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  • Academic Overtures

    de Sharon Murphy ...
    For twenty-five years, Lola has endured a tumultuous marriage marred by her husband Jack's infidelities and abuse. Despite his betrayals, she clung to the hope that things would change when Jack landed his dream job as university president.However, Jack's new position thrusts them into a sordid scandal involving the sexual exploitation of student athletes by the athletic director. Haunted by his ... Leer más

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  • Sense-Making and Shared Meaning in Language and Literacy Education

    Designing Research-Based Literacy Programs for Children

    de Sharon Murphy ...
    This textbook provides a framework for teaching children’s language and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy comprehensively covers major topics in literacy, including contemporary multimodal literacy practices, classroom discourse, literacy ... Leer más

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  • The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901

    de Sharon Murphy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the ... Leer más

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  • Queering Elementary Education

    Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling

    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
    Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the “gay agenda.” Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.Queer elementary classrooms are those where ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Telling Pieces

    Art As Literacy in Middle School Classes

    Telling Pieces is an exploration of how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge and understanding of the conventions of art (art as literacy) and how they use this knowledge to create representations of their lives in a small midwestern U.S. town.Beginning with an overview of social semiotics and emergent literacy theorizing, the authors set the stage for their study of sixth ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Banking on Slavery

    Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

    Narrado por Auto-narrated ...

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    15 hora 56 minutos

    A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from ... Leer más

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  • Other People's Money

    How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic

    Series series How Things Worked
    How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States.Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not ... Leer más

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  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 Volume 2

    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries. ... Leer más

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  • Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

    The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II

    Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds ... Leer más

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  • Investing in Life

    Insurance in Antebellum America

    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America.Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy ... Leer más

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  • The Flesh of the Matter

    A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

    PROSE Awards Category Winner—Media and Cultural Studies, 2025Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies.Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the ... Leer más

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  • Teaching with Joy

    Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century

    This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working teachers and professors who have integrated a degree of spirituality into a wide range of ... Leer más

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