Jennifer K : 85 books
Powerful Learning
What We Know About Teaching for Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both...
by Regine Kölpin, Hannelore Höfkes, Moa Graven
Language: German
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Wie eine Kette liegen sie vor der Küste aufgereiht, die Inseln Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, Juist und Borkum. Verbindet sie aber auch eine Kette mörderischer und rätselhafter Verbrechen, die sich in vergangenen Zeiten zugetragen haben? Spannend, humorvoll und tiefgründig...
The Crux of Refugee Resettlement
Rebuilding Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety...
Business Heroes - worldwide
Helden für den Mittelstand - weltweit
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
20 consultants in the field of SMB from 17 countries tell about their carrier and their daily business - an entertaining book, rich with ideas and examples for the successful usage of "interculturality". And a striking description of todays IT-industry and the world of Small and Medium Size Businesses...
by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race,...
Under Pressure
Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Andrew Auge, Geoffrey Bateman, Harry C. Boyte
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university...
Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes...
by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Life is full of decision points—those key moments when what we decide can change everything for better or for worse. These 20 tales describe such instances in young people’s lives, ranging from tragic to triumphant, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. Written by authors new and old, those...
Singing To Success
Volume 1:For Serious Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Most of us have a long love-hate relationship with singing. We love to sing but do not quite know how to sing well enough to connect with our audience. And we can sometimes be jaded by our mistakes, frustrated by our bad singing habits and paralyzed by anxiety. A fresh perspective...