C Barker: 22 books
Representing Red and Blue
How the Culture Wars Change the Way Citizens Speak and Politicians Listen
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
What is a political representative's job, really? Are they supposed to simply figure out what "the people" want and deliver it, or are they charged to do what they think is best for their constituents -- even if that means sometimes ignoring those constituents' wishes? In Representing Red and Blue,...
One Nation, Two Realities
Dueling Facts in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
The deep divides that define politics in the United States are not restricted to policy or even cultural differences anymore. Americans no longer agree on basic questions of fact. Is climate change real? Does racism still determine who gets ahead? Is sexual orientation innate? Do immigration and free...
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836
A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Almost a hundred years after the death of Stephen F. Austin this first full-length biography was published. And for almost a quarter of a century—dividing his time between editing, teaching, textbook writing, and serving in various academic capacities—Eugene C. Barker pursued the study which resulted...
Postcolonial Fiction and Disability
Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies.
A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution
St Helens 1750-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ian C Barker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This book provides a readily accessible and practical guide to the increasingly important subject of facilities management. It shows the formal basis for the complex and constantly moving requirements of FM and recognises that it is becoming more vital in its role of enabling the core business of...
by Christopher Savage, T.C. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Published in 2005, Economic History of Transport Britain is a valuable contribution to the field of Economic History.
by Gina C Barker
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This book combines the tranquillity of nature, with the bare facts of life that we all have to endure every day. Experiences that each of us face as we go through our lives are captured in the words of a poem. Love, joy, pain, or anguish; then with the flip of a page you can immerse yourself in the...
by D. C. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After many years of teaching circuit theory and analogue electronic circuits the author believes that for most students the main path to obtaining a good understanding of the principles involved, as measured by their ability to apply them in a correct and intelligent manner, is through problem solving...
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use
Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of information.
This book on the process of self-change...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was...
by C. Helene Barker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
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