“…One of the few literacy resources available that focuses exclusively on preschool ELs, this book helps teachers of young children: understand the essential elements for building early literacy skills, including teaching the alphabetic principle, phonological awareness, and vocabulary; encourage family involvement and nurture the home-school alliance; build on children's primary language; and strengthen preschool programs serving young ELs. "No Limits to Literacy for Preschool English Learners" shows teachers how to lead children to high levels of literacy competence, engagement, and enjoyment!…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…POLICING LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES (1920S-40S) ; 5. Revolutionary Selves: The Russian Intelligentsia from Old to New ; 6. …”

“…Even during their horrific evacuation to the Soviet interior during World War II, the twenty-two Soviet boarding schools designed specifically for the Spanish refugee children - and better provisioned than those for Soviet children - served these displaced niños for fourteen years and transformed them into Red Army heroes, award-winning Soviet athletes and artists, successful educators and workers, and aids to Fidel Castro in building Cuba after his revolution. …”

“…Two of these systems, "disposition" and "surveillance," are especially important in enabling emotions to produce habits, which often serve a positive function in democratic societies. …”

“…Written by experienced practitioners, it gives teachers simple and direct advice on how they can use the positive behavioural approach for the benefit of their pupils and schools. …”

“…Nevertheless, the Lincolns served with distinction in every theater of the war and won a disproportionate number of medals for courage, dedication, and sacrifice. …”

“…For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. …”

“…In "A Written Republic", Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. …”

“…Each chapter tackles a different aspect of your work, helping you to: understand the surrounding law and ethics, including copyright issues; develop effective preservation standards and practice; use the relevant cataloguing systems and standards; reach your audience, market your collection, and use social media to improve access; develop effective fundraising and advocacy efforts; manage acquisitions and donors in line with collection development strategy; rethink and develop effective spaces and user services; and, manage your staff, train paraprofessionals and improve your skills and training. …”

“…A central aim of the book is to expand the range of issues that have thus far been considered under the heading "the philosophy of bias" by putting new theoretical questions on the table and proposing bold answers that can serve as starting points for future inquiry -- Editor…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interfaces: new media of humanitarian relation -- Maps: historical snapshots and digital rewriting -- Populations: from statistics to data science -- Emergencies: waiting and watching in the palliative present -- States: analog and digital -- Law and policy: infrastructures of interface -- Uses: using, disusing, and misusing digital humanitarian interfaces…”

“…The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 128th ser., (2010)…”

“…Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature…”
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“…The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. …”

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“…Friendship and other intimate (but not always amicable) relationships have received some attention in the greater field of research on early Judaism and Christianity, though not as much as deserved. This volume celebrates and builds upon the life-long work of Adele Reinhartz, covering the various permutations of relationships that can be found in the Gospel of John, the wider corpus of early Jewish and Christian literature, and cinematic re-imaginings thereof. …”

“…Besides the population of pyramidal neurons using glutamate as a neurotransmitter, GABAergic cortical interneurons form a second, quite heterogeneous group of neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex. …”

“…It provides a starting point to collect further evidence, develop analytical work and case studies, and to identify areas that deserve further research, thus paving the way for future work to be developed by the OECD and the INFE.A relatively broad range of empirical literature documents the existence of gender differences in financial literacy in various countries and along several dimensions. …”

“…These promising efforts deserve careful monitoring and should yield valuable lessons for other donors. …”