L S Johnson: 39 books
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive
Using Theory to Strengthen Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory, research, and practice. Grounded in organizational and leadership theory, this book helps leaders understand their schools and districts from multiple perspectives...
by V. Santiago Arias, Megan Bassick, Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
by Stephanie Burgis, Anne E. Johnson, Robert Lowell Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he’s willing to kill his younger...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2
Cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Wheat is the most widely cultivated cereal in the world and a staple food for around 3 billion people. It has been estimated that demand for wheat could increase by up to 560% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests and...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2
Cultivation, pest and disease management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
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by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
God Under Fire
Modern Scholarship Reinvents God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
God Never ChangesOr does he? God has been getting a makeover of late, a "reinvention" that has incited debate and troubled scholars and laypeople alike. Modern theological sectors as diverse as radical feminism and the new “open theism” movement are attacking the classical Christian...
El Mundo Zurdo 4
Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...