R Smith: 417 books
An Indispensable Liberty
The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century...
by Leah Bradshaw, Charles R. Embry, Molly Brigid Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and...
Wolves on the Hunt
The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than...
by Bill Reger-Nash, Meredith Smith, R. Gregory Juckett
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Life is crammed with busyness, screen time, and an abundance of shallow experiences. If you don’t mindfully change your way of thinking and behaving, that’s all your life will ever be.
Foundations of Wellness can help you live a satisfying life—one full of rich and deep experiences. You’ll...
by R. S. Nickerson, D. N. Perkins, E. E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria
Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by R. Alden Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil.
Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation
Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and...
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many current conventions and attitudes toward books can be traced. But how did texts originally...
The YMCA at War
Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in...
The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning
Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction,...
Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content...
American Democracy
A Great Leap of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core of our nation's...
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
by Becky Heaver, Michael Barton, Andrew Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In this rich and diverse collection, 28 writers describe what positive experiences they have had as an autistic person, and show how the most unexpected subject areas can be a source of the positive. They demonstrate that individuals can, and do, experience life in positive ways, sometimes in the...