John M Jones: 33 books
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
by Douglas B McGregor, Paul H P A Illing, Roger Aldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Fundamental Toxicology is a concise and comprehensive review of toxicology. It is based on the highly successful Fundamental Toxicology for Chemists and has been enriched and expanded. Every chapter in this new edition has been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added. With contributions...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Aging Aggressively:
How to Avoid the Us Health-Care Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Take charge of your health! If you are an aging individual in the United States, its crucial to understand present health-care policies and doctorpatient relations so you can aggressively demand the best care. Once you know the ins and outs, youll feel secure and enjoy the aging process. The first...
Dragon Writers
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time.
Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...
Contemporary Issues in Victimology
Identifying Patterns and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder...
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Latino Lives in America
Making It Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America*,* six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos’ population growth and...
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.
The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Linda S. Bosniak, Joseph H. Carens
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual...
Latinos in the New Millennium
An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed...