Ready for What?

Ready for What?This book looks at readiness from a different perspective, arguing that we must move away from the readiness as child characteristic so prevalent in education and the popular press. Instead, readiness is explained as an idea constructed by parents, teachers, and children as they interact in their neighborhoods and communities. Graue describes three communities in the same school district: a middle class, suburban town of professionals; a rural,

Through the lens of thermodynamics

This chapter focuses on microbial bioprotectants and the marketplace

which are then brought together through grafting

It demonstrates the high nutritional and health values of avocado fruit

In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts brings readers a treasure trove of historic combat treatises

and precision forestry

Nuns and Spirituality

Taking a different approach

This volume offers a selection of ten lectures from the first 100 years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series

and Edith Wharton all lived and worked in the region immortalized by the Hudson River School of painters

A healthy and vigorous root system is essential in soilless plant cultivation

To move beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics