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The Power of Experience
The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement is a guide for principals, both aspiring and established, who hope to make a measurable difference in the achievement of all students, and who strive to create a positive, safe, and student-centered learning environment in their schools. Gleaned from interviews with more than fifty principals who have been either instrumental in bringing a school to US Department of Education National Blue Ribbon status or who were identified as National Distinguished Principals by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, this critical source draws on the wisdom and experience of school leaders from across the nation and from select locations around the world. From Kenya to California, Alaska to Wisconsin, these principals reflect great diversity but unity of purpose: reaching and teaching all children by building exceptional schools through exemplary leadership. Whether new to the field or a veteran principal, readers will benefit from the collective wisdom, insight, and experience of principals who have built remarkable schools designed to promote student achievement.
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The Dynamics of Violence and Revenge in the Hebrew Book of Esther
This volume offers a thematic study of an integral part of the Hebrew text of Esther, namely, violence. In The Dynamics of Violence and Revenge in the Hebrew Book of Esther, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz makes the first ever monographic research on the topics of hostility and the mechanisms of revenge as expressed by the author of the Hebrew book of Esther. The present book is divided into two parts consisting of three chapters each. After an introductory chapter reviewing previous studies on the book of Esther, the author analyses the main vocabulary of violence and revenge in this biblical text before studying the narrative of Esther from the point of view of violence. The results of these two avenues of research are then applied on three pericopes which are representative of the dynamics of violence. Each of the chosen texts illustrates how violence and revenge are used by the author to express the message of survival and the importance of the Jewish people.
The Body Sculptor
Jason Stone, Southern Californias premier plastic surgeon, has been through hell and back. While administering life-saving surgery during a mission to South America, his tent is held hostage by two international drug dealers, resulting in slain staff members and heat from the DEA. But it isnt over yet Stone returns to his charmed life in Palm Springshis successful clinic, his beautiful wife and kids, his palatial homeonly to discover that he contracted HIV from the hostage victims contaminated blood. But before he has the chance to comprehend this devastating news, tragedy strikes again: Stone narrowly misses his flight to attend a medical conference, only to learn that it crashed ten minutes after takeoff. Stone uses this as an opportunity to spare his family and business partner from disgrace, and disappears to Mexico. While Stones family is left to unravel the mystery of his disappearance, Stone is thrust into the seedy underworld south of the border and must fight for survival by doing what he does best: sculpting new lives, both for himself and for the many unlikely patients he encounters.
Following the Martins
Hajara, not yet 10, was a house girl, working dawn to dusk in a world of drudgery and abuse when Tom and Cheryl Martin rescued her. They found Kenny in the streets, an orphan with twisted limbs who desperately needed a wheelchair — and school fees. In Following the Martins, you meet them and many more, experiencing the changes that hope can bring. It takes many forms: school fees for children, training and tools for adults, medication for the sick, university tuition for promising students. Suddenly, impossible dreams become possibilities. Children are their primary focus but, unencumbered by organizational straitjackets, they embrace anyone in need, working in hectic bursts for six weeks a year in each of three countries. In the eleven years since the Martins launched their organization, more than eighty North American supporters have travelled to meet the kids and families they sponsor, to share meals, tears and laughter, successes and failures. For many, the visits have been life-changing.
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives across continents. On one side were European monarchs. Mere decades after its founding, the United States had become a threat to European hegemony; instability in the United States could be exploited to lay a rival low. Meanwhile, Mexican antidemocrats needed a powerful backer to fend off the republicanism of Benito Juárez. When these two groups found each other, the Second Mexican Empire was born. Raymon...
Me and You Too
A perennially unattached recent transplant to Texas creates a hypothetical Father Time message for his students, which becomes all too real when he is adopted by a miraculous stray cat named You Too. Experience this wondrous mystery/adventure as feline and humans develop the first, Me and You Too, Eco-cohousing-Homestead, where no people are allowed without pets.
José, Can You See?
"Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez is among the most interesting and original minds at work in performance studies and American studies. José, Can You See? is a landmark achievement, an important contribution to 20th century American cultural history. Quite simply, there is no other critic of Latino popular culture who speaks with so much wisdom and wit, so much eloquence and expertise."--David Roman, University of Southern California
The radical otherness that heals
The Radical Otherness That Heals proposes an interesting theoretical advance in various schools of local and regional, and national and transnational analysis. It is based on a multilocal ethnography and a detailed sociological and political reading of the interactions between institutions and social and cultural representations of otherness. The original theoretical proposal consists of reading the reconfiguration of shamanisms stemming from processes of ethnicization and patrimonialization, and skillfully reconstructing the national ideological space and the most recent effects of multiculturalism through representations of otherness Anne-Marie Losonczy, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pr...
Forgotten Promises
When Arthurs true heir follows him to Avalon, he doesnt go alone. He takes with him his closest friends and champions, the Night Angels. Instead of a haven, they find themselves in a broken world full of magic, danger, and tyrants. They set out to find a new home and a new destiny for themselves. When they discover that their new home is on the verge of being lost to a warlord, they move to stop him, even though theyre not a match for him or his armies. Death comes for us all and the Night Angels have never been ones to hide from an old friend.
