Michael McDowell

Empower students to become creative, well-rounded citizens who are prepared to meet and overcome real-world challenges. With Teaching for Transfer, you'll discover a road map for reconfiguring K-12 classroom instruction to ensure learners can expertly apply their knowledge and skills to new contexts. The resource includes ample practices and protocols you can begin using today to cultivate essential transfer-level skills in students. Use this resource...

In this unique romance series debut, two timeless young lovers find each other amid the madcap antics of the silent film industry. Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love. In 1913, the world is thrilling to that fabulous...

The Project Habit provides small doable shifts for busy teachers looking to enhance and innovate their practices. It aims to ensure students develop substantial growth in establishing agency in their own learning, developing rigorous academic content knowledge, and contributing that knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems. The book offers easy-to-implement practices in inquiry-based learning that any teacher can pick and be assured that...

"Fiction that satisfies as much at the story level as it does at the idea level"-Orson Scott Card The survivors of the next great war live in isolated farming communities, disdaining technological innovations and creating a deadly mythology around the use of science. People considered to be pursuing the old, evil art of science are burned at the stake because it has become like the witchcraft of old. Yet, there are people who defy the odds and...

One hundred and fifty years have passed since Allen Chandliss discovered an "alien" signal. Earth is once again looking to the stars and the Unified Space Survey is busy exploring as well as establishing contact with lost human colonies. Merritt Thackery has dreamed of joining the Survey since childhood and prepared himself well for when the call comes. But when he is called to service, will he be ready for his final mission...to go farther than anyone...

A “thought-provoking, suspenseful” political sci-fi thriller from the authors of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis (Library Journal).
 
In the near future, a team of scientists who intend to create an anti-gravity device inadvertently develop something far more powerful—a mechanism that can render guns and bombs virtually harmless. Their creation, “The...

In a sleepy southern town, the Larkin family suffers a terrible tragedy. Now the Larkin's are about to endure another: Traffic lights blink an eerie warning, a ghostly visage prowls in the streets, and graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. . . And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form to seek a terrible vengeance.