Music Education in Rural America: Volume II: A Teacher Guidebook offers practical resources to support K-12 music teacher success in rural schools, addressing the unique challenges they face and offering solutions tailored to their needs.Through voices and views from both in-service rural music teachers and experienced teacher-educators, this guidebook provides practical ideas based on decades of teaching and professional development experience. Drawing together contributo...

This two‑volume publication is the first of its kind, advancing asset‑based policies and practices in music education for nearly 10 million rural students nationwide. By exploring the influence of urbanormativity and historical trends, the authors advocate for school music programs that sustain rural values, interests, communities, and ecosystems.While earlier research has offered insights on the topic, none have assembled a collection of experts and scholars committed to promoting...

Holistic Musical Thinking presents a comprehensive view of how people engage with music from a hands-on and heart-felt perspective. This approach embraces the teaching and learning processes as a multi-dimensional amalgamation of knowing, doing, and feeling through musical experiences. The result is a five-dimensional model that synthesizes cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning with curricular integration.With pedagogical applications, Holistic Musical Thinkin...

After a near fatal attack, Veronica Kilter is taken under the wing of an underground cyber criminal who is known as "The Master". He trains her to carry out his elaborate heists which this leaves Veronica living a dangerous double life as an artist by day but a highly trained criminal by night. She accepts the life she leads until she falls in love with a man who makes her question it all.

#1 USA Today BESTSELLER – OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD“Harness the Power of the Invincible Mind is one of those rare books with the power to radically change the reader’s life for the better.”Alex Neumann makes wonderful guiding principles for anyone attempting to create a productive and satisfying life. He reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of happiness and create needless suffering.These incredibly profound, yet s...

Harmon Waite has returned from exile on another world to confront multiple threats. Terror upon terror created by the fallen archangel Asmodeus for the end-of-days have been unleashed by that dark one’s final fall. Even with the help of his fellow Nephilim, will Harmon be able to stop the destruction raining down on his hometown?

Tom Horn overpowers free speech as his powers, inherited from a fallen archangel and a powerful goddess, outpower Harmon Waite and his superpowered friends.His goal?The end of Harmon's world.

Harmon Waite has been tricked by the devil and fed to a dragon—Twice!The first time he got away by putting out the dragon’s eye with his living blade. Now, that devil has marooned him in a distant world. To get back home, Harmon has to endure a planet-wide storm, acid-spitting white worms, and of course, a big, bad, majorly pissed-off, one-eyed dragon.Before it's over, he’ll have to survive even more impossible odds—a faceoff with Satan himself!

Death is an angel. His left hand gives life. His right hand has no mercy.Harmon Waite and his team spring Satan’s trap and end up pitted against an entire world’s black magic. Can they survive evil sorcerers, hordes of hungry dragons, a giant raptor stampede, and an over-protective goddess—in addition to the schemes of fallen angels?Even if they manage to prevail against a planet that wants to kill them, will they be able to return to Earth, or are they str...

What if I told you that Jack the Ripper is a supernatural predator whose murder spree spans centuries?Now Jack has come to Austin, and every woman in my city is in mortal danger. I'm Harmon Waite, a homegrown private investigator. I am supposed to stop the Ripper, but all I've managed to do is piss that devil off. As I go from hunter to hunted, I have one chance to survive the night.Of course, that's when the fallen angel shows up....

Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning was first published in 1996, and was acclaimed for its readability and value as a reference tool. For the second edition of this essential work, MacKeracher has reorganized and revise...

For Introduction to Educational Psychology courses.Forty-four easy-to-read modules facilitate students’ learning and retentionIn clear and jargon-free prose, Educational Psychology, 14th Edition, explains and illustrates educational psychology’s practical relevance for teachers and learners. Theory and practice are considered together, showing how research on child development, learning, cognition, motivation, instruction, and asse...