James Hill: 76 books
The Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political...
Reinventing Public Education
How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose...
Ultimate Success featuring: Think and Grow Rich, As a Man Thinketh, and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Mental Magic to Creating Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Simplify your self-help shelf--and super-charge your life! Here is an all-in-one edition of the top-selling success classics of all time, beautifully packaged and affordably priced.
If you--or someone you love--is looking for direction in life, and if motivation is present, Ultimate Success...
PEGASUS
A Journey To New Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Zack and Zuri are set to embark on the Pegasus for New Eden, an unknown and unexplored planet four light years from Earth. For Zack, four light years isn’t nearly far enough from the madness that has been mankind’s history. For Zuri, it is a chance to have the family she has so long desired. Pegasus...
by Abou Ba, Yanik Bruno, Zamori Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The following stories were written by students who participated in the Art of Storytelling Apprenticeship with Citizen Schools at the Urban Assembly Unison School. In this Apprenticeship, students researched, wrote, and published their own original stories. Students had creative control of the writing and illustrations in the story.
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
The Akron Story Circle Project
Rethinking Race in Classroom and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Cultures around the world have long employed storytelling to transmit important values and beliefs and to build community. Further, some research has indicated that individuals retain more from stories than other forms of information transmission like lectures. The pedagogical use of storytelling...
by Terence Grieder, James D. Farmer, David V. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Challuabamba (chī-wa-bamba)—now a developing suburb of Cuenca, the principal city in the southern highlands of Ecuador—has been known for a century as an ancient site that produced exceptionally fine pottery in great quantities. Suspecting that Challuabamban ceramics might provide a link between...
by Major James R. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In a constantly changing world threatened by ever increasing terrorist acts, American interests, both at home and abroad, require protection provided by great military leaders. In order to produce military leaders who can successfully meet the future challenges America faces, it is important to develop...
by Major James R. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In a constantly changing world threatened by the likelihood of terrorist acts, the American people need military leaders who clearly demonstrate an understanding of American core values, and who are both competent and morally focused. In order to produce military leaders who meet these qualifications...