Social Sciences

Service Learning: An Agent for Social Change

Author: 

Payne-Jackson, Arvilla: editor and contributor

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Coordinator for Anthropology, Howard University, Washington, DC

Service Learning: An Agent for Social Change discusses personal, social, academic, and career-related impact of service-learning as an instructional method is well documented. This book contributes to the literature by providing access to examples of the service-learning process; the nuances of its implementation; and qualitative evaluation of what works, from the students' perspective.

Market: 
Education, Service-Learning in higher education settings, re entry of ex-offenders, gun violence, youth violence, alternative approaches to youth gangs, Lorton prison(DC), minority education in detention and prison settings, urban education, advocacy, community organizing, Afro-American education
Release Date: 
June 4th, 2015
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1-68053-001-8
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
146
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

American Treasures: Building, Leveraging, and Sustaining Capacity in Historically Black College and Universities

Author: 

Shults, Christopher and Stevenson, Joseph Martin

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Shults, Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness SCCC, Stevenson Chief Academic Officer CSPP formerly provost MVSU

This work uses current research data and interviews to present a cogent discussion of strategies and tactics needed to keep the HBCU community a healthy vital component of American educational life. The threats and problems of intuitional life are not glossed over rather they are discussed within the parameters of successful planning and implementation.

Market: 
Higher Education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Afro-American Studies, Higher Education in America (History), Educational Policy, Tertiary Education—Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Education, minority education, Educational administration
Release Date: 
May 1 2015
ISBN: 
978-1-68053-006-3
Price: 
Cloth: $64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
182
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Ella Young and Her World: Celtic Mythology, The Irish Revival and The Californian Avant-Garde

Author: 

McDowell, Dorothea

Credentials: 

UCD, Womens Studies

Ella Young (1867-1956) the Irish poet, Celtic mythologist and author presents a number of problems to any researcher—she not only lived an Irish life of almost 60 years but she went on to have a dramatically different life in California that lasted over 30 years until her death. She also managed to write an autobiography that labeled her in many eyes as a Bohemian free spirit and not a a scholar with a vast knowledge of Irish myth and Celtic lore.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Celtic Mythology/Interpretation, Irish Language, Folkways/Cultural anthropology, W.B.Yeats, Irish Free State/ culture and language policies, Irish Catholicism and Robinson Jeffers,Alan Watts and Counter-culture in California, CelticFolklore
Release Date: 
December 10th, 2014
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-91-2
Price: 
$85.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
906
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Maunsel & Co., Publishers (Dublin)
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Social Media Wars: Sunni and Shi'a Identity Conflicts in the Age of Web 2.0 and the Arab Spring

Author: 

Karolak, Magdalena

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Silesia (see Description)

This soon to be released monograph evaluates the role of the social media in strengthening and transforming religious identities in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Focusing specifically on Bahrain, this study assesses how the sectarian interpretation of the protests exacerbated social divisions and reverberated around the Middle East intensifying sectarian loyalties. The social media contribute to negotiation and re-construction of the collective identities of the groups involved in the 2011 uprising, which is visible through their online manifestations.

Market: 
Bahrain, Social Media in Political Conflict, Sunni-Shi'a Relations, The Arab Spring, Saudi Foreign Policy, Religion in Gulf State entities, Sociology of Religion, Islam and Media, Religion and Violence, Bahrain 2011-2013, Gulf monarchy and the masses
Release Date: 
Oct 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-71-4
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Action Research for College Community Health Work: Getting Out, Going Into and Giving Back, Volume II

Author: 

Schmuck, Richard A. and Stevenson, Joseph M.

Credentials: 

A social psychologist of education,Richard Schmuck is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He has a Ph.D from University of Michigan and is the author of 22 books and 194 articles. Joseph Stevenson is Senior Vice-President and University Provost at Mississippi Valley State University and is a graduate of the University of Oregon(he was the first African-American male Ph.D in Educational Policy & Management at Oregon)and Harvard University (Institute for Educational Management). He is the author of several monographs including the well received Modernizing the College Curriculum (Academica Press).

