Nicole M: 95 books
Luminous Ink
Writers on Writing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...
The Over-Scheduled Child
Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Do you find yourself asking "Whose life is it anyway?" Parenting today has come to resemble a relentless to-do list. Even parents with the best intentions strive to micro-manage every detail of their kids' lives and live in constant fear that their child will under-perform in any area--academic,...
Qualitative Research
Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Focused on developing the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological knowledge needed to engage in rigorous and valid research, this introductory text provides practical explanations, exercises, and advice for how to conduct qualitative research—from design through implementation, analysis, and...
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....
by Cori Vidae, Alexa Piper, Erzabet Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Demons, Imps, Incubi: dark, powerful, and forbidden. Only the foolish would seek one out for seduction, and yet . . . deals are struck. Souls are ensnared.
But must a demon's agenda always be demonic? Can he be redeemed? Or does being bad feel too good to bother with redemption? Long ago, imps...
An Unexpected Journal: Courage, Strength, & Hope
Volume 1, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Where would a culture be without its heroes and their acts of courage? How can a society survive without strength and hope?
It is in the dark times and in moments of weakness that stories of courage and strength, those which promise hope, have the most value. This issue explores the redemptive...
Hyper-Parenting
Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too hard?
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
As parents, we have somehow come to believe that perfection is within our grasp. But our overeager pursuit of perfection is harming our children and our family lives. Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise explore the causes of and solutions to this damaging phenomenon in their timely and intelligent book, Hyper-Parenting.
by Selena Haskins, Adrienne Thompson, T.M. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Just Between US there is a determination to reminisce and reveal all that once crippled our lives. You are invited to share in this short story collection of TM Brown, Tamika Christy, Nicole Dunlap, Selena Haskins, Janice Ross and Adrienne Thompson. These stories are all real, no work of fiction can...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;
Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;
Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
The Psychology of Marriage
An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their insights into adult romantic...
by Jean Mabire, Jean-Michel Angebert, Marie-Claire Bernage
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Le village de Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, où le roi de France Charles le Simple reconnut en 911 l’autorité du chef viking Rolf le Marcheur sur le territoire qui devait devenir la Normandie, n’est guère à plus d’une heure d’auto de Paris. Et pourtant au-delà des frontières de la Normandie,...
by M. Stratton, Danielle Allen, Dylan Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
We the peopleWill not be silencedOur voices are important.We the people Will not be pushed asideWe will be seenOur numbers are more than you know.We the peopleWill make a difference We will hold the government accountable Our empathy is not a weakness.In these turbulent times we the people will stand...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...