Peter Smith: 170 books
The Equity Myth
Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. This book, the first comprehensive, data-based study...
Los Angeles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
It is a hoarse whisper over a crackling cell phone - "Angel" - and then the connection is lost. Angel is convinced that the voice belongs to his beautiful and enigmatic neighbor, Angela - and that she is terrified for her life. He paces the floor, waiting for the phone to ring again, calls...
by Peter F Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.
Including new material on wind generation, domestic water...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
by Peter Duffett-Smith, Jonathan Zwart
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded book is ideal for those who wish to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator or spreadsheet. Updated and extended, this new edition shows you how to use spreadsheets to predict, with greater accuracy,...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures
Engaging with Others in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes,...
Massacre at Tobruk
The British Assault on Rommel, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Minute-by-minute account of the offensive. Covers both the British attackers and the German defenders. Explains how and why the assault failed so badly.
Fist From the Sky
Japan's Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Fascinating look from the Japanese side at Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway
Fully authorized account including contemporary interviews with those that flew with Lt. Cdr. Egusa
Lieutenant Commander Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's most skillful and influential...
Stuka Spearhead
The Lightning War from Poland to Dunkirk, 1939-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
This addition to the Luftwaffe at War Series is a fully illustrated guide to the formative years of the Ju 87 dive-bomber which dominated the opening campaigns of W orld War II.
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
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...
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...
Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy
Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable...