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A Third University Is Possible

de la paperson ...

Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of
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English Made Easy Volume Two: British Edition

A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures

de Jonathan Crichton, Pieter Koster ...

This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn EnglishEnglish Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning—imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy access to the vocabulary, grammar and functions of English as it is actually used in a comprehensive range of ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn EnglishEnglish Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning—imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy access to the vocabulary, grammar and functions of English as it is actually used in a comprehensive range of
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Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons

Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox

de Greg Fitzsimmons ...

A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Irish family by frequent late-night guest and Howard Stern Show veteran Greg Fitzsimmons, as told through a collection of disciplinary letters.PARENTS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOMEGreg Fitzsimmons has made a lot of what appear to be bad decisions. It’s what he was raised to do. Most parents would hide or destroy any evidence so clearly demonstrating their child ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Irish family by frequent late-night guest and Howard Stern Show veteran Greg Fitzsimmons, as told through a collection of disciplinary letters.PARENTS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOMEGreg Fitzsimmons has made a lot of what appear to be bad decisions. It’s what he was raised to do. Most parents would hide or destroy any evidence so clearly demonstrating their child
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Language Learning Online: Towards Best Practice

Edición de Uschi Felix ...

This important and accessible book identifies the key elements in the quest for best practice in online language teaching. The authors, all of them international experts who have made significant contributions to the debate about how to exploit the new technologies, consider online language teaching from three crucial perspectives: design, tools and pedagogy. Their recommendations are such that ... Leer más

$77.99 USD

This important and accessible book identifies the key elements in the quest for best practice in online language teaching. The authors, all of them international experts who have made significant contributions to the debate about how to exploit the new technologies, consider online language teaching from three crucial perspectives: design, tools and pedagogy. Their recommendations are such that
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Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa da Porto Editora

de Porto Editora ...

* A referência definitiva para o domínio da Língua Portuguesa *Aprofunde o seu conhecimento da língua com um dicionário que se destaca pela abrangência e rigor:- Mais de 300 000 definições e 120 000 entradas, que incluem transcrição fonética, locuções e expressões idiomáticas.- Mais de 100 000 registros de etimologia, que revelam a origem e evolução das palavras.- Cobertura das grafias anteriores ... Leer más

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* A referência definitiva para o domínio da Língua Portuguesa *Aprofunde o seu conhecimento da língua com um dicionário que se destaca pela abrangência e rigor:- Mais de 300 000 definições e 120 000 entradas, que incluem transcrição fonética, locuções e expressões idiomáticas.- Mais de 100 000 registros de etimologia, que revelam a origem e evolução das palavras.- Cobertura das grafias anteriores
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Becoming Ms. Burton

From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

de Susan Burton, Cari Lynn ...

Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards**Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice“Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.”—Los Angeles Review of Books“Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming ... Leer más

$12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards**Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice“Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.”—Los Angeles Review of Books“Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming
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Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership

Eight Strategies to Ignite Passion and Transform Program Quality

de Susan MacDonald, MEd ...

A positive, strengths-based leadership system is the key to transforming the quality of early childhood programs. Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership lays out strategies designed to support program leaders in finding new ways to reduce the levels of stress on themselves and their staff, and move into a unified, engaging system for leading with passion, intention, and purpose.Grounded in current ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

A positive, strengths-based leadership system is the key to transforming the quality of early childhood programs. Inspiring Early Childhood Leadership lays out strategies designed to support program leaders in finding new ways to reduce the levels of stress on themselves and their staff, and move into a unified, engaging system for leading with passion, intention, and purpose.Grounded in current
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Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar

A Student's Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors

de Qin Xue Herzberg, Larry Herzberg ...

Learn to speak and write Chinese with confidence while avoiding common mistakes!Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence. This volume makes an ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

Learn to speak and write Chinese with confidence while avoiding common mistakes!Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence. This volume makes an
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The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers Volume 2

de Phil Farrand ...

Series series Nitpicker's Guides
A follow-up to the first, best-selling Nitpicker's guide ferrets out the plot inconsistencies, scientific inaccuracies, and other foul-ups in the seventh, final season of the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

A follow-up to the first, best-selling Nitpicker's guide ferrets out the plot inconsistencies, scientific inaccuracies, and other foul-ups in the seventh, final season of the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek

de Benjamin Kantor ...

Series series Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR)
What did the apostles' Greek sound like?How should New Testament Greek be pronounced in our classrooms? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even reproduce Erasmus's own pronunciation faithfully, let alone that of the New Testament authors. But if we want to process the language of the New Testament the same way its original authors and readers did, we should use their ... Leer más

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What did the apostles' Greek sound like?How should New Testament Greek be pronounced in our classrooms? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even reproduce Erasmus's own pronunciation faithfully, let alone that of the New Testament authors. But if we want to process the language of the New Testament the same way its original authors and readers did, we should use their
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Driven to Distraction (Revised)

Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

de Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey M.D. ...

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.Through vivid stories and case histories of patients—both adults and children—Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.Through vivid stories and case histories of patients—both adults and children—Hallowell and Ratey explore the varied forms
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Breakthrough

Revealing the Secrets of Rebreather Scrubber Canisters

de John R. Clarke ...

