Thoms: 21 books

Teaching that Matters invites principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. Thoms urges administrators and teachers to reconsider traditional practices in light of today’s media-driven culture and digitally wired students. While sensitive to the challenges schools...

Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of today’s media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting Classrooms is sensitive to the...

Martha Graham’s name was internationally recognized as part of the modern dance world, and though trends in choreography continue to change, her influence on dance as an art form endures. In this, the first extended feminist look at the modern dance pioneer, Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham...

For much of my life, I believed the lack of detailed information about the early years of the life of Jesus of Nazareth was a major cover-up. I believed its suppressed because it did not fit the story being sold. Over the years, I have come to believe in a more refined truth. It does not exist because...

A collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold. A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age “Profound.” —Booklist “Moving.” —Publishers Weekly “Rings with authenticity...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...

This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia. The contributors write from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including semiotics,...

This book covers several topics including: Chapter 3        What is Spyware? Chapter 2        How is Spyware different from        Viruses & Worms? Chapter 3       ...

You have got a new mobile phone, and it suddenly falls in water, becomes wet in the rain, or gets exposed to water by any means. What will you do in such a situation? You will certainly wonder how to dry it out quickly. There can be many different reasons why your cell phone might get wet such as...

A Mighty God No comet moves as fast as God, No star can blaze as bright. No planet in the universe Can match his awesome might.   God is the source of everything, Creator of us all. He made and blessed this whole wide world, All creatures...

Hacking can be difficult and there are many different ways to hack and many different exploits to use. Hacking is neither defined nor limited by exploitation or exploration. Hacking into someone else's system may be illegal, so don't do it unless you are sure you have permission from the owner of...

This title was first published in 2000:  Coventry is synonymous with both the creation and relative decline of the British motor car industry. This volume utilises the extensive range of primary sources on the subject to explore the relationship between the car industry in its local context and...

Twelve Steps to a Spiritual Awakening is a practical, step by step action plan to move beyond our limited self into our whole, connected Self. It utilizes the same method millions have used to escape the pits of addiction by achieving a personal relationship with God. If you want to witness real results...

This book presents the most comprehensive model yet for describing the structure and functioning of running freshwater ecosystems. Riverine Ecosystems Synthesis (RES) is a result of combining several theories published in recent decades, dealing with aquatic and terrestrial systems. New analyses are...