John C Smith: 50 books

Book cover of Light on the Path

Light on the Path

The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians

by Adam King, Jerald T. Milanich, Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009

A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.   The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
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Christian Physicalism?

Philosophical Theological Criticisms

by Thomas Atkinson, John W. Cooper, Marc Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Book cover of Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

by Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Mary Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
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Connecting Teaching and Learning

History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology

by Ronald A. Beghetto, Karen S. Buchanan, Barbara Chesler Buckner
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...
Book cover of The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion

The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion

Symbols, Sinners, and Saints

by David Domke, Jason A. Edwards, Theon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil...
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Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward

by Alexander Alex, C. John Harris, Dennis A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015

With a focus on case studies of R&D programs in a variety of disease areas, the book highlights fundamental productivity issues the pharmaceutical industry has been facing and explores potential ways of improving research effectiveness and efficiency. • Takes a comprehensive and holistic...
Book cover of Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence

by Petra Banks, Eric J. Bartelink, Derek A. Boyd
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...
Book cover of Public Modalities
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
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