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Daughters of the Moon (Books 1-3)
Author: Lynne Ewing
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Published: 2010-03-21
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 1423140907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four friends. Four mysterious powers. They seem like ordinary girls living in Los Angeles. But they each have a secret. Vanessa can become invisible. Catty can travel through time. Serena reads minds, and Jimena has premonitions. As they become friends, their incredible powers bind them together as The Daughters of the Moon. This book includes volumes One to Three of the series.
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
Author: Alex Shevrin Venet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1003845118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity. In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy, and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together, and teachers can do more than they realize from within their own classrooms.
The View from the Back of the Band
Author: Chris Smith
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1574415743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mel Lewis (1929-1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father's drumsticks at the age of two and at 17 he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz drummer. For over fifty years, Lewis provided the blueprint for how a drummer could subtly support any musical situation. While he made his name with Stan Kenton and Thad Jones, and with his band at the Village Vanguard, it was the hundreds of recordings that he made as a sideman and his ability to mentor young musicians that truly defined his career. Away from the drums, Lewis's passionate and outspoken personality made him one of jazz music's greatest characters. It is often through Lewis's own anecdotes, as well as many from the musicians who knew him best, that this book traces the career of one of the world's greatest drummers. Previously unpublished interviews, personal memoirs, photos, musical transcriptions, and a selected discography add to this comprehensive biography.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 1154
ISBN-13: 1101544643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read." —Bill Gates (May, 2017) Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millenia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, programs, gruesom punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened? This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the esesnce of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives--the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away--and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.
Teachers Thinking, Teachers Knowing
Author: National Conference on Research in English
Publisher: National Conference
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shulman); (2) "Producing and Assessing Knowledge: Beginning to Understand Teachers' Knowledge through the Work of Four Theorists" (Anthony Petrosky); (3) "Teacher as Learner: Working in a Community of Teachers" (Judy Buchanan); (4) "Is There a Problem with Knowing Thyself? Toward a Poststructuralist View of Teacher Identity" (Deborah P. Britzman); (5) "Cultural Differences as Resources: Ways of Understanding in the Classroom" (Beverly J. Moss); (6) "Teacher Research: Seeing What We Are Doing" (Glenda L. Bissex); (7) "Teacher Lore: Learning about Teaching from Teachers" (William Ayers and William H. Schubert); (8) "Teacher Change: Overthrowing the Myth of One Teacher, One Classroom" (Sally Hampton); (9) "What's Effective Inservice?" (Richard Beach); (10) "Issues Emerging from the Teacher-Researcher Discussion Group" (Christine C. Pappas); (11) "The Role of Universities in the Professional Development of Practicing Teachers" (James Marshall); (12) "What Followed for Me" (Michael W.^
Rock N Roll Gold Rush
Author: Maury Dean
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 0875862071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monster Rock-n-Roll survey focuses on the songs and the vibrant personalities who create them, for college audiences and the general public. Dean published the world's first history of Rock in 1966. Here, in his ebullient style, he buzzes through piles of musical singles from the whole last half century, describing what is fun about each major and minor hit, pointing out what elements were exciting or new or significant in the development of musical styles. He relates some tantalizing tidbits about the earlier musical heritage that artists have drawn upon in crafting ever more amazing evolutions of rock music. This snappy, witty and informative album has universal appeal, doubling as a coffee-table trivia treasure and a college-level popular music history text. It includes hundreds of photos, chapter questions, and an extensive index. Reader-friendly and informationally complete, it covers soft rock, heavy metal, rhythm & blues, country rock and classic oldies, all with tender loving care, for the specialist and casual listener alike. Its mini-portraits of the artists who move so many hearts (and feet), the photos and the insightful sound bites get to the essence of each song and each musician's contribution to the music of our age. The single-song focus makes the book unique. It's a playlist for R'n'R professors and the general public, written with a collegiate vocabulary, tight organization and a respect for all. "Hearing Elvis for the first time was like busting out of jail." - Bob Dylan That being said, no one is being incited, here, to bust out of jail or to emulate the quixotic habits of rock stars. "There's nothing in here to hide from the kids, the clergy or grandma." Gold Rush can be used as a university or community college text, but most people will grab it for the sheer pleasure of reading about everyone's favorites. Great gift for Rock enthusiasts. Gold Rush is the first book of its kind to feature a celebration of the great single songs of the rock era and beyond. Gold Rush takes thousands of songs, spanning three centuries, and brings them back uniquely as if they came out just yesterday. Gold Rush unites the Anglo-American and later worldwide spirit of Rock and Roll in a tapestry of interconnected melodies and adventures. As Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide helps you select videos at Blockbuster, so Gold Rush is a powerful playlist for your music collection, with many new and fascinating photos of favorite stars. Gold Rush explains the most important stories behind the songs you picked to be played, the songs that 'went gold,' from the 1897 Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush to the #1 songs of today and beyond.
Blogging Heroes
Author: Michael A. Banks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-03-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0470262141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among more than 102,000,000 blogs, a few stand out as influential, ground-breaking, and singularly successful. These thirty bloggers, who write about everything from business trends to parenting, have been featured in Wired magazine, Popular Science, and on CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and 20/20. In one-on-one conversations with Michael A. Banks, these innovative, creative thinkers have shared their tactics, their philosophies, what drives them, how they mine for subject matter, and their personal secrets for success. Come and learn from the masters.
Drumming to the Beat of a Different Marcher
Author: Debbie Silver
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865305847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers teachers strategies to cater for all students in a class, including ideas on classroom management; parental involvement; differentiating instruction; multiple intelligences and learning styles; co-operative learning; and, building a classroom community.
New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina
Author: Michael Urban
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1137565756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments; and membership in the city's musical community entails participation in the myth of New Orleans, breathing new life into its storied traditions. On the basis of 56 open-ended interviews with those in the city's musical community, Michael Urban discovers that, indeed, community is what it is all about. In their own words, informants explain that commercial concerns are eclipsed by the pleasure of playing in 'one big band' that disassembles daily into smaller performing units whose rosters are fluid, such that, over time, 'everybody plays with everybody'. Although Hurricane Katrina nearly terminated the city, New Orleans and its music—in no small part due to the sacrifices and labors of its musicians—have come back even stronger. Dancing to their own drum, New Orleanians again prove themselves to be admirably out of step with the rest of America.
