Roland Jackson: 4 books

Book cover of The Ascent of John Tyndall

The Ascent of John Tyndall

Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual

by Roland Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism, acoustics, and bacteriology....
Book cover of Performance Practice

Performance Practice

A Dictionary-Guide for Musicians

by Roland Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book cover of Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy
by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved...
Book cover of Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
by Megan Armstrong, Imran Iwan, Roland Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
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