David Young: 90 books
Forest Conservation Genetics
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
Forest management must be sustainable not only in ecological, economic and social, but also genetic terms. Many forest managers are advocating and developing management strategies that give priority to conserving genetic diversity within production systems, or that recognise the importance of genetic...
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Political Economy of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...
Rhetorical Criticism
Perspectives in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...
Ecotheology in the Humanities
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy,...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Teaching with Joy
Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.
There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
Spillover from the Conflict in Syria
An Assessment of the Factors that Aid and Impede the Spread of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Aid flowing into Syria is intended to determine the outcome of the conflict between rebel factions and Damascus. Instead, it could perpetuate the civil war and ignite larger regional hostilities that could reshape the political geography of the Middle East. This report examines the main factors likely...
Justice Reinvestment
Winding Back Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom...
by Julian Cooke, Tim Young, Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Widely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts.
Voyage Charters provides...
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States
Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume...
Deportation in the Americas
Histories of Exclusion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that deeply consider deportation policy in the Americas and its global effects.
These...
by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kathleen Young, David Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This new book shows how international crises are dangerous episodes that can be destabilizing not only to the actors directly involved but also to the entire international system.
Recognizing the primacy of crises as defining moments in international relations, scholars and policy makers alike...