Enchanting Phuket, Samui & Krabi takes an illustrated tour of the region introducing the best inland sites and the most exciting beaches, both for those who want to chill out and those who want to party. Phuket Island and Krabi on the west coast of southern Thailand and Samui in the Gulf of Thailand offer an idyllic combination of a sunny climate, ......
The Bodhicaryavatara, often translated as A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, is an 8th-century masterpiece from Indian scholar and yogi Shantideva. It is regarded as one of the most important Tibetan Buddhist texts, and is studied extensively by Tibetan Buddhist practitioners everywhere. This commentary on the Bodhicaryavatara is by His ......
Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States. It is extraordinarily difficult for historians to reconstruct the lives of individual enslaved people. Records-where they exist-are often fragmentary, biased, or untrue. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo ......
Comfort Stations, Fitting Rooms, Public Baths, and Locker Rooms in Ameri
A unique history of how private spaces in public-such as public restrooms and dressing rooms-developed in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Before the late nineteenth century, Americans bathed, dressed, undressed, and relieved themselves in the privacy of their own homes. Yet from 1880 to 1930, the social forces of ......
Ghosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months, set at a unique junior boarding school, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York. This is a hero's journey for two flawed protagonists, one fifteen, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to ......
School reform has been happening since the 1970's. Schools created policies that made changes to classroom instruction, school dress codes, and how schools function, hoping to create a culture that breeds student success. But recent developments in technology and research have introduced a new factor in reform, social/emotional learning (SEL). ......
Kenya has a rich and complex. Due to the vast discoveries of prehistoric archaeological remains, Kenya is one of the few places in the world with the largest and most complete record of human's cultural development. Furthermore, the country's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreigners ......
School reform has been happening since the 1970's. Schools created policies that made changes to classroom instruction, school dress codes, and how schools function, hoping to create a culture that breeds student success. But recent developments in technology and research have introduced a new factor in reform, social/emotional learning (SEL). ......
Motivation, Growth and the New Social Studies Classroom
Discussions and Democracy: Motivation, Growth, and the New Social Studies Classroom is written in a vernacular that will springboard and support teachers' understandings of implementing discussion-based approaches in their classrooms. Moreover, Discussions and Democracy drills down more deeply into student motivation and engagement. This is ......
