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From food, water, and kitchen goods, to personal care and cleaning products- even clothing and common household items like phones and childrens' toys- Detox Your Home takes a deep dive into the products we use on a daily basis, to expose the harmful toxins lurking in our most intimate, everyday environments.

This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare-past, present, and future.

This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground.

Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

In this actionable roadmap to improved marketing ROI, Rosen and Minsky show how businesses-from Fortune 500s to local entrepreneurs-can manage today's complex and fragmented marketing landscape, respond to consumers' new tech-enabled paths-to-purchase, and overcome behavioral barriers to more effectively and efficiently build brands and business.

This comprehensive text explains the relationship between the Arctic and the wider world through the lenses of international relations, international law, and political economy. It is an essential resource for any student or scholar seeking a clear and succinct account of a region of ever-growing international importance.

This book guides those interested in writing grants through the grant process - from gathering basic information about an organization through accepting and implementing the grant award - as well as including a new chapter on how to become a grant writer. Updated information and resources plus samples, examples, and worksheets related to writing successful grants are included.

This book documents that magical journey through beautiful photographs of the world's largest collection of Oz memorabilia. Whether it's first-edition covers, a munchkin costume, or the Wicked playbill, the iconic items on these pages tell the story of America's beloved fairy tale. Come over the rainbow and see why there truly is no place like Oz.

Interim Ministry in Action offers a practical guide for churches in times of transition. It takes readers step-by-step through the process of how and why to call an interim minister, deciding what's next, making the most of opportunities for change, and more. An essential resource for congregations considering change.

Written by a mother, expressly for other parents, this work supports parents as they help their kids manage life with mental illness. It offers insight into the various life "hurdles" every mom or dad must guide their children over-but which loom higher and more frightening when a child's emotional disorder is thrown into the mix.

Diversity in the Power Elite examines the diversity that exists-and doesn't exist-among America's powerful people. Revised and updated throughout, this edition contrasts profound changes such as the election of Barack Obama and the growing acceptance of LGBTQ people with the stark reality that little diversity exists in many circles of power.

Beyond Buzzwords examines popular but ineffective instructional concepts and explains why many popular educational ideas lack evidence and theoretical support for improving instruction. This book also critically examines instructional goals and the meaning of evidence-based instruction.

This book identifies multiple university programs where partnerships create ongoing collaborative activities that sets the stage for leadership development, program expansion and growth, and utilization of partnerships that support student, community and University initiatives.

There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much? provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

How do you become a more empowering leader? Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader.

This book is a practical guide for educators who are working with Muslim youth in PK-12 schools to understand issues that may impact Muslim students today. It outlines basic information about the Muslim community and presents topics such as peer relationships, bullying, and anti-bias pedagogy, through school-based vignettes and case studies.

Helping Parents Understand the Minds and Hearts of Generation Z allows parents and children to speak for themselves, provides parents insights into how Gen Z thinks, the ways their brains learn, and illustrates why children of this technological generation believe and act the ways they do.

Translanguaging is a new approach that incorporates students' languages and cultures with the goal of strengthening academic achievement. This book focuses on Spanish-speaking emergent bilingual learners.

The Latest Early American Literature both negatively critiques how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earliest ones and positively proposes how a transnationalist concession-that America's neocolonial culture lags behind that of Europe-might advance postmodern theorizing.

Common Sense about Common Core breaks down everything you need to know about the Common Core, from how it was implemented to where we are now. This book will show that Common Core is a necessary initiative for achieving America's Race to the Top.

Within a framework of cognitive dissonance, readers will continuously examine and reexamine their personal beliefs and perceptions. Readers will also investigate new information and varied perspectives related to urban schools. When readers finish this book, they will be on their way to becoming effective teachers in urban environments.

Positive school culture is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. As such, improving a school's culture is a critical component to school transformation. This resource provides school leaders with a concrete professional development plan for staff and students designed to eliminate power struggles in order to improve school culture.

This book provides guidance for structuring ethical reflection as well as analytical tools to get to the heart of issues quickly. Examples, scenarios, and discussion questions help draw out key issues to improve peacebuilding practices. It will help identify and analyze ethical problems and resolve moral value conflicts to create healthy practices.

Race in Society is a thorough yet brief text intended primarily for race and ethnicity courses. It is anchored in contemporary social science scholarship and is written in a narrative style that makes it easily accessible to students.

Race and Family is a textbook that introduces students to key concepts through a structural lens. Rather than examining each racial/ethnic group in isolation like many race and family textbooks, Race and Family illustrates overarching structural factors that affect all families, such as economic factors, demographic factors, and gender relations.

Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought, yet his medical work has only been studied peripherally. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's medical writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's better known work.

Looks at the connections between practices of resistance and political theory.