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This is Not a President

Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

By: Diane Rubenstein

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This is Not a President

Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

By: Diane Rubenstein

Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author Interview In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency — from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American presidential politics, Rubenstein interrogates symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential behavior to elucidate profound and disturbing changes in the American presidency and the way it embodies a national imaginary. In a series of essays written in real time over the past four presidential administrations, Rubenstein traces the vernacular use of the American presidency (as currency, as grist for popular biography, as fictional TV material) to explore the ways in which the American presidency functions as a “transitional object” that allows the American citizen to meet or discover the president while going about her everyday life. The book argues that it is French theory — primarily Lacanian psychoanalysis and the radical semiotic theories of Jean Baudrillard — that best accounts for American political life today. Through episodes as diverse as Iran Contra, George H. W. Bush vomiting in Japan, the 1992 Republican convention, the failed nomination of Lani Guinier, and the Iraq War, This Is Not a President brilliantly situates our collective investment in American political culture.

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NYU Press

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0814776035

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Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs

Double Exceptionality

By: Diane Montgomery

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Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs

Double Exceptionality

By: Diane Montgomery

Gifted pupils who also have special needs often receive provision for the special need whilst the giftedness is overlooked. Children with such double exceptionality can become depressed, frustrated and misbehave, and may not fulfil their potential. Based on international research and practice, this practical text enables the reader to identify highly able pupils with special needs, such as ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and Downs Syndrome, and then make provision for them within the mainstream school. The book offers three emerging themes: creating a positive, constructive and supportive learning environment; offering a cognitively challenging curriculum; and engaging the learners in partnership to understand and manage their learning support. Whilst aimed mainly at teachers and students at both primary and secondary levels, this book should also be of interest to educators, researchers and educational psychologists.

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Routledge

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1135372977

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9781135372972

Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers

How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina

By: Diane Catherine Vecchio

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Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers

How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina

By: Diane Catherine Vecchio

A new perspective on Jewish history in the South Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in Upcountry (now called Upstate) South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, the Upcountry was a center of textile manufacturing and new business opportunities that drew entrepreneurial energy to the region. Working with a rich set of oral histories, memoirs, and traditional historical documents, Vecchio provides an important corrective to the history of manufacturing in South Carolina. She explores Jewish community development and describes how Jewish business leaders also became civic leaders and affected social, political, and cultural life. The Jewish community's impact on all facets of life across the Upcountry is vital to understanding the growth of today's Spartanburg–Greenville corridor.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643364537

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Academic ambassadors, Pacific allies

Australia, America and the Fulbright Program

By: Alice Garner,Diane Kirkby

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Academic ambassadors, Pacific allies

Australia, America and the Fulbright Program

By: Alice Garner,Diane Kirkby

This study is the first in-depth analysis of the Fulbright exchange program in a single country. Drawing on previously unexplored archives and oral history, the authors investigate the educational, political and diplomatic dimensions of a complex bi-national program as experienced by Australian and American scholars. The book begins with the postwar context of the scheme’s origins, moves through its difficult Australian establishment during the early Cold War, the challenges posed by the Vietnam War, and the impacts of civil rights and gender parity movements and late 20th century economic belt-tightening. How the program’s goal of ‘mutual understanding’ was understood and enacted across six decades lies at the heart of the book, which weaves institutional and individual experiences together with broader geopolitical issues. Bringing a complex and nuanced analysis to the Australia-US relationship, the authors offer fresh insights into the global significance of the Fulbright Program

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Manchester University Press

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1526128993

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9781526128997

Assessing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Young Children

The Taming Sneaky Fears Program

By: Suneeta Monga,Diane Benoit

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Assessing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Young Children

The Taming Sneaky Fears Program

By: Suneeta Monga,Diane Benoit

This book examines assessment and treatment methods for anxiety disorders in four- to- seven-year-olds. It discusses risk and protective factors in the preschool years, comorbidities, and how conditions such as separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and selective mutism present in this age group. The book examines limitations of current definitions, assessment methods, and interventions. Chapters offer a theoretical framework from which to understand how traditional cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) strategies can be used effectively in this age group. It offers a detailed description of the Taming Sneaky Fears program, an innovative, evidence-based group CBT program for four- to seven-year-old anxious children and their parents. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement Taming Sneaky Fears. The book concludes by addressing common challenges, influences, and outcomes for four- to seven-year-old anxious children and their families and provides recommendations for reducing the barriers to healthy development. Topics featured in this book include: Screening and assessment tools for young anxious children. Innovative assessment approaches for young anxious children. The use of Bravery Ladders to teach young children to overcome their fears and anxieties. Specific adaptations of the Taming Sneaky Fears program for selective mutism and social anxiety disorder. The pivotal role of parents in the success of the Taming Sneaky Fears program. Assessing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Young Children is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, and psychiatry.

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Springer

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3030049396

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Dyslexia-friendly Strategies for Reading, Spelling and Handwriting

A Toolkit for Teachers

By: Diane Montgomery

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Dyslexia-friendly Strategies for Reading, Spelling and Handwriting

A Toolkit for Teachers

By: Diane Montgomery

Many pupils with dyslexia have poor spelling and handwriting, even when their reading is adequate. This practical yet evidence-based book shows teachers who work with pupils with dyslexia how they can effectively address these areas of weakness. Diane Montgomery introduces her popular Cognitive Process Strategies for Spelling (CPSS) and provides guidance on how this direct action can be successfully used in both primary and secondary contexts. The book describes dyslexia-friendly approaches in Logographic, Alphabetic and Orthographic phases – ‘the three faces’ of dyslexia. Best literacy practice for all children is illustrated in a developmental reading and spelling approach, handwriting as a support to literacy teaching is explained and strategies for overcoming handwriting difficulties are detailed from Reception onwards. Dyslexia-friendly Strategies for Reading, Spelling and Handwriting is full of new research, case examples and practical methods that have been tried and tested in the classroom. This is a must-read guide for all teachers and SENCOs in primary and secondary settings working with pupils with dyslexia.

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Routledge

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1315405563

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Transgressive Corporeality

The Body, Poststructuralism and the Theological Imagination

By: Diane MacDonald

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Transgressive Corporeality

The Body, Poststructuralism and the Theological Imagination

By: Diane MacDonald

This study begins with Nietzsche's attempt to subvert the projects of classical and modern metaphysics through an unmasking of their abusive underpinnings. Because Nietzsche ultimately retreated into his own violent metaphysics of a "will-to-power" his critique has been radicalized by other philosophers who explore the "body" as a site of resistance to foundationalist metaphysics and for clues pointing toward nonfoundational modes of thinking and becoming. The philosophies of "body" explored in this book are those of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva. In their respective analyses, oppressive modes of the "will-to-truth" include the "objectifying thought" of Enlightenment empiricism and idealism; classical and modern modes of rationality, discipline, and sexuality; as well as a "mono-logical" thinking operative in literature and religion. Each theorist attempts to retrieve "remainders" of these cultural truths as sites of resistance and of alternative modes of relatedness. The book concludes by suggesting how these philosophies of "body" might reshape the "imagination" of contemporary constructive theology.

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State University of New York Press

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1438411553

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Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial

Memoir of Judge Joe B. Brown, Sr.

By: Diane Holloway

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Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial

Memoir of Judge Joe B. Brown, Sr.

By: Diane Holloway

The question of why Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald was the central issue of his trial by Judge Joe B. Brown, Sr. With compelling immediacy and exhaustive detail, the judge's memoir is a vital contribution to the quintessential murder mystery of the 20th century. Here for the first time, we get to know what really went on in Ruby's trial and in his mind. Judge Brown had access to previously unpublished facts involved in the "trial of the century", as it was called. His memoir has been combined with the Warren Commission interrogation of Ruby and with Ruby' polygraph conducted by the F.B.I., accompanied by enlightening psychological commentary. With a selection of previously unpublished photographs, this is a brilliant, illuminating new view of the event that has dominated the consciousness of the American public as no other ever has.

