Skinny Minnie Mayver has a skinny familybut no one is as skinny as Minnie! Skinny Minnie has a skinny mom, a skinny dad, a skinny sister, and a not-so-skinny brother, but shes the skinniest one of them all. And everybody in her family always asks her, Skinny Minnie, how do you stay so skinny? But she always says, I dont know. Im just skinny!On her birthday, Skinny Minnie likes to go to lunch with her aunt Helen. She always eats a whole Reuben sandwich; a big plate of salty, not-so-...

A new framework for analyzing global power dynamics and the neglected role of small statesIn the decades since the Cold War, international relations scholarship has predominantly examined global power dynamics through the lens of great powers—namely, the United States—and rising powers such as China. This narrow focus overlooks small states, which are a critical component of the international system. As global power structures rapidly evolve and traditional allianc...

"There is a big difference between assigning complex texts and teaching complex texts…"---Doug, Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp….And that’s the crux, isn’t it? That’s why in this brand new edition of the bestselling Text Complexity, the renowned author team provide four new chapters that lay open the instructional routines that take students to new places as readers.No matter what discipline you teach, you will learn how to craft purposeful instr...