G Young: 29 books
Breaking Boundaries
In Political Entertainment Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book brings together a collection of scholars whose work is leading the field of political entertainment studies, and yet it crosses methodological divides to do so, with quantitative and critical/cultural perspectives both represented. Indeed, each author worked as a part of a pair, addressing...
by Cleous G. Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Mountain of Miracles follows Grandfather and David as they embark on a journey for herbal remedies to grandfather's sickness. Their quest, however, ultimately turns into a quest to cure David of a sickness far deeper than grandfather's sickness, as David begins to misuse the gift of his grandfather's...
Mexican Exodus
Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious visions. These soldiers were...
Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers
101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book. Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the 'how-tos'...
Promoting Positive Behaviors
An Elementary Principal’s Guide to Structuring the Learning Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
This practical handbook helps educators create processes that communicate expectations, promote positive student behaviors, reduce schoolwide management problems, build relationships with parents, and increase student achievement.
by Katharine G. Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Food, water, health, housing, and education are as fundamental to human freedom and dignity as privacy, religion, or speech. Yet only recently have legal systems begun to secure these fundamental individual interests as rights. This book looks at the dynamic processes that render economic and social...
Mentoring Principals
Frameworks, Agendas, Tips, and Case Stories for Mentors and Mentees
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
This indispensable handbook for mentors, mentees, and new principals will jump-start the learning process of new principals by providing case stories and wisdom from leading mentors across the country.
Philosophical Psychopathology
Philosophy without Thought Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book uses rare pathologies to inform questions on topics such as consciousness and rationality. Rather than trying to answer these by inventing far-fetched scenario or 'thought experiments', it is better to utilize a rich but under-used clinical resource.
by G.M. Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
This brilliant and evocative book is now widely regarded as the greatest single study of the age in any language. The late George Kitson Clark characterized it as "an historical essay of unique interest and importance." Though the book deserves to rank as a classic, its allusive style makes...
by Delilah Devlin, Elle James, Megan Mitcham
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
***Rogues! Even the word conjures a special sort of hero—***a playful bad boy with a heart of gold—at least when it comes to his lady love. This volume is filled with the Jack Sparrows of old—pirates sailing the high seas, Regency-era highway men, modern day jewel thieves, like Cary Grant in...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...