Product Description: Explore service learning scholarship, and important elements of program design that achieves both leadership learning and community impact. This volume provides an overview of the most up-to-date thinking on leadership development through service-learning, including: the leadership competencies linked to service-learning experiences, the processes of ethical engagement in community partnerships, approaches for fostering more critical student reflection, and applied examples, including an in-depth case study of a leadership course series, a wealth of service programs led by students, a mentoring model linking college student service with youth leadership development, and a youth leadership program with a national scope...read more

Product Description: Praise for Leadership for a Better World "What a powerful, very needed, and welcome sequel to A Social Change Model for Leadership Development Guidebook. It is a book for students, faculty, and everyone who engages in leadership for social change for a better world...read more

Product Description: Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can be abused by special interests to intrude on the way scientists conduct research. The high stakes and adversarial features of regulation create the worst possible climate for the honest production and use of science especially by those who will ultimately bear the cost of the resulting regulatory standards...read more

Product Description: Baby Goldie looks as normal as you and I, yet concealed behind those bright blue eyes is a brain with a hole in it. Four major surgeries in the first years of her life, and not expected to live, Goldie's life begins with angels, answers to prayers, and miracles...read more

Product Description: Dieses Buch gibt Einblicke in Georg Büchners zehnjährigen evangelischen Religionsunterricht in Darmstadt (1821-1831), die ein neues Verständnis seiner Überzeugung, daß eine soziale «Reformation» nur mit Hilfe von Religion und der Bibel herbeigeführt werden kann, ermöglichen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)