In the most compelling political memoir this century, Patrick Brown takes you through his rise in politics, his successes as well as his failures. But on January 24, 2018, Patrick Brown and his team were blindsided by a report of sexual impropriety that on the face of it suggested the leader of the opposition while in his 20's was engaged in having sex with an under age-teenager who he had been plying with alcohol in a bar. In that same report, CTV also said he was the initiator of a kiss ...

"The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! Once Irma Grese was old enough to secure a training spot in the newly-created corps of female S...

Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly Mind is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's own education as a journalist over the past twenty-five years, and his parallel struggle with alcoholism. The second is the major political events of the past quarter century that Brown witnessed and covered -- including the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where...

The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete reality with a morality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time.A political and moral anthropology, this book is the result of a five-year investigation conducted by ten scholars, based in France. It analyses, amongst other topics, the police, the court system, the prison apparatus...

Indebted America explores the manner in which debt has played in the development of the United States of America and the ways that indebtedness continues to hinder—and often perplex—the nation and its citizens.The first portion of the study focuses on indentured servitude, the origin of bankruptcy legislation, and the problems American leaders and well-known personalities had with debt. The latter section delves into the problems that both the United States as well as its ...

Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to deeper learning. Activating Students’ Ideas Matter: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence is the type of book that stimulates teacher thinking and cultivates teachers’ skills and abilities necessary to take students to ...

The story of the American people has been traditionally written as "victory history." In this narrative, Euromericans come to the Western Hemisphere, dominate the existing Indigenous peoples, and ultimately create the greatest nation in the world. This version has been misleading, misguided, and occasionally downright wrong."American Chronicle: An Inclusive History" (Volume I) is an in-depth examination of American history from the arrival of Euromericans to the administration of Ru...

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12 is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical science. The book discusses the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) as a specific pathway for teaching and learning. It also shows how simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities will help your students construct firsthand knowledge as you put the three dimensions of contemporary standards into practice. Like its po...

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich's Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany's origins to the present. What is most striking about this work is that the long-term effects of Nazi inventions and innovations—from practical inventions (advanced computers, electron microscopes, electro-magnetic tape, et al.) to aviation and avionics ("swept-winged," stealth ai...

Instructional Sequence Matters shows how to make simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities to improve student learning. It also makes it easy for you to put the NGSS into practice. After explaining why sequencing is so important, author Patrick Brown provides a complete self-guided tour to becoming an “explore-before-explain” teacher. He explains that this teaching mindset helps students construct accurate knowledge firsthand, which is an important component of all scienc...

This book contains Edith Wharton's first novella and the second book she ever wrote, 'The Touchstone'. This narrative follows Stephen Glennard, a young man whose destitution leads him into a dubious money-making scheme which he embarks on so that he can afford to marry the woman he loves. After seeing an advertisement seeking any papers or correspondences related to a recently deceased author that he had been in communication with, he snaps up the opportunity. A tale of how social strata, ...

This resource helps bring both student thinking and instructional sequencing to the forefront of your science teaching. Grounded in cognitive science and best practices in formative assessment, this book provides a practical “explore-before-explain” approach to engage middle-school students in doing science, not merely memorizing it, fostering their creativity, scientific reasoning, and long-lasting understanding. Each chapter is a classroom vignette that demonstrates how effective instruc...