Julia: 3709 books
A Place for Us
“West Side Story” and New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone—an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York.
That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes’s...
Haunted Annapolis
Ghosts of the Capital City
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The authors of Haunted Fells Point tour Maryland’s capital and “detail ghostly sightings at some of the city’s best known landmarks” (Capital Gazette).
Beneath the statehouse dome and from the banks of the Severn River, the ghosts of Annapolis rise to roam the red-bricked streets of the...
by Julia Kaziewicz, Sarah Park, Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Turn Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Renaissance World into a high-school history course.
Susan Wise Bauer’s narrative world history series is widely used in advanced high school history classes, as well as by home educating parents. The Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use by...
by Julia Phillips Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
No one is safe when the dragon glides low over the Eighth Dominion. Not the high born who plot and spill blood. Not the low born who serve with one eye to the sky and the other glancing back.
Young Scorpius is fetched from the estate nursery, once raised to live among the nobility--claimed...
The Boy Problem
Educating Boys in Urban America, 1870–1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
America’s educational system has a problem with boys, and it’s nothing new.
The question of what to do with boys—the "boy problem"—has vexed educators and social commentators for more than a century. Contemporary debates about poor academic performance of boys, especially...
Nunca es demasiado tarde para ser un artista
Descubre la creatividad y el sentido de la vida después de la jubilación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2017
«Este libro es el resultado de un cuarto de siglo enseñando. Es mi intento por dar respuesta a la pregunta: "Y ahora ¿qué?" para quienes entran en el "segundo acto" de sus vidas.»
Julia Cameron ha inspirado a millones de lectores con su superventas sobre creatividad...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
by Julia Roberts, Ed.D., Julia Roberts Boggess
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Teacher's Survival Guide: Gifted Education is filled with practical information, tips for success, and advice from experienced educators who work with gifted children and youth. Starting with a plan to ensure that gifted kids thrive in the classroom, the book then asks teachers to examine their school...
Race, Rights and Rebels
Alternatives to Human Rights and Development from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Human rights and development cannot be understood separately. They are historically connected by the idea of race, and have evolved concomitantly with the latter. As the tools of race, human rights and development have been forged in the effort to legitimize and maintain coloniality.
While...
by Julia Evers
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Fast and easy German Vocabulary Building using English as a basis - no more need for memorizing! Many words are identical or very similar in English and German. But which ones? Vocabulary Turbo shows how to recognize them and therefore know hundreds of German words instantly, simply by already knowing English.
The Language of Plants
A Guide to the Doctrine of Signatures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is only in the age of technology that human beings have lost a sense of nature being alive. Throughout history, people spoke to nature, and nature communicated with them. During the Middle Ages, reading the book of nature was called the doctrine of signatures, which had always been an important part...
Feel Better Little Buddy
Animals with Casts
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Feel Better, Little Buddy is a great get-well gift for kids with boo-boos, friends on the mend, and anyone who needs a little love and healing inspiration. Julia Segal follows a menagerie of absolutely adorable pets as they recover from their injuries—with stories about the "uh-oh" moments...
by Julia Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The African continent is home to spectacularly expressive human beings: rebellious anti-colonial and opposition leaders, eloquent novelists, political and social activists, comical geniuses, pensive and philosophical poets and intellectuals, as well as a few raving dictators. And the body of proverbial...