Escolaridad culturalmente sensible para estudiantes indígenas mexicanos

Este libro revela las experiencias sociales y educativas de los estudiantes indígenas en EE.UU. y destaca la diversidad multilingüe y multicultural de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos. Traducido al español, ofrece orientación a educadores, legisladores e investigadores sobre cómo apoyar eficazmen...

A livable future is possible

A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time. In these illuminating interviews conductedby C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky yet again shares his brilliant insights on an array of struggles and challenges facing huma...

Quarterly review of distance education vol 22 issue 1

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education publishes refereed articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials on distance education theories, research, and practices. It covers methodologies for generalizable results, guiding public and private sector practices.

Ice core concepts

ICE Core Concepts: Geotechnical Engineering is an engaging, practical introduction to the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and renovation of geotechnical structures.

Challenges and opportunities in healthcare leadership

This book addresses the challenges faced by healthcare leaders, such as managing interprofessional teams, payment reform, homelessness and the opioid crisis. It features authentic reflections and professional stories from leaders, offering insights and lessons. Each chapter includes scholarly com...

We have always been cyborgs

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet...

Palestine in a world on fire

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides t...

Quarterly review of distance education vol 21 issue 4

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education publishes refereed articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials on distance education theories, research, and practices. It covers methodologies for generalizable results, guiding public and private sector practices.

Global talent retention

Through extensive research Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World addresses the need for turnover theory and research to give more careful consideration to global and cross-cultural perspectives on employee retention, and includes contributions from a global ran...

Advanced introduction to antitheodicy

This book introduces the concept of antitheodicy and an approach that the author proposes to call antitheodicism as central elements of a critical ethical response to the problem of evil and suffering.

Contaminated land guidance

Contaminated Land Guidance provides authoritative guidance and up-to-date information on the challenges associated with contamination on brownfield developments.

Life

A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten.  Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one ear...

Quarterly review of distance education vol 21 issue 3

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education publishes refereed articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials on distance education theories, research, and practices. It covers methodologies for generalizable results, guiding public and private sector practices.

Forgotten wives

Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic do...

Using action research and organization development strategies for change in a hierarchical organization

This book blends theory and practice to explore transformational change in a mid-sized Midwest police department. It uses insider action research (IAR) and multiple OD strategies to identify opportunities for change, resulting in positive culture shifts and both micro and transformational changes.

Fidic quick reference guide

This book, FIDIC Handbook - Yellow, provides commentary on the Yellow Book: FIDIC Conditions Of Contract For Plant and Design-Build which is recommended for the provision of electrical and/or mechanical plant and for building and engineering works.

Fighting fascism

Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.

Performing chinatown

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown employed many of the same Chinese Americans who performed as background extras in the 1937 film. Chinatown and Hollywood represented the two primary ...

Rehearsals for living

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.

Equity in multilingual schools and communities

This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés, focusing on three major areas of her work: languages and literacies in multilingual contexts, language development in schools and communities, and equity and access. Personal interludes from former students and colleagues add insig...

Subjectivity and development in rural contexts

Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts presents a compilation of chapters that explore different phenomena of ruralness. 

Streaming culture

Encouraging us to look beyond the seemingly limitless supply of multimedia content, David Arditi calls attention to the underlying dynamics of instant viewing - in which our access to our favourite binge-worthy show, blockbuster movie or hot new album release depends on any given service’s willin...

Multiliteracies in english as an additional language classrooms

This book offers practices and strategies for EAL classrooms, adaptable to various grade levels and backgrounds. It includes research and lessons from a professional learning program for Brazilian EFL teachers at the University of Miami, focusing on multiliteracies and innovative English language...

The residential is racial

Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race. In The Residential is Racial Adrienn...

Hands-on large language models

Unheard voices

This book discusses the narratives of African American gay men, highlighting their contributions and experiences often overlooked in American history. It features 10 to 12 men sharing their backgrounds and victories, aiming to change the narrative and bring their stories to the forefront.

