Mary Thomas: 135 books
by Alberto Anelli, Rocco Gangle, Sjoerd van Tuinen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
by Hideaki Kasai, Predrag Lazic, Yuji Kunisada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Physics of Surface, Interface and Cluster Catalysis reviews the fundamental physics of catalysis from simple surface models through to complex cluster and catalytic structures.
It is the first book to provide a coherent collection of the physics of catalysis, and shows how physics has provided...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants
Seen but Not Heard
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
As global societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. This book addresses this lapse by presenting interdisciplinary perspectives...
by Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...
by John C. Callaway, Stephen Faulkner, Mary A. Hague
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
The purpose of the Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach series is to publish a collection of short texts that each explore a specific environmental issue and describe the methodologies, theories, and findings pertaining to that issue from both natural and social science...
Word, Liturgy, Charity
The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968–2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of the diaconate as a permanent and stable order of ministry in the United States, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University undertook a contemporary study of the diaconate in the United States. Building...
Faith, Hope, Love, and Justice
The Theological Virtues Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions,...
Collaborative Parish Leadership
Contexts, Models, Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago...
The Soul of Statesmanship
Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his...
Literacy and History in Action
Immersive Approaches to Disciplinary Thinking, Grades 5–12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. A collaboration between a literacy scholar, two classroom teachers, and a school librarian, this volume also shows teachers how to engage middle and high school students in historical...
The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement
An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the reality...
by Mary Ann Ruhl Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
A clinical social worker in the North Carolina mental health system, Anna must learn how to treat regressed sexual offenders. In her personal life, she is caught between responsibility for her daughter’s attack, her subsequent wish for revenge, and her belief in forgiveness.
Sixteen years...