Moss: 616 books
Poliomyelitis: Newark 1916
"The Grip of Terror"
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
POLIOMYELITIS: NEWARK 1916 THE GRIP OF FEAR is a study of the devastating "scourge" that struck the city of Newark a century ago. Most victims were infants and toddlers for whom there were no effective treatments, no vaccines, and no iron lungs. Per capita, Newark was the hardest hit of...
Childhood
Services and Provision for Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Childhood: Services and Provision for Children provides an important and timely contribution to the field of Childhood and Youth Studies. This cutting-edge text brings together, within a critical framework, an understanding and discussion of a broad range of services, ideas and themes, and debates...
Dynasties
The Rise and Fall of Animal Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Family isn't just important. It's everything.
From lions hunting as a pride to penguins huddling together to keep from freezing in the bitter Antarctic winter, many animals are dependent on complex social relationships for their survival. Powerful dynasties lay claim to vast swathes of territory,...
by Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book consists of an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive set of step-by-step tutorials that will help you gain proficiency in the Force.com platform. If you have some experience with the Force.com platform and are looking to take your skills to the next level, this is the book for you.
In Search of “Truth, Beauty and Goodness”
Thoughts and Reflections for a Purposeful Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Striving only for material wealth is incompatible with our latent personal longing for love and recognition. Simons discourse identifies a remedy available to all of us, that of adopting an attitude of love, and then putting that love into action in whatever way is open to each of us. We admire and...
by Todd Moss
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An extraordinary international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and author of the national bestseller The Golden Hour.
In the life of every country, at a moment of extreme national disruption, there is a brief period of breakdown, when everything is uncertain, events...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic
Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
From notions of art for art’s sake to committed poetry, it may seem that poets cannot achieve reconciliation between the politics and poetry. However, among committed Communist poets of the 20th century of the Spanish-speaking world, three poets stand out as examples of a search to bring together...
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
by Mr Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The way birds behave is one of the vital keys to accurate identification and this book provides the experienced instruction needed to understand and get the most out of watching birds. The guide covers all the fundamental types of bird behaviour, including movement, feeding, breeding, migration, navigation,...
Divine Bodies
Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A path†‘breaking scholar’s insightful reexamination of the resurrection of the body and the construction of the self
When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected—young or old,...
The New Radicals
A Generational Memoir of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the political ashes of the late 1960s, new and radical initiatives grew with surprising speed in the first half of the 1970s. The New Radicals: A Generational Memoir of the 1970s tells the story of a generation of South African activists who embraced and developed forms of opposition politics...
Care Work in Europe
Current Understandings and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European...
Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education
A story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate early childhood policy making today - ‘the story of quality and high returns’ and ‘the story...