A A Jones: 317 books
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,...
by Day Al-Mohamed, S.A. Cosby, Ronald T. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Take an amazing ride with eight authors as they add a funky twist to the Dieselpunk genre. The Dieselfunk! anthology fills a void common in most speculative fiction genres, providing a much needed voice from an African/African Diaspora perspective. Dieselpunk just got funky!
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
by Dr Edward C. Rojas, Dr Hans J. L. Jørgensen, Dr Birgit Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Diseases remain a serious problem in wheat and barley cultivation. It has been estimated that around 20% of global crop production is lost to diseases. Leading fungal diseases affecting wheat and barley include rusts, Septoria blotches, powdery mildew, tan spot, spot blotch, net blotch, scald and...
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia
A Cultured Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse backgrounds in the United States and beyond...
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written,"...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Frank J. Fabozzi, Frank J. Jones, Francesco A. Fabozzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook for graduate students in finance now provides expanded coverage of global financial...
Understanding Digital Literacies
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literacies provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic and social impact of a host of new digital literacy practices....
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
CARR Yearbook 2018/2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
The IEP Checklist
Your Guide to Creating Meaningful and Compliant IEPs
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
How can you design effective IEPs that improve student outcomes and meet legal requirements? This one-stop IEP guide has the answers your team needs to create great IEPs and put them into action. You’ll start with a solid introduction to IEPs: their purpose, their major components, and the...