Joseph Baker: 14 books
by Joseph Baker, Damian Farrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Understanding and developing expertise is an important concern for any researcher or practitioner working in elite or high performance sport. Whether it's identifying talented young athletes or developing methods for integrating cutting-edge sport science into daily coaching practice, scientists,...
by Joe Townsel, Leia Machado, Jennifer Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
From the truly horrific, to the horrible truth. From the dark and twisted, to the twisted darkness. Bizarre tales, thought-provoking, cringe-inducing and even ... side-splitting! Seven scribes of the macabre invite you to partake of the 25 mind-bending stories inside these covers. Anticipate no longer,...
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105 (February 2019)
Lightspeed Magazine, #105
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
American Secularism
Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished Book Award
A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently religious Christian nation, survey data shows...
Paranormal America (second edition)
Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics
Given the popularity of television shows such as Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, and American Horror Story, there seems to be...
emerge 18
The Writer's Studio Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Take a journey with our 68 writers—from rural Mexico in the ’60s to Tehran in the ’70s, to the suburbs of Vancouver in the ’80s, and to other planets in the distant future. Within these pages you will encounter a feathered heart, door-to-door salesbees, and a breathing house. In emerge 18...
by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.
The...
Huia Short Stories 10
Contemporary Maori Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2013 as judged by Sir Mason Durie, Hana O'Regan and Reina Whaitiri. The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Maori and Best Novel...
Anthropology of Los Angeles
Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
Reading Southern History
Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.
Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts...
by Joseph Eugene Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The county was formed on March 25, 1853, from a large portion of Contra Costa County and a smaller portion of Santa Clara County. Much of what is now considered an intensively urban region, with major cities, was developed as a trolley car suburb of San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
Drawing a Line in the Sea
The Gaza Flotilla Incident and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The deadly May 31, 2010 Gaza flotilla incident has been misunderstood. This book explores the incident in more detail than mainstream media coverage has allowed—explaining the background, key players, and the incident itself—enriched by the authors having had unique access to senior Israeli officials...
John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement
Justice as Unfairness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In this book, leading Christian political thinkers and practitioners critique the Rawlsian concepts of “justice as fairness” and “public reason” from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. It provides a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives, including implications for such hot topics as social and economic issues and the culture war.
by Julie Zigo, Marcia Lajoie, Felicity Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs. This edited volume explains cutting edge technologies and how to apply these tools in practice.
With...