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Do Bananas Chew Gum?

By: Jamie Gilson

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Sam has made it most of the way through sixth grade, barely able to read and write, but now Sam's family have moved again and he is faced with the prospect of attending a new school. How long will he be able to keep his problem secret?

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Harper Collins

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0062126687

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9780062126689

Double Dog Dare

By: Jamie Gilson

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Double Dog Dare

By: Jamie Gilson

A new program for gifted and talented students has the fifth grade in turmoil. Ultimately, all those involved learn an important lesson about the meaning of "gifted", and that there are many ways for a person to be special.

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Harper Collins

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0688163610

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9780688163617

4B Goes Wild

By: Jamie Gilson

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4B Goes Wild

By: Jamie Gilson

Mr. Star broke the news gently. "Well, 4B," he said, "it appears we're going to do it." It was the talk of last year's fourth, especially the part about the catfish between the principal's sheets. It is the good-behavior reward for this year's fourth grade. It is Outdoor Education: three days at Camp Trotter in Wisconsin. From where Hobie Hanson sits -- at Central School in Stockton, Illinois -- it is bad news. Three days also means two nights, two nights far from home. The thought brings wooly-worms to his stomach and floods his head with what-ifs. As things turn out, however, Outdoor Education lives up to its name, and in ways that neither Hobie nor his friends expect. The class, and sub, that kept readers breathless in Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub are back for another rousing adventure, filled with the sights, sounds, tastes, and, yes, smells familiar to veteran campers everywhere.

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Harper Collins

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0062126679

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9780062126672

Wagon Train 911

By: Jamie Gilson

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Wagon Train 911

By: Jamie Gilson

As part of the Wagons Out West program, several fifth graders undertake the challenge of making it to Oregon. With her usual wit and wisdom, Jamie Gilson has created two new characters sure to keep you laughing as they win your heart.

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HarperTrophy

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0688158579

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9780688158576

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

By: Jamie Gilson

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Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

By: Jamie Gilson

The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to sink their substitute teacher by making her cry.

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Harper Collins

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0380732513

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9780380732517

My Teacher is an Idiom

By: Jamie Gilson

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My Teacher is an Idiom

By: Jamie Gilson

A funny second-grade school story involving lost teeth, gross table manners, the weirdness of idioms, a new kid from France, and the ups and downs of friendship.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544056809

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9780544056800

Bug in a Rug

By: Jamie Gilson

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Bug in a Rug

By: Jamie Gilson

Seven-year-old Richard is self-conscious when he receives a pair of purple pants from his aunt and uncle and has to wear them to school, but he is even more worried when his uncle shows up for a visit to his classroom.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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9780395866160

Dial Leroi Rupert, DJ

By: Jamie Gilson

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Dial Leroi Rupert, DJ

By: Jamie Gilson

When a game goes wrong, the formidable Dr. Scharff catches Mitch, Lenny, and Aaron accidentally damaging her property. The bill is huge, and Dr. Scharff promises to call the boys' parents -- unless they pay her by Friday. The debtors decide to pool their limited talents in a wacky jazz trio. But their get-rich-quick scheme backfires until Leroi Rupert, their favorite disc jockey, decides to even up his own score with Dr. Scharff.

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Minstrel

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0671702521

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9780671702526

Human Resource Development

Critical Perspectives and Practices

By: Laura L. Bierema,Jamie L. Callahan,Carole J. Elliott,Tomika W. Greer,Joshua C. Collins

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Human Resource Development

Critical Perspectives and Practices

By: Laura L. Bierema,Jamie L. Callahan,Carole J. Elliott,Tomika W. Greer,Joshua C. Collins

Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices is a landmark textbook on HRD scholarship and practice and is a significant departure from the standard HRD texts available. Based on Bierema and Callahan’s framework for critical human resource development, this book develops an understanding of HRD that addresses both key and contested issues of practice associated with relating, learning, changing, and organizing for organizations. This book covers the basic tenets of HRD, interrogates the dominant paradigms and practices of the field, teaches readers how to critically assess HRD practices and outcomes, and provides critical alternatives. The text also addresses HRD as a contested field and the importance for HRD professionals to reflect on their values, maintain their sanity, and retain their employment while attempting to do this difficult work that serves multiple stakeholders. The text weaves in Points to Ponder, Case in Point, and Tips & Tools features and exercises, giving readers an insight into HRD issues across the globe. This critical text offers an exciting alternative to the instrumentalist, managerialist, and masculine perspective of other books. Designed for students and practitioners, this textbook will be essential reading for upper-level courses on human resource development, human resource management, and adult education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000957586

