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Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

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A to Zoo

Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

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1657

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440834350

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9781440834356

Material Ambitions

Self-Help and Victorian Literature

By: Rebecca Richardson

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Material Ambitions

Self-Help and Victorian Literature

By: Rebecca Richardson

What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation. Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the burgeoning self-help genre of the Victorian era offered a narrative structure that linked individual success with collective success in a one-to-one relationship. Advocating for a broader cultural account of the ambitious hero narrative, Richardson argues that reading these biographies and self-help texts alongside fictional accounts of driven people complicates the morality tale that writers like Smiles took pains to invoke. In chapters featuring the works of Harriet Martineau, Dinah Craik, Thackeray, Trollope, and Miles Franklin, Richardson demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition by suggesting where it runs up against the limits of an individual's energy and ability, where it turns into competition, or where it risks upsetting a socio-ecological system of finite resources. The upward mobility plots of John Halifax, Gentleman or Vanity Fair suggest the dangers of zero-sum thinking, particularly evidenced by contemporary preoccupations with Malthusian and Darwinian discourses. Intertwining the methodologies of disability studies and ecocriticism, Material Ambitions persuasively unmasks the longstanding myth that ambitious individualism can overcome disadvantageous systematic and structural conditions.

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268

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JHU Press

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1421441985

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9781421441986

Connecting Cultures

A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

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Connecting Cultures

A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.

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691

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313080224

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9780313080227

Across Cultures

A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas

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A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas

Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction. Arranged in thematic groupings (Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, for example), this lively volume links diverse peoples, themes, and issues. It presents both annotations and practical advice on programming strategies. Connections are made to projects, graphic organizers, and activities.

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356

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031309456X

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9780313094569

Health Program Planning and Evaluation

A Practical Systematic Approach to Community Health

By: L. Michele Issel,Rebecca Wells,Mollie Williams

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Health Program Planning and Evaluation

A Practical Systematic Approach to Community Health

By: L. Michele Issel,Rebecca Wells,Mollie Williams

Health Program Planning and Evaluation, Fifth Edition carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. The Fifth Edition reflects the major changes in the field of community health with updated examples and references throughout.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284210057

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9781284210057

An American History

By: Rebecca B. Gruver

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An American History

By: Rebecca B. Gruver

To 1877 -- (Softcover)

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0075548720

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9780075548720

Digital Teaching for Linguistics

By: Rebecca Gregory,Jessica Norledge,Peter Stockwell,Paweł Szudarski

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Digital Teaching for Linguistics

By: Rebecca Gregory,Jessica Norledge,Peter Stockwell,Paweł Szudarski

Digital Teaching for Linguistics re-imagines the teaching of linguistics in a digital environment. It provides both an introduction to digital pedagogy and a discussion of technologically driven teaching practices that could be applied to any field of study. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of successful delivery of web-based instruction and assessment, this book: • provides extended analysis and discussion of the best practices for teaching in an online and blended context; • features examples and case studies based on current research and teaching practice; • proposes new methods of teaching and assessment in line with innovations in educational technology. This book is essential reading for educators in the areas of linguistics, English language, and education seeking guidance and advice on how to design or adapt their teaching for a digital world.

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187

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Routledge

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1000534839

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9781000534832

What Women Want

The Life You Crave and How God Satisfies

By: Lisa Tawn Bergren,Rebecca Price

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What Women Want

The Life You Crave and How God Satisfies

By: Lisa Tawn Bergren,Rebecca Price

From a deeper relationship with God to harmony in the home, from stronger marriages to more satisfying work: Women Want More. In What Women Want bestselling author Lisa T. Bergren and Rebecca Price invite readers to thoughtfully consider their soul-deep longings--and pursue God’s best in every area of life. Using in-depth interviews from a national survey and hundreds of personal interviews, biblical narratives, their own personal stories and inspiring quotes, the authors point fellow seekers toward the kind of wholeness God desires, providing lots of fun and inspiration along the way. They explore friendship, how and where to find happiness, health, and more with an eye on physical, emotional, and spiritual matters. A Bible study, designed for personal or group use and tested with dozens of women’s ministries around the country before publication, is included at the end of each chapter. Young or old, married or single, with children or without, striving in the workplace or working in the home, readers will resonate with Lisa and Rebecca’s descriptions of the life women crave, and learn how God fulfills the very desires He stirs.

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WaterBrook

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0307499340

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9780307499349

Across Cultures

A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas

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A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children

By: Kathy A. East,Rebecca L. Thomas

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Health Program Planning and Evaluation

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