Author: M.D
Publisher: Del Rey
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In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources, inspirations, and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien’s genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien’s colleague and friend C. S. Lewis, whose influence on modern fantasy, through his beloved Narnia books, is second only to Tolkien’s own.

Author: M.D
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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This book is part primer on adolescent psychology, part primer on adult psychology, and full primer on how adults who work with teenagers can deal with teenagers more effectively. I offer conceptual frameworks that I hope will encourage adults to talk to one another about their work with teens, especially the challenges.

Author: M.D
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
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This book is about teaching and the life, energy, substance, hope, and determination that excellent teachers bring to the rhythm of classrooms every day, year in and year out. Ultimately, schooling, despite its external pressures and cynics, comes down to students, to what happens in the classroom, and to the person who orchestrates it—the teacher.

Author: M.D
Publisher: University Press of America
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The ten chapters of this book examine play from a variety of perspectives and disciplines (philosophy, sociology, history, child development, animal behavior) and across almost the entire age range of human development (preschoolers through adults). In the first chapter, Gwen Gordon looks at the basic issue of trying to define the concept of play and offers a possibility that not only takes into consideration the activity of children but the activity of atoms and the universe as well