Mccracken: 83 books
Disciplinary Literacy in Action
How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
You wouldn’t tell a heart surgeon to also do pediatrics—so why would we tell content area educators they must “do” literacy? Math, history, English and science teachers are passionate about their specialties, and that’s why authors Releah Lent and Marsha Voight designed a framework that...
by Julie McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Written by a real teacher, who puts her ideas to practice in a real classroom, with real children; this book provides a comprehensive selection of step-by-step instructions, case studies, clean questions for SEN and examples of how to effectively introduce Clean Language practice within the classroom....
by Eulalie Osgood Grover, James McCracken, Bertha Corbett Melcher
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
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THE ARRIVAL AT NAPLES
"See that smoking mountain, Molly! Look! I believe it is a volcano. It is Mount Vesuvius. Yes, I know it is Mount Vesuvius!" May, the Sunbonnet Baby, was talking with Molly, her little Sunbonnet Baby sister. They were standing...
Chuck Palahniuk, Parodist
Postmodern Irony in Six Transgressive Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Chuck Palahniuk, America’s premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics or academics. His prose is considered vulgar by some, but his body of work addresses a core motivation of 21st-century life: individual self-empowerment....
Spurgeon's Color Atlas of Large Animal Anatomy
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Extraordinary accuracy and beautiful original artwork are just two features readers will find in this new resource, providing a basic foundation in domestic large animal anatomy. Its unique organization includes the anatomy of all organ systems in the various species, described in a consistent manner.
The...
Holy Rollers
Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Holy Rollers: Murder & Madness in Oregon's Love Cult is a story that has everything a good read should have: sex, religion, insanity, the downfall of prominent families, murder and sensational court trials. And all of it is true. In 1903 Edmund Creffield lured most of Corvallis’s Salvation Army...
Snow Burn
Book One of the Dorcha Fola Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Jo Collins is, like a lot of teenagers, bored and can’t wait to leave home when she graduates—bored with her predictable suburban parents, immature peers, unchallenging schoolwork, and her seemingly empty life. But on the night she is supposed to depart her Huntsville home for the family’s—always...
Chronicles of the Green Dragon
An Unfinished Journey into a New Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
On the planet Evan, there is tumultuous change on the wind. The southern continent has been embroiled in a long period of war, and its ruler, Prince Stefan, has long been preoccupied with protecting it from the subversion of his wifes family.
A diverse group of travellerssoldiers, healers,...
by Timothy McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) supported the British Army throughout the First World War treating sick and wounded military personnel. The RAMC also had a range of sanitation responsibilities. The military nursing services and voluntary medical personnel provided vital support to RAMC medical...
The Doctor Dissected
A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of...
by Rev. Charles R. McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
“The Shepherd Left Behind” has been adapted for Christmas pageants and drama. It is the story of the youngest shepherd apprentice who had to stay with the flocks while the other shepherds went to see the Christ child in response to the angel’s message to them in the shepherd’s fields that night....
Robinson Crusoe al parco acquatico
L'ho sposato, lettore mio
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Per festeggiare i 200 anni della nascita di Charlotte Brontë, Tracy Chevalier ha chiesto alle migliori autrici in lingua inglese di scrivere una storia ispirata alla celebre battuta di Jane Eyre: «L’ho sposato, lettore mio». Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta dedicata a Charlotte Brontë: L’ho sposato, lettore mio a cura di TRACY CHEVALIER
Alms & Legs
No Longer a Cripple
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Just suppose that you awakened one morning and glanced quickly at your alarm clock. It was a full hour later than you usually awakened. Did you forget to set the alarm last night? Oh no, you are already an hour late for work. Skipping your usual preparations, you splashed some water on your face and...