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  • Meeting Families Where They Are

    Building Equity Through Advocacy with Diverse Schools and Communities

    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    “Harry and Ocasio-Stoutenburg combine academic expertise with personal experience as parents of children with disabilities in this informative and emotionally driven work.” —CHOICE“A remarkable account of the legacy of advocacy among parents of children with disabilities in the U.S.” —Teachers College RecordThis book presents an in-depth discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Case Studies of Minority Student Placement in Special Education

    This book features vivid case studies that bring to life real children, school personnel, and family members from the bestselling book Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education? Once again addressing the disproportionate placement of minority students in special education programs, this new book includes the voices and perspectives of all stakeholders to show the tremendous complexity ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean

    A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study

    by Beth Harry ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children’s Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980’s, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Why Are So Many Students of Color in Special Education?

    Understanding Race and Disability in Schools

    Bringing to life the voices of children, families, and school personnel, this bestseller describes in detail the school climates and social processes that place many children of color at risk of being assigned inappropriate disability labels. Now in its third edition, this powerful ethnographic study examines the placement of Black and Hispanic students in the subjectively determined, high ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • A Genealogy of the Gentleman

    Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman’s masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, ... Read more

    $36.69 USD

  • Taking Charge

    A School-Based Life Skills Program for Adolescent Mothers

    Taking Charge is the first empirically tested program of its kind, designed specifically to improve academic achievement and self-sufficiency for adolescent and teenage mothers, who face increased risk of dropping out and experiencing poverty. This eight-session, in-school group intervention uses cognitive-behavioral principles to bolster life skills such as focusing on action, setting goals, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing

    A Mother's Story

    Gripping, raw, and beautiful, this book reveals the struggles and rewards of caring for a child with severe disability and helps professionals work more sensitively and effectively with families of children with special needs. Written with grace and candor by special education professional Beth Harry, the book chronicles the life of her daughter, Melanie, who was born with a rare form of cerebral ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Famine and Fashion

    Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Beth Harris ...
    Like the figure of the governess, the seamstress occupied a unique place in the history of the nineteenth century, appearing frequently in debates about women's work and education, and the condition of the working classes generally in the rapidly changing capitalist marketplace. Like the governess, the figure of the needlewoman is ubiquitous in art, fiction and journalism in the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Little Green Frog

    Charming and pretty Biddy Forrester lives in China with her parents, medical missionaries who bring healing to the bodies and souls of the Chinese. Because of the poor climate condition, Biddy has to leave China and return to England with only one Friend, the Lord Jesus, and with a little green frog, her most valuable and cherished possession.Biddy knows the meaning of a surrendered life—and lives ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Case Studies in Building Equity Through Family Advocacy in Special Education

    A Companion Volume to Meeting Families Where They Are

    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    You’ve read the history and the background, now meet the families! This companion book to Meeting Families Where They Are traces the advocacy journeys of 12 caregivers across a range of racial, ethnic, social, disability, economic, and family identities. The stories reflect the unique lives, histories, and needs of each family, as well as the different approaches they employ to meet the needs of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Breeding a Litter

    The Complete Book of Prenatal and Postnatal Care

    Breeding a Litter: The Complete Book of Prenatal and Postnatal Care is the most up-to-date and inclusive guide to breeding, whelping and placing puppies. There is a focus on making the most of the "breeding experience" in order to produce puppies who are physically and emotionally sound and go on to enjoy life and enrich the lives of the humans around them. This book contains the all-important ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The School Services Sourcebook

    A Guide for School-Based Professionals

    This comprehensive sourcebook covers every aspect of school service delivery, arming practitioners with the nuts and bolts of evidence-based practice. Each of the 114 chapters serves as a detailed intervention map, beginning with a summary of the problem area and moving directly into step-by-step instructions on how to implement an evidence-based program with distinct goals in mind and methods to ... Read more

    $48.59 USD