A status-obsessed senior unexpectedly falls for a freshman because of his Danny Zuko audition in their high school's production of Grease in this outrageously funny epistolary novel set in 1991."Matt Boren brilliantly captures the voices of students way back in 1992 with humor and wit and a unique ability to shift from freshman to senior, boy to girl, cheerleader to theater geek. In this hilarious novel, Boren adeptly proves that the more things change, th...

In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple landscapes and look into a variety of spaces where attempts to tear down or build up pedagogical borders based upon socially-just design are underway. In disciplines ranging from elem...

This book provides the first systematic examination of the relationship of hegemony and power. Nine essays delve into the diverse analytical aspects of the two concepts, and an introduction and conclusion by the editors, respectively, forge a synthesis of their theoretical coherence. Hegemony has long existed as a term in political science, international relations, and social theory, but its meaning varies across these fields. While each has developed its own 'local' language games for tre...

This small volume introduces readers to John Henry Newman’s wiring, theology, and thought.Blessed Newman, the 19th-century’s most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. He was a priest, popular preacher, writer, and eminent theologian in both Churches.Before Newman, Catholic theology tended to ignore history, preferring instead to draw deductions from first principles. After Newm...

This clever collection of business stories features real-life accounts from people around the world who have overcome their own mistakes, learned the lessons, and achieved their goals. The tales of determination in these pages will help you find the inspiration you need to achieve your own goals and dreams.Here are some great stories you’ll find inside:A Nice Clean Sale - Elizabeth Goldner Ross.Braking Even - Suzanne S. Eaton.First law of Karma - Balu Swami.

This study approaches John Henry Newman’s writings on the church from a fresh perspective by examining the development of Newman’s ecclesiological outlook over time. It demonstrates that it can be misleading to refer to Newman’s “Catholic ecclesiology” (singular), because such an approach gives the impression that Newman maintained a stable ecclesiological perspective during his Roman Catholic period. In reality, Newman’s outlook on the church underwent significant developments over the la...

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics became a contested terrain of public/private interests. They look at college sp...

Protect your flanks, know when to culminate, and never outrun your logistics. Warfare examines these critical aspects of war and much more. Here is an extremely well-researched historical book that explains and analyzes battles, campaigns, operations, and military thought and theories, from the Roman conquests to Napoleonic mastery to "blitzkrieg" modern mechanize maneuvers during World War II to the Citadel in Hue City.This is a military history adventure where the reader can enjo...

By an ice-covered lake surrounded by a large forest, the grass lies dormant beneath a thin layer of snow. A cold breeze flows through the trees, knocking off the last of the leaves.A charge in the air disturbs the stillness as electricity crackles around the lake. A large gust of wind picks up the fallen leaves and blows them around in a circle rising from the snow.As the trees sway in the rising wind, a loud explosion booms out from the center of the tornado. The wind sudd...

This book is a series of stories and anecdotes about my father, Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli and me, Xavier Eboli. I have crossed paths with many interesting characters throughout my life, most of them an extension of Dad's numerous relationships. I have met celebrities, crime bosses, and professional athletes. It was quite an interesting ride. There is no firsthand knowledge of violence or bloodshed that one may be accustomed to reading in other books about organized crime. This book is abou...

Let's face it: Our kids love YouTube. Instead of trying to stop them from watching, what if we taught them how to think critically and spot the sneaky tricks?Trolls on YouTube is a fun, kid-friendly guide to online misinformation. Meet Rizzle, Ohia, Sigma, and Giga. These four silly trolls use clickbait, fake facts, and dramatic tricks to fool viewers.With playful illustrations and clear examples, this book helps kids recognize misleading content and become smarter, more th...

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship ca...