A Journey of Love By: Nancy Wise About the Book When Nikki finds out she must move to a new town and cannot take her special stuffed animals, Chloe and Lucy with her, she’s devastated. Nikki finds comfort in knowing that when she donates her special friends to a local thrift store, Chloe and Lucy will find a new home full of love. A Journey of Love shows how community thrift stores can impact the members of their community by providing a resource for rehoming beloved possessions.
Nancy Reagan describes her life from her happy childhood to her exciting stage and film career to her experiences as the wife of a famous actor, governor, and presidential candidate and expresses hopeful views on America's future.
The author provides answers to the various letters she receives from her fans, offering information about her writing career and the characters in her novels, and supplying advice on friends, family, boyfriends, adolescence, and religion.
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence. Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth, to fight for political causes. Yet the presence of music in politics receives relatively little attention from scholars, politicians, and citizens. White power music is no exception, despite its role in recent high-profile hate crimes. Trendy Fascism is the first book to explore how contemporary white supremacists use popular music to teach hate and promote violence. Nancy S. Love focuses on how white power music supports “trendy fascism,” a neo-fascist aesthetic politics. Unlike classical fascism, trendy fascism involves a hyper-modern cultural politics that exploits social media to create a global white supremacist community. Three case studies examine different facets of the white power music scene: racist skinhead, neo-Nazi folk, and goth/metal. Together these cases illustrate how music has replaced traditional forms of public discourse to become the primary medium for conveying white supremacist ideology today. Written from the interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, this book is crucial reading for everyone concerned about the future of democracy. “Trendy Fascism has the potential to unsettle how theorists of democracy frame their most basic assumptions in the study of politics. The case studies of white power music are indeed unsettling, and at times they will bring chills to the reader. But, as Love argues, we must confront the realities of and rationalizations for the often-disavowed transnational white supremacist communities and networks in our political present if we are serious about overturning the racial contract pervading late modern states.” — Neil Roberts, Williams College
Musical metaphors abound in political theory and music often accompanies political movements, yet music is seldom regarded as political communication. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy S. Love explores how music functions as metaphor and model for democracy in the work of political theorists and activist musicians. She examines deliberative democratic theorists—Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls—who employ musical metaphors to express the sense of justice that animates their discourse ideals. These metaphors also invoke embodied voices that enter their public discourse only in translation, as rational arguments for legal rights. Love posits that the music of activists from the feminist and civil rights movements—Holly Near and Bernice Johnson Reagon—engages deeper, more fluid energies of civil society by modeling a democratic conversation toward which deliberative democrats' metaphors merely suggest. To omit movement music from politics is, Love argues, to refuse the challenges it poses to modern, rational, secular, Western democracy. In conclusion, Musical Democracy proposes that a more radical—and more musical—democracy would embrace the spirit of humanity which moves a politics dedicated to the pursuit of justice.
Nancy Love’s concise yet complete volume aims to inform students of their choices among political values. By exploring the assumptions of various ideologies and comparing their positions, students begin to understand political alternatives to be able to choose among them—in essence, they learn to think democratically. Offering historical and analytic context for the selections in her companion reader, Dogmas and Dreams, Love challenges students to consider the various ways ideological frameworks shape political actions. Reframing her approach in this second edition, Love examines how traditional left/right ideologies—liberalism and conservatism, socialism and fascism—are shifting to adapt to new political realities in an ever turbulent, post-9/11 world. She also discusses why alternative ideologies—feminism, environmentalism, fundamentalism, and globalization—may better convey our global political future. While pushing the boundaries of the left/right political spectrum, she looks at how grassroots social movements offer alternative ways to view ideological differences, from cluster-concepts to micro-discourses, and even a planetary galaxy. Expanded coverage includes: a new chapter on nationalism and globalization, which examines the work of Samuel Huntington, Kenichi Ohmae, Benjamin Barber, and many more, to explore fundamentalism in Islamic politics increased coverage of global environmental politics, including Shiva’s Stolen Harvest and Kelly’s Thinking Green, examining the relationships between developed and developing countries fresh material on socialist politics post-1989 and the rise of neo-fascist movements in the United States and Europe, including analysis of Hayden and Flacks’ "The Port Huron Statement at 40" and Bob Moser’s "The Age of Rage" an updated feminism chapter that considers the impact of third-wave, post-colonial, and so-called "power" feminists and incorporates new analysis of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes Revisited
Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing. Yet, NCBL and other federal and state mandates have placed educators under increasing pressure to make certain all students meet standards on high-stakes tests. Now, more than ever, teachers and administrators need to embrace testing as a valuable classroom tool to guide instruction, use efficient technological resources available for test scoring and analysis, and profit from the benefits of test analysis to increase learning and achievement. Using Test Data for Student Achievement shows educators, step by step, how to use test data to facilitate student learning. The book combines research, technology and Sindelar's experience as a teacher and administrator to provide practical and efficient ways to use test data to increase learning, close achievement gaps and even raise test scores.
