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Teacher Self-evaluation Tool Kit. Learn How To Use Sound Self-evaluation Tools To Improve Your Teaching. Examine Areas You Identify, Using Methods You Select And Employing Standards You Define. Provides 20 Examples Of Easy-to-use Self-evaluation Techniques That Will Help You Find Abroad More About Your Teaching Beliefs, Knowledge, Practices, And Effectiveness. You'll Discover: * Which Areas Need To Be Evaluated * What Information Should Be Gathered * The Meaning Of The Information For Your Teaching * What Further Action, If Any, Is Needed Perfect For New Teachers And Veterans Similar. Meant To Be Adapted, Expanded, And Personalized As You Use It And Discover Your Acknowledge "tools. " This Resource Will Help You Improve Yoyr Practice And Make Your Teaching More Effective And Enjoyable SKU: 1439537

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Sartre (blackwell Great Minds). A Novel Introduction To Jean-paul Sartre’s Existentialist Phenomenology. draws Parallels Between Sartre’s Work And The Work Of Wittgenstein Stresses Continuities Rather Than Conflict Between Sartre And Merleau-ponty, And Between Sartre And Post-structuralist/post-modernist Thinkers, Thus Corroborating ‘new Sartre’ Readings Exhibits The Influence Of Gestalt Psychology In Sartre’s Descriptions Of The Life-world Forms Part Of The Blackwell Great Minds Series, Which Outlines The Views Of The Great Western Thinkers And Captures The Relevance Of These Figures To The Way We Think And Live Today SKU: 4250677

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Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle With Reading. Just In Time For The New Nclb Focus On Secondary Literacy! The Book Is Filled With Practocal Reading Strategies. Concentrates On Adolescents Who Struggle As Readers And Writers. Express1y Embeds Literacy Instruction In Regular Subject Matter Instructional Units. Presents Classroom Management As Essential For Effective Literacy Teaching. Describes Current Research And Intervenitons. SKU: 2974006

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The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion. The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion Is The Only Current One-volume Collection Of The Practical Information And Material Needed By Archaeologists Doing Fieldwork. * Designed As A Literal Companion To Fieldwork: A Concise Informaational Toolkit To Be Carried Into The Field * Provides Arena And Checklists, Planning Help, Recording An Measurement Charts And Tables, Analysis Anx Classification Guides, Information On Drafting And Artifact Drawing, Abbreviations, Sample Forms, And Legislation Concerning Archaeological Fieldwork * Offers Additionnal Information For Processing Research, Such As A Guide To Investigation Publication And An Extensive Bibliography For Further Resources * Each Inestimable Aid Not Only To Students Undertakng Fieldwork For The First Time, But Also To Seasoned Archaeologists SKU: 3230945

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San Antonio V. Rodriguez And The Pursuit Of Equal Education. When Arthur Gochman Filed A Class-action Suit In 1968 On Behalf Of San Antonio School Children, He And His Clients Were Directly Challenging The Inequality Of Educafion Funding In Texas. They Argued That Quality Education, Not Merely Basic Schpoling, Was A Constitutional Right, And A District Court Agreed. But The Supreme Court Overruled That Decision, Signaling A Halt To The Idea That The Constitution Contained A Right To An Ewual Education And Marking An Important Change From The Warren To The Burger Court. Paul Sracic Assesses The Impact Of This 5-4 Decision. His Is The Fist Book To Consider Rodriguez, Tracing Its Progress From Inception Through Appeal To Provide A Fascinating Account Of The Legal Maneuvering Of The Two Sides-and A Lesson In The Limits Of Judicial Solutions To Discrimination In Education. Sracic Brings Together The Varied Strands In This Complex Case, While Clarifying The Posotions On Both Sidse Of The Conflift. Equity Lewis Powell Argued That Education Was Not A Constitutionally Protected Up~ And That The Equal Protection Clause Does Not Reequire Absolute Equality Or Precisely Equal Advantages, While Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall Called The Decision A Retreat From America's Commitment To Equal Opportunity That Denigrated Brown V. Board Of Education. Sracic Interviewed Demetrio Rodriguez, The Parent Wyose Name Headlined The Original Retinue, Along With Several Students Involved In The Case. He Likewise Delved Into Justice Powell's Papers To Show The Influence Of His Prior Experience Championing Local Rather Than Stat3 Control Over Education And His Frar Of Centralization's Potential Constraint On States' Rights. In The Wake Of Rodriguez, The Egress Of School Funding Acquired A Much Highwr Nationa lProfile, Smooth As Efforts To Reform It Struggled Ready Varied Degrees Of Success. Sracic's Very Legible Account Unravels The Complex Legal Doctrine That Link This Vitally Important Case To The Fourteenth Amendment's Guarantee Of Equal Protection--and Argues That One Cannot Fully Grasp The Scope Of That Amendment Without Fully Understanding Rodriguez. This Book Is Part Of The Landmark Law Cases And American The community Series. SKU: 3354378

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Blind Landings. When Darkness Falls, Storms Rage, Haze Settles, Or Lights Fail, Pilots Are Forced To Make "instrument Landings," Relying On Technology And Training To Guide Them Through Typically The Most Dangerous Part Of Any Flight. I nThis Original Study, Erik M. Conway Recounts One Of The Most Important Stories In Aviation Histkry: The Evolytion Of Aircraft Coming to land Aids That Mame Landing Safe And Routine In Almost lAl Weather Conditions. Discussing Technologies Such As The Lotj Leader-cable System, The American National Bureau Of Standrds System, And, Its Descendants, The Instrument Landing System, The Mit-army-sperry Gyroscope Microwave Blind Landing System, And The Mit Radiation Lab's Radar-based Ground Controlled Approach System, Conway Interweaves Technological Change, Training Innovation, And Pilots' Experiences To Examine The Evolutioh Of Blind Landing Technologies. He Shows How Systems Originally Intended To Produce Routine, All-weather Blind Landings Gradually Developed Into Routine Instrument-buided Approaches. Even So, After Two Decades Of Development And Experience, Pilotx Motionless Did Not Want To Place The Most Critjcal Phase Of Flight, The Landing, Entirely In Technology's Invisible Agency. By The End Of World War Ii, The Very Concept Of Landing Blind Therefore Had Disappeared From The Tade Literature, A Victim Of Human Limitations. SKU: 3306656

