Patricia Jones: 32 books
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes...
by Adam Taylor, Justin Donhauser, Franklin Allaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
American auteur Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams's genius for creating densely plotted scripts has won him broad commercial and critical success in TV shows such as Felicity (1998--2002), Emmy-nominated Alias (2001--2006), Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Lost (2004--2010), and the critically acclaimed...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
by Stan Jones, Patricia Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Police Chief Nathan Active investigates a plane crash out in Alaska’s Big Empty—and what he finds there casts suspicion of murder on several locals in his small town of Chukchi.
Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fiancé, Dr. Todd Brenner, are on a flight over the Brooks Range...
South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world...
The Remembered Gate
Memoirs By Alabama Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of reflective essays–all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness–showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama.
In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Smash the Pillars
Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom...
by Thomas Adam, Dauda Abubakar, Yaron Ayalon
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths address the needs of the poor and the needy in...
New Black Renaissance
The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have changed the political and social landscape for...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...