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A conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the discussion about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them. It offers "solutions" that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and impose a market mentality. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher-activists, speaks back to... More

A history of key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than 500 years of razing and toppling, it looks back to London's Great Fire of 1666, where wreckers blew houses apart with gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite that would later fuel epoch... More

Offers a "medicine cabinet" of ideas for identifying and correcting common problems without using dangerous chemicals.... More

A companion to Rodale's garden problem solver which treats vegetables, fruits, and herbs; and to a forthcoming volume which will deal with perennials, annuals, and bulbs.... More

A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the tu... More

Seeing the Digital Future through a 2020 Lens In this issue, our authors peer over the horizon into the next decade to see how Code Halos will create engaging and even clairvoyant enterprises that can read the minds of customers, employees and business partners, and deliver personalized products an... More

A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioi... More

The ever-increasing use of assisted human reproduction technology and the use of human embryos to derive stem cells will ensure that the ethical, legal, and social issues explored in The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives will remain the focus of public attent... More

Many of the great icons of western American history left their mark on Carbon County while living in or traveling through the natural byway that is Montana's Clark's Fork Valley. The Apsáalooke, or Crow, people called the valley home for centuries. The Lewis and Clark expedition recorded and named t... More

6th grade Literature textbook... More

The Common Core Edition is separated into four sections--Reading (Literature and Informational Text), Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language. ... More

Themes in Literature: Heroism, Short Stories, Types of Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Fiction and Nonfiction. ... More

This is companion to Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is loved by students and teachers as they learn to understand the world beyond the Annex. Not just another Holocaust story, Storming the Tulips is an intimate encounter with history, as told by twenty former students of the 1st Montessori Scho... More

The latest CHS Book Award winner examines California's history through the prism of twelve elections that forever changed the state. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, including new interviews conducted by the authors, each chapter explores one election (Leland Stanford's gubernatorial race, ... More

The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history. Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this perio... More

Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice. Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the contrib... More

This three volume set presents papers from the first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics, including business and economic issues. Contributions examine new developments in foundational extractive metallurgy topics and techniques, and present the latest... More