Nancy Thomas: 34 books

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars...

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent...

Connect inquiry to improved teaching and learning across your district!   Now that federal and state initiatives require school districts to provide job-embedded professional development, the next step is making it happen. This book helps districts define, develop, and implement a systematic...

This book offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. A collaboration between a literacy scholar, two classroom teachers, and a school librarian, this volume also shows teachers how to engage middle and high school students in historical...

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains...

2015 geht die Zeitschrift Transit in ihr fünfundzwanzigtes Jahr. Die Herausgeberschaft übernimmt, nach Krzysztof Michalski, nun die Sozialanthropologin und Soziologin Shalini Randeria, die im Januar das Amt der Rektorin des Instituts für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) angetreten hat. Das vorliegende...