David Oliver: 37 books
by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, John Bull
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
How to Create Kind Schools
12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.
From a gay role model to a...
by Charles R. Oliver, Erik Schubach, O.C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
There’s nothing to fear…
This anthology features paranormal stories by the award-winning authors of the Spokane Fiction Writer’s Group.
Erik Schubach
O.C. Calhoun
L.P. Masters
Lorna M. Hartman
David Jewett
Jerry Schellhammer
Patti L. Dikes
Charles R. Oliver
and R.N. Vick
As you...
Girls, Gender and Physical Education
An Activist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical...
Wahltag
Neunzehn demokratische Geschichten
Language: German
Release Date: July 27, 2018
"Was ist denn eine Wahlbescheinigung? Um ehrlich zu sein, wir sind nicht von hier." Alljährlich veranstaltet das Schreibzentrum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum das Blockseminar "Den Fuß in die Tür" von und mit Oliver Uschmann. Der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller und Journalist gestaltet...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
Hollywood and the CIA
Cinema, Defense and Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy.
As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA...
Holy Ground
Cathedrals in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Cathedrals today face a paradox: on the one hand they represent one of the biggest success stories and mission opportunities of the present-day church; on the other they face seemingly insurmountable financial difficulties, and are largely left by the church and government to fend for themselves.
Many—both...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...
The Causes of Structural Unemployment
Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a...
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.
Violence
Humans in Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world.
The market for this book includes...
by Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization....