The author, John McDermott, was an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and wrote this scathing satire of his experience there under his pseudonym, J. M. Ryan.

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McDERMOTT, John

PRENTICE/HALL

John Francis MeDermott, who has spent much of his distinguished career studying the early history of the Mississippi Valley, has assembled a collection of sixteen essays describing various facets of that region during the years that it was under Spanish control. Employing the same format that he utilized in two earlier works that surveyed French influence in the Mississippi Valley, MeDermott includes articles by many of Spanish Louisiana's most prominent scholars. The collection opens with Father John Francis Bannon's brief introductory essay which provides an overview of early Spanish activity in the Mississippi Valley. Three subsequent articles by Father Charles Edwards O'Neill, A. Otis Hebert, Jr., and C. Harvey Gardiner examine the present state of studies on Spanish colonial Louisiana and suggest future research opportunities in the field. The evolution of Spain's land policy is the topic of C. Richard Arena's essay, and this article is followed by William S. Coker's discussion of the role of the Bruin family in the formulation of Spanish immigration policies for Louisiana in the 1780s. John Preston Moore and Robert L. Gold relate incidents in the careers of Antonio de Ulloa and Bernardo de Galvez to the development of Anglo-Spanish relations in North America. Abraham P. Nasatir offers some newly discovered documents that help fill gaps in his previously published accounts of pioneer-explorer Pedro Vial, while Noel M. Loomis traces the activities of adventurer Philip Nolan and speculates about his possible involvement with James Wilkinson.

Spanish In Mississippi Valley 1762-1804

History

Americas

University of Illinois Press

While the Caribbean Basin's political difficulties are spotlighted in the nightly news, the underlying economic problems of the region tend to be ignored. The Economics of the Caribbean Basin is one of the few scholarly works to seriously examine the economic problems of the region. This volume contains a unique mix of theory, practice, and case studies of the economic practitioners from the Caribbean Basin. It brings together scholars and practitioners from the Caribbean Basin, Latin America, North America, and Europe who apply the tools of economic analysis to trade and monetary problems of the Caribbean Basin.

The Economics of the Caribbean Basin

Business & Money

Connolly, Michael

Economics

Praeger

This Hopkins chronology describes the poet's family and early education, then gives a day-by-day account of what he was doing, reading and writing, and the people he met. Drawing on some material not published before, it illustrates the working life of a priest-poet whose work was not made public until more than thirty years after his death. There are additional sections on the religious and political background of a major Victorian writer whose life was essentially enigmatic and private.

A Hopkins Chronology (Author Chronologies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan

Jimi Hendrix is universally recognized as the greatest rock 'n' roll guitar player of all time. But until now, the story of how he made his amazing music has never been told. Jimi Hendrix: Sessions is the first book to take us inside the studio and reveal, album by album and track by track, how his songs were born and shaped into the classics they would become. Hendrix biographer John McDermott, working with Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer and bass player Billy Cox, recreates in extraordinary day-by-day detail the making of every one of Hendrix's songs. Based on firsthand accounts by people who were there and on hundreds of hours of unreleased tapes, this book reveals what went into the creation of "Purple Haze", "Foxey Lady", "All Along the Watchtower", and Hendrix's many other masterpieces. It explains how Hendrix manipulated the primitive studio technology of his time to achieve his unprecedented sounds, and it shows the new heights toward which he was reaching at the time of his death. Beginning with Hendrix's legendary journeyman sessions for the Isley Brothers and other soul greats, and continuing through his last work, this is the authoritative treatment of Hendrix as musician that admirers have long awaited. Illustrated with over one hundred photographs, handwritten lyrics, and studio memorabilia, Jimi Hendrix: Sessions is a loving and timeless tribute to the electric guitar's greatest master.

Jimi Hendrix: Sessions: The Complete Studio Recording Sessions, 1963-1970

Arts & Photography

Kramer, Eddie

Cox, Billy

Music

Little. Brown and Company

A Hendrix biographer, along with Hendrix's record producer and his bass player, recounts day-by-day the making of every one of the rock guitarist's songs, based on hours of unreleased tapes, in a unique, profusely illustrated chronicle.

Jimi Hendrix Sessions: The Complete Studio Recording Sessions, 1963-1970

Little,Brown & Co

Listen to a podcast with Stevi Quate, John McDermott, and two teachers who have used their framework to get all students engaged and motivated. "Instead of cringing the next time your colleagues utter the words, "These students don't care," hand them Clock Watchers. Describe your personal struggles and your experience with the book so they know that you know what they're going through. Then point out a few of your favorite ideas. As you walk away, you'll smile knowing you've made a difference." -Cris Tovani Author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It For Stevi Quate and John McDermott, this was the missing piece of their teaching: "How can I motivate my students and then create a context that will engage them?" Clock Watchers is their powerful answer-a plan that gets kids to care about learning and truly engage with the curriculum. Clock Watchers is not a book of tips and tricks. Instead it applies the research on motivation and engagement to support increased achievement and improved attitudes about school. Quate and McDermott's six-step framework: <ul>
<li>catches students' interest across the content areas</li> <li>holds it through meaningful learning and valuable interactions</li> <li>uses assessment to create further opportunities to connect kids with content </li> <li>sustains it all with ideas for projects, activities, and even classroom routines and rituals.</li> </ul>
Clock Watchers works with the most reluctant learners. Its end-of-text study guide makes the book ideal for PLCs and study groups, and it is a research-based resource for district-wide initiatives aimed at improving student motivation and engagement. If deeper learning, increased achievement, and reduced drop-out rates matter to you, then motivation and engagement are an urgent matter. Read Clock Watchers with colleagues and put it into action-before the time to change your students' lives runs out.

Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas

Education & Teaching

Tovani, Cris

Quate, Stevi

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

"We can and must create classrooms filled with pressing, transformative, and authentic work. We have to provide access to all learners.This has to happen now." -Stevi Quate and John McDermott If you don't care about disengagement and the dropout problem, this isn't the book for you. But if, like coauthors Stevi Quate and John McDermott, the disillusionment and disappearance of student after student tears you up, then find out what you can do with The Just-Right Challenge. Challenge is supposed to motivate learners to grow. But imagine if school was like playing a game without knowing the rules. The unwitting mistakes. The frustration. The building hatred. Or a game so boring and divorced from your real interests that you dreaded showing up for it. That's why The Just-Right Challenge is so important. In an era when the Common Core standards call for increased rigor, how do we challenge students-especially reluctant students-appropriately? Stevi and John present 9 strategies and the experiences of teachers across content areas to help you: <ul>
<li>create a can-do classroom, where expectations-and support-are high</li> <li>help students embrace challenge with work that is authentic and transformative</li> <li>provide every student with access to challenges just beyond their skill level.</li> </ul>
As teachers, we are powerless over many of the factors that lead kids to disengage or drop out. But there are things we can do. Not radical things-shifts in our practice that yield tremendous results. With The Just-Right Challenge, we can do our part to make our classes must-attends and every kid a stay-in. Because we do care. Preview the book. Download and read a sample chapter.

The Just-Right Challenge: 9 Strategies to Ensure Adolescents Don't Drop Out of the Game

Self-Help

Motivational

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