A Taylor: 184 books

Book cover of Sun, Sex, and Gold

Sun, Sex, and Gold

Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

by Jessica Tomiko Anders, Christel Antonius-Smits, Amalia L. Cabezas
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a...
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Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act

Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures

by Julia Anderson, Katrina Bloch, Patrice Buzzanell
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...
Book cover of Quoth the Raven
by Lyn Worthen, A.A. Azariah-Kribbs, Amber Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day. In...
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Wireless Communications

Algorithmic Techniques

by Desmond P. Taylor, Giulio Colavolpe, Fabrizio Pancaldi
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

This book introduces the theoretical elements at the basis of various classes of algorithms commonly employed in the physical layer (and, in part, in MAC layer) of wireless communications systems. It focuses on single user systems, so ignoring multiple access techniques. Moreover, emphasis is put...
Book cover of Anna's Bad Luck
by Taylor A. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017

Young teen, Anna Linemence, finds her world upside down after the discovery of a new society filled with gods, monsters, and power beyond belief. However, Anna isn't just part of this world, she is one of the four young main gods and goddesses who are the leaders of this society and have limitless...
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Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

by James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Daniel Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
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Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House

Wrestling with Faith and College

by Taylor Brorby, Mary Ellen Jebbia, Brandan J. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college. At...
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Cornbread Nation 7

The Best of Southern Food Writing

by Sara Camp Milam, Daniel Patterson, Susan Orlean
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
Book cover of Keywords for Southern Studies
by Erich Nunn, Keith Cartwright, Thomas Haddox
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the...
Book cover of Call to Arms: Modern LGBTQ+ fiction of the Second World War
by Michelle Peart, Eleanor Musgrove, Elin Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Seventeen stories, thirteen authors, a second war. Once again Manifold Press's writers explore the lives of LGBTQ+ people and their war-time experience in cities, towns and countryside across the world. Amidst war and peace, in the thick of violence or in an unexpected lull, these stories of...
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Growing Up Postmodern

Neoliberalism and the War on the Young

by Jennifer Drake, Henry A. Giroux, Margaret Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
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Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Melissa Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
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Messy Eating

Conversations on Animals as Food

by Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew R. Calarco
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
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