Ann Christopher: 63 books
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
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...
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance
The Bear Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices...
An Introduction to Quantitative Finance
A Three-Principle Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This concise textbook provides a unique framework to introduce Quantitative Finance to advanced undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students. Inspired by Newton's three laws of motion, three principles of Quantitative Finance are proposed to help practitioners also to understand the pricing of...
Best of Beyond the Stars
Beyond the Stars, #5
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
“A blisteringly good collection.”
“Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on.”
“These stories are full of great, complex characters (not all of them human), twists and turns, and fantastic world-building.”
Epic space battles. Exotic aliens. Far-flung...
China on Screen
Cinema and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and...
Take Control of Your Anxiety
A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Do you know what really triggers panic attacks? Are you aware of what thinking patterns create anxiety? Are you a chronic worrier? Have you ever self-medicated with alcohol or tranquilizers?
According to mental health professionals, anxiety disorders have emerged as the common cold of mental...
The Engagement Equation
Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Create a culture of engagement and build high-performance culture
The Engagement Equation explains the drivers of employee engagement, and how you can use improved engagement to execute strategy, reduce costs, and meet your organizational goals. This book describes a unique engagement model...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
by Bryan Borzykowski, Andrew Bell, Matthew Elder
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
The comprehensive, six-books-in-one package Canadian investors can trust with their money
Designed for those investors who are already familiar with the fundamentals of the investment process and are looking to take their finances to the next level, Building Wealth All-in-One For Canadians...
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Working with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...
Undead Tales
15 Thrilling Zombie Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
They're coming for you.
In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...
by F. Scott Scribner, Roseanne Giannini Quinn, Christopher Adamo
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The phrase "beat generation" -- introduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948 -- characterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, and activists created an inimitably American cultural phenomenon that would have a global...
Misfit Children
An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...