William Ryan: 79 books
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Governance as Leadership
Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards.
Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between...
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
Rhetorical Criticism
Perspectives in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...
Fiction River: Moonscapes
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical...
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
by William Shakespeare, Kiernan Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters. In the scheming...
Well... It's Your Cow
An Anecdotal Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.
That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the...
Sex Trafficking
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced...
Queering Elementary Education
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Experiencing Loss and Bereavement
Theory and Compassionate Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Exploring contemporary theory and practice surrounding loss and bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), this book brings together international contributors with a range of academic, professional and personal experience.
This authoritative edited book looks at diverse experiences...