Kathleen M : 156 books
Animal Cruelty
Pathway to Violence Against People
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. Does this behavior serve as a red flag with respect to extremely violent offenders, such as serial killers?...
Just Write
An Easy-to-Use Guide to Writing at University
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
This is a basic, short guide that helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, providing them with the basic skills they need to write in an effective academic style.
The authors draw on their own work to demystify the academic writing process...
Senegal Sojourn
Selections from One Teacher's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal is a personal account of experiences while working with foreign language teachers and writers of fiction in Africa during an academic year. Affording glimpses into that stay, whether in classrooms, on the streets of the capital, Dakar, at concerts,...
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,...
Neuroscience of Cognitive Development
The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A new understanding of cognitive development from the perspective of neuroscience
This book provides a state-of-the-art understanding of the neural bases of cognitive development. Although the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience is still in its infancy, the authors effectively demonstrate...
Making Decisions That Matter
How People Face Important Life Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2005
Researchers studying decision making have traditionally studied the phenomenon in the laboratory, with hypothetical decisions that may or may not involve the decision maker's values, passions, or areas of expertise. The assumption is that the findings of these well-controlled laboratory studies will...
Preparing Future Leaders for Social Justice
Bridging Theory and Practice through a Transformative Andragogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
In today's Western school systems, white, straight, middle-class and physically-able students reach higher achievements, drop out less, and have a greater chance of learning in higher education institutions than their counterparts who do not possess these characteristics. While many agree that theory,...
Leading Schools of Excellence and Equity
Closing Achievement Gaps Via Academic Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The purpose of this empirical inquiry of staterecognized “Honor Schools of Excellence” was to explore how these schools of distinction are (or are not) promoting and supporting both academic excellence and systemic equity for all students. In Phase One, quantitative data were collected through...
Quick Reference to Adult and Older Adult Forensics
A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Gerontologic Nursing!
"[This book] is a wonderful guide to adult and elder forensics, and an important reference for all health care providers who care for adults and the elderely...Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
"It's about time this book...
by Kathleen M. Nadeau, Sangita Rayamajhi
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
This insightful book examines women's lives across Asia, challenging typical stereotypes and providing a fresh look at the changing role of women in various regions of the vast continent.
• Photographs provide visual context to topics
• A helpful glossary defines terms and acronyms
by Kathleen M. Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Black uses shared stories, blended music, and the arts to enliven worship in culturally and linguistically diverse congregations. She provides biblical and theological foundations and practical methods and models for creating culturally-conscious worship.
by Kathleen M. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Remember parochial school? Or were you public, dear girls, dear boys, and had to sit in the back of the church so the parochials could get the good seats? Even if your Bible study class was at Yeshiva you will still relish the detail and irony in this "Mass." If you have ever wondered what...
Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensics
A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
"Quick Reference to Child and Adolescent Forensics most assuredly needs to have a prominent place in the library of any forensic nurse or health professional and have very worn pages from its frequent use."
--On the Edge, Newsletter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses
"Muscari...
Sports Coaching Cultures
From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club.
Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments,...