Ira: 311 books
Energy Access, Poverty, and Development
The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the...
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
by Arthur L. Friedberg, Ira S. Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Immerse yourself in the romance and beauty of nearly 150 years of American currency. It all comes alive in A Guide Book of United States Paper Money, fourth edition. An engaging history book and a comprehensive catalog of valuations rolled into one, this guide covers all federal series issued from the...
How to Be Safe
Survival Tactics to Protect Yourself, Your Home, Your Business and Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
How to Be Safe is the most comprehensive safety and security manual on the market, encouraging individuals to take a positive, preventive approach to their own safety.
This well-researched reference, written by the founder and chairman of Guardsmark, one of the world’s largest security service...
How to Start a Propeller Rotor Blades Business (Beginners Guide)
How to Start a Propeller Rotor Blades Business (Beginners Guide)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to start a Propeller Rotor Blades Business. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to start a Propeller Rotor Blades Business
The Slaves' Economy
Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
How southern members of Congress remade the United States in their own image after the Civil War
No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions...
by Ira K. Packer
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular...
Dark Matters
Exploring the Realm of Psychic Devastation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This book takes a deeper look into the darker side of the human condition by examining the psyches of those who have been victims or survivors of heinous acts perpetrated by others. From the "personal Holocaust" of sexual abuse in the family, to the genocidal persecution during "the"...
by Sarah J. McCarthey, Ira
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings. The volume is the first to examine theories of identity and elementary...
Collecting, Ordering, Governing
Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée...
Cathay: Ezra Pound's Orient
Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English...
by Dr. Ellen Robinson Girden, Dr. Robert Ira Kabacoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
This thoroughly updated new edition of the bestselling text trains students—potential researchers and consumers of research—to critically read a research article from start to finish. Containing 25 engaging samples of ideal and flawed research, the text helps students assess the soundness of the design and appropriateness of the statistical analyses.
by Ira C. Colby
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
All social work practice is regulated by social policies. Professionals, however, cannot arbitrarily select which policy to follow in any circumstance. Knowing what comprises a given policy is essential, but equally important is understanding how to amend a policy by applying unique skills that reflect...