Jones Rachel: 31 books
by Melissa Klein, Linda Joyce, Rachel W Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Christmas in Jubilee--where life is a celebration!
The Best First Christmas by Melissa Klein
With a broken engagement and parents far away, Reverend Angie Duncan wants to skip all things red and green, Bethlehem and baby, merry and bright. Until...a man from the wrong side of Fancy Bluff...
Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television
The New Sapphire
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial...
(Re)thinking Orientalism
Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate...
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...
by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats....
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives (NHB Modern Plays)
Eight Monologues
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
A young actress meets a powerful film producer in his hotel suite. A revolutionary leads an attack on a colonial club in India. A bereaved mother defends herself against charges of infanticide.
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives documents, remembers and bears witness to a century...
They Were Still Born
Personal Stories about Stillbirth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Stillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks' gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated thirty thousand times every year in the United States. That means more than eighty mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own...
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...
Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Experiencing Loss and Bereavement
Theory and Compassionate Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Exploring contemporary theory and practice surrounding loss and bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), this book brings together international contributors with a range of academic, professional and personal experience.
This authoritative edited book looks at diverse experiences...
Postcolonial Representations of Women
Critical Issues for Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay,...
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...
Life Story Work with People with Dementia
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Introducing life story work, a way for people with dementia to connect with their relatives, carers and the professionals working with them. This evidence-based book explains the many benefits of life story work, with practical guidance for introducing it in a variety of settings.
The authors...
by Godfried Asante, Claudia Bucciferro, Brad Crownover
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion...
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...