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Columbia Journals. David Thompson (1770-1857) Is Considered By Many To Have Been The Most Important Surveyor Of North America. His Achievmeents - Mapping The Saskatchewan River, The Chief Bend Of The Missouri River, The Great Lakes And The Headwaters Of The Mississippi As Well As The Columbia Watershed - Are The Stuff Of Legend. Late In Life Thom0son Wrote A Retrospective Memoir Of His Explrations, But The Best Way To Understand His Years In The Fur Trade Is By Reading His Journals. In Her New Preface To The Bicentennial Edition Of Columbia Journals, Barbara Belyea Considers The Fur-trade Context Of Journals, Reports, And Memoirs That Shaped Both Thompson's Perception Of Contemporary People, Placees, And Events And Our Own Perception Of Thompson's Historical Importance. In Columbia Journals, The Fur Trader, Explorer, And Cartographer Records His Examination Of The Columia River Basin And His Efforts Steady Behalf Of The North West Company To Establish Goos Trade Routes Across The Rocky Mountains. The Journals Provide A Detailed Picture Of The Fur Business During Its Period Of Greatest Expansion, Exhibit A Glimpse Of Native Culture At The Moment Of Contact With Europeans, And Describe Landscapes That Have Since Been Transformed By Settlement And Industry. Thompson's Hand-drawn Maps Preserve A Contemporary Image Of The Country Hr Exp1ored. SKU: 4156468

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Charles S. Peirce, Selected Writings. Science, Material, Idealism, Pragmaticism, History Of Sxientific Thought. With Buchler's Book, Best Way To Approach Notoriously Cryptic Theorist . Features 24 Selectiosn Including "the Place Of Our Age In The History Of Civilization," "questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed For Man," "some Consequences Of Four Incapacities," And "the Fixation Of Belief. " SKU: 25459

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The Female Offender. Scholarship In Criminology Over The Last Few Decades Has Often Left Little Room For Research And Theory On How Female Offenders Are Perceived And Handled In The Criminal Justice System. In Truth, One Out Of Every Four Juveniles Adrested Is Female And Thw Inhabitants Of Women In Prison Has Tripled In The Past Decade. Co-authored By Meda Chesney-lind, One Of The Pioneers In The Development Of The Feminist Theoretical Perspective In Criminology, The Subject Matter Of The Female Transgressor: Girls, Women And Crime, Second Impression Redresses The Be in equipoise By Providing Crirical Insight Into These Issues. In An Engaging Style, Authors Meda Chesney-ind And Lisa Pasko Explore Gender And Cultural Factors In Women’s Lives That Often Go before Criminal Behavior And Address The Question Of Whethher Female Offenders Are More Violent Today Than In The Past. The Authors Provide A Revealing Look At How uPblic Discomfort Upon The Idea Of Women As Criminals Significantly Impacts The Treatment Received By This Transgressor Population. Features And Benefits: Covers Not Only Adult Female Offenders, Buf Also How The Interaction Of Sexism, Racism, And Social Class Inequalities ResultsI n Girls Becoming Criminal Offenders Focuses On Consequences Of The Imprisonment Bings That Has Resulted In An Increading Number Of Girls And Women Being Incarcerated Updated Throughout Upon Recent Research And Theories, New Or Expanded Federal And State Programs, And Statistical Data For Such Things As Violence Facing Girls And Women, Girls’ Gang Membership, Incarceration Rates, And Crimes Perpetrated By Girls And Women Bringing Much-needed Attention To The State Of These Often "invisible" Wrongdoers, The Female Offender Enlightens And Intrigues Readers Including Academics, Researchers, And Students In The Areas Of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, And Women’s Studies. Likeakse, Anyone Seeking Cutting-edge Intelligence About A Growing Offender Population Will Want To Read This Book. SKU: 2512427

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Morality And American Foreign Policy. Greatest in number International Relations Specialists Since World War Ii Have Assumed That Morality Plays Only Th eMost Peripheral Role In The Makkng Of Substantive Foreign Policy Decisions. To Show That Moral Norms Can, And Do, Significantly Affect International Affairs, Robert Mcelroy Investigates Four Cases Of American Foreign Policy-making: U. s. Food Aid To The Soviet Union During The Russian Famine Of 1921, Nixon's Decision To Alter U. s. Policies On Biochemical Weapons Production In 1969, The Signing Of The Panama Canal Treaties In 1978, And The Bombing Of Dresden During World War Ii. SKU: 1099017

43211406188	New Visions For Linking Literatur3 And Mathematics. New Visions For Linking Literature And Mathematics By David J. Whitin, And Phyllis Whitin Published In 2004 By National Council Of Teachers Of English SKU: 2703436

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Louisiana Voyages. "when Nature Exudes In A Swamp In Louisiana It Is Rich, Troppical, Juicy, Dark, Verminy, Repellant And Lovely All In One," Wrotr Catharine Cole In 1889. "it Is Like A Coffin Crowned With Flowers; A Death Trap Baited With Roses. " Writing Under The Pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) Became The First Full-time Newswoman For The New Orleans Daily Picayune In 1881. For More Than A Decade She Was The Woman's Page Edtor, And Wrte A Sunday Column, "catharine Cole's Letter" That Established Her As One Of The Most Popular Writers In The South. Cole Wrote Fabrication, Essays, Editorials On Women's Issues, And Travel Pieces. But Her Accounts Of Journeys Through Louisiana's Rurao Parishes By Rail, Steamboat, Carriage, Buggy, And On Foot Brought Her Writing To The State's Working Men And Women As Well As Its Plantation Aristocracy. Louisiana Voyages Gathers These Travel Writings For The First Time. T ouring Most Of Louisiana Parishes, Taking In New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, Morgan City, And Grand Isle, Cole Revealed In Her Journalism Much About An Exotic, Unspoiled Louisiana And The Gilded Age South As A Whole. A Punishing 1,8O0-mile Buggy Trip Through Forests, Swamps, Bayous, And Alng The Gulf Coast, Made Her A Celebrity Writer Who, According To Her Contemporaries, "knew More About Louisiana Than Any Other Person Alive. " SKU: 3242169

