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Episode 21: Matt Eicheldinger: Educator Turned Author
No full textMatt Eicheldinger, B.A. \u2709, M.A. \u2712 is an educator who used stories from his life to motivate his middle school students. When he found that not only were these stories effective, when written down, they inspired even the most reluctant of readers. This put Matt down a path of becoming a published author. In 2021, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to self-publish Matt Sprouts and The Curse of Ten Broken Toes. When the book became a hit, he was able to sign with an agent who quickly sold Matt Sprouts to a publisher. Matt shares how he became interested in being an educator, how he navigated the process of becoming a published author, and his future plans for more books
Private sector management practices don’t work in welfare services
No full textThey're likely to save money, but degrade job quality and client service, write Matt Vidal and Jill Ebenshad
Matt Vidal, Management Divided. Contradictions of Labor Management
No full textLe lean management, méthode d’organisation de la production et du travail originellement développée par Toyota, est au cœur de l’ouvrage du sociologue Matt Vidal, qui enseigne l’économie politique comparée du travail et du management à l’université de Loughborough (Londres). Ce dernier y voit le modèle de production dominant de l’ère post-fordiste mais développe aussi, à l’occasion, une réflexion sur les organisations du travail soulignant la variété des mises en œuvre d’une mode managériale
Fathers 4 Justice [Hardcover] Matt O'Connor (Author)
No full text5 Photographs published within the first book from Matt O'Connor, a freelance marketing consultant and family law campaigner. This is Matt O'Connor's personal account of the most controversial protest movement of recent times, FATHERS 4 JUSTICE. Fearlessly honest and utterly irreverent Matt's own story will appeal to anyone whose family relationships have been torn to pieces by divorce and the family courts system
Book of the Month: Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library
No full textAuthor: Nick Kelson-Packer Weber State University Our book of the month recommendation is Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library. Imagine slipping into a parallel world where instead of getting that chocolate sundae at your local ice cream parlor, you instead opted for a parfait somewhere else. This choice then led you to meet someone new, someone who invites you to join them in exotic, overseas adventures. That is the premise of Matt Haig’s new book, The Midnight Library. Matt Haig is a reno..
Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson: 2024 Cook Prize Gold Medal Winners
No full textAuthor Sy Montgomery and illustrator Matt Patterson\u27s video for The Book of Turtles (Clarion)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1012/thumbnail.jp
The enduring relevance of Karl Marx
No full textThis chapter is the introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. It summarizes Marx’s enduring relevance by demonstrating the continuing applicability of his concepts and theories to understanding twenty-first century capitalism and its crises, along with the historical development of human society across varying modes of production. It presents an intellectual biography linking the major moments in Marx’s life to his ideas and theories. The biography also gives insight into Marx’s approach to research by focusing more closely on the method he outlined in the Grundrisse. It demonstrates, among other things, that Marx continually revised his ideas in light of new evidence and argumentation. The chapter concludes with brief summaries of the handbook’s contributions, paying specific attention to the ongoing relevance of each chapter to societal concerns. While the introduction introduces the reader to the varied chapters in the handbook, it goes beyond mere summary to provide fresh insight into Marx’s life, work, and promise
Matt de la Peña Josette Frank Award 2022 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Matt de la Peña wins the Josette Frank Award (for young readers) 2022 for Milo Imagines the World from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Josette Frank Award
This award for fiction honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally. The award has been given annually since 1943. Josette Frank, the editor of anthologies for children, served for many years as the Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America of which this committee was a part.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1001/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Matt Mendez
No full textMatt Mendez, author of Twitching Heart, a collection of short stories, and Barely Missing Everythin
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