Ronald W : 113 books
by Ronald W. Pies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Adam Levtov teaches drama at a small college in the tiny town of Hope Falls. He usually gets stuck with directing one of Shakespeares minor tragedies, but this year, he is staging Othello, and the pressure is mounting. Unfortunately for Levtov, his students are rebelling; his teenage son is wearing...
Polarization and the Healthier Church
Applying Bowen Family Systems Theory to Conflict and Change in Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Polarization is endemic in North American society today. We can see its effects in nearly every political, cultural, theological, and social issue. The kinds of polarized issues that exist today are not new. They have existed for ages and some may never be resolved. What is different today is the intensity...
by Ronald W. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Hazing has been defined in a number of ways, but the resulting consequences are the same - ridicule, humiliation, embarrassment and abuse. Despite contrary beliefs, hazing impacts all ages and segments of society. Society must therefore be engaged in educational strategies to understand the causes...
by Ronald W. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Really? Jane Austen? A woman who died in 1817? What can she tell us about relationships today? Our world is so different from hers. Her characters speak in what almost seems like a foreign language. And the romantic relations between partners back then were so restricted . . . how can their problems...
Handbook on Teaching Social Issues
NCSS Bulletin No. 93
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
There’s no book like this one for educators interested in issuescentered teaching. More than 40 experts have contributed articles offering comprehensive coverageof the field of social issues education. In addition to a full examination of objectives and methods, contributors show how social issues...
by Manuel Antonio de Almeida; Ronald W. Sousa; Thomas H. Holloway; Flora Sussekind
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, Memoirs...
David Ben-Gurion
Politics and Leadership in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dead Reckoning
Calculating Without Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
No author has gone as far as Doerfler in covering methods of mental calculation beyond simple arithmetic. Even if you have no interest in competing with computers you'll learn a great deal about number theory and the art of efficient computer programming. —Martin Gardner
The Tragedy of American School Reform
How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On...
by Ronald W. Page
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This book is a story of how one man experienced many tragedies and struggles as a young boy through adulthood. His story is an inspiration to anyone who is living or has lived through similar experiences.
In reading about the authors life experiences, you may feel a connection or conviction,...
by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the...
Wayward Saints
The Social and Religious Protests of the Godbeites against Brigham Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
A story that includes spiritualistic seances, hidden conspiracy, and an important church trial, Wayward Saints chronicles the challenge, during the 1870s, of a group of British Mormon intellectuals to Brigham Young's leadership and authority. William S. Godbe and his associates revolted because they...
by Ronald W. Shonkwiler
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This text introduces upper division undergraduate/beginning graduate students in mathematics, finance, or economics, to the core topics of a beginning course in finance/financial engineering. Particular emphasis is placed on exploiting the power of the Monte Carlo method to illustrate and explore...
Hazardous to Our Health?
FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Some have described the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a scientific bureaucracy with police powers. Does a “cult of infallibility” exist within the FDA, leading to decisions that are contrary to the best interests of patients and their physicians?The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...