Учебная литература
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Alliance for Freedom, Restoration и др.
What will it take to eradicate human trafficking in your local community? Who all must participate, and what all must be done? Community coalitions are uniquely positioned to make a difference. The Engage Together® Community Toolkit will show you how. Whether you are a concerned citizen desiring to bring collaboration to your community by starting a coalition, or whether you are an already established coalition seeking to enhance your existing efforts, this Toolkit will be a powerful resource...
| Автор | Alliance for Freedom, Restoration и др. |
In Behind the Hedges, journalist Rich Whitt focused his investigative lens on recent events at the University of Georgia, and in so doing examined the bigger story of «a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education.» Through interviews with many key figures in a struggle for power at UGA over the last decade, Rich examines the controversial tenure of Michael Adams as UGA president, and how this controversy led to the unprecedented split between the Board of Regents and...
| Автор | Rich Whitt |
When Silas, Rae and Parvel are captured by giants, Jesse sets out to find his friends and bring them to freedom. In the meantime, by helping the giants locate a legendary hidden treasure, the squad is released by the giants and begin to help another squad whose members have been taken by Captain Demitri. Will Jesse and his squad be able to save them without being killed or captured themselves? There’s more excitement in Books 1 and 2 of the Amarias Adventures™, «Quest for the Scorpion’s Jewel»...
| Автор | Amy Lynn Green |
In Book 2 of the Holly Jean series, Holly Jean has settled down to small-town life in Kentucky with her Granny Nanny and great-aunt Kate, while her dad is away fighting in WWII. Life on the farm is never dull, and the scorching summer of 1942 is no exception! Hard work, new pets, fun times and friends keep Holly Jean busy from daylight to dark. Add to that the welcome home party for Ben Dunn, Aunt Kate’s engagement to the local pastor, and a good old-fashioned camp meeting. Holly Jean enjoys...
| Автор | Bonnie Compton Hanson |
When Captain Demetri comes to the palace of District Two to report the death of the squad he was assigned to kill, he doesn’t realize that all four of them are still alive…and headed his way. Upon learning of the Forbidden Book that contains the quest and fate of each Youth Guard member, Jesse and Parvel realize they could use this book to help other squad members who are still alive. Obtaining the book is no easy task, and soon the group is on the run and fearing for their very lives. Can they...
| Автор | Amy Lynn Green |
“Each page captures a sense of wonder, of the vibrancy of color, the imagination of the artist, the name of the hue. Colors take life in this small picture book, perfect for small hands, in an astonishing pairing of visual intimacy and artistic joy that make this one of the most distinctive recent books on color—in English or otherwise.” —Papertigers.org This book truly did take a village of artists, scattered all around mountain villages in the beautiful...
| Автор | Cynthia Weill |
Oral Communication in the Disciplines: A Resource for Teacher Development and Training is the first of its kind to provide a clear and straightforward strategic framework to guide teachers as they incorporate oral communication activities into their courses. This all-encompassing empirically and theoretically grounded book helps to ensure that communication is not just added, but thoughtfully incorporated in meaningful, context-specific ways.
| Автор | Deanna P. Dannells |
"It’s easy to feel a sense of peace after completing Fawzia Gilani’s Cinderella. This humble version of the classic fairy tale is a gentle reminder that victory comes as much from a peaceful soul as a beautiful dress and a dramatic confrontation." – Luxury ReadingCinderella is one of the oldest, best-known, and most loved stories worldwide, with hundreds of cultural variants and re-tellings from ancient Egypt and China to the present day. In this version we follow the...
| Автор | Fawzia Gilani |
Anna und Sebastiano sollten eigentlich nur einen Ingenieur nach London in das Jahr 1813 begleiten. Doch dort angekommen, erwartet sie eine weitaus gefährlichere Mission: Jemand versucht, sämtliche Zeitreise-Tore zu zerstören, und nur Anna und Sebastiano können es verhindern. Getarnt als Geschwister tauchen sie in die High Society des Londoner Adels ein. Auf Kutschfahrten und Tanzfesten müssen sie sich nicht nur gegen aufdringliche Verehrer wehren, sondern kommen auch möglichen Verdächtigen auf...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative...
| Автор | Joyce M. Barry |
Jeden Tag erwählt der Kalif ein Mädchen. Jeden Abend nimmt er sie zur Frau. Jeden Morgen lässt er sie hinrichten. Bis die eine auftaucht, die um jeden Preis überleben will. Shahrzad hat ihre beste Freundin an den Kalifen verloren und nun will sie nur noch eins: ihre Freundin rächen. Und so meldet sie sich freiwillig, um den jungen Herrscher zu heiraten. Doch sie hat nicht vor zu sterben. Sie möchte überleben und den Mann töten, der ihr die Freundin genommen hat. Im Angesicht der Morgenröte...
| Автор | Renée Ahdieh |
In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and high-profile academic scandals are just symptoms of a system that has come under increasing fire. Institutions large and small face persistent quandaries: which do they value more, academic integrity or...
| Автор | B. David Ridpath |
When you look at a bird, do you see feathers and a beak? Or do you see circles and triangles? Artist Charley Harper spent his life reducing subjects to their simplest forms, their basic lines and shapes. This resulted in what he called minimal realism and the style that would become easily recognized as Charley Harper’s. Art fans and nature lovers around the world fell in love with Harper’s paintings, which often featured bright colors and intriguing nature subjects. Harper’s love of painting...
| Автор | Michelle Houts |
It took her two tries, but in 1955, sixty-seven-year-old Emma “Grandma” Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one thru-hike. Gatewood has become a legend for those who hike the trail, and in her home state of Ohio, where she helped found the Buckeye Trail. In recent years, she has been the subject of a bestselling biography and a documentary film. In When Grandma Gatewood Took a Hike, Michelle Houts brings us the first children’s book about...
| Автор | Michelle Houts |
Growing up in Ladora, Iowa, Mildred “Millie” Benson had ample time to develop her imagination and sense of adventure. While still a journalism graduate student at the University of Iowa, Millie began writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which published the phenomenally popular Hardy Boys series, among others. Soon, Millie was tapped for a new series starring amateur sleuth Nancy Drew, a young, independent woman not unlike Millie herself. Under the pen name Carolyn Keene, Millie wrote the first...
| Автор | Julie K. Rubini |
The vast majority of student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom won’t make it to the pros. Yet, the discipline and skills they’ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere. In 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes Who Won’t Go Pro, the authors draw on personal experience, interviews, expert opinion, and industry data to provide a game plan for student-athletes through key transitions at each stage of their careers,...
| Автор | Rick Burton |
World War II soldier Bill Wynne met Smoky while serving in New Guinea, where the dog, who was smaller than Wynne’s army boot, was found trying to scratch her way out of a foxhole. After he adopted her, she served as the squadron mascot and is credited as being the first therapy dog for the emotional support she provided the soldiers. When they weren’t fighting, Bill taught Smoky hundreds of tricks to entertain the troops. Smoky became a war hero herself at an airstrip in Luzon, the Philippines,...
| Автор | Nancy Roe Pimm |
As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana’s plane in April 1994 rekindled the...
| Автор | David Rawson |
Chaos. Frustration. Compassion. Desperation. Hope. These are the five words that author Wendy Welch says best summarize the state of foster care in the coalfields of Appalachia. Her assessment is based on interviews with more than sixty social workers, parents, and children who have gone through “the system.” The riveting stories in Fall or Fly tell what foster care is like, from the inside out. In depictions of foster care and adoption, stories tend to cluster at the dark or light ends of...
| Автор | Wendy Welch |
Laura kennt sich aus mit Sternen. Denn ihr bester Freund ist einer. Er wohnt am Himmel, kommt sie aber oft besuchen. Als Laura eines Tages ans Meer fährt, findet sie am Strand etwas Helles, Sternförmiges: ein anderer Stern! Der ist vom Himmel gefallen und muss dorthin zurück, denkt Laura aufgeregt. Ihr Freund, der Stern, wird ihr bestimmt dabei helfen. Doch der benimmt sich mehr als merkwürdig. Er hilft kein bisschen, sondern schubst Laura Richtung Meer. Ob er eifersüchtig ist?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
El Salvador is widely considered one of the most successful United Nations peacebuilding efforts, but record homicide rates, political polarization, socioeconomic exclusion, and corruption have diminished the quality of peace for many of its citizens. In Captured Peace: Elites and Peacebuilding in El Salvador, Christine J. Wade adapts the concept of elite capture to expand on the idea of “captured peace,” explaining how local elites commandeered political, social, and economic affairs before...
| Автор | Christine J. Wade |
Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson’s linked collection tells of a woman’s search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and resilience. The stories follow Maggie as she spirals through her addictive process, through the court system and treatment, and into a shaky new beginning. In these...
| Автор | Michael Henson |
Long before she wrote The House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, and many other children’s classics, Virginia Hamilton grew up among her extended family near Yellow Springs, Ohio, where her grandfather had been brought as a baby through the Underground Railroad. The family stories she heard as a child fueled her imagination, and the freedom to roam the farms and woods nearby trained her to be a great observer. In all, Hamilton wrote forty-one books, each driven by a focus on “the...
| Автор | Julie K. Rubini |
Heute ist ein ganz besonderer Tag: Der kleine Hase hat Geburtstag! Und was ist das schönste Geschenk? Ein Ausflug ins «Hasenland»! Mit Sack und Pack macht sich die Hasenfamilie auf in den Freizeit-Park, wo es Karottentretbote, ein Teetassen-Karussell und eine Hüpfburg zu bestaunen gibt. Die große Achterbahn hat es dem kleinen Hasen besonders angetan. Doch seine Mutter erlaubt es nicht. Der kleine Hase ist da aber ganz anderer Meinung: Er hat doch heute Geburtstag und ist jetzt schon groß
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |