Catherine Scott: 33 books
State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant...
by Joanna Catherine Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
From the award-winning author of The Road from Chapel Hill, a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the days following the Civil War.
Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed author Joanna Catherine Scott explores the terrain of a devastated South, where the war is...
by Catherine Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Seeing people through God’s eyes is a very humbling experience. Listening to people face their life’s challenges has taught me to attend to the soul work that so enhances one’s understanding of self and one’s deepest understandings. The body has simply to release the barnacles we’ve gathered...
Later Than Expected
Great Expectations Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Ben Blackbird has always been there for everyone else. He took care of his mother and sisters when his alcoholic father didn’t. He raised his son alone when his wife got sick and eventually died from breast cancer. Ben has been his family’s rock in every crisis situation. He loved his life,...
The Exile
The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.
From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads....
by Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott, Catherine Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The last two decades have seen a dramatic growth in the proportion of families headed by women. Most of these families are poor and include dependent children--causing the development of a large underprivileged class across the western world. This book explores the causes and implications of this...
by Joanna Catherine Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Eugenia Mae Spotswood, the daughter of a failed aristocrat, longs to regain the life she lost. The slave Tom wants one thing: freedom. After becoming the property of Eugenia Mae, a dangerous affection grows. But he learns freedom is not something she can give him - he must fight for it himself.
Clyde...
by Joanna Catherine Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this affecting and brave novel, the mother of three adopted Korean children tries to help them discover their birth parents. But what factual information she's provided doesn't coincide with what the oldest child remembers — and knows is true. It is painfully clear that the children's history is lost.
Learn to Teach
Teach to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Learn to Teach explores the most up-to-date findings on how children learn, to help teachers create effective learning environments and plan for teaching. Drawing on a neo-Vygotskian approach to learning, it covers the purpose of education; socio-cultural approaches to human cognition; attention and...
Thinking Kink
The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
When the mildly kink-themed trilogy 50 Shades of Grey became popular reading in 2012, the media speculated that feminism was in reverse, as the public went mad over bondage and discipline, domination and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM). The novels provoked academic debate about BDSM and the issues...
Principles of Trauma Therapy
A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment ( DSM-5 Update)
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Thoroughly updated with DSM-5 content throughout, Principles of Trauma Therapy, Second Edition: DSM-5 Update is both comprehensive in scope and highly practical in application. This popular text provides a creative synthesis of cognitive-behavioral, relational, affect regulation, mindfulness, and...
To Deprave and Corrupt
Obscenity Battles in British Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Thousands have run afoul of Britain’s Obscene Publications Act—from Victorian erotica presses to 21st-century dominatrices. At a time when the internet has made sexually explicit material ubiquitous, why are British traditional media still regulated by a vaguely worded law from 1857? This comprehensive...
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...