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This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change.

(Hardback)

This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change.

(Hardback)

This book centralizes media, sports, and athlete identity while providing an in-depth evaluation of the role that media play in how society views and discusses sports and athletes, highlighting several types of intertextuality and intersectionality while doing so.

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The fifth and sixth chapters for older children show them how to interpret story structure and the elements of character, setting, mood, plot, and theme.

Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics.

(Paperback)

Lively and imaginative book-based programs make it easy to engage young learners, while building their literacy and reading skills, and their love of books and reading.

Your library or classroom will sizzle with excitement when you present these creative, book-based programsand you just may have as much fun as the kids.

(Paperback)

Juice up your library programs with these lively, thematic, book-based activities for children in grades 4-8. In each chapter, one program is suited to the needs of school libraries and the other is targeted at public libraries, although both can be adapted to either environment.

(Paperback)

"A step-by-step guide to using the brain's hardwired desire for story to achieve any goal, whether it's successfully pitching a product, saving the planet, or convincing your kids not to text and drive, from the author of Wired for Story"--

(Paperback)

This one-of-a-kind book explores the neuroscience behind persuasion and influence to reveal the role that storytelling plays in inspiring, enlightening, and educating an audience.

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Because story times are essential components of library service to children and in such demand, in many libraries, even librarians who have never done story time before are being asked to step into that role. Story Time Success: A Practical Guide for Librarians is comprehens...

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Learning and fun go hand-in-hand with these thematically organized story time programs that are linked to adorable, edible crafts.

There are kids cookbooks and there are books with story time suggestions, but no book has combined the twountil now.

(Paperback)

Packed with folktales, poetry, aphorisms, songs, and legends, this comprehensive sourcebook is appropriate for use with upper elementary and secondary students or as a resource for the professional storyteller.

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This book supplies stories, essays, lesson plans and specialized storytelling strategies to help teachers "level the playing field" for all learners and better serve children with special needs.

More than 57 percent of the over 6 million American children with disabilities are in inclusive (i.e., general) classrooms;

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This text presents a compilation of the best of ideas from a group of library science graduate students, providing creative and engaging programs geared especially for children ages 012.

What are the concepts, activities, and topics that will hold the attention of today's children

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This volume in the Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series presents a concise introduction to the evolution, key concepts, discourse, and future options for improved strategic communication in today's U.S. government.

(Hardback)

This professional reference for academic librarians provides detailed guidance for the strategic management of academic libraries. This book offers solutions to immediate operational problems within the academic library and treats strategic planning as but one component of overall strategic management.

(Hardback)

Strategic Marketing for Libraries is a straightforward discussion of the full range of marketing concepts and tools applied to various types of libraries including public, special, and academic.

(Paperback)

Libraries enter into strategic planning by a variety of routes, from dynamic technology and rising costs to budget cuts and pressure for change.

(Hardback)

Only when a systems perspective like this is adopted and technology seen as a strategic variable can technology transfer be understood and successfully implemented, says Madu.

Madu thus identifies the failures of technology transfer as the result of malfunctions in three components of the system: technology, structure, and behavior.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

This book and the accompanying templates will model the kind of thinking that is required not only to create a strategic plan that is tailored to each institution, but also to stay focused on the strategic aspects of governance while implementing that plan.

(Hardback)

Most of what passes for strategic planning is not strategic at all. Cook maintains that even to attempt strategy there must first be a strategic system, a system that deals with strategic issues, decision-making, and strategic action, which is preceded by strategic thinking.

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This book provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide for making the most of the online learning environment.

The integration of Web 2.0 tools into an online learning environment requires more than just connecting technology: it involves a paradigm shift from "online learning" to "open network learning."