Elizabeth George: 244 books
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
by Authors: Hans A. Baer, Sherry Baker, Brian D. Birch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In The Little Book of Mormon, eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousnessand public controversy. Now, as a Mormon politician attempts...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
by Jay Howard, Angelica Pangan, Annie Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
A new collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction from the talented members of Words and Water Group. This international group was formed in 2013 to encourage donations to WaterAid. In 2014 there are contributions from many of the original members, and new members have joined. In this very...
The Future of Prejudice
Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.
Race and Crime
Geographies of Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and...
High Literacy in Secondary English Language Arts
Bridging the Gap to College and Career
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote...
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings,...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt.
This new edition explores...
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...
by Elizabeth Lewis And George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Piety, Politics, and Pluralism
Religion, the Courts, and the 2000 Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Piety, Politics, and Pluralism skillfully confronts the question: Is liberal democracy hostile to religion or is it compatible with the rights of believers? Prominent scholars analyze the controversy about religious freedom by examining two areas at the intersection of religion and politics in contemporary...