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  • STUDY GUIDE AND WORKBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL AND CHURCH RENEWAL
    JAMES M. DAWSEY / SHARON E. WRIGHT / SCOTT SIKES
    The decline this century in church attendance has been pronounced. And polls show disconcerting ignorance about religious matters even among churchgoers. Is there a path to spiritual and church renewal? And what will become the shape of American Christianity this century?As an accompanying volume to James M. Dawsey's Handbook for the Christian Faith, this workbook offers a summ...

    $391.00

  • THE GLOBAL ENTERPRISE
    JAMES WRIGHT
    There are approximately 200 nations on Earth and the social sciences are being practiced in each one, yet too little of this global enterprise is known to Western, particularly American, social scientists. Drawing upon five years of experience as editor-in-chief of a major international encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences, James D. Wright provides social scientis...

    $1,240.00

  • LOST SOULS
    JAMES WRIGHT
    What is the state of contemporary American morality? From their original conception in Christian scripture to their assimilation into Western culture, the 'Seven Deadly Sins' – lust, greed, envy, pride, and all the rest – have guided human morality, steering human behavior and psychology away from evil and toward a full embrace of the good. But their hold on modern life is incr...

    $1,160.00

  • STATE OF THE MASSES
    JAMES WRIGHT
    Is the consciousness of Americans in the midst of dramatic transformation? Or do people think and feel much the same as they have always thought and felt? Do most people enjoy their work, or hate it? Is the American family being replaced by new institutional forms, or is it much the same as it was in the 1950's? Have material values been replaced by a "postmaterial consciousnes...

    $1,420.00

  • ADDRESS UNKNOWN
    JAMES WRIGHT
    Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified ...

    $1,280.00

  • POOR AND HOMELESS IN THE SUNSHINE STATE
    JAMES WRIGHT
    A place like Orlando, Florida is not transformed from swampland to sprawling metropolis through Peter Pan-like flights of fancy, but through theme park expansions requiring developmental schemes that are tough minded and often worsen relationships between the wealthy and the poor. The homeless arrive with their own hopes and illusions, which are soon shattered. The rest of the ...

    $1,560.00

  • SOCIAL PROBLEMS, SOCIAL ISSUES, SOCIAL SCIENCE
    JAMES WRIGHT
    Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded, and that plausible theory can be distinguished from mere ideology. This collec...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING CHARACTER AND VIRTUE IN SCHOOLS
    JAMES ARTHUR / KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON / TOM HARRISON / WOUTER SANDERSE / DANIEL WRIGHT
    Teaching Character and Virtue in Schools addresses the contemporary issues of quantification and measurement in educational settings. The authors draw on the research of the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in order to investigate the concern that the conventional wisdom, sound judgement and professional discretion of teachers is being diminished and control mista...

    $1,420.00

  • TEACHING NUMBER IN THE CLASSROOM WITH 4-8 YEAR OLDS
    ROBERT J WRIGHT / GARRY STANGER / ANN K. STAFFORD / JAMES MARTLAND
    Bring the principles and practice of the acclaimed Mathematics Recovery Programme to whole-class teaching! WHY INVEST IN THE NEW EDITION? In full-colour with a revised layout for clearer navigation More up-to-date tasks, activities and real classroom examples Learning trajectories for guiding instruction and tracking progress on key topics Extra resources online on the companio...

    $1,051.94

  • TEACHING CITIZENSHIP IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
    JAMES ARTHUR / DANIEL WRIGHT
    This text supports student teachers, NQTs and practitioners in implementing the Citizenship Order in secondary schools - to be introduced in September 2002. With a practical, clear focus, the authors provide an intellectual challenge; argument and evidence to help the reader come to an informed view on the complex and controversial issues in each chapter; well-focused examples;...

    $1,060.00

  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    PETER H. ROSSI / JAMES D WRIGHT / ELEANOR WEBER-BURDIN
    Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation presents a research project that emerged from a concern for estimating the balance of support versus opposition to prospective social policies that aim to reduce the risks of damage or injuries from major natural hazard events via the regulation of land use and establishment of building and occ...

    $970.00

  • PARKS FOR TEXAS
    JAMES WRIGHT STEELY
    State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining especially the political context of the New Deal, James Wright Steely her...

    $382.00

  • THE PRIMARY ICT & E-LEARNING CO-ORDINATOR′S MANUAL
    JAMES WRIGHT
    ′[This book] certainly isn′t one of the dry educational tomes that often bedeck the shelves of the staffroom; it is an informative, accessible text which evolves into an enjoyable read. There aren′t too many practitioner manuals that can boast that particular combination. A useful guide for the ICT leader seeking a practical/effective annual structure for their ICT leadership r...

    $1,573.02

  • THE PRIMARY ICT & E-LEARNING CO-ORDINATOR′S MANUAL
    JAMES WRIGHT
    [This book is] absolutely wonderful. It will be my new Bible... I have used it loads already in preparation for my ICT Mark assessment. Taking on the role of ICT co-ordinator can be quite a daunting task but this step by step guide, breaking things down into manageable chunks will be very supportive. I love the blogging idea - the comments made by the characters are very realis...

    $1,520.58

  • TEACHING NUMBER
    ROBERT J WRIGHT / GARRY STANGER / ANN K STAFFORD / JAMES MARTLAND
    The book lets teachers identify where their students are in terms of number skills, and sets out a strategy for developing their knowledge. The authors show how to advance children′s learning across five stages of early arithmetical learning - emergent, perceptual, figurative, initial number, and facile number. This provides for increasingly sophisticated number strategies acro...

    $1,172.65

  • EARLY NUMERACY
    ROBERT J WRIGHT / JAMES MARTLAND / ANN K STAFFORD
    ′Unlike many books based on research work this book doesn′t just let teachers know what is going wrong with children′s learning it actually gives some practical advice about what to do next. The whole book is based upon extensive observation and recording of individual children and their difficulties with mathematics. These children are the most difficult to plan for in a busy ...

    $1,172.65

  • THE BRANCH WILL NOT BREAK
    JAMES WRIGHT
    A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poet These new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has absorbed the work of modern Spanish and other continental poets and evolved a medium of his own. This medium dispenses with argum...

    $179.00