Hip-hop education helps teachers engage and connect with all learners By infusing lessons with content that is relevant to students’ lives, inspires their curiosity, and fires up their intellect, teachers can use hip-hop education to help students better take in information and think critically about concepts, inside and outside the classroom. This must-have resource:Presents the what, why, and how of using hip-hop education in every classroomLays out five elements of hip-hop and maps them...

Hip-hop education helps teachers engage and connect with all learnersBy infusing lessons with content that is relevant to students' lives, inspires their curiosity, and fires up their intellect, teachers can use hip-hop education to help students better take in information and think critically about concepts, inside and outside the classroom.This must-have resource:Presents the what, why, and how of using hip-hop education in every classroom

This is memoir of the many adventures of Jim Miles a prospector, hunter, real estate speculator, a state government official, a private investigator, a spiritual seeker, a stock broker, a policeman, a gem stone collector and trader, and many more. This book is a selection from a few of his adventures.

'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs. That's the only way I can describe Yare. It's a murderous viper's nest of assassins, cut throats and killers.'When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby were caught smuggling ten kilos of cocaine out of Caracas, Venezuela, they couldn't deny their guilt. Young and naive, the lads had thought the one-off drug mule job would be a passport to a better life. But in realit...

Education and Historical Justice explores the growing relationship between historical justice and education in comparative transnational contexts.It argues that in the period since the early-1990s – known as the 'age of apology'– processes of redress, repair, and reconciliation have become common in liberal-democratic nation-states. Yet, education's role in, and relationship to, historical justice is a relatively under researched issue. This book addresses...

I wanted one thing just for me: a hot night with an anonymous masked man. And oh, did I get it.A shy, reserved woman like me, wearing a gold mask and spending the night with a stranger from a fantasy fulfillment app? Yep, I did that. And it was the perfect escape from the pressure of trying to save my failing company.Then, Roman Wells—ex-rugby star and new investor in my struggling business—walks into my office. Everyone else loves him: his easy laugh, rugg...

**The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all t...

Two strangers at a beat-down biker bar. A hot night twisted up in the sheets. Absolutely no strings attached.My life is too complicated for more than that. Besides, what would I do with a possessive, demanding, sexy-as-hell motorcycle man? Especially one who's younger than me.As an executive with a demanding career and single mom to a three-year-old little girl, my life is planned down to the minute, but everyone knows what they say about the best-laid plan...

A Thousand Miles from Freedom - The Unforgettable Ordeal of the Commerce's CrewIn the summer of 1815, the American merchant brig Commerce ran aground on the shoals of the western Sahara in the dark of an August night. By dawn, Captain James Riley and his eleven crewmen had come ashore on one of the most hostile coastlines on earth, without water, without food, and without any understanding of the world that was about to devour them.What followed was fourtee...

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles’s sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue.3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their roads on from there. It’s a book about music and business, race and heroin, and an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. But above all this ...

In November 1980, James Callaghan retired as leader of the Labour Party. He had been on the front line of British politics for many years and was the only person to hold all of the four great offices of state. However, his premiership is seen as a failure, the last gasp of Keynesian social democracy being smothered by the oncoming advent of Thatcherism. This book offers a timely reappraisal of Jim Callaghan's premiership and time as Leader of the Opposition in 1979–80.

Reaching back hundreds of years, this volume is the first major English edition to include all the prayers needed to read the Slavic Psalter at home in the Orthodox tradition. The contents include many texts traditionally printed in Orthodox Psalters and not easily found in English. With psalms and biblical canticles adapted from the classic Coverdale translation of the Book of Psalms and the King James Version of the Bible, this record has been carefully edited to agree with the original ...