S Michael O: 42 books
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 Dr O. Huguenin-Elie, Dr L. Delaby, Dr K. Klumpp
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Assesses latest research on how grasslands function
Surveys best practice in sustainable grassland management
Considers wider aspects of sustainability such as ecosystem services and biodiversity
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
by Inês Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia...
American Catholics and Civic Engagement
A Distinctive Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 2
Improving cultivation of particular grain legumes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
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by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since...
Through the Gender Lens
A Century of Social and Political Development in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Sustainable development is now intricately linked not just to economic growth, but more importantly, to the quality of life of people in terms of their social status, political participation, cultural freedom, environmental justice and inclusive development. For previously colonized nations like Nigeria,...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Living with Bipolar Disorder:A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and to become expert partners in the management of this challenging disorder. Drawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug treatments with behavioral...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...