Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of... Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino band. Born in the inner city, amid the charred ruins of the 1968 race riots, go-go generated a distinct culture and an economy of independent, almost exclusively black-owned businesses that sold tickets to shows and recordings of live go-gos. At the peak of its popularity, in the 1980s, go-go could be heard around the capital every night of the week, on college campuses and in crumbling historic theaters, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs, backyards, and city parks.Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go music and culture. Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie Hopkinson's Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs in the postwar years began to return. Gentrification drove up property values and pushed go-go into D.C.'s suburbs. The Chocolate City is in decline, but its heart, D.C.'s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat. On any given night, there's live go-go in the D.C. metro area.

After child care providers determine their green score with the Go Green Rating Scale for Early Childhood Settings, this in-depth handbook explains how... to improve their rating. Caregivers will gain insight on the background and reasons for creating and maintaining environmentally healthy and safe settings.

Many people want to "go green" but put it off because they believe it's too time consuming and too expensive. Not so! Nancy Sleeth and her family have... been living an eco-friendly lifestyle for years saving both time and money. Now, for the first time, she divulges hundreds of practical, easy-to-implement steps that you can take to create substantial money savings while protecting the earth. Sleeth also demonstrates how going green helps people live more God-centered lives by becoming better stewards of financial and natural resources. Chapter titles include: (1) Home; (2) Lawn and Garden; (3) Work; (4) Transportation; (5) Food; (6) Sabbath; (7) Holidays; (8) Entertainment; (9) School; (10) Church; (11) Nature; and (12) Community. Features: Hundreds of simple, easy-to-implement money-saving tips for going green at home and at the office. Simple cost-saving formulas that allow readers to calculate their energy/financial savings as they go green. Helpful "try this instead of that" charts offering money-saving green solutions for everyday living. Inspirational Scripture and quotes from church leaders (both historical and current) that support the biblically mandated stewardship component of going green

"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic... novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.

The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle’s world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into—and then get out... of—life’s inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects eleven brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. In honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, or glass slippers, all of the women in these stories march to a place of new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but they don’t waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And they’re funny, even when they are sad. These stories are the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how—and why—to pair pain with laughter.

Google isn't up to the task when it comes to serious research, and though your patrons and students have heard of the invisible, or deep Web, they have... no idea how to tap into it. You need practical tools and strategies for teaching them about the Web sources and specialized databases they will never find using everyday search engines. This book will show you in simple, nontechnical terms how to integrate the invisible Web into teaching opportunities wherever they occur: in a one-on-one teaching moment at the reference desk, or in a formal course. Estimated at 500 times the size of the visible Web, the invisible Web and the search skills needed to plumb its depths should be a part of every information literacy and research skills course. With this book you get expert teaching tips and scripts for informal instruction, plus model activities and assignments for the classroom. Statistics and summaries of relevant research will help you combat myths like Searching is Easy, or Everything Important is Free. Read this book too, to find out how the best deep Web search tools, including Complete Planet, Closer Look, and the Librarian's Internet Index, are evolving and what it all means for your library's future electronic collection development plans.

You want everyone in your classes to learn to love literature, to become avid readers for the rest of their lives, to become accomplished writers and... thinkers, to show tolerance for each other, and to work with indefatigable enthusiasm every day. You have no time to waste. You've decided to go Bohemian. With these words, you enter the updated edition of an award-winning collection of writing strategies that have sparked true enthusiasm for writing in adolescent students-including reluctant students, English-language learners, and gifted writers. Bohemian writing lessons rely on unconventional strategies, art and multimedia, competitive games, and indirect approaches to teach some of the difficult lessons of writing. You too can watch your students' talents emerge as they engage in lessons such as The Delicate Art of Sarcasm, A Playlist for Holden, Adagio in Your Back Pocket, and Pensive Pirates! Half of the lessons in Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It (2nd edition) are brand new and relate to crucial topics such as the fundamentals of writing, connecting writing to reading, building vocabulary, using visuals to spark creativity, and applying writing in real life. All of the 42 lessons in this book are classroom proven and can be worked into you current curriculum immediately. Lessons include reproducibles to use in your own instruction and student examples that show you what's possible. Go Bohemian! And instill in your students high literacy standards, an artistic sensibility, and an unshakable belief in the power of words-leading them, ultimately, to increased success.The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. Some of the many areas we publish in include: -Comprehension-Response To Intervention/Struggling Readers-Early Literacy -Adolescent Literacy-Assessment-Literacy Coaching-Research And Policy

Can Cameron find what he’s looking for?All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort.... It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.From the Hardcover edition.

This book addresses the area of reading and literacy instruction for Spanish-speaking students. It is comprehensive in that it includes information on... language, academic language instruction, reading, decoding, listening, speaking, transfer of components from Spanish to English, and comprehension development. Also, it has sample lessons in kindergarten, first, second, and third grades which give the teacher some examples on how to utilize a balanced systematic and comprehensive approach to teaching reading. There is also other information included in the Appendix of this book that has been completed by the author—some examples of which also appear in the Leamos espanol reading series. Finally, throughout the various chapters on reading and literacy instruction and sample instructional plans, the author has included several examples that will be helpful in developing various reading skills with Spanish-speaking students. It is, therefore, the hope of the author that this book will offer some suggestions, review of the literature, research information, and lesson plan examples that will assist parents, teachers, and the children to learn to read and also learn literacy skills in Spanish. Chapter titles include: Direct Instruction; Developing the Foundations of Literacy: Oracy; Language Develop-ment and Instruction; Academic Language and Literacy Instruction; Reading and Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Students; Instructional Plans for Teaching Spanish-Speaking Students Reading and Literacy in Kindergarten Through Third Grade; Supplemental Reading Instruction to Develop Second Language Literacy; Transfer of Reading from Spanish to English; Reading Components that Transfer from Spanish to English; and Reflections and Summation.

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this... often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new negative campaign strategies were introduced, or existing tactics were refined and amplified upon. Strategies have included labeling opponents from non-traditional political backgrounds as dumb or lightweight, an approach that got upended when a veteran actor and rookie candidate named Ronald Reagan won the California governorship in 1966, setting him on a path to the White House. The negative tone of campaigns has also been ratcheted up dramatically since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: Campaign commercials now routinely run pictures of international villains and suggest, sometimes overtly, at other times more subtly, that political opponents are less than resolute in prosecuting the war on terror. The book also outlines a series of races in which negative campaigning has backfired, because the charges were not credible or the candidate on the attack did not understand the political sentiments of the local electorate they were trying to persuade. The effect of newer technologies on negative campaigning is also examined, including blogs and Web video, in addition to tried and true methods like direct mail.

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this... often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new negative campaign strategies were introduced, or existing tactics were refined and amplified upon. Strategies have included labeling opponents from non-traditional political backgrounds as dumb or lightweight, an approach that got upended when a veteran actor and rookie candidate named Ronald Reagan won the California governorship in 1966, setting him on a path to the White House. The negative tone of campaigns has also been ratcheted up dramatically since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: Campaign commercials now routinely run pictures of international villains and suggest, sometimes overtly, at other times more subtly, that political opponents are less than resolute in prosecuting the war on terror. The book also outlines a series of races in which negative campaigning has backfired, because the charges were not credible or the candidate on the attack did not understand the political sentiments of the local electorate they were trying to persuade. The effect of newer technologies on negative campaigning is also examined, including blogs and Web video, in addition to tried and true methods like direct mail.