Unfinished business

This book, authored by former SERVE professionals, reflects on school improvement initiatives in the southeastern US. It emphasizes continuous improvement in public schools, sharing insights on effective and evolving educational interventions based on research, policy, and professional development.

Gaza catastrophe

"A left-wing materialist perspective that has faded in prominence in the Arab world in recent times."―The Irish Times"Exposes the bankruptcy of Western Liberalism."―Jacobin​From a foremost expert on the Middle East—a searing indictment of the forces that led to genocidal war on Gaza and its rever...

Coup

Coup analyzes the conditions that led to the 2019 coup in Bolivia and details its repressive aftermath.

Multilevel modeling methods with introductory and advanced applications

"Multilevel Modeling Methods" introduces multilevel modeling for researchers and advanced students. It serves as a textbook for courses, covering topics from basic to advanced, including organizational and longitudinal research, advanced applications, design issues, and special topics like large-...

Child labour in global society

This book presents a novel study of children's compulsory productive educational labour in modern and modernizing societies under globalization, and the implications for such matters as children's everyday lives, relationships and rights, international legal instruments, relevant analytical notio...

The organic growth playbook

Conventional marketing strategies that focus on product differentiation and positioning often fail to deliver faster growth. In this re-published book, Jaworski and Lurie offer a novel approach to this problem of growth.

After the cataclysm

Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict andthe Pol Pot regime.

Construction planning

Construction Planning, 2nd edition is the new edition of the original and highly successful book by Richard H. Neale and David E. Neale, published in 1994.

Resolute japan

Discover how Japan’s new leadership model has transformed its top companies and created a new paradigm for business successIn Resolute Japan, Waseda University’s Jusuke J. J. Ikegami and the Wharton School’s Harbir Singh and Michael Useem reveal a new leadership model that has led Japan’s corpora...

Between household and state

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Between Household and State departs from dynastic narrations of the Mughal past to highlight the role of elite households and fam...

Public administration, civic engagement, and spanish-speaking communities

Public Administration, Civic Engagement, and Spanish-Speaking Communities builds on the first bilingual (Spanish–English) special session at the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2022 Social Equity Leadership Conference.

Energy's history

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans have thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of energy. In rec...

Shifting the mindset

This book emphasizes the importance of socially just leadership education in addressing global crises. It focuses on cultural relevance, critical pedagogies, and identity in preparing leaders. The book offers practical guidance for educators to empower students to build a fairer, more equitable w...

Empirical structural design for architects, engineers and builders

Empirical Structural Design for Architects, Engineers and Builders provides an explanation of empirical design as a practical means of making preliminary structural design decisions.

To govern the globe

In a sweep through seven centuries from 1350 to 2050, the work explains how catastrophes-- pandemics, wars, and climate crisis--have shaped the destiny of empires and world orders.

Essential song

Audio Files located on Soundcloud Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn W...

Concise guide to reinforced concrete design to eurocode 2

Concise Guide to Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2 explains the principles of limit state design in Eurocode 2 by means of simple worked examples of reinforced concrete design.

Domestic workers talk

Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hi...

Reforming international extradition

Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal level...

Leading with soul

This book aims to challenge what we consider to be static and superficial understandings of servant leadership within PreK-12 school communities. 

Multiculturalism still matters in education and society

"Multiculturalism Still Matters in Education and Society" emphasizes the importance of multiculturalism in our complex world. It urges collaboration for the common good, values differences as strengths, and inspires expanding discourses. The book aims to make invisible voices visible and help div...

Effective site investigation

Effective Site Investigation provides an introductory guide to accepted best practice for site investigations, both for construction professionals such as civil and structural engineers, builders and architects, and for their clients.

The cancel culture panic

Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up. In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has b...

Shaping the space

This text explores the value of Arts education in Australia, mandated for K-9 students. It addresses the shortage of specialized Arts educators and offers insights into planning, teaching, and assessing each discipline. The book is accessible, innovative, and aligned with contemporary learning pr...