K Smith: 280 books
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
America Imagined
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be...
by Rhona K.M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Text and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject, divided into four sections that cover: sources and theories; institutions and structures; substantive rights; and a new concluding section on the challenges for human rights law. The third edition...
by Peter M. Burkholder, James K. Feibleman, Carol A. Kates
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
by Sean D. Foreman, Robert Dewhirst, Sunil Ahuja
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The 2010 Midterm Elections were momentous in the history of U.S. campaigns. Readers of this book will follow the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The chapters are both narrative and provide analysis of an array of interesting and diverse contests from...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
by K. Russo, Z. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional microeconomics, water's true utility and government regulation, and new and current practices in water management.
by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Brian K Gran
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Long the province of international law, human rights now enjoys a renaissance of studies and new perspectives from the social sciences. This landmark book is the first to synthesize and comprehensively evaluate this body of work. It fosters an interdisciplinary, international, and critical engagement...
by Deirdre Cabooter, G Desmet, K J Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Since its commercial introduction in 2004, UHPLC (Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography) has begun to replace conventional HPLC in academia and industry and interest in this technique continues to grow. Both the increases in speed and resolution make this an attractive method; particularly...
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act
Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
Automotive Engineering
Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field.
An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
by K.C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
A humorous and reflective look into growing up in a simpler time in “Gods Own Country”, New Zealand, travelling the world as a Merchant Marine, family life and migrating to NSW, Australia... In the New Zealand chapters there are many stories on the fantastic hunting and fishing opportunities there...
Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
Reconsidering the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...