A C Smith: 90 books
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
by Stephen A. Benjamin, Caleb E. Finch, John C. Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research,...
by Wenn Lawson, Tracy Turner, Alex Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In an immensely varied and thoughtful collection of true life reflections on love, marriage and the single life, 26 authors with autism share their experiences and knowledge about successful (and unsuccessful) relationships. Digging deep into the many and varying ways in which autism affects feelings...
by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...
by Pamela A. Smith, Amy Maida Wadsworth, William McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.
Including a range of personal, academic and clinical...
Campaign Finance Reform
The Political Shell Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
Fantastic Creatures
Fellowship of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Here be dragons ... and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two. Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
Debating civilisations
Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars...
Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
With a focus on case studies of R&D programs in a variety of disease areas, the book highlights fundamental productivity issues the pharmaceutical industry has been facing and explores potential ways of improving research effectiveness and efficiency.
• Takes a comprehensive and holistic...