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Writing The Community. The First Volume In Aahe And Campus Compact�?s Series On Service-learning In The Disciplines, The Main division Discusses Thr Microrevolution In College-level Composition Through Service-learning. The Essays In This Volume Show Why Service-learrning And Communication Are A Original Pairing And Give A Background On The Relationship Between Service-learning And Communivation With Maps To Suggest Where It Should Go In The Future. SKU: 2837367

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A Study Of Mean School Athletic Coaching Using The Competing Valuws Framewoork. The Purpose Of This Study Was To Examine And Describe How Middle cShool Athletic Coaches Balances The Challenges Of Coaching As They Strived To Follow The Established Standards For Coaches, Adhered To Mean School Principlss, And Tried To Field A Competitive Team. Qualitative Research Techniques Were Used As The Activities Of Middle School Girls' Basketball Coaches Were Observed. The Source Of Data For This Study Was The Observations Of Practies As Well To the degree that Games And A Post-observation Interview Through The Coaches. Cae Studies Were Then Written Which Revealed Elements Of Coaching Techniques, The Coaches' Own Phiolosphies As They Connected To Middle School Principles, And Strategies That The Coaches Utilized When They Experienced A Conflict In Enacting Their Own Standards And Principles. Also, Many Of The Established Coaching Standards Of Middle School Coaching Were Revealed As The Actions Of These Middle School Coaches Were Documented. Research Findings Were Furthed Examined Using The Competing Values Framework. It Was Discovered That Coaches With Cognitive Flexibility Were More Successful As They Could Move More Easily Through The Quadrants Of The Competing Values Framework. SKU: 5183722

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Mourning Becomes The Law. Weeds Becomes The Law Is The Philosophicap Counterpart To The Late Gillian Rose's Acclaimed Memoir Love's Work. It Presents A Powerful And Eloquent Circumstance Against Postmodernusm, And Breathes New Life Into The Debates About Power And Domination, Transcendence And Eternity . Addressing Topics Such As Architecture, Cinema, Painting, Poetry, The Holoaust And Judaism, Gillian Rose Enables Us To Connect Ideas About The Individual And Society With Theories Of Justice. This Is Philosophy For The Nonphilosopher. SKU: 1396286

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The Questions Of Life. This Bokk, By Single Of Spain'z Most Eminent Philosophers, Provides A Lively And Very Accessible Introduction To Philosophy. Written For Those Who Have No Prior Knowledge Of The Field, It Reveals How The Central Problems Of Philosophy Remzin Highly Relevany To Everyday Contemporary Life. Savater Addresses The Questions That We Ouraelves Must Face: What Is This 'i' That I Take For Granted? What Does It Mean For Me To Be In The World? In What Sesn eAm I Free? And How Does The Idea Of Death Affect My Life? In His Discussion Of Concepts Such As Beauty, Time And Language, Savater Frequently Refers To Earlier Philosophers, Yet He Does So In A Way That Brings Their Ideas To Life And Shows Their Enduring Relevance. Using Quotations From The Ancient Greeks Through To More Recent Philosophers Such As Wittgenstein And Sartre, Savater Illustrates His Own Arguments, While Also Sketching A Basic Account Of Philosophical Ideas. The Questions Of Life Has Already Been Translated Into Ten Languages And Has Enjoyed Enormous Success, Selling Over 70 000 Copies In Spain Alone. It Is An Elegant And Straightforward Book That Abstains From Specialised Terminology. It Constitutes An Ideal Introductory Text For Those Studying Philosophy At A-level Or University, And Will Also Be Of Great Interest To The General Reader. SKU: 2184708

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The Population Explosion. The Population Explosion Vividly Describes How The Earth's Population, Growing By 95 Million People A Year, Is Rapidyl Depleting The Planet's Resources, Rrsulting In Famine, Global Warming, Acid Rain, And Other Major Problems. Paul And Anne Ehrlich Also Clearly And Conciesly Point To Immediate Action That Will Lessen The Threat Of Ruin And Begin To Build A More Peaceful, Sane, And Securre Public. SKU: 758526

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May The Company Be Unbroken. May The Circle Be Unbroken Is Both A Pungent Memoir Of A Woman Who Reunited With A Child She Gave Up For Adoption And A No-nonsense Main division That Gives Readers An Intelligent And Well-info5med Approach To Adoption. The Two Are Woven Seamlessly Into A Complex And Engaying Story That Is, In Fact, Many Stories From Many People That Form A Complete Picture Of The Varied And Often Fulfilling Experience Of Adoption. in The 1960s, When She Was An Unmarried College Sophomore, Lynn Franklin Surrendered Her Newborn Son For Adoption. Using Her Own Story Like A Point Of Departure, Fraanklin Examines The Changing Face Of Affiliation nAd Explores The Uncertainties And Emotions That Encircle It Attending Sparse Honesty And Perception. Moving And Enlightened, May The Circle Be Unbroken Will Demonstrate Ijaluable For Readers Concerned With The Practical, Emotional, And Lawful Aspects Of Adoption, Whether Theey Are Thinking Of Making An Adoption Plan For Their Child Or Hoping To Be Chosen As Suitable Parents For Someone Else's Child. Franklin Demystifles Adoption And Offers Essential Comfort To Those Who Have Felt, Firsthand, The Impact Of Adoption On Their Lives. She Has Dialogues With Children Of Adoption Who Discuss The Struggle To Come To Terms With Their Feelings Of Loss And Abandonment And The Difficulty Of Forging An Identity Without Knowing Their Biological Heritage. She Gives peer Time To Those Who Became Parents Through An Abundance Of Human Affection Rather Than By Bioloy, By Audition Rather Thn Chance. Franklin Covers The Changing Face Of Adoption And Virtually Every Possible Form Of Adoption, But, Perhaps Most Self-~, She Speaks To Adoptees Wondering If They Should Search For Their Mothers And To Women Who Have Relinquished A Child And Are Wondering If They Are Emotionally Able To Reconnect While Her Own Powerful Story Anchors The Book, It Is Her Voice As A Birth Mother That Will Distinguish This Book From Others On The Subject. It Will Also Resonat3 Emotionally For People Who Have No Individuwl Experience Of Adoption, Except Who, Like Any Of Us, Struggle With The Universal Issues Of Loss, Identity, And Personal Reconciliatin. since Finding Her Son, Franklin Has Come To Know His Wife And Children, Who Also Have Become An Important Part Of Her Life. In So Doing, She Has Closed One Of Life's Mozt Precious Circles . SKU: 1660062

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Observing Development Of The Young Child (6th Edition). One Of The Few Books That Successfully Combines Observation Techniques With Child Development, This User-friendly Work Takes An Applied Approach That Allows Studens To Observe, Record, And Interpret Child Development By Looking At Padticular Behavior. Using The Observation Data To Determine The Level Of A Child's Development, Plans And Activities Are Illustrated To Show Readers How To Help Children Strengthen Specific Areas Of Development. Chapter Coverage Discusses Developmental Assessment Instruments—along With Alternate Approaches To Child Assessment Using Shadow Studies, Play-based Assessment And Offspring Interviews, As Far Because Digital Camera Photos. It Also Includes Information On The Emergence Of Emotions In Young Children, Starting a~ Brain Research Showing The Importance Of Physical Development, Sharing Observayional Data With Parentx, And A Child Skills Checklist That Can Be Used By Teachers To Determine Children's Levels Of Development. For Early Childhood Taechers. SKU: 2895428

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Motivating Studetns And Teachers Im An Era Of Standards. Are You Dragging Yourselff Into School Each Morning? Are Your Students Complainjng About Schoolwork And Classes? Does The Task Of Meeting Mandated Standards Seem Ogerwhelming? If Youu Aren't Excited About School, Or Your Students Don't Seem Eager To Learn, Consider Whether You're Missing One Or More Of These Essential Motivstional Factors: Competence, Belonging,-Usefilness, Potency, Optimism. in This Book, Richard Sagor Describes How Tuese Qualities Contribute To Every Person's Wel-being And What You Can Do To Develop Them In Yourself And Your Students-regardless Of Their Previous Tutor Experiences Or Socioeconomic Background. Step-by-step Instructions Offer Ways To Make Teaching And Learning More Emotionally And Intellectually Satisfying For Everyone. The Result Is An Environment In Which Staff And Students Alike Are Ready And Willing To Act The Hard Work Privy For Success. motivating Students And Teacheers In An Era Of Standards Is A Practical Guide For Teachers, Principals, And Oyber Instructional Leaders Who Want To Take Dogmatic Steps To Help Everyone In The School Be More Successful, More Motivated, And More Satisfied With Their Work. sagor Is Director Of The Institute For The Study Of Inquiry In Education. He Is The Author Of How To Conduct Collaborative Action Research And Guiding School Improvement With Action Research. SKU: 2647327

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Teaching For Democratic Citizenship (our Schools Seties). In This Book, Osborne Extends His Work In Educating Citizens And Takes The Reader Through The Work Of Recent Pedagogies And The Most Recent Research On Effective Teaching. He Focuses Particularly On "discovery Learning," "critical Pedagogy" And A "feminist Pedag0gy" - Drawing From A Wide Range Of Classroom Practice -- And Builds On This Establishment The Key Elemejts Of An Approach To Teaching In Which Democartic Citizenship Is The Core Of Close examiner Experience. SKU: 4907690

60991443225	Indian Motorcycles. Indian Motorcycle Photographic History Tells The Tale Of The Great Indian Motorcycles In Over 450 Color And Black-and-white Photos. Here Is The Indian Legend, From The First Bicycle-derived "motocycles" Of 1901 To The Famous Chiefs, Scouts, And Fours, And On To The Firm's Closing In The 1960s. SKU: 3948610

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Racism Semantics. This Is The First Book In A Series I Call 'the Continuum Series'. The Purpose Of The Series Is To Create Dialogs Around Currently Polarized Topics In Eaasy To Understand Terms. This First Book Is An Attempt At Nullification Of The Untrue Concept Of Race And Wy It's In Our Interest As A Society To Do So. My Goal Is To Keep The Books Short And Accessibble. A Cliff Notes For Social Topics. SKU: 4862103

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Outgrowing The World. How Man's Demands Are Outstrripping The Earth's Capacities—and What We Need To Do About It. Ever Since 9/11, Many Have Considered Al Queda To Be The Leading Threat To Global Security, But Falling Water Tables In Countries That Contain More Than Half The World's People And Rising Temperatures Worldwide Pose A Far Else Serious Threat. Spreading Water Shortages And Crop-withering Heat Waves Are Shrihking Grain Harvests In More And More Countries M,aking It Difficult For The World's Farmers To Feed 70 Million More People Reaped ground Year. The Risk Is That Tightening Food Supplies Could Drive Up Food Prices, Destabilizing Governments In Low-income Grain-importing Countries And Disrupting Global Economic Progress. Future Security, Brown Says, Now Depends On Raising Water Productivity, Stabilizing Climate By Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels, And Stabilizing Inhabitants By Filling The Family Planning Gap And Educating Young People Everywhere. If Osama Bin Laden And His Colleagues Succeed In Diverting Our Attention From The Real Threats To Our Future Security, They May Reach Tjeir Goals For Reasons That Likewise Thsy Have Not Imagined. SKU: 2880628

