"From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue to organize most passionately to limit the influence of this heterogeneity on our curricula and classroom culture. Classroom Wars explores how we got here. Focusing in on California's schools during the 1960s and 1970s, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts how a state and a citizenry deeply committed to public education as an engine of civic and moral education navigated the massive changes brought about by the 1960s, including the sexual revolution, school desegregation, and a dramatic increase in Latino immigration. In California, where a volatile political culture nurtured both Orange County mega-churches and Berkeley coffeehouses, these changes reverberated especially powerfully. Analyzing two of the era's most innovative, nationally impactful, and never-before juxtaposed programs--Spanish-bilingual and sex education--Classroom Wars charts how during a time of extraordinary social change, grass-roots citizens politicized the schoolhouse and family. Many came to link such progressive educational programs not only with threats to the family and nation but also with rising taxes, which they feared were being squandered on morally lax educators teaching ethically questionable curricula. Using sources ranging from policy documents to personal letters, student newspapers, and oral histories, Petrzela reveals how in 1960s and 70s California--and the nation at large--a growing number of Americans fused values about family, personal, and civic morality, blurring the distinction between public and private and inspiring some of the fiercest classroom wars in American history, controversies that help explain the bitterness of the battles we continue to wage today"--

In this timely book, Natasha Walter does not shy away from the challenges facing women in an age of misogyny, conflict and climate breakdown. But with clarity and courage she finds a thread of real hope in the dark.[Bokinfo]

Translated into many languages, this book was in continuous use as the standard university-level text for a quarter-century, until it was revised and enlarged by the author in 1952. World-renowned writer and researcher Nathan Altshiller-Court (1881-1968) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma for more than thirty years. His revised introduction to modern geometry offers today's students the benefits of his many years of teaching experience. The first part of the text stresses construction problems, proceeding to surveys of similitude and homothecy, properties of the triangle and the quadrilateral, and harmonic division. Subsequent chapters explore the geometry of the circle -- including inverse points, orthogonals, coaxals, and the problem of Apollonius and triangle geometry, focusing on Lemoine and Brocard geometry, isogonal lines, Tucker circles, and the orthopole. Numerous exercises of varying degrees of difficulty appear throughout the text.

This collection of photographs captures the natural splendor of the vast tracts of timberland, mountains, lakes, streams, and waterfalls of New York State's Adirondacks.

Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear and scuffing.

Inspirational true story of a boy escaping the clutches of a cult, homelessness, emotional decimation, and rampant drug abuse.The story of surviving on the streets, completely without family, friends or hope. The story of how to overcome against all odds; of will to carry on.Born into Scientology, Nathan resisted indoctrination from the start. Eventually he was sent to the cult's infamously abusive Mace Kingsley Ranch, at age 8. He was sent again to the ranch at age 14. He was not allowed contact with his family for nearly 3 years.After finally getting away, his family disowned him.He lived for 7 long years homeless and without hope. Drugs, violence and despair plagued his mind until he was finally able to rise out of the gutter, face his past and live in the present.From wild LSD experiences to gangs and past life recall, Nathan bears all in this brutally open memoir.

This is the second edition of our little red book Lectins published in 1989. In the intervening years well over 10,000 articles have appeared with lectins as the main subject, and more than twice as many in which they were touched upon, as well as around 20 books. In particular, great strides have been made in several areas of lectin research, about which little was known until the late 1980s. One prominent example is animal lectins, many of which have been discovered only during the last decade and the functions of several of which have been clarified, especially as to their key role in innate immunity. Another is the structure of lectins and of their combining sites. Thus, whereas at that time the three-dimensional structures of just three lectins and a few of their complexes with sugars had been elucidated, their numbers have increased to about 160 and over 200, respectively, and continue to grow unabated. Updating the information on these and other topics resulted in a marked expansion of the book, which is now nearly four times as long as the first edition, with 226 figures and 39 tables. Still, a few topics, such as carbohydrate-binding cytokines or bacterial toxins that are sometimes considered as lectins, have been dealt with only in passing. Similarly to the first edition, Lectins II starts with an overview of the history of lectin research.

From the acclaimed author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem comes a powerful guide to growing your self-confidence and creating a more fulfilled life. The challenge to honor the self calls on the heroic possibilities of our nature—on the will to think, to understand, to remain true to our understanding, to struggle, to endure, to persevere, and to remain open and responsive to life, sometimes in the face of dread, despair, confusion, and loneliness. —from the introduction What is the most important judgement you will ever make? The judgement you pass on yourself. Self-esteem is the key to success or failure. “Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem,” says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, “and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence—and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself—your self-esteem—is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.” In Honoring the Self, Branden offers comprehensive, thoughtful advice for raising your self-esteem and teaches you how to: • Grow in self-confidence and self-respect. • Nurture self-esteem in children. • Break free of guilt and fear of others’ disapproval. • Honor the self—the ethics of rational self-interest. Self-concept is destiny. Using the sage advice and self-reflective prompts in Honoring the Self , you can discover the power of personal transformation and build a better life.

