Jennifer D Harris: 11 books

Book cover of Trixie the Most Terrible Cat in the World
by Jennifer D. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

A gray kitten comes to live with a family.  Even though she is very loved by her family,  she begins to misbehave causing the family some frustration!  Despite her antics, her family loves her anyway!
Book cover of War by Other Means
by Robert D. Blackwill, Jennifer M. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016

Nations carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Yet America often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris show that if U.S. policies are left uncorrected, the price in blood and treasure will only grow. Geoeconomic warfare requires a new vision of U.S. statecraft.
Book cover of A World Engraved

A World Engraved

Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture

by Rebecca Saunders, Alan Marsh, Buddy Calvin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people. The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from...
Book cover of African American Fraternities and Sororities
by Gloria Harper Dickinson, Craig L. Torbenson, Jessica Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012

The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
Book cover of Bomb

Bomb

The Author Interviews

by Bomb Magazine, Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Book cover of African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
by Brandee Appling, Elizabeth Auguste, Christopher T. Belser
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Book cover of Performance Standards for Restaurants

Performance Standards for Restaurants

A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic

by Deborah Cohen, Rajiv Bhatia, Mary T. Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Book cover of How Television Shapes Our Worldview

How Television Shapes Our Worldview

Media Representations of Social Trends and Change

by Stylés I. Akira, Lane Clegg, Cindy Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
Book cover of Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Exploring the Fandemonium

by Roger C. Aden, Greg G. Armfield, David E. Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Book cover of Adventures in Shondaland

Adventures in Shondaland

Identity Politics and the Power of Representation

by Michaela D.E. Meyer, Rachel Alicia Griffin, Richard G Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018

Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...
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