J Smith: 831 books
by Andrew F. Herrmann, Art Herbig, Tony E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...
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...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Authentic Movement
Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
Cuba's Forgotten Decade
How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists...
Leading Millennial Faculty
Navigating the New Professoriate
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Leading Millennial Faculty: Navigating the New Professoriate explores how to effectively lead millennial faculty as they navigate the new professoriate. Contributors address some stereotypical millennial characteristics—being achievement oriented, connected to the world at large, relatively sheltered,...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
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...
Educating Latino Students
A Guide to Successful Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2002
Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful...
Automotive Engineering
Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field.
An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
by Dr Mette Vaarst, Dr Stephen Roderick, Dr Susanne Padel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Organic animal farming is growing rapidly but faces a range of challenges in areas such as nutrition, health and welfare. This volume surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges. The book start with a review of organic principles and the key question of the right breeds for organic...