Thomas Vincent: 49 books
by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...
by Andrew G. Biggs, Mark J. Browne, Barry K. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
As America debates the merits of government-provided health insurance, it is important to note that the U.S. government is already the largest insurance provider in the world. For decades, it has used taxpayer funds to support the world's largest health care insurance programs (Medicare and Medicaid)...
College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
by Michael Mr. Marrese, Mark Mr. Lutz, Tapio Mr. Saavalainen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1995
Four papers analyze the process of transition to a market economy in the Baltics, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia through early 1995.
by Suzanne W. Vincent, Jason S. Ridler, Rebecca Roland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies
Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence...
PostGIS Cookbook
Store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Create and manage spatial data with PostGIS
Key Features
Import and export geographic data from the PostGIS database using the available tools
Maintain, optimize, and fine-tune spatial data for long-term viability
Utilize the parallel support functionality that was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6
Book...
Critical Incident Management
A Complete Response Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines, but in recent years, the response to these events has received heightened media scrutiny. Critical Incident Management: A Complete Resource Guide, Second Edition provides evidence-based, tested, and proven methodologies applicable to a host of scenarios t
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LBM-Guerillas Shortest Stories Vol. 1
Language: German
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Stell dir vor, du sollst in 500 Wörtern von Kunst erzählen. Oder von Natur. Vielleicht ist dein Thema auch Reise. Oder liegt dir Kirche näher? 18 Lese-Guerillas haben sich der Herausforderung gestellt und Kürzest-Geschichten verfasst, die sie wie jedes Jahr am Buchmessenfreitag in Leipzig vortragen...
Dunkle Seiten V
Horror, Mystery und Dark Fantasy
Language: German
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Nachdem das Quartett der Dunkle Seiten komplett war und sich die Seiten der Dunkelheit schlossen, kehrte eine Periode des Ruhens und des Friedens ein. Aber auch eine Zeit des Wartens - des Wartens darauf, dass sich Dunkle Seiten wieder öffnen. Nun ist es soweit. Das Siegel wurde gebrochen und Band...
Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists
Experience and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars...
Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...
Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood
International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.
In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...