J Gordon: 160 books
Collaboration and the Future of Education
Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher...
Spiritual Care in Common Terms
How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.
This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an...
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Theories in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
by Gordon J. Pace
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Mathematics plays a key role in computer science, some researchers would consider computers as nothing but the physical embodiment of mathematical systems. And whether you are designing a digital circuit, a computer program or a new programming language, you need mathematics to be able to reason about...
by Jonathan K Ehrman, Paul M. Gordon, Paul S. Visich
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
As the profession of clinical exercise physiology continues to evolve, there is one cornerstone text that evolves along with it. Clinical Exercise Physiology, Fourth Edition With Web Resource, has been a mainstay in the field since its inception in 2003, and the revisions and additions to this latest...
Steps to the Sermon
An Eight-Step Plan For Preaching With Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1996
In the years since the original publication of Steps To The Sermon in 1963, audiences have become more sophisticated, preachers have learned to adjust their styles to reach today's media saturated mindset, and sermon style have shifted from deductive to inductive.
Exploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Pentateuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed. This critically informed, textually sensitive...
Race, Ethnicity, and Leisure
Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Race and ethnicity have a significant impact on leisure behavior and activity choices. Yet, until now, no book has thoroughly explored that impact, though this topic is critical for leisure professionals to understand as they shape services and programs to meet the needs of the diverse populations...
Dialogues across Diasporas
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
Antarctic Environments and Resources
A Geographical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Antarctica is no longer a 'pole apart'. From a scientific perspective, the Antarctic ice sheet, ocean and climate systems are intimately linked with the global climate and are now seen to be of international significance for understanding climate change. From an economic perspective, the Antarctic...
by Gordon Guyatt, Maureen O. Meade, Deborah J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The streamlined companion to the classic Users' Guides to the Medical Literature--fully updated and revised
This compact guide condenses the most clinically relevant content of the landmark Users' Guides to the Medical Literature to help you incorporate evidence-based medicine into your practice.
You...
by Gordon J. Voisin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
There are many reasons that growing up as a Cajun was fun.
Its been fifty years since I penned the first story in this compilation. Down the Bayou Cajuns grew from youths into adults one story at a time. I kept adding until I had reached bona fide adulthood.
Follow along and youll learn...
Spine Disorders
Medical and Surgical Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
An essential, one-stop reference guide to the evaluation and treatment of patients with cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine disease. Based on a course taught by these highly respected authors at the American Academy of Neurology's Annual Meeting, this volume gives concise descriptions of the anatomy...
The Neurobiology of Behavior
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Originally published in 1977, the objective of this book was to examine the mechanisms by which the multiple factors or determinants – homeostatic deficits, hormonal influences, circadian rhythms, experiential and cognitive factors – become translated by the central nervous system into thermoregulatory,...