Laura Jones: 29 books
Teaching with Joy
Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
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...
Negotiating Disability
Disclosure and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Stage Mothers
Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history,...
Relationship-Based Research in Social Work
Understanding Practice Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice.
Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an...
A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority
Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under...
by Laura Thibodeau Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Julia Arthur Cheney, born Ida Lewis in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on May 3, 1869. The fifth of sixteen children, young Ida studied Shakespeare at home under her mothers guidance. By the age of eleven, Julia found herself leaving the comforts of her home traveling and performing all over the country...
Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14
The Whoosh Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic...
The Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...
Brokerage and Production in the American and French Entertainment Industries
Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Agents and other talent brokers, studio executives, independent producers, casting directors, and film offices—all...
Earth Wars
The Dinzwat Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
There are invisible wars going on behind the scenes on planet Earth, and the inept and unproven angel Dinzwat must answer an unwanted assignment to go and observe what is happening there. In a saga of good and evil, this unlikely angel discovers a mysterious and frightful interaction between the earthlings...
The Essential Charles Dickens School Resource
Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Classic Texts Ages 7-14
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Charles Dickens is arguably the greatest storyteller in English Literature and his novels have been loved and respected for nearly two hundred years. As accurate reflections of Victorian society they are unparalleled. Vivid characters and realistic settings are created in the mind of the reader, all laced with Dickens inimitable humour, wit and lac