Mcadam: 41 books
by Jane McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people...
Refugees
Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia's policies are not
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stopping the boats, blocking queue-jumpers, and proving who is a “real” refugee have become national obsessions. Misconceptions about refugees and asylum-seekers seem to be increasing, and governments and media continue to exploit anxieties in the community. This clear-headed book rejects spin...
The Private Guitar Studio Handbook
Strategies and Policies for a Profitable Music Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
(Berklee Guide). Teach guitar for profit! This book will show you how to set up and develop a profitable guitar studio. Besides the ability to teach guitar, running a profitable studio needs effective systems for attracting and retaining students, ensuring that they pay on time, and smoothly handling...
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...
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000–2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and 'movement-centric'. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions...
by Maura McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by recognizing...
Fall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“A riveting story [about] the intensity of young love and the intensity of self-hatred . . . Marvelous” (Elizabeth Strout).
St. Ebury, an elite Ottawa boarding school, might appear to an outsider like a place steeped in rules and traditions. But the animal instincts of the boys who reside...
A Beautiful Truth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This novel told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees “packs a huge emotional punch” (The Gazette, Montreal).
Looee is a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple who cannot conceive a baby of their own. He is forever set apart—not human, but certainly...
by Nan McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Ches Albright isn’t your ordinary Bible salesman. He is a broken man unable to face his past, but can’t seem to leave it behind. He blames God for the death of his wife and son. Selling his billion-dollar tech company, Ches begins his life as a traveling Bible salesman. He stays in cheap motels...
by Max M. Houck, Frank Crispino, Terry McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The Science of Crime Scenes, Second Edition offers a science-based approach to crime scenes, emphasizing that understanding is more important than simply knowing. Without sacrificing technical details, the book adds significantly to the philosophy and theory of crime scene science. This new edition...
Freedom from Religion and Human Rights Law
Strengthening the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief for Non-Religious and Atheist Rights-Holders
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious. Despite the claimed universality...
by Geoffrey Lee, Peter McAdam
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
To optimise formwork costs and minimise the time for its construction, the contractor needs to understand the guiding principles of safe and efficient formwork construction. He must also have some insight into the relative merits of the various methods, and should appreciate the practical details of...
Trabajo apreciativo en colegios
Cómo construir las futuras comunidades
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Este estudio aborda temas importantes y muy discutidos en la actualidad (el matoneo, las emociones cotidianas de los niños, la relación hogar-escuela, la construcción de comunidad en el ámbito escolar, etc.), que rebasan cualquier enfoque estrictamente curricular sobre la escuela.