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EXPANDED SECOND EDITION ~ New Interventions ~ More Examples ~ Expanded Descriptions ~If you work with children and families, this may be the book you have been waiting for!This book provides a new, easy-to-follow roadmap for understanding and working...

WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN FIRST NONFICTION BOOK • FINALIST FOR THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION • IPPY SILVER AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR • NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR (OVERCOMING ADVERSITY)A violent...

What happens when you mix Britain's new prime minister and her secret past; a writer whose new book seems all too real; his former roommate, now a French cultural attaché; and a young homeless man who needs to escape from his mother and her abusive...

Discover how the secret societies, Benjamin Franklin and the financial institutions all played their part in weaving the fabric of global corruption. How does the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln allow for corruption to continue. Learn what...

Was it vengeance or a good deed?Evelyn Snow didn’t plan on becoming a dual-agent for hire. She didn’t expect to be dating after forty, and she definitely didn’t anticipate juggling multiple men, but when her former life vanished, she...

Forced to stay home during the world pandemic in 2020, Delores Wardell turned from writing novels to using the time to reflect on the people she'd met and incidents stemming from her work as a clinical psychologist as well as her world travels. She...

Can There Be Freedom After Trauma?In Finding Feminism, Rachel Overvoll tells a story about what it’s like growing up in fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity. She shows how her well-meaning parents and her indoctrination within a rigidly...

On Rockingham Street explores, in memoir form, how assimilation of Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe was shaped and affected by the culture of Southern suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s. It probes the key questions of Jewish survival,...

Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul's original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul's...

This book honors the courageous sex victims who exposed their abusers. The spotlight, and rightly so, has been on them and their predators. William Kraft contends, however, that little attention and help has been given to those who unknowingly knew a sex...

As of 2018 the United States federal authorities have a special government to government relationship with the 567 federally acknowledged Indian tribes. These tribal governments and that relationship have long been fundamental to the American Indian...

A major premise of the book is that teachers, school leaders, and school support staff are not taught how to create school and classroom environments to support the academic and social success of Black male students. The purpose of this book is to help...

As the general population of Latinxs in the United States burgeons, so does the population of college-going Latinx students. With more Latinxs entering college, the number of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), which are not-for-profit, degree granting...

The 11 chapters in this book provide a glimpse into the journeys that women from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian,...

Despite being abused, Angelique kept going back because she mistook abuse for love. Sound familiar?Abusive relationships have not been relegated to the past. They are still prevalent today among the rich and poor, male and female, old and young, black...

Golden-haired Irma grew up in Imperial Austria believing that wars and prejudice were fading-only to have her life upended and her identity challenged to the core by two world wars.History confronts Irma time and again. Arch-Nazi Adolf Eichmann plays a...

Winner, Best Autobiography, International Latino Book Awards"... a gut-wrenching memoir that captures the rollercoaster of horror and hope."-Shelley Ross, former executive producer of Good Morning America As a journalist he dug up the truth. But...

ଜାତୀୟତାବାଦ ଏକ ସର୍ବକାଳୀନ ସର୍ବାଧୁନିକ ଚେତନା । ଏହ ଏକ ସମ୍ମିଳିତ ଶକ୍ତିର ଅଭିବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ମଧ୍ୟ । ଭାରତବର୍ଷ ଗୋଟିଏ ଦେଶ ନୁହେଁ, ଏକ ଉପମହାଦେଶ । ବିବିଧ ପ୍ରକାର ଜନଗୋଷ୍ଠୀ, ଚଳଣି, ନୃତ୍ୟ ସଂଗୀତ, ବେଶପୋଷାକ, କୃଷି ଓ ଭାଷା ଆମ ଦେଶକୁ ଆବାହମାନ କାଳରୁ ବୈଚିତ୍ର‌୍ୟମୟ କରି ରଖିଛି । ଏ ଦେଶର ଭୂମିରେ ସୁନା...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the poetic drama that establishes Goethe as a renowned Romantic author. As a play written in poetic verse of the Romantic era, Faust...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the book that arguably stands as the stepping stone for allother feminists' work. As a work of post-WWII, The Second Sex stirred up...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, a story of a young woman who challenged social norms. As a classic novel written in the Victorian era, Jane Eyre is thought to be one of the...