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iUniverse

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1469786842

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9781469786841

On Dangerous Ground

Freud’s Visual Cultures of the Unconscious

By: Diane O'Donoghue

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On Dangerous Ground

Freud’s Visual Cultures of the Unconscious

By: Diane O'Donoghue

Winner of the 2019 Robert S. Liebert Award (established jointly by the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) In the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that his encounters with visual cultures-architecture, objects from earlier cultural epochs (“antiquities”), paintings, and illustrated books-played in that process. Diane O'Donoghue introduces, often using unpublished archival sources, the ways in which material phenomena profoundly informed Freud's decisions about what would, and would not, constitute the workings of an inner life. By returning to view content that Freud treated as forgettable, as distinct from repressed, O'Donoghue shows us a realm of experiences that Freud wished to remove from psychical meaning. These erasures form an amnesic core within Freud's psychoanalytic project, an absence that includes difficult aspects of his life narrative, beginning with the dislocations of his early childhood that he declared “not worth remembering.” What is made visible here is far from the inconsequential surface of experience; rather, we are shown a dangerous ground that exceeds the limits of what Freud wished to include within his early model of mind. In Freud's relation to visual cultures we find clues to what he attempted, in crafting his unconscious, to remove from sight.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501327976

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9781501327971

Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents

By: Diane T. Marsh,Mary A. Fristad

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Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents

By: Diane T. Marsh,Mary A. Fristad

The only comprehensive work on SED, with practical information on diagnosing and treating children with SED. Features contributions by leading experts of SED research and practice. Includes a foreword by Kay Jamison, a nationally recognized author on mental illness.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471331392

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Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability

By: Diane Barthel-Bouchier

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Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability

By: Diane Barthel-Bouchier

The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, as well as issues of social and economic inequality faced by local, national, and international cultural organizations.

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Routledge

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1315431041

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Learning from Museums

Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

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Learning from Museums

Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

By: John Howard Falk,Lynn Diane Dierking

Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? Investigation of these questions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742502953

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9780742502956

Nurses! Test Yourself in Non-Medical Prescribing

By: Noel Harris,Diane Shearer

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Nurses! Test Yourself in Non-Medical Prescribing

By: Noel Harris,Diane Shearer

Nurses! Test Yourself in Non-medical Prescribing is the essential self-test resource for nurses studying a prescribing qualification and preparing for exams. The book includes over 450 questions including full answers and explanations. The book includes: True or false questions Multiple choice questions Fill in the blanks questions Full glossary of terms Topics covered in this book include: Pharmacology Legal and ethical issues Therapeutic decision making Consultation skills Principles of safe prescribing Adverse drug reactions Drug licensing and handling Drug calculations Written by experienced non-medical prescribing lecturers, this test book will help you improve your results and tackle your exams with confidence! "I would like to congratulate the authors on an excellent revision aid. The resources identified, along with the questions designed to test students' knowledge, provides an excellent text for students on the prescribing programme." Molly Courtenay, Professor of Clinical Practice at the University of Surrey, UK "This is an excellent book. It is a 'must have book' for all undertaking the course, and those already qualified." Dr Barbara Stuttle CBE, Chair of the Association for Nurse Prescribers, UK

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335245005

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9780335245000

Disaster Mental Health Services

A Primer for Practitioners

By: Diane Garaventa Myers,David F. Wee

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Disaster Mental Health Services

A Primer for Practitioners

By: Diane Garaventa Myers,David F. Wee

Disaster mental health is a growing field of practice designed to help victims and relief workers learn to effectively cope with the extreme stresses they will face in the aftermath of a disaster. The goal of disaster mental health is to prevent the development of long-term, negative psychological consequences, such as PTSD. This book assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic, and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a vast reservoir of prior research and literature with the authors' practical and pragmatic experience in providing disaster mental health services in a wide variety of disasters.

