Crocker: 172 books
Chautauqua Institution
1874-1974
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2001
The Chautauqua Institution, located on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, is both a cloistered community and a world-renowned educational establishment. Founded in 1874 as a summer camp for Methodist Sunday school teachers, Chautauqua is synonymous with the ideas of spiritual growth, educational...
by Kathleen Crocker, Jane Currie
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
The period from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s is fondly remembered as the heyday of the Chautauqua Lake region in southwestern New York State. It was a wondrous era, when railroads, steamboats, and trolleys transported local residents as well as wealthy and socially prominent families from Buffalo,...
by Robert Gerrish, Sam Leader, Peter Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
From the founders of Flying Solo, Australia's micro business community, comes the book that started it all, fully updated for a new wave of modern business owners. Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 2005, Flying Solo: How to go it alone in business is the bestselling guide to breaking out...
Transforming Memories
Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded Words
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
From different families and different childhoods, three women remember and speak out about the secrecy, silence, and shame of having an alcoholic parent. Through spontaneous writing with "loaded words" and person-to-person sharing, the women embarked on a transformative journey in which...
To the Anxious Hearts
A Personal Letter to Empower the Fearful Believer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Have you ever feared death? Have you ever found yourself awake at night, thinking over every worst-case scenario for your situation? Have you cried out to God, Will I be in this season forever? Fear is a crippling effect of this fallen world, but God did not design you to carry its weight. When your...
Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three
National and Subnational Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Since the return of democracy to Latin America, policies intended to promote the inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups have been increasingly adopted throughout the region. Gender quotas have been one of the most popular and effective mechanisms employed in elections and other contexts...
by J. Crocker, P. DalCin, R.A. Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus. This book draws together a series of techniques which have been successfully...
Noise and Noise Control
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book is written more for the practitioner than the casual reader. Although a high mathematical level is not needed, for much of the material some engineering knowledge is desirable. Noise control is not easy and there are no magic answers to problems. Careful study and patience are required to produce proficiency in the field of noise control.
International Negotiation and Mediation in Violent Conflict
The Changing Context of Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This collection of essays situates the study and practice of international mediation and peaceful settlement of disputes within a changing global context.
The book is organized around issues of concern to practitioners, including the broader regional, global, and institutional context of mediation...
The Peckham Experiment
A study of the living structure of society
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...
Noise and Noise Control
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This book is written more for the practitioner than the casual reader. Although a high mathematical level is not needed, for much of the material some engineering knowledge is desirable. Noise control is not easy and there are no magic answers to problems. Careful study and patience are required to produce proficiency in the field of noise control.
Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret...
Computational Psycholinguistics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language investigates the architecture and mechanisms which underlie the human capacity to process language. It is the first such study to integrate modern syntactic theory, cross-linguistic psychological evidence, and...