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by Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg, Becky L. Spritz, Malorie L. Dimler
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The number of intervention options available for children with autism can be overwhelming for parents. This book provides brief, user-friendly descriptions of the most commonly publicized treatments for autism, summarizing the available information in an objective and accessible way.
Each short...
by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment....
The Ocean of Livingness
Opening to Celebrate Cosmic Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
The unfolding of the Cosmos is a single, uninterrupted creative event from the Big Bang to us. Quantum Physics is telling us these days that the universe is not a collection of separate objects floating and colliding in space, but a single web of total inter-connection. Thus, there are no boundaries...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
by T.G. Fraser, C. D. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
American foreign policy is fundamental to any understanding of how the post-war world has been shaped. This insightful and wide-ranging book analyses the policies pursued by each presidency from that of Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and reviews the far-reaching consequences of these actions. Taking...
'Only Nixon'
His Trip to China Revisited and Restudied
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These...
Key States, High Stakes
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
How Your Surgeon Feels
Lifetime Essays in the Art and Science of Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that...
Labor and Capital in the Age of Globalization
The Labor Process and the Changing Nature of Work in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies - from auto to steel to agriculture - as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third...
Make Learning Fun!
Activities to Develop Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Make Learning Fun! Activities to Develop Creativity is a compilation of problems used in the Odyssey of the Mind creative problem-solving competitions. It includes 11 long-term problems and 48 spontaneous problems. It also includes an introductory chapter by problem writer and program founder Dr. Sam...
Theistic Evolution
A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...