Mary G : 157 books
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops,...
Authority and Leadership
Values, Religion, Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book wrestles with questions of authority and leadership in the digital age, questions that hold particular relevance for religious communication and Church authority. The essays come out of a series of conferences that gathered acadèmic researchers, theologians, and communication scholars together...
A Nation Empowered, Volume 1
Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This new report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students builds on the momentum of the 2004 report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. A Nation Deceived initiated a critical dialogue about academic acceleration,...
Learning to Teach
A Critical Approach to Field Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises...
Public Information Management and E-Government
Policy and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Recently, the public sector has given an increasing amount of national and international attention to electronic government systems. Therefore, it is inevitable that the theoretical implications and intersections between information technology and governmental matters are more widely discussed. Public...
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...
Mediterranean Encounters in the City
Frameworks of Mediation Between East and West, North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have recast difference as a central trope of identification in urban borderland...
Thinking Through Breast Cancer
A Philosophical Exploration of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it. Such questions frame the difficult decisions that patients must make about their treatment and care....
Allucinor
The Element of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Love is in the air. And the stone. And the Wi-Fi. And in the blood.
Passions ignite in this anthology, as sixteen genre authors come together to deliver stories of unique, if unconventional romance.
Even immortals can succumb to unhealthy infatuation, as seen in ‘Cursed.’
In...
by Mary Shelley, Jack london, H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate...
Reining in the Rio Grande
People, Land, and Water
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield...
by Lauren Coffey, Josh Compton, Donna M. Elkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The millennial generation is unique in various ways, particularly with regard to their career aspirations and expectations. Due to their reputation as “job hoppers,” recruiting millennials is not enough. Retention of a millennial workforce is imperative for organizational success and longevity....
Searching Speech Databases
Features, Techniques and Evaluation Measures
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This book presents techniques for audio search, aimed to retrieve information from massive speech databases by using audio query words. The authors examine different features, techniques and evaluation measures attempted by researchers around the world. The topics covered also include available...
Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry
Instrumentation, Model Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Field-cycling NMR relaxometry is evolving into a methodology of widespread interest with recent technological developments resulting in powerful and versatile commercial instruments. Polymers, liquid crystals, biomaterials, porous media, tissue, cement and many other materials of practical importance...