D Gibson: 27 books
Who You Were Meant to Be
A Guide to Finding or Recovering Your Life's Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Are you happy with your life? Are you where you want to be? Are you doing what you want to do? What holds you back: your family, work, your relationships, yourself?
This inspiring book touches a chord which is universal: the desire to find one's purpose and fulfill it. It aims to help us understand...
by Arnetha F. Ball, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
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...
Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, Volume 5
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
What's it like to live in a world where humor is banned or to work on a deep-space lighthouse?
If you're lucky, you might even discover how to escape the Yawning Men!
Curl up in your favorite rocket ship and set your coordinates for adventure in Volume Five of the Young Explorer's Adventure...
by Robert D. Schneider, Darril Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
If you’re in charge of database administration, developing database software, or looking for database solutions for your company, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies can help you get a handle on this extremely popular relational database management system. Here you’ll...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...
2018 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Girls, Boys, Robots - Everyone is Welcome here!
This stellar collection will appeal to both teens and grown-ups who dream of future worlds. ~Kirkus Starred Review
What’s it like to be a space station detective? To be homesick for Mars? What do you say when your robot
gets you in...
Building a Culture of Hope
Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity (School Improvement Strategies for Overcoming Student Poverty and Adversity)
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope! The authors draw from their own experiences working with high-poverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education.
by J. Ross, Karen Gibson, Joy D. Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Old Lesbians and their Brief Moments of Fame: An Anthology
From many parts of the USA, and from various walks of life, we are all old lesbians who want to tell our stories. Some of us have been lesbians all of our lives, and others later came out later in life. Many of our contributors thanked...
Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics
A testbed for extreme waves
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Experiments and theory have rapidly progressed on nonlinear optical extreme waves, showing that guided wave nonlinear optics and fiber lasers provide a relatively simple, accessible and controllable test bed for the observations and accurate statistical studies of extreme wave phenomena that obey...
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