Turner: 2042 books
by Professor Bryan S Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1995
The fully revised edition of this successful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology and an assessment of its significance for social theory and the social sciences. It includes a completely revised chapter on mental health and new chapters on the sociology of the body...
The Religious and the Political
A Comparative Sociology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
While the relationships between ethics and religion, and violence and politics, are of enduring interest, the interface between religion and violence is one of the most problematic features of the contemporary world. Following in the tradition of Max Weber's historical and comparative study of religions,...
by Ms Sylvia Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Teaching Primary Mathematics covers what student teachers really need to know and why, including approaches to teaching and learning, planning and assessment, and using resources in maths teaching. It also provides a brief historical overview of the teaching of mathematics and examines strategies...
American Images of China
Identity, Power, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The United States and China are arguably the most globally consequential actors of the early twenty first century, and look set to remain so into the foreseeable future. This volume seeks to highlight that American images of China are responsible for constructing certain truths and realities about...
Citizenship and Capitalism (RLE Social Theory)
The Debate over Reformism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
In this study of politics in capitalist society Bryan Turner explores the development of citizenship as a way of demonstrating the effective use of political institutions by the working class and other subordinate groups to promote their interests. Marxist criticisms of reformism are rejected; it...
by Daniel Turner, Gayle Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
When Cinnamon, a guinea pig, does not receive a letter from her uncle in Transylvania, she begins to worry that something is seriously wrong. So she takes a trip to Transylvania to solve the mystery. During her journey she discovers that a vampire cat by the name of Dracula has the answer to her mystery. Can she trust Cat Dracula with her life?
by Daniel Turner, Gayle Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Join Cinnamon as she goes on yet another wild adventure! This time, she travels to rugged Mount Everest to help a village that is being tormented by a hairy, ape-like creature. Could it be the yeti that has been feared by legends of old?
African-American History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Every year more colleges and high schools are offering classes (and often making them required classes) in black history. Joanne Turner-Sadler provides a concise and probing treatment of 400 years of black history in America that can be used with age groups ranging from lower high school to college....
Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials
The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on “Bloody Sunday,” troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and...
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of...
Supporting Children with Learning Difficulties
Holistic Solutions for Severe, Profound and Multiple Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
How do you teach history to a child who can't remember what she had for dinner? What difference will it make to a child's counting skills if you place the objects in a line, rather than dropped randomly on the table? Will breaking down a task into smaller steps help a young person learn how to dress...
by Sam Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The author hopes, for those considering this procedure, this account might put them at ease.
Fertility Pastures
Herbal leys as the basis of soil fertility and animal health
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In Fertility Pastures, Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production. He developed a system of complex "herbal ley mixtures," or blends of pasture grasses and herbs, with...
Chinese Nuclear Proliferation
How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
While the world’s attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it “the forgotten nuclear power,” as described in Foreign Affairs. Susan Turner...