Product Description: More than 1.6 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes each year. If you are one of those people, you need a plan to cope with the medical, psychological, and practical day-to-day challenges of the disease. I’ve Got Diabetes...read more

Product Description: Minding the Gap argues that in today’s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential...read more

Discusses the historical origins, teachings, practices, politics, and twenty-first century challenges of Sikhism.

Product Description: Double the Numbers explores policies that are likely to serve as building blocks in any "next phase" of education reform that tackles the dual problems of high school completion and postsecondary access and success. Only 25 percent of the U...read more

Discusses various aspects and beliefs concerning life after death, including reincarnation, communicatng with the dead, heaven and hell, and near-death experiences.

A rich and fascinating portrait of education life in America between 1830 and 1920, Woman's "True" Profession is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the teaching profession. "Women have always been teachers." So begins this second edition of Nancy Hoffman's classic history of women and the teaching profession in the United States. With this revised collection of her own essays and the writings of early women teachers, Hoffman offers a rich and fascinating portrait of educational life in America. The documents that enrich this volume include autobiographical writings of teachers who practiced between 1830 and 1920. Hoffman's essays probe the socioeconomic factors that led women into teaching, analyze the roles that women teachers played in effecting social change, and assess the impact of urbanization and bureaucracy on teaching. This second edition greatly expands on and revises the central focus of the original book, drawing on several decades of feminist research and analysis that was not available when the first edition was published. In addition, it includes a thoroughly reconsidered account of the relationship between race and education, together with archival materials written by Black women teachers that were not known at the time of the first edition. A book that explores the full range of contributions, challenges, successes, and frustrations that marked these early teacher's careers, Woman's "True" Profession is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the teaching profession.

Looks at fairies through primary and secondary sources, discussing the various beliefs of their appearence, and their role in myth, fantasy, art, and literature.

Discusses the history of man's knowledge of the heart, early heart surgery, and the results, possible complications, costs, and future of heart transplants.

Describes the program created by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to help a poor West Virginia mining town get back on its feet after the Great Depression. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Education is regarded as part of the essential fabric of democratic societies. Yet, despite some advances since Title IX, much still needs to happen to transform the structure of schools, as well as teacher education programs, to ensure the social and economic well-being of girls and women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This issue of Women's Studies Quarterly lays some of the groundwork for identifying issues key to the development of a feminist precollegiate education for girls and sheds a fresh light on persistent educational concerns of adult women.

Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of this scenic and varied Southern state. (view table of contents)

Relates the history and describes the geographic features, places of interest, government, industry, environmental concerns, and life of the people of this largely rural state

Stories and poems depict women engaged in both oppressive and satisfying work