James Young: 71 books
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
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...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
by James O. Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Almost all of us would agree that the experience of art is deeply rewarding. Why this is the case remains a puzzle; nor does it explain why many of us find works of art much more important than other sources of pleasure. Art and Knowledge argues that the experience of art is so rewarding because it...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1
Milk composition, genetics and breeding
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
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by Daina Ramey Berry, Jonathan M. Bryant, Bobby J. Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life...
by Janet Young, James M. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AND ITS ILLUMINATING LIGHT
By, Janet Young
Synopsis
Awakening the subconscious powers releases masterful forces. The subconscious region of the mind is capable of independent action. The Universe is governed by Law. The Universe of being is subject to Law. The Laws must...
by K.M. Walton, David Arnold, Anthony Breznican
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A song to match everyone's heartbeat.
A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading-all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song,...
by Darrell Young, James Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Olympus launched the OM-D E-M5 Mark II camera with a specific purpose in mind: to create a Micro Four Thirds camera for advanced enthusiast and professional photographers who prefer a smaller, yet very powerful mirrorless camera. The E-M5 Mark II is a true system camera for those who demand the best...
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...
Cheatgrass
Fire and Forage on the Range
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the Sierra Nevadas, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. It is the first grass to appear after the region's long,...
The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice,...