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  • Toolkit for history classes

    Debunking fake news and fostering critical thinking

    by María Sabiote González, Marcos Rebollo Fidalgo, Alfonso Cebrián Rey, Félix González Chicote, Cosme J. Gómez Carrasco, Juan Ramón Moreno Vera, Jairo Rodríguez Medina, Pedro Miralles Martínez ...
    In a saturated and complex workd of information, how can students be helped to seek, evaluate and verify information?Over the past two decades, the use of the internet and social media has enabled wider and faster access to information around the world. In doing so, however, it has also opened the door to misinformation, manipulation, fake news and political propaganda. Every industry, institution ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Fortified Sea

    The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

    by Pedro Cruz Freire, María Mercedes Fernández Martín, Manuel Gámez Casado, Aaron Graham, Francisco Javier Herrera García, Nuria Hinarejos Martín, Ignacio J. López-Hernández, Pedro Luengo, Alfredo J. Morales, José Miguel Morales Folguera, Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán0, Gene Allen Smith Jr.2, Jesús María Ruiz Carrasco Jr.4, Germán Segura García Jr.5, Mónica Cejudo Collera Jr.6, Christopher K. Waters Jr.7 ...
    Series series Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
    WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S 2025 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDA multinational, interdisciplinary study illuminating how fortifications reshaped the Caribbean as a contested imperial borderland in the eighteenth century.A Fortified Sea illuminates the key role of military forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. The historical Caribbean, with its multiple ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in History and Geography

    Edited by Cosme J. Gómez Carrasco, Pedro Miralles Martínez, Ramón López Facal ...
    It is necessary to know the opinions, practices and expectations of teachers in training and in practicing, to improve teacher education programs. This Handbook addresses the challenges for the profession of teaching of history and geography, who, in several European countries such as Spain and France, share initial training and teaching in both disciplines. Researchers’ contributions have been ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    A Life

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    The "impeccably researched, uncommonly honest, and . . . very well written" biography of the nineteenth century Venezuelan military and political leader (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, New Republic).Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six South American countries from Spanish Imperial rule, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a statesman who led the governments of ... Read more

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  • Skin Color and Identity Formation

    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Conquest

    Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Gift for History Buffs
    Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in World History
    A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • L.S. Vygotsky and Education

    by Luis C. Moll ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Vygotsky’s legacy in education is enduring and prolific, influencing educational research and scholarship in areas as far ranging child development, language and literacy development, bilingual education, and learning disabilities to name but a few. In this accessible, introductory volume, renowned Vygtosky authority Luis C. Moll presents a summary of Vygtoskian core concepts, constituting a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Conquistadors and Aztecs

    A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

    by Stefan Rinke ...
    A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

    Building on Experience

    Edited by Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Dr. Rubén Chacón-Beltrán ...
    Series Book 94 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD