Michael Kay: 26 books

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...
Book cover of From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

by James M Adovasio, Charlotte Beck, Michael Bever
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
Book cover of Clovis Blade Technology

Clovis Blade Technology

A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas

by Michael B. Collins, Marvin Kay
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as "Clovis" occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were probably nomadic hunters and gatherers whose remaining traces include camp sites and caches of goods stored...
Book cover of The Feel Rich Project

The Feel Rich Project

Reinventing Your Understanding of True Wealth to Find True Happiness

by Michael F. Kay
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016

Feeling rich is the difference between just existing and being gloriously, deeply, passionately alive, living the very best life you were born to lead. What does feeling rich have to do with actually being rich? Plenty, it turns out. Your beliefs and feelings about money drive how you see yourself...
Book cover of Globalization on the Ground

Globalization on the Ground

Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development

by John A. Booth, Stephen G. Bunker, Christopher Chase-Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2001

This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international...
Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works
by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...
Book cover of Researching with Children and Young People

Researching with Children and Young People

Research Design, Methods and Analysis

by Dr. John Emmeus Davis, Michael Gallagher, Professor E Kay M Tisdall
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008

'This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out research with children and young people' - CPD Update '[T]here is a sense of newness and innovation about the book, whereby the reader is treated...
Book cover of Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans

Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans

Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities

by Allan Aquino, Christina Ayala-Alcantar, Eiichiro Azuma
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...
Book cover of North America

North America

The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent

by Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, Michael P. Conzen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Book cover of Texans on the Brink

Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by Neil B. Ford, David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Book cover of Writing for Engagement

Writing for Engagement

Responsive Practice for Social Action

by Linda Adler-Kassner, Steven Alvarez, Patrick W. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...
Book cover of Watching TV with a Linguist
by Kay Richardson, Joseph Trotta, Jean Ann
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences...
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