R A James: 171 books
The African American Child
Development and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable foundation for further investigations....
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
Flight Theory and Aerodynamics
A Practical Guide for Operational Safety
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The pilot's guide to aeronautics and the complex forces of flight
Flight Theory and Aerodynamics is the essential pilot's guide to the physics of flight, designed specifically for those with limited engineering experience. From the basics of forces and vectors to craft-specific applications,...
by James R. Finley, Bret A. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Features assignments and exercises to meet the changing needsof mental health professionals
The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This easy-to-use...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet
Creepies, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:
Prepare for terror…
- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…
- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…
- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…
- A man...
Landpower in the Long War
Projecting Force After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation,...
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
A controversy of major proportions has spread through the church. Recent generations bear witness to the rise of "evangelical feminism"-a movement that has had a profound impact on all of life, challenging some of our basic Christian beliefs.
In this new edition of an influential and award-winning...
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
The African American Child, Second Edition
Development and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Praise for the First Edition:
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable...
NATO
From Regional to Global Security Provider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance’s new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact – associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Necessary Travel
New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new...