L Davis: 203 books
Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing
Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity, a 20-year, $187 million philanthropic initiative intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effective...
Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...
skinless (Part II)
A Novel in III Parts
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
All I can say is when the girl I like looks at me with wide, freaked out eyes and then runs away, the only thing that I can do is run after her. Even if she didn’t ask me, even if she told me not to, I’m not superman enough to fight the instinct to protect her. -Luca For Luca Valken, AnCaela...
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...
by Adrienne J. Odasso, Tais Teng, Fiona Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether...
Merchants of Menace
Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #5
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY
20 VENDORS OF VILLAINY
Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.
Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the...
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....
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...
skinless
A Novel in III Parts (Part I)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Looking at Luca, who’s just saved my life, I can’t respond. No explanation I might offer will satisfy after all of the extraordinary things he’s just witnessed. —Ankh AnCaela Murphy's body is a ticking bomb that only her mom can defuse. The problem: her mother is missing and presumed taken...
Seed Krackers
The Legend of Hushma
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Up, up, and away! Pani and Omo are off to a new adventure to seek out new life forms and most importantly, new food. When the starving pelican and seagull discover a colony of seed krackers, they had no idea how much their life would change. If they had not stopped on the small seed kracker island,...
Baptist Foundations
Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...
Creating Culturally Considerate Schools
Educating Without Bias
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Are you seeing your students clearly?
This unique collaboration between a veteran educator and a psychotherapist asserts that the educators who are most effective in teaching diverse populations are those who can "see students clearly and respond to their needs without hesitation or bias."...
Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Assessment, Education and Training, and Supervision
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1996
In this volume, leading researchers and trainers in multicultural counselling and psychology address the issues of what makes a counsellor multiculturally competent and how to create more culturally competent counsellors.
The contributors consider ways to evaluate counsellors for their awareness,...