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The gripping tale of a young Sioux Indian after the crushing defeat of his people at Little Big Horn. Forced to get an education in the alien world of the whites he is faced with a dilemma when he returns to the plains: should he pursue the path of his ancestors, though his fellow Sioux consider him too white, or follow the road of the whites.

While the concept of "sanctuary cities" is thousands of years old, the emergence of the "anti-sanctuary city" is a recent American phenomenon. This book explains the social, political, and racial underpinnings of this radical new movement and what members of targeted communities can do to counteract its corrosive effects.

Early Childhood Leadership: Motivation, Inspiration, Empowerment is written in a reader-friendly style and offers a wealth of everyday strategies for creating a workplace environment that attracts and retains quality employees, motivates performance, boosts morale, and supports personnel development.

This book will help readers take the steps needed to set their museums on a path to being welcoming and accessible. It features a variety of actions that museums, regardless of their size or budget, can implement.

This is the first public library text to look at the administration of the public library as essentially different from that of other library types. It also emphasizes the crucial nature of advocacy, promotion, and marketing and demonstrates how each public library can identify and meet the needs of its own particular community.

This book fulfills a need for planning in higher education due to the impending impact of ten twenty-first century technologies: 3D printing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, bitcoin/blockchain, genome development: agricultural, genome: medical, internet of things, nanotechnology, personal robots, and quantum computing.

This book presents research-based practices that bring together two powerful pedagogies, Montessori Education and Special Education for the 3- to 6-year-old child in a Montessori school.

This book addresses the most common issues faced by new or veteran principals.

Comprehensive overview for Educator Preparation Programs suitable for anyone throughout the United States that plans to attend a university seeking a degree in the education field.

The purpose of this book is to provide insights into effective teaching of Native American students in our schools.

This book answers technology questions that concerned parents have about their kids in school.

Discussing the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, Jana Mohr Lone considers how listening to children's ideas can expand our thinking about societal issues and deepen our respect for children's perspectives.

This book gives teachers, professors, parents, and administrators seeking to understand effective instruction for today's students, a framework that analyzes current research and forms deeper inquiry.

Offers important research concepts about the role social media might play in innovative instructional practices.

An accessible and imaginative approach to ethical theory, this book examines core concepts like truth-telling, loyalty, privacy, public service, media economics, social justice, advocacy, and accountability through the lens of popular films, television shows, and music. A perfect supplement to Media Ethics: Issues and Cases.

The book not only identifies and explains what teachers do but also makes suggestions for new and practicing teachers may further hone those skills that each task demands.

This practical book is the first to introduce DBT to play therapists, and to introduce play therapy to DBT therapists.

This book explores different ways that the male body has been represented by, constructed in, and experienced through digital media during the age of austerity. It uses three case studies to do this: the celebrity male nude leak; the rise of young men sharing images of their muscular bodies on social networking sites; and the rise of chemsex.

This book narrates the development of science and intelligence information systems and technologies in the U.S. from World War II through today. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s to the rise of a huge international science information industry, and to the 1990's Open Access-Open Culture.

Sickened by war and embittered by his experience at Gettysburg, David Travis heads west to escape the pain of war¿and his past.In a bar in the hills north of El Paso, he hears an old prospector spin a crazy tale about a wagon train loaded with Spanish gold that vanished in the West Texas hills in the early part of the seventeenth century.The next day, Travis finds the old man near death¿it seems that certain others believed the prospector¿s tale and forced him to tell all he knew. Travis decides to team up with the dead man¿s daughter and head into the mountains to find if the old man¿s claims of a lost treasure are indeed true. They are not alone in their mountain quest, and their hidden adversaries have already proven that they are willing to kill for treasure.

After reading this book, your outboard engine will no longer be a potential bother to you but an ally for better boating.

Through a curated selection of essays written over four decades by one of Australia's leading philosophers, this collection demonstrates the impact of Continental philosophy on philosophical thought in Australia.

In this book, Michael Murawski explores the work of museums as agents of change through inspiring case studies as well as his own honest, personal experiences as a museum educator, offering effective strategies for museums to enact change in their communities and, most importantly, convert talk into action

Stories of strange occurrences, ghostly specters, and lost treasures are always popular. This collection includes well known and lesser known Texas mysteries.

Fully revised and updated, Hiking Waterfalls Montana, Second Edition includes detailed hike descriptions, maps, and color photos for some 100 of the stateΓÇÖs most scenic waterfall hikes. Encompassing state and national parks, forests, monuments and wilderness areas, this guide includes history, local trivia, and GPS coordinates, leading hikers to remote corners to view spectacular waterfalls.

The Most Political Activity in America.

This book offers opportunities, ideas, and guidance for future generations of ministry, while also describing how aging adults in ministry can support each other and their faith communities.