Rogers: 1596 books
by Alan R. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it’s no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today’s biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow—but say little about the evidence...
Roads in the Wilderness
Conflict in Canyon Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Winner of the Wallace Stegner Prize in American Environmental or Western History
The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial...
by Keney Rogers, Heigh Blend
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
East Troy, WI August 13, 2010 Romance and magic await readers as authors Kenny Rogers and Kay Heigh Blend collaborate to bring a spellbinding collection of poems. WindStorms, their newly released book through Xlibris, are bound to enchant readers from the first page down to the last. As the wind blows...
Career Stories
Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction...
by James Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
As every IBDP teacher knows, time management and organizational skills are the key to survival for their students . This guide seeks to help IB candidates become more effective class participants and note takers in order to assist them in taking control of their IB studies. With his nearly two decades...
L. Frank Baum
Creator of Oz: A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Since it was first introduced over a hundred years ago in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum's world of Oz has become one of the most enduring and beloved creations in children's literature. It has influenced numerous prominent writers and intellectuals, and become a lasting part of the culture...
Performing Asian Transnationalisms
Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses...
by James Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Seven years ago the country witnessed what George Washington identified as that element that separated “this country from every other country in the world,” which was the peaceful transition of power. Americans wait anxiously for this occur again in 2017. But, will it? Does the American believe the...
So Long for Now
A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday.
Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among sailors and those waiting for them stateside....
by Alan Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
This book explores the ongoing dilemma that has plagued many educators for generations – is adult learning and the teaching of adults the same or different from that of younger persons? Rogers examines what is meant by learning. He proposes that there are two distinct forms of learning common to...
Fires in the Middle School Bathroom
Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers
Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents,...
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle
Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle is a historic document, including nearly 200 color photos and maps, in that...
by Ben Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Pascal 1623-1662
The moralist who advocated dressing up, the ascetic who liked a flutter, the devout Christian who lauded vanity, Pascal is a funnier, more ironic philosopher than his reputation as an anguished existentialist would suggest.
Yet however irreverent the terms of his ironic...
Pork
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
“Pork. The Other White Meat.” The well known National Pork Board slogan doesn’t begin to describe the many types of meat that fall under the umbrella of “pork.” The most versatile of meats, pork ranges from the rich, delicate succulence of a roast loin to the dry, salty assertiveness of...