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The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth: Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts by Sharon Verner Chappell, Christian J. Faltis The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth: Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts by Sharon Verner Chappell, Christian J. Faltis PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning. Utilizing research from both arts and language education to explore the ways they work in tandem to contribute to emergent bilingual students’ language and academic development, the book analyzes model arts projects to raise questions about “best practices” for and with marginalized bilingual young people, in terms of relevance to their languages, cultures, and communities as they envision better worlds.  A central assumption...

The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Dalai Lama PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad This practical little gem will guide and inspire Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. From reader reviews: Joseph Anderson: Why don't make it to be your habit? Right now, try to ready your time to do the important behave, like looking for your favorite reserve and reading a guide. Beside you can solve your trouble; you can add your knowledge by the book entitled The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation. Try to make the book The Dalai Lama's Book of Transformation as your pal. It means that it can for being your friend when you sense alone and beside regarding course make you smarter than ever. Yeah, it is very fortuned to suit your needs. The book makes you far more confidence because you can know every thing by the book. So , we need to...

Unconventional Warfare 2.0: A Better Path to Regime Change in the Twenty First Century by Christopher Rawley Unconventional Warfare 2.0: A Better Path to Regime Change in the Twenty First Century by Christopher Rawley PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Rogue regimes have extracted an inordinate amount of energy, blood, and treasure from the world's militaries in the past century. Overthrowing these regimes is a major policy decision - fraught with peril and unknown downstream implications. The United States painfully re-learned these lessons following the invasion in Iraq and after deposing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Unconventional warfare (UW) is the flip side of counter-insurgency, in which external military elements enable surrogate guerrilla forces against an incumbent government. An updated concept for UW campaigns may offer a more palatable option for regime change in certain situations. Global instantaneous communications, social media, and the application of precision munitions f...

Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry by Nick Admussen Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry by Nick Admussen PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Chinese prose poetry today is engaged with a series of questions that are fundamental to the modern Chinese language: What is prose? What is it good for? How should it look and sound? Millions of Chinese readers encounter prose poetry every year, both in the most official of state-sponsored magazines and in the unorthodox, experimental work of the avant-garde. Recite and Refuse makes the answers to our questions about prose legible by translating, surveying, and interpreting prose poems, and by studying the people, politics, and contexts that surround the writing of prose poetry. Author Nick Admussen argues that unlike most genres, Chinese prose poems lack a distinct size or shape. Their similarity to other prose is the result of a distinct process in which a prose form is recited with some kind of meaningful difference—an...

Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made by Bill Slavin Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made by Bill Slavin PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad CDs start out as sand. Blackboard chalk comes from tiny sea creatures. The objects all around us --- every single product in the world --- is made from elements found in nature. Discover how nature is transformed into more than 60 things we eat, drink, play with, wear or use every day. Technology changes constantly, but the stages raw materials go through to become finished objects remain much the same. On every page of this big book, these processes are described and illustrated step by step. The text and artwork combine playfulness with encyclopedic attention to detail. This unique and fascinating book will inform and entertain every step of the way. Includes a glossary, index and further resources to help children, parents and teachers. From reader reviews: Gloria Duncan: In this 21st centuries, people become competitive in most way. By being com...

The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William P. Young The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William P. Young PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you k...