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The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.

The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon.

But getting back the tape of the lady's X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop express ride to trouble--trouble that is deep, wide and deadly.

"A thriller all the way." (Seattle Times).
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Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and for others.

Through your kindness toward others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

Expanding peace to the larger community around you will bring unity, harmony, and cooperation

Expanding peace further still to nations and then to the world will bring mutual trust, mutual respect, sincere communication, and finally successful joint efforts to solve the world's problems.

All this is possible once you learn

HOW TO EXPAND LOVE

With this illuminating and instructive handbook, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers sensible, everyday guidelines for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama describes a seven-step, self-directed program to help us open our hearts and minds to the experience of unlimited love, transforming every relationship in our lives -- and guiding us ever closer to wisdom and enlightenment..
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The Power of Inclusive Classrooms is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms.

In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed "ready to compete" in "mainstream" classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills but with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classroom—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate.

Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and "dumping" students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways.

Through storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for schools that do not separate kids on the basis of difference.

"Widening the Circle is an ambitious, impassioned argument for inclusive schools powered by a vision that goes far beyond the mutilated version of 'mainstreaming' common in American schools today. To Sapon-Shevin the current state of affairs is a caricature of inclusive education, reductive and impoverished, a place where every student is defined by a putative deficit, imprisoned in a label. Her goal — breathtaking in its sweep — is to break through the walls of the prison, and to set us all free. She shows us that huge questions of democracy and freedom can be discovered in a simple game of musical chairs, that our deepest values are enacted in our everyday classroom practice. A dazzling manifesto and call to arms."
—William Ayers, author of Teaching toward Freedom and To Teach

"Widening the Circle is packed with sharply observed challenges to conventional ways of thinking. It digs beneath classroom strategies to find larger truths about difference, exposing the moral implications of segregation in the process. One by one, Sapon-Shevin skewers the philosophical and practical objections to inclusion. Her book should be read by all educators, not just those in the field of special education."
—Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

"I love the spirit that infuses the book and the constant reference to the connection between school values and larger democratic values, as well as its attention to the nitty-gritty of classroom life. A book both practical and thoughtful."
—Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas

"With a profound vision and a gift for storytelling, Sapon-Shevin leads educators to think of social justice in terms of classrooms that are truly inclusive, and in the process, challenges and broadens the very ways that we think about inclusion: of whom, in what ways, for what purposes. Essential reading for all educators."
—Kevin K. Kumashiro, Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education

"This book is well-researched, well-argued, and well-written, with a passionate voice that supplements its views with personal anecdotes that make the book a compelling and enjoyable read." —Teacher Magazine

"There's a disarming, almost folksy quality to this easy to read book, and you find yourself getting stirred up by the common sense logic of how inclusion presents an opportunity to students without disabilities to get to know, support, and share experiences that will benefit them throughout their lives . . . We need more books like this one." —Teachers College Record.
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A college classroom is, in essence, a teacher and some students Your job as the teacher is to teach. The student s job is to learn. If only it were really so simple. On today s college campuses, there s no such thing as the typical student or even the typical teacher. Diversity abounds (among both students and faculty) across several dimensions: generation, racial/ethnic background, and socioeconomic status, among many others. Your students bring their own melting pot of upbringings and experiences with them to class every single day and so do you making for a modern instructional environment that is more challenging, but also more potentially rewarding, than ever. In Teaching Today s College Students: Widening the Circle of Success, veteran college instructor and author Angela Provitera McGlynn walks you through the complexities of understanding today s diverse college students and shows you how to actually apply that knowledge in your classroom instructional activities so that all of your students reach their full potential as learners. You ll discover: The wide-ranging demographics of today s college students and the inevitable instructional challenges and opportunities that result. The relatively new and often troublesome classroom behaviors that can have a profoundly negative effect on both your students learning and your teaching unless you deal with them or, better yet, prevent them in the first place by understanding their often innocent causes. The innovative pedagogical strategies you can use to engage today s students, motivate them, and help them develop the critical thinking skills they ll need to find success and satisfaction after college..
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In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist/teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. From involvement with the CIA and the Cold War, through experiences in Africa, India and Tibet, to her encounter with the Dalai Lama and Buddhism which led to her life-long embrace of the religion and a deep commitment to the peace and environmental movements, Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she reflects on how her marriage and family life enriched her service to the world. Widening Circles reveals the unique synthesis of spirituality and activism that define Macy's contribution to the world..
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Can sharing coffee and other forms of hospitality in the church help a congregation grow? Coffee won't do it alone, but biblical hospitality will. In this exciting book you'll come to understand how the congregation which embraces hospitality always grows in vitality and in numbers. You'll learn the biblical and historical basis for hospitality and also come to understand: hospitality to strangers; hospitality to children and youth; hospitality to church members; hospitality to those who make us uncomfortable; physical facilities and hospitality; and styles of worship and hospitality. "Widening the Welcome" includes a study guide ideal for individual, small group, and congregational reflection..
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This book considers the myriad ways in which Irish drama has become increasingly regional and international in scope, and the ways in which theatrical production has followed this decentralising trajectory. This significant shift from a largely national drama produced in Dublin to a more expansive international drama has been confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland by what has been confirmed the 'third wave' of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s - Martin McDonagh, Conor MacPherson, Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr - and constitutes a central focus of this collection. At the same time, this more expansive Irish drama has encouraged cultural and theatrical critics to reconsider their assumptions about both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. Contributors to this volume perform such a critical reassessment at the time of an important historical milestone: the centenary of the first professional production of the 'Irish Literary Theatre'.They undertake, more specifically, two projects motivated by the evolution of recent Irish drama: first, an investigation of contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments; and, second, a re-reading of Irish drama produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics - from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals to dramas about the 'Troubles' in the North - they nevertheless all seek to complicate and understand the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life."A Century of Irish Drama" includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Most of the essays were first presented at a symposium, 'One Hundred Years of Irish Theatre', convened at Indiana University May 26-29, 1999, and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities..
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