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Explores the (post)colonial condition of German development policy, particularly in the Global South.

This book considers the brighter side of our world today by exploring the ways in which wellbeing is on an upward swing globally.

Introducing Medical Anthropology, Third Edition, is intended for use in the medical anthropology course taught primarily at four year universities.

This comprehensive and balanced assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations, now updated through 2017, explains the conflicted engagement between the two governments. Offering a welcome richness of discussion and analysis, Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past 200 years.

This book brings dialogic and critical thinking into practice.

At least half of all college students in the U.S. today attend two-year colleges; yet, fewer than half of these students achieve their educational goals. This book, written by an experienced community college teacher summarizes specific evidence-based methods to improve student learning and completion.

This book is a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of learning disabilities, effective classroom practices, and meeting the instructional, emotional, and social needs of struggling students.

This book is designed to be a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of writing development, effective writing teaching practices, and meeting the instructional needs of struggling writers. Educators will gain a thorough understanding of developing proficient writers and how to do so effectively.

This book shows teachers how to align emotion with subject matter, and it offers them lessons and projects that resonate with young authors.

The scope and theme of the book includes the educational process, learner-centered pedagogy, cultural competency, and effective teaching in a culturally diverse setting.

Most social studies teachers follow a traditional lecture-discussion-practice format, even though the curriculum was founded on John Dewey's problem-and-inquiry approach to learning. This book guides the reader through his major theories--curriculum, experience, interest, inquiry-and culminates with active, democratic citizenship.

This book demonstrates effective teaching practices that facilitate all students' written language development and improve attitudes toward writing in grades 6 - 12. All teachers need to be involved in raising the literacy bar. This book provides practical and classroom-tested activities and strategies that promote success for all learners.

Cultivating a Culture of Learning illustrates practice from a variety of teacher education programs. Authors share their first-hand experience of cultivating a culture of learning as teacher educators. The insights and challenges are shared to stimulate conversation and engender future pedagogy and research in contemplative education.

This book will help you to discover how struggling students can be reached and teachers encouraged.

This book provides everything you need to get started with visual notetaking, including the research behind the benefits of using this tool for your own learning, as well as with your students. The information is applicable to all grade levels and subject areas.

The components of sound district finance and management, that are increasingly important in an era of scarce financial, material, and human resources, are provided in this book, along with some clear and related recommendations.

Martha's Vineyard Tales transport readers back in time to revisit the quirky, gritty, whimsical characters and stories that make up the history of this beloved island.

Whether a beginning teacher or a seasoned veteran, this book shows the way back to timeless child-centered best practices that engage young children and increase academic achievement.

This book is about incorporating student voice, student input, and student presence into leadership, decision-making and school improvement planning.

This fifth edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the market today in the planning of educational facilities.

This book tackles the task of improving academic scholarship generally and dissertation expectations specifically.

This book is a forensic accounting analysis of the financial effects of twenty years of charter schools and vouchers on the publics investment in public education.

Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that allows the reader to respond to the cases and activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institution's policies and context.

This book offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. John Agnew challenges the widely accepted story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization, offering a convincing framework that breaks with the either/or thinking of state sovereignty versus globalization.

This book identifies the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical references in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian. The author cites and explains virtually every allusion-from first-century Jerusalem through 1970s Great Britain, from terror groups ancient to modern, from Pontius Pilate to Margaret Thatcher-that appears in the film.

This text presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory by emphasizing melody and counterpoint. Starting with a single melodic line and gradually adding voices in counterpoint, the book drills part-writing while also explaining functionality, first with scale degrees and then with harmony. Workbook sections follow each chapter.

This book is intended to be used by principals who have inherited a school that is failing or not achieving to a desired level.

Advertising Account Planning in the Digital Media Landscape seeks to bridge the gap between account planning and digital landscape. This text provides a thorough explanation of the kinds of research needed for the account planning process to be successful, and all explained within a digital media mindset.

This thought-provoking and clearly argued text provides a critical geopolitical lens for understanding global environment politics. Shannon O'Lear challenges accepted assumptions about human-environment relationships and demonstrates how we can generate more just and creative approaches to assessing risk and security.

In this major new work, Gary Genosko, the world's leading English interpreter of Guattari, offers critical methodological reflections and applications that bring to life Guattari's thought in contemporary social contexts. The volume explores his collaborations with Deleuze and Negri, and brings into focus his friendship with Franco Bifo Berardi.