William B : 482 books
by Authors: Hans A. Baer, Sherry Baker, Brian D. Birch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In The Little Book of Mormon, eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousnessand public controversy. Now, as a Mormon politician attempts...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
School Leader Internship
Developing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Your Leadership Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
School Leader Internship, 4th Edition challenges school leader interns to build competencies in 52 leadership skill areas. This unique resource provides step-by-step guidance for interns, their supervisors, and their faculty on how to initiate an internship and evaluate interns' work. In this updated...
Taking Parenting Public
The Case for a New Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment—both personal and public—into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia...
The Principal's Field Manual
The School Principal as the Organizational Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This user-friendly handbook focuses on five facets essential to successful organizations—mission, strategy, organizational structure, people, and leadership—to help principals become proactive, effective school leaders.
Mastering the Instructional Design Process
A Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
A comprehensive framework for effective real-world instructional design
Mastering the Instructional Design Process provides step-by-step guidance on the design and development of an engaging, effective training program. The focus on core competencies of instructional system design helps you...
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
Chinese Industrial Espionage
Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology.
Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has...
The Teaching Revolution
RTI, Technology, and Differentiation Transform Teaching for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Imagine the school of the future!
The Teaching Revolution provides a futuristic and provocative discussion on the combining of three major instructional innovations—RTI, technology, and differentiation. Drawing on the growing 21st-century skills movement, the text engagingly weaves these...
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Globalization on the Ground
Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2001
This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international...
by J.b. Bury, Mandell Creighton, R. Nisbet Bain
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.
The first series was planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Leathes, Adolphus Ward and George Prothero.
The Cambridge Modern History Collection...
The Politics of Richard Wright
Perspectives on Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
by Howard Brotz, B.William Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In bringing together the most characteristic and serious writings by black scholars, authors, journalists, and educators from the years that preceded the modem civil rights movement, 'African-American Social and Political Thought' provides a comprehensive guide to the range and diversity of black...