M Douglas: 210 books
No Seat at the Table
How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance...
Dyslexic and Un-Stoppable
How Dyslexia Helps Us Create the Life of Our Dreams and How You Can Do It Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Does your child have difficulty with reading? Is your child's teacher complaining about behavior or attention issues? Is writing a chore for your child? Could your child be dyslexic? You are in luck. "Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable" is not just another book about dyslexia. It is uniquely designed for...
News Frames and National Security
Covering Big Brother
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of...
Imperial Medicine
Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British...
by Douglas M. MacDowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In the most comprehensive account available of the texts of Demosthenes, Douglas M. MacDowell describes and assesses all of the great orator's speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, MacDowell also covers those which have...
Hoover's War on Gays
Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades...
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
by Douglas Flemons, PhD, LMFT
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
A relational approach to evaluating your suicidal clients.
Given the isolating nature of suicidal ideation and actions, it’s all too easy for clinicians conducting a suicide assessment to find themselves developing tunnel vision, becoming overly focused on the client’s individual risk factors....
The Future of Tech Is Female
How to Achieve Gender Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An accessible and timely guide to increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies
Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. The industry continues to see rapid growth, employing millions...
'Ain el-Gedida
2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The fourth volume in the Amheida series, ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert presents the systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at ‘Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's...
Fit to Practice
Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Blaze Ward, Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Flights of imagination needn't be long in order to weave a wonderful tale. Join these authors in their shorter flights for a broad array of fabulous short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. Perfect imaginative getaways for commuting, breaks and lunchtimes, bedtime reading, or anytime...
by Robert Coogan, Jane Donawerth, Molly J. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s...
Who Owns the Media?
Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2000
This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author...