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Has a bad day got you down? Is low self-esteem making you feel blue? In this advice-packed book, you'll learn how having high self-confidence can turn a good day into a great day, while having low self-esteem can turn a bad day into a nightmare. You'll learn tips for trusting yourself, ideas for boosting your self-esteem (or for keeping it up), and ways to feel your best in all kinds of situations. You are perfect just as you are, and this book will help you believe that to be true!
| Автор | Laurie Zelinger |
Learning from Each Other includes 20 original chapters written by well-known experts in the field of teaching and learning. Conceived for both new and experienced faculty at community colleges, four-year institutions, and research-intensive universities, the volume also addresses the interests of faculty and graduate students in programs designed to prepare future faculty and campus individuals responsible for faculty professional development. With the aim of cultivating engagement amongst...
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How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In <I>Beyond the Pink Tide, </I>Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis,...
| Автор | Macarena Gomez-Barris |
School projects can feel like a very big deal. When you're faced with a report to research, a model to make, or a presentation to prepare, it can be hard to know where to start. Whatever kind of project you're working on, the secret to success (and to keeping your cool) is making a plan. This book will guide you step-by-step, whether you're reporting on the Amazon rain forest, dressing like an ancient Egyptian, or staging a super science experiment. You'll discover the best...
| Автор | Emma MacLaren Henke |
Kit can hardly believe her luck when she wins tickets to a sold-out jazz concert, and a chance to write a news story about it! But when sinister pranks threaten to cancel the show, Kit's research turns into an investigation. Then a valuable trumpet goes missing, and Kit herself is accused of theft. Can Kit prove her innocence and put a stop to the mayhem before the real thief sends the band packing? Includes an Inside Kit's World essay about the popularity of jazz and swing music...
| Автор | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
Nine-year-old Nanea may be the youngest in her family, but she still wants to «dip her paddle in» and be useful. She knows she's grown-up enough to help in her grandparents' market. But before she can prove that she's ready for more responsibility, the unthinkable happens: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the naval base where her father works, and America is at war! With friends and family missing, and rumors of more attacks to come, Nanea worries—will life ever be the same again?
| Автор | Kirby Larson |
War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote “danger zones.” Instead of buying into apocalyptic visions, Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations...
| Автор | Ruben Andersson |
Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud. Will Ana hurt or help the performance? Then, being included in a special plan fills Rebecca with joy. But what act of kindness teaches her the true meaning of the holiday season?
| Автор | Jacqueline Dembar Greene |
From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the “capitalist globalization of selfishness” with a globalization of generosity, prophetic empathy, and environmental sanity.Lerner challenges liberal and progressive forces to move beyond often weak-kneed and visionless politics to build instead a movement...
| Автор | RABBI Michael Lerner |
Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education. This comprehensive guide provides real-world strategies to help scientists develop the essential communication, influence, and relationship-building skills needed to motivate nonexperts to understand and support their science. Instruction, interviews, and examples demonstrate how inspiring decision makers to act requires scientists to extract...
| Автор | Roger D. Aines |
There are no new or recent books that address the real-life experiences of sexual harassment of young people on the way to, during, and on the way home from school. This straight-forward guide is written with youth, educators, parents, and activists in mind. It has uses for all these readers, and serves as a model for organizing young people to address their own problems with violence and harassment. The information for the report was gathered from the largest public school system in the nation:...
| Автор | Joanne Smith Huist |
When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.  A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly...
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What if you suddenly found yourself in Maryellen's world during the 1950s? How would your life be changed, and what would you do to fit in? More importantly, what would you do to stand out? Join Maryellen on an adventure where the two of you can put on poodle skirts and head to a school dance (they were called sock hops back then!), enter a contest, or take a trip in a streamlined silver camper that looks like a rocket ship! Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you...
| Автор | Valerie Tripp |
What would it be like if a girl suddenly found herself in Melody Ellison's world in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s? Together, she and Melody could speak up about fairness, join a demonstration, volunteer with a civil rights group, or even use her voice to sing backup for a Motown musician! Readers' journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns they choose, as they select from a variety of exciting options in this multiple-ending story.
| Автор | Denise Lewis Patrick |
What if you suddenly found yourself in Kaya’s Nez Perce homeland in 1764? What would it be like to live in her village, to sleep in a tepee, and to follow the ways of her tribe? Join Kaya on exciting adventures and discover what it’s like to care for a sick baby and ride horses bareback, but watch out for bears! Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose as you select from a variety of exciting options in this all new multiple ending story.
| Автор | Emma Carlson Berne |
What if you suddenly found yourself in Caroline’s world, right in the middle of the War of 1812? How would it feel to know your home is under attack and how would you stay strong during such a scary time? Join Caroline on adventures where the two of you could find ways to help the Americans win, confront a possible spy, or even plunge headfirst into ice cold Lake Ontario! Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of exciting options in...
| Автор | Kathleen Ernst |
Rebecca and Ana are spending spring vacation volunteering at a Japanese garden in Brooklyn. Rebecca is enchanted by the lush landscape of ferns and waterfalls, the exotic orchids, and the gardener's beautiful wife. Yet everything Rebecca does there turns out wrong. Someone seems determined to damage the garden and to cast suspicion on her and Ana. Can Rebecca find the real culprit before the girls are banished from the garden for good? Includes an Inside Rebecca's World essay on urban...
| Автор | Jacqueline Greene |
Ever since the war started, Nanea's done her best to follow all the new rules. When she meets a boy named Mano in her grandparents' market, Nanea is shocked to hear him admit to breaking some rules. And when things start to go missing from the market, Mano is the first person Nanea suspects. Nanea's determined to protect her grandparents, but Mano, whose name means «shark,» seems to be hanging around the market more and more. What can Nanea do to keep her family safe from this...
| Автор | Erin Falligant |
Nanea had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But everything has changed since the war, including Miss Smith's wonderful classroom. Nanea's dear friend Donna is gone, and now there's a new girl who seems to be getting all of Miss Smith's attention. There are also worries at home as Nanea's big brother talks about joining the Army. Nanea can't bear the thought of him leaving. In the swirl of changes, Nanea turns to hula. Dancing always...
| Автор | Kirby Larson |
What if you suddenly found yourself in Samantha’s world at the start of the 20th century? If you were meeting her for the first time, Samantha may tuck one leg behind the other and dip into a curtsy, the way girls did a very long time ago. But what other things might you experience in 1904? Join Samantha on exciting adventures where the two of you can dress up for a fancy dinner or take a trip to her summer home in the mountains. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you...
| Автор | Erin Falligant |
What if you suddenly found yourself in Rebecca’s world in 1914? Can you imagine welcoming family from a faraway land or waiting for your turn to light candles during a special holiday? Join Rebecca on adventures where the two of you can try out for a vaudeville show, put on a musical, or even sneak into a factory to deliver an important message. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of exciting options in this multiple-ending story.
| Автор | Jacqueline Dembar Greene |
Rebecca and her neighbor, Mr. Rossi, seem to be having a run of bad luck. When Mr. Rossi sprains his wrist, Rebecca takes over the care and feeding of his carrier pigeons. Then a strange black pigeon delivers an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and Rebecca must jump into action to find answers. Where did the pigeon come from, and what sort of danger is lurking? Is Rebecca herself now in danger as well? Only a visit to a fortune teller will reveal the truth! An illustrated Looking Back...
| Автор | Jacqueline Greene |
What if you suddenly found yourself in Josefina's world in New Mexico in 1824? What activities might you do on the rancho, what dreams might you have, and what would you do for fun? In this story, you can join Josefina on adventures that take the two of you from spending cozy evenings on the rancho to coming face-to-face with a mountain lion to visiting the lively market in the city of Santa Fe! Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a...
| Автор | Emma Carlson Berne |
“Puts campus activism in a radical historic context.”—New York Review of Books In the post–World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led movements, women, minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people demanded that universities adapt to better serve the increasingly heterogeneous public and student bodies. The success of these movements had a profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth...
| Автор | Roderick A. Ferguson |