J Ryan: 295 books

Book cover of Sport and the Neoliberal University

Sport and the Neoliberal University

Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

by Henry Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, Ryan King-White
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.  The...
Book cover of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One Edition

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One Edition

Famous Outlaw Tales, Cowboy Adventures, Battles & Gold Rush Stories: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, Black Jack…

by Mark Twain, J. Allan Dunn, William MacLeod Raine
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction The Last American Frontier – History of the 'Far West', of the Pioneers & Trailblazers Story of the Cowboy Story of the Outlaw...
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by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Mary Kay McComas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006

Follow four of today’s most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality—and anything can happen. Here they present four paranormal stories of ethereal circumstances, magical romance, and otherworldly suspense. Beginning with "Haunted in Death," a tale from...
Book cover of Down the Rabbit Hole
by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

Some of your favorite romance authors present five stories told through the looking glass—including "Wonderment in Death," a Lieutenant Eve Dallas novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb! You’re late for a very important date... Enter a wonderland...
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Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era

Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943

by Jason Phillips, Robert Nelson, Ryan Cordell
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious...
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Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives

An Original Anthology Magazine

by Fiction River, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River...
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Rhetorical Criticism

Perspectives in Action

by Matthew T. Althouse, William Benoit, Edwin Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...
Book cover of Geeky Giving: A SFF Charity Anthology
by K.B. Spangler, Michael J. Martinez, Mary Robinette Kowal
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

Geeky Giving’s authors—15 bright stars in the science fiction and fantasy community—explore what happens when leading-edge science fuels fiction in this anthology inspired by the work at Barrow Neurological Foundation. In these pages you’ll find authors explore the consequences of targeting...
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In Search of Humanity

Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

by Timothy W. Burns, Paul A. Cantor, Brent Edwin Cusher
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
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Well... It's Your Cow

An Anecdotal Anthology

by Sam Knight, Frances Pauli, R.J.J. Goude
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018

In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story. That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the...
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Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service

by Sayali S. Amarapurkar, Laura Bates, Libby Balter Blume
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...
Book cover of The Frontier of Patriotism

The Frontier of Patriotism

Alberta and the First World War

by David Borys, Juliette Champagne, Brett Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
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Gender in a Transitional Era

Changes and Challenges

by Ashley K. Barrett, Ryan Castillo, Katherine J. Denker
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...
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Inventing Place

Writing Lone Star Rhetorics

by James J. Brown, Megan Gianfagna, Amy Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
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