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Work smarter and save time with the librarian's guide to the hidden in plain sight secrets of Excel, Sheets, and other types of spreadsheets --
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Details how real events have evolved through folk stories and legends into ballads before ultimately ending up in print format. After an introduction to the form and its place in history, this work explores various types of ballads. It covers Ballad types such as: tragic love sto...ries, murder ballads, otherworld beings, and tricks and disguises.
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This book shows how LIS schools and professional organizations can help information professionals to continue their education after finishing formal programs to keep up with the growing demands of the field. As technology rapidly advances, the need for continuing education increa...ses at an accelerating rate.
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Includes: five essays exploring the event, including historical background, interpretations, and aftermath; biographical sketches of every player involved in the trials, from ministers to afflicted girls; 50 document excerpts, including petitions, letters, and revealing trial tes...timony; a chronology of events; and an annotated bibliography.
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With entries on topics ranging from non-Western instruments to distinctive rhythms of music of various countries, this one-stop resource on global music also promotes cultural appreciation of other countries and cultural groups. * Presents information that is accessible for gener...al readers but will also be useful to specialists and music scholars * Examines music from a geographical and cultural viewpoint, allowing students to make cross-cultural comparisons * Includes numerous sidebars and appendices that provide even more compelling information of interest to readers, such as information on top-selling artists and albums in various countries, biographies of well-known musicians, and other fascinating fun facts and statistics * Supports the National Geography Standards and AP Human Geography topics by examining cultural patterns, experiences, and influences
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Offering a guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies, this work looks at religious tolerance, torture, environmental rights, discrimination, and genoci...de, as issues central to the contemporary debate on human rights.
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Presents roughly sixty years' worth of Arthur Miller scholarship, offering a range of interpretations and critical responses to the playwright's work.
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Offering practical application examples of curricular units that employ the Guided Inquiry Design process, this book guides high school librarians, teachers, and administrators toward envisioning how GID looks in action in their specific high school's environment or curriculum. I...t provides complete, ready-to-use templates and user-friendly models for implementing GID in the high school context. Each lesson is laid out according to the session plan templates from Guided Inquiry Design, fully describing from beginning to end of the inquiry process from beginning to end, which makes integration and implementation of GID a breeze. As an accompanying book to Libraries Unlimited's Guided Inquiry Design in Action: Middle School, this text includes extensions of the concepts that particularly pertain to guiding students through inquiry at the high school level. The chapters are written by high school librarians and teachers practicing currently in the field who have been experimenting with Guided Inquiry Design and refining its framework for implementation and instruction for several years. Complete units of study across all the phases of inquiry provide educators real-world examples of how Guided Inquiry Design can be implemented in all areas of the content from math and science to the humanities and social studies as well as in independent projects.
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Going beyond the fake news problem, this book tackles the broader issue of teaching library users of all types how to become more critical consumers and sharers of information. * Offers a means to learn how to step into their vital role as leaders helping their communities to mor...e critically evaluate information * Features ways to master the concept of critical information literacy, information ethics related to online information sharing, and other core concepts related to information literacy, fake news, and teaching users about source evaluation * Encourages readers to view libraries as the ideal institutions for combating the fake news problem
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A critical re-evaluation of the causes of Beethoven's many illnesses, especially his deafness. It offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death and burial.
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