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  • What's a Parent to Do?

    How to Give Your Child the Best Education

    by Lawrence Baines ...
    Parenting can seem overwhelming. Most parents want what is best for their children, but few have the time, energy, or background knowledge to take a deep dive into an ocean of scientific studies every time a decision has to be made. This book translates educational research, from Piaget to the latest neuroscience article, into actionable strategies for parents.The book is a “guerilla guide” in the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have

    The Realities and the Possibilities

    by Lawrence Baines ...
    Misinformation and propaganda abound about the quality of teacher preparation in the United States. The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have reveals exactly how American teachers are taught, describes the wide disparities in the preparation of teachers across states, depicts how market-driven teacher preparation waters down the quality of teachers, and explains how teacher preparation in ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • A Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning

    Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses

    by Lawrence Baines ...
    How can teachers help students develop the literacy skills that are necessary for learning and retaining information in any subject? Traditional memory tricks, mnemonic devices, graphic organizers, and role playing do little to turn bored or reluctant students into enthusiastic learners.In A Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning: Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses, Lawrence Baines shows ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Privatization of America’s Public Institutions

    The Story of the American Sellout

    by Lawrence Baines ...
    Privatization of America’s Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K–12 public schools, public universities and colleges, and prisons into enterprises focused on generating profits for a select few. In many cases, privatization has limited accessibility, promoted segregation, fueled declining standards, increased costs, and reduced quality. ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Teaching Challenging Texts

    Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia

    by Lawrence Baines, Jane Fisher ...
    Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments."Exploring the Future" features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and WilliamGolding; nonfiction by ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Optimal Language Learning

    The Strategies and Epiphanies of Gifted Language Learners

    by Noumane Rahouti, Lawrence Baines ...
    Most language learners find learning a language stressful and frustrating. However, the problem may not be with the language, but the approach to it. Optimal Language Learning describes the effective, idiosyncratic approaches of five highly gifted language learners, discerns patterns among their stories of success, and describes implications for language learning for anyone who would like to ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Archaeology of Performance

    Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics

    by John Baines, Ian Hodder, Stephen D. Houston, Susan Kus, Jerry D. Moore, Victor Raharijaona, Adam T. Smith, Daniela Triadan ...
    Series series Archaeology in Society
    Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Cure

    by Eve Smith ...
    Narrated by Sherry Baines, Gemma Lawrence ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    Ruth's tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life. But Ruth's cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve - a premium upgrade - was created, driving human lifespan ... Read more

    $39.71 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free ... Read more

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  • Tailspin

    The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

    by Steven Brill ...
    In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and ... Read more

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  • Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    Edited by Sarah Kurnick, Joanne Baron ...
    Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the ... Read more

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