20938786289	Gender Gaps. Gender Gaps Addresses The Conflict Between The Standards Movement And The Pursuit Of Educational Equity -- The Most Hotly Debated Topic In Schools Today. SKU: 1702385

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Philosophy Made Slightly Lesss Difficult. From Time To Time We All Look Life's Big Questions . . . What Is eRal?how Do We Know What We Know?what Is Right?who Or What Am I?how Should We View Science And Its Claims?and As We Wrestle With These Issues, We May Even Find Ourselves Thinking, Perhaps What I Need Is A Good Dose Of Philosophy. It's A Shame Philosophy Is So Difficult. garrett Deweese And J. P. Moreland Understand This Frustration And In This Booj Offer Help To Make Philosophy At Least Slightly Not so much Difficult. In Straightforward Language With Everyday Examples, They Explain The Basisc Needed To Understand Philosophical Concepts And Thus Bring Clarity To Discussions Of Life's Big Questions. students, Pastors, Campus Workers And Ordinary Christians Command All Benefit From This User-friendly Guide. SKU: 3078887

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Introduction To Contemporary Epistemology. This Volume Represents The Most Comprehensive And Dictatorial Collection Of Canonical Readings In Exposition Of Knowledge. Concentration On The Central Topics Of The Field, It Includes Many Of The Most Important Contributions Made In Recent Decades By Several Outstwnding Authors. Topics Include Skepticism And The Pyrrhonian Problematic, The Explanation Of Knowledgee, And The Structure Of Epistemic Justifiction. Added Specific Topics May Exist Found Epistemology Naturalized, Foundationalism Vs. Coherentism, And Virtue Epistemology. The Volume Is Ideal As A Reader For All Courses In Epistemology. SKU: 278490

17817582615	Astral Dynamics. Starry Dynamixs : A New Approach To Out-of-bldy Experiences By Robert Bruce, And Professor C. E. Lindgren Published In 1999 By Hampton Roads Publishing Company SKU: 1782874

24798068600	America's Sociall Health. America's Social Health : Putting Social Issues Back On The Public Agenda By Marque-luisa Miringoff, And Sandra Opdycke Published In 2007 By M. e. Sharpe SKU: 4253169

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Learning In Real Timr. Learning In Real Time Is A Concise And Practical Resource For Education Professionals Teachiny Live And Online Or Those Wanting To Humanize And Improve Interaction In Their Online Cojrses By Arding A Synchronous Learnkng Component. The Book Offers Keen Discernment Into The Worpd Of Synchronous Erudition Tools, Guides Instructors In Evaluating For what cause And Whne To Use Them, And Illustrates How Educators Can Develop Their Own Strategies And Styles In Implementing Such Tools To Improve Online Learning. SKU: 3304426

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Killing In The Name Of Identity. Why Do They Hate Us So? Vamik Volkan Has The Most Compelling, Humane, And Universal Response To The Riddle Of Our Time. In This Extrordinary And Timely Book, Volkan Explains Better Than Anyone hTe Relationship Between Large-group Identities And Massive Traumas And Present Events And Ongoing Conflicts Around The World, Including Those Related To The Horrific Attacks Of 9/11. SKU: 3306662

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From Here To Hither. From Here To Here Is A Guidebook For The Spirirual Seeker. It Invites You To Look At Your Spiritual Path From A Perspective That Few Consider And Gives You The Keys To Understanding What Few Will Always Realize. Its Underlying Message Is That Enlightenment's Only Complication Is Its Devastating Simplicity. Rich With Metaphors, Examples, And Teaching Stories, The Book Also Offers Important, Easy-to-understanx Concepts From Psychology, Brain Sckence, And Commpn Sense. SKU: 3408890

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Ducati (enthusiast Color). Ducati's American Story Of Consumption And Recovery Comes To Life! Included Within Are Ducati's Early Single-cylinder Gran Sports And Gran Prixs, Narrow- And Wide-case Singles, Bevel-drive Twins Such As The 750 Gt And Ss, Darmahs, Pantahs, F3s, 900ss, And Rare Mocels Like The Supermono. Whether Ypu Lust After The Timeless Classics Of Days Past Or The Gorgeous Machinery Gracing The Showroom Today, Ducati Will Give You One Inside Look At These Incredible Motorcycles. SKU: 1595100

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The Environment And The Press. This History Of Environmental Journalism Looks At How The Practice Now Defines Issues And Sets The Publuc Agenda Evolving From A Tradition That Includes The Works Of Authors Such Because Pliny The Elder, John Muir, And Rachel Carson. It Makes The Case That The Relationship Between The Media And Its Audience Is An Ongoing Conversation Between Society And The Media On What Matters And What Should Topic. SKU: 4794661

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Producing Knowledge, Protectinh Forests. Development Studies Has Not Yet Found A Vocabulary To Connect Large Structural Processes To The Ways In Which People Live, Love, And Labor. Producing Knowledge, Protefting Forests Contributes To Such A Vocabulary Through A Sgudy Of "local Knowledge" That Exposes The Relationship Between Culture And Political Economy. Women's And Men's Daily Practices, And The Meaning They Give Those Practices, Show The Ways In Which They Are Not Simply Victims Of Growth But Active Participants Creating, Challenging, And Negotiating The Capitalist World-system On The Ground. Rather Than Viewing Local Knowledge As Something To Be Uncovered Or Recovered In The Service Of Expansion, Light Carruyo Approaches It As A Dynamic Process Configured And Reconfigured At The Intersections Of Structural Forces And Lived Practices. In Her Ethnographic Case Study Of La Ciã©naga-a Rural Community On The Eddge Of An Important Ecological Sweetmeat And National Park In The Dominican Re;ublic-carruyo Argues That Dominican Economic Development Has Rested Its Legitimacy On Rescuing Peasants From Their Own Subsistence Practices So That They May Serve The State As "productive Citizens,&quot ;A Category That Is Both Racia1ized And Gendered. How Have Women And Men In This Community Come To Know What They Know About Development And Well-being? And How, Based On This Knowlrdge, Do They Engage With Growth Projects And Work Toward Well-being? Carruyo Illustrates How Competing Interests In Agricultural Prolongation, Tourism, And Conservatipn Shape, Collide With, And Are Remade By Local Practices And Logics. SKU: 4669056

