Patricia Evans: 27 books
Meaningful Conversations
The Way to Comprehensive and Transformative School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Imagine a school in which gathering around the table to have meaningful conversations is commonplace and unencumbered by roles and positions. Such discourse is not only meaningful, but also significant, purposeful, valuable, filled with intention, and result oriented. There is a spirit of trust that...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
by Elizabeth Halvorsen, Alison Heninger, Lois Jean Bousquet
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A collection of excerpts of writing done during the month of November 2014 in celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) by Corvallis, Oregon area writers. Genres presented include science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, and even comics.
by Leigh Clemons, Catherine H. Hughes, Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations....
The Américas Award
Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international...
The Kitchen Cauldron
A Grimoire of Recipes, Spells, Lore and Magic
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This is a fascinating book featuring recipes, spells, lore, and fortune-casting methods from all over the world including Germany, Italy, Peru, China, the Caribbean, Scotland and the American South. Included are easy to use guides to I Ching, numerology, tasseography, Chinese zodiac, astrology, voodoo,...
by Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This comparative study focuses on the ways in which the British settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa treated indigenous peoples in relation to political rights, encompassing the imperial policies of the 1830s and the national political settlements in place by 1910.
by Daryl Evans, Dina Coutsaftiki, C. Patricia Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Preventing illness and improving the general health of the population is a vital priority for the health service with nurses expected to play a central role. Written using clear language this book explains what health promotion is and how it interacts with public health. It shows how health promotion...
Trauma-Informed Care
How neuroscience influences practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations. The book explains how trauma can alter brain structure, identifies the challenges and commonalities for each population, and provides emergent treatment intervention options to assist...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today
Strategies for Implementing in K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the...
Success Favors Well-Prepared Teachers
Developing Routines & Relationships to Improve School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Relationship, rapport, routine, respect, and responsiveness are often times the most difficult to facilitate and manage in school settings. However, these concepts are often connected to student achievement, student motivation, and overall school success. Success Favors introduces the Relationship...
Oracle
The Art of Intuitive Counselling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Oracle: The Art of Intuitive Counseling is a practical guide for all those who are interested in oraculating, divination, and fortune-telling. This is a how-to, hands-on manual with a plethora of information and methodology useful to beginners and experts alike. Easy to read, witty, and resourceful,...
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