Lisa K : 69 books

Book cover of Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
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The Motherhood Business

Consumption, Communication, and Privilege

by Jennifer L. Borda, Shira Chess, Anne Teresa Demo
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,...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
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...
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Taking Chances

The Coast after Hurricane Sandy

by Robert B. Gramling, Steven G. Decker, David A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
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Imaginarium 2012

The Best Canadian Speculative Writing

by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Carolyn Clink, Amal El-Mohtar
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012

Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...
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The Rails to Love Romance Collection

9 Historical Love Stories Set Along the Transcontinental Railroad

by Diana Lesire Brandmeyer, Amanda Cabot, Lisa Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Courage and Romance Rides the Historic Transcontinental Railroad 9 Historical Romances Under a Beautiful Cover to Treasure Journey the Transcontinental Railroad along with nine unlikely couples who encounter all the dangers and disappointments of traveling the rails in the late 1800s. From...
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We Have Sinned

Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)

by Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, PhD, Ruth W. Messinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism. Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
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Authentic Movement

Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

by Suzanne Lovell, David Mars, Sandy Dibbell-Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
Book cover of The Christian Homemaker's Handbook
by Karen Yarnell, Lisa O'Harra, Glenda Eitel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013

This one-stop reference tool gives you tips and training on everything from meal planning to interior decorating, biblical womanhood to budgeting, so that you can become a holistic homemaker! It features practical teaching from Scripture, instructions for do-it-yourself projects, application questions,...
Book cover of Llewellyn's 2019 Witches' Companion

Llewellyn's 2019 Witches' Companion

A Guide to Contemporary Living

by Deborah Lipp, Susan Pesznecker, Laura Tempest Zakroff
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018

Live your Craft every day with Llewellyn's Witches' Companion. This indispensable guide will keep you one step ahead of the latest witchy trends, practices, and issues.
Book cover of Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy
by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
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Indigenous Men and Masculinities

Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

by Warren Cariou, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Brendan Hokowhitu
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Book cover of Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
by Rosemarie K. Bank, DeAnna Toten Beard, Amanda Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.   War and...
Book cover of Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
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