Assessment practices in schools often stem from outdated traditions that don’t serve today’s learners. Assessment Literacy for Educators is the culmination of Robert J. Marzano’s decades of work, coauthored with Michael D. Evans and Julia A. Simms. Presenting 43 tenets for assessment literacy, the book equips teachers and leaders to replace outdated grading practices with equitable, accurate approaches that truly advance student learning.K–12 educators and preservice teache...

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; ...

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings hi...

Robert Evans, a nationally known consultant on school leadership, presents his seven keys for savvy leaders: 1. When You Go to See the Wizard, Take Toto 2. Theyll Never Understand 3. Change Is What It Means 4. Bite off What You Can Chew 5. Be Your Best, Bold Self 6. Nourish to Flourish 7. From Savvy to Wise: Look Out for Number One

When Mored, a young boy living in the not-so-distant future, activates a university research group's time machine without permission, he travels back nearly two centuries to 1869......inside the body of a farm boy!What lessons can a city boy from the future learn from sharing the mind of a farm boy in the past while also coping with river pirates and shotgun weddings?

This story expresses life,truth and beauty; it represents a 1950's American Southern way of life; it touches on love, jealousy, life, hate, death and hope. You will see a determination and love for his wife also the quality that he puts forth in all he does.

Why you always got to dig things up?A cabin deep in the woods.A lost boy buried in the snow.A lone woman.And her wolf.You think you could keep him?You know where that ends up.Don't you.You no good with kids.The Woods by Robert Alan Evans premiered at Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2018.

By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's plays, in terms of an Aristotelian critical category, which has been neglected in modern times. Inherent in his methodology is the assumption that Romeo and Juliet is best regarded as drama, not as pure poetry, though essentially it is the rhetorical brilliance of the poetry that is considered.Evans begins with an analysis of the important speeches of

We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions – experts must be subservient to social and political life.In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be pro...

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent.Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiat...

Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence.In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between "gangs" of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As s...

This collection of fourteen essays by American and English scholars—many of them hitherto unpublished and all of them selected with a view to avoiding the duplication of essays already familiar and available—offers new testimony of the range and accomplishments of Graham Greene's talent. The essays vary from considerations of general topics to critical analyses of single novels, from a discussion of Greene as a writer of Christian tragedy to a witty, irreverent assessment of The Power ...