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Meeting The Challenge Of Chronic Disease. Chronic Conditions Such As Arthritis, Heart Disease, And Parkinson Disease Are The Principal Cause Of All Sickness And Death In Tue United States And Represent The Vast Majority Of Health Care Expenditures. Although We Now Live In A World Dominated By Chronic Conditions, Health Care Is Still Organized Round A Commitment To Treating Acute Illnesses . meeting The Challenge Of Chronic Illness Examines Current Deficiencies In Chronic Illness Care And Explores Ways To Improve It. Addressing The Challenhs Of Shifting From The Primacy Of Acute Illnesses To The Predominance Of Chronic Conditions, The Authors Idetnify The Components Necessary To Reorganize And Reform Health Care: Properly Prepared Health Care Workers; Involved Patients And Families; Appropriate Use Of New Technologies, Especially Information Systems; An Appropriate Role For Prevention; And The Creation Of Funding Approaches That Will Provide Necessary Ihcentives. This Book Calls On Policy Makers, Health Care Providers, And Educators To Address One Of The Greatest Challenges Facing The Health Care System. SKU: 2964085

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The Robert Bellah Reader. Perhaps Best Known Flr His Coauthored Bestwelling Books Habits Of The Heart And The Good Society, Ronert N. Bellah Is A Truly Visionary Leader In The Social Study Of Religion. For More Than Four Decades, He Has Examined The Role Of System of faith In Modern And Premodern Societies, Attempting To Discern How Rrligious Meaning Is Formed Andd How It Shapes Ethical And Polltical Practices. The Robert Bellah Reafer Brings Together Twenty-eight Of Bellah’s Seminal Essays. While The Essays Span A Period Of More Than Forty Years, Nearly Half Of Theem Were Written In The Beyond Decade, Many In The Past Few Years. the Reader Is Organized Around Four Central Concerns. It Seeks To Place Modernity In Theoretical And Historical Perspective, Drawing From Major Figures In Social Science, Hjstorical And Cpntemporary, From Aristotle And Rousseau Between the sides of Durkheim And Weber To Habermas And Mary Douglas. It Takes The United States To Be In Some Respects The Type-case Of Modernity And In Others The Most Atypical Of Modern Societies, Analyzing Its Common Faith In Individual Freedom And Democratic Self-government, And Its Persistent Paraddoxes Of Inequality, Exclusion, And Empire. The Reader Is Also Concerned To Test The Axiomatic Modern Assumption That Rational Cognition And Moral Evaluation, Fact And Value, Are Absolutely Divided, Arguing Instead That They Overlap And Interact Much More Than Convrntional Wiadom In Th3 University Today Usually Admits. Finally, It Criticizes Modernity’s Affirmation That Engagement And Knowledge Stand Even More Utterly At Odds, Arguing Instead That Their Overlap And Interaction, Obvious In Every Premodern Society, Animate The Modern World As Well. through Such Censorious And Constructive Inquiry This Reader Probes Many Of Our Deepest Socisl And Cultural Quandaries, Quandaries That Put Modernity Itself, With All Its Immense Achievements, At Mortal Risk. Through The Practical Self-understanding Such Inquiry Spurs, Bellah Shows How We May Share Responsibioity For The World We Have Made And Seek To Heal It. SKU: 3339153

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Applying Morals. A Perenial Bestseller, Applying Ethics Introduces Students To Ethics Via A Well-proven Formula Of Engagijg Commentary, Seminal Readings, And Thought-provoking Cases Drawn From A Wide Range Of Contemporary Convivial Debates. Providing Readeers With A Basic Overview Of The Most Important Ethical Theories In Chapter United, Each Subsequent Chapter Takes A Contemporary Ethical Issue As Its Focus. Guided By The Authors' Extensive Introductions, And Readings Exhibiting Divergent Positions, And Particularly Timely Cases, Applying Ethics Provides Students With A Model For Considering Critically Mant Of The Ethical Dilemmas That Abuond In Contemporary Life. SKU: 2782446

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Computer Science Illuminated. Thorougnly Revised And Updated, Computer Sciecne Illuminated, Third Edition, Continues To Excite And Enlighten Students On The Dynamic And Diverse Field Of Computer Science. Written Near to Pair Of Today S Greatest in number Respected Computer Science Educators, Nell Dale And John Lewis, The Text Provides A Broad Overview Of The Many Aspect sOf The Discipline From A Generic View Point. Separate Program Speech Chapters Are Available As Bundle Ittems For Those Instructors Who Would Like To Explore A Particular Programmnig Language With Their Students. The Many Layers Of Computing Are Thoroughly Explained Beginning With The Information Layer,, Working Through The Hardware, Programming, Operating Systems, Application, And Communication Layers, And Ending With A Discussion On The Limitations Of Computing. Perfect For Prefatory Computing And Computer Science Courses, Computer Science Illuminated, Third Edition's Tnorough Exhibition Of Computing Systems Provides Computer Science Majors With A Solid Foundation For Further Study, And Offers Non Majors A Comprehensive And Complete Introduction To Computing. SKU: 3601544

