A James: 1347 books
Getting to Excellence
What Every Educator Should Know About Consequences of Beliefs, Values, Attitudes, and Paradigms for the Reconstruction of an Academically Unacceptable Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This book is about a journey with the Center for Strategic Alliances in Education for School and District Improvement with stakeholders in a school targeted for school improvement. The first chapter puts into context the notion of school, its purpose and the incumbent variables of values, attitudes,...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but...
Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality
The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The civil rights movement of the 1960s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are...
by James A. Bultema
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
For 162 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are todays LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
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...
by Dr. Craig A. Evans, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
by James A. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwriter was working as a pool boy and driver for the producer; the director was considered an “acid freak” by the studio heads; the star was a 74-year-old actress who didn’t know how to drive a car. The film...
Summers with Lincoln
Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory...
The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD
Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Although many people who have survived trauma, abuse, and violent situations understand on a logical level that the traumatic events they experienced were not their fault, shame may still underlie their feelings and fuel post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related psychological...
by James A. Misko
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In his novel The Cut of Pride, Jim Misko does something that is rare in modern literature: he writes about hard, brutal, unpleasant physical labor. And he does so with such vivid detail that the labor itself becomes one of the story’s major entities. His cast of complex, dysfunctional characters—owners...
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant...
Space, Place, and Violence
Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight. Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically...
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
After September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush put together a "Coalition of the Willing." From the very beginning this coalition included the Philippines, a willing participant in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the larger War on Terror. This timely and...