Carol Robert: 40 books
Pierre Bourdieu
Fieldwork in Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection...
Scotland and the First World War
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
by Robert E. Levinson, Zelda Luxenberg, Carol Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The loss of loved ones and the toll of aging is a natural part of the golden years. This beautifully told and memorable story shows us how to face loss with courage and how to face change with grace and intelligence. Acting with foresight and good judgment, the sunset of our lives can be a stage of...
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
Mitigating Inequality
Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Now more than ever, the issue of access to higher education for all is a matter of global importance. As colleges and universities worldwide increasingly extend their academic programs abroad, develop internationally mixed research teams and create international curricular initiatives, it is essential...
Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial...
by Robert Toryak, Carol Heiberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Philadelphia's new Zoning Code has been given the ExecuSpeak Dictionary treatment. Each term is described in plain English and then used in sentence. The goal is to accelerate learning and make it easier to use the code.
Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
Event Theory
A Piaget-freud Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Intimate Partner Violence
A Clinical Training Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2004
This training manual synthesizes the clinical and research literature on victims, offenders, and child witnesses, and uses the empirical evidence to provide generalist clinicians with manageable, concrete guidance for providing care in these cases. Each chapter begins with a summary of the issues...