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Common core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development-where to begin This book investigates these critical topics together to give you the power to transform your collection and practice and put your school library at the center of STEM.

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This fascinating journey into the heart of comics connects their unique blend of entertainment and wisdom with school curriculum to invigorate teachers and students alike.

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This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers.

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A guide to bushfire safety in Australia. Researched, and with information on different aspects of the subject, this book presents how to design your home and garden so it won't burn, and what to do if you get caught in a fire.

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Updated and enhanced, the second edition of this text provides both library students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of procedural and philosophical approaches in acquisitions management.

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This comprehensive book covers the philosophy behind RFPs to prime readers to understand how to most effectively write them and provides instruction on navigating the submission process as it applies to multiple types of libraries.

For many years, only large academic and public libraries and a few library systems regularly used RFPs.

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Carol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the I...

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Carol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the I...

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Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users.

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Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users.

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Media Power is a crucial, often taken for granted, concept. We assume that the media are 'powerful' and that 'power' is problematic. This book defines media power by looking at the key contexts in which power is negotiated -economically, politically and technologically -offering an understanding of the power of media in today's complex environment.

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Media Power is a crucial, often taken for granted, concept. We assume that the media are 'powerful' and that 'power' is problematic. This book defines media power by looking at the key contexts in which power is negotiated -economically, politically and technologically -offering an understanding of the power of media in today's complex environment.

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A study of the "copycat phenomenon" describes how the media spreads such violent behavior as snipers, teen suicides, school shootings, child abductions, and other crimes, explaining how and why such tragedies occur in clusters and assessing the potential repercussions of bombarding the public with print, movies and television.

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Critically interrogating the popular concept of cosmopolitanism, this book offers new insight of what it means to be a world citizen today.

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Critically interrogating the popular concept of cosmopolitanism, this book offers new insight of what it means to be a world citizen today.

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In recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive study of the capacity of courts to make and implement social policy. Donald L. Horowitz, a lawyer and social scientist, traces the imprint of the judicial process on the policies that emerge from it.

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Library facilitators of art-based creativity sessions will learn how to choose materials and art experiences appropriate for young people from toddlers to teens and for intergenerational groups.

In the modern world, innovative and creative individuals have a distinct advantage: the creative edge.

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Provides a solid, foundational understanding of creativity that enables readers to elicit creative performance from their students.

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Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list will provide grist for discussion and will be a welcome reminder to fans about top books they may have missed. Each list is introduced with an essay by a master of that category, including such top writers as Joseph Wambaugh, Sue Grafton, and Scott Turow. Includes a list of Edgar Award winners.

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In The cultural Communication of Emigration in Bulgaria, Sotirovaexamines Bulgarian emigration discourses as cultural currency through the frameworks of ethnography of communication and cultural discourse analysis. Such discourses enact larger cultural notions of being, social relations, dwelling, and action.

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