Kelly Olson: 4 books

Book cover of Dress and the Roman Woman

Dress and the Roman Woman

Self-Presentation and Society

by Kelly Olson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines...
Book cover of Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity
by Kelly Olson
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017

In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This...
Book cover of High Literacy in Secondary English Language Arts

High Literacy in Secondary English Language Arts

Bridging the Gap to College and Career

by Janet Ives Angelis, Huy Q. Chung, Laura Dacus
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote...
Book cover of Justice Under Pressure

Justice Under Pressure

A Comparison of Recidivism Patterns Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts

by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, H.-J. Joo, J. Olbrich
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year survival rates among parolees released between 1984 and...
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