Strauss: 356 books

Efforts to teach students pursuing graduate degrees in urban and regional planning are often frustrated by the "case books" that have been prepared for use by law professors teaching similar courses. 　Dawn Jourdan and Eric J. Strauss have attempted to take their concerns to heart in the...

Praise for Leading School Turnaround "Going beyond their previous considerable work on the study of leadership, Kenneth Leithwood, Alma Harris, and Tiiu Strauss now get up-close and detailed. They use their powerful framework for how school leaders influence student learning, but this...

Offering immensely practical advice, Basics of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition presents methods that enable researchers to analyze, interpret, and make sense of their data, and ultimately build theory from it. Authors Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss (late of the University of San Francisco and...

The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues. Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...

This stunning novel combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history’s most famous conjoined twins. Born in Siam in 1811—on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River—Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world’s stages...

L'impact de Tristes Tropiques sur la pensée du vingtième siècle est immense. Traduit en 27 langues. L'impact de Tristes Tropiques sur la pensée du vingtième siècle est immense. Pourquoi et comment devient-on ethnologue ? Comment les aventures de l'explorateur et les recherches du savant...

Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the visual poetics of the Iliad as the narrative is envisioned by the poet and rendered visible. It does...

CAN A SAFE HAVEN BE FOUND ON THE SURFACE OF A DEVASTATED POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE WORLD? There was no place on earth. No orphans, wandering toddlers or strange children of any kind would be allowed entry to any tribe. There was insufficient sustenance left for the surviving population to allow for...

Arch Patton, the slightly aging CIA operative, finds himself assigned to a secret mission, ostensibly to secure the freedom of the son of a portly United States Senator, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.The action takes place in the Bering Sea and Russia, opening on Little Diomede...

25,000 years ago a young man, Daryl, comes of age and observes how social structure works. He was not a part of the close-knit social order that held all male members of the tribe together in a nearly invisible grip. The small waves and nods, or even looks of recognition and acceptance, were only...

Thirty Days Has September is set in the very center of the time of most difficult combat experienced by a United States Marine Corps rifle company. During this Second Ten Days the Second Lieutenant, ‘Junior’, only 14 days from training back in the states, is ordered, under fire, to assume command...

This concise edition of the definitive 3-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a fascinating collection of proverbs in 29 languages. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, allowing the reader to identify common trends easily and quickly. * All proverbs...

This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has...

La emocionante continuación de la Trilogía Percepción: Zoe Vanderveen está huyendo con su captor quien se convirtió en su salvador, Noah Brody. Ellos están enamorados. O al menos eso es lo que él le cuenta. Sus recuerdos han vuelto pero sus sentimientos son como un sueño,...