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Read My Lips
A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Many, if not most, people remain in the dark about the actual workings of the vagina and vulva. The primary purpose of Read My Lips is to educate women and men about the vulva and vagina in a manner that is smart, informative, and entertaining. Readers, both women and men alike, will come to think...
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies
How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles?
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most...
School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning
Keys to Collaborative Problem Solving and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
The purpose of School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning is to describe a reform that improves test scores, reduces dropouts and decreases bullying behavior. There are six areas that must be improved in order to accomplish this purpose. These six areas are the following: discipline, basic...
Learning Unleashed
Re-Imagining and Re-Purposing Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Children enter the world curiously hard-wired for creativity and imagination. After a few short years of school, something drastically changes for them. Why? There is an unmistakable and deliberate attempt to control the learning of young people who find themselves sitting in our schools. The industrial...
The Evolution of Teaching
A Guidebook to the Advancement of Teaching, Teacher Education, and Happier Careers for Early Career Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Evolution of Teaching invites teachers to rethink what teachers and schools do. The need to rethink the role of teachers is driven by an abundance of data showing that teachers are increasingly unhappy with their work. Most critically, they feel a loss of control over their work and their profession...
It's the Mission, Not the Mandates
Defining the Purpose of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book invites a conversation among stakeholders of public education and conveys the need for a common vision for America’s public schools. Amy Fast argues that we have never had a clear purpose for our schools and that now, more than ever, educators in America ache for a more inspiring purpose...
Teaching the Next Generation of Teachers
Preparing for the Practice of Learning Communities in Secondary School
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Teaching the Next Generation of Teachers looks to serve the many teachers who teach or sponsor classes, clubs, or conferences for secondary school students who aspire to become teachers. Based on the author’s research with students in the Tomorrow’s Teachers program, the book’s development is...
Adventures with Old Vines
A Beginner's Guide to Being a Wine Connoisseur
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns...
Faces of Environmental Racism
Confronting Issues of Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
Racial minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and cleanup efforts in their communities are slower and less thorough than efforts elsewhere. Internationally, wealthy countries of the North increasingly ship hazardous wastes to...
Access to Information, Technology, and Justice
A Critical Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Over the past fifteen years, the dramatic increase of online self-help legal re-sources, information, and tools specifically developed for use by low-income individuals without legal counsel has been promoted as one way to help those individuals who are caught in this “justice gap.” Unfortunately,...
Usability Testing
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable...
Precision Journalism
A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
Philip Meyer's work in precision journalism established a new and ongoing trend-the use by reporters of social science research techniques to increase the depth and accuracy of major stories. In this fully updated, fourth edition of the classic Precision Journalism (known as The New Precision Journalism...
by Dianne Dorland, Patricia Mosto
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This book provides foundational thoughts on situations where deans find themselves when managing up, managing their peers and themselves, or managing down. The case studies and scenarios are useful for thinking about problems or issues beforehand and for considering how other deans handled these situations,...
Social Media
How to Engage, Share, and Connect
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Updated to reflect the latest technological innovations—and challenges—Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect will help readers understand and successfully use today’s social media tools. Luttrell’s text offers:
– a thorough history of social media and pioneers of the field;
–...