J Taylor: 261 books
Transformative Conversations
A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Praise for Transformative Conversations
"In the 'superstorm' of writings about the crisis in higher education this little gem of a book stands out like a mindfulness bell. It calls us back to the only thing that truly matters—the energy and wisdom buried in the minds and hearts of dedicated...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Evaluating Online Teaching
Implementing Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Create a more effective system for evaluating online faculty
Evaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administrators need. The authors...
Wading Through Many Voices
Toward a Theology of Public Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....
by J. Glen Taylor, Mark W. Chavalas, Philip S. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you...
Jewish Pastoral Care 2/E
A Practical Handbook from Traditional & Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
T****he first comprehensive resource for pastoral care in the Jewish tradition—and a vital resource for counselors and caregivers of other faith traditions.
The essential reference for rabbis, cantors, and laypeople who are called to spiritually accompany those encountering joy, sorrow, and...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
by Sacchi Green, Pascall Scott, Victoria Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
More than six hundred women-most likely many more-passed as men to fight in the American Civil War, and that's not counting the nurses and spies. In WWI women served as nurses and ambulance drivers, and in Russia Maria Boskareva's Women's Battalion of Death was not the only group of female fighters....
by J.E. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Ty Ryan’s downward spiral started the day his mother met Jacob Aris.
An unexpected romance between the emergency room nurse and the multi-billionaire plunges Ty into the wealthy world of entitlement, secrets and lies.
When tragedy strikes, leaving Ty and his siblings at the mercy of...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
by Martin C. Libicki, Howard J. Shatz, Julie E. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and human capital;...
by Olek C Zienkiewicz, Robert L Taylor, J.Z. Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals offers a complete introduction to the basis of the finite element method, covering fundamental theory and worked examples in the detail required for readers to apply the knowledge to their own engineering problems and understand more advanced applications.
This...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...
