Christine Jones: 28 books

Book cover of The Owl Keeper
by Christine Brodien-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

Maxwell Unger has always loved the night. He used to do brave things like go tramping through the forest with his gran after dark. He loved the stories she told him about the world before the Destruction—about nature, and books, and the silver owls. His favorite story, though, was about the Owl...
Book cover of The Glass Puzzle
by Christine Brodien-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

Eleven-year-old Zoé Badger, imaginative, carefree and adventurous, lives a transient life, moving with her mother from one town to the next—except for summers, when she stays with her granddad in Tenby, Wales. But when she and her cousin Ian discover a glass puzzle that's been hidden away for decades,...
Book cover of The Scorpions of Zahir
by Christine Brodien-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes. But Zagora would...
Book cover of Inman Park
by Christine V. Marr, Sharon Foster Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008

The story of Inman Park, Atlanta�s first planned suburb, is one closely tied with transportation ingenuity, trade, and the progressive determination of its citizens. Situated two miles east of downtown Atlanta, Inman Park was farmland when the Civil War ravaged its rolling hills. In the 1890s, Inman...
Book cover of Counterinsurgency in Pakistan
by Seth G. Jones, C. Christine Fair
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010

Pakistan has undertaken a number of operations against militant groups since 2001. There have been some successes, but such groups as al Qa'ida continue to present a significant threat to Pakistan, the United States, and other countries. Pakistan needs to establish a population-centric counterinsurgency...
Book cover of Secret Sheffield
by Professor Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Melvyn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities and for having the biggest shopping centre in Europe, yet there is so much more to know about this proud...
Book cover of The Child in World Cinema
by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege...
Book cover of Domestic Violence and Protecting Children

Domestic Violence and Protecting Children

New Thinking and Approaches

by Joanne Westwood, Nicola Farrelly, Lorraine Radford
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015

In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection. This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services...
Book cover of Innovations in Higher Education

Innovations in Higher Education

Igniting the Spark for Success

by Linda L. Baer, David Bonsall, Jeff Bonsall
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Book cover of From Glad (& Sometimes Sad) to Verse
by Christine Bridson-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

A collection of verses inspired by personal experience, observation or written for entry to poetry competitions.
Book cover of Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing
by Christine Kenyon-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Exploring the significance of animals in Romantic-period writing, this new study shows how in this period they were seen as both newly different from humankind (subjects in their own right, rather than simply humanity's tools or adjuncts) and also as newly similar, with the ability to feel and perhaps...
Book cover of A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States

by Peter McLaren, Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under...
Book cover of The Criminalization of States

The Criminalization of States

The Relationship between States and Organized Crime

by Sigrid Arzt, Bruce Bagley, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Book cover of Mother Goose Refigured

Mother Goose Refigured

A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

by Christine A. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (“Stories or Tales of the Past”) in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first “vogue” of tales produced by learned French writers. The genre that we now know so well was new and an uncommon kind of literature in the epic...
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