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Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

By: Wendi Pillars

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Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

By: Wendi Pillars

A step-by-step guide for teachers to the benefits of visual note-taking and how to incorporate it in their classrooms. We've come a long way from teachers admonishing students to put away their drawings and take traditional long-form notes. Let's be honest: note-taking is boring and it isn't always the most effective way to retain information. This book is a guide for teachers about getting your students drawing and sketching to learn visually. Whether in elementary school or high school, neuroscience has shown that visual learning is a very effective way to retain information. The techniques in this book will help you work with your students in novel ways to retain information. Visual note-taking can be used with diverse learners; all ages; and those who have no drawing experience. Teachers are provided with a library of images and concepts to steal, tweak, and use in any way in their classrooms. The book is liberally illustrated with student examples from elementary and high school students alike.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393709841

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Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

By: Wendi Pillars

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Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

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Aether Ones

By: Wendi Coffman-Porter

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Aether Ones

By: Wendi Coffman-Porter

“A science fiction mystery with political upheaval and dangerous secrets. It’s got a kick-butt female lead and lots of really neat alien races.” —The Bookwyrm’s Den Long ago, the Great Sundering ripped the universe apart, creating two separate realities. The kuldain realm developed advanced technology, and its inhabitants travel the universe on massive ships to colonize and expand their empire. The aether realm, meanwhile, harnessed the magic of the massively powerful eldrich energy that connects everything within their realm. Now, a tentative peace reigns between the two realms, maintained by a treaty and by the Imperial Investigative Service—a force designed to monitor interactions between the realms and ensure that most kuldain inhabitants don’t even know aether space exists. Leilani Falconi, a talented agent of the IIS, polices the galaxy with quick sarcasm and a quicker temper. When a series of suspicious deaths in kuldain space threatens the secrecy and peace, Lei must solve the mystery—fast—before both her realities change forever. “Impressive and original world building . . . an entertaining read and a book which transported me to a fascinating and vivid universe.” —Facing the Story “Aether Ones with its incredible protagonist and refreshing take on a science fiction slash fantasy genre is a very engaging, fast-paced read.” —Lili’s Blissful Pages

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326

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612545017

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9781612545011

Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia

Kings, Christians, and Cosmopolitans in Catholic Youth Songs

By: Wendi A. Haugh

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Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia

Kings, Christians, and Cosmopolitans in Catholic Youth Songs

By: Wendi A. Haugh

When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in 1990, the new government began dismantling the divisive apartheid state and building a unified nation-state. What does this new nation look like from the perspective of ordinary citizens? In Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia, Wendi Haugh provides an ethnographic portrayal of the nation as imagined by people living in the former ethnic homeland of Ovamboland, with a particular focus on the lyrics of songs composed and performed by Catholic youth. The author argues that these youth draw on conflicting ideologies—hierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitan—from multiple sources to construct a multi-faceted sense of national identity. She reveals how their vision of the nation—framed as neutrally national—is deeply rooted in specific local histories and cultures.

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Lexington Books

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0739188461

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9780739188460

The Mystique of Transmission

On an Early Chan History and Its Context

By: Wendi L. Adamek

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The Mystique of Transmission

On an Early Chan History and Its Context

By: Wendi L. Adamek

The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan. Chinese religions scholar Wendi Adamek compares the Lidai fabao ji with other sources from the fourth through eighth centuries, chronicling changes in the doctrines and practices involved in transmitting medieval Chinese Buddhist teachings. While Adamek is concerned with familiar Chan themes like patriarchal genealogies and the ideology of sudden enlightenment, she also highlights topics that make Lidai fabao ji distinctive: formless practice, the inclusion of female practitioners, the influence of Daoist metaphysics, and connections with early Tibetan Buddhism. The Lidai fabao ji was unearthed in the early twentieth century in the Mogao caves at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang in northwestern China. Discovery of the Dunhuang manuscripts has been compared with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as these documents have radically changed our understanding of medieval China and Buddhism. A crucial volume for students and scholars, The Mystique of Transmission offers a rare glimpse of a lost world and fills an important gap in the timeline of Chinese and Buddhist history.

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595

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Columbia University Press

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0231510020

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9780231510028

The Lost Keys

By: Wendi McAleese

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The Lost Keys

By: Wendi McAleese

On the island of Singapore, Zacharia Pattara shares his lavish home in the suburbs with his five lively daughters and his beloved wife Anthoula. One fateful night in 1942 whilst they slept, the bombs of an invading Japanese Army signal the beginning of an uncertain future. With the clock ticking and the threat of advancing soldiers he does all he can to keep his family safe. Forced to separate, Anthoula and three girls evacuate the crumbling city whilst his youngest daughters take refuge in the convent. Soon Singapore falls under ruthless Japanese rule and along with thousands of citizens, Zacharia is taken as a Prisoner of War and held in appalling conditions. Haunted by regret and with limited food rations he gradually starves, awaiting news of his loved ones. With no end to the war in sight and with nothing but time, he has many questions. Did his wife escape unharmed from the island? Are his daughters safe in the convent? Will they ever be reunited, and can he survive the cruelty of his captors to see that day? This heartfelt family saga full of twists and turns shows that during the darkest of times, the strength of the human spirit can overcome the worst hardships. The Pattara family were among thousands who lost so much to the Japanese occupation during World War II. Based on real events, this is a story of survival and bravery when all hope seems impossible.

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432

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035859041

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9781035859047

He Who Dies

An Angela Matelli Mystery

By: Wendi Lee

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He Who Dies

An Angela Matelli Mystery

By: Wendi Lee

Ex-Marine turned private investigator Angela Matelli comes from a large family that have moved away from their original East Boston home. While Angela and her siblings have all chosen different lifestyles and professions, there is one inviolable rule that remains in all their lives - everyone goes to their Mother's house for Sunday dinner. So when Angela's brother Albert missed twice in a row, Mrs. Matelli is certain that something bad has happened to her son. Albert, widely believed by the family to be hooked up with the local mob, has always been scrupulous about Sunday dinner and now Mrs. Matelli wants to hire her daughter Angela to look into his disappearance. Against her better judgment, Angela - using her mother's key - breaks into Albert's apartment to find the dinner table set, an open bottle of wine, and a three-day old corpse in other room. The corpse, luckily, isn't Albert but Angela suspects someone is using the body to try and set her brother up. As she digs further into her brother's life she quickly discovers that his boss in the mob claims to nothing about Albert's troubles, the police are after him to explain the corpse in his apartment, and his partners in the Itty-Bitty Kitty toy factory are desperate for his return. Now it's up to Angela to uncover what each of these things has to do with the others - and who is trying so desperately to get to her brother - before it is too late.

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262

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Minotaur Books

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0312274378

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9780312274375

Addressing Educational Opportunities for Rural Kanjars

By: Wendi M. Boxx

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Addressing Educational Opportunities for Rural Kanjars

By: Wendi M. Boxx

Little is documented on educational schemes helping the marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in rural India. This study documents new avenues of addressing social and gender inequality within the ethnic community of Kanjars through education and improvements in hyigene. Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) is an innovative NGO providing education to girls from lower castes in Uttar Pradesh. In a project created to engage Kanjar girls, PPES made use of a targeted incentive, a solar lantern, to reward girls with good school attendance as well as to address one of the local community’s needs, that of a clean and cost effective lighting source. This study analyzes the attendance rates of girls before and after the introduction of solar lanterns. In addition, surveys and interviews provide qualitative insights. The overall findings reveal that girls with a solar lantern not only attain higher average attendance but also take onwership of their education.

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Herbert Utz Verlag

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3831643830

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9783831643837

Leading Libraries: How to Create a Service Culture

By: Wyoma vanDuinkerken,Wendi Kaspar Arant

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Leading Libraries: How to Create a Service Culture

By: Wyoma vanDuinkerken,Wendi Kaspar Arant

Quality leadership is integral to the very future of our profession. And it doesn't only come from the top down. Effective leadership is customer-focused and collaborative, fostering a service culture that invites the involvement of individuals in every part and at every level of the organization, as the authors persuasively demonstrate in this practical new book. Drawing from case studies as well as the literature of business and social sciences, the authors provide guidance on how to apply the values of service leadership to both public and academic libraries. Through the use of examples, exercises, and tools for development, this book walks readers through the steps needed to create a sustainable, service-oriented model by Explaining how a service culture reaches beyond the individual leader with positional authority and extends to all individualsShowing ways to build rapport and trust within an organization, and how to balance encouragement with accountabilityDetailing strategic thinking and planning methods that will lead to improvements in customer service, human resources, organizational development, and trainingHelping library leaders create a sustainable service culture through codifying their organization’s values, with advice on policies and procedures such as recruitment, performance evaluation, compensation, and succession planningDiscussing the environment of change in libraries, showing how a library’s organizational culture is at the center of being responsive and staying relevantThis valuable resource gathers the principles and best practices of leadership, and points the way towards creating a service culture that makes every staff member a library leader.

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American Library Association

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0838913121

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9780838913123

Library Storage Facilities

From Planning to Construction to Operation

By: Wyoma van Duinkerken,Wendi Arant Kaspar,Paula Sullenger

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Library Storage Facilities

From Planning to Construction to Operation

By: Wyoma van Duinkerken,Wendi Arant Kaspar,Paula Sullenger

Library Storage Facilities: From Planning to Construction to Operation examines high-density library storage facilities, considering how such facilities are changing the nature of collection management. The book discusses the types of storage facilities and explores how institutions can collaborate and embrace cost saving options through opening shared off-site storage facilities, addressing common needs, and maximizing value and space in on-campus libraries. Considering a unique partnership between the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System, the book highlights best practice and lessons learned during implementation. Topics covered include storage strategies, geometric efficiency, systems integration, environmental control, and more. - Provides insights on the importance of high-density library storage facilities - Lays out the process for funding, planning and building collaborations around storage facilities - Shows how to prepare a storage facility for operation in terms of staffing, workflow and equipment - Considers repurposing existing structures as a way of building a storage facility - Presents how to incorporate a storage facility into services and operations

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268

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Chandos Publishing

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0081027559

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9780081027554

Book's by Wendi Pillars

Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

Visual Note-Taking for Educators: A Teacher's Guide to Student Creativity

Aether Ones

Aether Ones

Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia

Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia

The Mystique of Transmission

The Mystique of Transmission

The Lost Keys

The Lost Keys

He Who Dies

He Who Dies

Addressing Educational Opportunities for Rural Kanjars

Addressing Educational Opportunities for Rural Kanjars

Leading Libraries: How to Create a Service Culture

Leading Libraries: How to Create a Service Culture

Library Storage Facilities

Library Storage Facilities

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