Best Selling Books by David Katz

One of Jamaicas most prolific and innovative performers and a recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jimmy Cliff has been hailed as the first true superstar of Jamaican music. As a uniquely talented singer-songwriter, he is one of the first artists responsible for disseminating reggae music to a global audience. With over 25 studio albums to his name, Cliff is the only living musician to hold the Order of Merit for his contributions to Jamaican culture. But the road to international acclaim has not been a straightforward one. Born James Chambers into an underdeveloped country town near Jamaicas north coast, Cliff has battled poverty, controversy, and prejudiceindeed, his starring role as Ivan in the ground-breaking film The Harder They Come drew on aspects of Jimmys own youthful experiences.

Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased variability is also likely to challenge regions with existing institutional capacity. This paper argues that the best attempts to assess the ability of states to deal with variability in the future rest with considering how agreements have fared in the past. The paper investigates to what extent particular mechanisms and institutional designs help mitigate inter-country tensions over shared water. The analysis specifically focuses on identifying which water allocation mechanisms and institutional features provide better opportunities for mitigating conflict given that water allocation issues tend to be most salient among riparians. Water-related events from the Basins at Risk events database are used as the dependent variable to test hypotheses regarding the viability, or resilience, of treaties over time. Climatic, geographic, political, and economic variables are used as controls. The analysis is conducted for the years 1948-2001 with the country dyad as the level of observation. Findings pertaining to the primary explanatory variables suggest that country dyads governed by treaties with water allocation mechanisms exhibiting both flexibility and specificity evince more cooperative behavior. Country dyads governed by treaties with a larger sum of institutional mechanisms likewise evince a higher level of cooperation, although certain institutional mechanisms are more important than others.

Bringing together peer teaching and collaborative learning, this book presents many specific ideas for elementary teachers to use in their classrooms and explains the principles behind the practices. Six diverse scenarios are presented which represent real experiences of teachers and their students at work in successful peer-learning classrooms. Sections of the book include: (1) "How Some Teachers Use Peer Tutoring"; (2) "Peer Teaching and Collaborative Learning"; (3) "Peer Program Organization"; (4) "How to Get Started"; (5) "How to Use the Evaluation Forms"; (6) a review of research and research in progress; and (7) "Conclusions and Implications." A 57-item bibliography is attached. (RS)

The Orton-Gillingham Educators'' Guide is a resource tool for those who have been trained in the Orton-Gillingham Approach. The Orton-Gillingham Educators'' Guide also provides overviews of the Orton-Gillingham approach and of the structure of the English language for those looking to pursue Orton-Gillingham training or for those wishing to add more "tools" to their teaching toolbox. This guide is not meant to replace Orton-Gillingham training; instead, it is designed to enhance and supplement it.The Orton-Gillingham methodology is appropriate for teaching students in classrooms, small groups or 1:1 settings - in both the primary and secondary grades. Originally designed for teaching children with dyslexia, for almost 90 years the principles of Orton-Gillingham have improved students'' reading, spelling, and writing abilities. Many of today''s most successful reading programs are based on Orton-Gillingham''s multi-sensory approach that incorporates all three modalities of the language triangle - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile. Employing these modalities throughout instruction allows students to learn in a multisensory way, which is the most effective way to learn and retain information.

To Weigh the World Anew examines moments of rhetorical exchange in romances written by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Mary Wroth, arguing that these texts portray formal oratory as either unethical or inefficacious, while simultaneously depicting poetic or theatrical discourses as productively intervening between interlocutors of diverse social statuses. These exemplary episodes show fiction successfully mediating between different classes and genders, creating a demarcation between poetry and competing forms of eloquence and participating in the emergence of the poetical from the rhetorical. Ultimately, the repeated depiction of poesis as an efficacious form of mediation in self-reflexive romance shows that modern conceptions of poetics partially emerge as a response to a set of rapidly changing social formations.

MY FIRST SUPERMAN, MY FIRST BATMAN, and MY FIRST WONDER WOMAN each feature the classic DC Comics art and 6 interactive features--from Superman''s silky cape to Batman''s handy Batline to Wonder Woman''s invisible plane.