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World of Reading: Sheriff Callie's Wild West: Peck's Trail Mix Mix-Up (World of Reading)
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Peck’s favorite trail mix is slowly disappearing as the day goes on! Can he catch the trail mix thief? Follow along with word-for-word narration in this Level Pre-1 reader to find out!
World of Reading: Sheriff Callie's Wild West: Peck's Trail Mix Mix-Up (World of Reading)
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Peck’s favorite trail mix is slowly disappearing as the day goes on! Can he catch the trail mix thief? Follow along with word-for-word narration in this Level Pre-1 reader to find out!
World of Reading: Sofia the First: Clover Time (World of Reading)
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Make room for Clover! When Clover's warren gets flooded in a storm, Sofia happily invites her best friend to move in with her. They love sharing a room...at first. Sofia discovers that being a roommate is no picnic in this fun and funny Level Pre-1 Reader!
World of Reading: Sofia the First: Riches to Rags (World of Reading)
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney and meet the royal breadwinner! During a very hectic day at work, Roland wishes in a magic mirror that he could trade places with a baker. Suddenly, his wish comes true, and the royal family find themselves running the village bakery! King Roland soon discovers that being a baker is no piece of cake in this tasty Level 1 Reader with word-for-word narration!
World of Reading: Spidey and His Amazing Friends Dino-Rama (World of Reading)
by Steve BehlingSpidey, Spin, and Ghost Spider transform into dinosaurs in this 32-page Level 1 reader.When Team Spidey and Reptil try to stop Gobby and Rhino from wreaking havoc, Reptil's jewel breaks, turning them all into dinosaurs!Spidey fans will delight in this exciting 32-page level 1 reader filled with adventures, dino-transformations, and new baddies! With familiar words, simple sentence structures, and final frame illustrations, Spidey&’s latest adventure is perfect for beginning readers.Explore the World of ReadingThe World of Reading series provides emerging readers with stories that inspire and excite them, featuring characters they love. Each level is designed to help readers navigate the world of reading at just the right pace.Read about more of Team Spidey's amazing adventures in these books!Spidey and His Amazing Friends: Construction DestructionSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Team Spidey Does it All! Comic ReaderSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Panther PatienceSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Meet Team SpideyWorld of Reading: Spidey Saves the DayWorld of Reading: Super Hero HiccupsElectro's Gotta GlowAnd more!
World of Reading: Spidey and His Amazing Friends: Halted Holiday (World of Reading)
by Steve BehlingTeam Spidey works together to clear up traffic in this 32-page level 1 reader that relives the excitement of Spidey and His Amazing Friends holiday episode.When Miles' abuela gets stuck in the tunnel on her way to Thanksgiving dinner, Team Spidey swings into action to unblock the roads so families can be together for this traditional holiday meal. Super Hero fans can&’t miss this heartfelt 32-page story featuring Spidey and his amazing friends. With familiar words, simple sentence structures, and clear illustrations, Spidey&’s latest adventure is perfect for beginning readers. Explore Disney's World of Reading series, which provides emerging readers with books that inspire and excite them, featuring characters they love. Each level is designed to help readers navigate the wonderful world of reading at just the right pace.Read about more of Team Spidey's amazing adventures in these books!Spidey and His Amazing Friends: Construction DestructionSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Team Spidey Does it All! Comic ReaderSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Panther PatienceSpidey and His Amazing Friends: Meet Team SpideyWorld of Reading: Spidey Saves the DayWorld of Reading: Super Hero Hiccups
World of Reading: The Lion Guard: Bunga the Wise
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Reading is fun in this exciting Level 1 World of Reading story with word for word narration based on an episode of the upcoming Disney Junior animated series "The Lion Guard."
World of Reading: The Lion Guard: Pride Lands Patrol-Level 1 Reader Plus Fun Animal Facts (World of Reading)
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Inspired by the Disney Junior Un-Bunga-lievable shorts featuring real-world animal facts! Help the Lion Guard keep the Pride Lands safe in this fun story that includes real animal facts and word-for-word narration.
