Florida: 73 books
Maori Times, Maori Places
Prophetic Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Today, the Maori must live in a world that is dominated by European institutions. The ability to do this successfully depends on their constant vigilance in sustaining their beliefs, their views of themselves, and their notions of how the world works. Their membership in Maramatanga permits them to...
by Timothy Crowe, M.S., Criminology - Florida State University
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental...
Cultural Materialism
The Struggle for a Science of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential...
The Ethnographic I
A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional...
Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising
Some Restrictions Apply
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Feminists, Feminisms, and Advertising provides feminist analyses of the historical relationships between the advertising industry and the women’s movement in the United States. Contributors consider the ways that advertisers encode race, ethnicity, gender, and heteronormativity into advertising...
The Rise of Anthropological Theory
A History of Theories of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2001
The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback! First published in 1968, Harris's book has been cited in over 1,000 works and is one of the key documents explaining cultural materialism, the theory associated with Harris's work. This updated edition...
Common Sense Questions About Learners
Answers to Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Parents asked educators about their children’s learning. Frustrated when they were ignored, they asked politicians to put pressure on the educators. They were then surprised when the politicians provided personal advice about the optimal way to nurture learning. They were even more surprised when...
Ancestors and Elites
Emergent Complexity and Ritual Practices in the Casas Grandes Polity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the archaeological data from the site with respect to broader anthropological theories regarding both religious practices and the rise of complex societies....
by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they?...
Commonsense Questions about Instruction
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology?...
Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
Smashing Barriers
Race and Sport in the New Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Filled with stories about sports figures like Muhammad Ali, Roberto Clemente, Tony Elliot, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams, this new edition describes the changing face of diversity in sport (the growing numbers of Latino and female college and professional athletes). He addresses the value...
by Marvin Harris, University of Florida
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Marvin Harris is arguably the most influential, prolific anthropological theorist of our time. This book brings together many of the strands of his work of the past two decades into a unified, contemporary statement on anthropological theory and practice. In this book, he presents his current views...
Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a compelling concept - if people are allowed to be custodians of their resources, better management of the resources will result. CBNRM is much more complex and challenging than has commonly been understood, but can provide a way to achieve a...