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Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education,...
Help for Billy
A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Children in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
"Help for Billy" is a pragmatic manual to help guide families and educators who are struggling with traumatized children. Based on the concept of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Heather Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for teachers and parents. This easy to read...
You've Got This
A Pep Talk for Church Communicators
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
We get it: Church communication can be a challenge. You feel overworked, overwhelmed, and overloaded. Honestly? Some days you’re just over it. More than the bulletin bloopers, greeter goofs, and crazy calendar, it’s the stuff behind the stuff that’s really taxing: unmet expectations, perfection...
by J. Dey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
As a journalist on the crime beat, the author has spent long hours talking to those in uniform, those in the underworld and those in the grey zone people who work as police informers.Much of what he has seen, heard and observed in over a decade of covering crime has found its way into print. But there’s...
La historia detrás del desastre
Crónica de una herencia envenenada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
El país se desmoronó día a día, durante seis años.
Hoy pagamos las consecuencias.
El sexenio pasado es recordado por su rastro de corruptelas, omisiones, opacidad y complicidades.
Enrique Peña Nieto empezó su encargo como un salvador de México y lo terminó como uno de...
The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a...
1,001 Pearls of Teachers' Wisdom
Quotations on Life and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
1,001 Pearls of Teachers’ Wisdom is a fun and inspirational book packed with words of wisdom on the art of teaching. With more than three thousand entries, it includes thoughts on the art of teaching from hundreds of teachers, professors, authors, and politicians.
Quotes are drawn from a...
by Keith E. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 1839, the Virginia Military Institute became the nation�s first state-sponsored military college when the state arsenal in Lexington, Virginia, adopted an additional duty providing a college education to a small group of cadets. This humble experiment became the nation�s model for educating the...
Teachers' Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom – and they’re all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capone’s infamous crime empire,...
by Edward L. Galvin, Margaret A. Mason, Mary M. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Syracuse University was founded in 1870 as a private, coeducational university in Syracuse, New York. Classes began the following year in temporary quarters until the university moved to its current location on �The Hill� in 1873, occupying the Hall of Languages, which is still the iconic center...
A Year Up
Helping Young Adults Move from Poverty to Professional Careers in a Single Year
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The inspiring story of a pioneering program that is redefining urban young adults as economic assets, not deficits
During Gerald Chertavian’s many years as a Big Brother, the former technology entrepreneur realized that our nation’s "Opportunity Divide" strands millions of young,...
by Andrew Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Williamson College of the Trades was founded in 1888 by Quaker businessman and philanthropist Isaiah V. Williamson, whose objective was to provide financially disadvantaged young men with a useful trade. Located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the school accepted its first students in the fall of...
Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World
The Theoretical Lenses of István Mészáros and Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and István Mészáros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers.
Not in Service
The TTC and the Trouble with Toronto Transit
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Something is badly, badly wrong with transportation in Toronto. Just riding public transit provides evidence of that, along with a pain in the neck. Torontonians still love the TTC, but just wish it would shape up, and are painfully aware it hasn't been world-class for at least a generation. The...