Robin Jeffrey: 10 books
Media and Modernity
Communications, Women, and the State in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Two puzzles of modern Indiaone well known, the other overlookedform the core of this book. For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been famed, first as a home of Communists, then as a perplexing model of development. But why Communists? And why development, especially in a place where the economy usually...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter schools,...
Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
Roads Taken
The Professorial Life, Scholarship in Place, and the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Public liberal arts colleges are higher education’s gems, yet their intimate campus settings and locations outside of the intellectual-cultural capitals challenge the traditional rhythm of academic careers. Professors trained at elite research institutions, usually located in large urban centers, must...
by Eric Bain-Selbo, Robin Hardin, Brad Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
by Carrie M. Farmer, Christine Anne Vaughan, Jeffrey Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
As part of an evaluation of the Marine Corps Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) program, this report describes the methods and findings of a large survey of marines who were preparing for a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan in 2010 or 2011. The results are among the first to shed light...