Michael Walker: 65 books
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...
by Lonely Planet, Benedict Walker, Kate Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Eastern USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get active underwater in Florida Keys, hit the streets of New York City, or watch leaves...
One for Each Day at a Time
Reflections for Meditation and Encouragement
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Deep thinking provides clarity in any muddled situation. The world is full of chaos and situations that have very little clarity. One For Each Day at a Time provides inspirational thoughts with insight for meditation and encouragement.
If one is looking for a burst of positive energy, use the...
by Ida Altman, Ras Michael Brown, Matt Childs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class,...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...
Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis
Practical Guidance and Case Study Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident...
Research as Social Change
New Opportunities for Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the standard social science or education research texts. But social research does offer the possibility of involvement in projects that are...
True Detective
Critical Essays on the HBO Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Throughout its limited run beginning in 2014, the HBO series True Detective has presented viewers with unique takes on the American crime drama on television, marked by literary and cinematic influences, heavyweight performances, and an experimental approach to the genre. At times celebrated and opposed,...
Principals as Maverick Leaders
Rethinking Democratic Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
After her school wins the coveted United States National Secondary Education Award, a school principal embarks upon an educational odyssey. The principal discovers that the reasons for winning the award are a sham! As her school falls apart, she begins to reflect on the stagnant school organization...
by J. John Lowe, Michael J.C Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical...
by Matthew Hawkins, Michael G. Strawser, Eric C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider...
Transforming the Academy
Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities...
Early Evolution of Human Memory
Great Apes, Tool-making, and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive...
Distributed Situation Awareness in Road Transport
Theory, Measurement, and Application to Intersection Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists,...