M Benson: 54 books
Life Inside My Mind
31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review)
“[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...
Spectres in the Snow
A Third Collection of Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A third selection of vintage Victorian and Edwardian ghost and horror stories by masters of the genre. Set during the Christmas period, these are perfect festive reading for long winter nights...
Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century
Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Unlike other books on conflict resolution that focus on particular places and moments in history, this original work attempts to understand the process from many different perspectives and in many different contexts - from international political conflicts, to racial and religious struggles within...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
The Bible: A History
The Making and Impact of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Bible has had a profound influence on the diverse cultures of Europe and the British Isles, the Americas, Australia and Africa, and has even left an imprint on Asia. It is a book that has inspired the whole range of human emotion and experience, including some of the finest art and literature....
by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since...
by Peter M. Doubilet, Carol B. Benson, Beryl R. Benacerraf
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Packed with more sonographic images than ever before, the third edition of the Atlas of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology helps you better understand and interpret sonographic imagery, and improve diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound images. This comprehensive visual tutorial is split into two...
Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System
Part A, Philosophical, Theoretical, and Biological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Volume 44 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including cytoplasmic inheritance redux, emergence, self organization and developmental...
Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System
Part B, Ontogenetic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Volume 45 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including multiple trajectories in the developmental psychobiology of human handedness and...
by Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Ann M. Avilés, Richard D. Benson II
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives, and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in scholarship in curriculum studies/theory...
by Pamela Ebstyne King, Dr. Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Dr. Linda M. Wagener
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence breaks new ground by articulating the state of knowledge in the area of childhood and adolescent spiritual development. Featuring a rich array of theory and research from an international assortment of leading social scientists in...
Voices of the 21st Century
Women Who Influence, Inspire, and Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
30 Extraordinary Women Come Together to Celebrate a New Era
We are at a defining moment in history . . .
The world as we know it is shifting from a society based on a predominantly masculine model into a new era, one with women at the forefront as the leaders of the twenty-first century....