Product Description: Readers will delight in the high-interest educational topics addressed in this book, which is aligned to the 3rd grade Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts. Age-appropriate language, vivid imagery, and a relatable narrative will grab students' attention, keeping them engaged while also equipping them with the skills they need to become thoughtful readers...read more

Product Description: Mike's Busy Neighborhood was written to support the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts. Mike introduces the people and places of his neighborhood. A graphic organizer is included at the back of the book. CCSS English Language Arts Strands & Standards: Literacy...read more

Discusses mentoring programs in early childhood education, providing case studies and activities and covering such subjects as leadership, communication, planning, and accepting and working with change.

Product Description: Social Democracy and Society examines the origins of working-class radicalism in Imperial Germany. The Düsseldorf Social Democratic Party was associated with the left wing of the SPD. It defended theoretical orthodoxy against the onslaughts of revisionism, rejected all cooperation with bourgeois groups, and advocated militant tactics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This series is designed to educate young people about a range of issues by providing clear information that does not patronize, over-simplify or judge. This book includes real-life case studies and experiences, and details of helpful organizations.

Provides an overview of the issues surrounding teen pregnancy, including prevention, causes, options, and resources. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A textbook designed for statistical quality control courses taught in departments of industrial engineering, operations research and statistics. The book incorporates key organizational changes in order to reflect recent trends in the field. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Childbirth educators need to impart and facilitate knowledge and awareness to clients in preparation for pregnancy, labour and motherhood. Written by an experienced National Childbirth Trust teacher, this book covers almost every aspect of antenatal and parent craft education, emphasising group work and reflective practice.

Uses personal experiences of parents to cover such topics as prenatal tests, labor, pain relief, and Cesarean birth, and provides information for expectant parents to make informed choices

In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the 1920s, Germans were fascinated by American economic success and its quintessential symbols, Henry Ford and his automobile factories. Mary Nolan's book explores the contradictory ways in which trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity. These debates about Americanism and Fordism deeply shaped German perceptions of what was economically and socially possible and desirable in terms of technology and work, family and gender relations, consumption and culture. Nolan examines efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing, in the end, neither prosperity nor political stability. Vision of Modernity will appeal not only to scholars of German History and those interested in European social and working-class history, but also to industrial sociologists and business scholars.