James Hoffman: 25 books
Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
Community Engagement in Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
We live, by consensus, in an Age of the Metropolis, and the vast preponderance of scholarship about contemporary urban life has focused on the phenomenon of big–city life. But that is an approach that overlooks the smaller cities and towns where many of us choose to live. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?...
by Walter James Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine...
by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Marvin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...
Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The most widely feared misfits and controversial heretics to ever challenge society norms and behavior are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From convicted murderers James Earl Ray and Jeffrey MacDonald, to activists Abbie Hoffman...
by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by James V. Hoffman, Peter Afflerbach, Ann M. Duffy-Hester
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book appears at a time when the crisis rhetoric about schools, teaching, and learning to read is extremely high. There is a rising call within the profession for a balanced perspective on reading. Balancing Principles for Teaching Elementary Reading aspires to help set the agenda for improving...
Moanin' at Midnight
The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires.
Born...
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
by Devra B. Adelstein, Ann Alaoglu, E. James Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...
By Faerie Light
Tales of the Fair Folk
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
IT'LL SOON BE DARK
Eighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages.
Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight.
These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and...
Mentoring Preservice Teachers Through Practice
A Framework for Coaching with CARE
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model—a framework for reflection and action that helps...
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