"Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for middle and high school ELA and social studies teachers. Topics covered include: Creating a rigorous environment High ex ..."
The Language of Light and Dark Light and Place in Australian Photography by MelissaMiles Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 2015 by Mcgill-Queen's University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-4550-2, ISBN: 0-7735-4550-6
"Light features prominently in the work of Australia's artists, writers, and photographers. Myths of a distinctly Australian light have shaped national identity and belonging, and the notion that photography is a language of light has particular significance for the country's photographic works. The Language of Light and Dark recounts this history of light as a medium and a metaphor from 1901 to the present. In this lucid, beautifully ..."
Go Forward with Courage by MelissaMiles Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 2015 by MelissaMiles ISBN-13: 978-0-9912117-2-2, ISBN: 0-9912117-2-3
"As America is thrust into war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, two young Americans find their lives instantly and dramatically changed. Jackson becomes a first hand witness to the dawning of the war on a Sunday morning in Hawaii which begins like any other. For Michi and her family, the war begins in California, at their family grocery store. Through no choice of their own, both teens find themselves relocated to a rural corner of the ..."
"From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photography s association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in these rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and cons ..."
Burning Prospects A Novel Based on a True Story (Hardback) by MelissaMiles Hardcover, 362 Pages, Published 2014 by MelissaMiles, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-9912117-1-5, ISBN: 0-9912117-1-5
"Based on the events at Prospect Hill from just before Captain Ross' death until the aftermath of the fire, Burning Prospects will bring this unique piece of history to life."
"Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for elementary ELA and social studies teachers. Topics covered include: Creating a rigorous environment High expectations S ..."
Joy, Interrupted(1st Edition) An Anthology on Motherhood and Loss by Dr. MelissaMiles Mccarter Paperback, 197 Pages, Published 2013 by Fat Daddy's Farm ISBN-13: 978-0-9852356-0-4, ISBN: 0-9852356-0-8
"“I got this!”—I am really comfortable and feel we can move on. Base (Need some
help to get started) Climbing the Mountain (I'm making progress) At the Top (I've
learned this and am ready to move on to something else) Red (I'm stuck where I ..."
Pacific Exposures Photography and the Australia–Japan Relationship by MelissaMiles, Robin Gerster 251 Pages, Published 2018 by Anu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-76046-255-0, ISBN: 1-76046-255-1
"Photography and the Australia–Japan Relationship Melissa Miles, Robin Gerster
... have used photography to express their responses to Japan, and more broadly
their place in the Asia-Pacific region, has ... 3 (2006): 239–63; Luke Gartlan, A
Career of Japan: Baron Raimund Von Stillfried and Early Yokohama
Photography ..."
Burning Prospects Based on a True Story by MelissaMiles Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2014 by MelissaMiles ISBN-13: 978-0-9912117-0-8, ISBN: 0-9912117-0-7
"Revolutionary War Captain Isaac Ross built a fortune in the fertile cotton growing region of Jefferson County, Mississippi on his plantation Prospect Hill. Towards the end of his life, he came to realize that he owed much of his prosperity to his large holding of slaves and wanted to reward them for their efforts. With this in mind, he made the decision to free his slaves in his will; with the stipulation that the American Colonization ..."
"Jeremiah Justice is like every other kid, except for the tracheostomy tube in his neck that helps him breathe. At least, that's what he thinks, until the day he discovers his superpower--the ability to shoot a tornado blast from his tracheostomy! Jeremiah Justice names his power "Super Tornado Blaster", and practices using it in his home and neighborhood. Will he be able to summon up the courage and control the Super Tornado Blaster to ..."
"Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities into your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for elementary ELA and social studies teachers. Topics covered include: Creating a rigorous environment High expectations ..."
The Burning Mirror Photography in an Ambivalent Light by MelissaMiles Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2008 by Australian Scholarly Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-74097-196-6, ISBN: 1-74097-196-5
"This is a new, multifaceted mode of photographic critique."
""--Explores the dynamic spatial properties of sculpture in relation to both environmental context and the contingent experience of the viewer--" -- publisher's website."
"In particular, the forging of a historical narrative out of multiple experiential,
subjective, forensic and objective truths in the TRC begs the question: ... with
reference to Jillian Edelstein's photobook Truth and Lies: Stories from the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (2002) and ... The resultant book,
Truth and Lies, includes a series of portraits of figures connected to the TRC,
landscapes, ..."
"Adrian Stimson's Aggressive Assimilation (2013) and Inhumation (2008) point to
some valuable strategies for decolonizing time in photography and history.
Aggressive Assimilation (Fig. 4.7) addresses the intergenerational impact of the
IRS."
"Light features prominently in the work of Australia's artists, writers, and photographers."
The Burning Mirror Photography in an Ambivalent Light by MelissaMiles Paperback, Published 2009 by Australian Scholarly Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7409-7196-9, ISBN: 0-7409-7196-4