From Cognitive Teaching to Connected Learning  Given the landscape of global Christianity and the variety of approaches to theological and missiological training today, how do we equip the global church for the mission of God? Should mission...

Moving to the Margins with Amy Carmichael Follow in the footsteps of Amy Carmichael, whose defiance against injustice shined a light in India’s darkest corners. Her extraordinary journey reveals the profound impact of unwavering faith when...

The death of a loved one alters our lives and our core selves. We also experience secondary losses that pierce us-a surprising element of this can be a drastic decline in our long-term social support system. Our lack of education on death and grief...

Join Dani Taylor and Detective Jack Bondar battling the clock together to overcome barriers and conflict as they become immersed together in the dark underworld of sex trafficking in Canada. You will gain deep insights into police challenges and psyche,...

How many times have you heard the advice, "Don't cry. You don't want to seem weak."? Have you ever considered that rather than being a sign of weakness, crying may actually be considered a sign of strength? This is one of the key messages that Heidi...

What is happening to modern societies? Everywhere one looks one finds signs of moral and social decay. In the US today, a reincarnation of the 1930s Nazi "Brownshirts"-aided and abetted by demented billionaires and euphemistically calling...

S. T. Theophanie, by way of the scriptures quoted in The One-Flesh Covenant, brings to light, through the power of the Holy Spirit, truths that have been rejected by the body of Christ for generations, truths that are foundational and crucial to every...

The doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a fitting analogy and guide for dating and sex and the types of bonds that we form from these interpersonal relationships. Why some couples stay together (or why some bonds last) and why others...

True love tested by racial, cultural, and systemic attack. A story that makes you fall in love with love. Save your tears-It's a better world since Candy and Gabe. This is a true story of a 17-year-old, tough-minded, female sprinter and her 27-year-old,...

In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women,...

Sticks and bones, and dislocated homes.And parasites, and insights,And just let me make it to the mic.And you will see,There is a real mystery,To life, to love, to longevity.The poem above was written during recess, at a chartered school where I was...

“100 Questions and Answers About Gen X and 100 Questions and Answers About Millennials” is a double guide in the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence. This guide has sections on demographics,...

How can we build an organization or institution that treats people equitably? How do we develop conscientious communities where people’s voices are heard and not silenced? How can we go from half-truths and alternative facts to real truths? How can...

An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescentstudents’ development of higher‐order thinking, which includes, among otherthings, that these students become competent and independent learners andproblem solvers. This...

Follow the journey of a Khmer woman who, as a young girl, faced unending obstacles in order to survive. She saved her family from almost certain death as they escaped the Khmer Rouge regime and traveled to the Thailand border. She managed to keep her...

NÃO AO BULLYING é uma obra realizada com o único propósito de sensibilizar e consciencializar todos os estratos da sociedade de quão perigoso o Bullying escolar se tornou. Para que todos unidos, unidas, partilhemos um...

¿Siempre ha sentido curiosidad por los misterios que rodean a las runas nórdicas futhark?¿Considera que aprender a leer las runas le ayudará a tomar mejores decisiones?¿Desea un entrenamiento sobre cómo lanzar y leer las runas? Si ha respondido sí a...

In this complex world of today, with so many "at risk" tweens and teens grappling with issues, problems and crises, can a fresh perspective on their trials and tribulations help to turn them around?Shelves and shelves of books have been written about...

Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known Yiddish theater ensemble, the Vilna Company. They were part of an important movement in the...

A comprehensive analysis of the Japanese occupation of Java. The book explores the human drama that cannot be simply explained in terms of nationalism and fascism. The totality of Indonesian society is addressed, including the politics and daily lives of...

Here in one volume is a compilation of cutting-edge research in the field of drug abuse research with specific ethnic-minority groups. This book suggests effective ways to conduct research and enhance research opportunities with such groups. Ethnic and...

The peoples of Africa are neither ethnically, culturally, nor religiously homogeneous. European colonial powers took little note of this reality in carving up the continent, a fact reflected in the periodic outbreak of civil war since decolonialization...