World of Reading: This is Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch (World of Reading)
by Marvel Press Book GroupThe This is line of World of Reading early readers is designed to offer reluctant readers books they will want to read by featuring the origin stories of characters they love. Introducing Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch! They come from different backgrounds, but Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch have one very important thing in common: Magic. These two heroes use their powers to help others whenever they need it most. Learn how Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch use their magical abilities to save the day in this 32-page story. Complete your Marvel World of Reading collection and get to know the origin stories for each of your favorite heroes! This is Spider-Man This is Black Panther This is Miles Morales This is Captain Marvel This is Black Widow This is Thor This is The Mighty Thor This is Doctor Strange This is Falcon This is Ms. Marvel This is Kate Bishop: Hawkeye For readers ready for even more action and adventure, check out these Marvel collections: Marvel Storybook Collection 5-Minute Marvel Stories The Avengers Storybook Collection 5-Minute Spider-Man Stories Spider-Man Storybook Collection
World of Reading: This is Ghost-Spider (World of Reading)
by Marvel Press Book GroupGhost-Spider saves the science library from a Rhino rampage in this book that is perfect for early readers.Gwen Stacy, aka Ghost-Spider, and her band The Mary Janes are playing a fundraiser for their local science library. Their rocking out is interrupted by Rhino, as he makes a run for it with all the money they&’ve raised! Ghost-Spider swings in and saves the day.Young readers will love learning about one of their favorite characters in this Level 2 reader.
World of Reading: This is The Mighty Thor (World of Reading)
by Marvel Press Book GroupThe This is line of World of Reading early readers is designed to offer reluctant readers books they will want to read by featuring the origin stories of characters they love. Introducing The Mighty Thor! When the hammer calls to Jane Foster, she finds that she can't resist the pull of destiny. Torn between her obligation to be the hero the world needs and her own physical limitations, Jane will discover that heroism isn't just super powers—it's about doing what's right, even when it's hard. Learn how Jane Foster becomes The Mighty Thor in this 32-page origin story. Complete your Marvel World of Reading collection and get to know the origin stories for each of your favorite heroes! This is Spider-Man This is Black Panther This is Miles Morales This is Captain Marvel This is Black Widow This is Ms. Marvel This is Shang-Chi This is Thor This is Doctor Strange This is Falcon For readers ready for even more action and adventure, check out these Marvel collections: Marvel Storybook Collection 5-Minute Marvel Stories The Avengers Storybook Collection 5-Minute Spider-Man Stories Spider-Man Storybook Collection
World's Most Dangerous Jobs
by Paula ReidDo you find yourself daydreaming about a glamorous occupation, such as a racing driver, an astronaut or a stunt double? This compelling book unravels the mysteries and exposes the pitfalls of the world’s most dangerous jobs, giving a fascinating insight into the working lives of those who regularly stare death in the face.
World's Most Dangerous Jobs
by Paula ReidDo you find yourself daydreaming about a glamorous occupation, such as a racing driver, an astronaut or a stunt double? This compelling book unravels the mysteries and exposes the pitfalls of the world’s most dangerous jobs, giving a fascinating insight into the working lives of those who regularly stare death in the face.
World's Story 3: The Modern Age: The Explorers Through The Present Day
by Angela O'DellThis thrilling history book teaches students about the growth of our world, from the first explorers to today's modernized world. Set sail with Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and others as you follow this story-based approach on your journey to modern times, visiting the sites of major wars and revolutions, and tracing the rise and fall of various nations. Volume 3 in this series for junior high students includes: A conversational narrative that brings the modern age to life Gorgeous photographs, artwork, and maps that help students visualize people, places, and events Educational features that dig deeper into combating post-modern thinking with biblical authority In exploring this course, students will see how God used people to expand and advance our world. They will learn about the discovery of new lands, the development of new technology, and the constant cultural struggle among people of all ethnicities. They'll also study how modernization has radically changed politics, economies, cultures, societies, and worldviews all around the globe!
World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism
by Robin Truth GoodmanWorld, Class, Women begins the extraordinarily important task of bringing a postcolonial, feminist voice to critical pedagogy and, by extension explores how current debates about education could make a contribution to feminist thought. Robin Truth Goodman deftly weaves together the disciplines of literature, postcolonialism, feminism, and education in order to theorize how the shrinking of the public sphere and the rise of globalization influence access to learning, what counts as knowledge, and the possibilities of a radical feminism.
World-Centred Education: A View for the Present
by Gert BiestaThis book makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place. In the seven chapters in this book Gert Biesta explores in detail what an existential orientation to education entails and why this should be an urgent concern for education today. He highlights the importance of teaching, not understood as the transmission of knowledge and skills but as an act of (re)directing the attention of students to the world, so that they may encounter what the world is asking from them. The book thus shows why teaching matters for education. It also highlights the unique position of the school as the place where the new generation is given the time to meet the world and meet themselves in relation to the world. The extent to which society is still willing to make this time available, is an important indicator of its democratic quality. This important text demonstrates, not only to academics, but also to students, teachers, school administrators, and teacher educators, the urgency of a world-centred orientation for education today.
WorldCALL: International Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning)
by Mike Levy Françoisee Blin Claire Bradin Siskin Osamu TakeuchiAs technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for Language Learning.
Worldmaking: Psychology and the Ideology of Creativity (Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology)
by Michael Hanchett HansonMichael Hanchett Hanson weaves together the history of the development of the psychological concepts of creativity with social constructivist views of power dynamics and pragmatic insights. He provides an engaging, thought-provoking analysis to interest anyone involved with creativity, from psychologists and educators to artists and philosophers.
Worlds Beyond Words: True Stories About the Power of Literacy (Quick Reads Ser.)
by Alison StokesA collection of real-life stories from people who have improved their lives through better literacy. Foreword by Scott QuinnellSome people take the power of words for granted. But for the thousands of people who struggle with poor literacy, words can be scary things. The men and women featured in this book have overcome their fears to improve their reading later in life. Whether they are famous businessmen or sports stars, teenagers in care, middle-aged mums, young soldiers or refugees forced to flee bloodshed in their own home countries, they all share a common desire to learn.Their stories will inspire others to follow journeys of their own.Alison Stokes is a writer and journalist, who writes for national magazines in the UK and US and regional newspapers in Wales. For many years she was a features editor at Trinity Mirror’s South Wales Echo. She also works as a part-time university lecturer in journalism and publishing manager.
Worlds Beyond Words: True Stories About the Power of Literacy (Quick Reads)
by Alison StokesA collection of real-life stories from people who have improved their lives through better literacy. Foreword by Scott QuinnellSome people take the power of words for granted. But for the thousands of people who struggle with poor literacy, words can be scary things. The men and women featured in this book have overcome their fears to improve their reading later in life. Whether they are famous businessmen or sports stars, teenagers in care, middle-aged mums, young soldiers or refugees forced to flee bloodshed in their own home countries, they all share a common desire to learn.Their stories will inspire others to follow journeys of their own.Alison Stokes is a writer and journalist, who writes for national magazines in the UK and US and regional newspapers in Wales. For many years she was a features editor at Trinity Mirror’s South Wales Echo. She also works as a part-time university lecturer in journalism and publishing manager.
Worlds Made By Words: Scholarship And Community In The Modern West
by Anthony GraftonItalian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.
Worlds Within Verona's Walls
by Vivienne Raffaele<P>An engaging account of the lives and loves of three English teachers at the same school in Italy whose friendship develops over the course of the academic year.<P> Their intertwining stories are set against the background of a city inextricably linked to love and romance: Verona.
