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  Culturally Responsive School...

  Muhammad Khalifa, Lisa Delpit

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  Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively impact learning by honoring indigenous heritages and local cultural practices. Muhammad Khalifa explores three basic premises. First, that a full-fledged and nuanced understanding of "cultural responsiveness" is essential to successful school leadership. Second, that cultural responsiveness will not flourish and succeed in schools without sustained efforts by school leaders to define and promote it. Finally, that culturally responsive school leadership comprises a number of crucial leadership behaviors, which include critical self-reflection; the development of culturally responsive teachers; the promotion of inclusive, anti-oppressive school environments; and engagement with students' indigenous community contexts. Based on an ethnography of a school principal who exemplifies the practices and behaviors of culturally responsive school leadership, the book provides educators with pedagogy and strategies for immediate implementation.

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  Bodysnatchers - Digging Up the...

  Suzie Lennox

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  The grim history of England’s bodysnatching trade: “Lennox’s thorough exploration is riveting” (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn).   From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known but equally gruesome grave-robbing exploits of Henry Gillies, William Patrick, and Joseph Grainger, here is the fascinating true chronicle of England’s “Resurrection Men.”   During the winter months of 1742–1832, selling fresh cadavers to anatomists up and down the country, all in aid of medical advancement, was the surest way to earn a living for desperate men. After all, anatomy schools would pay high prices for corpses to dissect—the fresher the better. And they asked no questions as to their origins. This resulted in the criminal underworld of the “Sack ‘em up Men” who left behind disinterred churchyards and burial grounds, and spread fear and horror throughout the United Kingdom.   In Bodysnatchers, Suzie Lennox unearths the truth behind the macabre tales, separating fact from folktale, and setting the record straight about Britain’s gruesome, often forgotten history.

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  2001: A Space Odyssey Decoded:...

  Filmic Universe

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  2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY DECODED: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS – OF THE FILM DIRECTED BY STANLEY KUBRICK 
    
  CREATED BY: FILMIC UNIVERSE 
    
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  Do you think you know everything about 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY? 
    
  Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Stanley Kubrick 's film? 
    
  This eBook is full of information about one of the best movies of 1968. You will find and REALLY LOVE abundant behind the scenes secrets. You can test your knowledge about this movie here. 
    
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  HERE SOME EXAMPLES: 
    
  - According to Douglas Trumbull, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film. 
    
  - According to Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick provided the breathing heard in the space-suits. 
    
  - Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year. 
    
  - There is no dialogue in the first 25 minutes of the movie (ending when a stewardess speaks at 25:38), nor in the last 23 minutes (excluding end credits). With these two lengthy sections and other shorter ones, there are around 88 dialogue-free minutes in the movie. 
    
  - Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from the film's original 158-minute running time after its New York premiere, mostly to speed up the pacing. 
    
  - Stanley Kubrick had several tons of sand imported, washed and painted for the moon surface scenes. 
    
  - An early draft of the script had narration. 
    
  AND MUCH MORE!

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  Spirituality

  John Rushton

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  Spirituality is brandished about today as an almost surrogate stance for God. For people that have a foot in both camps - just in case. When they don't want to commit to a religion it is fashionable to say "I'm Spiritual" or worse still "I believe in the Universe" whatever that means. But spirituality isn't what most people think it is and it is definitely nothing to do with "New Age" stuff in fact nothing is. New Age is for the lost and bewildered. This audio-book tells about Spirituality and what it means.

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  The Story of a Clinical...

  Barbara A. Wilson

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  From a disadvantaged childhood to becoming one of our best-loved clinical neuropsychologists, this exceptional book tells the life story of Barbara A. Wilson, who has changed the way we think about brain injury rehabilitation. Barbara’s story shows how it is possible to have a fulfilling career alongside a successful family life, even when faced with the deepest of personal tragedies; the death of her adult daughter Sarah. Clinical and neuropsychologists will recognise Barbara’s influence on rehabilitation practice and her tireless aim to get what is best for people needing neuropsychological rehabilitation. It will inspire those with brain injury and their families who may struggle to make life meaningful, as well as encourage readers to stick to their beliefs and triumph in the face of obstacles.

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  Red Face - How I Learnt to Live...

  Russell Norris

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  - A myth-busting, powerful insight into life with Social Anxiety Disorder, which affects up to 10% of the population
  
  - Reveals how SAD impacted one man's life, from his education and career to relationships and parenthood – and how through trial and error he learnt to cope
  
  - The author has championed awareness of social anxiety through appearances on TV and radio shows such as C4's Steph's Packed Lunch with Steph McGovern and newspaper features.

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