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Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right and wrong? Why are current debates over free expression often so divisive? How can we do better? In this succinct but comprehensive and scholarly book,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992
Examines trends in the mathematics scores of different racial-ethnic groups over time and analyzes how changes in family, school, and schooling measures help explain changes in the test score gaps. Although there were few positive changes between schools, the within-school experiences of black and L... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets
by Walter L. Perry • Claude Berrebi • Thomas Sullivan • John Hollywood • Parisa Roshan • Ryan Andrew Brown • Amber Jaycocks • Lisa MiyashiroAs part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial fea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Applied Sociology: Research and Critical Thinking
This book is about applied sociology: the use of sociological and social science research to help us understand problems that people face and to help ease those problems through changes in social policy or other practices. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Understanding Spelling
How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively? Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different primary classrooms, Olivia O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Anne Thomas, the former... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Physical Rehabilitation (5th Edition)
The text is designed to provide a comprehensive approach to the rehabilitation management of adult patients and is intended to serve as a primary textbook for professional-level physical therapy students, and as an important resource for practicing therapists as well as for other rehabilitation prof... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Applied Social Research: A Tool for the Human Services
You may be wondering why you need to study research methods to prepare yourself for a career in human services. This accessible text will help you to better understand the connection between human service research and practice. APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH brings the subject to life and explores how re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Managing the Profitable Construction Business: The Contractor's Guide to Success and Survival Strategies
Take control of your construction contracting business and manage it through the natural highs and lows of the construction market. Learn from a team of construction business veterans led by Thomas C. Schleifer, who is commonly referred to as a construction business "turnaround" expert due to the nu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments (Law, Justice and Ecology)
Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy. Re-embodiments are all those contemporary practices and processes that exceed the ep... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education
Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Zero Hours and On-call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries (Work, Organization, and Employment)
by Thomas Turner • Patrick Gunnigle • Caroline Murphy • Lorraine Ryan • Michelle O’Sullivan • Jonathan Lavelle • Juliet McMahonThis book focuses on zero hours and on-call work as an extreme form of casual and precarious employment. It includes country studies of the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Ireland, where there has been increasing concern about the prevalence of such work, and working time uncertainty... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong (SpringerBriefs in Education)
This book presents an extensive analysis of the multifaceted benefits that higher education in the humanities offers individuals and society, as explored in the context of Hong Kong. Using both quantitative graduate employment survey data and qualitative data from interviews with past humanities gra... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The People's Victory: Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
by David Thompson • John Lewis • Scott Smith • Robert Sullivan • Edie Windsor • Del Shores • J. Scott Coatsworth • Alex Mccord • Amos Lim • Anne Tischer • Baltimore Gonzalez • Beau Chandler • Billy Bradford • Brian Maschka • Brian Silva • Carmen Goodyear • Cathy Marino-Thomas • Charlie Scatamacchia • Cheryle Lambert-Rudd • Christine Allen • Colleen Mewing • David Cameron Strachan • Davina Kotulski • Ellen Pontac • Frank Capley-Alfano • Fred Anguera • Gender Offenders • Geoff Callan • Jamila Tharp • Jan Thompson • Joe Capley-Alfano • Jokie X Wilson • Jolene Mewing • Joseph Vitale • Joy O'Donnell • Kate Burns • Kirsten Berzon • Kitty Lambert-Rudd • Laurie York • Leslie Stewart • Mark Major" Jiminez • Marriage Equality Usa • Martha Mcdevitt-Pugh • Marvin Burrows • Matthew Baume • Michael Boyajian • Michael Farino • Michael Markiewicz • Michael Sabatino • Mike Goettemoeller • Mike Shaw • Mir Reyad • Molly Mckay • Peter Mesh • Robert Voorheis • Roland Stringfellow • Sam Thoron • Sean Chapin • Shelly Bailes • Simon Van Kempen • Stephanie Stolte • Stuart Gaffney • Tim Garcia • Tracy Hollister • Will Scott • Zack Lyons"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miracu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Keywords #9)
by Michael Joseph • Beverly Lyon Clark • Michelle Martin • Peter Hunt • Karen Sánchez-Eppler • Colleen Glenney Boggs • Elizabeth Marshall • Clémentine Beauvais • Lynne Vallone • Philip Nel • Lissa Paul • Robin Bernstein • Evelyn Arizpe • Katharine Capshaw • Vanessa Joosen • Patricia Crain • Kerry Mallan • Kenneth Kidd • Kimberley Reynolds • Mavis Reimer • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Clare Bradford • JonArno Lawson • Nicole Markotić • Ute Dettmar • Karen Coats • Louise Joy • Naomi Hamer • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh • Joseph T. Thomas • Hugh Crago • Debra Dudek • Claudia Nelson • Derritt Mason • Zoe Jaques • Charles Hatfield • Anna Stemmann • Sandra L. Beckett • Kelly Hager • Mike Cadden • Boel Westin • Lydia Kokkola • Marah Gubar • Victoria Ford Smith • Nina Christensen • Sarah Park Dahlen • Eric L. Tribunella • Richard Flynn • B. j. McDaniel • Ebony Elizabeth Marshall • Elisabeth Lies Wesseling • Deirdre Baker • Karin E. Westman • Peter Hollindale • Michael Heyman • Kevin Shortsleeve • William Moebius • Stine Liv Johansen • Cathryn M. Mercier • Åse Marie Ommundsen • Emer O’SullivanIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated editionOver the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021