Beth Scott: 15 books
Haunted Heritage
A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
Heralded across the country in newspapers ranging from The New York Times Book Review and The Baltimore Sun to The Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Denver Post, and in magazines as diverse as Chicago and Library Journal, the Haunted America series has attracted widespread acclaim as a virtual spectral...
by Michael Norman, Beth Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battle-field specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, DC.
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by Michael Norman, Beth Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Continuing the success of the nationally acclaimed Haunted America, Historic Haunted America is a further investigation into North American ghost legends.
This chilling collection documents yesterday's and today's most terrifying hauntings in the United States and Canada in more than seventy-five...
by Fred H. Cate, Katie Shilton, Simon DeDeo
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations...
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American...
Trains, Literature, and Culture
Reading and Writing the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of...
by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers—including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis—come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting.
It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby...
by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Life is full of decision points—those key moments when what we decide can change everything for better or for worse. These 20 tales describe such instances in young people’s lives, ranging from tragic to triumphant, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. Written by authors new and old, those...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Implementing Virtual Reference Services
A LITA Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Social web technologies present an often confusing array of options for answering user reference questions. Applying 20 years’ experience as a reference librarian working through the development of virtual reference and the integration of new tools and technologies into the industry, Thomsett-Scott...
Mysterion
Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found in some of the strange and unexplained passages of the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and seraphim, heroes and giants and more. There is no reason for fiction engaging with Christianity...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
Planning in Reverse
A Viable Approach to Organizational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process. What is needed for organizations to thrive in this new environment of change and uncertainty is a short-term approach for long-term viability. In...
The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
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