John Robin: 61 books
by M. Stratton, Danielle Allen, Dylan Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
We the peopleWill not be silencedOur voices are important.We the people Will not be pushed asideWe will be seenOur numbers are more than you know.We the peopleWill make a difference We will hold the government accountable Our empathy is not a weakness.In these turbulent times we the people will stand...
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....
Chekhov's Letters
Biography, Context, Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...
Social Work and Service Learning
Partnerships for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
This book includes conceptual chapters that define social work service learning in contrast to fieldwork, examine its place in the curriculum, and explore how and when to implement service learning into course curricula. A second section features models for service-learning courses, such as service...
by Arnold John; Arvis Jean Francois; Mustra Monica Ali; Horton Brendan; Carruthers Robin; Ojala Lauri
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Achieving practical trade facilitation reforms has become a key development priority in recent years. In 2001, the Bank issued a first Trade and Transport Facilitation Audit (TTFA) toolkit. The TTFA provides a simple and cost-effective instrument to analyze bottlenecks in international supply chains...
by Professor John Sharp, Mr Graham A Peacock, Mr Rob Johnsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Now with online resources to support teaching practice!
An extensive knowledge of the primary science curriculum is not enough for trainee teachers, they need to know how to teach science in the primary classroom.
This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
Evolutionary Psychology
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide is a uniquely accessible yet comprehensive guide to the study of the effects of evolutionary theory on human behaviour. Written specifically for the general reader, and for entry-level students, it covers all the most important elements of this interdisciplinary...
Evaluation Beyond Exams in Nursing Education
Designing Assignments and Evaluating With Rubrics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Helps educators to design assignments and rigorous rubrics that truly measure student learning objectives
The ability of students to pass an examination does not necessarily reflect or guarantee their ability to apply knowledge in practice, nor are traditional exams a sufficient means to evaluate...
Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Padma River in Bangladesh in the early twentieth century, the slums of prewar Tokyo, Indonesia during...
Georgia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role...
by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human lives
We are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives...
by Paul Needham, Andrea Woody, Robin Findlay Hendry
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Philosophy of Chemistry investigates the foundational concepts and methods of chemistry, the science of the nature of substances and their transformations. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of chemistry ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists...