"She's beautiful, she's blonde and she's irresistibly WICKED. JULIA STILES (Save the Last Dance, Down to You, The Bourne Identity) is Ellie, an average teenage girl with typical teenage problems: a bratty little sister, a nagging mother and a father that denies her the attention she so desperately craves. She doesn't find much to be happy about at home or at school. But Ellie's not the kind of girl that gets mad. She's the kind of girl t ..."
"In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays--by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others--are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotio ..."
"Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to ..."
"There is a widening range of organizations that are being called upon to do conflict prevention. These actors range from the corporate sector and NGOs to regional and multilateral economic and political organizations, with diverse mandates, leadership, funding, and operational activities. Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality, Volume 2: Opportunities and Innovations offers a critical evaluation of existing and emerging approaches ..."
"There is a widening range of organizations that are being called upon to do conflict prevention. These actors range from the corporate sector and NGOs to regional and multilateral economic and political organizations, with diverse mandates, leadership, funding, and operational activities. Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality, Volume 2: Opportunities and Innovations offers a critical evaluation of existing and emerging approaches ..."
Ubiquitous Assessment(1st Edition) Evaluation Techniques for the New Millennium (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education) by Greg S. Goodman, Karen T. Carey, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2004 by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7069-6, ISBN: 0-8204-7069-4
"In our multicultural world, it is impossible to uphold a standardized conceptualization of 'normal'. The use of techniques that primarily reinforce competitive sorting is not viable, humanistic, or conceptually valid. This book addresses the immediate and urgent need to both parallel and honor the diversity that typifies our classrooms and communities by promoting ubiquitous assessment, and attending to the individual instructional and ..."
"Lee W. Gregg, Erwin R. Steinberg ... I want to start with some little things—
symptoms of a more general malaise: the kinds of sentences that crop up in Ph.D.
theses, papers submitted for publication, or even grant applications. For many
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Full Throttle 122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work by Gregg M. Steinberg 272 Pages, Published 2009 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-470-49382-3, ISBN: 0-470-49382-8
"The alltime great tennis player John McEnroe has a lifeline: “Always moving
forward.” John said his desire is to continually move ahead in ... When Orel
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The Intercultural Campus(4th Edition) Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher Education (American University Studies) by Gregory Kazuo Tanaka, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg Paperback, 217 Pages, Published 2007 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-4150-4, ISBN: 0-8204-4150-3
"In a post-9/11 nation that is gripped by race fear, this book presents an approach to diversity that promotes peace and understanding across difference. Discussing studies conducted over an eight-year period, The Intercultural Campus reveals the underlying sources of racial fragmentation on college and university campuses and outlines a new framework for diversity. Citing the results from an innovative four-year project that completely ..."