S S Knight: 48 books
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
A Human Dumping Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in...
by Liz S. Alexander, Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, Rabiatu Ammah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project...
Walk Away
When the Political Left Turns Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but...
by Randall Knight B.S. L.L.B L.L.M.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book focuses upon cybercrime activity in the United States and abroad. I have explored the problems that have arisen since the induction of the Internet. Discussing the realities of malicious attacks against the United States infrastructure, cyber terrorism, and white collar crimes. The goal...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Considers Gilman's place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era.
By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Rural Revolt in Mexico
U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1998
Rural Revolt in Mexico is a historical investigation of how subaltern political activity engages imperialism, capitalism, and the United States. In this volume, Daniel Nugent has gathered a group of leading scholars whose work examines the relationship of revolts by peasants and Indians in Mexico...
Gender in a Transitional Era
Changes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...
by Doris O'Connor, Sandra Bunino, Susan Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Does the sight of a cop’s badge—or his handcuffs—make your pulse race? Do you drive by your local firehouse just to catch a glimpse of your favorite fireman? Ever peek in the cockpit just to check out the captain?
If you agree the only thing sexier than a man in uniform is a man out of...
The Best Homemade Baby Food For Your 10-11 Month Old
Know What Goes Into Every Bite with More Than 200 of the Most Deliciously Nutritious Homemade Baby Food Recipes-Includes More Than 60 Purees Your Baby Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Top of Its Class!
The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet was nominated for the 2012 International Association of Culinary Professionals annual Cookbook Awards competition. Considered the gold standard among cookbook awards and widely lauded as the most selective in the industry, the...
The Best Homemade Baby Food For Your 8-9 Month Old
Know What Goes Into Every Bite with More Than 200 of the Most Deliciously Nutritious Homemade Baby Food Recipes-Includes More Than 60 Purees Your Baby Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Top of Its Class!
The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet was nominated for the 2012 International Association of Culinary Professionals annual Cookbook Awards competition. Considered the gold standard among cookbook awards and widely lauded as the most selective in the industry, the...
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...