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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can you teach a child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided. We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son being unkind. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools for forty years. Now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to bring peace...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fox News host and New York Times bestselling author Pete Hegseth delivers his most important book yet: an excoriating examination of the state of America's broken education system that offers a helpful road map to raising children to uphold the values Americans have always treasured"--
Author
Publisher
AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
I-M-ABLE, or the Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education, is an innovative, individualized, student-centered method for teaching braille and making it exciting for children who have difficulties learning braille. In this teaching approach, instruction is centered on continuously analyzing the strengths and needs of students, placing particular emphasis on engaging them using key vocabulary words and phrases based on...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 318 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fitness innovators behind The Ready State and the movement bible Becoming a Supple Leopard present a new way to enhance mobility and improve day-to-day wellness for anyone and everyone"--
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1947
Physical Desc
113 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis's extraordinary works. National Review chose it as number seven on their "100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century."...
Author
Publisher
IMPress
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xviii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Personal & Authentic, Thomas C. Murray reveals the power of designing awe-inspiring experiences that are grounded in relationships and learner-centered by design. Inherently relevant and contextualized, it is this kind of learning that lasts a lifetime.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A guide to assist families with making critical decisions about what to pay for college discusses the complex financial aid system, how to determine good value, and setting financial goals while figuring out how to save, borrow, and bargain for a better deal.
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 165 pages : illustratios ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A multimodal reflection on the way theological education can foster pluralistic community and resist Western ideals of individualism, masculinity, and whiteness"--
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other. Eddie Ndopu grew up loving pop music and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful, and as an adult he would become a globe-trotting disability activist. By his early twenties, he had rocketed through every boundary put in front of him-a queer, Black wheelchair user-challenging bias at the highest echelons...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Search of Mister Rogers pursues a rich understanding of this good, kind, sometimes strange, deeply influential, holy man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be evennow, in our own troubled time"--
