Jennifer Ryan: 76 books
Computer Games and Technical Communication
Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Divided into five parts, Computer Games and...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...
The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx
Rethinking Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all...
How Television Shapes Our Worldview
Media Representations of Social Trends and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
Queering Elementary Education
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Revival Hubs Rising
Revealing a New Ministry Paradigm for the Next Great Move of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Revival hubs. Apostolic centers. Houses of prayer. Kingdom centers. Glory hubs. There are many different ways to describe the emerging model of church-as-we-have-never-known-it, but all of them break the traditional Sunday morning mold—and they all have at least one thing in common: they are rising...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
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...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...
by Ryan Regnier, Jennifer Regnier
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Although this is just Another Book About Running, it's unique in that it's from the viewpoint of a slightly better than average runner. You will learn what it took the author to run a 2:40 Marathon and win a 45-mile UltraMarathon. In addition, you will hear humorous stories of training and racing,...
Play as Therapy
Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain less clear to individual practitioners. Paediatric intervention approaches are increasingly being questioned,...