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  • Integrating Community Engagement in Public Affairs Education
    Thomas Andrew Bryer
    This book presents a coherent argument for higher education institutions to not only encourage students to engage in their communities, but to develop themselves as community engaged institutions. It is grounded in a case-based design, offering concrete examples of teaching and learning strategies that promote public value. ...
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    73,38 €

  • Drama at the Heart of English
    Jane Coles / Maggie Pitfield / Theo Bryer
    Drama at the Heart of English is unique in its exploration of drama’s potential to revitalize English as a secondary school subject. It focuses specifically on the value and inclusive nature of educational drama practices in the reading of literary, dramatic and multimodal texts in the English classroom. ...
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    54,63 €

  • Conversations with Beth Henley
    Jackson R Bryer
    With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd...
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    42,85 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    42,53 €

  • EMBRACING YOUR WICKED GOOD, GOD AWE-FULL LIFE
    Roberta Bryer-King
    WHAT IF YOUR STUMBLES AREN’T REALLY SETBACKS? WHAT IF GOD’S GRACE MOVES YOUR MISSTEPS INTO BEAUTIFULLY TIMED CHOREOGRAPHY? IF YOU KNEW YOUR CORE ISN’T DAMAGED AND FLAWED, COULD YOU LET YOURSELF DANCE UNASHAMEDLY?Is something missing from your spiritual life? Despite God’s promises of love, forgiveness, and freedom, do you still feel unworthy, frustrated, and alone? Do you procl...
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    14,46 €

  • Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships
    Ashley Wilt Connors / Cristian Pliscoff / Thomas Andrew Bryer
    'In their comparative analysis of several universities from different parts of the world, the authors make a case for the critical roles that higher education institutions can play in building the civic framework in a society.'-Kyle Farmbry, Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, United States'By defining community, discussing how uni...
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    68,36 €

  • Accounting for Value in Marx’s Capital
    Robert Bryer
    This book confirms and builds on the Temporal Single-System Interpretation’s demonstration of Marx’s consistency. This book shows that he used his theory of value to explain capitalists’ accounts, and concludes that explaining accounting justifies Marx’s claim that he had “proved” his theory of value. ...
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    66,61 €

  • Poor Participation
    Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera / Thomas A. Bryer / Thomas ABryer
    This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor if the poor themselves are not involved in the decision-making process. Inside th...
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    60,67 €

  • Brothers Of The Wind
    Thomas Bryer
    A 19th century British Gypsy family fight injustice on three continents. Inspired by real people and events, set in England Romania, and Australia, Brothers Of The Wind is filled with real English Romany voices, folklore, culture, language and romance.England 1830, the Industrial Revolution has brought prosperity for many, but hardship for Adam Stanley, the Romany horse trader ...
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    8,58 €

  • National Service and Volunteerism
    Bryer
    National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not ...
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    83,76 €

  • Higher Education beyond Job Creation
    Thomas A. Bryer / Thomas ABryer
    Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security are sobering for many citizens, even the college educated. The response to thes...
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    75,07 €

  • Repeat Offender
    Philip Bryer
    Some years ago I was asked to become a regular contributor to the radio show Why The Long Face? In 2011 I put together the first book of the best of my weekly contributions, titled Why The Long Face - The Paper Trail... Sadly, but in the spirit of if you keep moving then they can’t hit you, and going out at the top, the presenters chose to discontinue Why The Long Face? in ra...
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    13,11 €

  • William Inge
    Jackson Bryer
    William Inge’s popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop [1956], and Dark at the Top of the Stairs [1958]) and won a Pulitzer Prize (Picnic [1953]). As a screenwriter, he won an Academy Award (Splendor in the Grass [1961]). Yet Inge’s career ended in perceived failure, depression and finally suicide. These previously unpublished essays take a fresh look at ...
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    57,16 €

  • Hidden Genius
    H. T. Bryer / Harry T. Bryer
    Hidden Genius Frank Mann The Black Engineer Behind Howard Hughes Frank Mann had the deck stacked against him from the very start.A Black child born to an unwed mother in 1908 Texas didn't have much hope of becoming a success in Life.But in 1919 on a dusty Houston airfield, young Frank met a kindred soul, a boy named Howard Hughes.It was the start of a lifelong relationship,...
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    14,19 €

  • Why The Long Face? The Paper Trail
    Philip Bryer
    A couple of years ago I was asked to become a regular contributor to the radio show Why The Long Face? which is available on ICR 105.7FM and, of course, worldwide on the Internet. This book is a collection of the best of my offerings.******'The charm of these vignettes is Philip Bryer’s ability to quickly extract interest from the mundane and then to distil a major event such a...
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    15,90 €

  • None of Your Business
    Philip Bryer
    Johnson soon found out that the corporate world involved itself with many thingsthat didn’t have anything much to do with work at all. Things like company ’fun’ days,outward bound team building events, psychometric testing, diversity audits,motivational tools and other bullshit.None Of Your Business is a comic novel which features a rich cast ofincompetents, bullies, oddballs a...
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    15,53 €

  • Jack and the Powerful Seven
    Trina C. Bryer / Trina CBryer
    JACK BEAN was an adventurous kid with quick wit and a seemingly fearless attitude. Things take a turn for the worst when this sometimes bossy yet mischievous kid and his friends Jamie and Matt make a dangerous decision at the infamous Great Museum. In the small town of Ellerehc, the Great Museum is all the rave, but what happens on that fateful night inevitably changes the cour...
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    42,38 €

  • Conversations with Thornton Wilder
    Jackson R. Bryer
    Conversations with Thornton Wilderedited by Jackson R. BryerKnown today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America’s le...
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    43,21 €