Pamela J Bettis:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between (Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts) (Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts Series)

Authors:Pamela J. Bettis, Natalie G. Adam,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: diverse, contexts, across, pedagogy, inquiry, series, girlhood, identities, geographies
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0805846735
ISBN-13: 9780805846737

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how diverse adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in-between that of child and adult, girl and woman. It illuminates the material everyday realities of adolescent girls and the real issues that concern them, rather than what adult researchers think is important to adolescent girls. The contributing authors take seriously what girls have to say about themselves and the places and discursive spaces that

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Cheerleader!: An American Icon

Authors:Natalie Guice Adams, Pamela Jean Bettis,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: icon, american, cheerleader
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-11-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1403961840
ISBN-13: 9781403961846

ntertainers, ditzes, or athletes? Cheerleaders: love them, hate them, hate to love them, they are part of everyone’s school experiences and memories. Nearly four million cheer-leaders participate in competitions or lead cheers at sports events. Going beyond the poms and megaphones, Cheerleader! explores how cheerleading reflects our shifting beliefs about sports, entertainment, gender, and national identity. Adams and Bettis trace cheerleading’s history, from its beginnings 135 years ago as a male leadership activity, through the sexual and sassy era epitomized by the Dallas Cow-bo

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Cool Names: for Babies

Authors:Pamela Redmond Satran, Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Sat
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: babies, names, cool
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-08-07
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0312304390
ISBN-13: 9780312304393

As America’s leading baby-name experts, Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran hear the same question again and again: ’What are the cool names?’ Here are the fun, fresh answers, conveyed with the authors’ trademark wit and authority, incuding: -HOT COOL-From the top 100 cool names to why Ivy is cooler than Ivana -COOL COOL-Celebrity names (Heath, Jada); athlete names (Venus, Ali); artist/literary names (Monet, Dashiell) -NEW COOL-Spiritual names (Pax, Eden); color names (Indigo, Lavender); foreign-word names (Alouette, from the French for ’lark,’ or Lu

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Promising Practices for Urban Reading Instruction

Authors:Pamela A. Mason, Jeanne Shay Schumm, Pamela A. Mason
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: instruction, reading, urban, practices, promising
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2003-09
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0872075184
ISBN-13: 9780872075184

As the reading profession faces the challenge of high-stakes testing and standards-based curricula, it is essential that administrators, teachers, and teacher educators who plan and implement reading programs in urban settings have a professional development resource that speaks directly to urban education and diversity. This collection is that resource, showing what works-or what has the promise of working-in urban settings. This collection of research-based articles is framed around the International Reading Association position statement Making a Difference Means Making It Different: Honor

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A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin Classics)

Authors:Thomas Hardy, Pamela Dalziel, Pamela Dalziel,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, eyes, blue, pair
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0140435298
ISBN-13: 9780140435290

When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith, she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing, and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But, societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry Knight, eventually displace her affections. Knight, however, proves to be an uncompromising moralist who, obsessed with fears about Elfride’s sexual past, destroys her happiness. Writing of the struggle between classes and sexes, Hardy drew heavily on hi