Kathryn: 2617 books
For the Love of Animals
The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals
In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine—the idea of animal protection was dismissed...
Early Childhood Teacher Research
From Questions to Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
What is early childhood teacher research and why is it important? How does a teacher researcher formulate a research question and a plan for doing research? How do teachers apply research results to effect change? Early Childhood Teacher Research is an exciting new resource that will address the sorts...
Capitalism and Citizenship
The Impossible Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Can capitalism and citizenship co-exist? In recent years advocates of the Third Way have championed the idea of public-spirited capitalism as the antidote to the many problems confronting the modern world. This book develops a multi-disciplinary theory of citizenship, exploring the human abilities...
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.
Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot,...
B Is for Botox
An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Remember when A was for apple? Well, now (sigh) A is for aging.The A, B, Cs of adulthood differ ever so slightly from the popular grade school primers of the past inside Ross and Kathryn Petras's B Is for Botox: An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged. This hilarious board book has a fun, retro...
by Kathryn Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us the gift of God's own life. This simple claim provides the basis for Kathryn Tanner's powerful study of the centrality of Jesus Christ for all Christian thought and...
by Kathryn, Kuhlman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1996
Kathryn Kuhlman believed in miraclesthis belief - so strongsincere - enabled thousands to take hold of God's power for their lives during her lengthy career as a healing evangelist.
by Kathryn Irish
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book provides a resource for locating surface anatomy structures of the pelvis, hip, knee, ankle, and foot. Based on demonstrations by physical therapy students at Eastern Washington University.
I Hear My People Singing
Voices of African American Princeton
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residents
I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns—Princeton, New Jersey. The...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
Singular and Plural
Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn Woolard develops a framework...
Activists beyond Borders
Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples...
Evidence for Hope
Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work
Evidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that...
Ritual Gone Wrong
What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual mistakes that exist in the...