 | Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Publication Date: April 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 0470550473 | ISBN-13: 978-0470550472| Edition: 1 Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.Among the techniques:Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank s...
 |  | Mission: The Birth of California, the Death of a Nation
Publication Date: February 27, 2002November 5, 1775 – The Kumeyaay Indians attacked in force overnight, storming the Spanish Presidio at Misión San Diego. Despite early successes, they were repulsed by the Spaniards, beginning what would prove to be the Kumeyaays’ near-extinction as a sovereign nation. What caused this rebellion? What propelled men and women alike into this desperate struggle? At almost the precise time the United States are asserting their own freedom, the heretofore peaceful Kumeyaay are losing theirs. Mission, a poignant new novel by Margaret Wyman, tells t...
|  | No Girl Needs a Husband Seven Days a Week
Release Date: November 20, 2007 A husband can be good for a number of things: Companionship (when he's home) Household repairs (if he's handy) Good loving (if you're lucky), but . . . no girl needs a husband seven days a week! Marie needs her "stay-at-home husband" to clean the house and babysit the kids, so she can take care of business coast-to-coast . . . and enjoy some harmless flirting on the side. Mai's perfectly content to be the perfect wife to a successful corporate superstar—throwing lavish parties and organizing gala charity fundraisers. But it's funny how quickly eve...
|  | When A Heart Cries (Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy)
Publication Date: October 31, 2012| Series: Mountain Lake, Minnesota Trilogy (Book 3) Samantha and Adam Klaassen started married life in the cozy little home built into the hill at the back of the Klaassen family farm. When they began looking forward to their own family, they knew they would need a real house with more room. But now the silent bedrooms in the farmhouse built with such love and hopefulness by her husband haunt Samantha's days and nights. Why does God not see her yearnings for a child and answer the nearly constant prayers? And watching her sister-in-laws joyfully welcoming ne...
|  | Acsah
Publication Date: September 1, 2012A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Prov 31:1Once an awkward girl of Hebron who seemed to follow trouble, Acsah blossoms into a beautiful, sought after woman of God. Amidst the turmoil of work and war, Acsah finds herself struggling between following her heart and trusting the guidance of both her earthly and heavenly Father. She must trust the armies of Judah under the Patriarch, Caleb, to protect herself and those she holds dear. After losing his father in a tragic animal attack, Othniel has felt the weight of wa...
|  | By Way Of Deception: The Making And Unmaking Of A Mossad Officer
Publication Date: 1991| ISBN-10: 0312926146 | ISBN-13: 978-0312926144| Edition: Reprint The first time the Mossad came calling, they wanted Victor Ostrovsky for their assassination unit, the kidon. He turned them down. The next time, he agreed to enter the grueling three-year training program to become a katsa, or intelligence case officer, for the legendary Israeli spy organization. By Way of Deception is the explosive chronicle of his experiences in the Mossad, and of two decades of their frightening and often ruthless covert activities around the world. Penetrating far deeper than the...
|  | The Prestige
Release Date: September 19, 2006In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for ge...
|  | Hidden Truths
Publication Date: April 1, 2011Lesbian Fiction: Historical Fiction - Sequel to Backwards to Oregon - Commuter Novel - 19 hours reading - "Luke" Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women. But even with their loving foundation, a few fears and insecurities have Amy and Nattie hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch - Rika Aaldenberg, wh...
|  | The Pirate
Publication Date: June 2004Apparently they did not. The great majority of them might not understand the tall Westerner's words, but his gestures bit home, and the glare of his fierce dark face from beside a battle-lantern brought back discipline. Captain and mates screamed their orders, and the crew jumped to duty without help from the flying belaying pins. The feluccre bore away till she had both of the brig's masts in one in the dimness behind her, and then with her own great lateens goosewinged, and half of her crew aft on the poop to bring her by the stern, she fled like some great scare...
|  | Two Connections
Publication Date: July 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936400103 | ISBN-13: 978-1936400102Two Connections is a deeply layered story about a man, who through inspiration, decided to conquer his depression by setting a goal with his two siblings to attempt to write a book. The story is essentially a diary of entries that describe their experiences while writing the book of their dreams.The journal entries document their thoughts, feelings and updates of how their surrounding world is influencing or distracting them from their effort to maintain their dedication to their goal. Relationships, family, mu...
|  | Ireland: Stone Walls & Fabled Landscapes
Publication Date: October 29, 1998The story of Ireland through its stone walls. ...
|  | Antigone - Translated by Ian Johnston
Publication Date: August 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 097975710X | ISBN-13: 978-0979757105Sophocles (495-406 BC), the most prolific of the Greek playwrights whose works survive, wrote a number of plays about the family of Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes. Of these plays, the two most popular are Oedipus the King and Antigone. The former tells the tragic story of Oedipus' search for the murderer of Laius, the previous king. His investigation inexorably uncovers Oedipus' true identity, the discovery of which is so horrific that Oedipus blinds himself and goes off into exile. The story of Antigone b...
|  | A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: May 16, 2011| ISBN-10: 0470657952 | ISBN-13: 978-0470657959| Edition: 1 This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of...
|  | Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity
Publication Date: December 15, 1994| ISBN-10: 0415093678 | ISBN-13: 978-0415093675| Edition: 1 This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for rel...
|  | Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521464994 | ISBN-13: 978-0521464994This study proposes a new theory of speech acts, Dynamic Speech Act Theory. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it synthesizes traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. ...
|  | The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance in their life and time. The history of marionette performances is interwoven with live-actor performances and with the entire gamut of annual ...
|  | A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film
Publication Date: July 31, 2003| ISBN-10: 0415938864 | ISBN-13: 978-0415938860Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries.Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, offering estimations of the historical accuracy of the works and demonstrating how they project their own contemporary era's obsessions and...
|  | Tangled Up In You
Release Date: July 31, 2007 Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town's sordid past—her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she's back at the scene of the scandal—a local establishment that's always belonged to the Hennessys—determined to uncover the truth, and nothing is going to stand in her way. Especially not a black-haired, blue-eyed Hennessy. Everyone in Truly knows that the Hennessy men are irresistible, and the current owner, Mick, is no exception. His late father was a skirt-chasing heartbreaker who ended up causing disaster fo...
|  | A Different Kind of Love
Publication Date: April 2002A Different Kind of Love is a rare book, a collection of beautifully crafted love stories whose characters just happen to share the same sex. Although author Jay Mandal does explore the special difficulties encountered by gay men who fall in love, the anthology’s main focus is upon unabashed romance. Character gender apart, the book is one of love and not of the political complaint or seedy sex so common of the genre. ...
|  | Murder on the Thirteenth (Albert J Tretheway Series)
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