Author: Max Martinez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Schoolland depicts the daily life of a Mexican American family in rural Texas during the year of a great drought in the 1950Ís. Struggles with nature and society form the backdrop for the eternal tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather is waning. Rural life, dialects and family conflicts are all rendered poetically and with the authenticity of having been born and raised in Schoolland, Gonzales, Smiley, Texasas was MartÕnezand with the modern, critical eye of having returned to the family farm to examine the pastas did MartÕnez. We are all, consequently, enriched by this portrayal of Texas Mexican life as it has never before appeared in American literature.
Author: Ken Schoolland
Publisher: Liberty Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780974969466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Translated into more than 40 languages and 44 published editions, "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible" has won numerous awards and has been endorsed by Steve Forbes, Walter Williams, John Stossel, Mark Skousen, and Austrian-School economists and educators throughout the world.
Author: Marian M. Schoolland
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Marian M. Schoolland
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780802850034
Category : Bible stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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A selection of Bible stories from the Old and New Testament.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Author: Gerald K. LeTendre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135679703
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press, teaching magazines and educational research journals. The authors show how arguments about Japan are used to further political ends within the American educational debate. Some of the myths that the book debunks are Japan's high adolescent suicide rate. LeTendre and Zeng show that adolescent suicide among males is now twice as high in the U.S. as in Japan. Tsuchida and Lewis take on the myth of Japanese classrooms as crowded places centered on rote-learning--providing detailed evidence as to why Japanese students may indeed have an "edge" in math. McConnell uses Japan's highly successful foreign language program to deconstruct images of "Japan Inc."--showing the highly fractious and bitter political debates that occur in Japan. Yang provides data on differences in Japanese and American teachers' work roles--showing that differences in the two educational systems are not simply due to "cultural" differences, but have a basis in educational policy and school organization. Shimizu offers an alternative view of achievement motivation among Japanese students based on in-depth interviews with Japanese teens.
Author: Marian M. Schoolland
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Author: James D. Bratt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 159244122X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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In this scholarly yet entertaining book, James D. Bratt takes a look at the Dutch in America from the late 19th century to the present. A comprehensive study of an ethnic subculture, the book is in large part a study of the group's religious history as well, since, as Bratt points out, the contours of the Dutch presence in America have been overwhelmingly shaped by the church and its subsidiary organizations. Although the book is extensively and scrupulously documented, Bratt has infused his scholarship with a considerable amount of anecdote that is by turns poignant and tragic and hilarious. In Bratt's analysis of the fitful progress of Americanization that this close-knit religious community has undergone, we are treated to the sharp insights of a bemused and sometimes disaffected insider. Included is a chapter on novelists Arnold Mulder, David Cornel DeJong, Frederick Manfred, and Peter DeVries - four sons of the Dutch who fled the subculture only to reflect upon it almost obsessively from the outside. Well written, scholarly, and highly readable, 'Dutch Calvinism In Modern America' will have wide appeal among both academic and general readers.
Author: Kansas. Auditor's Office
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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