Authors:PROF GORDON BROWN, Claudette Fortin, Ian Neath, Marie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: journal, psychology, international, special, term, issues, working, memory, issue, short
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0863776531
ISBN-13: 9780863776533

This special issue of the International Journal of Psychology had its origins in the Quebec 98 Conference on Short-Term Memory, held in Quebec City, Canada, in June 1998. Following this conference, participants were invited to submit contributions based on, and expanding upon, their presentation at this conference. The enthusiastic response made it possible to collect the exciting selection of articles that you will find herein. It must be noted that because of the finite journal space available, the editors and reviewers were faced with the difficult problem of selecting only a limited number

Author: Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Ph.D.Prof. Ngina S.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: states, current, issues, united, color, accumulation, communities, wealth
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-11-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472069586
ISBN-13: 9780472069583

"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the perspective and insight of scholars of color that are too often missing from information produced by the asset building field (people and organizations seeking to help low-income people develop assets). Communities served by the asset building field are disproportionately made up of people of color. This book captures work produced by scholars representing these communities and offers innovative and thought provoking analyses of wealth inequality. Decision-making o

Author: Prof. Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: threat, islamic, russia
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-09
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 030012077X
ISBN-13: 9780300120776

The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia’s emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of it

Author: Prof. F. Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: calvin
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300120761
ISBN-13: 9780300120769

During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin’s vision of the Christian religion has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.  The book

Author: Prof. Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: turning, soul, art, discussion, teach, learning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0300120001
ISBN-13: 9780300120004

This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon’s acclaimed Turning the Soul: TeachingThrough Conversation in the High School presents a case study of two people learning to teach. It shows them engaging two groups of fourth grade students in discussion about the meaning of texts—what the author calls “interpretive discussion. The two groups differ with respect to race, geographical location, and affluence. As the novice teachers learn to clarify their own questions about meaning, they become better listeners and leaders of the discussions. Eventually, they mix the students from the two classroo

Author: Gordon S. Brown
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: sicily, italy, southern, conquest, norman
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2003-01-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786414723
ISBN-13: 9780786414727

The Normans who originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries were looking for adventure or a livelihood, but only saw and took chances to gain fame and fortune. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of knights and adventurers, great battles and lowly pillage, opportunism and statesmanship, and crusade and coexistence. This rich and often dramatic study focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard, who has been called "the most dazzling military ruler between Julius Caesar and Napoleon," and his youngest brothe

Author: Gordon S. Brown
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: dacor, diplomats, diplomacy, book, adst, revolution, clause, founding, fathers, haitian, toussaint
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1578067111
ISBN-13: 9781578067114

An early American foreign policy crisis and its lasting effect on liberty and the Carribean ... In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic’s strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790-1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged on the seas and in Europe. America watched a