Patricia A Smith: 14 books
by Patricia A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction!
"Recalls both Hellman's The Children's Hour and Lehane's Mystic River in a story about murder and false accusations."
--Bay Area Reporter
"A tense story about a small town swept up in bigotry and paranoia after the...
Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities
Transforming Public Housing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. It focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis,...
by Patricia V. Turner, Marina L. Brash, Dale A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Pathology of Small Mammal Pets presents a ready reference for veterinarians, veterinary pathologists, and technicians who work with small mammal companion animals.
Provides up-to-date, practical information on common disease conditions in small mammal companion animals
Offers chapters logically...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
by Cherritta Smith, Denise Anquenette, Patricia A Bridewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Single Mama dating! It doesn't get anymore complicated than that. How can you find love when you have a career and kids? Where can you find that love connection? Is he on-line, in church, standing in front of the grapefruit in the grocery store? In these hilarious and heart-warming stories, you'll...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
Helen Matthews Lewis
Living Social Justice in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Often referred to as the leader of inspiration in Appalachian studies, Helen Matthews Lewis linked scholarship with activism and encouraged deeper analysis of the region. Lewis shaped the field of Appalachian studies by emphasizing community participation and challenging traditional perceptions of...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
by Anita Allen, Drucilla Cornell, Ann Cudd
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Over the past thirty years, western political philosophy has been enriched by a renewed interest in liberalism, and by the development of feminism. Although liberalism is one of the important historical roots of feminism, many contemporary feminist political philosophers reject liberal political theory....
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
by Arnetha F. Ball, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...
There is a Gunman on Campus
Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades...
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...