Authors:Amy M. Hightower, Amy M. Hightower, Michael S. Knapp
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: issues, educational, leadership, critical, renewal, districts, instructional, school
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 080774266X
ISBN-13: 9780807742662

This volume shows how school districts can and do make essential contributions to the renewal and enhancement of American education. It expands the conversation on what school districts are, what they do, and how they can enhance the quality of teaching and learning in US schools.

Author: Jim Hightower
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: bush, beating, stop
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-07
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0670033545
ISBN-13: 9780670033546

America in 2004 is color coded and it s not just a matter of red, white, and blue. The terror alert bounces from yellow to orange. The economy offers up a hundred shades of red ink. The environment is turning brown. National security is cloaked in gray shadows. And Jim Hightower covers it all with uncommon insight, political fearlessness, and laugh-out-loud humor. America s #1 populist gives us Let s Stop Beating Around the Bush a hard- hitting, fact-filled review of the real state of the union that you won t get from the establishment media. With his daily radio commenta

Author: Jim Hightower
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: candidates, given, vote, meant, gods
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-02-19
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060932090
ISBN-13: 9780060932091

Liberal populist Jim Hightower has a knack for naming books; before If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote... came There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. Even the chapter titles of the current volume reveal Hightower’s way with words as well as they underscore his themes: "Some Say We Need a Third Party, I Wish We Had a Second One" and "Plutocracy Is Not Government by a Far-Off Planet." Hightower speaks for angry, disaffected Americans who view both Democrats and Republicans as sleazy money-grubbers who do the bidding of wealthy multinational co

Author: Jim Hightower
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: time, country, stolen, places, thieves
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-06-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0452285658
ISBN-13: 9780452285651

In Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower takes on the Kleptocrats, Wobblycrats, and Bushites with hilarious results. Digging up behind-the-scenes dirt on stories the corporate news media overlooks (and don’t get him started on them!), Hightower reveals the real stories behind BushCo’s "Friday Night Massacres," what’s happened to our food, and the Bush plan for empire. With grassroots solutions, drawing on Hightower’s national Rolling Thunder Down- Home Democracy Tour—a traveling festival of rebellion against every tentacle of the corporate-politico power grab—Hightow

Author: Jane M. Hightower M.D.
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: poison, politics, money, mercury, diagnosis
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2008-09-29
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1597263958
ISBN-13: 9781597263955

In Diagnosis: Mercury, Dr. Hi

Author: Richard Hightower
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: web, enterprise, applications, jython, building, tutorial, programming, java, class, libraries, python
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2002-07-08
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0201616165
ISBN-13: 9780201616163

Tutorial begins with coverage of some of the basics of Python programming. Using plenty of skill-building exercises and interactive programming sessions to help those new to programming develop an understanding of concepts and practical techniques. Softcover.

Author: Newton Hightower
Publisher: Bayou Publishing
Keywords: women, love, amp, men, new, abc, busting
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1886298041
ISBN-13: 9781886298040

Anger Busting 101 is the first book to use the acclaimed Recovery approach to solve anger problems. It gives you dozens of quick tips you can use every day to diffuse anger early on. Author Newton Hightower expertly combines personal stories with scientific research and solid clinical data to give angry men and their families the hope and the help they need.