Susan Daniel: 48 books

Book cover of Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
Book cover of Key States, High Stakes

Key States, High Stakes

Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Book cover of Change of Heart

Change of Heart

Unraveling the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease

by Daniel Levy, M.D., Susan Brink
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

A Change of Heart is a detailed account of the revolutionary Framingham Heart study — which, over the years, has provided conclusive evidence that cardiovascular disease is largely the result of measurable and modifiable risk factors. First begun in 1948, not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Book cover of American Catholics, American Culture

American Catholics, American Culture

Tradition and Resistance

by Peter Steinfels, Robert Royal, J Bottum
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Book cover of Fort Lauderdale
by Susan Gillis, Daniel T. Hobby
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1999

Like many Sun Belt cities, Fort Lauderdale has experienced phenomenal growth over the past several decades. Once a wilderness home for the Seminole Indians and a few hardy pioneers, the small community grew up around Frank Stranahan�s successful trading post, a convenient stop for hunters, fishermen,...
Book cover of The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
by Daniel Cohen, Susan Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.
Book cover of College Student Retention

College Student Retention

Formula for Student Success

by Alexander W. Astin, Joseph B. Berger, Erin W. Bibo
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012

Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators. In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
Book cover of Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth

Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth

Developing Evidence-Based International Practice

by Hans Grietens, Erik Knorth, Richard Barth
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support. Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
Book cover of Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action

Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action

The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs

by Eileen Ahlin, Maria João Lobo Antunes, Daniel Brisson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...
Book cover of Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
by Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis, Krister Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers...
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Sidekicks - Special Edition
by Guy Anthony De Marco, Holly Roberds, Benjamin Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

This unique special edition includes a bonus story not available in any other edition.Sidekicks are used to being hidden from the spotlight shining on the hero they support. They work behind the scenes, doing their best to support their more famous companion.There are times when the sidekick...
Book cover of Cornbread Nation 7

Cornbread Nation 7

The Best of Southern Food Writing

by Sara Camp Milam, Daniel Patterson, Susan Orlean
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
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