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Key Concepts helps students master the academic content, academic vocabulary, and academic reading and writing skills they need to succeed at college.

Focuses upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. This title offers a sophisticated approach, recognizing science and religion as complex and distinct domains of human practice that also possess significant historical connections and psychological-cognitive resemblances and continuities.

Bus Stop Stories Bus Stop Stories and prayers is a book about my life and the actions of others. Public transportation and its passengers can sometime be comical. I am the one person they can count on for an audience. And waiting for public transportation can prove to be more than you anticipated. This book is designed to allow you to experience and explore various situations you may find yourself. Strangers orchestrate some of my stories. My ...

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The Freedoms We Lost" is an ambitious historical analysis of the American revolution that reinterprets the gains and losses experienced by ordinary Americans and challenges the easy narrative that subsumes the growth of "freedom" into the story of the American nation. Esteemed historian Barbara Clark Smith proposes that many ordinary Americans were in fact more free on the eve of Revolution than they were two decades later.

Wally and Barbara Smith spent 6 months cycling 8, 000 miles in Cuba to provide detailed directions for 50 days of cycling. The rides vary in length, many combining to create multi-day loops. Detailed directions describe rides leaving Havana to the west and east. Subsequent rides are clustered in the three best regions of Cuba for cycling: Pinar del Rio, Central Cuba, and the Oriente. A final section contains advice on connecting the regions fo...

Some personalities simply won't accept that final curtain call. Best-selling ghost stories author Barbara Smith has conjured up an entertaining collection of tales about spirits and unexplained phenomena that sometimes steal the spotlight in North America's theaters.

Contrary to popular belief, ghosts do not necessarily reside in draughty old castles and ancient graveyards. In this book, the author has collected ghost stories specifically from Alberta where she has discovered strange tales of hauntings in schools, restaurants, theatres, hotels, government buildings and modern houses from Calgary and Edmonton to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains. Several spine-tingling tales are legendary accounts of nati...

Young readers will enjoy this fascinating collection of stories about animals that continue to haunt this world after they have died. In one tale, a fishtank mysteriously comes to life while a boy struggles to convince his partents of the danger. In another, a group of foolhardy children on a tour of Europe tease the locals about their superstitions--only to be attacked by a flock of ghostly birds of prey.

Houses are often considered the most haunted of places. In this book you'll meet some young people who live in haunted houses and you'll explore some of the spookiest spaces on the planet.

A pioneering look at the implications of Christian faith for foreign language education. It has become clear in recent years that reflection on foreign language education involves more than questioning which methods work best. This new volume carries current discussions of the value-laden nature of foreign language teaching into new territory by exploring its spiritual and moral dimensions. David Smith and Barbara Carvill show how the Christia...

Author Barbara Smith has assembled this collection of tales about ghost ships, haunted houses, theaters and buildings from all over Washington State. Enjoy this spooky romp through a world of restless spirits, from the ghost who warns hikers in the Cascades about a dangerous path, to the phantoms that roam the Seattle Underground.

Analyzes the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. This title include case studies that portray women's diverse circumstances and activities from rural African American women in the Mississippi Delta taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers in North Carolina.