Douglas: 4895 books
Global Gospel
An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In this pathbreaking book, award-winning author Douglas Jacobsen describes global Christianity and provides a framework for understanding the varied experiences of Christians around the world. Focusing on the five big continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, Jacobsen recounts...
by L. Douglas Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Using recently declassified information; this book presents first ever history of WWII that recognizes D-Day as a milestone, air war victory over Germany. The book answers a question debated for years – on the most important day to the survival of the Third Reich, where was the Luftwaffe? The...
Area 51 - The Secret Planes. The Secret Missions.
The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
During the Eisenhower Administration, scientists sought a remote location where sensational military breakthroughs would remain national secrets. A pair of engineers in a single-engine plane over the Nevada desert spotted an abandoned airstrip near the dried-up bed of an ancient lake. The government...
The Eleventh Hour
How Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Brokered the Unlikely Deal that Won the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a conference in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, where the Allies would come to an agreement on a war...
Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre
Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...
by C. Douglas Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century. The Old World Russian autocracy supported the young New World democracy because of the emerging U.S. role as a bulwark against Great Britains ambitions, in Asia and in the North Pacific Ocean region...
The Camera Assistant
A Complete Professional Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Veteran camera assistant Doug Hart describes in this comprehensive technical guide all of the important facets and duties of the first and second camera assistants' jobs. Whether it is feature films, episodic television, documentaries, commercials, or music videos, The Camera Assistant: A Complete...
Enhancing RTI
How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily--and unnecessarily--referring students to intervention programs that substitute for high-quality core instruction? What if we could eliminate the need for intervention programs in the first place?Response...
When Going Through Hell...Dont' Stop!
A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1999
When Going Through Hell.. Don't Stop!: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression, is the e-book version of the print book that was published in 2000. It is a memoir that tells the story of how one person survived a life-threatening depressive illness through adopting a holistic...
by Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Designing application and middleware software to run in concurrent and networked environments is a significant challenge to software developers. The patterns catalogued in this second volume of Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures (POSA) form the basis of a pattern language that addresses issues...
The Formative Assessment Action Plan
Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system—one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach...
The Purposeful Classroom
How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How can teachers guarantee that what they teach results in students learning what they really need to know? In The Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey present a variety of strategies that teachers at all levels can use to ensure...
Productive Group Work
How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented—and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi...