The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume

The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume
Author: James L. Roark
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1457657910

The American Promise: A Concise History is a brief, inexpensive narrative with a clear political, chronological narrative that makes teaching and learning American history a snap. Streamlined by the authors themselves to create a truly concise book, the fifth edition is nearly 15 percent shorter than the fourth compact edition, yet it includes more primary sources than ever—including a new visual sources feature. It is also enhanced by LearningCurve, our easy-to-assign adaptive learning system that will ensure students come to class prepared.

The Handbook on Innovations in Learning

The Handbook on Innovations in Learning
Author: Marilyn Murphy
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1623966094

An innovation in learning improves upon the implementation of the standard practice or introduces a new practice, thus achieving greater learning outcomes. The Handbook on Innovations in Learning, developed by the Center on Innovations in Learning, presents commissioned chapters describing current best practices of instruction before embarking on descriptions of selected innovative practices which promise better methods of engaging and teaching students. Written by a diverse and talented field of experts, chapters in the Handbook seek to facilitate the adoption of the innovative practices they describe by suggesting implementation policies and procedures to leaders of state and local education agencies.

The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1

The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1
Author: James L. Roark
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 131900427X

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, all in a portable format. Instructors have long valued the full narrative accompanied by a 2-color map program and the rich instructor resources of the parent text made available at an affordable price.

The American Promise, Volume 1

The American Promise, Volume 1
Author: James L. Roark
Publisher: Bedford Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781319292782

The American Promise has long been a course favorite. Students value The American Promise for its readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, while instructors rely upon the rich content, the many documents and features, and the overall support for teaching their class their way. The American Promise provides superior formats for every use--the print book allows for a seamless reading experience while LaunchPad provides the right space for active learning assignments and dynamic course management tools that measure and analyze student progress. LaunchPad comes with a wealth of primary sources and special critical thinking activities to help students progress toward achieving learning outcomes; LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool that students love to use to test their understanding of the text and instructors love to assign to prepare students for class; and a suite of instructor resources from videos to test banks that make teaching simpler and more effective.

Reading the American Past

Reading the American Past
Author: Michael P. Johnson
Publisher: Bedford Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

This two-volume primary-source collection provides a broad range of voices and perspectives from our nation's past, while emphasizing the important social, political, and economic themes of most U.S. history survey courses. Edited by one of the authors of The American Promise and designed to complement the textbook, Reading the American Past offers a rich selection of over 125 documents and editorial apparatus to aid students' understanding of the sources.

Speak Up

Speak Up
Author: Douglas M. Fraleigh
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 787
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312621884

When was the last time you actually looked forward to reading a textbook? With "Speak Up", thousands of students have been doing just that -- getting more out of their speech courses and having fun while doing it. It's a different kind of textbook, combining great writing and examples with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that bring speechmaking to life. It's all designed to help you ace the course and prepare you to speak effectively on campus, on the job, and beyond. -- From publisher's description.

Delyte Morris of SIU

Delyte Morris of SIU
Author: Betty Lou Mitchell
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809314485

When Morris became president in 1948, enrollment at SIU was 3,013. By the end of his career, enrollment on the two campuses totaled nearly 35,000. He instituted Ph.D. programs and created family housing. He lobbied for and got the TV station, the FM radio station, the university press, the news service, and outdoor education. Long before it was fashionable he promoted ecology, just as he provided facilities for the handicapped years before society demanded them. He brought to the school such luminaries as R. Buckminster Fuller. Through it all he demanded that SIU be an integral part of the southern Illinois community.

The Writer's Way

The Writer's Way
Author: Jack Rawlins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division
Total Pages: 481
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780395745335

Leading students step by step through the writing process, from pre-writing to the final draft, this text is based upon the theory that people learn best by doing the whole thing to be learned and doing it often, surrounded by examples and in a context that offers immediate personal rewards. It focuses on personal motivation, interaction with other writers, and revision, and includes 47 student papers which serve as models for skills such as abstracting, revising and peer editing.

Adair History and Genealogy

Adair History and Genealogy
Author: James Barnett Adair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1924
Genre: Families of royal descent
ISBN:

Thomas Adair and three sons (James, Joseph and William) emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania about 1730, and then moved to South Carolina about 1750/1755. His son, William Adair (b. 1719) married Mary Moore in 1754, and later moved to Mercer County, Kentucky. Descendants lived in most of the United States.