Apocalypse is the story of the epic battle between Heaven’s Original Rock Star, Satan, who is trying to destroy the world, and the five Archangels, Garbiel, Michael, Rafael, Azrael, and Ariel, who are trying to stop him. Satan is furious about being kicked out of heaven, so he decides to take a page out of God’s book by destroying the entire world the way that God did with Noah and the Ark. Satan is aided in his quest by seven demons including a fashion model, a financial whiz from Singapo...

Lawyer for the City is a story about Rocco DeMarco, a dynamic, young lawyer who handles multi-million-dollar personal injury lawsuits for the D.C. Attorney General’s Office. DeMarco is assigned a police brutality case in which one of the plaintiffs is dead and the other is paralyzed for life. When he attempts to interview the police officers involved, they refuse to speak to him. Forced to investigate the case on his own, DeMarco travels to every corner of the City trying to discover what ...

Lawyer for the City is a story about Rocco DeMarco, a dynamic, young lawyer who handles multi-million-dollar personal injury lawsuits for the D.C. Attorney General’s Office. DeMarco is assigned a police brutality case in which one of the plaintiffs is dead and the other is paralyzed for life. When he attempts to interview the police officers involved, they refuse to speak to him. Forced to investigate the case on his own, DeMarco travels to every corner of the City trying to discover what ...

Given the simple prompt, "hello winter," nine writers were given the task to create a new short story to be put into this collection. This unique group of stories were all crafted in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and brings writers from two continents and five states together when we all must stay safely apart. Short Stories included in this collection: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO HAPPINESS by Mindi Dickstein, TEDDY by Ronald Keaton, THE SNOW QUEEN by Theresa Heskins, LE CYGNE by James De...

How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers can prepare for and engage with social justice concerns. The essays offer reflections on the val...

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, includingcurriculum planning and d...

Multiple-award-winner Geneva Gay has updated her foundational text for culturally responsive teaching to keep it relevant for today’s diverse students. This perennial favorite is the go-to resource for teacher professional learning and education courses.Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. ...

Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation builds on the legacy of social justice multicultural education, while recognizing the considerable challenges of reaching today’s college students. By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields – neuroscience and animal studies – Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing m...

In an advanced society like the U.S., where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social cognition and psychology, and organizational behavior, Framed by Gender identifies the general processes through which gender as a principle of inequality rewrites itself into new forms of social and economic organization. Cecilia Ridgeway argues that people confront uncertain circumstances with gender belie...

In this long-awaited sequel to Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge, two leaders in the field of practitioner research offer a radically different view of the relationship of knowledge and practice and of the role of practitioners in educational change. In their new book, the authors put forward the notion of inquiry as stance as a challenge to the current arrangements and outcomes of schools and other educational contexts. They call for practitioner researchers in local...

The Culturally Inclusive Educator asks educators to consider what they can do differently to create a welcoming, inclusive, and exciting environment for the 21st century. Based on the author’s national research and consulting work, this book examines the discrepancy between the current educational cultural climate and the need for educators and their institutions to prepare for a growing multicultural population. It asks what constitutes effective preparation, and provides g...

Social identity research is very much on the ascendancy, particularly in the field of organizational psychology. Reflecting this fact, this volume contains chapters from researchers at the cutting edge of these developments.