Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives.This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also reveals the nature and significance of communication to people, households and communities.Local Literacies, the first in-depth study of literacy, includes:* appendices of raw data* notes for teachers and students on how to use the book* guidance for carrying out individual researchLocal Literacies is both a theoretical work, and a practical book. It provides stimulating and informative reading for anyone interested in the nature of literacy today, particularly students, teachers and researchers.

Product Description: America, in so many ways, has forgotten. Its roots, its purpose, its identity—all have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation’s founding, and its founders, to fit within a misshapen modern mold...read more

Product Description: Do you feel like you are living in a paradox? Do the Christians you know seem to enjoy their relationship with the Lord while you labor over the details of faith? If this sounds like you, it may be time for a change. Your relationship with God should not be a stress factor in your life, as you become closer to your friends and fellow worshippers, you will see that many of them are struggling as well...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of articles by various authors. The collection is published by Spring Journal. Each issue contains a different theme and the articles are published by different authors each time.

Product Description: The Home School Legal Defense Association, in support of National Day of Prayer, is delighted to promote and recommend Foundations of Character: Drive Thru History America.This 9-unit, DVD-based curriculum includes integrated supplemental materials to be used by educators with the objective of helping students recognize the relationship between the worldview and faith of the Founding Fathers and how these beliefs guided their actions...read more

Product Description: The Home School Legal Defense Association, in support of National Day of Prayer, is delighted to promote and recommend Foundations of Character: Drive Thru History America.This 9-unit, DVD-based curriculum includes integrated supplemental materials to be used by educators with the objective of helping students recognize the relationship between the worldview and faith of the Founding Fathers and how these beliefs guided their actions...read more

Product Description: The Home School Legal Defense Association, in support of National Day of Prayer, is delighted to promote and recommend Foundations of Character: Drive Thru History America.This 9-unit, DVD-based curriculum includes integrated supplemental materials to be used by educators with the objective of helping students recognize the relationship between the worldview and faith of the Founding Fathers and how these beliefs guided their actions...read more

Product Description: The New England Primer was the first textbook ever printed in America and was used to teach reading and Bible lessons in our schools until the twentieth century. In fact, many of the Founding Fathers and their children learned to read from The New England Primer...read more