Sandra Weber

Claudia Mitchell

How children and popular culture perceive the teacher.

Interrogating Images and Identity in Popular Culture

That's Funny, You Don't Look Like a Teacher!

Written for teaching professionals, this text helps novice and experienced teachers to reinterpret their working lives. Taking the reader on a personal exploration the text exceeds standard approaches, leading from the personal to the critical.

Beyond Nostalgia

Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers

Designed for use by teachers and teacher educators, this text should help both novice and experienced teachers reinterpret their working lives. The reader is led on a path of personal exploration that goes beyond standard approaches and leads from the personal to the critical. Illustrative material is drawn from all levels, from kindergarten to high school, to illuminate issues and questions fundamental to teachers' lives. Film and literary narratives supply further case studies and contribute to the fusion of critical reflection and everyday realities that typically inform teachers' experiences of work.

History, natural history, hiking directions.

The High Peak of New York

Mount Marcy

If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This compelling collection of short stories, essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts from women's lives in Western society. Often personal in nature, these «dress stories» point unfailingly to matters of social and cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress, and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience: identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made, then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations.

Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity

Not Just Any Dress

Historic Furnishing Plan, Clara Barton House, Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland

From room-sized machines that only the government could access to handheld devices the average consumer can purchase, the personal computer—the machine that enables people to communicate, organize, and research effectively—has changed drastically over the twentieth century.

The Personal Computer

Cynthia Clements

George Burns and Gracie Allen will long be remembered for their comedy routines. They began their illustrious careers as vaudeville performers, and with the rise of radio and television, they attained enormous popularity through their shows and guest appearances. After the death of Gracie Allen in 1964, Burns continued his career and gained fame as a movie star. This comprehensive reference summarizes the lives and achievements of Burns and Allen and provides detailed information about their work together and individually.

A Bio-bibliography

George Burns and Gracie Allen

Relegated to the Crypt of the Capitol building for 76 years, the Portrait Monument has stood in the Rotunda since 1997. Often referred to as the Suffrage Statue, it memorializes pioneering feminists Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and is the sole sculptural representation of women in the Rotunda. From its conception by sculptor Adelaide Johnson as three separate busts to its laborious execution and celebrated placement in the Rotunda, the seven-ton sculpture has provoked frustration, jubilation and hullabaloo. Drawing on diaries, letters, newspapers and historic photographs, this first-ever history of the monument explores the controversy, myths and artistry behind this neoclassical yet unconventional work of art.

A History of Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol

The Woman Suffrage Statue

Sie wollen mit Ihren Enkeln per Videochat in Kontakt bleiben? Oder auch die Möglichkeit des Onlineversands nutzen? Dann zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch wie Sie in den Weiten des Internet navigieren und welche Dienste Sie nutzen können. Von der Suche nach Informationen über Nachrichtenvermittlung bis zu Onlinebanking. Das Internet kann das Leben erleichtern. Wenn man weiß wie es geht. Mit diesem Buch erhalten Sie leicht verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zur Nutzung des Internet.

Internet für Senioren für Dummies

The Internet has transformed the way people across the globe work, interact, learn, and even shop. An individual can now connect to the world with just a click of the mouse.

The Internet

Shanly Dixon

In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgrounds are incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday lives. Contributors explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.

Sandra Weber

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