Deborah Wilson: 11 books
Not Your Mother's Vampire
Vampires in Young Adult Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Examining young adult vampire fiction and how it fits in both the contemporary and classic vampire canon, the book's analysis begins with a primer on vampire scholarship, including a brief deconstruction of ten seminal vampire representations-five literary, five cinematic-and their impact on young...
by Deborah Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed class.
Solus Jesus
A Theology of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
If you read one book this year about the future of Christianity, then choose this book. Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation claimed the Bible as the authoritative guide for Christian living (“Sola Scriptura!” Only Scripture!). In this groundbreaking work, Emily Swan and Ken Wilson...
The Stone Soup Experiment
Why Cultural Boundaries Persist
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Stone Soup Experiment is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them can be dismantled. In a compulsively readable account,...
Library as Safe Haven
Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery; A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Libraries have always played a special role in times of disaster by continuing to provide crucial information and services. The Stafford Act of 2011, a federal government directive, designates libraries as among the temporary facilities delivering essential services, making a Continuity of Operations...
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
Health and Physical Education
Preparing Educators for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Health and Physical Education empowers the health and physical education teachers of tomorrow to engage students across a wide range of learning ages. It highlights the importance of physical skills development within the broader structure of child and adolescent maturity. This well-structured and...
Health and Physical Education
Preparing Educators for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Health and physical education encompasses the development of movement competence and health literacies crucial to child and adolescent health and wellbeing. Health and Physical Education: Preparing Educators for the Future, 2nd edition continues to offer a comprehensive overview of the knowledge,...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which...