John Jensen: 18 books
Tail End Charlie
Memoir of a United States Marine in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This memoir is a record of what Jensen calls the luckiest and greatest adventure of his life. In the midst of the fighting and with the knowledge that each day could be his last, this young Marine managed to find some humor in his situation and he believes that is what kept him alive. The story begins...
Changing Attitudes and Behavior
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Changing Attitudes and Behavior: Practice Makes Permanent, the second of the Practice Makes Permanent series, argues that school performance is directly correlated to student motivation. If school administrators and teachers adopt Jensen’s easy, direct, and effective ways to help students manage...
Effective Classroom Turnaround
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Effective Classroom Turnaround: Practice Makes Permanent, the third book in the Practices Makes Permanent series, contends that because students learn and behave differently, educators must thoughtfully approach them in the classroom in order to affect change. Like all humans, students respond to...
Rethinking Common Core
The Missing Piece Sabotaging its Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Common Core arose from broad recognition that children were not retaining their learning. Its solution, however, was for students to learn different material--math and English more advanced and better arranged—and adults would declare their learning satisfactory or not. It did not address why children...
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It
Practice Makes Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century—the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological...
Preach the Word
Essays on Expository Preaching: In Honor of R. Kent Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
For more than forty years, pastor R. Kent Hughes has shared the gospel with thousands of people and raised the standard of expository preaching in North America and beyond.
To celebrate his legacy and pay tribute to his years of ministry, fifteen of Hughes's friends and colleagues from across...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
Reformation Anglicanism (The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, Volume 1)
A Vision for Today's Global Communion
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A Clear Vision for What It Means to Be Anglican Today
Conceived under the conviction that the future of the global Anglican Communion hinges on a clear, welldefined, and theologically rich vision, the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library was created to serve as a go-to resource aimed at...
Not in His Image
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe...
by John M. Jensen Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this book, I am expecting to prove via catastrophic ocean rise, the geologic column, deep core drills, ice core samples, varve layers, and other readings, that the Earth experiences major and cataclysmic catastrophes including dipole exchange on an irregular short term basis. The geologic column...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
by Prof Richard B. Ferguson, Dr R. Gebbers, Dr Chenghai Yang
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Precision agriculture is based on the ability to identify inter and intra-field variability and to use this information for more targeted crop management. By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture can make agriculture more productive and sustainable. This volume reviews the key elements...
William T. Vollmann
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...
The Balanced Company
Organizing for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Today’s organizations are embedded in global and local network relationships that demand more. They have to consider the importance to customers, investors and employees of being respected in wider society and behaving ethically, so it is increasingly important for companies to reflect systematically...
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