Foreword by Aaron Shirley,MD and Robert Smith,MD

Market: 
Action Research, Educational Sociology, Community Health Programs, Health Planning and Programing, Poverty Studies,Educational Management, Community Studies, African-American Public Health, Rural health services, Sociology of Health / Hospital outreach
Release Date: 
09/15/2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-83-7
Price: 
$54.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
124
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Sordid Boon? The Context of Sustainability in Historical and Contemporary Global Economics

Author: 

Lumley, Sarah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Economics, University of Western Australia, Senior Research Fellow and late Associate Professor, School of Earth and Geographical Studies, UWA

This work contributes to the social sciences generally, and economics in particular, by reviewing the way in which a narrowly applied interpretation of economics in the modern world contributes to social and environmental injustice.

Market: 
Economics, Environmental Studies, Economics of Development, Research Economics,Sustainability , Global Development, Agricultural and Conservation Policy and Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies Global North and Global South
Release Date: 
February 10th, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-57-8
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
248
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Hear and Now: Desk Guide for Administrative and Academic Decision Making with Higher Education Action Research

Author: 

Stevenson, Joseph, Professor, Jackson State University; former Provost Mississippi Delta State University; Richard A. Schmuck, Debra A. Buchanan, Rodney Denne, Melissa Druckrey, Arthur Jefferson and Karen Wilson

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Oregon State University, author of MODERNIZING THE COLLEGE CIRRICULUM IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION (Academica Press,2008)

Higher education is undergoing profound change at an unprecedented pace in today’s academic marketplace. These authors have captured the essence expediting of the critical analysis processes needed to confront the challenges of academic administration, finance, student life, technology and other areas in the academic enterprise. Administrators and academicians nowadays must be able to make balanced decisions based on a methodology that is comprehensive, unambiguous, and credible.

Market: 
Action Research in Higher Education, HBCU educational governance and planning, Afro-American participation in tertiary education, educational decision making and structuring programs for success, Educational Methodology
Release Date: 
August 12th, 2013
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1-936320-77-6
Price: 
$41.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
298
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research

Author: 

Fogel, Dr. Curtis (with Andrea Quinlan,York University and Dr Elizabeth Quinlan, D/Sociology, University of Saskatchewan)

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds (author: D/Interdisciplinary Studies, Lakehead University, Canada)

Academic disciplines have remained largely committed to research methods and methodologies that hinge on simplistic binaries and problematic dichotomies. Despite this historical and contemporary trend in interdisciplinary research, there have been some notable advances in innovative approaches to method and methodology. With the recent growth in these advances, there is an increasing need for texts that document contemporary, innovative approaches to research.

Market: 
Research Methods ,Sociology, Psychology, Nursing, Health Studies, Criminology, Interdisciplinary Studies, History, Political Science, Gender Studies and Anthropology
Release Date: 
September 15th , 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320- 43-1
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
182
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Feminism and the Mastery of Women

Author: 

Nall, Jeffery

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Comparative Studies—Feminism,Gender and Sexuality

Dr Nall's monograph uses a title that may seem familiar since it is a tribute to Val Plumwood’s classic ecofeminist work ,Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(Routledge). Nall, like Plumwood, explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. The research examines the connections between the understanding of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth.

Market: 
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Sexuality,Ecofeminism, Mother and Child,Ethics and Practice of Childbirth/Delivery, Medical Ethics, Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
December 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-78-3
Price: 
$84.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Nihilism and Society in the Age of Screen

Author: 

Liddelow , Eden

Credentials: 

PhD (Melbourne), DipEd (LaTrobe) DALF(Paris), Author of AFTER ELECTRA: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction

“Brilliant,at times dazzling...Liddelow impresses with her intellectual audacity, sheer erudition and courage in tackling this difficult and uncomfortable terrain”

Dr Jennifer Rutherford,Australian Book Review

“Engaging and innovative analysis” Dr Tessa Hockly, Australian Literary Studies
“Using Nietzsche and Orwell as key textural elements Dr Liddelow discusses the modern novel, the role of art, Media, literature in America, England, France and Australia as well as the literary praxis of decline and nihilistic despair. Her work has amazing sweep and intellectual energy.”

Market: 
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies/Theory, post-colonialism, popular culture, film history, TV as a phenomena, Philosophy, Anglo-American Literature, French Literature, Australian Literature, Society and Value in the 21st Century, Art
Release Date: 
March 17th,2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-62-2
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
346
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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