Conexiones 4e is a contemporary new take on a consistent favorite: every aspect of every chapter has been re-imagined, revitalized and renewed to... appeal to today’s Spanish student.  Building on its recognized strengths, Conexiones 4e retains all the hallmarks of  the title: a unique and thorough grammar scope and sequence, careful progression of activities for all skills, and a focus on student involvement, participation and exchange.  The new edition, however, introduces exciting new chapter themes and new takes on familiar themes, a new Conéctate section focusing on the 5Cs of the National Standards, and a completely new and fully-integrated video component, all within a fresh new design.

Conexiones 4e is a contemporary new take on a consistent favorite: every aspect of every chapter has been re-imagined, revitalized and renewed to... appeal to today’s Spanish student.  Building on its recognized strengths, Conexiones 4e retains all the hallmarks of  the title: a unique and thorough grammar scope and sequence, careful progression of activities for all skills, and a focus on student involvement, participation and exchange.  The new edition, however, introduces exciting new chapter themes and new takes on familiar themes, a new Conéctate section focusing on the 5Cs of the National Standards, and a completely new and fully-integrated video component, all within a fresh new design.  This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class — all at an affordable price.  

Conexiones 4e is a contemporary new take on a consistent favorite: every aspect of every chapter has been re-imagined, revitalized and renewed to... appeal to today’s Spanish student.  Building on its recognized strengths, Conexiones 4e retains all the hallmarks of  the title: a unique and thorough grammar scope and sequence, careful progression of activities for all skills, and a focus on student involvement, participation and exchange.  The new edition, however, introduces exciting new chapter themes and new takes on familiar themes, a new Conéctate section focusing on the 5Cs of the National Standards, and a completely new and fully-integrated video component, all within a fresh new design.   This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class — all at an affordable price.

In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being "real" while punishing difference. Adults may view such... social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this rite and allowing its effects to cascade into adulthood. Integrating national statistics with interviews and observations from a single school, this book explores this phenomenon. It makes the case that recent macro-level trends, such as economic restructuring and technological change, mean that the social dynamics of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school; it looks at teenagers who do not fit in socially at school - including many who are obese or gay - to illustrate this phenomenon; and it crafts recommendations for parents, teachers, and policymakers about how to protect teenagers in trouble. The end result is a story of adolescence that hits home with anyone who remembers high school.

Con Fantasia: Reviewing and Expanding Functional Italian Skills, 3e, allows readers to use their prior knowledge of Italian as a basis for expansion and... practice of more complex linguistic and cultural topics. Each chapter is built around a thematic focus, and the book's activities are related to these themes. In this revised edition, each chapter now features four main parts, each consisting of the same elements, sections, and overall flow--a unique organization of the lexical, grammatical, communicative, and cultural material that distinguishes CON FANTASIA from other intermediate Italian textbooks. The Third Edition presents readers with numerous opportunities to express themselves--an approach designed to encourage confidence from the very start.

This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily... one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer.Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents.Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent.Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities.

Con Fantasia: Reviewing and Expanding Functional Italian Skills, 3e, allows readers to use their prior knowledge of Italian as a basis for expansion and... practice of more complex linguistic and cultural topics. Each chapter is built around a thematic focus, and the book's activities are related to these themes. In this revised edition, each chapter now features four main parts, each consisting of the same elements, sections, and overall flow--a unique organization of the lexical, grammatical, communicative, and cultural material that distinguishes CON FANTASIA from other intermediate Italian textbooks. The Third Edition presents readers with numerous opportunities to express themselves--an approach designed to encourage confidence from the very start.

In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne... (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. He shows that within a year of Cleburne's proposal, which was initially rejected out of hand, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and Robert E. Lee had all reached the same conclusions. At that point, the idea was debated widely in newspapers and drawing rooms across the South, as more and more slaves fled to Union lines and fought in the ranks of the Union army. Eventually, the soldiers of Lee's army voted on the proposal, and the Confederate government actually enacted a version of it in March. The Army issued the necessary orders just two weeks before Appomattox, too late to affect the course of the war. Throughout the book, Levine captures the voices of blacks and whites, wealthy planters and poor farmers, soldiers and officers, and newspaper editors and politicians from all across the South. In the process, he sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South. Confederate Emancipation offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions of the slaves themselves.

Confederate Girlhoods gathers materials from the Campbell-McCammon Collection, as preserved in The History Museum for Springfield-Greene County. One of... Springfield, Missouri's founding families, the Campbells were prodigious writers whose memoirs, correspondence, and fiction portray four generations of pioneer women. Focusing on writings from 1853 to 1902, Confederate Girlhoods presents these women's views of Native Americans and early settling; of slavery and southern patriotism; of war and its social, political, economic aftermath; of the railroad and Westward migration; of an Ozarks community's early efforts at conservation and civic commemoration.

Joseph M. Bailey’s memoir, Confederate Guerrilla, provides a unique perspective on the fighting that took place behind Union lines in Federal-occupied... northwest Arkansas during and after the Civil War. This story—now published for the first time—will appeal to modern readers interested in the grassroots history of the Trans-Mississippi war. Bailey participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge and the siege of Port Hudson, eventually escaping to northwest Arkansas where he fought as a guerrilla against Federal troops and civilian unionists. After Federal forces gained control of the area, Bailey rejoined the Confederate army and continued in regular service in northeast Texas until the end of the war.Historians will find the descriptions of military campaigns and the observations on guerrilla war especially valuable. According to Bailey, Southern guerrillas were motivated less by a sense of loyalty to either the Confederate or Union side than by a determination to protect their families and neighbors from the “Mountain Federals.” This partisan war waged between the rebel guerrillas and Southern Unionists was essentially a “struggle for supremacy and revenge.”Comprehensive annotations are provided by editor T. Lindsay Baker to illuminate the clarity and reliability of Bailey’s late-life memoir.