Jennifer Thomas: 82 books
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
Almost Anorexic
Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Determine if your eating behaviors are a problem, develop strategies to change unhealthy patterns, and learn when and how to get professional help when needed with this practical, engaging guide to taking care of yourself when you are not a full-blown anorexic.
Millions of men and women struggle...
Play and Performance
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from...
by Donna Gaines, Charlotte Akin, Donna Avant
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...
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...
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...
Launch
Starting a New Church from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Starting a church from scratch? Start here! Launch offers specific strategies for beginning a church with no members, no money, and no staff. Readers get clear, practical how-to strategies for quickly raising funds, creating a team, planning services, effective evangelism, and rapidly developing a...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between
Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently...
Militancy and the Arc of Instability
Violent Extremism in the Sahel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
An arc of instability stretching across Africa’s Sahel region, an area of strategic interest for the United States and its allies, is plagued by violent extremist organizations (VEOs). These organizations, including Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and other terror groups, have metastasized and present a serious...
Taking It to the Streets
Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal practices of activism and political resistance. This volume functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and...
by Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Jennie W. Wenger, Jennifer Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This study for the U.S. Marine Corps presents a historical overview of the integration of women into the U.S. military and explores the importance of cohesion and what influences it. The gender integration experiences of foreign militaries, as well as the gender integration efforts of domestic police...