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Psychology Press

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1583910638

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9781583910634

Beyond Anne Frank

Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland

By: Diane L. Wolf

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Beyond Anne Frank

Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland

By: Diane L. Wolf

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0520226178

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Spelling, Handwriting and Dyslexia

Overcoming Barriers to Learning

By: Diane Montgomery

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Spelling, Handwriting and Dyslexia

Overcoming Barriers to Learning

By: Diane Montgomery

This ground-breaking book argues that spelling and writing need to be given more consideration in teaching and remedial settings. It helps teachers and student teachers to understand the valuable contribution spelling and handwriting makes to literacy development.

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1134131291

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Tackling Disadvantage and Underachievement in Schools

A Practical Guide for Teachers

By: Diane Montgomery

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Tackling Disadvantage and Underachievement in Schools

A Practical Guide for Teachers

By: Diane Montgomery

This practical resource shows what teachers can do to combat disadvantage and underachievement in schools and from early years to secondary education. Written by an experienced teacher, teacher educator and chartered psychologist, the book highlights effective teaching and learning methods that can be used to overcome barriers to learning, satisfy different learning needs and help students achieve their full potential. Packed with up-to-date research, useful guidance and examples, the book explores what schools have done and what they can do without need for extra resourcing. It includes case studies that examine the types of underachievement patterns that are found across age ranges and, by detailing approaches in subject teaching, defines the nature of effective learning and shows what strategies can be used to meet these criteria. Moreover, the chapters provide: An exploration into the central needs of underachieving and disadvantaged learners across the ability range Information about how to audit the provision and the needs Accessible resources for the classroom changes that need to be made to the education and training of teachers Tackling Disadvantage and Underachievement in Schools is essential reading for teachers in early years education and primary and secondary schools, teachers in training and their educators, as well as leaders, policymakers, researchers and anyone interested in improving performance in schools.

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Routledge

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1000043517

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Bright Not Broken

Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism

By: Diane M. Kennedy,Rebecca S. Banks

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Bright Not Broken

Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism

By: Diane M. Kennedy,Rebecca S. Banks

The future of our society depends on our gifted children—the population in which we’ll find our next Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, or Virginia Woolf. Yet the gifts and talents of some of our most brilliant kids may never be recognized because these children fall into a group known as twice exceptional, or “2e.” Twice exceptional kids are both gifted and diagnosed with a disability—often ADHD or an Autism Spectrum Disorder—leading teachers and parents to overlook the child’s talents and focus solely on his weaknesses. Too often, these children get lost in an endless cycle of chasing diagnostic labels and are never given the tools to fully realize their own potential. Bright Not Broken sheds new light on this vibrant population by identifying who twice exceptional children are and taking an unflinching look at why they’re stuck. The first work to boldly examine the widespread misdiagnosis and controversies that arise from our current diagnostic system, it serves as a wake-up call for parents and professionals to question why our mental health and education systems are failing our brightest children. Most importantly, the authors show what we can do to help 2e children, providing a whole child model for parents and educators to strengthen and develop a child’s innate gifts while also intervening to support the deficits. Drawing on painstaking research and personal experience, Bright Not Broken offers groundbreaking insight and practical strategies to those seeking to help 2e kids achieve their full potential. Diane M. Kennedy, author of The ADHD-Autism Connection, is a long time advocate, international speaker/trainer, and mother of three twice-exceptional sons. Rebecca S. Banks, M.A., co-author of The ADHD-Autism Connection, is a veteran educator, national speaker/trainer, and mother of two twice-exceptional children. Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a professor, prolific author, and one of the most accomplished and renowned adults with autism in the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118101839

