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Explores how social theory relates to our everyday experiences Contemporary Social Theory helps students explore, describe, and discuss how social theory relates to their own experiences, popular culture, and the world in which they live. It advances the view that new theory can be effectively used to assess social and cultural phenomena. The text identifies the important intellectual movements, categories, and paradigms that have occurred in ...

Discover how today's macroeconomic policy issues, decisions, and applications impact you every day with the practical, accessible presentation in MACROECONOMICS. Written by acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman, this straightforward contemporary text offers a presentation as current as the latest headlines. Fresh new cutting-edge examples throughout this edition as well as updated mini-cases clearly illustrate core macroeconomic principles a...

One of the most significant tasks facing mathematics educators is to understand the role of mathematical reasoning and proving in mathematics teaching, so that its presence in instruction can be enhanced. This challenge has been given even greater importance by the assignment to proof of a more prominent place in the mathematics curriculum at all levels.Along with this renewed emphasis, there has been an upsurge in research on the teaching and...

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The home and the classroom have been traditionally key in the identity development and academic progress of African-American youth. Despite this history, the dropout rates of African-African males in secondary grades are increasing, while academic achievement scores of African-American males in the primary grades are not. The racial and gender composition of elementary school teachers does not mirror that of the students. This may contribute t...

BLAME RANE was a quiet college student until a tragic fire shattered her world. To escape poverty, Blame exposes herself to drugs, domestic violence, prostitution, and incarceration. She moves from welfare role to employment role as a single parent, from the grimy streets of D.C. to plush condos in VA, to rural NC, where she discovers the meaning of self-empowerment and unconditional love. Three birds tail her every move. This crow, cardinal a...

The Church - and the Christian faith - have become steadily more marginalised. What should Christians do about it?

While many Indian joke books are jokes themselves, this book avoids the pitfalls by its professional approach towards compilation, rewriting and editing. The book comprises the world's best adult medical jokes, quips, quotes and humour. Bold and bawdy lines that don't make it between the covers of joke books in India make an appearance here. Unlike many joke books that are a start-to-finish affair without categorisation, this book is divided i...

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Sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in meaning-making experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch uses a critical teacher-researcher lens to propose new directions for youth literacies and achievements. The text features examples of classroom engagements, student writings and presentations, discussions of texts and current events, and conversations...

Based on the author's own journey as an English teacher, this is a practical guide that shows teachers how they can encourage and support students' creativity in the English/language arts classroom. The book offers both the inspiration and practical steps teachers need to engage their students through a variety of hands-on projects that can be used immediately to insert creativity into any standards-based curriculum.

We live in a culture obsessed with the idea of 'tolerance'. However, when tolerance, poorly defined, is made an absolute good, it drifts towards intolerance. It must then, argues D. A. Carson, be thoughtfully challenged, both for the good of the church and for the good of the broader culture. Carson examines how the definition of tolerance has changed. It now has less to do with putting up with a person or stance while still seeking to disagre...

Theories and Praxis. Groundbreaking in the ways it makes new connections among emotion, critical theory, and pedagogy, this book explores the role of students and teachers emotions in college ESL instruction.

This reader presents students, faculty and practicing architects with an expanded view of technology in architecture that transcends naive determinisms and technocratic applications, forming a more pithy intellectual context for the complex and contingent roles of technology in twenty-first century architecture.

This reader presents students, faculty and practicing architects with an expanded view of technology in architecture that transcends naïve determinisms and technocratic applications, forming a more pithy intellectual context for the complex and contingent roles of technology in twenty-first century architecture.

The effects of bullying on organisations and individuals can be devastating: Workplace Bullying offers organisations a chance to create environments which will offer solutions in order to build a more resilient workforce. This title provides appropriate and effective interventions which can lead to individual and organisational growth and development.