The Author: 133 books
The Aptitude Myth
How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
The Evangelicals You Don't Know
Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
So you have a problem with evangelical Christians? Which ones?
These are the provocative questions Tom Krattenmaker poses to his fellow progressives in The Evangelicals You Don’t Know. He challenges stereotypes about evangelical Christians and introduces readers to a movement of “new evangelicals”...
Social Justice and the Power of Compassion
Meaningful Involvement of Organizations Improving the Environment and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Social Justice and the Power of Compassion looks at how a single person, or a small organization, working at the grassroots level can make great strides in helping the marginalized and disenfranchised. Marguerite Guzman Bouvard weaves the personal stories of the founders and directors of such organizations...
Reality Calling
The Story of a Principal’s First Semester
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Crafted from authentic experiences shared by principals, Reality Calling: The Story of a Principal’s First Semester reveals fictional Principal Joe Gentry’s first few months on the job. We see his efforts to establish relationships with students, staff and community, handle unexpected (and sometimes...
Polyamory in the 21st Century
Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Unlike other books on this topic, Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and facts to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow...
The Lufthansa Heist
Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The inside story—from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked...