Robert Michael: 494 books
School Leadership for Results
Shifting the Focus of Leader Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
School leaders significantly impact student achievement, but they need support, training, vision, and tools to be truly effective. In School Leadership for Results: Shifting the Focus of Leader Evaluation, education authorities Beverly Carbaugh, Robert Marzano, and Michael Toth discuss transforming...
Teacher Evaluation That Makes a Difference
A New Model for Teacher Growth and Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J. Marzano and teacher-effectiveness expert Michael D. Toth lay out a framework for the “next generation” of teacher evaluation: a model focused primarily on helping educators develop and improve their practice. By taking into...
by Robert N. Wilkin, Thomas R. Schreiner, James D. G. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Through a discussion of Biblical texts, this book presents four perspectives on the role of works at the final judgment including:
Robert N. Wilkin: Works will determine rewards but not salvation: At the Judgment Seat of Christ each believer will be judged by Christ to determine his eternal rewards,...
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
Taking the Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...
Jammed Up
Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own—especially personnel...
The Surge
2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...
by Huw Price, Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his...
by Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...
by Robert A. Peterson, Michael D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
What's wrong with Arminianism? Arminian theology is sweeping through the evangelical churches of North America. While most Arminians are good, sincere, orthodox Christians, authors Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams contend that aspects of Arminian thought are troubling both biblically and...
The Political Economy of a Plural World
Critical reflections on Power, Morals and Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Building on his seminal contributions to the field, Robert W. Cox engages with the major themes that have characterized his work over the past three decades, and the main topics which affect the globalized world at the start of the twentieth-century. This new volume by one of the world's leading critical...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Foreign Affairs Federalism
The Myth of National Exclusivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Challenging the myth that the federal government exercises exclusive control over U.S. foreign-policymaking, Michael J. Glennon and Robert D. Sloane propose that we recognize the prominent role that states and cities now play in that realm. Foreign Affairs Federalism provides the first comprehensive...