Christopher D Brown: 14 books
by Christopher D. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This easy-to-use primer will empower anyone—even those with no IT background—to face the challenge of adding one or more technologies to library services or maintaining existing technologies.
• Offers librarians a one-stop resource for managing basic technology issues in their facilities
•...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Beyond Sense and Sensibility
Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of later eighteenth-century British authors...
Play
How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives
We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing...
by Deering, Rachel; Jordan, Justin; Bunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new original terror tales from the darkest and most brilliant minds in comics and prose. Featuring an introduction by American Vampire, The Wake, and Severed writer Scott Snyder, and a frightful feature on the history of horror comics, through their rotten rise and dreadful decline by comic book historian Mike Howlett!
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Mark D. Brewer, Richard Powell, Chad Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic...
Race and News
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...
A Journey of Words
35 Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world.
In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last...
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...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...
by Dr Adam S. Davis, Dr Bruce Maxwell, Prof. David R. Clements
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Summarises latest research on IWM principles and methods
Assesses current challenges facing herbicide use
Detailed review of the range of cultural, physical and biological methods of control available for IWM.
by Steven D Nathan, A Whitney Brown, Christopher S King
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This clinically focused pocket guide offers a concise yet complete overview of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, covering the most recent information on aspects such as pathophysiology, management, treatment, and clinical trials. The text is easily accessible and offers pulmonologists and other health...