Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.
After four years in the music industry, Millie Trinkett has come to a conclusion. If she has to manage another boy band, one of two things will take place: Life imprisonment for strangling them in their sleep or, Loss of her sanity due to factory produced music resonating in her dreams night after night. Pleading with her uncle Morty to assign her adult musicians to manage for the next tour, she's quickly reminded of the adage "Be careful what you ask for". When he assigns her a reunion tour for the five-piece rock and roll band "Fourplay", Millie learns that adult doesn't always translate to mature, nor does it necessarily translate to old farts. She also learns a whole new lesson: Jumping to conclusions is not good exercise. Join the gang on a cross country trip for an adventure that is guaranteed to keep you laughing, make you hum, and want to wear a do-rag. Don't fret . . . you can leave your hat on.
Special Moments is poetry in motion depicting happiness, loneliness, sadness and funny events with people, animal and plants in their natural environments.
Remember when you spilled that scalding coffee in your lap at the drive-thru? L.A.'s scrappy young poetry mag Caffeine has packaged that wonderful feeling in a steaming anthology that features over fifty contributors and five unpublished poems by Charles Bukowski.
Bipolar Sagacity Volume 7 continues with the theme of the first book, Bipolar Sagacity, and underscores the profound bipolar spiritual, psychological, and social struggles a person of introspection experiences as he/she travels throughout the stages of the adult life cycle. This life, both past and present, witnesses the fact that many people of astute perceptual skills, religious faith, and intellectual knowledge live lives of great contradictions—those bipolar experiences that challenge the very essence of sanity. Yet in truth, the commentary in this book—whether ruminations, lamentations, exhortations, questions, sayings or aphorisms—encapsulate what it means to be human as a cognizant and vibrant living adult, whether celebrated through supplications, acknowledgements of thanks, discovered truths or founded wisdom, or by experiencing all the human fallibilities and negative perceptions associated with powerful emotional states such as confusion, fear, anger, jealousy, etc.
In Pitiful Criminals, Greg Bottoms offers thirteen genre–bending chapters from his past that take a close look at the lives of small–time criminals driven, often by confusion and desperation, to deeds that range from the absurd to the heinous. We meet the author's schizophrenic arsonist brother, a depressed pot grower, a damaged ex–dealer who barely escaped a violent burglary, a born–again teenage shooter, and other alienated Americans pushed to extremes by psychology and circumstance. Forceful, poetic, unique, and utterly uncompromising, it is an unforgettable tour of the dark side of the human condition. Greg Bottoms's innovative fiction and creative nonfiction have focused on the American South, the effects of violence on individual lives, criminal behavior, mental illness, ecstatic and spiritual experience, and class in America. He blends explicitly autobiographical and biographical content with artful storytelling, a cultural journalist's observations, and a philosopher's deep inquiry into the strange ways we live now. This is postmodern crime fiction at its gritty and original best.
From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes another incredible story, told with humour and heart. 'The boy's an absolute menace.' 'He's a bully. A lost cause!' 'Why can't he be more like his sister?' I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention. But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park. Everyone thinks I'm just a bully. They don't believe I could be a hero. But I'm going to prove them all wrong... Told from the perspective of a bully, this book explores themes of bullying and homelessness, while celebrating kindness, friendship and the potential everyone has to change for the good.
For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?
