In these fifteen stories, Jill Stephenson explores the many moods and shades of the current American landscape. From every strata, every social location, we find in these pages a unique array of voices, the everyday man and woman still struggling to maintain their individuality against the mass pressure to conform. Everyone is here: the blue-collar man, the office-executive woman, the rock star, the adolescent, college students, immigrants, the homeless and the moneyed establishment. A mas...

What does it mean to be exiled in America? As young aspirants, a group of friends arrived in the city. Idealistic, talented, industrious, they transformed the urban landscape. Now the very ethos that made their city unique has attracted a new breed. New money, a new ethic, their community is under siege. Threatened by real estate moguls, chain stores and technology entrepreneurs, the friends are faced with expulsion from a marketplace that no longer requires their services. Of Exiles and S...

I was rewarded for being afraid, Teri Lang confesses as her respectable life begins to shatter. Working her way into the citys circle of moneyed elite, Teris career excels at a lightnings pace. Embracing the rules of the powerful who chart her meteoric rise, Teri accepts their honors and benefits from their connections. But just as her future approaches the brink of limitless success, Teri meets a young radical whose personal mission is to destroy the web Teri has so slavishly served. A st...

nursing children read for pleasure and develop a life-long love of reading is a priority for all primary school teachers.The National Curriculum focuses heavily on promoting reading for pleasure and engaging pupils using a range of diverse and inclusive texts and materials.This text supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS and Early Career Teachers to understan...

The Research-Informed Educator supports teachers in developing their professional identity and practice through engagement with research and evidence. It helps both new and experienced educators look beyond the pressures of recent policy demands about what teachers should know and do. The book aims to challenge and re-balance the recent “evidence-turn” in teacher training and development.The chapters cover the career path of a teacher, introducing and developing key concep...

The Nazi’s were implacably opposed to feminism and women’s independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers', and their task was to support their fighting menfolk by providing food and making and mending uniforms and flags.The miscellany of women’s organisations was dissolved and reunified by Greg...

" At Personality, Inc., the world is divided into five distinct Personalities. And the corporation is out to make you one of them! In the tradition of Ray Bradbury and George Orwell, Jill Stephenson delivers a vision of a world in which surface appearances become the totality of every person who walks through the doors of Personality, Inc. As Nora Pherson sets out to recreate the world in her own image of a well-run, super-organized society, her top instructor, Martin Goldsmith, begins to ...

From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler’s Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from the stereotypes to provide a more complete picture of how they experienced Nazism in peacetime and at war. What was the status and role of women in pre-Nazi Germany and how did different groups of women respond to the Nazi project in practic...

**Your essential coursebook for primary initial teacher training. Linked to the CCF and the ITTECF.This complete handbook supports your accredited primary initial teacher training (ITT) course.***Covers all areas of core content outlined in the ITT Core Content Framework and the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework*Introduces key educational debates and a range of pedagogical perspectives on teaching and learning*Includes reflection activities to...

This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, according to Wegner, play a major role in advancing ideological justifications for mass murder, and in legitimizing a culture of ethnic and racial hatred. Using a variety of primary sources, Wegner provi...

MERGEFIELD AI_CopyIn 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission.The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime c...

By 1944, the overwhelming majority of the German Army had participated in the German war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and historians continue to debate the motivations behind the violence unleashed in the east. Jeff Rutherford offers an important new contribution to this debate through a study of combat and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. He shows that while Nazi racial ideology provided a legitimizing context in which violence was not only accepted bu...