David Stacey: 12 books
Creating Texts
An Introduction to the Study of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Creating Texts emphasises a practical approach to composition and enables students to understand what is involved in the creation of a text and to learn from the practice of other writers. Extensively rewritten and updated from Walter Nash's earlier volume, Designs in Prose, attention is paid to the...
by Stacey Longo, David Daniel, Vlad V.
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
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Disease-Proof
Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and More--by 80 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
“If you want to build better health and a better future, this book makes an excellent tool kit.”—David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating and former commissioner of the FDA
It sometimes seems as if everyone around us is being diagnosed with a chronic illness—and that we...
by Richard DeGeorge, Hubert Dreyfus, Stacey Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997
Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools...
by David LaRocca, Fredric Jameson, Garrett Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen.
In...
Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
A Novel in 36 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary...
Leading for Equity
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.
In chapters organized around six core themes, the...
Race and Retail
Consumption across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found...
by David Lavery and Stacey Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
As a natural heir to the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural has risen to prominence with a strong cult following, and this collection of essays from contributors around the globe investigates the genre-bending series cultural footprint both in North America and abroad.
The...
by Charles E. Stacey, Brian Charlton, David Lonich
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
The industrial community of Donora was founded in 1901 on a bend of the Monongahela River, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. The founding of Donora was the result of social, political, and economic interaction among elite and powerful capitalists. Andrew and Richard Mellon partnered with William H. Donner...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act
Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...