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Traditionally, psychology has concentrated on factors that contribute to individuals becoming unhealthy and has paid very little attention to those individuals who become healthy when all indications would predict the opposite.

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This book provides actionable steps for educators to commit to inclusion of diversity immediately, working toward culturally responsive teaching.

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This provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization understand what can help and hinder their disaster recovery, whether natural or man-made caused.

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One of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia delivers this comprehensive, up-to-date book to help readers understand, identify, and overcome reading problems. Dr. Shaywitz translates cutting-edge research into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help and hope. High school & older.

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The book brings together analyses of U.S.-based conflicts with those from many regions of the world. International, intra-state, and local conflicts are explored, along with those that have been violent and non-violent.

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The book brings together analyses of U.S.-based conflicts with those from many regions of the world. International, intra-state, and local conflicts are explored, along with those that have been violent and non-violent.

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Overcoming Student Apathy guides the reader toward success with the disenfranchised, the downtrodden, the devalued, and the demoralized. Eight archetypes are used in narrative form to represent the various forms that apathy assumes in our classrooms (e.g., The Rebel, The Downt...

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Overcoming Student Apathy: Succeeding with All Learners provides a candid look into the hearts and minds of many of today's struggling learners. Frustrated teachers and administrators typically stop at labeling the symptoms shown by these students: apathetic, unmotivated, lazy...

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Overcoming Student Apathy: Succeeding with All Learners provides a candid look into the hearts and minds of many of today's struggling learners. Frustrated teachers and administrators typically stop at labeling the symptoms shown by these students: apathetic, unmotivated, lazy...

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J. Dawson Williams writes with both authority and compassion - a unique combination. He emphasizes that the only way to move past discrimination and prejudice is through positivity and optimism, rather than anger and frustration. Readers are reminded that it is through ethics that we achieve a more productive system.

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This book is an up-to-date contributor to the discussion of juvenile justice reform. It offers detailed examples of "what works" in community-based alternative-to-incarceration programs.

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The static state of public education continues to plague educational leaders and educators. The acceptance of the status quo of public education is recognized by all of us, and it is time to look at radical change. The college drop-out rate continues to be a serious problem, a...

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The ideas outlined in this book for fixing flaws in federal governance come from the more than century of collective experience of its expert authors. The book represents a burst of sunshine after a very dark period in the nations history.

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A vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, and a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it.

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This series of essays explores the impact of information on the quality of life in modern society. Addressing the significance of boredom as an indicator of overloads of information, Klapp argues that the information society has become boring in spite of itself.

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This book examines the unspoken realities of Black life in America. Intended for therapists who are not afraid to explore the impact of historical and contemporary issues, the book uncovers some deeply buried sources of pain and survival in Black experiences. Its time to bring the backstory to the counseling forefront. Overlooked no more!

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Synthesizes an array of research from both the physical and social sciences and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. This book provides information about the need for transformational change in education.

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Answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators. This book argues that minority members of Congress act on behalf of broad minority interests - inside and outside their districts - because of a shared bond of experience and a sense of linked fate.

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Owls and Eagles is a powerful, brilliant, and insightful collection of columns that casts in the harsh light of reality the challenges, dangers, mistakes, and opportunities this nation faces regarding the war on terror and what must be done if we are to prevail. Critical in th...

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This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control.

Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy.

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Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.

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P-20 Partnerships: A Critical Examination of the Past and the Future details the historical development of P-20 partnerships in the U. S. and provides analysis of the current state of partnerships. Looking to the future, this book establishes a new approach for evaluating the impact of P-20 partnerships based on expected outcomes.