Jason Smith: 51 books
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Radical Conflict
Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...
by Ron Marz, Michael Broussard, Chris Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Separately, 13 Artifacts guide the fate of the universe. Together, 13 Artifacts will end the universe.
by Ron Marz, Michael Broussard, Chris Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Separately, 13 Artifacts guide the fate of the universe. Together, 13 Artifacts will end the universe.
by Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Just in time for the twentieth anniversary of Clerks! Destroy anything and everything with the help of this illustrated collection of blueprints concocted by the legendary characters Jay and Silent Bob.
Need to destroy self-doubt? How about the glass ceiling? Or maybe your aims are less lofty,...
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...
The Rolling Stones
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting...
by Jason Scott Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New Dealers were not 'anticapitalist'...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Ricardo Acuna, Bob Barnetson, Sara Dorow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces...
by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership,...
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...
Are We Born Racist?
New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Where do our prejudices come from? Why are some people more biased than others? Is it possible for individuals, and society as a whole, to truly defeat prejudice? In these pages, leading scientists, psychologists, educators, activists, and many others offer answers, drawing from new scientific discoveries...
Reclaiming Adoption
Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets...