Mary Shannon: 14 books
The Only Tarot Book You'll Ever Need
A Modern Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Secrets of Tarot
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
This lovely, full-color guide to tarot provides everything you need to know to read tarot—whether it’s a traditional reading, or a reading for self-reflection or self-discovery.
Not long ago, getting your cards read would have conjured images of a mystic shrouded in scarves with a crystal...
Louisiana Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state...
Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street
The Print Culture of a Victorian Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, the Morning...
by Cheryl Shireman, Barbara Silkstone, Barbara Silkstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Love letter - what phrase conjures up more intense feelings than that simple phrase? Most of us have received a love letter. Many of us have written a love letter. Some of those letters were tucked away in the bottom of a drawer. Others were ripped to shreds or destroyed in symbolic flames. Whatever...
by Kathryn Rhodes Alden, EdD, MSN
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
With comprehensive coverage of maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing, Maternity & Women's Health Care, 10th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. It's the #1 maternity book in the market -- and now respected...
After Montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon
Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious fundamentalism have flared dangerously,...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...
Porcupine
Poetry, Art, Short stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Anthology of poetry, art, and short stories from 23 contributors across the globe.
by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
A streamlined approach covers the fundamentals of maternity nursing! Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition focuses on the care of women during the childbearing years. Designed to meet the needs of today’s students, the book offers a clear, readable style and a concise, focused presentation. It integrates...
by Kathryn Rhodes Alden, EdD, MSN
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The #1 maternity book in the market is getting even better. Maternity and Women's Health Care, 11th Edition provides evidence-based coverage of everything you need to know about caring for women of childbearing age. Not only does this text emphasize childbearing concerns like newborn care, it also...
by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, RNC, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Designed to meet the needs of today’s students, Lowdermilk’s Maternity Nursing, 8th Edition — Revised Reprint addresses the fundamentals of maternity nursing with a concise, focused presentation of the care of women during the childbearing years. Integrating considerations for family, culture,...
Whiteness at the Table
Antiracism, Racism, and Identity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?
Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness...