Susan Miller: 76 books
Illegitimate
How a Loving God Rescued a Son of Polygamy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The events at a Fundamentalist Mormon compound in Texas ignited a national dialogue on religious sects. Formed as a splinter group of the LDS church, these secretive cults exist in an insular world far removed from mainstream American culture. A world of abuse and twisted theology that seems too bizarre...
American Challenge: Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Girls are girls wherever they live-and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8-12-year-old girls: Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (covering the year 1770), Kate and the Spies: The...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
Rachel and the Riot
The Labor Movement Divides a Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Time Period: 1889 In Minneapolis in 1889, ten-year-old Rachel Borland finds her family torn apart by the new labor movement. Two of her uncles quarrel over the necessity of a streetcar workers' union-and before long, it becomes even more personal as Rachel is unwittingly caught up in a labor riot....
by Susan Coolidge, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Amy Therese Powelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Twilight Stories
American Dream: The New World, Colonial Times, and Hints of Revolution
The New World, Colonial Times, and Hints of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Girls are girls wherever they live-and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8-12-year-old girls: Sarah's New World: The Mayflower Adventure (covering the year 1620), Rebekah in Danger:...
Health and Physical Education
Preparing Educators for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Health and Physical Education empowers the health and physical education teachers of tomorrow to engage students across a wide range of learning ages. It highlights the importance of physical skills development within the broader structure of child and adolescent maturity. This well-structured and...
Health and Physical Education
Preparing Educators for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Health and physical education encompasses the development of movement competence and health literacies crucial to child and adolescent health and wellbeing. Health and Physical Education: Preparing Educators for the Future, 2nd edition continues to offer a comprehensive overview of the knowledge,...
American Triumph
The Dust Bowl, World War II, and Ultimate Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years (1935), Mandy the Outsider:...
by Mary Baginsky, Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, William Baginsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.
The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting...
The Civil War in Popular Culture
Memory and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest...
Communion of Saints
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This collection of poems explores the saints of the church's history and contemporary persons who embody something of their charism. Three sections are arranged around the themes of the three "theological virtues":
—Faith, portrayed as a source of strength in times of trial
— Hope, the...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...