Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: c morris

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  • CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND ACTS OF RESISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MICHELLE C. CHATMAN, LEERAY COSTA, DAVID W. ROBINSON-MORRIS
    The contributors to this volume – educators, student affairs practitioners, and higher education staff – heartfully share a broad range of contemplative practices and acts of resistance used within the confines of shattered systems and institutions for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. The narratives in this volume broadly imagine, inspire, recount, and guide re...

    $820.00

  • THE DROUGHT DILEMMA
    JONATHAN D. FARLEY / JONATHAN M. FISK / JOHN C. MORRIS
    Water policy in United States is one of the most complex topics in the field of public policy. This book, a comparative study of Texas, California, and Alabama’s drought response, provides for the first time a common framework for analysis to investigate how water scarcity and droughts have interacted with various state-level factors to produce a wide degree of variance in poli...

    $640.00

  • THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS ON E-PARTICIPATION
    PRAGATI RAWAT / JOHN C. MORRIS
    In this book Pragati Rawat and John C. Morris identify and evaluate the impact of factors that can help explain the difference in e-participation, public participation using information and communication technology, in different countries. While cross-sectional studies have been covered, few have taken an in-depth look at cross-national studies. This book attempts to fill the g...

    $580.00

  • POLICY MAKING AND SOUTHERN DISTINCTIVENESS
    JOHN C. MORRIS / MARTIN K. MAYER / ROBERT C. KENTER / R. BRUCE ANDERSON
    Policy Making and Southern Distinctiveness examines the uniqueness of southern politics and their policy choices. While decades of scholarship on the politics of the American South have focused on partisanship and electoral outcomes as the primary elements of interest in southern politics, few works have focused on the more practical outcomes of these political processes, speci...

    $580.00

  • CANCER RISK ASSESSMENT
    SAMUEL C. MORRIS
    Based on the National Academy of Sciences approach to quantitative risk assessment. Emphasizes how an accurate assessment of cancer risk must draw on a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. Provides tables of Poisson confidence limit fa ...

    $1,900.00

  • STATE POLITICS AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
    JOHN C. MORRIS / MARTIN K. MAYER / ROBERT C. KENTER / LUISA M. LUCERO
    After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since President Trump's election into office, the ACA has stayed in the headlines. Trump has continued to call for the replacement and repeal of the ACA, and several efforts have spawned in both the House and the Senate to acc...

    $1,200.00

  • POLITICS IS A JOKE!
    S. ROBERT LICHTER / JODY C BAUMGARTNER / JONATHAN S. MORRIS
    Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it. Usin...

    $1,060.00

  • TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    SUSAN C. MORRIS
    This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status, Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights draws on both political and economic theory, touchin...

    $1,480.00

  • ADVANCING COLLABORATION THEORY
    JOHN C. MORRIS
    The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships. As collaboration scholarship rapidly emerges, it diverges into severa...

    $1,360.00

  • EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF EARNINGS MOBILITY
    A. ATKINSON / BOURGUINON / C. MORRIS
    Do individuals keep the same place on the earnings scale, or is there a great deal of mobility? This volume discusses the empirical studies of this issue. ...

    $860.00

  • SOUL OF THE CITY
    JANET MORRIS / C.J. CHERRYH
    Dark magical forces are afoot in the eighth entry of the shared-world fantasy series. An ominous black storm from hell rages down on the city of Ranke. Its streets are full of lethal hail, and its walls are coated with ash. As the new Emperor and his mercenary Tempus wonder what can be done to stop it, a shade manifests before them on behalf of the gods with a decree: Travel to...

    $119.00

  • BLOOD TIES
    DIANA L. PAXSON / JANET MORRIS / ROBIN WAYNE BAILEY / C.J. CHERRYH / ANDREW J. OFFUTT / DIANE DUANE
    A ruined city rebuilds in the ninth entry of this shared-world fantasy series. Hakiem, storyteller and adviser, surveys the city of Sanctuary from a palace window and is heartbroken by what he sees. The city of outlaws and adventurers now lies in shambles, ravaged by war, plague, riots, and magical destruction, and many citizens are dead or wounded. Hakiem is not the only one t...

    $119.00

  • UNEASY ALLIANCES
    C.J. CHERRYH / JOHN DECLES / CHRIS MORRIS / ROBIN WAYNE BAILEY / C. S. WILLIAMS / DIANA L. PAXSON
    The struggle to rebuild Sanctuary continues in the eleventh entry in this shared-world fantasy series. The storms of war have passed Sanctuary by, and ordinary folk are confident the worst is behind them. Citizens work to restore their lives as the reconstruction brings new life to the city in more ways than one. However, it's not sunny skies for everyone. Some residents are op...

    $149.00

  • THE DEAD OF WINTER
    JANET MORRIS / ANDREW J. OFFUTT / ROBIN WAYNE BAILEY / C.J. CHERRYH / DIANE DUANE / DIANA L. PAXSON
    The dead rise in the seventh volume of the shared-world fantasy, co-edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth Adventures series. As winter descends on the fractured city of Sanctuary, it's expected that the rainy season will cool the air. But tensions are simmering. The Emperor is dead, and the rightful heir to the throne is in town. The city is a battlefield,...

    $119.00

  • THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
    BRITTNEY C. COOPER / SUSANA M. MORRIS / ROBIN M. BOYLORN
    Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective's writings foster dialog...

    $249.00

  • FLUORESCENCE-BASED BIOSENSORS: FROM CONCEPTS TO APPLICATIONS
    MORRIS, MAY C.
    One of the major challenges of modern biology and medicine consists in finding means to visualize biomolecules in their natural environment with the greatest level of accuracy, so as to gain insight into their properties and behaviour in a physiological and pathological setting. This has been achieved thanks to the design of novel imaging agents, in particular to fluorescent bi...

    $2,047.00

  • IRON-FORMATION: FACTS AND PROBLEMS: FACTS AND PROBLEMS
    TRENDALL, A.F. / MORRIS, R.C.
    Iron-Formation: Facts and Problems ...

    $2,162.00

  • A SOUTH CAROLINA CHRONOLOGY
    WALTER EDGAR, J. BRENT MORRIS, AND C. JAMES TAYLOR
    The year-by-year chronology of landmark dates and events in the state's recorded history with an updated view of race, gender, and other social issues. Historians Walter Edgar, J. Brent Morris, and C. James Taylor add nearly thirty additional years of notable events and important updates in this third addition. While the previous edition referenced precontact South Carolina in ...

    $229.00

  • THE RETURNS OF FETISHISM
    CHARLES DE BROSSES / ROSALIND C. MORRIS / DANIEL H. LEONARD
    For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s term “fetishism” has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to “magic,” but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses’s term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. ...

    $663.99