Jeffrey R : 193 books
Turning the Page
Book Culture in the Digital Age—Essays, Reflections, Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
American Book Review is not just a book review—it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publication was relocated to Victoria, Texas, where cultural critic and philosopher Jeffrey R. Di Leo became editor and publisher. Turning the Page collects Di Leo’s...
Comparing Groups
Randomization and Bootstrap Methods Using R
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A hands-on guide to using R to carry out key statistical practices in educational and behavioral sciences research
Computing has become an essential part of the day-to-day practice of statistical work, broadening the types of questions that can now be addressed by research scientists applying...
by Jeffrey R. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
“Broken Things to Mend inspires us to maintain hope and to rivet our attention on the one who has the power to heal us.” — Desert Saints Magazine Most of us feel broken at some time or another. We face personal trials and family struggles. We get discouraged and downhearted. Many are enduring conflicts...
FastLane
Managing Science in the Internet World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing came together...
by Jeffrey R. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Some people have a fate, and some a destiny. Taylor's preference would have been a humble destiny, one with friends, family and good works. But fate has chosen to give her a darker path, regardless of her choices.
To My Friends
Messages of Counsel and Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"If you need a burden lifted, I want you to imagine I am in a personal, private, closed-door chat with you. I want to help you if I can." With those words, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland invites every reader of his latest book to become a friend, to receive instruction and encouragement, counsel and comfort.Elder...
Freedom's Seekers
Essays on Comparative Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
Drawing on decades of research...
Raised Right
Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians?
Raised Right pursues these...
The End of Exceptionalism in American Education
The Changing Politics of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Over the past fifty years, the “special status” of education decision-making has been eroded. Once the province of local and state school boards, decisions about schools and schooling have begun to emerge in every level and branch of government. In The End of Exceptionalism in American Education,...
by Jeffrey R. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
"Often in our most difficult times the only thing we can do is endure. We may have no idea what the final cost in suffering or sacrifice may be, but we can vow never to give up. In doing so we will learn that there is no worthy task so great nor burden so heavy that will not yield to our perseverance....
Choosing Death
Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties...
Academe Degree Zero
Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today. These include the nature and limits of anonymity in academic discourse, the ways in which affiliation and prestige temper academic judgement, and the role...
Corporate Humanities in Higher Education
Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.
Fixing American Government
Ending Gridlock and Apathy with a 21st Century Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015