B Taylor: 108 books
Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
Six Characteristics of High Performance Teams
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the Hanoi Hilton” so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere. The authors offer examples...
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73 (June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73 (June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they're from or what they look like.
The...
Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities
Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Cognitive and Intellectual Disabilities: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions provides thorough coverage of the causes and characteristics of cognitive and intellectual disabilities (formerly known as mental retardation) as well as detailed discussions of the validated...
The British New Wave
A certain tendency?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films.
Theatre and Cartographies of Power
Repositioning the Latina/o Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...
by Sacchi Green, Pascall Scott, Victoria Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
More than six hundred women-most likely many more-passed as men to fight in the American Civil War, and that's not counting the nurses and spies. In WWI women served as nurses and ambulance drivers, and in Russia Maria Boskareva's Women's Battalion of Death was not the only group of female fighters....
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
by Lynne P. Taylor, Alyx B. Porter Umphrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Providing readily accessible information and real-world encouragement to people living with primary and metastatic brain tumors, this book discusses the basics of brain tumors, types of tumors, management of different tumors, related symptoms, treatments and side effects, the role of medical team...
Using Qualitative Research in Advertising
Strategies, Techniques, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This Second Edition remains the only book to discuss both theory and application of qualitative research techniques to inspire great advertising and build strong brands. Using a step-by-step approach created for students considering advertising careers and for those currently working in the advertising...
by Daniel Hollifield, Mark Edgemon, Larissa March
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
More than 70 very short stories in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror! Why are 18 million spoons disappearing from Melbourne, Australia each year? How good is the magic of a discount wizard? What if superheroes were afraid to use their powers? These and other flash fiction challenges were put to...
by Cherritta Smith, Denise Anquenette, Patricia A Bridewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Single Mama dating! It doesn't get anymore complicated than that. How can you find love when you have a career and kids? Where can you find that love connection? Is he on-line, in church, standing in front of the grapefruit in the grocery store? In these hilarious and heart-warming stories, you'll...
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,...