Product Description: The concept of "communities of practice" (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become influential in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This volume emphasizes the significance of language, power, and social context in understanding how communities of practice work...read more

Product Description: Bringing Jane Home is an action-adventure novel of a father who goes through hell to be reunited with his estranged daughter and his efforts to bring her home from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. Josh Freeman, ex-Navy Swift Boat machine-gunner and Montauk, NY, charter boat captain loses his wife, Mary, during a storm on a fishing trip with his daughter Jane aboard...read more

Book by Barton, David

Product Description: This book covers the question on whether TV affects children's and teenager's morals

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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 American judicial branch is out of control, dominating both the executive and legislative branches. This book reveals how the Founders restrained overactive courts, utilizing the only Constitutional tool available - impeachment...read more

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 book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today’s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship between learning and adults’ lives, following a wide range of individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre...read more

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.