Product Description: Originally published in 1978, this volume provided a broad survey of the latest research and theory, at the time, concerning the potential detrimental effects of inappropriate uses of tangible rewards to modify behaviour. Overall, this research questions the dominant paradigm within which reinforcers, by definition, have positive effects on performance and subsequent behaviour, and suggests new directions for the study of human motivation...read more

Product Description: The Winkler Case is a suspenseful, noir mystery about the plight of gay men in Chicago in 1948, and the hidden desires that lead to murder.  When insurance salesman Elliot Blake meets the handsome and mysterious boxer Vito Vellucci at the home of promoter Walt Winkler, he begins to learn the truth about the boxer's bargain with the promoter, and about his own desires...read more

Product Description: Out of over 40 years of experience in adult or worker education, David Greene brings us tools to develop consciousness and leadership for social change. Based on the power of our huge working class to understand this economic system and to organize, this book aims to empower educators, students and other workers with science applied to solving the serious social problems we face today...read more

Who controls today's conversation about what education should be in the classroom? Bill Gates? Arne Duncan? Michelle Rhee? Media? Politicians? Who has gained more and more control of what actually goes on in the classroom? Bill Gates? Arne Duncan? Michelle Rhee? Media? Politicians? Why? Where are the voices of the thousands of talented and loved teachers whose classrooms should be models of what works regardless of the socioeconomic environment they are located. I am but one of many. Each of us has gotten to be who we are as teachers through our own set of circumstances. We, like all other professionals learn our craft through our experiences as well as our academic preparation. Some of us get to pass on what we have learned about our craft by becoming supervisors, mentors, or university lecturers. I have mentored new teachers. I have taught a graduate education class. But those endeavours have reached relatively few. I have even spawned new teachers, inspired by me, but those are even fewer. Initially it is why started writing this book. Much of it started as advice to give to my mentees. Then some suggested to me to write a book. So I did!

Product Description: Ride from Niagara Falls to New York City on a speeding train with biracial, bisexual private eye, Tyrone King, and fellow passenger, Sarah Gaber, as they race to stop terrorists from blowing up the Statue of Liberty in Detonate."A hero who goes after the bad guys without using guns or violence...read more

Product Description: Shareholders throughout the world are becoming more assertive in the establishment of their rights against companies and directors. As a result, the law is developing throughout Europe and North America to make it easier for shareholders to assert their rights by bringing claims in front of the court...read more

Product Description: Subtitle: With a bite of humor - faith, tradition, extraordinary people and a college town Principal players are: Tom Davis, Helen McDonnell (Nana), and Father Bill Brooks. Tom Davis was a West Point graduate and full colonel...read more

Product Description: Unmentionables is about two pairs of lovers in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white, and wealthy. The other couple is gay, black, and enslaved. Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Jimmy, who despises whites, mistakes Cato for a white man...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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A psychologist considers the legends about the mystical powers of cats, scientific investigations, and claims of cat owners, concludes that cats possess extraordinary mental, physical, and psychic skills, and offers insights into the meanings of cats' sounds, movements, and expressions.

The three classic works are presented with analyses of the factual presentation and dramatic treatment of the Oedipus legend in each play (view table of contents)