Описание: What makes us who we are? What combination of history, genes, ancestry and experience defines us? Commercial DNA testing and Web sites like Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com and TV shows like "Who Do You Think You Are," and "Finding Your Roots" are exploding in popularity and offering answers for the curious. Where did my ancestors come from? To whom am I biologically related? Ultimately, we all want the answer to the question who am I? Ancestry Quest: How Stories of the Past Heal the Future shares the remarkable journeys of these real-life persons who delved deeper into their family mysteries. It seems everywhere we turn these days; someone is talking about someone whose co-worker or cashier at the coffee shop just found out some kind of shocking discovery about the family they thought they had, but now is radically different. The book includes the stories of people who have made the decision that could alter their futures - or really their past. It may start as a just-for-fun DNA test, but ultimately those who are spitting in tubes and sending them off in the mail share a common goal: They want to know what they are made of. Many have uncovered, quite by accident, that their family isn't quite what they thought. These moving and thoughtful stories take readers on a rollercoaster of emotions and resonate for all who are exploring their histories to answer the question: "Why am I who I am? The journeys are dramatically different - sad and happy all at once, promising to redefine family in a way that is more honest and relevant. These heart-warming and wrenching, intimate and inspiring stories are about the lessons learned along the way in search of the truth.
Описание: This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793-1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States; Friedrich Gerstacker (1816-1872), who, among his many experiences in America as a young man, lived as a backwoodsman in Arkansas and who later produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May (1842-1912), who, though he knew nothing about America beyond what he could read in books, wrote famous adventure stories set in an imaginary West and became the best-selling writer in the German language.
Sammons provides biographies of the authors and discusses how each differs in their mimetic and ideological approach. He pays particular attention to how the authors address issues of race, gender and politics in the United States. Sammons interweaves his discussion of these three writers with excurses into the emergence of the German Western and anti-Americanism in German fiction.
Автор: Sammons Deborah K. Название: Huck the Bull Rider ISBN: 1545655286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545655283 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Edwards Charles E. Sammons Joy Название: A Strand Of Silk ISBN: 1715112059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781715112059 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2475.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This is an anthology of stories and poems on various themes in the author's original style
Автор: Hall James, Lindorff Ariel, Sammons Pamela Название: International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research ISBN: 3030448126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030448127 Издательство: Springer Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This edited volume explores questions about 'what works', how, for whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across countries and different educational systems. The book starts by presenting an overview of the history of educational effectiveness research and offers examples of current theories of educational effectiveness. Next, it provides exemplars of effectiveness studies that report on educational systems, policies, and practices from across six continents. These studies vary in their research methods and outcomes, illustrating a field of research that is conscious of its origins, its agenda, and its ambition to understand and improve the functioning of schools, networks, and education systems around the world. The book brings these threads together within the final chapter and uses them to signpost directions for future research.
'International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research is an excellent and timely addition to the educational effectiveness literature. It offers a rigorous and insightful range of international perspectives that will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and students of the field.' - Professor Christopher Chapman, University of Glasgow, UK & President-Elect of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
'This important new volume brings up to date the contributions of educational effectiveness research to the development of policy and practice in the field over the last 50 years. Drawing together the ideas of many of the major researchers in the field, it provides a comprehensive analysis of these earlier contributions, leading to critical commentaries that point to areas for future attention. The editors make use of expertise from a range of disciplines to strengthen the themes that are addressed. Most importantly, the book emphasises the need to pay greater attention to the challenge of equity - arguably the most significant challenge facing education systems internationally. In this respect, a particular strength of the book is the accounts provided from many different parts of the world. These underline the importance of context, a factor often previously overlooked in this field of research. Given all of this, I have no doubt that International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research will become a major source for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers.' - Professor Mel Ainscow, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Manchester & Professor of Education, University of Glasgow, UK
Автор: Sammons Jeffrey L. Название: Wilhelm Raabe: The Fiction of the Alternative Community ISBN: 0691609659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691609652 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10032.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book is divided into three parts: an overview of Raabc`s career, his problems with the public, and the early reception history that did so much to damage his reputation; thematic analyses that seek to release him from received opinions concerning the nature and quality of his oeuvre by exhibiting his versatility and polyperspectivism; and inter
Автор: Edwards Joy, Sammons Charles E. Название: Drink Of Me ISBN: 1715552857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781715552855 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2578.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An anthology of poetry and stories in the author's unique style.
Автор: Jeffrey L. Sammons Название: Six Essays on the Young German Novel ISBN: 1469658291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469658292 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3260.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this study of the prose fiction of Das Junge Deutschland, the internal stresses and paradoxes of specific texts are examined and special attention is devoted to the unfulfilled strivings toward realism. Following an introduction to the young German problem, with special reference to Wienbarg, there are essays on Gutzkow, Mundt, Kuhne, and, as a contrast, the major novels of Immermann. The essays attempt to enhance the understanding of the post-Romantic crisis in German literature.
- How do the Biblical feasts of Leviticus speak directly of Jesus?
- What are "The Magnificent Seven" feasts, and are they important today?
- Which covenants in the Bible are still operative and how do they speak of Jesus?
- How does The New Covenant relate to the older covenants? Is it "stand alone" or does it grow naturally out of those older covenants?
God has set out a simple pattern that expresses His eternal purposes mediated through the life, death, resurrection and future return of Jesus His Son. This book explores that pattern.
Автор: Sammons Brian M., Barrass Glynn Owen Название: The Children of Gla`aki ISBN: 1725851636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781725851634 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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