Michael Clark: 73 books
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries...
Teleworking in the Countryside
Home-Based Working in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies on the organization of work and in particular, the implications of and opportunities engendered through telework and the decentralization of the workplace....
by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Charles S. Bullock III
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...
Jacques Lacan (Volume I) (RLE: Lacan)
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies...
Jacques Lacan (Volume II) (RLE: Lacan)
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies...
by Michael Dyer, Clark Murdock, Thomas Karako
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For decades, the United States has led the effort to stem the spread of nuclear weapons, both among potential adversaries and among its allies and partners. The current state of deterrence and of the nonproliferation regime, however, is open to many doubts. What happens if the nonproliferation regime...
Creative Writing in the Digital Age
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software...
Motivational Interviewing with Offenders
Engagement, Rehabilitation, and Reentry
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change. Using this evidence-based approach promotes successful rehabilitation and reentry...
by Morris Mr. Goldstein, Donald Mr. Mathieson, Tamim Mr. Bayoumi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1995
This study addresses major policy issues associated with the future of the international monetary system. It focuses on whether there is a need for fundamental reform of this system, defined as systematic and sustained effort on the part of the three major industrial countries (United States, Japan,...
Quality Assisted Living
Informing Practice through Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
Doody's Medical Reviews Score: 92, 4 Stars!
"[This book] is well written and achieves its aim of exploring the meaning of quality from a range of perspectives. It has a welcome focus on the views of residents, and the authors are to be congratulated...
Enhancing Teacher Performance
A Toolbox of Strategies to Facilitate Moving Behavior from Problematic to Good and from Good to Great
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Exemplary schools have at their core outstanding principals and teachers. This book enables school leaders to enhance teacher performance to move from problematic to good or better yet, from good to great. Serving as a reference tool, the authors identify 38 common challenges or opportunities to use...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest
Anthem Posture in a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend that has led to deep political divisiveness in America. The author explores this phenomenon by incorporating analysis of media coverage, impact on attitudes...
by Michael J Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
This is a humorous tale about romance and nostalgia. Joe is seventy years old tomorrow, and he doesn't know, or even care. His wife, Stacey, the love of his life, walked out on Joe six years ago because of his unreasonable behaviour, always up in his little attic room, gazing out at the universe through...