J Davis: 274 books
An Interpersonal Approach to Classroom Management
Strategies for Improving Student Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Presenting the psychology behind the best-managed classrooms
The authors engage you from the start by contrasting how differently teachers respond to common situations. They expertly bridge the gap between educational psychology and classroom management from the perspectives of student engagement,...
by David G. Anderson, Gregory A. Waselkov, Stephen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.
Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference...
Great War Modernism
Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
by Ferdia J. Stone-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place...
by Aaron Bell, Ted Benton, Susan Benston
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors...
by Judith D Gunderson-Christensen-Davis, Michael L Gunderson, Shelly J Gunderson-Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
If it's raining outside, or snowing, or thundering, or a hundred degrees, it would not deter father from a drive to any given location....in his car, van, motorcycle or motor bike. If traffic was lined up for a mile, he would still go get in it. If an area was flooded or a volcano had just erupted,...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
by Ida M. Tarbell, J. McCan Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (Illustrated Edition)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a result of a thorough research conduct by the author Ida M. Tarbell. Tarbell's research in the backwoods...
by Ayşe Nihal Akbulut, Bouchra Benlemlih, Liviu Cotrău
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
God Loves Diversity and Justice
Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors...
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
U.S. Overseas Military Presence
What Are the Strategic Choices?
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....