Titles: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
Title: Obesity Among Poor AmericansThis book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like Food Stamps and the National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence from an array of disciplines--anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, marketing, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning--to test this claim and to test whether other causal processes are at work.
With a lucid presentation that makes it a model for applying research to questions of social policy, the book lays out the different hypotheses and the possible causal pathways within each. The four central chapters test whether "public assistance causes obesity," "obesity causes public assistance," "poverty causes both public assistance and obesity," and "Factor X causes both." The factors in the last category that may relate to both public assistance and obesity include stress, disability, and physical abuse.
Title: When Experiments Travel
Title: Swimming Against the TideHanson examines the experiences of African American girls in science education using multiple methods of quantitative and qualitative research, including a web survey and vignette techniques. She understands the complex interaction between race and gender in the science domain and, using a multicultural and feminist framework of analysis, addresses the role of agency and resistance that encourages and sustains interest in science in African American families and communities.
Title: Chemobrain: How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind
Title: Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital AgeIngram: Smartphones, videogames, webcasts, wikis, blogs, texting, emoticons. What does the rapidly changing digital landscape mean for classroom teaching? How has technology affected the brain development of students? How does it relate to what we know about learning styles, memory, and multiple intelligences? How can teachers close the digital divide that separates many of them from their students?
Published: April 2010 Updated: April 2010
-Retrieved from www.booksinprint2.com on 12/16/10
Title: Pentecostal Theology: A Theology of Encounter
Title: The Mom and Pop Store: How the unsung Heroes of the American Economy are Surviving and ThrivingPublisher: A celebration of the history of small, independent retail and the story of how mom & pop stores across the country still thrive on attentive customer service and renewed community support for local businesses.Business journalist Robert Spector grew up working in his family’s butcher shop in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he learned invaluable lessons about the independent retail business—and about life. Mom & pop stores have always brought people together, fostering a sense of neighborhood identity and camaraderie, and are the glue that connects people in big cities and small towns alike.Long fascinated by the “direct connection” people feel as merchants and customers when they do business in neighborhood shops, and responding to the growing “buy local” movement across the country, Spector sets out to discover the state, and the state of mind, of independent retailing in America. From a specialty soda pop shop in Los Angeles to a florist shop in Dayton, Ohio, from a bakery in Chicago to a bookstore in Bellingham, Washington, mom & pop store owners shared their stories with him, revealing the spirit and tenacity of the small business owner, dealing with frustration and defeat as well as triumph and success. Spector also interweaves the history of independent retailing.The Mom & Pop Storereflects the story of this country, for it embraces and cross-references every ethnic group and virtually every element of our society.
Published: April 2009 Updated: April 2009
-Retrieved from www.booksinprint2.com on 12/16/10
Title: Luther Out of the Storm
Title: The Leadership Jump
Launching the War on Poverty
Title: Obesity Among Poor Americans
Title: Desert
Title: Successful Societies
Title: The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Title: Theodore Seuss Geisel 
Title: Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Title: Deception in the Marketplace: The Psychology of Deceptive Persuasion and Consumer Self-Protection
Title: Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business is Down
Title: Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education
Title: Sowing the Seeds of Character
Title: The Black-White Achievement Gap“Much of the African American’s journey from chattel slavery to today’s possibilities has been made possible through educational attainment. Focusing our attention on the education of today’s African American youth with the goal of closing the black–white achievement gap is an imperative for further African American advancement.”Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Chair & President Emerita, National Council of Negro Women
“In this hard-hitting and much-needed book, two of America’s foremost African American educators vividly make the case for closing the black–white achievement gap—and courageously show how the nation’s civil rights leaders have shunned this urgent challenge and thereby failed in their responsibilities.” Chester E. Finn, Jr., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
“An illuminating book that boldly defines the ‘black–white academic achievement gap’ as today’s major civil rights issue. The reader will be enlightened by a powerful debate that calls for a new kind of leadership. This instructive piece builds on the wisdom of great leaders while at the same time creating a breath of fresh air for those who dare to implement a new model and escape insanity…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome!” —J.C. Watts, Jr., former U.S. Congressman; Chairman of J.C. Watts Companies
“This is a thought-provoking book on a subject that is crucially important, timely, and in need of immediate attention for the ultimate well-being of black America. Now that the problem of the achievement gap has been addressed in this book, it is incumbent upon educators and national leaders to accept the challenge and provide solutions that will remove barriers to achievement, and therefore produce African American scholars, particularly in mathematics and the sciences.” — Yvonne Kennedy, Ph.D., 19th National President, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
“In large part, impersonal market forces reward the well educated and leave few meaningful opportunities for our children who receive a substandard education or fail to take advantage of educational opportunities. Secretary Paige and Dr. Witty have correctly identified education as one of the defining civil rights issues of the 21st century. For those looking for ideas to develop new, effective civil rights ideas for reducing racial disparities, this is a must-read.” — Gerald A
Title: Reflections on Beckett
Title: A Thousand Never EversIn Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school. But when her careless act leads to her brother's disappearance and possible murder, Addie Ann, Mama, and Uncle Bump struggle with not knowing if he's dead or alive. Then a good deed meant to unite Kuckachoo sets off a chain of explosive events. Addie Ann knows Old Man Adams left his land to the white and black people to plant a garden and reap its bounty together, but the mayor denies it. On garden picking day, Addie Ann's family is sorely tested. Through tragedy, she finds the voice to lead a civil rights march all her own, and maybe change the future for her people
PR3592.R4 D66 2009
Title: The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincey Adams, and the Election of 1828
Title: Greek for Preachers
Title: Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Title: The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages
Title: Corporate Tribalism
Omega The Unknown
Title: ThirteenBestselling author Lauren Myracle concludes her enormously popular trilogy about a winning young heroine whose humor, daring, and compassion for others is infectious and unforgettable.
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