Michael Lee: 218 books
First-Generation College Students
Understanding and Improving the Experience from Recruitment to Commencement
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
"…a concise, manageable, lucid summary of the best scholarship, practices, and future-oriented thinking about how to effectively recruit, educate, develop, retain, and ultimately graduate first-generation students."
—from the foreword by JOHN...
Wood from Ash
A Collection of Memories and Imaginings
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
An eclectic collection of the lyrical, the exalted, and the profane, WOOD FROM ASH examines in verse the constructs of imagination and memory, and it poses to the reader a question that is central to some of the authors most difficult experiences: What, other than belief, distinguishes the one from the other?
by Michael P. McCauley, B. Lee Artz, DeeDee Halleck
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis...
The Erosion of Biblical Certainty
Battles over Authority and Interpretation in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques
Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses...
by Claudia Bernardi, Roberto Cuéllar, Rev. Carlos Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...
The Empire of Love
Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal...
Solutions Focused Special Education
Practical and Inclusive Strategies for All Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Drawing on the work of innovative educators, this edited volume shows how adopting a solutions focused approach can offer new constructive ways forward for special education. Diverse international contributors from both the world of special education and solutions focused thinking, offer ways to rethink...
by Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security. Drawing on primary empirical research, the book argues that whilst white individuals are not unconcerned about the effects of anti-terrorism,...
by Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and...
Structured Decision Making
A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book outlines the creative process of making environmental management decisions using the approach called Structured Decision Making. It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and scientists.
This is a distinctly pragmatic...
by John A. Kaufman, MD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Get the essential tools you need to make an accurate diagnosis with Vascular and Interventional Radiology: The Requisites! This bestselling volume delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in vascular and interventional radiology, as well...
by R. Lee Lyman, Robert C. Dunnell, Michael J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007