Beach: 230 books

This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video...

This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based...

For the World War II submariner, every day was a life-or-death trial: going to sea for months at a time; existing in dank, claustrophobic conditions; enduring long stretches of monotonous silence punctuated by adrenaline-spiked episodes of paralyzing fear and victorious elation. It was a duty few...

Choices: Choosing me is OK is a daily reader offering 365 messages written in a simple, straightforward style. It’s a combination of practical spirituality that invites the reader to fully know their own worth and to relax into their personal relationship with the God of their understanding. It...

In this 1918 study, Beach explores the writing method of Henry James and carefully examines how James applied this method to his novels—from his early prime (The Portrait of a Lady, etc) through his mature period (The Golden Bowl, etc). A thoughtful analysis, this book by a James expert will be of interest to all readers of the Master.

Rhythms of Restoration is a resource for those of us on that journey. It was created out of the spiritual direction and retreat work of Laura Beach, founder of Equipping Lydia, a ministry whose vision is to help Christians experience the deep well of God’s love so that restoration can unfold. ...

A humorous and sometimes tearful look at the animals who transformed the author's life. "My Life Has Gone to the Dogs (and Cats)" shows what happens when you open your heart and your living space to these furry creatures we call - pets - companions - and best friends.

Vilano and the North Beaches are perhaps most known as small, eclectic beach communities within sight of St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city. For centuries, people have flocked to this coastal playground by horse-drawn trolley, ferry, and more recently Florida's Coastal Highway, State Road A1A....

Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals...

In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological differences among these methods, offer suggestions for determining the appropriate methods for a given research project, and explain...

Willing to take a risk? These are risky tales that celebrate the fragile, stubborn human animal: no matter what shape he takes, relationships he forms--the color of his mind. He is on contradictory flights towards love (wherever he may find it), confrontations with loss, and his search for home. He...

This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south German monastery of Petershausen, it begins with the local process of reform and moves out into intertwined regional social, political, and...

A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability. Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...

Champagne Salary is Rose Beach's personal account of her introduction to the Japanese hostess industry, including the myth and the reality. Sharing a tiny apartment with five other women in Roppongi, she is immersed in the world of Tokyo nightclubs where she, along with her new friends, deal...