Breakthrough fills the knowledge gap for mathematical and computer modeling of carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination in underwater breathing apparatus (UBA). The intended audience is every UBA designer or diver interested in a better understanding of scrubber canisters and metabolic CO2 elimination. It introduces the reader to a new form of stochastic modeling using cellular automata to quantify and ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

Breakthrough fills the knowledge gap for mathematical and computer modeling of carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination in underwater breathing apparatus (UBA). The intended audience is every UBA designer or diver interested in a better understanding of scrubber canisters and metabolic CO2 elimination. It introduces the reader to a new form of stochastic modeling using cellular automata to quantify and
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Memoir Writing Guide

Brighten Your Leaf on the Family Tree

de Marilyn H Collins ...

Writing or wanting to someday start writing your memoir? This practical, step-by-step guide will lead you to all stages of writing, structuring, and producing a successful memoir. Use the workbook format to make the process even easier. A must for writing about the most interesting character you know -- YOU. Writing your memoir gives you the chance to brighten your special leaf on the family tree ... Leer más

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Writing or wanting to someday start writing your memoir? This practical, step-by-step guide will lead you to all stages of writing, structuring, and producing a successful memoir. Use the workbook format to make the process even easier. A must for writing about the most interesting character you know -- YOU. Writing your memoir gives you the chance to brighten your special leaf on the family tree
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The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

de 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 ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

**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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Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors

de Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rebecca Jackson, Nicole I. Caswell ...

The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993), the authors adopt a case study approach to examine the labor these directors performed and the ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993), the authors adopt a case study approach to examine the labor these directors performed and the
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Wedding Kit For Dummies

de Marcy Blum, Laura Fisher Kaiser ...

You finally said “yes!” and decided to throw in your lot with Mr. Right. But before you can embark on your new lives together there’s the little detail of your wedding. Handled correctly, it can be what it should be—the most wonderful day of your life. With Wedding Kit For Dummies in your corner, you can guarantee that your wedding celebration is everything you always dreamed it would be.Whether ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

You finally said “yes!” and decided to throw in your lot with Mr. Right. But before you can embark on your new lives together there’s the little detail of your wedding. Handled correctly, it can be what it should be—the most wonderful day of your life. With Wedding Kit For Dummies in your corner, you can guarantee that your wedding celebration is everything you always dreamed it would be.Whether
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Place in Research

Theory, Methodology, and Methods

de Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This ... Leer más

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Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This
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Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay

Edición de Rachael Hutchinson ...

Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay showcases the rich variety of games in Japan, placing them in the context of industry, development processes, and a broader media ecology. We trace Japanese games through history, including card games, board games, pachinko and digital games, as well as how games are connected to toys and animation, and how analog and mechanical games connect to the ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay showcases the rich variety of games in Japan, placing them in the context of industry, development processes, and a broader media ecology. We trace Japanese games through history, including card games, board games, pachinko and digital games, as well as how games are connected to toys and animation, and how analog and mechanical games connect to the
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This Creative Life: A Handbook for Writers

de Sara Zarr ...

There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you're like most writers, you've read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you're like most writers, you've read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes
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Librorum Ridiculorum

A Compendium of Bizarre Books

de Brian Lake ...

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons… and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published is a treat for all bibliophiles, booksellers and fans of the bizarre. It is an exploration of the most eccentric titles and covers ... Leer más

$7.49 USD

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons… and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published is a treat for all bibliophiles, booksellers and fans of the bizarre. It is an exploration of the most eccentric titles and covers
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Mother Nature's Pedagogy

Biological Foundations for Children's Self-Directed Education

de Peter Gray ...

Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how ... Leer más

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Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how
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Early Automobiles

A History in Advertising Line Art, 1890-1930

de Jim Harter ...

Image archivist and transportation historian Jim Harter follows his work, Early Farm Tractors, with an even larger collection of images from advertising line art from 1880 to 1930, this time focused on Early Automobiles. Nearly 250 entrancing illustrations -- many suitable for framing -- are gems of the art of commercial engraving. Harter provides a very substantial, detailed history of the ... Leer más

$16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Image archivist and transportation historian Jim Harter follows his work, Early Farm Tractors, with an even larger collection of images from advertising line art from 1880 to 1930, this time focused on Early Automobiles. Nearly 250 entrancing illustrations -- many suitable for framing -- are gems of the art of commercial engraving. Harter provides a very substantial, detailed history of the
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Long Way Round

Chasing Shadows Across the World

de Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman ...

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn't get out of his head. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn't get out of his head. So he picked up the phone and called Charley Boorman, his best
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The Leader Who Gave Inspiring Speeches - Biography of Winston Churchill | Children's Biography Books

de Baby Professor ...

Who was Winston Churchill? What were his contributions to the country to be included in history books? This biography book aims to introduce Prime Minister Churchill as a child, an adult and finally, a leader. Reading about the biography of other people will help to create more informed decisions. Mistakes made before can be avoided more easily if you have the right knowledge with you. ... Leer más

$3.99 USD

Who was Winston Churchill? What were his contributions to the country to be included in history books? This biography book aims to introduce Prime Minister Churchill as a child, an adult and finally, a leader. Reading about the biography of other people will help to create more informed decisions. Mistakes made before can be avoided more easily if you have the right knowledge with you.
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