Dana: 1371 books
by Dana Priest
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace.
Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to hunt down terrorists are assigned to seduce...
Landscapes of Power
Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic...
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these...
Multicultural Assessment
Principles, Applications, and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Psychologists throughout the world are being asked to assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Most are ill-equipped by training and experience...
Youth Violence
Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Violence by and against youth continues to be one of the most challenging subjects facing criminologists. In this comprehensive and integrated analysis of the interrelationships of youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor and...
by Dana Andrew Nuccitelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Although some politicians, pundits, and members of the public do not believe it, global warming predictions by mainstream climate scientists have been remarkably accurate while those made by climate deniers have not. And if mainstream global warming predictions continue to prove correct, the window...
Unfinished Business
Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and...
Screw Chocolate 2
14(+2) Queer Valentines to Get You Through February 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Roses, cupid’s arrows, chocolate—chocolate? Screw chocolate! Queer up Valentine’s Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love.
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by Dana Aaron Mather
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
A man abandons his job and failing marriage to chase prostitutes in Thailand. The same night he arrives in Bangkok, however, terrorist bombs rock the red light district and his plans begin to go awry.
The Work of Psychoanalysis
Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis and transformation, are the major themes discussed in The Work of Psychoanalysis, and address the fundamental...
Teaching English Language Learners
Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the...
by Shirley Avin Jowers, Zachary Diaz, Dana Carlsten
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Illustrations by Zachary Diaz & Dana Carlsten. The stories in this book chronicle a journey of discovery for a little dog and her owner as they watch God’s miracles in the birds and animals that pass by a seemingly magical window in their log cabin home deep in the forest. This book is filled with...
Myself Help
A Psychotherapist’S Journey Toward Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Are you suffering the loss of a loved one? Feeling terribly isolated and shameful about your secret grief?
Do you believe you should be over it?
Are you considering seeing a therapist but believe you must be crazy to enter psychotherapy? Are you afraid to let a therapist know its been...
At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women...