Amy Brown: 42 books

Book cover of Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Melissa Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Book cover of A Daily Women's Devotional
by Donna Gaines, Charlotte Akin, Donna Avant
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...
Book cover of African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
by Brandee Appling, Elizabeth Auguste, Christopher T. Belser
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
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Inventing Place

Writing Lone Star Rhetorics

by James J. Brown, Megan Gianfagna, Amy Young
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...
Book cover of Explorer's Guide Austin, San Antonio, & the Hill Country (Third Edition) (Explorer's Complete)
by Amy K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

See just how much the Lone Star State has to offer There is much natural and cultural diversity to be found in the heart of one of the country’s most notable and beloved states. This guide focuses on beautiful, vibrant, and distinct Austin, San Antonio, and the Hill Country. Texas is known...
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Global Politics of Health Reform in Africa

Performance, Participation, and Policy

by Amy Barnes, G. Brown, S. Harman
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014

Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding modalities and participation are used to shape health reform in African countries as well as the role of African actors, global policy elites and international donors within these processes.
Book cover of Memory and the Future

Memory and the Future

Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society

by Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown, Amy Sodaro
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010

For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.
Book cover of Out of Many, One People

Out of Many, One People

The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica

by Ainsley Henriques, Mark W. Hauser, James A. Delle
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...
Book cover of Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

by Andrew Bernstein, Walter Block, Susan Love Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...
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Rethinking Disaster Recovery

A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

by Elizabeth Fussell, Timothy J. Haney, James R. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
Book cover of Taking Offence on Social Media

Taking Offence on Social Media

Conviviality and Communication on Facebook

by Caroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant, Amy Aisha Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017

This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of...
Book cover of Organizational Fit

Organizational Fit

Key Issues and New Directions

by Amy L. Kristof-Brown, Jon Billsberry
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

An ambitious survey of the field, by an international group of scholars, that looks toward the future of person-organization fit. Explores how people form their impressions of fit and the impact these have on their behavior, and how companies can maximize fit Includes multiple perspectives on...
Book cover of Explorer's Guide Austin, San Antonio & the Texas Hill Country: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)
by Amy K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013

The free-spirited, unpretentious Texas Hill Country is a treasure. Central Texas is an unpretentious, free-spirited region filled with treasured taquerias, hallowed music venues, juicy BBQ, and revered natural wonders. A non-stop schedule of cultural festivals makes for year-round revelry....
Book cover of Backroads & Byways of Texas (Third Edition) (Backroads & Byways)
by Amy K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018

Soak up the breathtaking Lone Star State, one drive at a time From the rustic charm of the Hill Country to the mountains, deserts, and stunning sunsets of West Texas, the plains and canyons of the Panhandle to the sandy dunes of the Gulf Coast, the diversity of Texas will astound you. This...
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