A A Jones: 317 books
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...
by Brandy Fox, Luda Jones, Pooja Pande
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Mothers might be exhausted, over-touched and under-appreciated, but they’re problem solvers who know how to get their “self-care” on. In If Mom’s Happy: Stories of Erotic Mothers, we hear from women waiting for their child’s arrival; mothers of infants, toddlers and teenagers; straight,...
by Grant Stone, I.K. Paterson-Harkness, Lee Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Writing on the theme of strange tales of Aotearoa New Zealand, seven Kiwi authors weave stories of people and creatures displaced in time and space, dangerous odysseys, and even more dangerous discoveries.
Praised as "six of the best" by renowned sci-fi writer Phillip Mann, these...
Contemporary Issues in Victimology
Identifying Patterns and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder...
American Progress
Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Maureen the Detective: The Age of Immigration (covering the year 1903), Maria Takes a Stand:...
Latinos in the New Millennium
An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed...
Education For Leadership
The International Administrative Staff Colleges 1948-1984
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
As well as being a history of administrative staff colleges in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, the Phillipines and Ghana between 1948 and 1984, the colleges' contribution to the development of effective managers is evaluated.
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...
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...
Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan
Communicative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The concept of “fandom” has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches explores the elements of the sports fan that have markedly changed since the turn of the...
Developing Highly Qualified Teachers
A Handbook for School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This handbook clearly explains the concept of "highly qualified teachers" as described by No Child Left Behind, and discusses how to recruit, develop, and retain such teachers.
Electrically Assisted Forming
Modeling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Maximizing reader insights into the latest research findings and applications of Electrically-Assisted Forming (EAF) – whereby metals are formed under an electric current field – this book explains how such a process produces immediate improved formability of metals beyond the extent of thermal...
The King's English and How to Write It (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Comprehensive Text-Book of Essay Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Style, grammar, punctuation, composition, and more are discussed in this excellent primer on mastering writing skills. In addition, the author stresses the importance of reading good literature—for both inspiration and information—and cultivating one’s reasoning skills and imagination in order to elegantly compose an essay, letter, or other forms of prose.