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9781000957587

Decades of Disparity

Drug Arrests and Race in the United States

By: Human Rights Watch (Organization),Jamie Fellner

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Decades of Disparity

Drug Arrests and Race in the United States

By: Human Rights Watch (Organization),Jamie Fellner

Using national drug arrest data from 1980 to 2007, this report illuminates the persistence and extent of racial disparities in the so-called?war on drugs? in the United States. Although blacks and whites engage in drug offenses at roughly comparable rates, blacks have been consistently arrested for drug offenses at rates that are from 2.8 to 5.5 times higher nationwide than white drug arrest rates. In addition, this report reveals that among individual states, black drug arrest rates in a single year, 2006, ranged from 2 to 11.3 times higher than white rates. Finally, the report shows that since 1980, the preponderance of drug arrests have been for possession, not sales. Millions of Americans have acquired a criminal record because they engaged in the minor non-violent offense of drug possession. Human Rights Watch calls on the United States to revise its drug control policies to reduce reliance on criminal prosecution and address these troubling racial disparities.

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Human Rights Watch

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1564324508

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9781564324504

Mastering Public Health

A Postgraduate Guide to Examinations and Revalidation, Second Edition

By: Geraint Lewis,Jessica Sheringham,Jamie Lopez Bernal,Tim Crayford

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Mastering Public Health

A Postgraduate Guide to Examinations and Revalidation, Second Edition

By: Geraint Lewis,Jessica Sheringham,Jamie Lopez Bernal,Tim Crayford

Mastering Public Health: A Postgraduate Guide to Examinations and Revalidation, Second Edition is an essential study aid for all those preparing for postgraduate, masters, and higher examinations in public health. Now updated and revised for the second edition, the book continues to provide all postgraduate students taking higher public health exam

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710

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CRC Press

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144415270X

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9781444152708

Advanced Introduction to Employee Engagement

By: Saks, Alan M.,Gruman, Jamie A.

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Advanced Introduction to Employee Engagement

By: Saks, Alan M.,Gruman, Jamie A.

This Advanced Introduction provides a cutting edge review of employee engagement, illustrating the theories and key instruments for research that underpin the field and its antecedents and consequences. It translates the science into practice by offering recommendations on how to build an engaged workforce and how to socialize and engage newcomers.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800372256

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9781800372252

Wallace and I

Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction

By: Jamie Redgate

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Wallace and I

Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction

By: Jamie Redgate

Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being," what he actually meant by the term "human being" has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace was a posthumanist writer, and too theoretically sophisticated to write about characters as having some kind of essential interior self or soul. Though the contemporary, posthuman model of the embodied brain is central to Wallace’s work, so is his critique of that model: the soul is as vital a part of Wallace’s fiction as the bodies in which his souls are housed. Drawing on Wallace’s reading in the science and philosophy of mind, this book gives a rigorous account of Wallace’s dualism, and of his humanistic engagement with key postmodern concerns: authorship; the self and interiority; madness and mind doctors; and free will. If Wallace’s fiction is about what it is to be a human being, this book is about the human ‘I’ at the heart of Wallace’s work.

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318

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Routledge

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0429594666

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9780429594663

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

Bridging Theory and Application

By: Jamie E. Robbins, PhD,Leilani Madrigal, PhD

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Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

Bridging Theory and Application

By: Jamie E. Robbins, PhD,Leilani Madrigal, PhD

This concise, engaging text, distinguished by its skillful integration of theory and practice, addresses the key principles of sport, exercise, and performance psychology. It reflects the broadening of sport psychology studies to encompass more widespread human performance research. Emphasizing practical applications of theory, the book helps students interested in pursuing a career in sport and exercise psychology, as well as those focused on such occupations as coaching and athletic training, to recognize the applicability of sport and exercise psychology principles to their everyday lives and future careers. To avoid an overabundance of extraneous theories and research, the text takes a streamlined “less is more” approach by focusing on just the core theories underpinning sport psychology. Chapters address such essential concepts as individual differences, personality, motivation, stress and coping, decision making, and burnout in the context of human performance. Bringing these topics to life are companion “Applying the Concepts” chapters demonstrating how these principles are directly applied in real-life situations. Interviews with researchers, coaches, athletes, and other individuals from performance-intensive professions vividly reinforce the book’s content. Additionally, the text contains insights on theories and research findings that students can apply to their own experience. Critical thinking questions and “Individual Challenge” activities promote understanding and further exploration. An instructor’s package includes a test bank and PowerPoints. KEY FEATURES: Illustrates key theories and research with practical applications Written in a concise and easily accessible manner Provides examples of practice applications in sport, exercise, and other areas of human performance Includes interviews with researchers, practitioners, coaches, athletes, and other performance-intensive professionals Explains how theoretical concepts can be applied to a student’s personal experience

