Lisa Michael: 82 books
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Image-Based Assessments
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Translation and communication between cultures can sometimes be a difficult process. Image-based assessments can offer a way for large populations to be tested on different subjects without having to create multiple testing programs. Cross-Cultural Analysis of Image-Based Assessments: Emerging Research...
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Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location...
Llewellyn's 2019 Witches' Companion
A Guide to Contemporary Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Live your Craft every day with Llewellyn's Witches' Companion. This indispensable guide will keep you one step ahead of the latest witchy trends, practices, and issues.
Philosophy Imprisoned
The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Western philosophy’s relationship with prisons stretches from Plato’s own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside and outside prison...
Ready, Set, Live!
Empowering Strategies for an Enlightened Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
An inspirational guide for overcoming adversity and leading a fulfilled life, with contributions by more than two dozen experts on personal transformation.
Trials and difficulties are a part of life. Whether these adversities are related to one’s health, finances, career, or family, we all...
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
by Ida Altman, Ras Michael Brown, Matt Childs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class,...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Beginning Japanese Workbook
Revised Edition: Practice Conversational Japanese, Grammar, Kanji & Kana
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Don't let yourself become overwhelmed by the Japanese language! Now there is a way to get the most out of your time spent learning Japanese. This companion workbook to Beginning Japanese is the perfect guide for practicing basic conversational Japanese and written Japanese.
Beginning Japanese...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
by Michael E. Cohen, Dennis R. Cohen, Lisa L. Spangenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In this ebook, you start off by learning how to coordinate your computer-based collection with ComicBookLover on your iPad. Then you find how about Bookman, an iPad app that makes reading PDFs and comic-book archives very easy and enjoyable. Finally, you learn about apps (usually publisher-specific) in which you can purchase digital comic books from your iPad.
Understanding OCD
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals...
by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E. Farnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series...