G Grant: 47 books
The Best Kind of Loving
Black Woman's Guide to Finding Intimacy, A
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
It has often been said that "if white America has a case of the sniffles, Black America catches walking pneumonia." When this credo is applied to relationships, common problems such as inadequate communication, commitment fears, financial struggles and infidelity carry an even greater weight....
Reforming Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
Teachers' Responses and the Prospects for Systemic Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book S.G. Grant reports his study of how four Michigan elementary school teachers manage a range of reforms (such as new tests, textbooks, and curriculum frameworks) in three different school subjects (reading, writing, and mathematics). Two significant findings emerge from his comparison...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
David had never been one for hiking but, under the insistence of his best friend's younger sister, he had agreed to spend the last Saturday of October walking on Dartmoor. It hadn't sounded like such a bad idea at the time, at least until they got caught in a thunderstorm. But there are...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Six weeks ago Lewis almost died stopping Anthony’s coronation. In his absence something has been attacking the city after dark. What are the creatures and where are they coming from? What else lurks in the forest beyond Tristan’s walls? Could the creatures be connected to the nightmares of a nine...
by S.G. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Emily Bridwell was hand-picked by King Vandemark to become a Sister of Tristan when she was only a year old. But, as an orphan filling a role normally reserved for the rich and entitled she has never felt more alone. When King Vandemark is poisoned he turns to Emily, asking her to leave the castle...
Journey
An Illustrated History of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery-from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions.
Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity,...
The Value Imperative
Harvesting Value from Your IT Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures...
Teaching History with Big Ideas
Cases of Ambitious Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...
Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education
Understanding the Inquiry Design Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, *Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: Understanding the Inquiry Design Model *presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning. Using their Inquiry Design Model (IDM), the authors...
Elementary Social Studies
Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending...
Business, The State and Economic Policy
The Case of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
The framework sketched in this new book explains the relationship between state and capital in Italy as well as some of the major directions in macroeconomic theory. These fields encompass both Italy's entry to EMU in 1999 and the impact of Silvio Berlusconi on Italian politics and economics.
History Lessons
Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.S. history. It is among the first to examine these issues together and in interaction. While the two teachers...
Healthy Weight Loss Guide
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Are you looking to lose weight? If you are, you likely already know that you have a number of different options. For instance, you can go about losing weight naturally, with the use of exercise and healthy eating. You can also lose weight with the assistance of weight loss products, like diet...
Containing Health Benefit Costs
The Self-Insurance Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The springboard for this sixth volume in the Industry and Health Care series was a conference sponsored by the Center for Industry and Health Care of Boston University on June 9 and 10, 1978. That conference had a gradual genesis. Over a year ago we spent some time with Kevin Stokeld of Deere and...