Timothy R : 124 books
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...
Media Disparity
A Gender Battleground
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the...
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.
Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...
Pathways of Power
The Dynamics of National Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much...
by Kelly Stone Gamble, Brenda Vicars, Kate Birdsall
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Wonder
This holiday season, twenty talented, award-winning, and bestselling authors have crafted never before released Yuletide-themed tales about their most beloved characters.
Magic
From murder to magic, love to loss, the past and the future, this multi-genre collection of poems...
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
by R. B. Thurston, Timothy Williston, A.C. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
A benevolent individual, who has numerous friends and acquaintances both North and South, and who has had peculiar opportunities for learning the state and condition of all sections of the nation, perceiving the danger of our national Institutions, and deeply impressed with a sense of the importance,...
Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World
Filiations Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies...
by Teresa Hastings, Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Emilio Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Parkinson's Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. In order to find neuroprotective strategies, a clear understanding of the mechanisms involved in the dopaminergic death of cells that progresses the disease is needed. Oxidative stress...
Discovering the Deep
A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The deep oceans and global seafloor are truly Earth's last frontier. They remain largely unexplored, yet are critical to our survival on this planet. This magnificent, full-color volume transports you to bizarre landscapes hosting exotic life forms that rival the most imaginative science fiction....
by Edward T Ryan, David R Hill, MD DTM&H FRCP FFTM FASTM
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor settings, new vaccine schedules … all significant, recent developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine. Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, keeps you up to date with everything...
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal...