L White: 107 books
by L. E. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Lilly tries to blend in and be normal but just doesn't have any luck. She is constantly in the shadow of gossip about her family which her hometown just won't allow to rest. Old women tell stories about her grandmother and the things that she could do. Her father even had to leave town to find the...
Scripting Jesus
The Gospels in Rewrite
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
In Scripting Jesus, Michael White, famed scholar of early Christian history, reveals how the gospel stories of Jesus were never meant to be straightforward historical accounts, but rather were scripted and honed as performance pieces for four different audiences with four different theological agendas....
by Tom Conyers, Danielle Tara Evans, John Cassian
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This horror anthology contains seven stories, each written by different authors: John Cassian, Tom Conyers, D.Z.C., Danielle Tara Evans, L.K. Evans, Chance Maree, and Thaddeus White.
A longhorn rancher gets more than he bargained for...
A mythical bird becomes all too real...
The...
Self Versus Others
Media, Messages, and the Third-Person Effect
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages—such...
Making Your First Year a Success
A Classroom Survival Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
You’ve completed the course work, student teaching, and interviewing. The job is yours. Now what? The first weeks and months of a new teaching position can be the most demanding of your entire career. In this new edition of their bestseller, veteran educators Robert L. Wyatt III and J. Elaine White...
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
A Richmond Landmark History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Established in 1822, Shockoe Hill Cemetery is the final resting place for many famous and infamous icons of Richmond. Most visited is the tomb of Chief Justice John Marshall, the longest-serving chief justice of the United States, who elevated the Supreme Court to equal standing with the executive...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
by Greg White, Chuck Cothren, Dwayne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Written by leading information security educators, this fully revised, full-color computer security textbook covers CompTIA’s fastest-growing credential, CompTIA Security+.
Principles of Computer Security, Fourth Edition is a student-tested, introductory computer security textbook that provides...
Leading Schools in Disruptive Times
How To Survive Hyper-Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
A school leadership model for surviving hyper-change
From social media to evolving safety issues to constant school reform, today’s school leaders face unprecedented disruption. How can educators prepare students for a globalized world when many institutions are not ready for the constantly...
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
Culture, Relevance, and Schooling
Exploring Uncommon Ground
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...