There just might be as many forms of barbecue as there are people who love to eat it. Nonetheless, all will agree that finding the place that serves it up just the way that you like it is a search well worth the effort. That search is what this book is all about. In it, you’ll be introduced to a brief history of how this cuisine came to be America’s food. You’ll learn how to appreciate the finer points of tasting properly-prepared meat and the sides that accompany it. And most of all, you’ll get a head start on your own search to find the best joints to eat barbecue in and around Athens, Georgia.
Hayes, R. L. (2024). The nature and nurturing of collaboration. Lanham, MD: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield.
Nature and the Nurturing of Collaboration tells the wondrous story of how the natural forces of biological evolution gave way to the co-evolution of genes and a nurturing culture that gave rise to us. Several million years in the making, collaboration is the story of human cultural evolution—who we are, how we came to be this way, and how collaboration enabled humans to dominate the Earth. Through a series of genetic accidents, disruptive climatic events, and changing social conditions, humans emerged with a set of “fortunate” adaptations that enabled a general capacity for collaboration. Richard L. Hayes explains how these adaptations enabled them to work as members of a cultural group in acts of collective intentionality. Nurtured through the challenge and support offered by others in close social interaction, these capacities enabled the collaborative process of adjusting behaviors and expectations in arriving at mutually determined solutions to mutually defined problems. How adults can nurture these capacities in children, how organizations can improve members’ performance, and how individuals can become better collaborators are discussed in this volume. How building collaborative communities has advanced our mutual understanding across cultures and ensures that collaboration serves the public good offer a tentative end to the story.
Hayes, R. L. (2023). Making meaning of loss: Change and challenge across the lifespan. Lanham, MD: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield.
Making Meaning of Loss: Change and Challenge Across the Lifespan is about how change brings loss to our lives, how we make meaning of loss, and how our experience with loss directs our encounters with loss in the future. Each loss challenges us in this way: to rethink our world view, to ask who we have become, and to reinvent ourselves anew. Taking a lifespan approach, Hayes examines how we make sense of the losses that change brings in each period of our lives and how the way in which we meet the challenge that each loss brings directs our encounters with loss in the future. In addition, he provides suggestions for how earlier losses can become fruitful allies in encounters with change in the present and how caregivers can help others to make meaning of the loss in their lives. Above all, this book is about how caregivers can help others learn from the losses in their lives and to recognize what part of the past to bring along into the present in constructing a more reliable self for meeting the challenges of an uncertain future.
Hayes, R. L. (2020). Making meaning: A constructivist approach to counseling and groupwork in education. Lanham, MD: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield. This integrative book brings forty years of research and scholarship in counseling, psychology, and education together in a singular analysis. In Making Meaning, Hayes illustrates how the construction of meaning can have a profound effect on how we come to know ourselves and others. Hayes depicts meaning-making as an ongoing, dialectical, and recursive process of change and reinvention. This process plays a central role in individual development and loss and helps promote multiculturalism, collaboration, and group and team development. This book is recommended for mental health professionals and educators looking to promote democratic learning communities.
