Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, March 24, 2015"

Developing Content Area Literacy 2e is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students.

What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them.

This book subjects to scrutiny some of the well-established social science concepts such as minority, ethnicity, inclusion, exclusion, and self-determination, among others.

The third and final volume in the trilogy of The Politics of Northern India begins with the dramatic political event of the fall of the Congress in the most critical state of UP and the formation of the first non-Congress government.

This series focuses on India's bilateral relations with the region and discusses the political, strategic, economic, energy, cultural and social relations.

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement.

This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all Chaucer's major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales. It includes discussion of his life, career, historical context and literary influences.

This ninth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics continues to be the definitive source on the economics of film, music, television, advertising, broadcasting, cable, casino and online wagering, publishing, performing arts and culture, toys and games, sports, and theme parks.

The book is the first of its kind in using the methodology of Comparative Literature to look at ethnographic fiction written in different regional languages of India.

How do you pronounce omega, tortoise and sloth, and why? Do charted and chartered sound the same? How do people pronounce the names Charon, Punjab and Sexwale? In this engaging book, John Wells, a world-renowned phonetician and phonologist, explores these questions and others.

In this book, Brando Simeo Starkey provocatively argues that blacks must police racial loyalty and that those successfully prosecuted must be punished with the label Uncle Tom.

This work by Nancy deClaiss-Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth Tanner is the most complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. The volume reflects the insights of three superior (younger) biblical scholars.

The Catholic Church through the Ages, now in its second edition, is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until (and including) the pontificate of Pope Francis.

What lies behind decision-making and improved educational and managerial performance? This book tries to answer by putting forth meaningful strategies in the context of planning and executive functions.

In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image.

God's Promise explores the role of this Old Testament covenant metaphor in the literary fabric of the Gospel and Letters of John.

This book examines the response of Hispanic American Catholics to the spirit of the Second Vatican Council.

Highlights the astonishing significance of the greatest theologian of the 20th century.

This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores the psychology of narcissism - the entitlement, the grandiosity and arrogance overlying insecurity, the sensitivity to criticism, and the hunger for acclaim.

Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length account of Sartre as a philosopher of the imaginary, mapping the intellectual development of his ideas throughout his life.

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize.

The authors lead us on a journey from the early days of computers in the 1930's to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades.

This book guides readers by gradual steps through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science.

Providing an in-depth understanding both for general readers and astronomy enthusiasts, this highly comprehensive book provides an up-to-date survey of our knowledge of the Universe beyond Earth.

Three 'hungry' minds brainstorming launch strategy of a product. What they are about to launch will kick start the Indian computer story, and which will be know as the 'inflection point' of the Indian IT industry.

This is the fascinating story of a young man from India who went to America to realize the American Dream and became a world-renowned educator and thought-leader.

This volume demonstrates the importance of South Asia as a region to deepening the study of civil wars and armed conflicts and, simultaneously, illustrates how civil wars open up questions of sovereignty, citizenship and state contours.

Based on the author's many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sectors, Creating Effective Teams describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive.

Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory moves readers beyond a common sense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies.

Entrepreneurial Finance provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to finance, start, grow, and value new ventures, without the complex finance terms and calculations.

This book highlights the importance of an integrated fiscal regime promoting innovations in efficient resource management, taxing polluting inputs and outputs, and spreading awareness about the problems facing the environment and its inter-dependent systems.

In this captivating book, Seth Koven chronicles how each traveled the globe-Nellie as a spinster proletarian laborer, Muriel as a well-heeled tourist and revered Christian peacemaker, anticolonial activist, and humanitarian.

Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control is a core textbook that provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society.