Michael Newman: 30 books
Carranza's Clinical Periodontology - E-Book
Expert Consult: Online
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The most widely used periodontics text, Carranza's Clinical Periodontology provides both print and online access to basic procedures as well as the latest in advanced procedures and techniques in reconstructive, esthetic, and implant therapy. Not only does this book show how to do periodontal procedures,...
Legitimating Television
Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative...
Following Hemingway to Paris
The Lighter Side of Depression and Alcohol-Abuse in the City of Lights
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
In Following Hemingway to Paris, Michael sets his sights on finding the true meaning for and in his life while enjoying adventurous living and alcohol in the City of Lights with his fianc, Julia. He quickly reveals himself to be an amateur philosopher who at times is also a drunken sot with the requisite...
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Sustainability in Higher Education
Stories and Strategies for Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana
A Visual History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, growth, and continued popularity.
FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE...
Global Romanticism
Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...
Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Judie Newman, Ben Siegel, Michael W. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, his plays garnered...
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence
Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social...