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View book details for A Research Guide to Psychology
Print and Electronic Sources
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This authoritative research guide uses a problem-solving approach to presenting print and electronic resources. Coverage includes:Definition and deep background sources Specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooksCurrent research - Journal Articles and Annual ReviewsTests and MeasuresBibliographiesU.S. Government ResourcesBiographical ResourcesDirectories and OrganizationsStyle GuidesDiagnostic …
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A History
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The failed states of Iraq and Syria plus the rise and fall of ISIS have helped lead to near Kurdish statehood in Iraq (the KRG) and Kurdish autonomy in Syria (Rojava). In Turkey tooas illustrated by its negotiations and temporary …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The 2nd edition of The Care of Prints and Drawings provides practical, straightforward advice to those responsible for the preservation of works on paper, ranging from curators, facility managers, conservators, registrars, collection care specialists, private collectors, artists, or students of …
Alice James Books
"This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. . . . francine j. harris brilliantly ransacks the poet's toolkit, assembling art from buckets of …
Alice James Books
"These poems are infused with contradiction: discovery and pain, blood and healing. Ultimately, The Blessing of Dark Water is wrenching in its investigation of the artistic urge as tempered by the transformative power of suffering."Amy Quan BarryLyons's debut, The Blessing …
View book details for Vicious Circles in Education Reform
Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light …
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Hollywood's Greatest Year
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What do Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, and Young Mr. Lincoln all have in common? They are all classic films released in the same year, but none of them …
View book details for Quietly Courageous
Leading the Church in a Changing World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The changing dynamics of contemporary church life are well-known, but whats less well-known is how leaders can work most effectively in this new context. In Quietly Courageous, esteemed minister and congregational consultant Gil Rendle offers practical guidance to leadersboth lay …
View book details for The Hell of War Comes Home
Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
University Press of Mississippi
Owen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the …
University Press of Mississippi
Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the HumanitiesToday sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often …
View book details for The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
University Press of Mississippi
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication AssociationOngoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories …
View book details for Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
University Press of Mississippi
Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many seance circles flourished …
University Press of Mississippi
With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Piacentino, Claude Pruitt, Thomas J. Richardson, Donald M. Shaffer, Theresa M. Towner, Terrence T. Tucker, Daniel …
View book details for Deeper Currents
The Sacraments of Hunting and Fishing
University Press of Mississippi
In Deeper Currents, Donald C. Jackson guides us on a journey into the cathedrals of wild and lonely places, those sacred spaces where hunters and fishers connect with the rhythms of the earth and the spirit that resonates within us. …
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Voice of the Mississippi Delta
University Press of Mississippi
Blues Book of the Year 26th Annual Living Blues Awards Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold Shaw, and Dick Shurman Fifty years after Charley Patton's death in …
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Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
University Press of Mississippi
During the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in the hateful embrace of a white caste system that enforced segregation. Rather than troubling the Closed Society, state news media, on the whole, marched in lockstep or, worse, promoted the continued …
View book details for City of Remembering
A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
University Press of Mississippi
City of Remembering represents a rich testament to the persistence of a passionate form of public history. In exploring one particular community of family historians in New Orleans, Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of …
View book details for Ready for Learning and Ready for Life
Bridging the Disconnects Between Research and Practice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Many of our children are poorly prepared to face the challenges of school and growing up in our complex society. The term readiness is misrepresented in the field of education; this book implies a different type of readiness involving a …
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Hope and Help for Families
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive renewing police contacts, keeping up with the …
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A Case Study Book for the Superintendency
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Standards-Based Leadership is written specifically for superintendents and is framed within the most recent national standards: Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015. The cases provide an opportunity for superintendents, as well as those in training, to critically reflect on best-practices …
Lexington Books
The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of …
Lexington Books
This book provides an overview of the theological views on takfir in classical and medieval Islamic thought, explores the Islamic context of the concept, and considers the following questions: In what context does the term appear in the Quran and …
View book details for The Eroticization of Distance
Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love
Lexington Books
In The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Joseph D. Kuzma explores the significance of courtly erotic themes in Friedrich Nietzsches mature philosophy and in Maurice Blanchots writings of the 1940s and early 1950s. Rather …
Lexington Books
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of the environment and humanitys place in …
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