Valerie: 1603 books

Are you looking for a book that will give you some better understanding of literature and how to teach it? With this teaching textbook and lesson planner you will leave your students with a better understanding and appreciation of literature through many of the works and stories covered.This...

Do you need an eight-week lesson plan for teaching feature writing? Or news writing?This book covers everything you need to become a successful news writer and feature writer. If you have students who want to explore feature writing as a means of improving their research and writing skills,...

Do you need an eight-week lesson plan for teaching feature writing? Or news writing?This book covers everything you need to become a successful news writer and feature writer. If you have students who want to explore feature writing as a means of improving their research and writing skills,...

This book contains helpful guides in teaching humanities including: response questions, essay questions, discussion questions, essay topics, short essay questions, exams and answer keys.From poets to Thomas Hobbes, to Renee Descartes to John Locke, this book will give you enough material to...

Often students are lacking knowledge in how to write an academic paper. Some are interested in writing, but don't know how to get started or know proper format, and others don’t really like writing, but need to learn how to write a proper essay in order to get through college. This teaching...

Do you want to learn how to write? How to write an article? Or how to write a book? Whether your ideas of writing is having a writing career or a writing job, you will find this book quite helpful as it takes you from the beginning of where to get ideas, to how to make your writing saleable to how...

Each of the personality types is a short humorous account of a disastrous date. These stories are based on real experiences, and are not without purpose. They illustrate what is expected of the other person in a relationship--something that people who are seeking that lasting relationship, seem to...

As a Clinical Psychologist, clergy wife, business owner and mother of two, Valerie Ling knows that burnout knocks at her door everyday. In this concise, practical and readable book she presents her own burnout prevention plan.  Six steps to burnout proof your life!

Tort law regulates most human activities: from driving a car to using consumer products to providing or receiving medical care. Injuries caused by dog bites, slips and falls, fender benders, bridge collapses, adverse reactions to a medication, bar fights, oil spills, and more all implicate the law...

The day Valerie found out she was pregnant with her second child was the day her husband died. He’d fallen asleep driving. She didn’t know how to be a widow. Widows were old, with bunions. Not 26, and pregnant. She moved cross-country from Massachusetts to Oregon, delivered her baby, and sought...

Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was, according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to “induce his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits.” Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents...

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow...

From the nineteenth century articulations of Sojourner Truth to contemporary thinkers like Patricia J. Williams, Black feminists have always recognized the mutual dependence of race and gender. Detailing these connections, Not Just Race, Not Just Gender explores the myriad ways race and gender shape...

In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the majority...