This progressive rhetoric provides strategies for inquiry-driven reading and research as well as source-based, academic writing and argument. Author: Callaghan, Patsy Publisher: Pearson Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0321409132 ISBN-13: 9780321409133..
Few wars have had such a deep impact on the American people than the Vietnam War.Gerard de Groot's clear-eyed treatment covers the military events, the political and strategic contexts, as well as the social and cultural impact of the war. It's a powerful study which offers fresh insights into the c..
A collection of short and excerpted works by the great thinkers of their day, this book focuses on the philosophy of love and desire. Excellent introductions offer readers brief biographies of the thinkers presented and provide historical context, enabling them to see connections and to appreciate t..
A Practical Guide for Special Education Professionals is a resource guidebook, the purpose of which is to provide practical information and suggestions to help the special education teacher survive and eventually succeed in the school and classroom setting. This book is written to be used as a quick..
We learn often in life, but only once as a child. This popular book will help future teachers make the most of this special time. Here is complete coverage of how children learn, what they can learn, and how to teach them. The focus is on creating a child-centered curriculum that addresses children'..
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Inspired by the upsurge of inclusion in early childhood, and the need to support practitioners who are working to effectively address the needs of young children representing a wide-range of developmental levels, this new book is designed to actively engage the practicing and pre-service practitione..
Following in the vein of her best-selling elementary book, June Chapin focuses on key topics that are critical to the teaching of social studies in the middle and secondary classrooms. This concise, practical text enables students to concentrate on the crucial, relevant strategies and content needed..
Based on an empirical approach, this popular German grammar review is arranged as a flexible classroom book or reference grammar. Concepts are explained in step-by-step fashion. The book is designed to enhance comprehension. Exercises now include more contextualized practice of grammer points and ar..
An easy-to-read introduction to communication sciences and disorders appropriate for majors and non-majors alike.This text is written by an expert in the field who has taught introductory communicative disorders courses to both majors and non-majors for numerous years. This first edition presents in..
A Primer on International Health is a compact, engaging reader-friendly anthology that covers the key global health topics that confront humanity in the twenty-first century. As a primer, this book strives to provide a foundation of learning on the most current and enduring international human healt..
About the AuthorRick Billstein is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Montana. He has worked in mathematics teacher education at this university for over 40 years and his current research is in the areas of curriculum development and mathematics teacher education. He teaches courses for ..
The new edition of this best-selling text includes a new focus on active and collaborative learning, while maintaining its emphasis on developing skills and concepts. With a wealth of pedagogical tools, as well as relevant discussions of standard curricula and assessments, this book will be a valuab..
A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in ";hands-on"; and ";minds-on"; learning about effective teaching. Each chapter contains an abundance of application exercises on perforated pages that provide opportun..
Practical and thorough, this engaging resource guide truly practices what it preaches: hands-on, activities-rich, research-based, performance-driven teaching.With its hallmark practicality,A Resource Guide for Teaching K-12 uses case studies, sample units with lessons, opportunities for practice and..
The London, Upton, Stone series has helped over 1,000,000 photography students capture their potential.The new 8th edition of A Short Course in Photography introduces students to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. With a specia..
This best-selling writing guide by a prominent biologist teaches students to think as biologists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing. Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers in college and their profession, "A Short Guide to Writing about ..
Providing the reader with the tools need ed to be successful writers in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology emphasizes writing as a means to examine, evaluate, and share ideas. The text teaches how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to commu..
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A Short Guide to Writing about History is an ideal complement for any history course intended to teach students to think and write like historians.This engaging and practical text will teach students how to go beyond reporting the basic dates and facts of their history books and show them how to inf..
A Short Guide to Writing about Music parallels musical skills to writing skills, examining a wide range of writing tasks for undergraduate and graduate courses.Intended for all writers on music college through budding professional and far more than a course textbook, this brief and inexpensive t..
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Comprehensive and well-balanced, this writing guide is designed to help its reader to prepare effective documents in the field of social science. The revised fourth edition includes coverage of may important topics, including: efficiently using the Internet for research as well as traditional inform..
As a brief introduction, this book is more representative thancomprehensive. With greater coverage of women included, this book presents the major personalities, issues, events, and ideas of the age of Renaissance and Reformation. As a secondary book, it serves as a chronological history of the time..
This book is based on three central themes: 1) Sport is a social institution worthy of sociological examination like the more traditional institutions of marriage/family, politics, economy, religion, law, health/medicine, science, and education; 2) Sport is a microcosm of the larger society as it re..