Marshall James: 48 books
by James Patterson, Marshall Karp
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
A poor art student living in New York stumbles on a bag of diamonds . . . but they come at a price in this unforgettable novel from "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes).
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic...
Harvard Classics Volume 43
American Historical Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
by Arthur C. Nelson, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, James C. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book addresses market demand-based permitting and building planning in municipalities and counties. It reviews implications for property rights, protecting the local economy, and preventing development in excess of market needs. The book shows how market demand-based planning and permitting could...
by James Patterson, Marshall Karp
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Discover the first three books in the New York Times bestselling detective series, from the world's #1 writer.
NYPD Red 1 introduces Detectives First Grade Zach Jordan...
by Josef T. Prchal, James Armitage, Marshall A. Lichtman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A full-color clinical reference covering both common and uncommon blood disorders – referenced to the world’s leading hematology text
Williams Manual of Hematology, Ninth Edition provides a quick-access summary of the epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, differential...
Rethinking Social Movements
Structure, Meaning, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides—as...
Improving Learning How to Learn
Classrooms, Schools and Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn.
This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional...
Shaping the University of the Future
Using Technology to Catalyse Change in University Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book focuses on developing an understanding of the complex interplay of forces acting on individual universities and higher education systems to enable leaders and practitioners to take purposeful and strategic action. It explores the challenging landscape of higher education and the pressures...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
Enfleshing Theology
Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland,...
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...