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This book gives the reader a wealth of background knowledge in both theater and inquiry based education and also lays out lesson plans that are easy to follow.

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning.

This up-to-date, new and improved edition of Don't Gossip in the Teachers' Lounge has 200 tips to help the beginning elementary school teacher learn the inter-workings of school relationships.

The Unlearning Leader is about how today's leaders need to connect for success. The premise of this book is that we all need to unlearn.

This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.

This book is a practical guide for K-12 educators as well as parents of students who are identified as being in the top academic percentiles of the population.

This book focuses on the boundaries which faculty of color encounter in everyday experiences on campus and presents a more complete picture of life in the academy - one that documents how faculty of color are tested, but also how they can not only overcome, but thrive in their respective educational institutions.

Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of museums, and the key functions museums play in the 21st century. This new edition features "Museums in Motion Today" where museum professionals provide their perspectives on where museums are and where they are going. Each chapter is amply illustrated.

Dennis Gilbert provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century. Focusing on five key countries, he tells the compelling story of the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, miners, and bankers who grew rich in a rapidly expanding global economy.

Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. Klorer's rich and highly accessible narrative seamlessly weaves together theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource.

Offering a panoramic view of much of Benjamin's thought, and concentrating in particular on his early writings, this book derives from a philosophical analysis of readings and studies by Benjamin that have not heretofore been considered in detail.

This book offers a broad reconstruction of the modern notion of sovereignty, a comprehensive critique of state-inflicted violence, and a concept of non-coercive law for our contemporary world society.

Examines the Indonesian media industry in the digital era, examining contemporary 'battlefields' between media owners and ordinary citizens.

Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.

This highly original book sheds new light on aspects of incommensurability of values and its implications for ethics and justice. It provides original and innovative analysis of the characteristics of incommensurability in relation to values, and explores the implications of incommensurability for ethics, justice and public decision-making.

Using food-oriented case studies centred on Australian cities and media, this book argues for a processual understanding of cosmopolitanism that approaches everyday practices as a site of potentially ethical and/or reflexive inter-cultural exchanges.

This book traces this path to equal representation between women and men in elected bodies, with a special focus on candidate selection process and the implementation of special measures such as party quotas.

Introduces students to a new framework for understating the relationship between Islam and "the West", with an accessible introduction, three comprehensive and easy-to-follow parts, definitions of key terms, chronology, discussion points, and further reading.

This book critically examines 'just liberal violence': forms of direct and structural violence that others may be 'justly' subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour respectively, and argues that (a) each of these defences fails and (b) all of them fail for similar reasons.

This is the first English-language translation of an important book that contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy. Renault provides a systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be conceptualised.

Investigates the change in criminal law for prostitution in Sweden.

Debussy's Paris takes readers on a tour of Belle Epoque Paris through detailed descriptions of the city's delights and the exquisite piano music Debussy wrote to accompany them. Kautsky reveals little known aspects of Parisian life and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole.

This handy guide and supplemental text examines trends in information and communication technology (ICT) that impact the operations of federal, state, and local government. It seeks to improve service delivery, human resource administration, political participation, and citizen input, also recognizing ICT's role in the erosion of personal privacy.

In this text, Phil Gurski examines why some people decide to abandon their homeland to join terrorist groups, and whether they pose a significant threat to their societies if they survive and return.