Designed to give your students the extra support they need to succeed in your classroom, our Study Edition of Miller's Cultural Anthropology offers perforated chapter practice tests at the end of the textbook, an optional Practice Test Solutions Manual with access to professional tutoring, and an Instructor's Testing Manual with solutions to the ...
Integrating current material on globalization, gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other contemporary social issues throughout the book, Barbara Miller's Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and demonstrates the relevance of cultural anthropology to their lives. *Rich examples ...
The first introductory anthropology text to present and integrate a four-field perspective, while simultaneously integrating important topics such as ethics, methods, gender, and race in all chapters. Due to an overwhelmingly positive response to this upcoming text, we are making Anthropology available for use in summer and fall 2005 classes ...
Hair - whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural - marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell. While hair's high salience as both sign and symbol extends cross-culturally through time, its denotations are far from universal. Hair is an inter-disciplinary ...
This edited collection attempts to revive a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics - have produced a wealth of fascinating new data on human and primate, ancient and ...
Equipped for Every Good Work is a four-tool process that can help you discover and develop the spiritual gifts, spirituality types, interaction styles, and working preferences of each person in your congregation. This process focuses on the gifts, graces, and abilities of the leadership core of a local congregation. It shifts the attention away ...
Learner-centered classroom practices and assessments focus on learning partnerships between teachers and students. Teachers are the role models for continuous learning, and they take on leadership roles within the overall educational system, bringing together students, peer teachers, school staff, parents, and community members to support students ...
In the context of the current accountability and testing era, many school leaders have become fearful and feel disenfranchised. Their knowledge and experience are not being validated, and often they are forced to engage in practices that go contrary to what they know will provide a positive school climate and culture for their staff and students. ...
Although a successful businessman in Newark, Ohio, prior to the Civil War, Charles Dana Miller understood the necessity of leaving his business and his home to take part in the "struggle for the life of the republic." His account of what he saw, how he felt, and the hardships he endured as a soldier in the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry are ...
The first introductory anthropology text to present and integrate a four-field perspective, while simultaneously integrating important topics such as ethics, methods, gender, and race in all chapters. Co-authors Barbara Miller and Bernard Wood, a world-renowned biological anthropologist, are joined by three of the brightest new scholars in ...
Promoting Reasonable Expectations offers a thorough examination of student expectations of college. The book includes an examination of key issues such as the classroom setting, student services, and campus life. This unique resource contrasts student expectations with their actual experiences and identifies effective strategies for addressing the ...
This work is about the power of culture which shapes family attitudes towards children and determines how children are treated differently depending upon their sex.
In this guide for women, a therapist draws on the Buddhist tradition and her work as a psychotherapist in a new approach designed to help deal with emotional pain. Barbara Miller Fishman presents anecdotal case studies of eight women who have used and benefited from Mindfulness Psychotherapy. She includes meditations and a program of practice that ...
Hair -- whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural -- marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell. It defines a person's gender, sexual availability and desirability, age, social status, and even political stance. It may also act as a basis for discrimination ...
This practical book is for new pastors as they move into the role of worship leader and planner. When faced with the weekly rhythm of planning and leading worship, new pastors sometimes find themselves overwhelmed with the tasks. Barbara Day Miller centers on pastors and their identity as worship leader, on guidelines for leadership, and on the ...
Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, transcripts, and records depicting the drama of Emancipation in the midst of the nation's bloodiest conflict. Drawn from the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation.
A Layperson's Guide to Life on Earth is a concise handbook of guidelines meant to aid the reader in achieving a sustainable impact on our planet in this twenty-first century of recorded history. Our combined thoughts, beliefs, actions and dreams create the Earthly world as we know it. This series of succinct arguments, pulling information from ...
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