Upa: 654 books
The Most Important Work
Stories of Sovereignty in the Struggle for Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy. The essays are organized as three series of dialogues in which an academic scholar works with a practitioner,...
What the Village Gave Me
Conceptualizations of Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates,...
by Edmund Abegg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Political morality concerns what programs and policies government ought to adopt. What would this morality look like in a disenchanted world, one in which rationality prevails? The enchanted world is extensive, including not just religion but traditional morality.
In this book, Edmund Abegg constructs...
Handbook of Families and Work
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of research. Topics include emerging...
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters
A Comparative Study of Energy Use, Production/Environmental Ecology, and Kiln Development in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving...
by David B. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The Psychology Industry Under a Microscope! explores why psychology treatment efficacy rates are so poor, why psychological testing is unreliable, and why diagnosis is uncertain. He also explores the weaknesses inherent in 115 APA accredited doctoral programs and what changes may help improve the...
Job One 2.0
Understanding the Next Generation of Student Affairs Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M. Magolda and Jill Ellen Carnaghi place new professionals' stories “center stage.” The book focuses on narratives written by new professionals about their introduction and transitions into Student Affairs work. These stories document the joys and...
Immigration Reform
We Can Do It, If We Apply Our Founders' True Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America. The author demystifies this polarizing subject by posing questions about the ethical and political quandaries still presented by race and ethnicity after two and a half centuries of American independence. The book highlights...
by Natalie Persadie
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement...
A Peacemaking Approach to Criminology
A Collection of Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender. It looks at crime as just one of the many types of suffering that exemplify human life. According to peacemaking criminologists, efforts to put a stop to such suffering...
Venice in Environmental Peril?
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice’s environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian...
The Bungle Book
Some Errors by Which We Live
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the “senses” of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of...
by Robert J. Tata
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide. A basic premise is that human well-being comes from a nation’s physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for...
by Ana Maria Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. It is divided into eleven chapters and follows an organic exploration of theory and practice. The individual chapters of the textbook...