Gabriel Miller: 5 books

Book cover of William Wyler

William Wyler

The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director

by Gabriel Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902--1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography. With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl...
Book cover of Rethinking community practice

Rethinking community practice

Developing transformative neighbourhoods

by Chanan, Gabriel, Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013

As local communities and public services reel under the impact of global economic turmoil, it is vital to find more creative ways for the services to work together with those who depend on them and who also, as citizens, ultimately govern them. Community practice is the name for that growing part...
Book cover of Mapping "Race"

Mapping "Race"

Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

by Jonathan Kahn, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Jay S. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Book cover of Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education
by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Molly Cummings Carney, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility,...
Book cover of Morality and Justice

Morality and Justice

Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'

by Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, James A. Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009

This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on...
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