Peter Fisher: 17 books
by Peter Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1825. "In 1825, when Peter Fisher published the first Historical work, the Province of New-Brunswick had received the loyalist immigration forty-three years before, at which date it was constituted a separate Province. The progress of the country during a period when its political...
The Valley of Vision
Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The author of this important contribution to the study of Blake was tragically drowned in a sailing accident when he had almost completed it in manuscript. His was a critical mind of singular erudition and power. As is abundantly evidenced in these chapters which Northrop Frye has prepared for publication....
Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8
Effective Practices across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This book showcases effective ways to build the vocabulary knowledge K-8 learners need to engage meaningfully in reading, writing, and discussion on academic subjects. The distinguished authors draw on decades of classroom experience to explain what academic vocabulary is, how it fits into the Common...
Academic Vocabulary in Middle and High School
Effective Practices across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
In order to succeed in school and beyond, students in grades 6-12 need to understand and use both academic language and discipline-specific vocabulary. This book describes effective practices for integrating vocabulary study with instruction in English language arts, history/social studies, and math...
Metacognitive Therapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Metacognitive therapy is based on the principle that worry and rumination are universal processes leading to emotional disorder. These processes are linked to erroneous beliefs about thinking and unhelpful self-regulation strategies.
Metacognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features is an introduction...
Haunted: Houses
Haunted
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
500 pages of spooky haunted house stories from 12 authors!
What happens when the place in which you’re meant to feel the safest turns against you? Where do you go when the world inside your four walls is scarier than the world outside?
Get ready to find out!
From the authors...
by Peter J. Fisher, Ann Bates, Debra J. Gurvitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialists....
by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Björn Merker, Iain Morley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.”...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Seeing Judaism Anew
Christianity's Sacred Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...
Edgar Allan Poe
Beyond Gothicism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in...
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...
Herod
King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herod’s rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen today.
In...
Innovations in Social Work Research
Using Methods Creatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
A valuable reference to help practising researchers not only to understand but also to apply innovative approaches to social work research.
Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work...
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