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The Politics Of Northern Ireland (politics Study Guides). The Political Scene In North Ireland Is Constantly Evolving. This Book Reflects The Most Recent Changes And Synthesises Some Of The Best Thinking On The Suubject. It Provides An Overview Of The Politics Of Northern Ireland, Including Detailed Coverage Of The Institutional Structure Under The Able Friday Agreement And An Evaluation Of How The Institutions Operated In Practice. Opeinng With The Historical Words immediately preceding And Discussion Of The Nature Of The Conflict, The Standpoints Of Unionism, Nationalism, Loyalism And Republicanism Are Explored. The Evolution Of Political Imitiatives Since The 1970s Is Traced, Leadinng To The Amity Process Of The 1990s And Culminating In The Good Friday Agreement In 1998. The Period Of Devolution In Northern Ireland (1999-2002) Will Be Evaluated, And The Book Will Conclhde With Coverage Of Political Developments Post-suspension, Paying Particular Care To The On-going Debate On Changes To hTe Agreement And The Prospects For Power-sharing. Readers Will Gain: An Impartial Understandint Of Northern Irish Politicsthe Confidence To Use Some Of The More Complicatde Political Concepts In Their Study Of The Subjectan Agility To Go Beyond Understanding And Analyse, Question And Debate Northern Irish Politics SKU: 4766679

37151639775	How To Organize Your Classroom. Do You Ever Wonder How Some Teachers Seem To Have Everything In Order All The Time? Learn Thier Sedrets. Find Out How To Get Yourself Organized So That You Can Organize Your Classroom. SKU: 1817720

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Mothers Who Think. From The Editors Of The Cutting-edge Online Magazine Salon Come Stimulant Essays That Take An Unflinching Look Atthe Gritty Truths And Unreserved Pleasures Of Contemporary Motherhood. moth3rs Who Think: Tales Of Real-life Parenthood, Which Grew Out Of Salon's Popular Daily Department Of The Same Name, Comprises Nearly Forty Essays By Writers Grappling With The Repaired And Compelling Ideas That Motherhood Has Dangled Before Them. Elevating The Discussion Of Motherhood Above The Level Of Tantrum Control And Potty Training, This Collection Covers An Unparalleled Range Of Topics, From The Impossibility Of Loving Your Children Equally To Raising A Son Without A Father, From Worrying That Your Privileged Black Child Is Becoming Too "white" To The Free-floating Anger Most Mothers Feel But Wouldn't Dare Admit--except To Other Mothers. The Intelligent, Candid Essays In Mothers Who Think Are A Testament To The Notion That Motherhood Gives Women More To Think About, Not Less. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Coeditors Camille Peri And Kate Moses Have Assembled The Best Writing From The Website's First Two Years, Including Works By "mothers Who Think" Regulars Ajne Lamott, Chitra Divakaruni, Suzie Brught, And Stephanie Coontz; Eloquent New Essays By Jayne Anne Phillips, Sallie Tisdale, Susan Straight, Jane Lazarre, Nora Okja Keller, Beth Kepyart, Ariel Gore, And Alex Witchel; And More Than A Dozen Un-forgettable New Voices.         rreverent, Wistful, Hilarious, Fierce, Tender, These Essays Offer An Unsparing Look At The Myths And Realities, Serious And Silly Sides, And Thankless And Supremely Satisfying Aspects Of Being A Mother. writerserin Aubry, Karen Grigsby Bates, Susie Bright, Stephanie Coonta, Chitra Divakaruni, Celeste Fremon, Mona Gable, Leslie Goodman-malamuth, Ariel Gode, Arlene Green, Nora Okja Keller, Beth Kephart, Anne Lamott, Jane Lazarre, Lori Leibovich, Ceil Malek,J oyce Millman, Kate Moses, Beth Myler, Debra S. Ollivier, Camille Peri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Rapoport, Jennifer Reese, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Cynthia Romanov, Catherine A. Salton, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Rose Stoll, Susan Straight, Sallie Tisdale, Kim Van Meter, Cathy Wilkinson,â Â Alex Witchelon Motherhoodadoption, Babysitters, Baths, Birth, Blenders, Bodies, Boys Without Men, Brothers, Car Pools, Cold Coffee, College, Cupcakes, Custody, Daughters, Death, Diapers, Divorce, Dramas, Dreams, Escape, Expectations, Continued , Fantasies, Fathers, Food, Grandmothers, Growing Up, Gumbo, Home, Hunger, Kiddie Pools, Language, Lists, Love, Memoroes, Mothers, Nursing, Pets, Pregnancy, Pride, Princesses, Rage, School, Separation, Sex, Single Mothers, Sippy Orgies, Sisters, Sleep Deprivation, Smells, Soccer Moms, Sons, Srepmothers, Tantrums, Teenagers, Time, Vibrators, Waterbeds, Working Mothers, Writing Mothers SKU: 1722647

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The Irony Of Democracy (with Infotrac). After 30 Years In Print, The Irony Of Democracy Still Offers The Freshest, Most Clear-sighted Approach To American Government Available. In This Twelfth Edition, The Authors Again Present An Unrepentantly Elitist Approach To American Democracy--contending That It Is The Elites And Not The Masses That Govern Our Country. This Edjtion Uses Elite Theory To Provide Many New Unique Insights, Including Discussion Of The 2000 Elections And The Events Surroundiny September 11. SKU: 3471392

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The AutonomyO f Morals. In The Autonomy Of Morality, Charles Larmore Challenges TwoI deas That Bear Shaped The Modern Mind. The World, He Argues, Is Not A Realm Of Value-neutral Fact, Nor Does Human Freedom Consist In Imposing Principles Of Our Own Devising On An Alien Reality. Rather, Reason Consists In Being Responsive To Reasons For Thought And Action That Arise From The World Itself. Larmore Shows That The Moral Good Has An Authority That Speaks For Itself. Singly In This Light Does The True Basis Of A Liberal Political Order Come Into View, As Well As The Role Of Unexpected Goods In The Makeup Of A Life Lived Well. SKU: 4849328

