Mary Anne: 245 books
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
by John Smith, William Bradford, Thomas Morton
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This anthology features a selection of works written during the first century of English settlement in the colonies of North America. These texts illustrate the extraordinary depth of colonial writing (chronicles, poetry, captivity narratives, etc.) and help us understand the origins and the future of America and Americans.
by Stephanie Burgis, Anne E. Johnson, Robert Lowell Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he’s willing to kill his younger...
by Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Joanna Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
“Each author’s unique style and storytelling talents are at their best, gifting readers one scrumptious treat after another…glowing with the joy and romance of the yuletide.” --RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
*Christmas 1815.*Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations...
by Adèle Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
As featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict.
This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous...
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry
Imagining the Earth Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...
by Donna Gaines, Charlotte Akin, Donna Avant
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 1.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
NOTE: Volume 1 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 1.1 and 1.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
The Limits of Sisterhood
The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and...