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Native Students at Work

American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945

By Kevin Whalen. Foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young...

American Indian Business

Principles and Practices

By Deanna M. Kennedy, Charles F. Harrington, Amy Klemm Verbos, Daniel Stewart, Joseph Scott Gladstone, Gavin Clarkson

American Indian business is booming. The number of American Indian– and Alaska Native–owned businesses increased by 15.3 percent from 2007 to 2012—a time when the total number of US businesses increased by just 2 percent—and...

Education at the Edge of Empire

Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico's Indian Boarding Schools

By John R. Gram. Foreword by Ted Jojola

For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced...

Educating the Chinese Individual

Life in a Rural Boarding School

By Mette Halskov Hansen

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers,...

The Audio Dictionary

By Glenn D. White and Gary J. Louie

The Audio Dictionary is a comprehensive resource, including historical, obsolete, and obscure as well as contemporary terms relating to diverse aspects of audio such as film and TV sound, recording, Hi-Fi, and acoustics.

The Third Edition...

Chinese Students Encounter America

By Qian Ning. Translated by T. K. Chu

An instant bestseller upon its publication in China in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed to those who had studied abroad, those who dreamed of doing so, and those who wanted a glimpse...

Color-Line to Borderlands

The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies

By Johnnella E. Butler

"Ethnic Studies . . . has drawn higher education, usually kicking and screaming, into the borderlands of scholarship, pedagogy, faculty collegiality, and institutional development," Johnnella E. Butler writes in her Introduction to this collection of...

Make Yourself a Teacher

Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples

By Susan Handelman

Make Yourself a Teacher is a teaching book and a book about teaching. It discusses three dramatic, well-known stories about the student and teacher Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus from the Oral Torah. The stories of...

Winning the Math Wars

No Teacher Left Behind

By Martin L. Abbott, Duane Baker, and Karen Smith

Washington State is about to enter a new phase of the "math wars." Since the late 1980s, the debate over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren has raged worldwide among educators, politicians, and parents....

Toward a Global PhD?

Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide

By Maresi Nerad, Mimi Heggelund

Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning of a global economy in...

Washington State

By Charles Pierce LeWarne

This revised, updated, and improved edition of the leading high school textbook on Washington State history brings the reader from the earliest known accounts of the region up to the present. Incorporating the newest data...

Outline of Cat Anatomy with Reference to the Human

By Stephen G. Gilbert. With Cheralea Gilbert

The cat has been used as a subject for dissection in the study of mammalian anatomy for almost two centuries. The very popular Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat by Stephen G. Gilbert, originally published in...

Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat

By Stephen G. Gilbert

This book is designed for use as a dissection guide in comparative vertebrate anatomy or in mammalian anatomy. The material covered and the time allotted to such courses varies considerably, and the illustrations are therefore...

Pictorial Anatomy of the Dogfish

By Stephen G. Gilbert

Two new laboratory manuals, Pictorial Anatomy of the Dogfish and Pictorial Anatomy of the Necturus, have just been added to the highly acclaimed series of dissection guides by Stephen G. Gilbert.

The new manuals contain all...

A Pilgrimage through Universities

By Charles E. Odegaard. Foreword by Richard L. McCormick. Afterword by Keith R Benson

President of the University of Washington from 1958 to 1973, a time of tremendous change, Charles Odegaard has written an absorbing memoir of his personal and institutional background and his development as a scholar and...

Pictorial Anatomy of the Fetal Pig

By Stephen G. Gilbert

Stephen G. Gilbert adds to his acclaimed series of dissection guides with Pictorial Anatomy of the Fetal Pig.

Through his book on fetal pig anatomy, Stephen G. Gilbert begins to explain the important differences of warm...

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance

By Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo, Daniel G. Solorzano

This anthology explores the relationships between Chicana/o students, families, and communities and the various school settings that comprise the education pipeline, from Kindergarten classrooms through postsecondary programs and postgraduate experiences. The essays, which appeared in...

Business Consulting in a Multicultural America

By Thaddeus Spratlen, Leslie Lum, Detra Y. Montoya, and Michael Verchot

Business Consulting in a Multicultural America, a revised and expanded edition of the popular Multicultural Marketing and Business Consulting, provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multicultural approach to business strategy and consulting. It emphasizes a diverse...

Teaching Crowds

Learning and Social Media

By Jon Dron and Terry Anderson

Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that...

Multicultural Marketing and Business Consulting

By Thaddeus Spratlen, Leslie Lum, Detra Y. Montoya, and Michael Verchot

Today, as the nation's population is becoming more and more diverse, it is imperative for students to learn how to effectively grow businesses that serve a variety of customers, are owned by people from a...