Central to the debate about access to higher education, and about how to develop the educated workforce vital to economic development, are America's open-access, low-cost community colleges that enroll around half of all first-time freshmen in the United States. Can these institutions bridge the gap, and how might they do so? The answer is complicated by their multiple missions---as gateways to four-year colleges, and as providers of occupational education, community services, and workforce development, as well as of basic skills instruction and remediation.

To enable today's administrators and policy makers to understand and contextualize the complexity of the present, this history describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development. In doing so it fills a large void in our knowledge of these institutions.

The 'junior college,' later renamed the 'community college' in the 1960s and 1970s, was originally designed to limit access to higher education in the name of social efficiency. Subsequently leaders and communities tried to refashion this institution into a tool for increased social mobility, community organization, and regional economic development. Thus, community colleges were born of contradictions, and continue to be an enigma.

This volume examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the United States, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, and for what purposes, and how has it evolved. It uncovers the historically conditioned rules, procedures, rituals, and ideas that ordered and defined the particular educational structure of these colleges. It focuses on the individuals, organizations, ideas, and the larger political economy that contributed to defining the community college's educational missions, and that have enabled or constrained this institution from enacting those missions. The author also sets the history in the context of contemporary debates about access and effectiveness, and traces how these colleges have responded to calls for accountability from the 1970s to the present.

Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners might better understand the constraints of the past in an effort to realize the possibilities of the future.

This second edition of the best-selling guidebook features many updates, include updates on fisheries since the end of the massive drought.

The Mogul emperor's storyteller retells a tale from the Urdu epic 'The Romance of Amåir òHamza' in which the Muslim hero is held prisoner by his enemies as his friends struggle to find him and set him free, in a story with information on Mogul art.

'This work is the first complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time'--Provided by publisher.

Beach (nursing, U. of Pittsburgh School of Nursing) offers an accessible guidebook of basic information on the basics of disaster from a nursing perspective. Topics include preparation and awareness, hospital preparedness, triage, weapons of mass destruction, violence, and other related topics. How-to topics include drills and tabletop exercises, setting roles in the field, recognizing serious and life-threatening symptoms, and developing preparedness plans for work, home, and travel. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Poetry. One of the most acclaimed new poets in America entwines found and original texts, creating literal form--this book--out of sheer metaphor. In this language nest, the mind of poet and reader find a common dwelling place. Through this collaged material ('used' motifs running through include Echo and Narcissus, spider webs, and philosophy), the author reveals the nest of the mind/book as a never wholly original structure, but one that forms from found material.

The author of several academic books on film and poetry, Beach takes the first book-length critical look at the films of Hal Ashby, an important figure in the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and 1970s. After providing an overview of career, Beach examines the thematic concerns in the director's work (which included Harold and Maude and Coming Home) and argues that Ashby was an unusually versatile and creative director. He also examines the use of the musical score in Ashby's films and the rapid decline in his career in the 1980s. Eminently readable, this book will interest film scholars and general readers interested in 1970s cinema. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Poet Beachy-Quick has one thing in common with Captain Ahab; they are both obsessed with Moby Dick. Beachy-Quick exorcizes his obsession by creating his own 'dictionary' of Melville's masterpiece, inspired by Ishmael's incomplete dictionary of whales. From 'accuracy' to 'you/thou' he wanders through Moby Dick selecting topics that resound to his own quest, as readers of the book have done since it first was published. Part poetry, part philosophy, part mysticism and even part literary exegesis, this book defies easy description, but invites perusal. Beachy-Quick suggests that the reader select topics according to interest or whim, rather than reading it straight through. He also provides cross-references, often a form of poetry in themselves. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

On the verge of commiting an act of violence, a troubled, orphaned Indian teenager finds himself hurtled through time and into the bodies of a civil rights era FBI agent, an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, a nineteenth- century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airline pilot, before returning to himself, forever altered by his experiences. Read by Adam Beach. Book available.

Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Pablo / Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach, and Palm Valley!
Chronicling Indians and aviators, stock cars and sand traps, Florida's First Coast is a delightful collection of vintage images and local lore, sure to enchant newcomers and residents alike. A well-loved local, retired U.S. Navy Captain Jack Pate decided to tell others the story of the First Coast Beaches after falling in love with the area himself. Using the extensive collections of the Beaches Area Historical Society, Captain Jack introduces the history of the people who settled "the Beaches" area and their love-hate relationship with the two bodies of water that define it: the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean.

This research-based guidebook offers PreK and kindergarten teachers easy-to-implement activities to develop oral language, phonological and print awareness, emergent writing, and comprehension skills in diverse classrooms.

The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.

Presents a collection of poems by the nineteenth-century American poet.

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer. The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era. It's only the first stop. He continues traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the 1800s before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels through time, his refrain grows: 'Who's to judge?' and 'I don't understand humans.' When finally the young warrior comes back to his own life, he is transformed by all he has seen.

Can Tom and the team “dampen the spirit”–permanently!–of a fiery phantom, or are they about to get burned?
Boy hero Tom, Hugo the Averagely Spooky Ghost, and famed ghoul hunter Hetty Hyssop have formed an agency dedicated to dealing with difficult apparitions. No spook can defeat them–until their too close encounter with a Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost.
This superheated specter (or “GILIG,” in ghosthunter-speak) has taken over the penthouse suite of a beachfront hotel, where it's passing its eternal vacation by turning guests into ghosts themselves!
Maybe Hugo's slime can douse the flaming phantom–or maybe the ghosthunters' plan is doomed to go up in smoke. . . . Get scared silly!


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A recipe book separated into seasons in which the main ingredients grow also provides instructions on growing vegetables and herbs and suggests prayers appropriate to the season.

Presents a collection of eighteen untitled lyrical poems.