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Violent Encounters

Interviews on Western Massacres

by Deborah Lawrence, Jon Lawrence ...

Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the
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Contesting the Borderlands

Interviews on the Early Southwest

by Deborah Lawrence, Jon Lawrence ...

Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from Texas through southern California. To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from Texas through southern California. To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual
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Following the Elephant

Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline

by Bruno Nettl, Ethnomusicology, Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P Merriam, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice0, Jesse D Ruskin1, Kay Shelemay2, Gabriel Solis3, Jeff Todd Titon4, J. Lawrence Witzleben5, Deborah Wong6 ...

Series series Common Threads
In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology ... Read more

$21.59 USD

In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology
... Read more
Witches Save the World: Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right

by Hugh Alan Samples, Rebecca Buchanan, Charlotte Henley Babb, Natalia Blooming, Zachery Brasier, Deborah L. Davitt, Dylan Demasi, Alice Dillon, Jesse Sterling Harrison, Andrew Harby, Scott Travis Hutchison, Kiera Lesley, Simon MacCulloch, Kimberly Malinowski, Joshua Martin, Meyari McFarland, Peter Medeiros, Jeremy Morris, Mir Rainbird, Jessica Riches, Chloe Smith, Zack Smith, Wondra Vanian, Jennifer Weigel, Kelli A. Wilkins, Neil Willcox, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Lawrence Needham ...

Covens. Cauldrons. And Curses.The witch is a complex figure. Hero? Villain? Victim? Practitioner of a nearly-forgotten faith or just misunderstood? An elder who should be respected but is instead reviled? Or the member of an oppressed ethnic or sexual minority?Witches of every sort appear in this anthology, and its companion volume, Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right. In ... Read more

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Covens. Cauldrons. And Curses.The witch is a complex figure. Hero? Villain? Victim? Practitioner of a nearly-forgotten faith or just misunderstood? An elder who should be respected but is instead reviled? Or the member of an oppressed ethnic or sexual minority?Witches of every sort appear in this anthology, and its companion volume, Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right. In
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Something to Hide

by Deborah Moggach ...

Narrated by Josie Lawrence ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

'Nobody in the world knows our secret ... that I’ve ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine.' Petra’s romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she’s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend’s husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into ... Read more

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'Nobody in the world knows our secret ... that I’ve ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine.' Petra’s romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she’s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend’s husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into
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She Persisted: Clara Lemlich

by Deborah Heiligman, Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger ...

Narrated by Chelsea Clinton, Emily Lawrence ...

Series series She Persisted
Unabridged

36 min

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Clara Lemlich!In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Deborah Heiligman, readers learn about the amazing life of Clara Lemlich--and how she persisted.Clara Lemlich immigrated to New ... Read more

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Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Clara Lemlich!In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Deborah Heiligman, readers learn about the amazing life of Clara Lemlich--and how she persisted.Clara Lemlich immigrated to New
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The Rainbow (Unabridged)

by D. H. LAWRENCE ...

Narrated by Deborah Filer ...

Unabridged

19 hours 19 min

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths
... Read more
Growing for Justice

A Developmental Continuum of Leadership Capacities and Practices

by Eleanor Drago-Severson, Jessica Blum-DeStefano, Deborah Brooks Lawrence ...

Be the leader you want to see in the world.Educators committed to social justice enter into the work in markedly different ways. Drawing from research with 50 educational leaders from across the United States, Growing for Justice explores how leaders committed to social justice support the growth of others while also developing their own capacities to engage, connect, and lead for change. This ... Read more

$33.99 USD

Be the leader you want to see in the world.Educators committed to social justice enter into the work in markedly different ways. Drawing from research with 50 educational leaders from across the United States, Growing for Justice explores how leaders committed to social justice support the growth of others while also developing their own capacities to engage, connect, and lead for change. This
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Final Demand

by Deborah Moggach ...

Narrated by Sarah Durham ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, it's only a minor crime. Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, it's only a minor crime. Nobody's going to get hurt. But other people do get hurt, because
... Read more
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The Carer

by Deborah Moggach ...

Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure
... Read more

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Transformative Learning in Practice

Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

Edited by Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor ...

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How ... Read more

$46.00 USD

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How
... Read more
The Skillful Teacher

On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom

by Stephen D. Brookfield ...

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teachingStudents say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, ... Read more

$26.00 USD

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Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teachingStudents say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students,
... Read more

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