Powell: 1221 books
How to Teach Now
Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
In this book, William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell provide a practical map to navigate some of today's most complicated instructional challenges: How do you help all students succeed when every classroom is, in effect, a global classroom? And what does a successful education look like in a world...
Literacy as a Moral Imperative
Facing the Challenges of a Pluralistic Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 1999
In this important new book on literacy and teaching practices, education scholar and former schoolteacher Rebecca Powell argues that the decisions we make about literacy in a pluralistic society are fundamentally moral ones, either supporting inequitable power relationships, or seeking to transform...
The Evolution of Moral Progress
A Biocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology,...
Playing the Game
A Baden-Powell Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, Playing the Game is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations, on his own life, from his wonderfull idiosyncratic anecdotal autobiography and includes...
The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures
The Effects of Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others. Using a national...
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.
Alabama’s celebrated, historically black Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific...
by Jane E. Ward, Kimberly Keisling, Powell Museum Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The people who descended on the remote northern Arizona wilderness in the early 1950s to build Glen Canyon Dam and the town of Page were true pioneers. They arrived to find Glen Canyon, a sandy, desolate hilltop with walls over 700 feet deep that had been part of the vast Navajo reservation, and an incredibly...
by Neil Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Exploring the deep roots of identity, this poetry collection by Neil Powell touches upon inherited family histories, memories, and the casual decisions and wrong turns that make us who we are. From subjects such as childhood, leaving home, and first love to a compelling narrative based on a journal...
Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah
Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagement, which involved only 10,000 troops, were substantial. Previous studies, however, focused on the Confederate side of the story. David Powell’s, Union...
Aids To Scouting
for N.-C.O.s and Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the...
Scouting For Girls
Adapted from Girl Guiding (1918)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. But what completely surprised Baden-Powell was that his book was eagerly taken up by teachers and youth groups to help organize outdoor activities and sport. He eventually embraced the...
Iridescent Passages
One Family’S Story of Death and Despair and the Miracle of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Larry and Gayle Powell began their fifty-five-year journey together when they were sixteen years old and attended the same church. After their marriage in 1965; the birth of their daughter, Charmaine, in 1966; and the adoption of their son, Craig, a few years later, the Powells felt like the ideal...
by Amir Clayton Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
From the author of We Struggle Not Against Flesh & Blood comes Song of the Mantis. The poetry in this collection is playful in nature yet intensely reflective in some verses but at all times wildly fun and absolutely uplifting. Through the first chapter, Powell provides insight into the eclectic manner...
The Second Boy Detectives MEGAPACK®
6 Classic Novels with Boy Sleuths
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The Second Boy Detectives MEGAPACK® presents 6 more novels featuring young sleuths -- tales of the Banner Boy Scouts, Skippy Dare, the Mystery Boys, and more! Included are: THE BANNER BOY SCOUTS MYSTERY, by George A. Warren YOUNG ATOM DETECTIVE, by Charles Coombs THE MYSTERY OF THE FIFTEEN SOUNDS, by...