J Ward: 279 books
First-Generation College Students
Understanding and Improving the Experience from Recruitment to Commencement
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
"…a concise, manageable, lucid summary of the best scholarship, practices, and future-oriented thinking about how to effectively recruit, educate, develop, retain, and ultimately graduate first-generation students."
—from the foreword by JOHN...
Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election
How Various Populations Make Sense of an Unexpected Victory
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for diverse populations. The narratives are designed to help students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, parents of internationally adopted children, white nationalists, etc. understand the meaning and...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
Structured Development for Real-Time Systems, Vol. II
Essential Modeling Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1986
Without a framework for organizing and codifying these ideas, systems modeling can become disjointed, frustrating, and ultimately ineffective. This book is extensively illustrated with detailed examples illuminating the main points discussed. Its four appendices provide fully worked examples of pertinent applications.
The Search for Form
Studies in the Structure of James's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume is a study of the structure of certain of James's works, as well as a search for the structural principles that inform James's fiction and lie behind the technical dicta of his essays and prefaces. It also develops the thesis that most of James's structures are determined by logical and...
by J. M. S. Ward, W. G. Stirling
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Philip I. Aaronson, Jeremy P. T. Ward, Michelle J. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This concise and accessible text provides an integrated overview of the cardiovascular system - considering the basic sciences which underpin the system and applying this knowledge to clinical practice and therapeutics. A general introduction to the cardiovascular system is followed by chapters on...
The Chief Justice
Appointment and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice’s appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American...
by Rick D. Saucier, Michael J. Messina, Lori L. Lohman
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
Die Auserwählte
Black Dagger 29 - Roman
Language: German
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Sie sind füreinander bestimmt und dürfen dennoch nie zusammen sein: die schöne Auserwählte Layla und der Verräter Xcor. Während Xcor sich der Strafe der Bruderschaft stellt, will Layla um ihr Glück – und sein Leben – kämpfen. Denn sie kennt die Wahrheit, die Xcor retten könnte. Doch das...
Der Verstoßene
Black Dagger 30 - Roman
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Die Liebe zwischen der Auserwählten Layla und dem Verräter Xcor droht die Bruderschaft der Black Dagger zu spalten. Doch selbst wenn es einen Weg für die beiden geben könnte – der Preis dafür ist zu hoch. Denn als ein uralter und gefährlicher Feind nach Caldwell zurückkehrt und ein neuer...