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Explorer's Guide Jersey Shore: A Great Destination (Second Edition)
Expert coverage of the distinctive 47 miles of southern New Jersey shore region, from Atlantic City to Cape May. Featuring expert coverage of the distinctive New Jersey shore region, from Atlantic City to Cape May. Jen Miller uncovers the fast-paced excitement that is Atlantic City, catering to visi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Running: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport
Jen Miller has fallen in and out of love, but no man has been there for her the way running has.In Running: A Love Story, Jen tells the story of her lifelong relationship with running with wit, thoughtfulness, and brutal honesty. Jen first laces up her sneakers in high school, when, like many people... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State
by Pooja Makhijani • Caren Lissner • Chris Gethard • Christopher Smith • Jen A. Miller • Emily Thompson • Linda J. Barth • Michael C. Gabriele • Sarah Prager • Alexandra Beguez • Scott Neumyer • Alicia Cook • Kate Morgan • Whit Taylor • Raakhee Mirchandani • Brandon Stosuy • Kerri Sullivan • Matthew Taub • Frankie Huang • Erinn Salge • Brandon Harrison • Mike Dawson • Wills Kinsley • Kat Schneider • Stacey Mei Fong • Kamelia Ani • Brittany Coppla • Jacquinn Sinclair • Carlos Dengler • Miko Beach • Team 1:1 Jersey • Brittany Ingersoll • Caiti Borruso • Elise Sacco • Lucy Dean Stockton • Bob Varettoni • Erica Commisso • Hallel Yadin • Kae Lani Palmisano • Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg • Donnie Martino • Hassan Ghanny • Lorraine Goodman • Alex Flannery • Haley Simone • Jonathan Conner • Joy Velasco • Kasey Bohnert • Julie Benbassat • Sean Rynkewicz • Mikhaila Leid • Veronica Casson • Dan Misdea • Kristen Broderick • Tori Wehringer • Lauren H. Adams • Katie Reynolds • Kate Watt • Tim Kauger • Brian Scully • Jaclyn Sovern • Donovan Myers • R Justin McNeill • Dan SchenkerDespite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will sur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pléiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition includes a select bibliography, a note o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Deaf People and Society: Psychological, Sociological, and Educational Perspectives
Deaf People and Society is an authoritative text that emphasizes the complexities of being D/deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf-Disabled, or hard of hearing, drawing on perspectives from psychology, education, and sociology. This book also explores how the lives of these individuals are impacted by decisions mad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Aftermath of the CFA Franc Devaluation
Financial report from the IMF... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Inverse Scattering (Fields Institute Communications #83)
This volume contains lectures and invited papers from the Focus Program on "Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Inverse Scattering" held at the Fields Institute from July 31-August 18, 2017. The conference brought together researchers in completely integrable systems and PDE with... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Noonday Devil: Acedia, The Unnamed Evil Of Our Times
The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word “sloth”, however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a per... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration (Science Practice Ecological Restoration #4)
Established by the USDA Forest Service in 1993, the Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project for Restoring and Maintaining Sustainable Riparian Ecosystems is a large-scale research study that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the effects of climate change and human disturbance on riparia... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Academic Advising Approaches
Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training on... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Rwanda: National Economic Transformation
by Michael E. Porter • Kjell Carlsson • Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason • Jem E. Hudson • Kaia Miller • Michael MccrelessSet in the year 2004, when Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10% of its population. Focuses on the formulation of an economic strategy to rebuild the economy and its institutions after the devastation. Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Rwanda: National Economic Transformation
by Michael E. Porter • Kjell Carlsson • Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason • Jem E. Hudson • Kaia Miller • Michael MccrelessSet in the year 2004, when Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10% of its population. Focuses on the formulation of an economic strategy to rebuild the economy and its institutions after the devastation. Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
American Methodism Revised and Updated
The essential guide to American Methodism revised and updated through 2020.Four of Methodism’s most respected teachers give us a vivid picture of 260 years of Methodist experience in America. The revised edition updates the Methodist movement’s story through 2020, including the social, political, ec... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Methodist Experience in America Volume 1: A History (Methodist Experience In America Ser. #Vol. 2)
Beginning in 1760, this comprehensive history charts the growth and development of the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren church family up and through the year 2000. Extraordinarily well-documented study with elaborate notes that will guide the reader to recent and standard literature on t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
American Methodism: A Compact History
In this engaging and artful overview, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, some of Methodism's most respected teachers, give readers a vivid picture of soulful terrain of the Methodist experience in America. The authors highlight key themes and events that continue to shape the Chu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Methodist Experience in America Volume 2: Sourcebook
Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses.<P> From a Sunday school teacher's account of a typical Sunday morning to letters from presidents, from architects' opinions for and against the Akron Plan to impassion... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
A New History of French Literature
by Barbara Johnson • R. Howard Bloch • Peter Brooks • Nancy K. Miller • Joan DeJean • Nancy J. Vickers • Denis Hollier • Philip E. Lewis • François RigolotDesigned for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work
by Raj Patel • Harvey Molotch • Harry C. Boyte • Richard Lachmann • Stephanie Luce • Richard A. Walker • Clark A. Miller • Trygve Throntveit • Alyssa Battistoni • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Hillary Angelo • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò • Jim Goodman • Wilson Sherwin • Dustin Guastella • Mindy Isser • Todd E. Vachon • J. Mijin Cha • Lara SkinnerCatastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Watchlist
by Erica Spindler • John Gilstrap • Jeffery Deaver • Linda Barnes • Joseph Finder • Lisa Scottoline • Lee Child • James Grady • David Corbett • Peter Spiegelman • David Liss • Jon Land • David Hewson • Gayle Lynds • P. J. Parrish • Brett Battles • Jenny Siler • Ralph Pezzullo • John Ramsey Miller • James Phelan • Jim Fusilli • Sj Rozan • Mj RoseFrom International Thriller Writers comes Watchlist: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrill cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. The Chopin Manuscript and then The Copper Bracelet were a collaboration by some of the world's greatest thriller writers, including Lee Child, Jos... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Teaching as if Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
by Keely Cassidy • Jonathan P. Rossing • Laura J. Carpenter • Jacquelyn Petzold • Barbie Klein • Andrew M. Koke • Rachel La Touche • Natalie Christian • Sarah Socorro Hurtado • Juliane Wuensch • Elizabeth Konwest • Kristen Hengtgen • Alyssa M. Lederer • Lauren Miller Griffith • Silja Weber • Adam Coombs • Carol Subiño Sullivan • Leslie E. Drane • Ryan G. Erbe • Polly A. Graham • Jing Yang • Javier Ramirez • Sarah M. Keesom • Kristyn E. Sylvia • Laura Clapper • Jessica Leach • Lisa Wiltbank • Michelle R. Marasco • Mark S. Nagle • Mack Hagood • Letizia Montroni • Maksymilian Szostalo • J. Christopher Upton • Maureen Chinwe Onyeziri • Francesca A. Williamson • Tyler B. ChristensenTeaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres
by Megan Knight • Lori Ostergaard • Jim Nugent • Lora Arduser • Christina Saidy • Kate Navickas • Logan Bearden • Megan Schoen • Michael Albright • Virginia M. Schwarz • Jessica Rivera-Mueller • Dustin Morris • Lindsay Clark • Amy Ferdinandt Stolley • Christopher Toth • Dana Comi • Mark A. Hannah • Matt Dowell • Cindy Mooty • Lesley Erin Bartlett • Laura R. Micciche • Cynthia Pengilly • Kate Nesbit • Zack K. De PieroWriting the Classroom explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to articulate the professional identities they perform both inside and outside the classroom. The contributors to this unique collection employ ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Climate Smart Agricultural Development
by Neil Miller • Richard Bell • Patrick Gicheru • Trent W Bunderson • Zwide D Jere • Josef Kienzle • Erna Kruger • Peter Kuria • Simon Lugandu • Weldone Mutai • Brian G. Sims • Hendrik J. Smith • Christian Thierfelder • Reynolds K. Shula • Johann Strauss • Joseph Mureithi • Mohamed Annabi • Haithem Bahri • Mloza Banda • Gotlieb Basch • Alexandra Bot • Martin Bwalya • Hatem Cheikh M’hamed • Cornelius Chiduza • Cary Clark • Demba Diakhaté • Mazwi Dlamini • Sjoerd Duiker • Alioune Fall • Aymen Frija • Josiah Gitari • Tom Goddard • Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez • Isaac Gura • Enamul Haque • Michel Havard • Zied Idoudi • Mohammad Jahiruddin • Onesmos Kitonyo • Phlorentin Philip Lagwen • Ngari Macharia • Temakholo Mathebula • Sixolise Mcinga • Alfred Micheni • Frank Mmbando • Rachid Moussadek • Pearson Nyari Mnkeni • Rachid Mrabet • Ndabhemeye Mulengera • Walter Mupangwa • R. M. Museka • Munyaradzi Mutenje • Lindah Muzangwa • Remmy Mwakimbwala • Andre A Nel • James Njeru • Rama Ngatoluwa • Phumzile Ngcobo • Isaiah Nyagumbo • Putso Nyathi • Ricardo Ralisch • Leonard Rusinamhodzi • John Sariah • Ibrahima Sarr • Peter Setimela • Richard Shetto • Dimas Soares Júnior • Peter Steward • Gerhardus Trytsman • Jean Twilingiyumukiza • Carl Wahl • Peter Waweru • Nouhoun ZampaligreTillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
by Sarah Dunn • Natasha Josefowitz • Erica Manfred • Jonathan Ned Katz • David Levy • Dustin Beall Smith • Paul Lauter • Barbara Abercrombie • Irvin Peckham • Susan Ostrov Weisser • Amy Rogers • Phyllis Carito • Mimi Schwartz • Doris Friedensohn • Nan Bauer-Maglin • Daniel E. Hood • Alice F. Freed • Cynthia McVay • Neil Stein • Laura Broadwell • Stephanie M. Brown • Elizabeth Locke • Candida B. Korman • Margie Kaplan • Hedva Lewittes • Rett Zabriskie • William Wiesner • Phyllis Bogen • Judith Ugelow Blak • Linda Wright Moore • Jean Y. Leung • Jan Jacobson • Stephanie Speer • Sandi Goldie • Jim Bronson • Vincent Valenti • Stacey Parkins Millett • Eugene Roth • Isabel Hill • Susan O’Malley • Susan Bickley • Bonnie Fails • Angela Page • Tierl Thompson • Idris WaltersGray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023