Author: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: black, studies, politics, communities, boundaries, transgressing, school, success, keepin, real
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195325230
ISBN-13: 9780195325232

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive interviews and surveys of students in New York, she demonstrates that the most successful negotiators of our school systems are the multicultural navigators, culturally savvy teens who draw from multiple traditions, whether it be knowledge of hip hop or of

Author: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: black, studies, politics, communities, boundaries, transgressing, school, success, keepin, real
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195168623
ISBN-13: 9780195168624

Why are so many African American and Latino students performing less well than their Asian and White peers in classes and on exams? Researchers have argued that African American and Latino students who rebel against "acting white" doom themselves to lower levels of scholastic, economic, and social achievement. In Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter turns the conventional wisdom on its head arguing that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive i

Author: Prudence Alle
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: revolution, aristotelian, woman, concept
Number of Pages: 583
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0802842704
ISBN-13: 9780802842701

Author: Prudence M. Rice
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: sourcebook, analysis, pottery
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0226711161
ISBN-13: 9780226711164

A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, Pottery Analysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Prudence M. Rice uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these fired clay vessels that have been used worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. Pottery Analysis is a classic in its field as well as an invaluable reference for all students of archaeology and ancient culture.

Author: Prudence Mackintosh
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: collection, series, writers, southwestern, sneakers, thundering
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0292752695
ISBN-13: 9780292752696

Thundering Sneakers begins the story of the Mackintosh boys. In these essays, Prudence Mackintosh describes the delights and terrors of living with little boys who are determined to be boys, despite the carefully nonsexist childrearing practices of the 1970s. With telling vignettes of boyish disasters that drive her to despair, as well as the rare quiet moments of hugs and confidences that make it all worthwhile, she perfectly captures the early years when a young mother still looks for "the real mother" to come and bail her out.

Author: Prudence J. Jones
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Keywords: classical, culture, series, oklahoma, sourcebook, cleopatra
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2006-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080613741X
ISBN-13: 9780806137414

Who was Cleopatra? Who is Cleopatra? Viewed as both goddess and monster even in her own lifetime, she has become through the ages saint and sinner, heroine and victim, femme fatale and star-crossed lover, black and white. A protean figure, Cleopatra defies categorization. Cleopatra’s life story, gleaned from contemporary sources, is powerfully intriguing: Married four times, she seduced two of the most powerful men in Rome (Julius Caesar and Marc Antony), became the sole ruler of Egypt, gained legendary status for her lavish banquets, and chose to die rather than endure disgrace as th

Author: Prudence M. Rice
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: maya, series, pre, columbian, studies, schele, cosmos, political, science, time, astronomy, linda
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292705697
ISBN-13: 9780292705692

How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant "superpowers" nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of materi