M L Young: 22 books
by M.L. Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Having just graduated from grad school, Jen is having a bit of a quarter-life crisis. She doesn't want to stay in Kansas City where she went to school, but doesn't necessarily want to move back home, to rural Illinois, where she feels has nothing for her.When she goes home for the holidays, though,...
by M.L. Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
One night. One Time. One Chance. That's the motto record executive Matthew Chase lives by. He's crass, rude, and has an undeniable charm and sexiness that makes any woman he seduces drop her panties right then and there. Alexis Green is a short, plain Jane, college student...
by M.L. Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
After Chase and Alexis had their night together, she thought things couldn't get better. That is, until Chase doesn't respond to her messages days later, prompting her to believe that she was just a hookup, and nothing more. Things might not always be what they appear, though, especially when you're dealing with a man like Matthew Chase.
by M.L. Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
After Alexis walks in on Chase with another woman, she thinks that things are over and nothing will ever get better. How could he do this to her after all they've been through?Chase knows that he was set up and that he has to show Alexis he isn't the man he used to be. The problem, however, is...
Locating Queerness in the Media
A New Look
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
Leadership for Rural Schools
Lessons for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
More than 50% of America's schools today exist in rural settings. This book addresses the distinctiveness of rural school leaders, identifies issues encountered by administrators, faculty, and students, and concludes by proposing new standards for rural schools in general and their leaders. This book...
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor
Sage Advice from the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
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