Stephen Cooper: 42 books
Imaging the Southern Sky
An Amateur Astronomer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book is not about imaging from the southern hemisphere, but rather about imaging those areas of the sky that lie south of the celestial equator. Many of the astronomical objects presented are also accessible to northern hemisphere imagers, including those in both the USA and Europe. Imaging the...
by Lisa Ruhanen, Stephen Craig-Smith, Chris Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject...
District Financial Leadership Today
Educational Excellence Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Sound district finance is increasingly challenging in an era of scarce resources and increasing pressure on schools and districts to improve. Therefore, this book provides an in-depth understanding of fundamental practices, processes, and lessons learned will benefit all school administrators, personnel,...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Shrunk
Crime and Disorders of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them.
Unlike any other book within the genre...
by Stephen Palmer,Cary Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Forty per cent of US workers describe their job as "very or extremely stressful," according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Job-related stress can have painful effects, both psychological and physiological, but it can be managed and controlled with the aid of a few straightforward...
The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Implications for American Democracy and the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives...
by Bruce S. Cooper, Stephen V. Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Sound school finance is integral to the provision of a quality education. Indeed, a school district’s budget is the financial representation of its educational plan. Thus, a clarion alert for all teachers: “if it’s not in your budget, it won’t be in your classroom.” However, sound school...
Why School Leaders Need Vision
Managing Scarcity, Mandates, and Conflicting Goals for Educational Quality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The concept of “visionary” leadership is defined and applied in this book, as “supervision in schools” requires a level of “SUPER VISION” that can be best developed through quality leadership, mentoring -- and mutual ideas, and support -- for adding more value to the school. This book...
Observation in Health and Social Care
Applications for Learning, Research and Practice with Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Examining and exploring new approaches to therapeutic observation in health and social care, this multidisciplinary guide discusses and analyses its uses in a range of practical contexts with children, families and adults.
Developing good observation skills is paramount to sustaining relationships...
Organizations and Unusual Routines
A Systems Analysis of Dysfunctional Feedback Processes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Everyone working in and with organizations will, from time to time, experience frustrations and problems when trying to accomplish tasks that are a required part of their role. This is an unusual routine - a recurrent interaction pattern in which someone encounters a problem when trying to accomplish...
by Stephen B. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Newlyweds Pyah and Mark Fischer on honeymoon find themselves interrupted while in their first wedded throws of passion by an assassination attempt on their lives.
Under the employ of Carl Sinclair, a personal security/assassin specialist, Pyah and Mark are thrust into the sleazy world of erotica....
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
by Stephen B. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Pyah and Mark Fischer are taking some well-earned time off to celebrate their first wedding anniversary in Africa. Unfortunately, their holiday is cut brutally short when they find that a bounty has been put on their heads.
Suspecting this is the work of an old enemy after revenge, they find themselves...