David Jones: 269 books
by David Coulby, Crispin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: This book explores the ways in which European educational systems influence culture, identity, ethnicity and politics and may reinforce ethnic or national cleavages, violence and warfare.
Understanding Criminal Behaviour
Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate fully the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.
This book aims to integrate psychological and criminological perspectives in order to better...
A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The United States' electrical grid is an antique. It was built to serve a 20th-century economy and designed in an era when the negative environmental impacts of electricity production were poorly understood. It must be upgraded and modernized. The proposed solution is a "smart grid"—a...
Research Beyond Borders
Multidisciplinary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological,...
by David W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Moment: seventy-five practices and praxises for individuals and communities living every moment as The Moment taking church out of the past and into the present out of sanctuaries and into homes, bars, and lives for worship anywhere, anytime, and with anyone everytime, everywhere, and with everyone encountering God at any moment.
Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance
British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the...
Conflict Dynamics
Civil Wars, Armed Actors, and Their Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups...
Harnessing The Dynamics of Public Education
Preparing for a Return to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Harnessing the Dynamics of Public Education: Preparing for a Return to Greatness is a comprehensive look at the American public education system. Building on the current system, the book takes on the War on Education in an effort to rethink, redesign and develop a new state-of-the-art system of learning...
by Greg Lopez, Bridget Welsh, John Funston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the People’s Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on developments in the last decade and...
Engineering Materials 1
An Introduction to Properties, Applications and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Widely adopted around the world, Engineering Materials 1 is a core materials science and engineering text for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students; it provides a broad introduction to the mechanical and environmental properties of materials used in a wide range of engineering applications....
What's in a Name?
Advertising and the Concept of Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This is a completely rewritten and updated version of one of the true classic books in the field of marketing and advertising. What's in a Name? Advertising and the Concept of Brands analyzes brands from the point of view of modern marketing theory. It deals in detail with the role of advertising...
Tackling Selective Mutism
A Guide for Professionals and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Bringing together the latest research and understanding on selective mutism, this edited book gives essential information on the various treatment and therapy options. Experts in the fields of speech and language therapy, psychology, music therapy education and communication offer a wide range of...
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)
From the Global to the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states'...
Edible Nanostructures
A Bottom-up Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Food Scientists have been teaching the subject in the same way for the past fifty years. This book therefore aims to modernise the coverage of the subject, bringing it in line with the recent and extensive developments in Materials Science; in particular, the field of supramolecular chemistry of food...