Karen Jones: 44 books
Best Practice with Older People
Social Work Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice.
Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories...
Better than Fiction 2
True adventures from 30 great fiction writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher,Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler.
Varied in place,...
by Karen Henson Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This book is a flashlight for people in the dark.
Karen Henson Jones was on the conventional path to success in the corporate world when a sudden cardiac event at the age of 30 took her to the brink of death. During an otherworldly experience, she was presented with a choice to leave her body...
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
Taking the Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...
Au cœur des miracles
Mon retour à la vie après une expérience de mort imminente
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Karen Henson Jones était sur le chemin convenu de la réussite dans le monde des affaires, lorsqu’un soudain problème cardiaque à l’âge de 30 ans l’a projetée au seuil de la mort. Durant une expérience hors du commun, elle a dû faire un choix entre quitter son corps ou revenir sur Terre....
Leaders in Computing
Changing the digital world
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
This collection of exclusive interviews provides a fascinating insight into the thoughts and ideas of influential figures from the world of IT and computing, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales, Grady Booch, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf, Karen Spärck Jones and Dame...
Capturing the Crown Bundle
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The murder of Crown Prince Reginald, heir to the throne of Silvershire, sets off a torrent of violence and intrigue that threatens to tear the lovely little kingdom apart. Struggling to unearth answers and bring peace to the beleaguered realm, the investigators of the Lazlo Group must protect the...
Designing Effective Assessment
Principles and Profiles of Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and...
Globalization and Education
Integration and Contestation across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as “globalization” is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural,...
Epiphany in the Wilderness
Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier...
Ghostly Writes Anthology 2017
Plaisted Publishing House Presents, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
ENTER IF YOU DARE. A new Ghostly Writes Anthology for 2017, gives you sixteen authors from around the world with ghostly stories and poems for you to read. Each short story will take you to a new place, be it the future, present or past.
Plaisted Publishing House is happy to present this...
by Karen Akins, Donna Alward, DD Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
We romance authors love our readers, and this humble holiday cookbook--in which we share a few stories and recipes we genuinely use during the holidays--is a small, heartfelt token of our tremendous appreciation for you. Thank you from the bottom of our collective heart for loving romance. Thank you...
The Difference a Day Makes
365 Ways to Change Your World in Just 24 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
If your compassionate instincts are greater than the time or energy you can spare, The Difference a Day Makes is all you need to turn your good intentions into powerful action. Flip this book open to any page and discover simple yet meaningful things you can do — in a few minutes or hours — to become an “everyday altruist” and improve your world.
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...