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Jeff Van Gundy. Brad Stevens. Frank Vogel. Mike Budenholzer. Tom Thibodeau. Sam Presti. Leon Rose. Before you knew his name, before he drafted your favorite player, before he guided your team to a championship, he had a playing career of his own at an NCAA Division III college. He didn't play for fortune – the NBA was out of reach, and his school didn't even give athletic scholarships. He didn't play for fame – ...
2) Confucianism Reconsidered: Insights for American and Chinese Education in the Twenty-First Century
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Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.
This is one of the first books to explicitly address twenty-first-century education from a Confucian perspective. The contributors focus on why Confucianism is relevant to both American and Chinese education, how Confucian pedagogical principles can be applied to diverse sociocultural settings, and what the social and moral functions of a Confucianism-based...
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Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions represents the single most ambitious effort to date to understand and improve upon patterns of ministry in STM. In six sections, the authors explore topics such as the links between STM and older patterns of long-term missions; engagement with people of other cultures; international partnerships; specialized ministries such as medical missions; legal and financial liabilities; and last but not least, the...
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"To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time," recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. "They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships." Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking...
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The speeches collected in this volume-one or more for each of the forty-six elected American presidents-are historical documents. The subjects that they address, however, are perennial themes that define our democracy and that recur in various forms with each new administration's legislation: state laws versus federal laws, the guarantee of the individual citizen's right to vote in free and fair elections, the separation of church and state, the role...
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Claude M. Rocan (1950-2020) est né à St. Boniface, Manitoba. Il a réalisé ses études au Collège universitaire Glendon (Université York) et à l'Université McMaster avant d'obtenir son doctorat en science politique à l'Université York. Il a occupé des postes de politique/conseil dans le gouvernement de la Saskatchewan et le gouvernement du Canada aux niveaux supérieurs professionnels et exécutifs. En tant que Directeur général du Centre...
7) Thunderstorm
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Thunderstorm follows the course of a storm through midwestern farm country minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, from late morning into late afternoon. As always with Arthur Geisert, it is a meticulously executed and visually stunning piece of work. Other than the timeline that runs along the bottom border of the illustrations, there is no text, and the illustrations are continuous.
Through keen observation, Geisert beautifully captures the nuances and...
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"A Project Syndicate Best Reads in 2023" Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today.
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On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators!
Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.
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