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Homeward Bound

Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

by Amy Ziettlow, Naomi Cahn ...

Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities. As 79 million American Baby Boomers approach old age, their diverse family structures mean the burden of care will fall on a different cast of family members than in the past. Our current approaches are based on an ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities. As 79 million American Baby Boomers approach old age, their diverse family structures mean the burden of care will fall on a different cast of family members than in the past. Our current approaches are based on an
... Read more
The Triumph of an Idea. The Story of Henry Ford

by Ralph Henry Graves ...

Series Book 4 - History of the Automobile
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1934): The advent of the automobile brought a clash of industrial ideas. Should the new vehicle be high priced, obtainable only by the wealthy? Or should it be a vehicle of service to all humanity-within reach of the pocketbook of every family? Henry Ford's answer was the Model T, which became known as the "Universal Car" and of which he manufactured more than 15,000,000. ... Read more

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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1934): The advent of the automobile brought a clash of industrial ideas. Should the new vehicle be high priced, obtainable only by the wealthy? Or should it be a vehicle of service to all humanity-within reach of the pocketbook of every family? Henry Ford's answer was the Model T, which became known as the "Universal Car" and of which he manufactured more than 15,000,000.
... Read more
A Teaching Subject

Composition Since 1966, New Edition

by Joseph Harris ...

In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition ... Read more

$20.99 USD

In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition
... Read more
The Idea of the University

A Reader, Volume 1

Edited by Michael Adrian Peters, Ronald Barnett ...

Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

$83.99 USD

The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to
... Read more
Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision

Navigating Critical Praxis

Edited by Harvey Charles Peters, Melissa Luke ...

Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision reimagines the current landscape of clinical supervision training and praxis by offering 50 transformative interventions grounded in the principles of anti-oppression.Designed for interdisciplinary mental health professionals across roles and contexts, it provides dynamic tools to dismantle systems of oppression and embrace liberatory, ... Read more

$52.99 USD

Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision reimagines the current landscape of clinical supervision training and praxis by offering 50 transformative interventions grounded in the principles of anti-oppression.Designed for interdisciplinary mental health professionals across roles and contexts, it provides dynamic tools to dismantle systems of oppression and embrace liberatory,
... Read more
The Intellectual Devotional

Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Culture

by David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim ...

Series series The Intellectual Devotional Series
This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharpMillions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will ... Read more

$7.99 USD

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharpMillions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will
... Read more
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

Prompts and Activities to Create Compelling Characters for Horror, Sci-Fi, X-Punk, and More

by James D’Amato ...

Series series Ultimate Role Playing Game Series
Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play.You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play.You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western
... Read more
Learn German with the Augsburg Saga –A1 German Reader

The Augsburg Saga – German Reader Series, #1

by Brian Smith ...

Series Book 1 - The Augsburg Saga – German Reader Series
Learn German through story, history, and clear A1-level language — all in one complete beginner's edition.Learn German with the Augsburg Saga – A1 German Reader (A1 Omnibus) brings together the full A1.1–A1.5 sequence into one immersive volume of over 107,000 words (more than 500 pages in paperback). Written for adult learners and returning students, this edition combines simple German text with a ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn German through story, history, and clear A1-level language — all in one complete beginner's edition.Learn German with the Augsburg Saga – A1 German Reader (A1 Omnibus) brings together the full A1.1–A1.5 sequence into one immersive volume of over 107,000 words (more than 500 pages in paperback). Written for adult learners and returning students, this edition combines simple German text with a
... Read more
As They Say In Zanzibar

by David Crystal ...

David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic.Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather, ... Read more

$6.49 USD

David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic.Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture's view of everyday life: whether it be the importance of animals or the significance of the weather,
... Read more
French Creoles

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar

by Anand Syea ...

Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar is the first complete reference to present the morphology, grammar and syntax of a representative selection of French Creoles in one volume.The book is organised to promote a thorough understanding of the grammar of French Creoles and presents its complexities in a concise and readable form. An extensive index, cross-referencing and a ... Read more

$72.99 USD

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar is the first complete reference to present the morphology, grammar and syntax of a representative selection of French Creoles in one volume.The book is organised to promote a thorough understanding of the grammar of French Creoles and presents its complexities in a concise and readable form. An extensive index, cross-referencing and a
... Read more
Multicultural Literature in the Content Areas

Transforming K–12 Classrooms Into Engaging, Inviting, and Socially Conscious Spaces

by Barbara Purdum-Cassidy, Lakia M. Scott ...

Today’s public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before. In turn, culturally responsive and affirming teaching practices should mirror the academic, social, and cultural needs of an ever-increasing population of diverse students. Through multicultural education students can discover the ways they are shaped by their own culture, as well as learn more about ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Today’s public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before. In turn, culturally responsive and affirming teaching practices should mirror the academic, social, and cultural needs of an ever-increasing population of diverse students. Through multicultural education students can discover the ways they are shaped by their own culture, as well as learn more about
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Using Foucault′s Methods

by Gavin Kendall, Gary M Wickham ...

Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
`As a companion to Foucault′s original texts, carefully showing what he′s done and why - and how that could be applied elsewhere - it′s outstanding′ - www.theory.org.uk`Very much a `hands-on′ tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook which approaches its subject in an original way′ - Sociological Research Online`At last, a student-friendly guide that answers the ... Read more

$107.09 USD

`As a companion to Foucault′s original texts, carefully showing what he′s done and why - and how that could be applied elsewhere - it′s outstanding′ - www.theory.org.uk`Very much a `hands-on′ tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook which approaches its subject in an original way′ - Sociological Research Online`At last, a student-friendly guide that answers the
... Read more
The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook

by Andres Wirkmaa ...

With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book serves as a comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard and analyzes each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of the official rulebook ... Read more

$15.99 USD

With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book serves as a comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard and analyzes each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of the official rulebook
... Read more
New York Times v. Sullivan

Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press

by Kermit L. Hall, Melvin I. Urofsky ...

Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America’s foremost legal historians—Kermit Hall and Melvin Urofsky—provide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Court’s canon.When the New York Times published an advertisement that accused Alabama officials of willfully abusing civil rights activists, ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America’s foremost legal historians—Kermit Hall and Melvin Urofsky—provide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Court’s canon.When the New York Times published an advertisement that accused Alabama officials of willfully abusing civil rights activists,
... Read more
The Well-Trained Mind

A Guide to Classical Education at Home

by Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise ...

Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself.The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself.The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to
... Read more
Beyond Mobility

Planning Cities for People and Places

by Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al ...

Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly—and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly—and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, sprawling suburbs, unsafe pedestrian environments, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, a failure to stem traffic congestion. Every year our current transportation paradigm generates
... Read more
The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...

The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights ... Read more

$12.99 USD

The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights
... Read more
Deviant Hollers

Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future

Edited by Zane McNeill, Rebecca Scott ...

Series series Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential ... Read more

$24.59 USD

Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential
... Read more
Death by Technology

The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions

by John R. Cook ...

This book refutes the 21st-century notion that advancing technology is an unambiguous social good, and examines the effects of this uncritical acceptance and dependence. The author argues that technology has become the new religion for the digital age, and that elevating technology to nearly the status of a deity allows for the denial of problems created by reliance upon machines.From the release ... Read more

$24.99 USD

This book refutes the 21st-century notion that advancing technology is an unambiguous social good, and examines the effects of this uncritical acceptance and dependence. The author argues that technology has become the new religion for the digital age, and that elevating technology to nearly the status of a deity allows for the denial of problems created by reliance upon machines.From the release
... Read more
Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S.

by Kitty Calavita ...

The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with her new Foreword, to update the reader.Professor Calavita unearthed INS and Congressional records, and ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with her new Foreword, to update the reader.Professor Calavita unearthed INS and Congressional records, and
... Read more
What to Expect When You're Expected

A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters

by David Javerbaum ...

This new second edition is filled with the latest, most accurate wombhood information, including comforting answers to hundreds of questions, such as• “My mother just took a sip of white wine. Am I going to end up looking like some Chernobyl baby now?”• “So far Mommy is spending most of her pregnancy in a state of stress, anxiety, and depression. Which one should she focus on?”• “I’m kicking as ... Read more

$5.99 USD

This new second edition is filled with the latest, most accurate wombhood information, including comforting answers to hundreds of questions, such as• “My mother just took a sip of white wine. Am I going to end up looking like some Chernobyl baby now?”• “So far Mommy is spending most of her pregnancy in a state of stress, anxiety, and depression. Which one should she focus on?”• “I’m kicking as
... Read more
The Conqueror's Code - An Action-Adventure Spanish Graded Reader for Intermediate Learners (B1-B2)

by Victor Ironcrusher ...

Tired of Boring Textbooks? Learn Spanish Through a Thrilling Adventure!Stop memorizing endless vocabulary lists and start living the language. The Conqueror's Code is a gripping action-adventure novel written specifically for intermediate (B1-B2) Spanish learners. This is not just a story; it's your passport to fluency, taking you on a heart-pounding journey through the historic, sun-drenched ... Read more

$3.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Tired of Boring Textbooks? Learn Spanish Through a Thrilling Adventure!Stop memorizing endless vocabulary lists and start living the language. The Conqueror's Code is a gripping action-adventure novel written specifically for intermediate (B1-B2) Spanish learners. This is not just a story; it's your passport to fluency, taking you on a heart-pounding journey through the historic, sun-drenched
... Read more
Japan Emerging

Premodern History to 1850

by Karl Friday ...

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical, medieval, and early modern periods. Instead of relying solely on lists of dates and prominent names, ... Read more

$79.99 USD

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical, medieval, and early modern periods. Instead of relying solely on lists of dates and prominent names,
... Read more
Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians

How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception Through Birth

by Rachel Pepper ...

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines. Rachel Pepper's lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines. Rachel Pepper's lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family
... Read more

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