Angela M Smith: 14 books
by Angela M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The ‘Dear Daddy’ Anthology Project was conceived when the author’s father passed away in 2006. Even though her father lived in the home, she realized that she never knew him like other’s knew him. Knowing that it is too late to develop a father-daughter relationship, she pens her letter recalling...
The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion
Symbols, Sinners, and Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil...
by Jeffrey M. Warren, PhD, Angela Carmella Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
This third edition of the best-selling nurse educator’s handbook on using online teaching tools and assessing their results keeps pace with the rapid-fire progression in digital learning that has occurred since the second edition was published in 2008. Completely revised and updated, this edition...
Developing Online Learning in the Helping Professions
Online, Blended, and Hybrid Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This hands-on guide addresses the unique challenges of educators in the helping professions who have minimal or no experience with online technologies. Written for online instructors, clinical faculty, program directors, administrators, and other educators, it describes practical and effective ways...
by Fiction River, John Helfers, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and...
by Fiction River, Felicia Fredlund, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
History offers many heroic tales of final battles. And in Last Stand, sixteen courageous authors offer their take on the topic. From a heartwarming tale of not-so-friendly business competition to a battle of the gods—sort of—for the fate of the world to a tale of looking for love in all the wrong...
by Fiction River, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
Wings of Change
Stories about Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble.
Wings of Change gathers tales of young dragons growing into their scales and claws,...
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Family Dialogue Journals
School–Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This honest, clearly written, and accessible book shows how to use Family Dialogue Journals (FDJs) to increase and deepen learning across grade levels. Written by K–12 teachers who have been implementing and studying the use of weekly journals for several years, it shares what they have learned...