James Scott: 218 books
Reclaiming the Center
Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
"When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty witha proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the resultscan be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for thewell-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding anddecisive relevance for future route-finding...
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Colloquial Cantonese
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Cantonese as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
by Scott M. James
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology and philosophy. The book presents students to the areas of cognitive psychology, normative ethics,...
by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives....
PCI Compliance
Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Identity theft has been steadily rising in recent years, and credit card data is one of the number one targets for identity theft. With a few pieces of key information. Organized crime has made malware development and computer networking attacks more professional and better defenses are necessary...
by John Rakos, Karen Dhanraj, Scott Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Project Management
The one-stop resource for project management documentation and templates for all projects
The success of any project is crucially dependent on the documents produced for it. The Practical Guide to Project Management Documentation provides a complete and reliable source of explanations...
The New Politics of the Old South
An Introduction to Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The New Politics of the Old South, Sixth Edition is available August 2017. Paperback ISBN 9781538100158
Now in its fifth edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern...
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...
by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.
The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...
The Naturalness of Belief
New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...