Read more

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A breathtaking minute-by-minute account of the most catastrophic tragedy-at-sea since the sinking of the Titanic—told by a survivor.More than one half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner, the SS Andrea Doria in 1956, is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the
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Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food

A Practical Guide for Early Years Professionals

by Jo Cormack ...

A winner in the Happy & Healthy category of the 2018 Teach Early Years Awards.This practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children's relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits ... Read more

$22.99 USD

A winner in the Happy & Healthy category of the 2018 Teach Early Years Awards.This practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children's relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits
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Butterfly Politics

by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...

The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural
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A Search for Common Ground

Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K12 Education

by Frederick M. Hess, Pedro A. Noguera ...

At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K–12 education today—from school ... Read more

$29.99 USD

At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K–12 education today—from school
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Interviewing as Qualitative Research

A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences

by Irving Seidman ...

This popular text provides step-by-step guidance for new and experienced researchers who want to use interviewing as a research method. Appropriate for individual and classroom use, this expanded edition explains the rationale for interviewing and the complexity of selecting interview participants, important interviewing techniques, and how to work with the results of interviews.“For four editions ... Read more

$33.99 USD

This popular text provides step-by-step guidance for new and experienced researchers who want to use interviewing as a research method. Appropriate for individual and classroom use, this expanded edition explains the rationale for interviewing and the complexity of selecting interview participants, important interviewing techniques, and how to work with the results of interviews.“For four editions
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Inherit the Land

Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will

by Gene Stowe ...

In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter.Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North Carolina. Upon Maggie's death in 1920, her will bequeathed her estate to Bob Ross—who had grown up in the sisters' ... Read more

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In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter.Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North Carolina. Upon Maggie's death in 1920, her will bequeathed her estate to Bob Ross—who had grown up in the sisters'
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Lower Ed

The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

by Tressie McMillan Cottom ...

**"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."—The New York Times Book ReviewAs featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality** Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher ... Read more

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**"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."—The New York Times Book ReviewAs featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality** Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher
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Der Tod in Venedig. Textausgabe mit Kommentar und Materialien

[Reclam XL – Text und Kontext] – Mann, Thomas – 16171

by Thomas Mann ...

Series series Reclam XL – Text und Kontext
Beliebte Schullektüre: Thomas Manns Novelle über Selbstaufgabe, Liebe und TodGustav von Aschenbach reist nach Venedig, verfällt dort der Liebe zu dem schönen Knaben Tadzio, kann sich nicht mehr losreißen und stirbt – offen bleibt, ob an der um sich greifenden Cholera oder der unerfüllten Liebe.Zusatzmaterialien im Anhang zu Thomas Manns Biografie, zur Entstehung des Werks und zu verschiedenen ... Read more

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Beliebte Schullektüre: Thomas Manns Novelle über Selbstaufgabe, Liebe und TodGustav von Aschenbach reist nach Venedig, verfällt dort der Liebe zu dem schönen Knaben Tadzio, kann sich nicht mehr losreißen und stirbt – offen bleibt, ob an der um sich greifenden Cholera oder der unerfüllten Liebe.Zusatzmaterialien im Anhang zu Thomas Manns Biografie, zur Entstehung des Werks und zu verschiedenen
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USA by Rail: plus Canada's main routes

by John Pitt ...

This new, tenth edition of Bradt’s USA by Rail guidebook remains the pre-eminent source of information for exploring North America via its ruggedly charming, unabashedly romantic, reassuringly eco-friendly and pleasingly inexpensive train network. The grandeur of North America’s scenery – from its never-ending prairies, the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert and the saw-toothed peaks of the Rocky ... Read more

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This new, tenth edition of Bradt’s USA by Rail guidebook remains the pre-eminent source of information for exploring North America via its ruggedly charming, unabashedly romantic, reassuringly eco-friendly and pleasingly inexpensive train network. The grandeur of North America’s scenery – from its never-ending prairies, the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert and the saw-toothed peaks of the Rocky
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Museum Space

Where Architecture Meets Museology

by Kali Tzortzi ...

Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can
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Reorganizing Government

A Functional and Dimensional Framework

by Robert Glicksman, Alejandro E. Camacho ...

A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectivelyRegulation is frequently less successful than it could be, largely because the allocation of authority to regulatory institutions, and the relationships between them, are misunderstood. As a result, attempts to create new regulatory programs or mend under-performing ones are often ... Read more

$33.99 USD

A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectivelyRegulation is frequently less successful than it could be, largely because the allocation of authority to regulatory institutions, and the relationships between them, are misunderstood. As a result, attempts to create new regulatory programs or mend under-performing ones are often
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To Drink from the Well

The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University

by Geeta N. Kapur ...

Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people ... Read more

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Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people
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Words on the Move

Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

by John McWhorter ...

A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight itLanguage is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean ... Read more

$1.99 USD

A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight itLanguage is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean
... Read more
Police Exam Prep 7th Edition

4 Practice Tests + Proven Strategies

by Kaplan Test Prep ...

Series series Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan's Police Exam Prep is your guide to acing the entrance exams for police departments across the United States. With up-to-date content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Police Exam Prep is your complete guide to becoming a police officer.We are so certain that Police Exam Prep offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our book, you'll ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Kaplan's Police Exam Prep is your guide to acing the entrance exams for police departments across the United States. With up-to-date content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Police Exam Prep is your complete guide to becoming a police officer.We are so certain that Police Exam Prep offers the guidance you need that we guarantee it: After studying with our book, you'll
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Easter Bunny Coloring Book for Kids Ages 3+ (Printable Version)

by Sheba Blake ...

Cute Easter Bunny Coloring Book for Boys and Girls!Help your little ones celebrate Easter with a coloring book that is perfect for little hands. Easy to color designs help to build fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination.Why You'll Love This Book:• Contains 20 pictures.• Pictures are single-page, to avoid bleed-through.• Age appropriate for pre-school and elementary age kids 3 years - and up.• ... Read more

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Cute Easter Bunny Coloring Book for Boys and Girls!Help your little ones celebrate Easter with a coloring book that is perfect for little hands. Easy to color designs help to build fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination.Why You'll Love This Book:• Contains 20 pictures.• Pictures are single-page, to avoid bleed-through.• Age appropriate for pre-school and elementary age kids 3 years - and up.•
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A History of Japan

by Hisho Saito ...

Translated by Elizabeth Lee ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms, Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power of Fujiwara, the founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo family, Ashikaga Shogunate, Oda & Toyotomi families, Tokugawa Shogunate, the ... Read more

$33.99 USD

This volume presents the Japanese version of the history of Japan from its origins, through the subjection of Korea, the introduction of Chinese culture, rebellion in Korea, Buddhism, Taika reforms, Ainu insurrection, the founding of Kyoto as the capital, the power of Fujiwara, the founding of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo family, Ashikaga Shogunate, Oda & Toyotomi families, Tokugawa Shogunate, the
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Brother Number One

A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

by David P Chandler ...

"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative portrait of Brother Number One and a fascinating insight into Cambodia's cruel history." —Frederick Z. ... Read more

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"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative portrait of Brother Number One and a fascinating insight into Cambodia's cruel history." —Frederick Z.
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The Real Watergate Scandal

Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down

by Geoff Shepard ...

*Inspiration for the Major Off-Broadway Show, Trial on the Potomac.*“It’s the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973—with implications at once historic and relevant today.” —JAMES ROSEN, national bestselling author and legendary journalistTHESE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS WERE DETERMINED TO GET NIXON"AT ALL COSTS."**“The system worked’—Carl Bernstein’s famous assessment of ... Read more

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*Inspiration for the Major Off-Broadway Show, Trial on the Potomac.*“It’s the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973—with implications at once historic and relevant today.” —JAMES ROSEN, national bestselling author and legendary journalistTHESE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS WERE DETERMINED TO GET NIXON"AT ALL COSTS."**“The system worked’—Carl Bernstein’s famous assessment of
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

by Emma Byrne ...

"Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it." —Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book ReviewIn this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing—why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. Packed with the ... Read more

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"Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it." —Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book ReviewIn this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing—why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. Packed with the
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Fiske 250 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know

by Jane Mallison, Jane Mallison, Dave Hatcher, Dave Hatcher, Edward B Fiske ...

Learn the words you need to succeed in collegeApplying to colleges and preparing for the next leg of your academic career is a stressful and chaotic time for everyone. But knowing these 250 words will help you prepare for a new world of academic rigors.Using this book as a key learning tool in your college prep process, you will...expand your toolkit of words for standardized tests and application ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Learn the words you need to succeed in collegeApplying to colleges and preparing for the next leg of your academic career is a stressful and chaotic time for everyone. But knowing these 250 words will help you prepare for a new world of academic rigors.Using this book as a key learning tool in your college prep process, you will...expand your toolkit of words for standardized tests and application
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