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Reclaiming Our Teaching Profession
The Power of Educators Learning in Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing from a wealth of research and experience, this book shows educators how to use the transformative power of professional learning in community to raise the professional stature of educators. The authors, experts in their field, provide clear steps and real-school examples with a focus on collaborative...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
by M. E. F. Mapa
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Heavenly Realms: Sermons from the Book of Ephesians is a series of sermons I gave in my tenure as Lead Pastor in one of the local churches in my city. I had compiled these sermons primarily to give ideas to pastors and ministers as they prepare for their Sunday talks.
These sermons are in...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Becoming a great leader takes work. This digital collection from Harvard Business Review offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there.
The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Leader’s Collection includes digital editions of all the Harvard Business Review articles found in the popular books HBR’s...
Revolving Door Lobbying
Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving...
by F.M. Bonevento
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
There are reflections on life; then, there are truer reflections. It took a six-year hiatus for poet F.M. Bonevento to return to the written word, but he does so now with passion, wit, and a better understanding of things he thought he once knew. He now knows with certainty that time passes, and,...
La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo
The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan missionary plan (1617-1627)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Pedro Fernández de Quirós was a remarkable navigator and explorer. Having sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, he returned to the 'Austral Lands' - the area of the New Hebrides - in 1605 with another expedition, which is the subject of this...
by F.M. Kamm
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive today Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will...
Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era
The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional...
The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640
Volume I: Works in Languages other than English
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In 1956 Allison and Rogers published A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad Secretly in England, 1558-1640. Known simply as A & R, it is the standard listing of the clandestine vernacular output of English Catholics during that period. Now, after more than thirty years work, Allison...
by M. E. F. Mapa
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
25 Thought-provoking, spirit-filled, heart-inspiring sermon or Bible study outlines for the busy pastor and minister. These outlines are meant for the pastor who has little time for sermon preparation. But these outlines can easily be changed to allow the preacher to incorporate his own ideas.
Defining Death
The Case for Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement...