Barbara J Smith: 26 books

Book cover of USA Noir

USA Noir

Best of the Akashic Noir Series

by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Tim Broderick
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple." --New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014 Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog Included...
Book cover of Public Sociologies Reader
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
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The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

by Sunya T. Collier, Dean Cristol, Sandra Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
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From the Yenisei to the Yukon

Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

by Norman A. Easton, Dr. Robert E. Ackerman, Jacob Baus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
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Authentic Movement

Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

by Suzanne Lovell, David Mars, Sandy Dibbell-Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
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Connecting Teaching and Learning

History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology

by Ronald A. Beghetto, Karen S. Buchanan, Barbara Chesler Buckner
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...
Book cover of Improving organic animal farming
by Dr Mette Vaarst, Dr Stephen Roderick, Dr Susanne Padel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019

Organic animal farming is growing rapidly but faces a range of challenges in areas such as nutrition, health and welfare. This volume surveys the wealth of research addressing these challenges. The book start with a review of organic principles and the key question of the right breeds for organic...
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Learning Culture through Sports

Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

by Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context...
Book cover of The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

The Underground Railroad Brides Collection

9 Couples Navigate the Road to Freedom before the Civil War

by Barbara Tifft Blakey, Ramona K. Cecil, Lynn A. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

Join the journey as nine couples employ daring resourcefulness that leads them along the Underground Railroad in search of freedom and justice for all.  
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Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Theory and Practice across Disciplines

by Helga Nowotny, Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Book cover of Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast

Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast

Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past

by Ralph Bailey, Tracy K. Betsinger, Steven N. Byers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.   Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...
Book cover of Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...
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