E Taylor: 191 books
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
by J. Glen Taylor, Mark W. Chavalas, Philip S. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you...
by Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Weight Management
A Step-by-Step Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
We all think we know what we have to do to manage our weight, and blame ourselves when we don't meet the goals we have set. In reality, we need to understand the biology behind the body's regulation of weight to achieve the control we are hoping for. And we need strategies for overcoming obstacles:...
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often inadequate. This book brings together advice for all those professionals working with individuals who have experienced...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...
by Kathleen Taylor, Bud E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Craving a career in web dev? Chart your path with this helpful guide
Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies provides a roadmap to one of the "hot jobs" in the booming world of tech. The web development field is large, and it encompasses many actual functions. This book helps you...
by A. Drengson, C. Watson, A. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with...
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing
Working in Womanish Ways
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar,...
by E. Lessly Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
During two mass immigrations from 1984 to 1991, thousands of Ethiopian Jews were permitted to flee persecution in their country and migrate to Israel. This is their story and how it could possibly save a nation from a plague.
Israeli coastal towns suddenly experience a rash of severe flu-like...
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture
Essays in Honor of James M. Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those...
The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America
(Spanish translation)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
Smart Alecks and Magicians
Bonus Content Inside!
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Jack, Sally, Dave, and Jill are some of the most Smart-Alecky kids you'll ever meet. They never srudy for tests, they act like there better off being adults, etc.
So when a magician comes, they get there wish.
DON'T READ THIS. IT IS SOOOOOOO BORING
--Jack