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9781118101834

Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational Needs

Supporting dual and multiple exceptionality

By: Diane Montgomery

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Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational Needs

Supporting dual and multiple exceptionality

By: Diane Montgomery

Children with both giftedness and special educational needs are often found in the mainstream classrooms. This essential resource provides an overview of existing knowledge about dual and multiple exceptionality (DME), examining the needs of gifted and talented children from both the class teacher’s and SENCo’s perspectives. Diane Montgomery explores both the specialist interventions that some children will need at least for part of their school life, as well as the general inclusive provision that every school can develop to meet the needs of all children. Focusing on evidence-based identification throughout, chapters in this accessible book cover: An analysis of the terms ‘giftedness and talent’ and the different methods that can be used for identifying them and assessing their limitations Identifying and supporting a range of difficulties, syndromes and disorders such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, DCD, ASD, ADHD and SEBD How to manage classroom behaviour, improve school ethos and create a DME-friendly school through inclusive teaching and learning This invaluable resource will assist you in creating a DME friendly school, help to integrate learners with a range of difficulties and enable them and others to learn.

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Routledge

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1317494601

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9781317494607

We Are the Angels

Healing Our Past, Present, and Future With the Lords of Karma

By: Diane Stein

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We Are the Angels

Healing Our Past, Present, and Future With the Lords of Karma

By: Diane Stein

Introduces the Lords of Karma, members of the angelic realm and the supreme keepers of the karmic records, and shows how through a precisely worded appeal individuals can be granted release from negative karmic patterns

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Crossing Press

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0895948788

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9780895948786

Teaching First-Year College Students

By: Bette LaSere Erickson,Calvin B. Peters,Diane Weltner Strommer

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Teaching First-Year College Students

By: Bette LaSere Erickson,Calvin B. Peters,Diane Weltner Strommer

Teaching First-Year College Students is a thoroughly expanded and updated edition of Teaching College Freshmen, which has become a classic in the field since it was published in 1991. The book offers concrete suggestions about specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses. The new edition is based on the most current research on teaching and learning and incorporates information about the demographic changes that have occurred in student populations since the first edition was published. The updated strategies are designed to help first-year students adjust effectively to both the academic and nonacademic pressures of college. The authors also help faculty understand first-year students and show how their experiences in high school have prepared3⁄4or not prepared3⁄4them for the world of higher education.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470614749

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Sayles Talk

New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles

By: Diane Carson

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Sayles Talk

New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles

By: Diane Carson

His name is synonymous with "independent film," and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented coverage of Sayles’s craft and content, as it deploys a rich variety of critical methods to explore the full scope of his work. Together the essays afford a deeper understanding not only of the individual films—including his 1980 The Return of the Secaucus Seven (named to the National Registry) and the recent Limbo and Men with Guns—but also of Sayles’s unusual place in American cinema and his influence worldwide. The focus of Sayles’s films is frequently on peoples’ lives, not on stories with tidy endings, and often a main goal is to alert viewers of their complicity in the problems at hand. One might assume his style to be content driven, but closer inspection reveals a mix of styles from documentary to postmodern. In this anthology, a set of international scholars addresses these and many other aspects of Sayles’s filmmaking as they explore individual works. Their methodological approaches include historical and industry analysis as well as psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, to name a few. Sayles Talk is both an in-depth and wide-ranging tribute to the "father" of independent film. In one volume, readers can find discussions of most of Sayles’s films together with a comprehensive introduction to his film practice, an annotated list of existing literature on Sayles, and information on resources for further inquiry into his fiction, film, and television work. Film students as well as seasoned critics will turn to this book time and again to enrich their understanding of one of America’s great cinematic innovators and his legacy.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814340075

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9780814340073

Essential Energy Balancing III

Living with the Goddess

By: Diane Stein

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Essential Energy Balancing III

Living with the Goddess

By: Diane Stein

To heal oneself means to heal the world." With this starkly simple statement, Diane Stein draws upon the great mystical traditions, including Kundalini yoga, Wicca, Taoism, and more. In the final installment of her ENERGY BALANCING trilogy, she discusses 24 processes for healing individual and collective karma on the cosmic level. The much-anticipated culmination of Diane Stein's definitive three-volume investigation into the realm of multidimensional energetic healing.Illuminates the cosmology explored in the earlier books and provides 24 new applications for readers seeking the most advanced levels of spiritual growth. Diane Stein's books have sold more than 600,000 copies.

