A Wood: 80 books
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
by Katherine Elaine Bliss, Sarah A. Buck, Stephanie E. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing...
by Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood, U. A. Fanthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Parents includes poems about the writers' mothers, fathers, or both – their lives and their attitudes. Some of the poems celebrate good relationships, others explore complex or damaging ones. There are poems about parents ageing and some about the reactions to their deaths. More specifically, a...
Challenges of Living
A Multidimensional Working Model for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
This timely text draws on interdisciplinary theory and research to examine the multidimensional risk and protective factors for eight challenges of living frequently encountered by social workers. The authors provide a working model for social workers to integrate the most up-to-date evidence about...
by J. Ridley, J.M. Ferry, B.W.D. Yardley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The fifth volume in this series is focused on the chemical and physical interactions between rocks undergoing metamorphism and the fluids that they generate and that pass through them. The recognition that such pro cesses can profoundly affect the course of metamorphism has resulted in a number...
by Catalina Pérez, Juan Echeverri, Germán Palacio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
n el primer semestre de 2010, la sede- Amazonia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia realizó la Cátedra de Sede Jorge Eliécer Gaitán titulada ?Amazonia colombiana. Imaginarios y realidades ". El presente libro reúne las memorias de la Cátedra en la cual participaron investigadores colombianos...
by Harriet Harvey Wood, A S Byatt
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields...
Sunvault
Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk envisions a future...
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...
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers...
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
by D. W. Robertson, Edmund Reiss, David Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...