J Thornton: 24 books
by Walker J Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Inviting Desire, A Guide for Women Who Want to Enhance Their Sex Life, is your guide to creating a sexier, more alive, and in touch you—at midlife and beyond. It features matter-of-fact, open conversations about sex and sexuality that reflect the reality of midlife women. Using a 30-day format,...
by Stephen J. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and...
The Developing Role of Islamic Banking and Finance
From Local to Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This volume is designed to present a conceptual and practical illustration for the contemporary developing role of Islamic Banking and Finance components including Islamic Banking, Non Islamic Banking (Takaful and Financial Markets Tools and Products.) with stronger focus directed to the regulatory...
Living and Working with Schizophrenia
Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
For the families of schizophrenics, fear, guilt, frustration, and despair can become part of daily life. Several years ago the authors of this volume established a program at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto to help the families of schizophrenics cope with the sometimes debilitating emotions...
The 434 Revolution
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
by Tiyi M. Morris, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide...
by Stephen J. Thornton, Bárbara C. Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address them in the social studies classroom. The authors offer context-specific strategies for...
by N J Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In this contemporary collection of poetry, thoughts, and literate ramblings, an array of emotional sentiments are explored aside a unique perspective of the world we live in – including nature’s seasons, concepts of time and a sensory melange.
Politics and Power in a Slave Society
Alabama, 1800--1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society...
Archipelagoes of My South
Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
"The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a land made into solitary islands by an imprisoned and inherited corruption is historian J. Mills Thornton III’s...
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
Pastoral Bearings
Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to elucidate how 'ordinary' men and women in all times and places draw on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians_like...
Beautiful Country
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team.
Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older...
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