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

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

Quietly Courageous offers practical guidance to leaders-both lay and ordained-on leading churches today. It encourages leaders to focus on their mission and purpose-what is ultimately motivating their work. It also urges a shift in perspectives on resources, discusses models of change, and offers suggestions for avoiding common pitfalls.

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.

Assessment, technology, and racial discrimination are three status quos that negatively impact the way educators teach and how students learn. The education system must change and courage is required to speak out against ideas and practices that do not work so we can improve learning for all students.

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.

The LITA Guide to No- or Low-Cost Technology Tools for Libraries provides a practical guide on how to find and use technology tools for a variety of purposes in libraries and education. Each topic showcases two technology tools in detail, discusses additional tools, and provides examples of how to use them in libraries and schools.

This text examines U.S. national security policy making through the lens of international law. The chapters consist of selected excerpts of primary readings to address the question of whether Congress and the President should conform their laws, policies, and actions to the dictates of international law regardless of the nature of the threat.

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 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.