Alan Marcus: 15 books
Beyond Cybersecurity
Protecting Your Digital Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Move beyond cybersecurity to take protection of your digital business to the next level
Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business arms your company against devastating online security breaches by providing you with the information and guidance you need to avoid catastrophic data...
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful...
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Technology in America
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution...
by Jaakko Stenros, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Victor Navarro-Remesal
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions.
Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players....
Teaching History with Film
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas...
Teaching History with Film
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Visit any school in the United States and chances are that you will find at least one of the social studies teachers showing a film about history. Along with the textbook, movies are one of the most prominent teaching aids in the history classroom. Yet, when middle and high school history teachers...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
by Alan Jones, Azziza Sphinx, Balogun Ojetade
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
What is the Black Fantastic? It's Sword and Soul, Steamfunk, Cyberfunk, Science Fiction, Real Urban Fantasy, Paranormal and so much more. It's creators from Africa and the African Diaspora expressing and exploring concepts without the boundaries and restrictions often found in the publishing industry....
Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL
Terminus Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Atlanta. ATL. The Rising Phoenix. The City too Busy to Hate. The Black Mecca. Capital of the Deep South. There, between flitting shadows and full moons, exists another world filled with dark creatures, demons, and immortals. Only a thin veil separates the Atlanta you know from this mysterious realm....
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
by Jeremy Stoddard, Alan S. Marcus, David Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Teaching Difficult History through Film explores the potential of film to engage young people in controversial or contested histories and how they are represented, ranging from gender and sexuality, to colonialism and slavery. Adding to the education literature of how to teach and learn difficult...
Teaching History with Museums
Strategies for K-12 Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Teaching History with Museums, Second Edition provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums and historic sites. With a collection of practical strategies and case studies, the authors provide educators with the tools needed to create successful learning experiences...
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