J Ryan: 295 books
by Gary L. Kreps, Allan D. Peterkin, Karina Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions about health care disparities and insurance reform. The perspectives and needs of LGBT people should...
by Nathaniel Cadle, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...
by M J P Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
With soft green grass beneath your feet and nothing but vapour trails in the sky above, relax with ten tales from a warm English summer, wiled away at a restful car boot sale.
Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease
Expert Consult - Online
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease is your comprehensive, go-to resource on the health conditions that arise in the tropics! From infectious diseases through environmental issues, poisoning and toxicology, animal injuries, and nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies, this...
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
by Danielle M. Stern, William E. Loges, Steve Granelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming;...
Putting Image Repair to the Test
Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
*Putting Image Repair to the Test:*Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image repair discourse, its effects, and the surrounding discourse. The contributors provide empirical data...
by James McRae, Renee Kohler-Ryan, Sydney Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Ang Lee (b. 1954) has emerged as one of cinema's most versatile, critically acclaimed, and popular directors. Known for his ability to transcend cultural and stylistic boundaries, Lee has built a diverse oeuvre that includes films about culture clashes and globalization ( Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994,...
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
Taming Intuition
How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The success of democratic governance hinges on an electorate's ability to reward elected officials who act faithfully and punish those who do not. Yet there is considerable variation among voters in their ability to objectively evaluate representatives' performance. In this book the authors develop...
by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader...
by Major Ryan J. Bulger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The focus of this work is to ascertain whether the concept of operational shock, which has served as the intellectual underpinning of the US Army’s doctrine over the past thirty years, can be used to guide an operational approach in a counterinsurgency campaign. The concept of operational shock...
Contested Loyalty
Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars on the critical questions of patriotism and loyalty in the Union