Authors:Susan E. Israel, Susan E. Israel, E. Jennifer Monagh
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: reading, research, progressive, ideas, scientific, pioneers, field, impact, shaping
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2006-12-22
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0872075982
ISBN-13: 9780872075986

Make informed decisions about the future of reading instruction by exploring the lives and lasting contributions of early literacy leaders who helped shape the field. ’’Shaping the Reading Field’’ documents the lives of 16 reading researchers, reading practitioners, and specialists in children’s literature and adult reading. You’ll find vivid biographical sketches of such notable pioneers as James McKeen Cattell, Charles Hubbard Judd, Edmund Burke Huey, Bernice Elizabeth Leary, Ernest Horn, William Scott Gray, and Ruth May Strang. Using historical research b

Author: Israel Tal
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: experience, israeli, security, national
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-04-30
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 027596812X
ISBN-13: 9780275968120

A comprehensive account of Israel’s doctrine of national security, this study examines to what degree security theories have proven valid and suggests an updated security doctrine for the next century. Beginning with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Israeli defense planners have faced a daunting task. General Tal describes the history of the Israel-Arab wars from the War of Independence onward and presents a security theory specific to Israel from which the fighting doctrines of the Israeli military derive. He also categorizes the levels of security various nations enjoy

Author: Shel Israel
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Keywords: global, neighborhoods, new, thrive, businesses, twitterville
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1591842794
ISBN-13: 9781591842798

Twitter is the most rapidly adopted communication tool in history, going from zero to ten million users in just over two years. On Twitter, word can spread faster than wildfire. Companies no longer have the option of ignoring the conversation. Unlike other hot social media spaces, Twitterville is dominated by professionals, not students. And despite its size, it still feels like a small town. Twitter allows people to interact much the way they do face-to-face, honestly and authentically. One minute, you’re com- plaining about the weather with local friends, the next, you’re talkin

Author: Jonathan I. Israel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: modernity, making, philosophy, enlightenment, radical
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2002-09-12
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0199254567
ISBN-13: 9780199254569

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment played a part in this revolutionary process, which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man’s dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the eigh

Author: Israel Kleiner
Publisher: Birkhäuser Bosto
Keywords: algebra, abstract, history
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0817646841
ISBN-13: 9780817646844

Prior to the nineteenth century, algebra meant the study of the solution of polynomial equations. By the twentieth century algebra came to encompass the study of abstract, axiomatic systems such as groups, rings, and fields. This presentation provides an account of the history of the basic concepts, results, and theories of abstract algebra. The development of abstract algebra was propelled by the need for new tools to address certain classical problems that appeared unsolvable by classical means. A major theme of the approach in this book is to show how abstract algebra has arisen in attempts

Author: Israel W. Charny
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: volumes, genocide, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0874369282
ISBN-13: 9780874369281

The Encyclopedia of Genocide is the first reference work to chart the full extent of this horrific subject with objectivity and authority. The Nazi Holocaust; the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the eradication of indigenous peoples around the world are all covered in A–Z entries, written by almost 100 experts from many countries.Other topics include treatment of survivors; the bewildering variety of definitions of genocide; detection, investigation, and prevention; psychology and ideology; the often contentious literature on the subject; scholars and o

Author: Israel Epstei
Publisher: Long River Pre
Keywords: journalist, jew, memoirs, eye, china
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1592650422
ISBN-13: 9781592650422

My China Eye is the long-awaited memoir by Israel Epstein (1915-2005), one of the last of the Old China Hands and one of the very few Western journalists to experience the Chinese Communist Revolution from its earliest days to the highest levels of power. Born in Poland and raised in China, Epstein’s writings from the front lines of the Chinese War of Resistance and Communist-Nationalist struggle have influenced—and infuriated—U.S. policy, which sought to “roll back” the Chinese Revolution in the Cold War era. Epstein took Chinese citizenship, only to be imprisoned by the Red Guards as so