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Helps teacher educators, pre-service and classroom teachers, and administrators investigate and discuss common issues in classroom management at the secondary level. This book also serves as a supplement to many approaches to teaching classroom management by offering case studies that reflect common issues teachers face in their classrooms.

Of God and Madness is the story of Adam, an emotionally troubled young man who is on a captivating spiritual journey. In this intriguing saga, Adam comes of age during the tumultuous end of the Ottoman Empire while attempting to maintain his own precarious sanity. This is the story of a man who began searching for God and ended up finding himself

This small, inexpensive text is an in-depth yet simply stated discussion on the business and structure of integrated marketing communication (IMC). The book focuses exclusively on introductory issues concerning integrated marketing communication as both a communication device and as a profession.

Colorism is defined as discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same 'racial' group on the basis of skin color. That is, some people, particularly women, are treated better or worse on account of the color of their skin relative to other.

Mobility First considers domestic transportation through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development and trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. The book proposes solutions that will mitigate the troubling consequences of congestion, spiraling road costs, bad roads, and political inertia.

Governments around the world traditionally distinguish insiders from outsiders. Explaining the innovation why states cede their sovereignty and eradicate or redefine the boundaries of the political community by including foreigners, this book analyzes the development of European citizenship and the evolution of supranational rights.

Offering an introduction to the evolution of communication media, this book describes the history and development of media technology. It develops a taxonomy for media and compares their technological requirements, applications, and other significant elements. It is useful for foundational courses in mass communication and communication history.

This book provides applicable strategies to merge literacy and science instruction allowing teachers the necessary time to build comprehension skills among their students.

Focuses on the personal and social that students bring to school each day, which impacts his/her education. This work aims to teach educators how to identify and protect themselves against the pitfalls found in schools, where underlying philosophical and social differences can bring tensions that can be transmitted from one student to many.

Explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering an perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. This book examines rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. It argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values.

This book identifies the challenges that women in leadership positions face in public schools. It provides examples to illustrate these challenges as well as strategies to increase their success.

The Future of Schools will help changemakers move toward better functioning school systems and districts using reliable, participative, and practical methods.

In What Every Rookie Superintendent Should Know the author lays the foundation with a systematic mindset, a strategic thinking approach, and skills sets, which not only helps the rookie survive, but decreases the learning curve time.

Shows where our media has gone wrong and what we can do about it. This title illustrates the problems with much of contemporary media content, why it is this way, how to better manage children's media use, how to become more critical audience members, and more. It also includes a chapter on how readers can actively challenge media companies.

Looks at anti-Americanism, the questioning and dissent at the heart of democracy as well as US propaganda and how US administrations and media often focus on projecting a better image rather than addressing the issues behind why the US image is so poor.

Identifies and explains the factors that shape the domestic and international monetary strategies of the European Central Bank (ECB). Offering access to the internal decision-making at the ECB, this work is of interest to readers who want to understand this important European institution.

This book looks to the educational ideas of Horace Mann to offer guidance as to how this nation might preserve his original vision of a public school system that will offer a free and equal educational opportunity to all the children of this nation.

Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect_the cricket. In this edition, students are provided with more than 30 activities on crickets, which will help them learn science content and various skills.

Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. This work contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire.

This practical guide will provide educators with a step-by-step process for gathering and using local test data to increase student achievement before students are required to take high stakes national and state assessments.

Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.

With over 100 examples of completed dissertations from well-known universities and colleges, this book allows the student to concentrate on what makes sense and what is important to completing his or her research to writing an effective doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis.