R Murray Thomas: 15 books

Book cover of Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins
by R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou and Catholicism are alike, and how are they drastically different? What is the connection between indigenous African religions and Vodou? And why has religion...
Book cover of Creating Human Development Theories: A Guide for the Social Sciences and Humanities
by R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

As college students progress through bachelor's degree programs and then advance to their master's degree theses and doctoral dissertations, they are bombarded with studies of countless theories, often adopting some author's theory for interpreting information about human development, even when the...
Book cover of Becoming a Professor

Becoming a Professor

A Guide to a Career in Higher Education

by Marie K. Iding, R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others – instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors – contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies kinds of higher...
Book cover of Explaining Conversations

Explaining Conversations

A Developmental Social Exchange Theory

by R. Murray Thomas, Marie K. Iding
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people’s social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people’s verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures....
Book cover of High-Stakes Testing

High-Stakes Testing

Coping With Collateral Damage

by R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: describe the nature of high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the...
Book cover of Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations

A Guide to Planning, Research, and Writing

by Dale L. Brubaker, Dr. R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2007

Offers updated references, a new section on the Internet, and information on plagiarism. Covers the entire writing process: preparation, selecting topics, collecting information, interpreting results, and final presentation.
Book cover of Drop That Chalk!

Drop That Chalk!

A Guide to Better Teaching at Universities and Colleges

by Marie K. Iding, R. Murray Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Drop that Chalk! A Guide to Better Teaching at Colleges and Universities is designed for those planning to teach – or already teaching and hoping to improve instruction – in colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education. This book delineates the process of planning a course...
Book cover of Zones of Control

Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Book cover of Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

by Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Janet Blakey, Luc Bouchet
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
Book cover of CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition

CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition

880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…

by Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Book cover of Moody Classics Set of 6 Books
by Andrew Murray, George Mueller, St. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

This package includes the six-volume set of the Moody Classics: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Answers to Prayer, The Imitation of Christ, The True Vine, The Pilgrim's Progress, and How to Pray. Of all the factors influencing our spiritual growth and development, pivotal books play a key...
Book cover of The Inerrant Word

The Inerrant Word

Biblical, Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspectives

by Stephen J. Nichols, Steven J. Lawson, J. Ligon Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Because God has made himself known in his Word, a commitment to a high view of Scripture is of paramount importance. Sadly, more and more people—not only from outside the church but also from within—are denying the complete truthfulness of God’s Word. Edited by pastor John MacArthur,...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 51
by Robert Matteson Johnston, Golden Deer Classics, William Scott Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion
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