Voices of East Asia provides significant yet accessible readings in translation chosen to stimulate interest in the long and rich cultural history of East Asia, the countries of China, Japan, and Korea. The readings range from ancient to modern, elite to popular, and include poetry, stories, essays, and drama. Each section begins with a broad but brief overview of that country’s political and cultural history. Each reading is preceded by a concise explanation of its literary and cultural context. As expertise in East Asian studies has exploded in the West in recent decades, a novice could be overwhelmed by all the materials available now. In this volume, however, the reader will find a manageable set of texts that may be read on their own, as part of a world literature course, or as supplementary readings for an East Asian history class. As economic and political news from East Asia sweeps across the world, this anthology aims to provide a taste of the enduring traditions upon which contemporary East Asia is built, a glimpse into the hopes and fears, love and sorrow in the hearts of the people behind the headlines. This anthology will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history, culture, society and literature.
Everyone knows that L.A. is the home of Hollywood. But this huge city has even more magic than you’ll find on the movie screen. It’s all here, captured in this breathtaking tribute. Glimpse the past in the La Brea Tar Pits and the Mission San Gabriel Archangel. Admire the natural beauty of Santa Catarina Island and Griffith Park. Look at amazing landmarks like the famous Hollywood sign, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the renowned Rose Bowl. Art and ideas flourish at the Getty Center, Norton Simon Museum of Art, and the area’s many universities. Of course, you can’t forget L.A.’s Chinatown, which inspired the popular film. From Mulholland Drive to Beverly Hills, the Venice Canals to San Fernando Valley, it’s a special trip to one of the world’s capitals.
This reference is completely revised and expanded to reflect the most critical studies, controversies, and technologies impacting the medical field, including probing research on lentivirus, gutless adenovirus, bacterial and baculovirus vectors, retargeted viral vectors, in vivo electroporation, in vitro and in vivo gene detection systems, and all inducible gene expression systems. Scrutinizing every tool, technology, and issue impacting the future of gene and cell research, it is specifically written and organized for laymen, scholars, and specialists from varying backgrounds and disciplines to understand the current status of gene and cell therapy and anticipate future developments in the field.
Collaborative inquiry + effective use of data = significant leaps in learning and achievement! This resource combines a powerful collaborative inquiry process, reflective dialogue, and rigorous use of data to improve outcomes for all students. The editor and contributors provide detailed examples of schools that have demonstrated dramatic gains by building collaborative cultures, nurturing ongoing inquiry, and using data systematically. The book shows school leaders how to: Implement collaborative inquiry to meet accountability mandates Build and support a high-performing data culture Establish a school climate characterized by collective responsibility for student learning and a respect for students’ cultures
Together with the Paramedic Association of Canada and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Jones and Bartlett Publishers is proud to publish Emergency Care in the Streets, originally authored by Dr. Nancy Caroline. In the United States, this textbook has been central to paramedic training since the 1970s. Much loved and greatly respected, this textbook is still unrivalled in its ability to speak directly to the paramedic through humor and wisdom. Now, for the first time, Dr. Caroline's textbook has been adapted by a team of Canadian paramedics! Dedicated to the late Dr. Caroline, this textbook honors her work with: Progressive case studies that lead you through an emergency call from beginning to end Practical at-the-scene advice Notes from Nancy: Words of wisdom from Dr. Caroline A mixture of text, colour photographs, diagrams, and cartoons to suit all learning styles Skill Drills with written step-by-step explanations and visual summaries of important skills and procedures C.
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