Sentences with phrase «often challenged book»

In fact, according to the ALA, it is currently the second most often challenged book in the US.

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People often ask me for book recommendations suitable for personal devotion or group study — you know, something challenging but not too controversial, something that stretches the heart and mind but isn't too scholarly.

Terry is the most glaring example for me as he often talks the refs into giving bookings while escaping his own for challenges anyone else would be carded for.

Parents often find it challenging and cumbersome to weed through books, online medical journals and personal blogs to locate the information most relevant to them.

The details of state inspections of nail salons are perhaps most revealing about just how challenging it is to regulate a largely immigrant - run industry in which almost everything is done off the books and employers are often unfamiliar with the intricacies of state labor laws.

In his recent book, titled Immigrants Raising Citizens, he concludes that these children often show signs of developmental delays due to the additional challenges posed by their parents» status.»

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Adam Steiner (@steineredtech) recommends the blog post of social studies teacher Jay Barry, who notes the trend that «many boys stop reading for pleasure in middle school and those that are reading often choose books that do not challenge them as readers.»

Our books tackle challenging, intriguing, and high - interest topics, presenting unbiased narratives that are often supported with thought - provoking analytical activities and next - step guidelines.

«When we think about the challenges to be faced by those trying to establish the book market, whether in Poland or in the rest of the world, we often forget that it doesn't matter how new technologies are influencing the market, but the question of the mystery of human talent and the inscrutable fate of books still remain vital.

Featuring an interview with Ricci Wolman, founder and CEO of Written Word Media about the challenge that authors face with the most common questions they often have when first starting out; questions that include the following: How do I get the right people to discover my new book?

Desktop publishing software that is most often used to lay out books, such as Adobe InDesign, is expensive and challenging to master.

The challenging elements I see most often in books involve large non-text elements like images or tables.

The broad themes and splashy visuals often associated with comics might seem innately at odds with the intimate, personal discussions engendered in book clubs, so the challenge for the format is to prove it can fulfill the specific needs of the diversifying book - group market by promoting discussion and fostering social opportunity.

Customers who were looking for rare books often found themselves inundated with cheaply made digital files and found it challenging to find what they wanted.

For Penguin, Mr. Pynchon's books present a challenge in formatting: because they are often long and have complicated page layouts, they were difficult to convert to e-book form.

I find this Spanish initiative really interesting because it's trying to tackle the key challenges that all book publishers are facing as they migrate to the often free - for - all internet.

That was one of the reasons I contacted you wanting to do this interview, is I think too often as authors we haven't been challenged enough to realize, even if you're a fiction writer, if you're a non-fiction writer, how can you take your first book and think of some spin off things that might not be merely books.

«In today's workplace, people are being challenged to do more with less and often they are pushed to take on projects that are not a part of their current skill - sets,» said Rose St. Clair, marketing manager, Safari Books Online.

Through taking the course, I have also become more aware of how often books get banned or challenged in the U.S., and which states it is more likely to happen in.

by Nina Amir Organization can prove a challenging task for creative people whose desks often tend to be a jumble of papers, sticky notes and books and whose filing cabinets contain more random acts of filing than anything else.

Sowards here points to two possible challenges libraries face with subscription services: First, there may be overlap and duplication because libraries already have purchased some books found in those eCollections through other channels and in other formats, and second, titles are sometimes pulled from eCollections — often without prior notice to the subscribing institution — because contractual agreements between publishers and subscription - package aggregators may be subject to change.

The other challenge is I compare myself to mainstream book cover designers, who often commission custom 3D graphics, paintings or do a photoshoot for unique cover images.

If you choose to cancel the card after first use, you still have enough for the lowest - tier round - trip domestic fare (25,000 miles), but those seats are often challenging to book.

The least value points currency among the major ones often discussed by US frequent flyers has to be Virgin Atlantic's — fuel surcharges, can not mix and match partners, partner awards that can not be booked one - way, and challenging call center agents all rolled up into one.

These drawings are often placed against or into old literary editions, challenging the schemata of the book.

Very often high school teachers are only a chapter ahead of their class in the book, so if some «debate» or more nuanced questions come up that challenge the teacher, those might go unresolved.

To aid practitioners faced with the myriad and often unexpected challenges of navigating a cross-border investigation, this book brings together for the first time the perspectives of leading experts from across the globe.

Gladwell uses conflict in this book to explore challenges in life, and how being an underdog can change people, often for the better.

I have always liked this book and use it in training, particularly for the sections on learning how to analyze facts in legal problem solving and then applying the law to the facts, often a challenge for rookie legal researchers.

Librarians will tell you that people going through a crisis will often ask for books about someone going through a crisis because it helps to see how others cope with challenges.

So often, we read and study relationships throughout a healing period — sometimes ordering a pile of books from Amazon about successful relationships or reading blogs online that describe how to overcome top relationship challenges.

«A book that will challenge assumptions about children's behavior and emotional development, while also challenging assumptions of the role of emotional learning in today's early childhood classrooms, an aspect that is far too often cast aside in favor of more academic pursuits.»

In Ross Greene's excellent book, The Explosive Child, he introduces a paradigm for understanding children with ADHD, sensory processing challenges, oppositional defiant disorder, and similar conditions: When children misbehave, it's often because the demands of the situation exceed what they are developmentally able to handle.