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This book provides teachers with various tools to improve their classroom management skills, to actively involve students in lessons, and as a result, raise their interest level and improve learning...

This book provides teachers with various tools to improve their classroom management skills, to actively involve students in lessons, and as a result, raise their interest level and improve learning...

The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing...

This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture--a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution--and the memoir of his son, Isaac.Author: Arthur F...

Mr. Schickel takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation-Hitchcock, Capra, Minnelli, Cukor, Hawks, Wellman, Vidor, and Walsh-reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the...

What are the effective approaches of teaching and learning mathematics? How do teachers build on knowledge of students' thinking? What knowledge is needed for teachers to teach effectively? In The...

This book is a must read for anyone in close proximity to middle schoolers. Using actual events from the lives of real teenagers, the authors (a middle school principal and a child neuropsychologist)...

This book is a must read for anyone in close proximity to middle schoolers. Using actual events from the lives of real teenagers, the authors (a middle school principal and a child neuropsychologist)...

To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Author: Jacob NeusnerPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublication Date: Oct 01,...

The Missing Link was written to help professional educators (as well as parents and others) employ straight-forward ways to teach success skills without adding to the enormous burdens they already...

The Missing Link was written to help professional educators (as well as parents and others) employ straight-forward ways to teach success skills without adding to the enormous burdens they already...

The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared...

The book explores the role of envy in society and its nature as a social emotion that is deeply concerned with both the self and others. It examines envy's morally problematic aspects but also its...

The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family,...

Founded by Peter the Great a mere sixty years before Catherine II ascended Russia's throne, St. Petersburg became one of the leading economic and political centers of Europe during her reign...

Edited and translated by Daniel Gerould and C.S. Durer, foreword by Jan Kott. Painter, playwrights, novelist, aesthetician, philosopher, and expert on drugs, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz - or Witkacy,...

A practical text with ideas that can immediately be put to use in the classroom. This book goes beyond a thematic link between reading and music to an examination of those skills that are directly...

This collection of lectures, talks, and essays focuses on three major composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.Author: Nikolaus HarnoncourtPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group...

Muslim Extremist Discourse analyzes the discourse of militant extremists. Newspapers published by extremists play a critical role in securing and maintaining public support for militant organizations...

In this book, the central tenets of Islam are put forward by doctors, engineers, politicians, bankers, carpenters, and theologians.Author: Charis WaddyPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group...

By presenting the lead-teach-learn triad, Eric Glover's The Myth of Accountability discusses the pitfalls of accountability systems in schools, while also investigating how schools have somehow...

The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.Author: H. Roy KaplanPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublication Date: Feb 16,...

The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.Author: H. Roy KaplanPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublication Date: Feb 16,...

Much of the common knowledge about standardized tests is simply wrong, and these misunderstandings have led to the distortion of the education of children and the judgments made about them. The Myths...

"Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American...

John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years; he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over time. The National Game...

The role of science, along with its nature and development, are commonly misunderstood. Fernando Espinoza shines light on these misconceptions to show that the role of science also lies in its effect...

This collection examines the history of the Canzona Napoletana and its emergence as a leading genre of popular music in the early nineteenth century. Featuring original research by leading scholars...

The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance)...

The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequality. The fourth edition demonstrates how and why class differences in the United States have become more...