Worlds beyond My Window: The Life and Work of Gertrude McCarty Smith
by Thomas R. Brooks Pat Pinson Stephen Rosenberg Rick WilemonArtist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923–2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from coast to coast, and even in Europe. She grew up during the Great Depression with only some vivid storytelling and pictures from the family Bible to inspire and kindle her artistic spirit. However, at the age of ten, her career launched when her grandmother coaxed her with a box of crayons to milk the family cow—her seventy-year love affair with the arts was born. Over the years, she would express her creativity in many forms, resulting in thousands of paintings, sculptures, songs, poems, and newspaper columns and along the way a variety of artful cakes, as she ran a celebrated twenty-five-year cake business. Her art appeared in all shapes, sizes, materials, and “eatability.” For most of her early career, Gertrude dabbled with a variety of styles—with subjects mostly centered around life in rural Mississippi and her spiritual life. But in 1980 at the age of fifty-seven, she attended her first Mississippi Art Colony at Camp Jacob in Utica, Mississippi. Over the next fifteen years, she would make her pilgrimage twice a year to be inspired by celebrated guest instructors from around the nation and connect with fellow artists. The Colony was a major catalyst, exposing her to new styles, giving her encouragement and freedom to experiment. Gertrude said of the Colony, “I never knew anything about abstract art, but it fascinated me to no end. Abstract art to me is like a beautiful melody without words. In mixed media, I am in another world and often am surprised at the piece that evolves from the torn watercolor papers. The effect is a kaleidoscope of colors that makes the retinas dance.” This book features more than 150 images; a dozen poems; insightful essays from New York art dealer Stephen Rosenberg, acclaimed southern cultural scholar and curator Pat Pinson, and artist, curator, and instructor Rick Wilemon; along with a foreword by Tommy King, president of William Carey University; and a chronicle of her life’s journey by her son-in-law, Thomas R. Brooks. As Rosenberg has said, “Gertrude Smith is a remarkable and authentic American woman who teaches us that talent and creativity combined with a humanistic spirit is both a state of mind and a state of grace—at any age.” Book proceeds will benefit the Gertrude McCarty Smith Foundation for the Arts to bring access and passion for literature, performance, and visual arts to children in underserved communities throughout Mississippi.
Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference
by Joyce Davidson and Michael OrsiniSince first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger&’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects of intense debate in the research community, in the media, and among those with autism and their families. Bringing together innovative work on autism by international scholars in the social sciences and humanities, Worlds of Autism boldly challenges the deficit narrative prevalent in both popular and scientific accounts of autism spectrum disorders, instead situating autism within an abilities framework that respects the complex personhood of individuals with autism. A major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of critical autism studies, this book is methodologically and conceptually broad. Its authors explore the philosophical questions raised by autism, such as how it complicates neurotypical understandings of personhood; grapple with the politics that inform autism research, treatment, and care; investigate the diagnosis of autism and the recognition of difference; and assess representations of autism and stories told by and about those with autism.From empathy, social circles, and Internet communities to biopolitics, genetics, and diagnoses, Worlds of Autism features a range of perspectives on autistic subjectivities and the politics of cognitive difference, confronting society&’s assumptions about those with autism and the characterization of autism as a disability. Contributors: Dana Lee Baker, Washington State U; Beatrice Bonniau, Paris Descartes U; Charlotte Brownlow, U of Southern Queensland, Australia; Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College; Brigitte Chamak, Paris Descartes U; Kristina Chew, Saint Peter&’s U, New Jersey; Patrick McDonagh, Concordia U, Montreal; Stuart Murray, U of Leeds; Majia Holmer Nadesan, Arizona State U; Christina Nicolaidis, Portland State U; Lindsay O'Dell, Open U, London; Francisco Ortega, State U of Rio de Janeiro; Mark Osteen, Loyola U, Maryland; Dawn Eddings Prince; Dora Raymaker; Sara Ryan, U of Oxford; Lila Walsh.
Worlds of Difference: Rethinking the Ethics of Global Education for the 21st Century
by Peter Pericles TrifonasThe varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity in light of this difficulty. Theorists and educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a "curriculum of difference" in relation to questions of language, culture, and media at the forefront of global education issues today. Collectively, the authors argue that education in theory and practice must reawaken an ethical consciousness that affirms the negative values of difference, but still recognizes the uniqueness and particularity of each group.