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No matter what the future brings for academic libraries, technical services librarians need to be ready to face the unexpected. Virtual Technical Services guides librarians through the steps of creating a contingency plan for disasters seen and unseen

Turning the Page: A Guide to Securing Multicultural Literature for Schools enables educators to examine their feelings about multiculturalism in order to generate a list of multicultural books appropriate for their school. This book is a companion text to Turning the Page: The Ultimate Guide for Teachers to Multicultural Literature.

The Virtual Principal provides an accurate account of the challenges faced in schools during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The book is a "how-to" guide identifying leadership characteristics and practical strategies that demonstrate how leaders can constructively channel a school's inevitable conflicts and instill a school culture that promotes group problem solving while honoring diverse voices.

The stories we included in this book help to highlight the nuances, colors, and textures of failure.

This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Each of the strategies presented includes perspectives from teachers at two different grade levels representing a range of suburban and urban teachers.

Small Talk provides simple, powerful, activities involving arts and crafts, food, and game activities that are well within the abilities of preschool children.

his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.

The book details the process of collegial coaching within school environments, focusing upon content-specific goals and objectives, sound instructional strategies, and authentic assessment opportunities.

This book helps break down and analyze the process of solid decision making.

Ideal for courses in philosophy and gender, sexuality, race and disability studies, Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory and philosophy. This accessible and important book advances a queer feminist critique.

This book showcases some of the greatest trails across the US that can be completed while pushiking-hiking with someone in a wheelchair, mobility chair, or stroller. Part narrative, part guidebook, this book validates that anyone can experience the natural landscapes our country has to offer, no matter what mobility challenges they may face.

This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Niger contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, issues, and events that led to the murder of six-million Jews, and millions of other groups by Nazi Germany.

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography; the dictionary section has over 500 entries on concepts, terms, labels, and individuals central to identifying and comprehending the key roles political parties have played in American political life.

Historical Dictionary of Daoism contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on related to the Chinese belief and practice worldview known as Daoism including dozens of Daoist terms, names, and practices.

This book covers everything you need to get started researching your family history or continue a project you've already started. It offers practical suggestions from an experienced genealogist, and detailed, step-by-step instructions for carrying out a quality family history research.

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries that provides a clear and comprehensive exposition of the key developments in his life and his thought.

Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon.

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics, green trends, and major environmental agreements and events.

The morality of our distant ancestors bears a remarkable resemblance to the moral experiences of modern athletes. This book brings together stories from today's sports world and the moral practices of hunter-gatherers to shed new light on both sports and morality and offer a unique interpretation of America's love affair with sports.

This multimedia book generates a rich conversation about food sovereignty, initiated by eight collaborators in the Legacies Project, an intergenerational and intercultural exchange between food justice activists and artists. Their stories come alive in video clips and short photo essays around cross-cutting themes.

American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. All 0these stories have one thing in common: they are all a lot of fun to read.

This is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said's influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said's critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.