A A Smith: 616 books
Growing Up Postmodern
Neoliberalism and the War on the Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular...
by Katherine Elaine Bliss, Sarah A. Buck, Stephanie E. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing...
Jesus, Our Man in Glory
12 Messages from the Book of Hebrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Originally preached as part of a 40-sermon series shortly before his death, Jesus, Our Man in Glory, by A. W. Tozer covers the first half of the book of Hebrews.
Tozer told his congregation in Chicago before preaching this series that he would show the eternal glories of Jesus Christ, the Son...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
Co-opting Culture
Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of 'cultural studies'. Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable...
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
Campaign Finance Reform
The Political Shell Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially...
The Comprehensive Autism Planning System (CAPS) for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome, Autism and Related Disabilities
Integrating Best Practices Throughout the Student’s Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
This comprehensive, yet easy-to-use system allows educators to understand how and when to implement an instructional program for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The CAPS model answers the questions (a) What supports does my student/child need in each class to be successful? (b) What goals...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
Automotive Engineering
Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field.
An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication
Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries.
Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic...
American Rebirth: Civil War, National Recovery, and Prosperity
Civil War, National Recovery, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civil War (covering the year 1865), Janie’s Freedom:...
by Stanley K. Smith, Jeff Tayman, David A. Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and microsimulation. It covers the...