Susan Smith: 133 books
by Donna Gaines, Charlotte Akin, Donna Avant
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
Predictive Policing
The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Predictive policing is the use of analytical techniques to identify targets for police intervention with the goal of preventing crime, solving past crimes, or identifying potential offenders and victims. These tools are not a substitute for integrated approaches to policing, nor are they a crystal ball....
Farmland Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic...
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
by Mark Sheerin, Coco Khan, Susan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
What is counterculture?
– It’s an alternative lifestyle…
– The ideas that spread a revolution…
– A movement that changes the world…
This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature...
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education
Reclaiming Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education by linking the language of both the public and professional domains with the changing intentions of the governance of education. Exploring various issues, which embody the many manifestations...
by Shilpa Lawande, Pete Smith, Lilian Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Oracle 10g Data Warehousing is a guide to using the Data Warehouse features in the latest version of Oracle —Oracle Database 10g. Written by people on the Oracle development team that designed and implemented the code and by people with industry experience implementing warehouses using Oracle technology,...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
by Susan Jane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
When you have emotional wealth it is like living in a verdant place - you have serenity! The front cover of this book was chosen because it conveys serenity to the author. That is not just about the serenity of a beautiful place, but serenity of the soul. Being still and at peace with yourself and...
Teacher, Scholar, Mother
Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions...
Wedding Vows
Beyond Love, Honor, and Cherish
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
This book is a comprehensive and unique guide on how to write one's own wedding vows. In the U.S. alone, there are over 2.4 million weddings every year -- and no two will be exactly alike. Yet whatever the differences, the exchanging of vows is often the most anticipated and memorable moment in the...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...