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Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children

Their Words, Their Worlds, Second Edition

by Ellen Riojas Clark, Belinda Bustos Flores, Daniel Alejandro González, Alma Flor Ada, Contributor Genevie C. Rodríquez-Quiñones, Contributor Howard L. Smith, Contributor Diana Estrada, Jamie Campbell Naidoo, Ruth Quiroa, Contributor Gilberto P. Lara, Patricia Sánchez, Contributor Janeth Martínez-Cortes, Contributor Maité Landa, Mari Riojas-Cortez, Contributor Raquel Cataldo, Contributor Ysaaca Axelrod, Contributor Cristina Gillanders, Contributor Christina Passos DeNicolo, Contributor Cecilia Perfecto, Contributor María Guadalupe Arreguín, Contributor José Agustín Ruiz-Escalante, Carlos A. LópezLeiva, Contributor Yoo Kyung Sung, Contributor Sonia N. Sánchez, Lucila D. Ek, Myriam Jimena Guerra, Lettycia Terrones, Kenya Vargas, Christian Valdez, Cori Salamerón, Claudia Treviño García, Amanda A. Hernández ...

Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds 2nd Edition makes a needed contribution to the field of children's literature by addressing the social, cultural, academic, and linguistic needs of bilingual learners who continue to be underserved through current school practices. This 2nd edition presents a balance of theory, research, and practice. The authors ... Read more

$28.39 USD

Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds 2nd Edition makes a needed contribution to the field of children's literature by addressing the social, cultural, academic, and linguistic needs of bilingual learners who continue to be underserved through current school practices. This 2nd edition presents a balance of theory, research, and practice. The authors
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Neural Networks for Robotics

An Engineering Perspective

by Nancy Arana-Daniel, Alma Y. Alanis, Carlos Lopez-Franco ...

The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, from object ... Read more

$89.99 USD

The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, from object
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Ask Your Angels

A Practical Guide to Working with the Messengers of Heaven to Empower and EnrichYour Life

by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, Andrew Ramer ...

Angels have been with us in every time and culture, and in many religious traditions. Ask Your Angels vividly chronicles how they are currently reaching out to every one of us in a totally new way, bridging our physical reality with their pure spiritual energy. From historical writings and widespread contemporary experience that includes their own workshops, the authors show us how we can draw on ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Angels have been with us in every time and culture, and in many religious traditions. Ask Your Angels vividly chronicles how they are currently reaching out to every one of us in a totally new way, bridging our physical reality with their pure spiritual energy. From historical writings and widespread contemporary experience that includes their own workshops, the authors show us how we can draw on
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Dizziness When Lying Down

What It Means and What You Should Do

by Dr. Benny Danglad ...

Narrated by Daniel Alma ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Overcoming Dizziness Series
Unabridged

12 min

Dizziness When Lying Down — What It Means and What You Should Do is your essential guide to understanding and overcoming one of the most unsettling health challenges: dizziness and vertigo triggered when you lie down.Have you ever rested your head on the pillow, only to feel the room spin? Or rolled over in bed and been hit with a wave of nausea and disorientation? You’re not alone — and you don’t ... Read more

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Dizziness When Lying Down — What It Means and What You Should Do is your essential guide to understanding and overcoming one of the most unsettling health challenges: dizziness and vertigo triggered when you lie down.Have you ever rested your head on the pillow, only to feel the room spin? Or rolled over in bed and been hit with a wave of nausea and disorientation? You’re not alone — and you don’t
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Uplifting Leadership

How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance

by Alan Boyle, Andy Hargreaves, Alma Harris ...

Narrated by Joanna Daniel ...

Unabridged

33 min

What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees passions, intellects, and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees passions, intellects, and
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School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice

Challenging the Orthodoxy?

Edited by Christopher Chapman, Paul Armstrong, Alma Harris, Daniel Muijs, David Reynolds, Pam Sammons ...

This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological traditions of the field. By challenging these orthodoxies, it provides a framework that sets a ... Read more

$68.99 USD

This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological traditions of the field. By challenging these orthodoxies, it provides a framework that sets a
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Lead with Humility

12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis

by Jeffrey Krames ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

2 hours 57 min

When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded—not to a captain of industry—but to the new pontiff.In the year since his election, Pope Francis earned that accolade…and more. He has achieved the remarkable: breathed life into an aging institution, reinvigorated a global base, and created real hope for the future.How did a man who spent his life laboring ... Read more

$17.98 USD

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When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded—not to a captain of industry—but to the new pontiff.In the year since his election, Pope Francis earned that accolade…and more. He has achieved the remarkable: breathed life into an aging institution, reinvigorated a global base, and created real hope for the future.How did a man who spent his life laboring
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When the Moon Is Low

A Novel

by Nadia Hashimi ...

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, ... Read more

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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children,
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All the Light We Cannot See

A Novel

by Anthony Doerr ...

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to
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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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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.
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Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society

by Gilbert R. Cadena, Janie Filoteo, Elizabeth Flores, Lara Medina, Robert P. Moreno, Maria C. Morales, Gilda L. Ochoa, Eric Romero, Rogelio Saenz, Armando Trujillo, Elsa O. Valdez, Raul H. Villa ...

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition ... Read more

$33.19 USD

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition
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English Language Teaching in South America

Policy, Preparation and Practices

Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...

Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

$1.00 USD

This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of
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