Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael ryan

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  • COVID-19: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly responsibilities and human rights have been central to debates about how to confront the pandemi...

    $979.00

  • PANDEMIC PEDAGOGIES
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the education system, pedagogical approaches, and educational inequalities. Education is often touted as the best way to promote social mobility and produce informed members of society. The pandemic has significantly threatened those goals by tem...

    $979.00

  • COVID-19: SURVIVING A PANDEMIC
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic. A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Survival is certainly key, but sur...

    $979.00

  • COVID-19: CULTURAL CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATIONS
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cultures and institutions. The scholarship presented in this volume examines such important issues as the impact on health-care workers, changes in the interaction order, linguistic access, social stigma, policing, new understandings of ...

    $979.00

  • A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LITERARY ANALYSIS AND THEORY
    MICHAEL RYAN
    A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from stylistics and historicism to post-humanism and new materialism, it also includes chapters on media studies and screen studies. The Guide is designed for use in introductory literature courses and as a primer in theory courses. Each...

    $919.00

  • COVID-19: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND HUMAN POSSIBILITIES
    J. MICHAEL RYAN / SERENA NANDA
    COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities examines the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, and countries, a fact seldom acknowledged and often suppressed or invisible. Taking a global approach, this book demonstrates how the impact of the pandemic has differed as a result of social inequalities, such as economic development, social c...

    $999.00

  • COVID-19
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the institutional responses, communal consequences, cultural adaptations, and social politics that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the...

    $1,039.00

  • COVID-19
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the ethics and ideologies, inequalities, and changed social understandings that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the ways in which the ...

    $1,039.00

  • THE GENETICS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
    MICHAEL RYAN
    In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that came into being at different moments in human evolution. The book argues that the varying requirements of survival at different points in history explain why leftists and rightists have anatomically d...

    $1,179.00

  • TRANS LIVES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
    J. MICHAEL RYAN
    This volume seeks to explore contemporary trans lives in a world that is both global and increasingly globalizing, examining the nuances of the rights, identities, and politics that make up the varied spectrum of what has come to be included under the largely Western imposed label of "trans". Trans identities and rights have become increasingly prominent in the social imaginati...

    $1,039.00

  • BODY POLITICS
    MICHAEL RYAN
    This book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. It discusses a range of issues, from torture and moral panics to the "AIDS plague" and the homosocial subtexts of George Bush's political speeches. ...

    $1,099.00

  • CHINESE WARFIGHTING: THE PLA EXPERIENCE SINCE 1949
    MARK A. RYAN / DAVID M. FINKELSTEIN / MICHAEL A. MCDEVITT / CNA CORPORATION
    This is the first systematic study of modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It provides a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from the civil war with the Nationalists to the last significant combat in Vietna...

    $1,339.00

  • PODCAST ACADEMY: THE BUSINESS PODCASTING BOOK
    MICHAEL GEOGHEGAN / GREG CANGIALOSI / RYAN IRELAN / TIM BOURQUIN / COLETTE VOGELE
    Exclusive Podcast Academy training now available in a book! Podcast Academy, the leader in audio/video podcast and new media education, brings you their first book, Podcast Academy: The Business Podcasting Book, based on their seminars. Written by industry experts, this book brings you practical experience that you can apply to your own business. It covers planning, content cre...

    $979.00

  • SEX TOURISM
    MICHAEL C. HALL / CHRIS RYAN
    Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original primary and secondary research by the authors and has examples from Asia, Australasia and the USA. The authors have generated new models to show different dimensions of sex touris...

    $1,559.00

  • SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL THINKING
    GORMAN, MICHAEL E. / TWENEY, RYAN D. / GOODING, DAVID C. / KINCANNON, ALEXANDRA P.
    At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. Such knowledge needs to be made widely a...

    $979.00

  • MAGMATIC SYSTEMS
    RYAN, MICHAEL P.
    With its integrated and cohesive coverage of the current research, Magmatic Systems skillfully explores the physical processes, mechanics, and dynamics of volcanism. The text utilizes a synthesized perspective--theoretical, experimental, and observational--to address the powerful regulatory mechanisms controlling the movement of melts and cooling, with emphasis on mantle plumes...

    $928.00

  • THE THERAPIST'S NOTEBOOK ON STRENGTHS AND SOLUTION-BASED THERAPIES
    BOB BERTOLINO / MICHAEL KIENER / RYAN PATTERSON
    The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-Based Therapies offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based (SSB) principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples, and families. The 100 exercises in this book are based on a series of core principles that are not only central t...

    $1,499.00

  • PRODUCT ROADMAPS RELAUNCHED
    C. TODD LOMBARDO / BRUCE MCCARTHY / EVAN RYAN / MICHAEL CONNORS
    A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy. This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stak...

    $401.00