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This compendium of outstanding read-aloud choices for grades pre-K-3 will enrich and extend content area instruction, helping busy teachers to meet curriculum requirements within the confines of their busy schedules.

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Nine of the best-selling books of all time are nonfiction, and countless readers turn to nonfiction when reading for pleasure today.

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The Red Scare at the FCC started when James Lawrence Fly led the agency in many important decisions that were inspired by the New Deal.

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This simple new approach to teaching information skills takes students beyond mere fact-finding to designing and recording search strategies.

(Paperback)

Learn and perfect the skills needed to conduct satisfying reference interviews in the modern technological environment with this easy-to-use guide.

In today's technology-driven world, reference librarians must serve users who come into the building as well as remote users who ask via various digital means.

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Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

(Hardback)

Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

(Paperback)

Based on educational research, this book will help school librarians create an environment that supports resilience in their school library media center.

Resilience is the capacity of children to grow up successful, content, and competent even though they are faced with adversities like poverty, violence, illness, or neglect.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

How can public libraries successfully meet the needs of their patrons and their communities, and build support for their endeavors With examples and statistics from more than 200 libraries of all sizes, the book gathers decades of pertinent research and a wealth of creative ideas and winning tactics for public libraries.

(Hardback)

Analyses the function of utopias and utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces, to develop utopias as methodology.

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This comprehensive presentation of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process shows librarians how to successfully prepare RFPs when determining which vendors to use for purchasing library materials.

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This study analyzes the rhetorical uses of the authorizing figure during the Cuban revolution. Rice discusses how the authorizing figure defines and unifies the emerging revolutionary movement and legitimizes the revolutionary vision over time.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

(Hardback)

A simple keyword search in Library Literature and Information Index, a primary electronic index of library and information science research literature, retrieves over 6,500 items related to the Internet.

(Hardback)

This volume examining key factors related to successful reference service practices provides librarians with an important and significantly different perspective on the reference process.

(Paperback)

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As one of the only books to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the multifaceted role of school librarians in student success, this instructional guide offers everything you'll need to develop, align, and evaluate curriculum with your library collection in mind.

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Using concrete examples, The School Librarians Technology Playbook offers strategies for school librarians to initiate and support innovative practices throughout their school community.

The role of school librarians has evolved: no longer do they primarily support teachers with reading and literacy resources.

(Paperback, 7th edition)

"The seventh edition of this comprehensive school library management text expands upon the role of the school librarian, especially in the ever-growing digital realm, and highlights the importance of school librarian leadership and outreach"--

(Hardback, 7th edition)

"The seventh edition of this comprehensive school library management text expands upon the role of the school librarian, especially in the ever-growing digital realm, and highlights the importance of school librarian leadership and outreach"--

(Hardback, 5th Revised edition)

With a focus on the successful management of the school library media center as a system, the new edition of this authoritative work addresses and integrates the many trends and developments of the past decade.