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  • Audiobook

    Youth Scribes

    Teaching a Love of Writing

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    A framework for building adolescents’ identities as scribes—writers from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and interests who write from their lived experiences. How to transform reluctant writers into students who want to write as translators and interpreters of their culture. ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Words Made Flesh

    Sylvia Wynter and Religion

    The first sustained treatment of religion and religions in the scholarship of a prominent Caribbean thinkerSylvia Wynter is a profoundly transdisciplinary scholar whose works span an impressive array of theory, literature, science, anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies as well as different forms, including essays, plays, a novel, and a 935-page unpublished manuscript entitled “Black ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Right to the Road

    How Marginalized American Motorists Fought to Drive and Park

    Car ownership is central to the U.S. culture wars about global warming and urban sprawl. While the environmental issues surrounding car use are well known, the car is also the focus of debates about urban redevelopment, racially biased policing, women’s employment, immigration, homelessness, and disability rights. Right to the Road: How Marginalized American Motorists Fought to Drive and Park by ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Bootstrap New Urbanism

    Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee

    Series series Comparative Urban Studies
    Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve problems while seeking to elevate the city’s national reputation and status. While New Urbanism was not the only design element undertaken to further ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities

    Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites

    Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites analyzes Latino/a adolescents’ engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature

    Critical Perspectives and Conversations

    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students. This book provides an outline for the study of literature through cultural and literary criticism, via essays that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Handbook of Disaster Research

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the 1st Edition, including what is a disaster; morbidity and mortality associated with disasters; gender and disasters; and race, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Governance Models for Creating Public Value in Open Data Initiatives

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book relies on the conceptual model of Open Government (OG), focusing on transparency and, concretely, in open data initiatives at the local government context with the aim of improving participation and collaboration. Most Open Government models are centered on three pillars: transparency, participation and collaboration. Transparency is a crucial ingredient of OG and, applied to data ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Greatest Days Are Ahead!, The

    A man driven to search out the truth and unsatisfied with shallow answers, follow Joseph Rodriguez in his journey beyond a troubled past toward a life with God. Travelling from pew to pulpit, rodriguez takes readers from the waters of his bayou through Scripture in an honest, simple voice to The Greatest Days Ahead! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    More Celtic Fairy Tales (UNABRIDGED)

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    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    More fairy tales from the early days of the British Isles, collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Farewells (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

    26 min

    In the poignant pages of "Farewells," Abram Joseph Ryan weaves a tapestry of emotions as he bids farewell to loved ones, cherished memories, and the fleeting nature of life. Through lyrical prose and heartfelt verse, Ryan explores the bittersweet pain of parting, the enduring power of love, and the hope that transcends the boundaries of time. As we journey alongside the poet, we are reminded of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education

    Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education addresses the persistent gap in writing reform at the middle, secondary, and post-secondary level. Through an examination of “useful” and “liminal” writing, the book explores the intellectual and creative space where structured expectations verge with individual imagination in writing. The premise of the book is built around a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD