Sheila: 1246 books
My Name Is Not Slow
Kids with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Kids with intellectual disabilities too often have to put up with teasing and name-calling. Some people don't know how to talk to or interact with people whose brains work differently than their own. Kids with intellectual disabilities might have trouble remembering things or understanding how things...
Listening with Your Eyes
Kids Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Kids who are deaf or hard of hearing might not be able hear what's going on around them, but their eyes give them a lot of information about the world. Some people who are deaf or hard of hearing might wear hearing aids or have surgery to help their ears hear better, while others rely even more on...
Something's Wrong!
Kids with Emotional Disturbance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Emotions can be tricky things. Sometimes, a person has lots of negative emotions, and he doesn't know what to do with them. Kids with emotional disturbance often don't know how to deal with the overwhelming emotions they experience, and sometimes they react in inappropriate ways, disrupting their...
I Can Do It!
Kids with Physical Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Autism is something a lot of people talk about these days. Many kids with autism have trouble communicating and understanding how people relate to each other. Since autism is a spectrum disorder, however, some kids who have autism might only have a few symptoms, while others may have many symptoms....
by James Armitage, Sheila Brown, Mark Halsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such...
Anticlimax
A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Sexuality has been reframed by postmoderism, but this clear discussion of literature, politics, and popular culture provides a useful historical view. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s is remembered as a time of great freedom for women, but did the sexual revolution have the same goals...
Gender Hurts
A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is...
by Sheila Jarkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The adventures continue with America's favorite flamingo, Marco Flamingo. In this latest book, Marco explores the open seas and finds himself in humorous situations. Soft pink flamingo colors move to the blue hues of the ocean as Marco meets new ocean as Marco meets new ocean friends-a manatee, a shark...
Hip Sublime
Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into...
Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events
A Microethnographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events. Building on recent theories in interactional sociolinguistics, literary theory, social anthropology, critical discourse analysis, and the New Literacy Studies,...
On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms
Approaches to Language and Literacy Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have...
by Sheila Webster Boneham, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Brittany, ranked #30 in dog registrations by the AKC, makes a perfect family companion with his loyal, loving nature and eagerness to please. Originally called the Brittany Spaniel, the breed is now referred to simply as the Brittany because its hunting style closely resembles that of pointing...
by Sheila R. E. Smart
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Does communicating with God about the deep hunger and thirst of the heart challenging? In His Presence, a vital personal devotional book, introduces four easy but essential elements of prayer Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication (A.C.T.S).
by Sheila Rabin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...