Gordon L : 212 books
Assessing Performance
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the...
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race,...
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
by Ronni L. Gordon, David M. Stillman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Drop boring language courses and learn Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia course!
Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish gives you an all-encompassing learning experience. You'll immerse yourself in extensive audio practice and written exercises, giving you the guidance and support you...
Strange Soul Mates
A Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
If you can't win a heart, take a mind ...
Steven is jealous, possessive, and ridiculously intoxicated. His girlfriend, Emily, won't respond to any of his alcohol-fueled, accusatory texts, and he's determined to let every last bar patron know of his frustration. Just where is Emily sneaking...
by John Sikes Jr., Benjamin B. Alexander, Michael L. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...
Charles H. Houston
An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
by Bruce W. Bennett, Jonathan Kaufman, James Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Adversaries could acquire emerging chemical and biological (CB) agents years before U.S. defense planners recognize those agents, and many more years before the United States establishes a comprehensive defense against them. Gaps in defenses against chemical and biological weapon agents can pose a...
Georgia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role...
by Ronni L. Gordon, David M. Stillman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Better than ever! The bestselling intermediate-level workbook has been expanded into a comprehensive, dynamic digital/print study tool
Founded on the principle that strong grammar skills are necessary for foreign language mastery, The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice explains and illustrates...
by Ronni L. Gordon, David M. Stillman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Master the essential building blocks of Spanish-language fluency with facilidad
The Ultimate Spanish Verb Review and Practice is your key to acquiring enhanced skills on the road to Spanish fluency. More than just another Spanish verb guide, it provides you with a concise review of verb forms and...
Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty
Problems of Epistemic Inference
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This work breaks new ground by carefully distinguishing the concepts of belief, confirmation, and evidence and then integrating them into a better understanding of personal and scientific epistemologies. It outlines a probabilistic framework in which subjective features of personal knowledge and objective...
Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism?
Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Nine Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...