Eleanor: 826 books
by Eleanor Clift
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
"An extraordinary new series intended to capture extraordinary moments in history."
-Chicago Tribune
TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time.
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Eleanor Clift, Founding Sisters and...
Alaska's Wilderness Medicines
Healthful Plants of the Far North
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as well as general information on how each one can...
Two Weeks of Life
A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
While Eleanor Clift cared for her husband, journalist Tom Brazaitis, through the last two weeks of his life, the nation watched a very different death play out as Terri Schiavo entered her final days. In the commonalities and contradictions between these events, Clift probes the underlying questions:...
by Eleanor Farjeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
For every day of the year Eleanor Farjeon provides a scrap of fun or fancy, poetry or nonsense, fact or fable. Here young readers can set out with Will Kemp on his nine-day dance from London to Norwich and read the lovely tale of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, as well as celebrate Lincoln's birthday...
by Eleanor Farjeon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Little boy, little boy, what is the matter?
Madam, the sea has been turned into batter!
Eleanor Farjeon’s delightful London nursery rhymes are known and loved all over the world, and told with characteristic humour and playfulness. Reimagine London with these charming and timeless rhymes...
Why Religions Work
God's Place in the World Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
God and religion come in for bad press these days. Is religion worth keeping? Are militant atheists misguided? Do religion and spirituality need each other? Is it possible to build tolerance and respect in a divided world? And can science play a role? Eleanor Stoneham explains why the answer to all these...
Leidenschaft im Dienste Ihrer Majestät
Königinnen und ihre Liebhaber
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Betreten Sie eine bisher verschlossene Welt. Tauchen Sie ein in Liebe und Leidenschaft, Glück und Unglück, Verrat und Verbannung. Nehmen Sie teil am geheimen Leben und Schicksal der untreuen Königinnen und ihrer Liebhaber – von Eleanor von Aquitanien bis Diana, Prinzessin von Wales.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
Liebe im Schatten der Krone
Die Geschichte der königlichen Mätressen
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Pikante Geschichten über Sex und MachtMätressen – sie wurden geliebt, gefürchtet, beneidet und führten ein Leben auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Traumschloss und Kerker. Eleanor Herman stellt sie alle vor: die Berühmtesten und Unsterblichsten ebenso wie die, deren Liaison mit dem König nicht...
by Professor Alan Dashwood, Professor Michael Dougan, Professor Barry J Rodger
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
First published 30 years ago, Wyatt and Dashwood's European Union Law was a landmark publication, designed and written for students taking degree level courses in EU law. In the intervening years new editions have appeared at regular intervals, firmly establishing the book as a reliable and authoritative...
Assignments Matter
Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
What exactly is an "assignment," and why does it matter? How can educators ensure that their teaching meets the rigorous demands of the Common Core State Standards, so that all students are well prepared for college or careers? Drawing from her extensive experience as a teacher coach, author...
Helping Educators Grow
Strategies and Practices for Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
How can we prepare practicing and aspiring education leaders for the complex, adaptive challenges they face? In Helping Educators Grow, Eleanor Drago-Severson presents a new approach to leadership development.
Too often, she argues, we teach leadership development the same way we teach world...
Leading Change Together
Developing Educator Capacity Within Schools and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
“If we can get adult development right, we can change the world!”
Adult development . . . in schools? Yes. In fact, understanding and sharing ideas—and implementing practices—that help adults explore experiences and assumptions is a powerful driver of school change. Eleanor Drago-Severson...
Tell Me So I Can Hear You
A Developmental Approach to Feedback for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In Tell Me So I Can Hear You, Eleanor Drago-Severson and Jessica Blum-DeStefano show how education leaders can learn to deliver feedback in a way that strengthens relationships as well as performance and builds the capacity for growth. Drawing on constructive-developmental theory, the authors describe...
by Eleanor D. Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Burdened with perennially rising costs and responsible for providing health insurance to more than one sixth of all Americans, Medicare in its original form is fiscally and demographically unsustainable. In light of dramatic reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this book provides a comprehensive...