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Leading, Teaching, and Learning is a resource for teachers taking action on Common Core State Standards to enhance student learning. Chapters focus on research-based instruction, academic language development, thinking and complexity, English learners, non-proficient readers, rigor, and collaboration for ongoing professional capacity building.

What kind of policy can the United States and the international community pursue that increases the likelihood that stability emerges in failed and failing states? I develop a theory of state-building to guide decision makers. The theory states that if decision makers want to foster stability in other countries via state-building, they should prioritize (1) the cultivation of indigenous systems (economic, security, judicial, and social) over e...

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.

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Excerpt from In the Heart of India: The Work of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission We welcome Mr. Taylor's book, giving the story of our Central India Mission. Such a book is long overdue. Formosa and Central India are the two Foreign Mission Fields of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Western Section) whose origin dates back to the years immediately following the Union of 1875. The outstanding personality and unique achievements of George Le...

Excerpt from A Constitutional and Political History of Rome: From the Earliest Times, to the Reign of Domitian In preparing this book I have used freely the English Translation of Mommsen's History of Rome, Professor Pelham's Outlines of Roman History, ' the works of Herzog and Willems, and, in the first chapter, the late Professor Seeley's Introduction to Livy, Book I. I have acknowledged other obligations in the notes, which I have reduced...

Three Hundred Years of Slavery. Greece, 373 BC. For three centuries, the Messenian people have been brutally subjugated by their Spartan neighbours and forced to work the land as helot slaves. Diocles, a seventeen-year-old helot, has known no other life but servitude.  After an encounter with Spartan assassins, he is forced to flee, leaving behind his family and his love, Elpis. On Mount Ithome, the ancient sanctuary of the Messenians, he meet...

Excerpt from Surveyor's Hand Book, 1908 It has been my object to prepare a book for the use of the surveyor in the field, of convenient size and scope, and one that contains all the essentials for ordinary surveying. It is too much to hope that there are no errors in these pages, in theory Or example. The preliminary proof has been examined by twelve experienced surveyors and I am indebted to them for many valuable suggestions. I am under la...

Excerpt from Historical Oration: Delivered at Champlain, N. Y., On the Fourth of July, 1877 Mr. President: Ladies and Gentlemen: Citizens: - Standing face to face under these benign skies and beneath our starry banner, the flag of a hundred years, with joyful reverence and sincere thanksgiving to the stupendous Artificer of heaven and earth, the Giver and Preserver of our lives, be it ours to celebrate with one accord the birthday of a free...

Excerpt from Cotton Weaving and Designing It has, however, been found iwanting in some important features, and others have needed expansion 50 as to bring the work up to modern requirements. A further Edition having been called for, has afforded the opportunity of having these deficiencies remedied by the addition Of matters which will put the book in line with the latest improvements in this section Of the Mechanical Arts. Chapter I on pre ...

Excerpt from American Hydroelectric Practice: A Compilation of Useful Data and Information on the Design, Construction and Operation of Hydroelectric Systems From the Penstocks to Distribution Lines Features Of Development - Dam - Power-house - Draft Tubes - Single Runner Turbines - Generators - Transformers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com T...

Excerpt from Stationary Transformers: Theory, Connections, Operation and Testing of Constant-Potential, Constant-Current, Series and Auto Transformers, Potential Regulators, Etc The development of the alternating-current transformer dates back about 25 years. At that time very little was known regarding design for Operation at high voltages, and the engineer of the present day can scarcely realize the difficulties encountered in the construct...

Excerpt from The Voice of the Church on the Coming and Kingdom of the Redeemer, or a History of the Doctrine of the Reign of Christ on Earth Has God a mightier Saviour - a more powerful Spirit? Has he another Gospel which will save the world Where is it? Is there any way to the kingdom other than that which leads through much tribulation? IS there another way to the crown besides the way of crosses? Can we reign with him unless we first suffe...

Excerpt from Orders of the Court of Chancery for Upper Canada: With Notes The practice of going upon circuit for the taking of evidence, adopted by the Judges of the Court of Chancery since the passing of the 20 Vic., c. 56, and the appointment of deputy-masters and registrars in many county towns, has of late brought the court more under the notice of the profession generally. Chancery business is not now, as formerly, confined to a few offi...

Excerpt from Parsifal a Romantic Mystery -Drama As t/zc grand spectacular ejects require long and careful preparation, and t/ze business arrange ments of my firm bad been completed for a consider able time abead, I found tkat it would be impas sible for me to give immediate stage production to Mr. Taylor's play, but I deemed tkat it would be an iniustice to lzim and also to the public to keep it entirely in the background for too long a time....

Excerpt from A Chariot of Fire: The Cars in Prophecy and History, With the Wonders of Rapid Traveling and Significance of the Modern Railway System The Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of His feet (Nah. 1: 3.) He whose car the winds are and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy, shall descend Propitious in...

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, and agriculture), we explore how changing landsc...

Through the Wall to the World Unknown includes the ever popular good versus evil, strange, but imaginative characters, a virtuous heroine, unpredictable adversaries, laughable moments and surprises everywhere in this fantasy world.

An examination of the philosophical issues surrounding prudential value: what it is for something to be good for a person, and well-being: what it is for someone's life to go well. It critically analyses competing approaches, and proposes a new subjective account that addresses key weaknesses of existing theories.

Love Between My Scars is dedicated to everyone who has ever lived with or lived through a lifestyle of pain. As we are partnered with pain as a result of life's traumatic experiences, depression and sometimes thoughts of suicide become the norm. No one struggle is the same. Everyone's personal battle is uniquely fought according to the given circumstances. Some of us have tried to take our own lives, while some of us have tried to extinguish o...