Alexandra J: 53 books
Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas
A Classroom Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts,...
Llewellyn's 2019 Witches' Companion
A Guide to Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Live your Craft every day with Llewellyn's Witches' Companion. This indispensable guide will keep you one step ahead of the latest witchy trends, practices, and issues.
Llewellyn's 2018 Witches' Companion
An Almanac for Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Filled with fresh tips and provocative insights on the Craft, Llewellyn’s Witches’ Companion is a guide through diverse realms of practice. Discover dozens of articles to help you create intention, achieve balance, and cultivate the magical energy that’s woven into the world.
Clean Eating...
by Ayşe Nihal Akbulut, Bouchra Benlemlih, Liviu Cotrău
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...
Human Strengths and Resilience
Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...
Trans Studies
The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...
Foundations of Biosocial Health
Stigma and Illness Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples...
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Krasse Geschichten
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Die jungen Autorinnen und Autoren der Mittelschule Mariengarten lassen ihrer Fantasie freien Lauf: Sie besiedeln den Weltraum, verlegen ihren Wohnsitz nach New York, schließen Freundschaft mit Wildpferden, sind gewiefte Biografen von Napoleon und Edward Snowden und müssen vor dem Krieg und lebensbedrohlicher...
Wenn das Erbe in die Wolke kommt
Digitalisierung und kulturelles Erbe
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Der von der Abteilung Volkskunde des LVR-Instituts für Landeskunde (LVR-ILR) verantwortete Sammelband fasst die Ergebnisse der Jahrestagung 2014 der Abteilung und des DFG-Projektes „Digitales Portal Alltagskulturen im Rheinland" zusammen. „Wenn das Erbe in die Wolke kommt" - hinter dem Titel versteckt...
Karrieren der Gewalt
Nationalsozialistische Täterbiographien
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Wer waren die Täter des nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungskrieges? Waren sie Bestien oder Befehlsempfänger, desinteressierte Bürokraten und willenlose Rädchen im Getriebe? In diesem Band stellen ausgewiesene Experten 23 Karrieren der Gewalt vor – die bisher größte Sammlung von Biographien...
Handbuch Jugend
Psychologische Sichtweisen auf Veränderungen in der Adoleszenz
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Jugendliche sind mit diversen biologischen, psychologischen und sozialen Veränderungen konfrontiert - in einer Lebensphase, in der maßgeblich die Weichen für den weiteren Lebensweg gestellt werden. Dieses Buch stellt den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum Jugendalter in verständlicher Weise vor und...