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Storytelling empowers children to engage in discussions, explore ideasabout power, respect, community, fairness, equality, and justice, and help frametheir understanding of complex ethical issues within a society. In Life Lessonsthrough Storytelling, Donna Eder interviews elementary students and presents theirresponses to stories from different cultures. Using Aesop's fables and Kenyan andNavajo storytelling traditions as models for classroom ...

This volume is dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime. It contains selected papers by physicists and philosophers on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime. The first six papers, comprising Part I of the book, provide examples of the impact of Minkowski's spacetime representation of special relativity on the twentieth century physics. Part II also contains six papers which deal with implications of Minkowsk...

This revised, 13-week study goes back to the biblical basics of prayer, cleaning out myths about prayer to rev up a powerful, ongoing connection to God that can invigorate every aspect of a Christian's life. The author tackles the complex theological questions: If God is sovereign, why pray? If prayer is not a way to change God's mind, what is it? Prayer is a way, Jennifer illustrates, for God to send His power and provision into the world thr...

In his 12 seasons at the club, the world-class Fenchman has developed the Gunners into a team capable of challenging for top domestic and European honours every year. His three Premiership titles - two of which came in 'Double' winning campaigns - are evidence of Wenger's unique tactical skill and his famous ability to spot talented young footballers. The phenomenal Gunners boss, nicknamed 'The Professor', has signed a new contract which commi...

European Union equality and anti-discrimination law were revolutionized by the incorporation of Article 13 into the EC Treaty, adding new anti-discrimination grounds and new possibilities. This comprehensive volume provides a fresh approach to Article 13 and its directives, it adopts a contextual framework to equality and anti-discrimination law in the European Union. Part I deals with the evolution of Article 13, demographic and social change...

This volume investigates the neighborhoods of ancient Rome during the reign of the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE). Focusing on a group of neighborhood-based voluntary associations that were important political and social communities for the city's diverse population of slaves and ex-slaves, it locates the Augustan neighborhoods within the broader context of the history of Rome. John Bert Lott stresses their importance as p...

From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, chapels, and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, this collection of stories contains both well-known and hitherto unpublished tales from around the city of Aberdeen. This spine-tingling selection includes Fyvie Castle, home to the Green Lady, Aberdeen Central Library, where the ghost of a former librarian still helps cu...

The Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866 paved the way for German and Italian unification. Blending military and social history, this book describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Bohemia and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in July 1866 due to panicked fumbling on the part of the Austrian commandant--that not only lost the war but ultimately brought down the Habsburg monarchy. 16 photos. 21 maps.

Learning the Dance of Attachment, An Adoptive/Foster Parent's Gude to Nurturing Healthy Development, is a child development guide specifically written for adoptive and foster parents. It explains the normal stages of childhood emotional development and contrasts it with disfunctional behaviors caused by early life deprivation and abuse. This book is helpful as a training tool for potential foster and adoptive parents. Parents already facing fr...

This second edition of the OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators presents a broad range of indicators. Measurement of the magnitude and intensity of the globalisation process is becoming increasingly important for policymakers and other analysts, hence the need for a volume that brings together the existing measures, based on national data sources and comparable across countries. Together, the indicators shed new light on financial, technolog...

Highlights the screenplay as an important form in itself, as opposed to merely being the first stage of the production process. This title explores a number of possible approaches to studying the screenplay, considering the depth and breadth of the subject area.

Ideas, concepts, theories and debates in the previously separate areas of corporate performance, corporate social responsibility, corporate strategy, and corporate governance are integrated for the first time in this book, promoting a more liberal and wider debate about CSR. Case studies of some of the world¿s leading firms provide rich qualitative data to support the arguments and are an excellent source of learning and teaching material to t...

Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together a wide range of perspectives and research locating young children¿s relationships in the context of socio-cultural theories and relational pedagogy.

The full story behind Britain's biggest manhunt.

This volume brings together the understanding and the judgment of the world's scientific community on the issues of highest priority for the future of the environment and development. It looks beyond the state of the art and formulates the environment and development research agenda and identifies the scientific knowledge base that will be needed for rational policy decisions during the coming decades. Diverse topics such as population, land u...

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or ignored. This book traces the history of this native Celtic people through the troubled centuries.

Karina, con su cruz sobre los hombros, dedica su vida a la búsqueda incesante de su única amiga, sin importar lo que haya de hacer para conseguirlo. Por fin la encuentra y recupera su paz, pero también recibe, la mayor decepción de su vida.

Ruth Silvestre and her husband returns to Bel-Air de Grezelongue, their much-loved home in the Lot-et-Garonne region of south-west France. In 1976 their dreams of purchasing a peaceful summer home came true when they stumbled across this derelict farmhouse surrounded by fields and orchards, and saw what it could become.

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This book uses data collected in the American journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for some 350 cities from around the world to look at trends in global mortality at the turn of the twentieth century, a period that witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in city growth on an international scale. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough--as well as death from all...