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Crossing Press

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1580911773

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9781580911771

Whole Brain Learning Theory in Education

By: Joyce Diane Schulz

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Whole Brain Learning Theory in Education

By: Joyce Diane Schulz

The purpose of this Master Thesis at Argosy University in December 2010 was to identify dominant learning modalities, as understood by the nine Multiple intelligences of Dr. Howard Gardner (Garner, 1993), the intelligences of right/left-brain dominance processing fields leading to whole brain theory in education. It can be called the Balanced Whole Learner, Whole Mind/Open mind learning methods. The brain dominance seems to be part of the Multiple Intelligence preference fields (Connell, 1996). Fifty secondary students, ten diverse adult learners, two administrators and eight teachers were part of the surveys done through 2009-2010. At the back of the text are diagnostic surveys, a potential interested person can take to determine their dominant learning styles. The questions that were asked was whether or not the adult learner or students were aware of the learning style preferences, and did they want to be aware of them.? The second focus was did their heritage, language, culture, educational level, or gender affect their learning style preferences? The researcher found positive data that supports these issues. The other information supports that brain dominance, MI theories are interwoven within each other as a composite Whole Brain Learning Theory. The text gives resources, findings and recommendations on how it can be implemented in a public school learning environment. The modalities can be integrated into a composite whole, and not separate categories, but an interwoven process to discover a persons brain processing. This is a valuable resources for an administrator, teacher, student, and adults to understand their unique method of processing information called the Whole Brain Learning Theory of education.

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1456760726

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Teaching Early Literacy

Development, Assessment, and Instruction

By: Diane M. Barone,Marla H. Mallette,Shelley Hong Xu

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Teaching Early Literacy

Development, Assessment, and Instruction

By: Diane M. Barone,Marla H. Mallette,Shelley Hong Xu

Grounded in cutting-edge theory and research about literacy development, this book is filled with practical assessment and instructional ideas for teachers of pre-K through grade 3. Engaging vignettes show how everyday conversations and activities offer rich opportunities both for evaluating children's current level of knowledge and for helping them progress toward more sophisticated and rewarding interactions with reading and writing. Throughout, the book highlights ways to work effectively with English language learners and their families, a theme that is the exclusive focus of two chapters. Other timely topics covered include creative uses of technology and ways to incorporate popular culture into the classroom. Over two dozen reproducible assessment tools and handouts enhance the utility of this volume as an instructional resource, professional development tool, or graduate-level text.

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Guilford Press

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1593851065

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9781593851064

Handbook of Pediatric Autopsy Pathology

By: Enid Gilbert-Barness,Diane E. Debich-Spicer

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Handbook of Pediatric Autopsy Pathology

By: Enid Gilbert-Barness,Diane E. Debich-Spicer

A comprehensive reference guide to the successful performance of pediatric autopsies and to the optimal recognition and interpretation of their pathologic findings. The authors cover such major developmental disorders as hydrops, chromosomal defects, and congenital abnormalities, metabolic disorders, and review the major organ systems. Additional chapters address sudden infant death, cytogenetics, the medical and forensic autopsy, special procedures, cultures and infection control, and biological hazards at the autopsy. Numerous standard reference tables, copious illustrations and drawings, and an appendix at the end of each chapter provide a wealth of practical information and bibliographic citations.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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ISBN 10

1592596738

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9781592596737

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