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Double-Crossing the Bridge
Rent in New Metta is through the cavern ceiling. When Granu barely survives her first gig teaching students who attempt to fillet her for lunch, the baby-eating troll ends up unemployed and facing eviction. Granu's only prospect for income is grueling work in the tar pits. That is until her playboy ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science: Lessons Learned from TIMSS (Contexts of Learning)
This book is the result of research from over fifteen countries, asking which background and environmental factors influence achievement in mathematics and science. This research is based on data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which was conducted under the auspic... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2006 -
Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
by Juan Felipe Herrera • Minal Hajratwala • Inés Hernández-Avila • Barbara Jane Reyes • David Bowles • Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Abigail Carl-Klassen • Adela Najarro • Allen Baros • Barbara Brinson Curiel • Carmen Calatayud • Cecca Austin Ochoa • Cordelia Barrera • César L. De León • D. M. Chávez • Dan Vera • Daniel E. Solís y Martínez • David Hatfield Sparks • Elsie Rivas Gómez • Emmy Pérez • Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez • Ire'Ne Lara Silva • Ire’ne Lara Silva • Jennine Doc Wright • Jo Reyes-Boitel • Joe Jiménez • John Fry • José Antonio Rodríguez • Juan Morales • Karla Cordero • Kim Shuck • Lupe Mendez • Marie Varghese • Melanie Márquez Adams • Michael Wasson • Miguel M. Morales • Monica Palacios • Nadine Saliba • Nia Witherspoon • Nidia Melissa Bautista • Olga García Echeverría • Oswaldo Vargas • Pablo Miguel Martínez • Rachel Mckibbens • Rodney Gomez • Roy G. Guzmán • Sarah A. Chavez • Shauna Osborn • Suzy de Jesus Huerta • T. Sarmina • Tara Betts • Tomas Moniz • Veronica Sandoval • Victor Payan • Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo • Ysabel Y. GonzálezIn homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized, expl... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research
Helping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs.Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research is the first comprehensively designed instructional manual aimed at teaching human research pro... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman--90,000 Lives Changed
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Preconception Health and Care: A Life Course Approach
This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults. The continuum of life begins with the health and wellness of parents prior to conceptio... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
The Dynamic Terrorist Threat: An Assessment of Group Motivations and Capabilities in a Changing World
by Cheryl Y. Marcum • Sara A. Daly • Kim Cragin • M. Rebecca Kilburn • Susan S. Everingham • Jill HoubeAs the war on terrorism wages on, our nation's policymakers will continue to face the challenge of assessing threats that various terrorist groups pose to the U.S. homeland and our interests abroad. As part of the RAND Corporation's yearlong "Thinking Strategically About Combating Terrorism" project... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Music Therapy with Children and their Families
by Amelia Oldfield • Colette Salkeld • Emma Davies • Jassenka Horvat • Claire Flower • Helen Loth • Sarah Russel • Kay Sobey • Joy Hasler • Nicky O'Neill • Rachel Bull • Vince Hesketh • Tiffany HughesIn the past, music therapy work with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book reflects the variety of settings within which music therapists are now working with children together w... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2008 -
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey
by David Mitchell • Andrew Powell • Brian Thorne • John Swinton • Neil Thompson • Sarah Carr • Peter Gilbert • Nigel Mills • Azim Kidwai • John Foskett • Suman Fernando • Fozia Sarwar • Premila Trevedi • Choman Hardi • Vicky Nicholls • Peter Bates • Fatima Kassam • Arthur Hawes • Cameron Langlands • Veronica Dewan • Ju Blencowe • Julia Head • Tom Gordon • Frances Basset • B Spalek • Anne Roberts • Paul Grey • Mark Bones • Ali Jan Haider • Barbara Pointon • Mary Ellen Coyte • Kim Woodbridge • Wendy Edwards • Christopher Newell • Chris Mackenna • Abina Parshad-Griffin • Thurstine Basset • Sarajane Aris • Luftha Meah • Paul Chapple • Bill K. W. M. FulfordSpirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users. Spirituality, Values and Mental Health gathers together personal and professional co... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007 -
Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
by Nancy Wilson • Rebecca Jackson • Elizabeth Wardle • Linda Adler-Kassner • Christian Smith • Christina Grant • Elizabeth Kleinfeld • Jennifer DeWinter • Rebecca Robinson • Emma Gaier • Megan Wallace • Lisa Tremain • Hiroki Sugimoto • Joy Arbor • Valerie Vera • Gwen Hart • Mysti Rudd • Kristen Di Gennaro • Cat Mahaffey • Shawn Casey • Andrew Ogilvie • Olga Aksakalova • Dominique Zino • Andrew Lucchesi • Gabriel Cutrufello • Michael Michaud • Sarah Read • Francis Johnson • Samuel Stinson • Rebecca Nowacek • Kimberly Hoover • Elle Limesand • Maggie Hammond • Max Wellman • Matthew Bryan • Kevin Roozen • Nicole Stack • Christy I. Wenger • Gabrielle Frick • Patrick Siebel • Katie Jo LaRiviereNext Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing is the first collection of teacher and student voices on a writing pedagogy that puts expert knowledge at the center of the writing classroom. More than forty contributors report on implementations of writing-about-writing pedagogies from the b... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023