Brenda A : 50 books
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack...
Developing Highly Qualified Teachers
A Handbook for School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This handbook clearly explains the concept of "highly qualified teachers" as described by No Child Left Behind, and discusses how to recruit, develop, and retain such teachers.
Women's Political Discourse
A 21st-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Although the United States ranks sixtieth internationally in women's political leadership, in 2004, a record nine women held governorships, sixty women served as House members with an additional three women elected as delegates from Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and fourteen women...
Sexuality and Slavery
Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most...
The Literature Review
Six Steps to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
***From daunting to doable in six steps ***
The process of literature search and composing a formal literature review can be intimidating. But masters and doctoral candidates in Education and related fields have found academic argumentation to be seamlessly intuitive with the six-step process...
The Comprehensive Autism Planning System (CAPS) for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome, Autism and Related Disabilities
Integrating Best Practices Throughout the Student’s Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
This comprehensive, yet easy-to-use system allows educators to understand how and when to implement an instructional program for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The CAPS model answers the questions (a) What supports does my student/child need in each class to be successful? (b) What goals...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
Play Therapy with Vulnerable Populations
No Child Forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Play Therapy with Vulnerable Populations: No Child Forgotten provides the latest research-supported, play-based interventions for clinicians to utilize with these children. This book encourages the reader through real-world application case studies to honor the significance of the therapeutic relationship and balance humanism and therapeutic warmth with evidence-based practices.
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues
Practical Solutions for Making Sense of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues attempts to explain how many children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) relate to the world through their senses. Chapter 1 is an overview of sensory integration terminology and a discussion of how the sensory systems impact behavior. Chapter 2 takes an indepth look at...
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text
Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual...
The Science of Cooking
Understanding the Biology and Chemistry Behind Food and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal studies science courses and will cover a range of scientific principles of food, cooking and the science of taste and smell. Chapters include: The Science...
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia
A Cultured Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse backgrounds in the United States and beyond...
Knack Pregnancy Guide
An Illustrated Handbook for Every Trimester
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Coauthored by an ob/gyn and a noted pregnancy and childbirth expert, Knack Pregnancy Guide is the most reader-friendly, visually informative book ever on the subject. Encompassing all vital pregnancy information, it is organized to meet the needs of today’s busy mothers-to-be. It introduces the latest...