Book by Nathaniel Branden

"From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world"--

A fourteen-year-old living with his grandparents learns his father is to be released from prison after killing his mother and feels apprehensive about renewing the relationship. Based on true events.

Moving to Moscow from Chicago isn't easy, especially if your mother is the US Ambassador. Derek must be well-mannered and presentable--there are parties to go to and state dinners to attend. but Derek has decided to break all the rules and risk everything to reunite a beautiful Russian girl with her dissident father living in exile. That means traveling hundreds of miles by train to the Romanian border. With the help of some young Muscovites, Derek begins a perilous journey. But he has a lot more to confront along the way than just the KGB. He must first face up to his mother and come to terms with the ghost of his dead father if he's ever going to succeed.

A life-affirming collection of things that really happened to young people all across the U.S. Some of these kids survived terrible ordeals, or risked their own lives to save someone else's; others started their own businesses, invented new products, or won awards through hard work and creativity.

A teenager and his mother embark on a whirlwind pleasure cruise, hoping to escape from their problems and searching for a little rest and relaxation. So they book passage on a no-frills excursion to the exotic Far East. Sounds like fun, huh? Too bad pleasure isn't on the ship's itinerary! Darren hears voices...in his head. Everyone thinks he's crazy. Even Darren begins to doubt his own sanity when a mysterious stranger pays him a late-night visit. Who is he? A time traveler, it turns out. A time traveler from 350 million years ago! A boy on his way back from a family holiday is annoyed when he picks up the wrong luggage at the airport. Well, he might as well try the clothes on for size, right? It's a perfect fit. Except for that weird third sleeve.... Like a spidery fracture in an otherwise unblemished pane of glass, there exists in the mind a place where reality is warped to expose a world of distortions. Each of these stories is an unforgettable glimpse into that mysterious world--a place called MindStorms .

Six outcasts from around the country find themselves drawn together by a mysterious force. A few of them, like Lourde, suffer from horribly disfiguring physical torments that literally threaten to consume them Others, like Dillon must battle inner demons that can erupt at any minute with terrifying consequences. Are they genetic freaks? Or monsters whose evil potential could destroy the world? The answer may lie in a star system billions of light-years away.

Kevin is entranced when he finds a pair of sunglasses that turn his desires into reality, but then things start to get out of control.

Table of Contents and Index available FREE at B5books.com.SCRIPTS* "The Long Dark" by Scott Frost* "Soul Mates" by Peter David* "There All the Honor Lies" Peter David* "Gropos" by Larry DiTillio* "Knives" by Larry DiTillio* "Day of the Dead" by Neil GaimanFEATURING* An introduction/commentary on each episode by the script writers, written exclusively for this volume.* Never-before-seen dialogue and action that were later cut from the episodes.* A Script/DVD Variations inventory, which catalogues all the changes, deletions, additions and extras that were in the script but you never actually got to see in the final episodes.* A 47-page guide to the Alien Races of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, which details as many as 21 characteristics and the history of each race. This 13,000-word "bible" covers the Abbai, Brakiri, Drazi, Grome, Hurr, Hyach, Llort, Markab, pak'ma'ra and Yolu and also includes a short Centauri/Minbari/Narn glossary.* A brief introduction by J. Michael Straczynski for Neil Gaiman's script (reprinted from the 1998 "Day of the Dead" script book).STORIES INCLUDE* What Scott Frost believes is less-than-perfect about Cirrus's character* Why Peter David wrote "Soul Mates" even though J. Michael Straczynski said "no"* The night that Bruce Boxleitner referred to his character as Sinclair, and Peter David's theory on why he did* The tale of the legendary Babylon 5 teddy bear, including how the bear war began, the alien race Strazyn and how a final retribution was thwarted* What inspired "Knives" to open with Londo and Vir discussing opera* The tale behind the dramatic changes to Sheridan's story line in "Knives," that later prompted writer Larry DiTillio to ask himself "what was I thinking?"* What Larry DiTillio always bought 5 pounds of for the crew when shooting his scripts* Why Andreas Katsulas refused to go to conventions* The version of "Day of the Dead" with a talking Zooty* The line of dialogue that Neil Gaiman refers to as "astoundingly awful" as well as one of his "favorite TV moments"Retired Date: September 30, 2008Discover why Babylon 5 will never be available on Blu-ray at B5news.com.

A story of a Greek nobleman who is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife.