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...

A presentation of key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem StudyIn a world of more than seven billion people—who mostly reside in cities and towns—the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagement, there are insights to share, generalizations to examine, and ...

Heroes. Villains. And everything in between -- and they're here to save the night!.Across the centuries and across the globe, the vampire appears in our myths, folktales, dreams, and nightmares. In some tales, the vampire is a ferocious and much-feared predator, in others a harbinger of death and decay. Elsewhere, the vampire is lonely and long-suffering. In many modern tales, the vampire is a lover whose promises of an eternal happily-ever-after end sometimes in tragedy and someti...

A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illu...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

'GIVE IT BACK. GIVE IT BACK NOW.GIVE IT BACK OR I'LL TAKE IT BACK.'Years after she walked out on her family, and following a war fought in her name, Helen has returned home. Her husband celebrates, her childhood friend Cee does not.Over the course of this fragile first night of peacetime, wounds reopen, loyalties fracture and the true cost of a woman's choice to leave is made clear.Blistering and brilliant, Ava Pickett's ...

There is no substitution. Only the Holy Spirit can give you the realization that things need to change in your life, and provide the power to make those changes happen. Walking in the Spirit outlines the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer and eradicates common misunderstandings about Him, showing clearly how the Scriptures reveal the Holy Spirit as a divine person who has come to the earth to fulfill the eternal plan of God.Come into a proper relationship with the Holy...

Luke Mackinnon's been hiding something from his friend Mason Green: They're still bonded from that time Mason accidentally bitLuke in a fit of passion nearly ten years ago.When he finds out he's still mated to his best friend, Mason suggests that maybe they should give the bond a whirl. Could it be that the infamously promiscuous Mason is actually thinking about settling down?At the close of hockey season, the alpha-omega pair takes off to the seclusion of Mason's su...

Finally, a book that provides a practical and spiritual guide on how to identify and overcome the challenges that cause weight gain. It's not always the 'food we eat' but 'what's eating us' that puts the weight on. Any weight loss plan can work if you can work it. By reading this book, you will discover keys to choosing the right plan and obtain insight into the barriers and hidden obstacles blocking your success. One major key is recognizing you are a three-part being (spirit, soul and bo...

The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways—the inspiration for the award-winning film of the same name, starring Paul Giamatti—Sideways Oregon tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack.Seven years have passed since Miles and Jack took their infamous bachelor trip to the Santa Ynez Valley. Miles has written a novel that was made into a wildly successful movie, which changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a k...

Six Strategies the Enemy Uses to Confuse You about Gods Law to Destroy You is about a man who worked for the King until he decided to promote himself. He thought that he would one day rule that Kingdom but was cast out. So he became the Kings enemy.Instead of giving the Kings message to the people, he gives them his own message. The adversary rebels against the Kings commands and tries to discredit the Kings words. He twists them to deceive the people into following him instead of ...

What kind of Ancestorare you going to be?Selected poems from Enid Pickett"Enid Pickett is a poet who writes for sound and meaning. She has mastered alliteration which allows you to hear and see the music of what she is saying. She is very thorough in developing the themes of each poem. For example, she explores nature, colors and music throughout her poetic discourse. As she puts it, she wants the reader to listen with their eyes and see wi...