Nash: 544 books
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement
A Realist Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories. In this groundbreaking book, Roy Nash...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
Blue Ridge 2020
An Owner's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous...
by Roy Nash
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In industrialized societies the needs of people living in remote and sparsely populated areas are easily overlooked, whilst in developing countries the needs of the rural population are at once so obvious and so enormous that our practical concern is blunted. In this volume it is clearly demonstrated...
William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel
Gender, Genre and the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired by contemporary writers, such as Conan Doyle, Stevenson and Meredith, while Swinburne, considered him 'the greatest master of the sea, living or dead'. Based on extensive archival research, Nash explores this remarkable career.
by Roy Nash
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In the field of teacher expectations and pupil learning one important psychological truth is that the pupils’ achievement in learning is strongly influenced by the teachers’ expectations of their level of performance, high or low. Roy Nash discusses critically and fully important research in this...
Dictionary of Crime
Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In order to understand the machinations and inner workings of crime and punishment in this country, it is necessary to negotiate through the wild linguistic labyrinth of its esoteric terminology and pungent slang. Here is Jay Robert Nash's comprehensive Dictionary of Crime: Criminal Justice, Criminology,...
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging
How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle, Revised and Updated, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Revised and updated.
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for...
Handguns for Self-Defense
A Guide to Choosing and Using Your Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Regardless of your level of training or comfort around firearms, understanding and applying firearm fundamentals will increase your proficiency. Handguns for Self-Defense provides easily understood explanations of what shooters need to do to fire more accurately. Author David Nash has more thann twenty...
Supporting Dying Children and their Families
A Handbook For Christian Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
This practical guide offers invaluable and sensitive advice for all who work alongside terminally ill children, their families and families who have been bereaved. Paul Nash helpfully describes the different types of care that are needed depending on the age of the child - from baby to teenager -...
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights
Comparing the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction...
Harness the Power of Reflection
Continuous School Improvement From the Front Office to the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Elevate your team’s attitude from “whatever” to “whatever it takes”
Seasoned educator Ron Nash inspires all school staff members to embark on their own continuous improvement journeys and model that experience for their students. This book provides a framework for individual reflection...
Weight Training for Men
The Ultimate Guide for Muscle Growth and Fat Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
'Weight Training' is un ultimate guide to muscle growth and fat loss. Based on his over 30 years on of experience in weight training, long and very successful career in bodybuilding, Nash Jocic has explained the most effective training systems and techniques that will help not only beginners and intermediates...
by John C. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Nonlinear Parameter Optimization Using R
John C. Nash, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
A systematic and comprehensive treatment of optimization software using R
In recent decades, optimization techniques have been streamlined by computational and artificial...