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  • Beyond Testing

    Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests

    by Deborah Meier, Matthew Knoester ...
    The authors of this timely book argue that a fundamentally complex problem—how to assess the knowledge of a child—cannot be reduced to a simple test score. Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results: (1) student self-assessments, (2) direct teacher observations of students and their work, (3) descriptive reviews of the child, (4) ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Superheroes, Communication, and Culture

    Popular Culture Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Edited by Adam W. Tyma, Matthew R. Meier, Dana Schowalter ...
    Series series Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
    Contributors explore the intertextuality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, illuminating its ability to both interpret and influence audiences and culture.The sustained popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and its continued ability to spark fan and cultural responses with each phase of the franchise – achieving both commercial and critical acclaim in its quest to transform a once-niche ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...
    Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Standing Up, Speaking Out

    Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change

    Edited by Matthew R. Meier, Casey R. Schmitt ...
    In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Teaching in Themes

    An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction

    Edited by Deborah Meier, Matthew Knoester, Katherine Clunis D'Andrea ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry Series
    How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be turned into places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the big questions that guide ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Visiting Elisheva

    A story based upon the Gospels of Matthew and Luke

    by Stephanie Meier ...
    Two women, Mariam and Elisheva, spend time together at Elisheva's home near Jerusalem. Each is expecting a child, one of whom will prove to influence world history. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Mel Brooks

    by Melissa Boehm, Samuel Boerboom, Beth E. Bonnstetter, Garret L. Castleberry, Lisa Marie Ellert, Kimberley Hannah-Prater, Micayla Joy Lander, Richard Loosbrock, James B. McCauley0, William S. McMurry1, Matthew R. Meier2, Leanne Stuart Pupchek3 ...
    The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks’s more popular films and his lesser known work to explore how his use of parody and satire, his keen sense of the history of Jewish comedic conventions, and his deep awareness of social issues encompasses a political project that, while often implicit, nonetheless speaks to the enduring political and social impact of his films. Brooks’s work often ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Hairspray

    by Dana Heller ...
    By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie.Represents the first scholarly work on any of film director John Waters' filmsIncorporates original interview material with the directorReveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Nuthin' but a "G" Thang

    The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

    by Eithne Quinn ...
    Series series Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
    In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the highly charged lyrics, public battles, and hard, fast lifestyles that characterize the genre have incited ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $58.99 USD