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Video gaming is wildly popular and getting even more so as interfaces and devices improve. This popular account of the rise of gaming offers insight into its popularity and place in our culture as well as the impact it has on our daily lives - from the doctor's office to the family room sofa.

Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.

This book is designed to offer practical applications on how partners can work together to implement the mission and goals of the PDS by providing ways that PDS partners can engage in a much deeper and more profound experience that results in a synergistic relationship. Joint ...

Grady Service, Detective for Michican Upper Peninsula's DNR, is running hot and cold--Chasing an eco-terrorist trained in the most advanced and explosive guerrilla tactics AND tackling an eighty-year-old cold case involving racism, gold, and murder.

Jonathan Waterman paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white leviathan and brings to vivid life men and women whose fates have entwined on its sheer icy peak.

Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating an environment for professional growth are covered in this book.

This guidebook details the process of collegial coaching for technology integration within educational environments and is intended for use within a variety of settings, from primary classrooms through high schools to graduate educational leadership and instructional technology courses and beyond.

Now in an updated edition, this pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security.

Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of Our Unsystematic Health Care System provides an accessible overview of the US health care system, with a focus on the impact of the Affordable Care Act. As in previous editions, the book introduces health insurance arrangements in the United States and compares them to health care in other countries.

This book provides a practical understanding of digital literacy and information on integrating digital technology into English Language Arts and literacy instruction at the K-6 grade levels.

Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians covers the big picture of genealogy and evidence-based research, plus the variety and availability of many record types, but also provides practical advice for both researchers and librarians.

"Originally published in 2005 by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc."

The ninth Woods Cop Mystery, in which Grady Service, Detective for Michigan Upper Peninsula's DNR, investigates a series of bloody deaths tied to Michiganders' belief in a mythical beast called the Dogman, and taking place in some of the Upper Peninsula's harshest terrain

Translated from Russian: Osadna'ia tekhnika Antichnosti i Srednevekov'ia.

Grady Service, Detective for Michican Upper Peninsula's DNR, investigates a case on the shores of Lake Superior involving "bleeding sand" and a centuries-old mystery surrounding a Native American archaeological site . . . not to mention an enormous forest fire.

Grady Service, Detective for Michigan Upper Peninsula's Department of Natural Resources, is back in the sixth title in the critically acclaimed Woods Cop series. This time he has a truly rotten case on his hands--tainted eggs are showing up in caviar, and Service must expose a ring of corruption within law enforcement that takes him all the way to the top. . . .

The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school leadership principles. It describes the mentality and actions school principals need in order to spearhead the process of successfully reforming a failing and/or struggling urban public school.