Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves


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Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.







A Century of Artists Books


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Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.




Historical Brighton


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Empire of the Air


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Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.




Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs


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"The book offers principles and guidelines for program-wide transformation in the early childhood education field: Professional development activities for teachers at all levels of awareness and experience in anti-bias education. Approaches for engaging with families around social justice values. Strategies for supporting and strengthening the leader's ability to initiate and sustain anti-bias change. Support for leaders in embracing and negotiating positive conflict and responding to opposition to anti-bias change. Tools for documenting a program's readiness for and progress in anti-bias education"--







Rising Up to Climate Change


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Rising Up to Climate Change documents the collaborative Storytelling with Saris art and advocacy project, which works with communities in Bangladesh, the US, and Europe to empower people to address climate change. This feminist project uses printmaking, performance art, and film to engage thousands of people. Monica Jahan Bose began this project as a collaboration with women from her mother's ancestral village, Katakhali, on Barobaishdia Island, Bangladesh. This full-color book contains artwork, photographs, and writings about the project, including translations of two oral tradition songs by the women of Katakhali. The book is eco-printed by a family-owned printer in Connecticut that uses mostly renewable energy.




The Storrs Family


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