M L Davis: 45 books
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
A Sea without Fish
Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago—some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
U.S. Overseas Military Presence
What Are the Strategic Choices?
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....
by Lois M. Davis, Jennifer L. Steele, Robert Bozick
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This report assesses the effectiveness of correctional education programs for both incarcerated adults and juveniles and the cost-effectiveness of adult correctional education. It also provides results of a survey of U.S. state correctional education directors that give an up-to-date picture of what...