This significantly revised edition will help prospective and new city teachers navigate the realities of city teaching. Now the classic introduction to urban teaching, this book explains how global, national, state, and local reforms have impacted what teachers need to know to not only survive, but to do their jobs well. The Third Edition melds new insights and perspectives from Daniel Jerome—New York City teacher, social justice activist, and parent of color—with what Lois Weiner, a seaso...

I love the idea of sending a message in a bottle. I have always wanted to write something on a piece of plain white paper, roll it up, slip it into a bottle and let the ocean's currents take it away to a far away land. Safe inside the confines of the glass bottle, the words would travel through time and vast oceanic expanses. After many months or years, the bottle would wash up onto the shore and eventually into someone's hands.How exciting it would be to find that bottle and read ...

Jacob set his head on a “stone–pillow”, and he dosed off. “He dreamt of a stairway (‘ladder’) that rested on the ground, with its top reaching up to the heavens. On it, he saw the angels of God, going up (ascending) and descending.” (Genesis 28: 11-12) And there was the LORD above the top-rung, saying; “I AM the Lord, the God of Abraham, and your father Isaac. In you, and your descendants, all the families of the earth will find blessing. I AM with you. I will bring you back to this land. ...

Statistical agencies, research organizations, companies, and other data stewards that seek to share data with the public face a challenging dilemma. They need to protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects and their attributes while providing data products that are useful for their intended purposes. In an age when information on data subjects is available from a wide range of data sources, as are the computational resources to obtain that information, this challenge is increa...

The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. Advocates of a "Christian America" claim that the Framers intended a nation whose political values and institutions were shaped by Christianity; secularists argue that they designed an enlightened republic where church and state were kept separate. Both sides appeal to the Founding to justify their beliefs about the kind of natio...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.Moving from a long hot summer in Mississippi to the rivers of London, and beyond to a remote tropical desert island, this collection of fictional travel writing contains...

This monograph provides an introduction to the design and analysis of Hybrid High-Order methods for diffusive problems, along with a panel of applications to advanced models in computational mechanics. Hybrid High-Order methods are new-generation numerical methods for partial differential equations with features that set them apart from traditional ones. These include: the support of polytopal meshes, including non-star-shaped elements and hanging nodes; the possibility of having arbitrary...

'Must-Read Halloween Books' presents an amalgam of haunting narratives that delve into the supernatural, the mysterious, and the macabre. This anthology boasts a diverse array of literary styles, from the psychological terror of Henry James to the Gothic horrors of Bram Stoker, and the unsettling folkloric tales of Algernon Blackwood. Encapsulating the spirit of Halloween, the collection spans the spectral fictions of the 18th century to the eerie tales of the early 20th century, providing...

HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection gathers more than 550 tales of terror, spectral encounter, Gothic suspense, and uncanny mystery into an expansive map of the macabre imagination. Its range extends from antiquarian ghost stories and haunted houses to psychological horror, occult speculation, grotesque satire, vampire lore, and scientific romance. Classic Gothic atmospheres coexist with fin-de-siècle decadence, American weird fiction, folkloric marvels, and sharply comic supernatural pieces, ma...

This book critiques the Rawlsian concepts of “justice as fairness” and “public reason” from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. The Rawlsian paradigm has become pervasive in multiple disciplines outside political philosophy and is unconsciously embedded in a great deal of Christian public discourse; this calls for a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives. This is the first volume to examine Rawls based on Christian principles drawn from theological ethics...

Bucket List Books for the Halloween gathers a formidable canon of Gothic, supernatural, and macabre writing, tracing the evolution of terror from moral fable and Victorian sensation to cosmic dread and psychological ambiguity. Its range includes haunted chambers, spectral visitations, cursed inheritances, uncanny doubles, and tales of madness, suspense, and darkly comic unease, situating Halloween within a broad literary history of fear. The contributors represent several centuries and nat...

In this, their first collection, Pakaraima Writers have produced a vast array of poems and short pieces, by poets, short story writers and novelists, some already published in prior journals, some relatively new, all engaging enough to hold the reader spellbound. There are pieces that remind us of our Guyanese Heritage from poets in poems like Trails of Treasures by Janet Naidu, Guyana's Seawall by James Richmond, The Petal Shivers by Ian McDonald, and the folksy Faaty-Leven by Petamber Pe...