Timothy: 2930 books
Curbing Catastrophe
Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book presents a compelling account of recent and historical disasters, both natural and human-caused, drawing out common themes and providing a holistic understanding...
On Grades and Grading
Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of...
European Social Movements and Muslim Activism
Another World but with Whom?
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
How do progressive social movements deal with religious pluralism? In this book, Timothy Peace uses the example of the alter-globalisation movement to explain why social movement leaders in Britain and France reacted so differently to the emergence of Muslim activism.
Effective Crisis Communication
Moving From Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In this fully updated Fourth Edition of Effective Crisis Communication, three of today’s most respected crisis/risk communication scholars provide the latest theories and innovative approaches for handling crisis. Unlike other crisis communication texts, this acclaimed book answers the question,...
Mandela's Kinsmen
Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First Bantustan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Mandela's Kinsmen is the first study of the fraught relationships between the ANC leadership and their relatives who ruled apartheid's foremost "tribal" Bantustan, the Transkei. In the early 20th century, the chieftaincies had often been well-springs of political leadership. In the Transkei,...
by Timothy Nix
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Follow the adventures of our former stoner, Tim, as he grows up from his innocent childhood in Alabama, to his adolescent adventures on the streets of Chicago, to his drug addiction troubles and mental illness in Indiana, to his painful recovery after suffering severe burns across his body in Wisconsin, until he finally ends up a mature and responsible man back home again in Alabama.
The God-Shaped Heart
How Correctly Understanding God's Love Transforms Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The key to spiritual and emotional health is to grasp the truth of God's transforming love for us and then let that reality influence our own hearts and relationships. It seems simple, but we are experts at complicating simple things. Instead of living lives characterized by love we find ourselves...
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged...
by Timothy Burns, George Anastaplo, Laurence D. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
mate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail, variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare. Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor...
by Bolaji O. Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Jephthah, was born by a socially rejected woman, faced all kinds of discrimination, pushed out of his father’s house without a share in the inheritance. Despite this, he still attained such a prestigious height and fulfilled the purpose of leading his country at such a crucial time. How did he get...
Cities of Oil
Municipalities and Petroleum Manufacturing in Southern Ontario, 1860-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Cities of Oil is the first sustained historical account of the development of the early Canadian petroleum refining and manufacturing industry. In it, Timothy W. Cobban documents the industry’s development in southern Ontario, from its beginnings in the 1850s to its later expansion on the outskirts...
Veneer
Living Deeply in a Surface Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The world has a love affair—with itself. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, we think of ourselves as mini celebrities, and we use consumption and technology to convince our friends that this facade is who we are. Veneer illustrates that consumption is more than just acquiring more stuff; it...
by Dr.Timothy Sng
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Y2K Alert came as we crossed over from 1999 to 2000, and whimpered out as mankind was unscathed, realizing that billions were spent upgrading the systems, perhaps unnecessarily.
What is not known to billions, and not taken seriously by the same number is the impending "J2C Alert!",...
Empire of Conspiracy
The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...