A Kay: 42 books
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
by Jay Howard, Angelica Pangan, Annie Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
A new collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction from the talented members of Words and Water Group. This international group was formed in 2013 to encourage donations to WaterAid. In 2014 there are contributions from many of the original members, and new members have joined. In this very...
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 Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academy explores how this diversification has...
by Mark A. Suckow, Kay Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Principles of Animal Research is the first publication to offer a broad look at animal research science for a student, early researcher, or technician. Offering guidance for all aspects of the research experience, including the research and development of a thesis, model selection, experimental design,...
by Jay Howard, Dax Christopher, Jason Parent
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Published in support of WaterAid, this delightful selection of short stories and poems has a cohesive theme of water. Donated by an international group of top class authors, there are many styles of writing which will each, in its own way, entertain you. Song lyrics and a poem were donated by renowned...
Ofrenda
Liliana Wilson's Art of Dissidence and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice.
Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled...
by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Paul Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1995
Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court—acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the Constitution...
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...
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization
Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries.
This...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Planning Health Promotion Programs
An Intervention Mapping Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The Intervention Mapping bible, updated with new theory, trends, and cases
Planning Health Promotion Programs is the "bible" of the field, guiding students and practitioners through the planning process from a highly practical perspective. Using an original framework called Intervention...
by Laurent Borgmann, Anne Burke, João M. S. Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
As a result of the industrialization, urbanization, and population increase during the last two centuries, the global landscape has been irreversibly damaged. These anthropological pressures have create endless problems on the global level, and individuals and organizations are beginning to realize...
Clovis Mammoth Butchery
The Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Thirteen millennia ago, in a small creek valley in western South Dakota, two mammoths perished. The mammoths, an adult and a juvenile, likely a cow and calf pair, died at the edge of an ancient pond.
The Lange/Ferguson site is the earliest dated archaeological site in South Dakota and one of...