Levin: 408 books
In with the Devil
A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Featured on Dateline and CNN, the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football field—until a few wrong turns led him to a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered an impossible mission: Coax a confession out of a fellow inmate, a serial killer, and walk free.
Jimmy Keene...
Knack Treehouses
A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing & Building a Safe & Sound Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Part dreambook and part practical guide, Knack Treehouses takes the reader a big step closer to having a house in the treetops. Replete with 450 full-color photographs, it covers all there is to know about designing, building, and enjoying unique elevated dwellings—both for kids and for adults. It...
The Holocaust as Active Memory
The Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The ways in which memories of the Holocaust have been communicated, represented and used have changed dramatically over the years. From such memories being neglected and silenced in most of Europe until the 1970s, each country has subsequently gone through a process of cultural, political and pedagogical...
by Cliff Jacobson, Lon Levin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
BASIC ILLUSTRATED MAP AND COMPASS
Wilderness guide Cliff Jacobson created the map and compass curriculum for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and here he shows easy-to-follow steps on choosing a compass, reading contour lines and other map features, using them in concert with...
Fat Witch Brownies
Brownies, Blondies, and Bars from New York's Legendary Fat Witch Bakery
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
At long last, the owner of New York City's legendary Fat Witch Bakery shares her top-secret recipes for decadent and delicious brownies, blondies, and bars
Patricia Helding's rich, intensely chocolatey Fat Witch brownie is a New York obsession, an internet sensation, and arguably the very best...
Educating for Humanity
Rethinking the Purposes of Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
At a time of profound crises around the world, when social justice, peace, democracy and the environment seem under increasing threat, the promise of "a world for all" seems a viable aspiration for education. Ample evidence from many schools today, and dating back throughout the last century,...
by William W. Hay Jr., Myron J. Levin, Robin R. Deterding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A concise, yet comprehensive source of current information on the medical problems of children –-- from birth through adolescence
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019!
•A practical, up-to-date well-referenced guide to the diagnosis and treatment of the most commonly seen medical conditions...
Women in Russian History
From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
As the first survey of the history of women in Russia to be published in any language, this book is itself an historic event -- the result of the collaboration of the leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. The book is divided in to four chronological parts corresponding...
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
Political Thought in the Age of Revolution 1776-1848
Burke to Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy. It is a vital period in what may be termed 'modernity': that is of the western societies that are increasingly industrial,...
Stolen Sovereignty
How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
We are confronted with a jarring reality that the Left has succeeded in growing the power of the courts. Obama has replaced roughly 30 percent of the district and appellate judges on the federal benches. We are now facing a judicial time bomb, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. With the...
Developing Critical Cultural Competence
A Guide for 21st-Century Educators
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Cultural competence is key to improved student achievement
This book shows you how to provide professional development for teachers that deepens their cultural understanding. The authors provide activities to help educators translate new knowledge into action with activities that...
by Gary M. Levin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Consider this: Things happen for a reason. This is the Universe at work. This is living beyond the physical realm. This is metaphysics. Metaphysics: Living Beyond the Physical Realm is an introductory guide to the fascinating world of metaphysics and New Age thinking. This movement melds elements...
Social Work and the Law
Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Examine cutting-edge research on the social worker’s role in the legal system!
Social Work and the Law: Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000 addresses the issues and concerns facing social workers who deal with law and the legal system. This comprehensive...