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  • Social Justice in English Language Teaching

    Edited by Christopher Hastings, Laura Jacob ...
    This inspiring and diverse collection of voices from the field in ESL and EFL contexts personalizes the issues TESOL educators face and serves as a resource for those wanting to address social injustices in their individual TESOL contexts.Each chapter in this ground-breaking volume represents one of two realities: that English language learners are often on the margins of society, and that those ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Celestial Bodies

    How to Look at Ballet

    by Laura Jacobs ...
    A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bird Catcher

    A Novel

    by Laura Jacobs ...
    Margret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and living on the Upper West Side, the backdrop to Margret's life is made up of the poetic rhythms ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Surviving Transphobia

    Edited by Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW ...
    The transgender and gender nonbinary community is forever under siege. Institutional transphobia is enacted by those who would return us to the shadows, the closets, or worse.Surviving Transphobia is an anthology by transgender and gender nonbinary celebrities and experts on endurance during times of severe hostility. We share the moments when we were vulnerable, were bullied, had needs dismissed, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Women's Journeys from Bondage to Abolition – 4 Classic Slave Narrative Manuscripts

    Enriched edition. The History of Mary Prince, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Laura S. Haviland, Daisy Miller ...
    "Women's Journeys from Bondage to Abolition – 4 Classic Slave Narrative Manuscripts" presents a compelling exploration of the resilience and tenacity of women who navigated the treacherous paths from enslavement to freedom. Through a poignant array of narratives, readers encounter a vivid tapestry of experiences and literary styles ranging from autobiographical recollections to impassioned appeals ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"

    And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-NonconformingPeople

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Laura A. Jacobs ...
    Series Book 6 - Myths Made in America
    This “insightful and instructive primer” debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about transgender issues—“buy this book and share it with [your] whole family” (Bust)From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical, social ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns

    A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book

    by Gitta Jacob, Hannie van Genderen, Laura Seebauer ...
    Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns is the first schema-mode focused resource guide aimed at schema therapy patients and self-help readers seeking to understand and overcome negative patterns of thinking and behaviour.Represents the first resource for general readers on the mode approach to schema therapyFeatures a wealth of case studies that serve to clarify schemas and modes and illustrate ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Celestial Bodies

    How to Look at Ballet

    by Laura Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Tiffany Morgan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Forgers of Empire and Republic - 3 Classic Nation-Shaping Biographies

    Enriched edition. Cyrus the Great, Joan of Arc, The Life of George Washington, etc.

    by Jacob Abbott, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ava Preston ...
    Forgers of Empire and Republic - 3 Classic Nation-Shaping Biographies is a captivating anthology that delves into the intricate tapestry of nation-building through its diverse literary repertoire. Exploring the transformations that shaped modern nations, this collection examines pivotal figures and events that contributed to the foundations of empires and republics. The anthology presents a range ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Genetically Edited Children and the Risks to Equality

    Examining Heritable Genome Editing in the Light of Social Justice

    by Trevor Stammers, Vicente Bellver Capella, Richard Playforth, David Albert Jones, Pia Matthews, Katie Hasson, Sandy Suffian, Britta C. van Beers, Laura Jacobs, Ben Hurlbut, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Advances in heritable genome editing, such as with CRISPR-Cas9, promise to ensure that some possible future children with genetic disorders are not created — but at what cost to equality? If only certain kinds of people are brought into existence, do we risk undermining the very foundations of social justice?This groundbreaking volume brings together leading philosophical, ethical, and legal ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Joy of Pi

    by David Blatner ...
    Narrated by Oliver Wyman, Hank Jacobs, Laura Dean ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 31 min

    No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi—or ? as it is symbolically known—is infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores the many facets of pi and humankind's fascination ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Junk Drawer

    What We Leave Behind

    by Sander Gilman, Barbara Von Eckardt, Mary Bergstein, Daniel Cavicchi, John Jacob, Margaret Olin, Laura Levitt, Ruth Ost0, Rhoda Rosen1, Amanda Leigh Davis2 ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has breathed new life into items ... Read more

    $21.59 USD