Because literacy is never politically neutral, it is our hope that readers of this text will understand the significance of creating learning environments that emphasize the relationship between power and literacy. This book focuses attention on what can happen when teachers and students are empowered as they collaborate towards a common goal. Designed to balance theory and praxis, this book provides opportunities for teachers to begin conceiving of and building integrated literacy curricula that prioritizes the lived experiences and insights of their students, rather than emphasizes decontextualized lists of facts to be memorized or skills to be obtained. This book speaks to the needs of teacher candidates and practicing teachers who wish to engage more openly and fully with the current landscape of diverse learners, biased educational practices, and inequitable learning opportunities. The objective is to provide a means by which hopeful educators can begin to face the challenges of diverse classrooms in order to promote social justice and equity literacy by reimagining and reshaping both policy and practice.

In 1920, after leaving their home in Russia, the brothers Samuel and Isaac Harris arrived on the shores of America. They each carry a battered brown suitcase containing their only possessions. The following year, Yetta, Samuel's bride, follows him, bringing with her his mother's silver candlesticks.

In 1945, Helena Jablonski, having survived the ravages of war in Europe and the loss of her family, sets out on a courageous journey to reach Palestine. She is joined by Sofia, her childhood friend, whom she meets up with after she's liberated. Drawn into a world she could not have imagined in the dark days of her internment in the concentration camps, Helena meets the motherly Rachel, with whom she forms an instant and lasting bond, and Max Harris, the young American volunteer who will define her destiny

As past and present collide, new friendships are formed and characters reappear who will bring her face to face with the hard truth of forgiveness and the transformative power of love. Helena's extraordinary journey takes her from Poland to Paris, New York to the Middle East, and to the winelands of Paarl in South Africa. She will linger in your memory long after you have turned the last page.

Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.   Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography’s conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.

Internationalization in the Classroom focuses on what it means to internationalize K-12 and higher education classrooms. Through a yearlong study, the authors developed methods of internationalizing curricula, pedagogy, and assessments to explore how globalizing a classroom can impact positively students. The educators featured in the volume found that learning with regard to knowledge, culture, and language skills deepened within an internationalized classroom. In each chapter, authors focus on providing practical suggestions for school leaders and educators interested in transforming their schools and classrooms into places where all students can feel welcome, all students can learn, and global differences are addressed and shared in order to capitalize on the richness of students' various cultures and backgrounds. Moving beyond traditional views of multicultural education to an emphasis on international perspectives, this book develops local notions of race and class into global understandings of cultures, religions, and language.

The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicago to New York to Europe and back, interweaving with the art of his time, and his paintings have been collected and exhibited all over the world. Nevertheless, he remained firmly rooted in the American Midwest, settling in St. Louis to teach and paint from 1960 until his death in 2006. Beautifully designed and printed, this book includes 80 full-color plates of Osver's work throughout his life as well as an illustrated biography and selections from an interview with the artist from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

This is a small book of seven short humourous bedtime stories for children of any age. It is written in memory of Victoria Howard who sadly left us at age 30, leaving three very young daughters to whom she would read every day.

A short bedtime story aimed at 3-10 year olds. SuperFast Steve is the fastest of a little know group of very special hares called The Rushing hares. They can run so fast, that they can run into the furture But now Steve has to learn something so very dufferent and dangerous, so that he can save his friends and family.

Sara is an orphan, seemingly bereft of the magic that is expected in every child. But when the leader of her orphanage tests her again, he discovers a terrifying truth. Sara is a Necromancer, the most hated and feared kind of magician in the world. She is sent to Caledonia, the forbidden city, where the only other Necromancer in the world lives, imprisoned by powerful wizards, because he is supposedly insane and deadly dangerous. She must learn her art from him or live an eternity in pain and torment.

Evie is out for revenge on the man she believes is the reason for her illness. But she finds a friend in his daughter and she begins to lose the paranoia she once had. But it was too late. Someone else's revenge was stronger than hers!

Small collection of 6 x 20 questions and answers that you can take anywhere

Khadine is being stalked by an agressive male. she thinks he may be a pivotal character from her traumatic past. But the truth is far more shocking! RIVETTING! FRIGHTENING! TOTALLY UNEXPECTED! This novel will push all your buttons!

A novel of love, loss, and redemption in a divided South Africa.

In the turbulent ’70s and ’80s, South Africa is torn apart by racial hatred and oppressive apartheid laws. While many accept the status quo, a new generation rises to challenge injustice.

Elizabeth Apollos, the daughter of farmworkers on the prestigious Tweefontein wine estate, refuses to accept the passive acceptance of her parents. When she joins a protest march, she meets Robert Booth, a passionate activist from the UK. Their forbidden love forces them into a desperate escape, leaving behind the one thing that binds them forever—Emmy, their daughter.

Emmy’s journey is one of heartbreak and resilience, as she searches for her identity and the truth behind her past. In a post-apartheid South Africa, she pieces together the fragments of love, loss, and revolution to find where she truly belongs.

The Space Between the Stars is a powerful saga of courage, forbidden love, and the relentless pursuit of justice.

Because literacy is never politically neutral, it is our hope that readers of this text will understand the significance of creating learning environments that emphasize the relationship between power and literacy. This book focuses attention on what can happen when teachers and students are empowered as they collaborate towards a common goal. Designed to balance theory and praxis, this book provides opportunities for teachers to begin conceiving of and building integrated literacy curricula that prioritizes the lived experiences and insights of their students, rather than emphasizes decontextualized lists of facts to be memorized or skills to be obtained. This book speaks to the needs of teacher candidates and practicing teachers who wish to engage more openly and fully with the current landscape of diverse learners, biased educational practices, and inequitable learning opportunities. The objective is to provide a means by which hopeful educators can begin to face the challenges of diverse classrooms in order to promote social justice and equity literacy by reimagining and reshaping both policy and practice.