Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards: Strategies for Success in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms

The authors of Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards provide a comprehensive framework for reaching and teaching English language learners, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and students with disabilities. In this book, you'll learn how to:
-Select the best instructional methods and materials for diverse learners
-Create classrooms that are welcoming, practical, and conducive to learning
-Develop classroom content that allows every student to achieve standards while meeting the individual needs of diverse learners
-Collaborate effectively with fellow teachers and education specialists
-Administer assessments that challenge and accommodate diverse learners

Simple Sewing with a French Twist: An Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes and Home Accessories with Style

The inimitable Celine Dupuy presents sewers of all skill levels with more than fifty projects, each with a touch of something wonderfully, whimsically French. Including easy items to sew for the home, fashion accessories, delightful gifts, and innovative ideas for customizing your favorite pieces of furniture, these chic patterns will inspire you.
 

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction

Leofranc Holford-Strevens brings us this fascinating study of time using a range of examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's imposition of the Leap Year to the 1920's project for a fixed Easter. Those interested in time, history, and the development of the calendar will enjoy this absorbing exploration of an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.

Chen Jiru (1558-1639)

Focussing on Chen Jiru's writings, this study explores the various ways that Chen advertised himself to prospective readers, and the way that commercial and political interests used his personae for their own ends, from the seventeenth century to the present.

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing novel accounts of the "British problem" in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of the British identity.