Patricia Clark: 16 books
Math Power
How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Any child can overcome the disadvantages of mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. Math Power offers easy-to-follow and concrete strategies for teaching math concepts. These lively techniques — including games, questions, conversations, and specific math activities —...
by William Clark, Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Children of the Sun is a children's book about a little Christian boy's time spent growing up in 1960's Japan.It contains photographs and illustrations to accompany the many fun and interesting stories, anecdotes and poems throughout this classic Japanese children's book.Kids and parents will learn about Japanese culture and history from a Christian perspective-something very unique indeed!
by Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
How do we move forward after enormous loss? Perhaps like the lightning-struck tree, “half of it shorn of leaves the other half full, standing, / swaying….” In these beautiful, intimate poems spoken from the heart of grief, the speaker urges herself not to flinch, “letting the knife settle...
by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the...
The Politically Intelligent Leader
Dealing with the Dilemmas of a High-Stakes Educational Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Today's educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising expectations and diminishing resources—the political pressures are enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a high-stakes political environment. The Politically...
Linear Mathematics
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Designed to help students appreciate the beauty of abstract patterns and the thrill of modeling the "real" world, this versatile, time-tested, and widely used text requires only two years of high school algebra. Suitable for a traditional one-year course in linear algebra or a more streamlined...
Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture
A View from the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the
Southeast.
The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed
within communities...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition
Text, Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
by Bob Beatty, Scott Carrlee, Bruce Teeple
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Proper collections care, planning, and conservation is an essential responsibility for a museum of any size, but funding for these obligations often falls to the bottom of funding priorities because its constituencies are the quietest. Small museums need affordable ways to provide basic care for their...
by John Clark, Patricia Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This indispensable highway companion maps out short trips for exploring the Palmetto State's scenic byways and back roads.
The Social Movement Society
Contentious Politics for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1997
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...
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