Authors:Victoria Purcell-Gates, Prof. Erik Jacobson, Sophie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: social, practice, theories, cognitive, uniting, literacy, development, print
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0674015185
ISBN-13: 9780674015180

"Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors ar

Author: Benjamin F. Shearer
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: states, volume, alabama, kentucky, united, fifty, story, statehood, uniting
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313331057
ISBN-13: 9780313331053

Fifty-one essays and over ninety maps tell the story of how each of the fifty states in the Union became part of, and remained, one nation, indivisible, over a span of one-hundred seventy-two years. Local, national and international matters loom large in this unique look at America’s continent-spanning transformation from isolated English colonies to fifty distinct states, united as one country.

Author: Benjamin F. Shearer
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: states, three, oklahoma, wyoming, volume, fifty, story, statehood, uniting, united
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313331073
ISBN-13: 9780313331077

Author: Sean Esbjorn-Hargens Ph.D.Michael E. Zimmerman Ph
Publisher: Integral Books
Keywords: integral, world, books, natural, multiple, ecology, uniting, perspectives
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1590304667
ISBN-13: 9781590304662

Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on the issues—how can we come to agreement to solve our toughest environmental problems? In response to this pressing need, Integral Ecology unites valuable insights from multiple perspectives into a comprehensive theoretical framework—one that can be put to use right now. The framework is based on

Authors:Karen Sobel Lojeski, Richard R. Reilly,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: leadership, enterprise, microsoft, executive, series, integrated, innovation, virtual, workforce, transforming, uniting, globally
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-04-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0470193956
ISBN-13: 9780470193952

Praise for Uniting the Virtual Workforce "Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on how to navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual work environments in the global economy. The authors do an outstanding job of presenting how organizations should address the challenges of virtual workforces so as to reap the huge potential benefits of increased growth, productivity, and innovation." -C. Warren Axelrod, PhD, Chief Privacy Officer and Business Information Security Officer, U.S. Trust, and author of Outsourcing Information Security "Lojeski and Reilly