Richard J : 949 books
The History of the Study of Landforms: Volume 1 - Geomorphology Before Davis (Routledge Revivals)
or the Development of Geomorphology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
This re-issue, first published in 1964, is the first of a seminal series analysing the development of the study of landforms, from both the geographical and geological point of view, with especial emphasis upon fluvial geomorphology. Volume 1 treats the subject up to the first important statement...
Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find...
Making the Common Core Standards Work
Using Professional Development to Build World-Class Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Essential reading for school leaders!
Providing a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new Common Core State Standards, this practical guide focuses on realistic strategies for lasting change within schools. The authors build an inspiring case for how individual schools can develop...
Balanced Assessment Systems
Leadership, Quality, and the Role of Classroom Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Build a balanced assessment system and support ESSA requirements!
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) increases assessment flexibility and responsibilities for states and districts, and this comprehensive guide helps leaders meet and succeed that challenge. Authors Chappuis, Commodore and...
Violence
Humans in Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world.
The market for this book includes...
by Amanda J. Hanson, Richard J. Witry
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Settled in the late 1840s and incorporated as Niles Centre in 1888, Skokie was founded by immigrants from Germany and Luxembourg who created a small-town rural community filled with farms and greenhouses. A short-lived real estate boom in the 1920s gave Skokie its current boundaries, streets, and sewer...
Simulating Society
A Mathematica®Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An exploration of the basis for social and economic behaviour. Using cellular automata in particular, the authors model various factors that are involved in a system of individuals who interact socially and economically with one another. Computer simulations in the social sciences provide a laboratory...
Look Out! a Philosophy of Revelation
According to Karl Rahner, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
This book is a simplified analytical summary both as a tribute to Karl Rahner and as an aid to all who would like to read his theology with light and ease, and to anyone concerned with 20th century philosophy and theology who is open to genuine listening to a Catholic thinker.
A Time to Keep: a Memoir
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This memoir describes what it was like growing up as the youngest member of a large, boisterous Irish-American family in Massachusetts during the 1940s and 1950s. The author also tells about his experiences as a young naval officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, his work in international communicable...
by Valerie Wallace, Gideon Mailer, Iain Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery....
Divided Brains
The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. A similar basic plan of organisation exists across...
Elusive Utopia
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
by Teresa Hastings, Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Emilio Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Parkinson's Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. In order to find neuroprotective strategies, a clear understanding of the mechanisms involved in the dopaminergic death of cells that progresses the disease is needed. Oxidative stress...