J Young: 136 books
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
The Life of a Locomotive Engineer
From Steam to Diesel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
This book is an account of my experiences growing up in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, about exciting situations I found my self in as a pilot and aircraft owner for 20 some years. Also, many times I have been asked about the operations of a railroad. I have tried in this book to relate some...
by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Young Shin Kim, Michele L. Bianchi
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
An in-depth guide to understanding probability distributions and financial modeling for the purposes of investment management
In Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering, the expert author team provides a framework to model the behavior of stock returns in both a univariate...
Alert and Ready
An Organizational Design Assessment of Marine Corps Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Mystery!
The Origins Game Fair 2018 Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The Origins Game Fair is proud and pleased to present Mystery!, our 2018 fiction anthology. The collection features stories by authors in the convention's Library program.
This collection brings together fourteen tales of mystery set across genres, in a legion of times and places. Each author...
by Seth Young, Robert M. Horonjeff, Francis X. McKelvey
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Authoritative, Up-to-Date Coverage of Airport Planning and Design
Fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the aviation industry, the new edition of this classic text offers definitive guidance on every aspect of planning, design, engineering, and renovating airports...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Leadership for Rural Schools
Lessons for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book...
by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Josephine Peyto Young, Margaret M. Gritsavage
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Until now, there has been no systematic analysis or review of the research on gender and literacy. With all the media attention and research surveys surrounding gender bias and the inequities that continue to flourish in education, a synthesis of the research studies was needed to raise awareness...
by Shaun McNiff, Christopher Belkofer, Kristin Belkofer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.
Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the...
Human Rights and the Arts
Perspectives on Global Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists throughout global Asia. By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this...
Wellington's Masterpiece
The Battle and Campaign of Salamanca
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Peninsular war was not only one of the great periods in British military history, it was also a war in which guerillas exerted a major influence, and as such, has continued relevance today. Salamanca established Wellington as one of the great military commanders of any age and it is one of the...