Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through individual methods: recognizing and teaching different portrayals of conflict in youth literature, analyzing characterization, and examining the role of illustrations. Educators who want to incorporate peace education within a...

Seventeen stories screaming past the red line, tires tearing across the highway, guns stained with smoke and gore.Seventeen stories of heroes and anti-heroes on desperate journeys, white knuckles on steering wheels, hearts pounding to the staccato beat of magnum hollow points slamming against flesh and steel.Seventeen stories of hard-bitten souls hurtling over asphalt, the desert, the sea, and even through space itself in adventures fueled by vengeance, betrayal, madness, a...

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust’s amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust’s own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter also shows how the auth...

This printable e-book describes “The Hierarchy of Social Development” that is used in schools, homes, and youth settings around the world. The four (4) short stories promote a desire to WANT to behave responsibly. The illustrations and poster explain the difference between “external” and ”internal” motivation—and the advantage of the latter. In addition to the stories, illustrations, and poster, the eBook contains important tips for teaching the Hierarchy of Social Development, significant...

Neuroscience is, by definition, a multidisciplinary field: some scientists study genes and proteins at the molecular level while others study neural circuitry using electrophysiology and high-resolution optics. A single topic can be studied using techniques from genetics, imaging, biochemistry, or electrophysiology. Therefore, it can be daunting for young scientists or anyone new to neuroscience to learn how to read the primary literature and develop their own experiments. This volume addr...

After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that victory in the next battle for civil rights would be measured in "equal results" rather than equal rights and opportunities. It seemed that for a brief moment the White House and champions of racial equality shared the same objectives and...

Examine the nuts and bolts of successful management in today’s rapidly evolving libraries!This book is an essential primer for new library managers and directors. In addition to providing an overview of the practical aspects of management, it is a vital reference tool for managing your library and its staff. The Practical Library Manager’s informative text and comprehensive bibliographies of print and electronic resources can guide you to solutions to the issues that every fledgling librar...

Purposeful PoetryThis book of poetry was written with the readers in mind to feel pure enjoyment, but also to digest the words in hopes of understanding a variety of messages behind each one of them. Each poem is a delicacy made with special ingredients, such as passion, experience, imagination, love and spirituality. The authors connection to the reader emanates, mostly, through experience. She calls this Poets Own Expressions

The kiss of the sea leaves a hunger that can't be fulfilled.Tossed overboard from the pirate ship that holds her mother hostage, Ally Kingfisher is stranded - and alone. Outnumbered by her enemies, the only option is to seek out a friend she wronged, and put things to rights. But the vastness of the ocean holds a power that threatens to pull Ally into its depths once and for all.Haunted by dashed hopes, Pasha finds herself unable to return home to ...

In the Birde Isles there's a saying: You cannot take what the sea is not willing to give. Ally Kingfisher never gave it much thought until she experienced the sea's wrath firsthand. But after a near-drowning leaves her with a deeply ingrained fear of the water, Ally still finds herself inexplicably drawn to its depths. As if something is calling to her from beneath the waves, and it only grows louder each year. Pasha is being punished for something she didn't do, sentenced to a life of sol...

Paint It Black is a historical fictional account of the Vietnam war during the year 1968 from the Black perspective. In his well known style of mixing fiction with literary narrative, Carter takes the reader into the world of the Black soldier as he fights for his country and self during a year that defined American modern history.

Delve into the Depths of Human Existence: Poetry Infused with Symbolism that Paints Vivid Pictures of Love, Loss, and the Intricacies of the Soul's Dark Corners.Thoughts of Sterling is no ordinary collection of verses; it is a journey into the labyrinth of emotions that form the very essence of our being. This remarkable anthology is a testament to the profound depth of human existence, illuminating our darkest thoughts, our most passionate romances, and the heartb...