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278

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826129692

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9780826129697

Brave New Worlds

By: Gini Koch,Jamie M. Boyd,Mike Jack Stoumbos,Stephen Leigh,A.M. Giddings,Auston Habershaw,Sarah Lyn Eaton,Ian Tregillis,Jack Nicholls,Willa Blythe,Chaz Brenchley,Ari Officer,Eric Choi,Jacey Bedford,Juliet Kemp

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Brave New Worlds

What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that’s still years away from its destination and has no food? BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity’s long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from Earth, through the unknown dangers of the long flight through the cold vastness of space, to the immigrants’ final arrival on an alien world. Perhaps your father has signed you up for life on a gen ship before you’ve even graduated high school. Or maybe you’ve arrived at a gloriously green new planet...only to have it shoot you out of the sky when you try to land. Or worse yet, your attempts to terraform your new home have all failed. What do you do then? Join Jamie Boyd, Gini Koch, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Stephen Leigh, A.M. Giddings, Auston Habershaw, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Ian Tregillis, Jack Nicholls, Willa Blythe, Chaz Brenchley, Ari Officer, Eric Choi, Jacey Bedford, and Juliet Kemp in the latest anthology from Zombies Need Brains, BRAVE NEW WORLDS, as they explore the infinite challenges of humanity’s race to the stars!

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355

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Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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1940709458

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9781940709451

The Open Mind

Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

By: Jamie Cohen-Cole

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The Open Mind

Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

By: Jamie Cohen-Cole

This study chronicles the rise of psychology as a tool for social analysis during the Cold War Era and the concept of the open mind in American culture. In the years following World War II, a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self took hold as an essential way of understanding society. In The Open Mind, science historian Jamie Cohen-Cole demonstrates how this notion of the self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. From 1945 to 1965, policy makers used this new concept of human nature to advance a centrist political agenda and instigate nationwide educational reforms that promoted more open, and indeed more human, minds. The new field of cognitive science was central to this project, helping to overthrow the behaviorist view that the mind either did not exist or could not be studied scientifically. While the concept of the open mind initially unified American culture, this unity started to fracture between 1965 and 1975, as the ties between political centrism and the scientific account of human nature began to unravel. During the late 1960s, feminists and the New Left repurposed psychological tools to redefine open-mindedness as a characteristic of left-wing politics. As a result, once-liberal intellectuals became neoconservative, and in the early 1970s, struggles against open-mindedness gave energy and purpose to the right wing.

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406

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University of Chicago Press

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022609233X

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9780226092331

Bug in a Rug

By: Jamie Gilson

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Bug in a Rug

By: Jamie Gilson

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618316701

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9780618316700

Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!

By: Jamie Gilson

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Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!

By: Jamie Gilson

When second-grader Richard and three other members of the Sumac School Chess Club compete in their first tournament, they each learn something about luck, concentration, and teamwork.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618977902

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9780618977901

My Teacher Is an Idiom

By: Jamie Gilson

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My Teacher Is an Idiom

By: Jamie Gilson

With a friend like Patrick, who needs enemies? Patrick is a showoff and a prankster, and Richard is his usual target. Resolved not to let Patrick get him in trouble, Richard is sucked in by The Mosquito, a way to eat red Jell-O through a straw, and of course trouble ensues. Complications arise when the new girl from France thinks the boys are seriously injured, and miscommunication is all too easy when idioms in English and in French are taken literally. The shifting alliances, interests, and concerns of second-graders are authentically and humorously depicted in this easy-to-read school story.

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HarperCollins

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0544056906

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9780544056909

Four-B Goes Wild

By: Jamie Gilson

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Four-B Goes Wild

By: Jamie Gilson

Fourth graders on a three-day camping trip with their teachers experience frights and delights.

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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

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0671680633

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9780671680633

Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall

By: Jamie Gilson

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Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall

By: Jamie Gilson

When his town is devastated by a flood, Hobie's fifth grade class is forced to meet every day in the shopping mall.

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164

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Aladdin Paperbacks

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0671706462

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9780671706463

Hobie Hanson in Sticks and Stones and Skeleton Bones

By: Jamie Gilson,Jamie Gibson,Patricia MacDonald,Gilson

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Hobie Hanson in Sticks and Stones and Skeleton Bones

By: Jamie Gilson,Jamie Gibson,Patricia MacDonald,Gilson

Hobie's responsible for Nick's red shiny nose which was caused by a puncture from a wire spring inside a toy snake, and to get even, Nick tries to push Hobie down the escalator with Mort, the school's skeleton.

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178

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Aladdin Paperbacks

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0671749390

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9780671749392

Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!

By: Jamie Gilson

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Chess! I Love It, I Love It, I Love It!

By: Jamie Gilson

When second-grader Richard and three other members of the Sumac School Chess Club compete in their first tournament, they each learn something about luck, concentration, and teamwork.

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