Robert E : 1478 books
The American Revolution in New Jersey
Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the...
by Gilbert E. “Bud” Schill, Jr., John W. “Mac” MacIlroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From ROCKET SCIENTISTS WE WERE NOT… and Other Stories:
“We were goofballs, and magnets for mischief. Pinheads, really. Boys who managed to screw up just about everything, everywhere: scouts, camp, school, dancing lessons, church, vacations, team sports, bowling, first dates, and summer...
by Brar Sukhdeep; Farley Sara E. ; Hawkins Robert; Wagner Caroline S.
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Science Technology and Innovation in Uganda is part of the World Bank Studies series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Banks ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.This study presents a unique methodology to view science technology and innovation (STI) in developing...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...
Acoustic Wave Sensors
Theory, Design and Physico-Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts from both industry and academia, Acoustic Wave Sensors provides an in-depth look at the current state of acoustic wave devices and the scope of their use in chemical, biochemical, and physical measurements, as well as in engineering applications. Because...
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic
Advancing New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through...
Long Green
The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, this book explores tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, and World...
The Daily Show and Rhetoric
Arguments, Issues, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
Fields Watered with Blood
Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
More, Better, Different
Getting What You Want Through a Proven Dynamic for Successful Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Leaders want to turn their ideas and intentions into results, but too many of them do what is comfortable and habitual. That would be fine if it werent for one big problem: those comfortable things too often fail. In this guidebook to tackling business problems, the authors draw on their decades of...
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however,...
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...