Mary Ellen: 220 books
Saris on Scooters
How Microcredit Is Changing Village India
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Renowned author and journalist Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us deep into the poorest villages in India. Yet, far from being passive victims of their circumstances, the women who live there have joined forces and are making astute use of microcredit to...
Planning in Reverse
A Viable Approach to Organizational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process. What is needed for organizations to thrive in this new environment of change and uncertainty is a short-term approach for long-term viability. In...
Good Parenting Through Your Divorce
The Essential Guidebook to Helping Your Children Adjust and Thrive Based on the Leading National Pro
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Divorce has become a way of life. One million couples dissolve their unions every year, profoundly affecting millions of children. While divorce can have many negative consequences, it need not be a disaster for children. For nearly twenty years, the Kids' Turn workshop program has been helping parents...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Reclaiming Opportunities for Effective Teaching
An Institutional Ethnographic Study of Community College Course Outlines
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book examines the increased standardization and management of community college course outlines in Ontario and the associated decline in the ability of college professors to effectively educate their students. Dunn tracks the changes of increased pressure from corporations to privatize public...
by Charles Belfoure , Mary Ellen Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American...
Become a Leader of Leaders
Raise Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before. The research on teacher effectiveness abounds. It has influenced federal, state and local policies resulting in changed certification practices and improved professional development opportunities with a...
by Mary Ellen Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden—and devastating. And while it doesn’t have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down....
Running the family bakery and living in the store’s attic might not be Daisy’s dream life, but she’s beginning to...
by Mary Ellen Eaton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book is about my experience having surgery for an aneurysm on my brain. The doctor admitted that he made a mistake. He had clipped blood vessels, which caused me to have a major stroke. I woke up being paralyzed completely on my dominant side from head to toe.
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This literary companion carries you into the lives and poetic lines of 41 of America's most admired poets from the last century. From popular favorites such as Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg to the more esoteric T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, this handbook also introduces you to living poets, such as...
Into Thin Air
Faith in the Face of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
THE ONLY WITNESS
When a child is abducted in front of Laney Kensington, she desperately tries to save the girl. But Laney is shot and left for dead; the kidnappers, their dark van and the girl long gone. FBI agent Grayson DeMarco explains she's the only witness to a worldwide child-trafficking...
by Mary Ellen Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
HOLIDAY HIDEOUT
When computer expert Arden DeMarco hacks secret files and discovers evidence of treason, a price is put on her head. What started as a mission to help a friend is now a fight for her life with assassins and the FBI tracking her down. There’s no time to get distracted by her...
Strength and Valor
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Facing their greatest fears…
Into Thin Air
When a child is abducted in front of Laney Kensington, she and her dog desperately try to save the girl. But Laney is shot and left for dead, the kidnappers and the girl long gone. FBI agent Grayson DeMarco explains she’s the only witness...