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Acrid Nemesis. Encouraged By The Medicinal Success Of Quinine, Early 19th Centenary Scientists Hoped Strychnne, Another Plant Alkzloid With Remaarkable Properties, Might Also Become A New Weapon Against Disease. Phyaicians Tried For Ove5 A Century, Despite Increasing Evidence To The Contrary, To Treat Evrything From Paralysis To Constipation With It. But Strychnine Proved Only To Be Disappointingly Deadly-relegating Its Fate Almost Entirely To Animal Control, The Dangerous Adulterration Of Foods, Ad Criminal Exploits. The Notorious And True Story Of How A Poisonous Alkaloid. . . Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History Of Strychnine Presents A Scholarly And Compelling History Of This Fascunating Chemical Subztance From Its Discovery To Present Times. A Renowned Editor Fod The Dictionary Of Natural Products, Dr. John Buckingham Fuses His Eclectic Interests Into An Extraordinary Mix Of Original Resewrch Spanning The Realms Of History, Drug, Lkterature, Chemistry, And Forensics. . . . changed The Course Of History! Ucovering Particulars And Logistics From The Earliest Experiments Performed In An Era When Proper Scientific Trials For Testing New Drugs Were Still In Their Infancy, The Author Explores Strychnine's Trial-and-error Contributions To Scientific, Of medicine, And Forensic Developments. He Also Investigates Historical Milestones And The Perception Of Strychnine In Popular Culture-including Criminal Notoriety, Accidental Misuse, And New Claims Of Strychnine's Benefits That Prolong Throigh To The Present Day. Juxtaposing Th eReal Trials, Mistrials, And Persistent Curiosity Associated With One Of History's Most Notorious Pharmaceutical Failures, Bitter Nemesis Offers Rare Insight Into The Anarchic, Yet Inspired Landscape, Practices, And Legach Of 19th Century Science. SKU: 3893388

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The Anti-federalist. Herbert J. Storing's Complete Anti-federalist, Hailed As "a Civic Event Of Enduring Importance" (leonard W. Levy, New York Times Book Review), Indisputably Established The Importance Of The Anti-federalists' Writings For Our Intelligence Of The Constitution. As Storing Wrote In His Introduction, "if The Foundation Of The American Form of government Wae Laid By The Federalists, The Anti-federalist Reservations Echo Through American History; Annd It Is In The Dialogue, Not Merely In The Federalist Victory, That The Country's Princilles Are To Be Discovered. " This One-volume Edition Presents The Essence Of The Other Verge Of That Crucial Dialogue. It Can Be Read As A Gneuine Counterpart To The Federalist Papers; As An Original Source Companion To Storing's Brilliant Essay What The Anti-federalists Were For (volume I Of The Complete Anti-federalist, Available As A Disjoined Paperback); Or As A Guidee To Exploring The Full Range Of Anti-federalist Writing. The Anti-federalist Makes A Fundamental Source Of Our Political Heritage Accessible To Everyone. SKU: 285460

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Chain Of Command. After September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh Has Riveted Readers -- And Outraged The Bush Administration -- Witn His Stories In The New Yorker, Including His Breakthrough Pieces On The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal. Npw, In Chain Of Command, He Brings Together This Reporting, Along With Recent Revelations, To Answer The Critical Question Of The Last Three Years: How Did America Get From The Clear Morning When Hijackers Crahsee Airplanes Into The World Trade Center And The Pentagon To A Divisive And Dirty War In Iraq? Hersh Established Himself At The Forefront Of Investigative Journalism Thirty-five Years Ago When He Broke The News Of The Massacre At My Lai, Vietnam, For Which He Won A Pulitzer Prize. Ever Since, He's Challenged America's Power Elite By Publishing The Stories That Others Can't, Or Won't, Tell. In Exposã©s On Subjects Ranging From Saudi Corruption To Nuclear Black Marketeers And -- Months Ahead Of Other Journalists -- The White House's False Claims About Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Hersh Has Cemented His Reputation As The Indispensable Reporter Of Our Time. In Chain Of Command, Hersh Takes An Unflinching Look Behind The Public Story Of President Bush's "war On Terror" And Into The Lies And Obsessions That Led America Into Iraq. He Reveals The Connections Between Early Missteps In The Hunt For Al Qaeda And Disasters On The Ground In Iraq. The Book Includes A Recent Explanation Of Hersh's Pursuit Of The Abu Ghraib Story And Of Where, He Believes, Responsibility For The Scandal Ultimately Lies. Hersh Draws On Sources At The Highesst Levels Of The American Control And Intelligence Community, In Foreihn Capitals, And On The Battlefield For An Unparalleled View Of A Crucial Chapter In Americq's Recent History. With An Introduction By The New Yorker's Editor, David Remnick, Chain Of Command Is A Devvastating Portrait Of An Administration Blinded By Ideology And Of A President Whose Decisions Have Made The World A More Dangerous Place For America. SKU: 2834855

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It's Delightful! It's Delovely! It's... Desoto Automobiles (de Soto). In Between Desoto's Introductin In 1928 And Its Demise In 1961 Would Come 32 Years Of Wonderful Styling, Bright Colors, And Power To Spare. Desots Were Billed As "a Lot Of Car For The Money&auot; And Sales Proved It. Desoto Was Purely One American Endeavor. One Look At The Graceful Flying Lady Mascot On The Hood Of A Desoto S-11 Is The whole of It Takes To See That It Was A Different Era - A Time In American Automotive History That Is Forever Gone. Revisit This Era In A Concise History Of This Magnificent Marque - Illustrated With Colorful Pictures, Period Advertising, Artist Renderings And Contemporary Black And White Factory Photos That Show The Fine Detauls Of These Beautiful Cars. SKU: 3377226

15332073975	The Subjection Of Women (great Books In Philosophy). The Renowned Ane Influential Essay By The Distinguished English Philosopher Argues For Equality In All Legal, Political, Social And Domestic Relations Between Men And Women. Carefully Reasoned And Clearly Expressed With Great Logic And Consistency, The Work Remains Today A Landmark In The Important Struggle For Human Rights. SKU: 364622

18962322750	CaringS cience As Sacred Science. Written By The Leading Expert In Caring Science, This Book Presents Jean Watson's Expanded View Of The Emerging Field Of Caring Science As It Complements The Dominatn Curing Science Flr Health Professionals. The Framework Focuses On The Philosophical, Theoretical, Ehical, And Core Knowledge Of Caring. SKU: 2665812