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  Critical Writing About Literature

  Erika L. Bass

  This free custom textbook includes openly-licensed and public domain works for the University of Northern Iowa course ENGLISH 2120: Critical Writing about Literature. It introduces readers to the knowledge and skills necessary to critically read, interpret, and analyze literature. The editor--Dr. Erika L. Bass--chose these readings to orient readers to important concepts and literature genres, as well as develop writing skills. While these chapters were chosen from other OER textbooks, I took care in selecting the chapters that are relevant to course objectives and will help students transfer skills from one class to the next, regardless of major. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Creative Listener

  Brett Copeland, Dakota Corbliss, Derek Ganong, and Austin Seybert

  Have you ever considered what processes are occurring when you engage with music? What goes on in your brain when you are listening to music, performing, reading, writing, or improvising? Edwin Gordon shows us that no matter what your skill or experience level may be, the end result of engaging with music is the same: giving meaning to sound. Research shows that audiation is one of the most important contributors to student success in core music curricula. Despite this body of research and the availability of resources, the use of audiation-specific pedagogy in the applied music classroom is not commonplace. This is due to a variety of factors that range from the lack of exposure to this topic in terminal degrees to the academic separation of musicianship and performance in music curricula worldwide.

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  Early Childhood and the Asian American Experience: Exploring Intersectionality and Addressing Misrepresentations

  Wi Ying Hsieh, Sohyun Meacham, Su Jeong Wee, Jinhee Kim, and Sophia Han

  This essential and urgent book presents research-based understandings about Asian American early childhood, bringing to light the battle Asian Americans face against American nativism from their early years’ experiences. The first of its kind in academic literature, the book addresses the well-known issue of underrepresentation of Asian Americans in early childhood education research and practice, and in American society in general. Using the intersectionality and multiple identities perspectives, the authors explore a myriad of inaccurate cultural perceptions and misrepresentations, centering within-group differences among Asian American children and giving particular attention to disempowered groups among them. Issues related to socioeconomic status, gender, dis/abilities, linguistic backgrounds, and minority groups among Asian American populations are addressed, with implications for researchers and educators as well as context for examining the policies that cause inequities among Asian American children. This book is key reading for early childhood education researchers, professors, and graduate students to become more productively engaged in discussions and practices toward racial justice.

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  Sustainable Machining Using MQL Application of Cutting Fluids

  Nageswara Rao Posinasetti, Vamsi Krishna Pasam, Rukmini Srikant Revuru, and Basil Kuriachen

  The application of metal cutting fluids is an integral part of industrial machining operations. Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is the latest form of cutting fluid application method currently used by several manufacturing organizations. This book consolidates all the available knowledge in terms of the application of different processes as well as materials in a concise fashion in one reference resource.

  Sustainable Machining Using MQL Application of Cutting Fluids offers a detailed discussion of the MQL mechanism in cutting fluid applications. It highlights the influence of MQL parameters on different workpiece materials and provides sound explanations along with photographs for all technical reasonings. The book presents the usage of both micro and nano cutting fluids in machining for sustainability while it also captures the knowledge in the field including the recent research outputs, as it illustrates a comprehensive coverage of MQL practical application.

  This book should be on the bookshelf of industrial engineers, those working in production and manufacturing, process designers, tool material designers, cutting tool designers, and quality specialists. Researchers, senior undergraduate students, and graduate students will also find this book full of very helpful reference information. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Political Graffiti and Global Human Rights: Take Another Look

  Evan Renfro and Philip Hopper

  Political Graffiti and Global Human Rights: Take Another Look examines the role of political graffiti in the public spaces of Northern Ireland and occupied Palestine, highlighting the ways in which oppressed communities utilize this form of expression to convey resistance, foster community support, preserve the memory of armed struggle, and assert their presence. By drawing a comparative analysis between Northern Ireland and Palestine, Philip Hopper and Evan Renfro argue that while the peace process has made progress in Northern Ireland, it has not been successful in Palestine. They assert that the disparities in political graffiti between the two regions are not solely attributable to geographical, historical, and political differences, but also to the varying degrees of success in resolving long-standing conflicts and the communities' ability to remember or forget past atrocities.

  In addition to exploring the themes, symbols, inspirations, and artists behind wall art, this book delves into the evolution of the meaning of political graffiti over time, and critically examines the notion of who holds the privilege of creating politically themed art deemed to be in "good taste."

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  Grant Writing: The Essentials

  Jayme Renfro

  Welcome to the exciting and impactful world of grant writing! Whether you are a student embarking on a career in nonprofit management, a budding researcher eager to secure funding for your projects, or a professional looking to hone your grant writing skills, this textbook is designed to guide you through every step of the grant writing process. Grant writing is not just about securing funds; it's about crafting a story, building relationships, and making a tangible impact on communities and fields of study. This book aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to excel in this rewarding field.

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  Strategic Planning for University Colleges and Departments: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing, Refining, and Implementing Effective Strategy

  Jayme Renfro

  This practical guide contains everything higher education leaders and administrators need to know in order to write simple, effective plans for their colleges and departments. Debunking the traditional notion that intricate, drawn-out planning automatically translates to effective strategy, this book calls for a paradigm shift, urging a move away from mere procedural planning and toward strategic thinking and action. The processes, techniques, and troubleshooting pointers described in this guide ensure strategic planning is a meaningful and impactful practice, empowering academic units to align their efforts with broader institutional goals and realize their full potential in an evolving educational environment. An invaluable resource on writing and maintaining strategic plans for university subunits, this book should have a place on every dean, provost, department head, and program director's shelf.

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  Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2

  Chepina Rumsey and Jody Guarino

  Building students’ confidence and conceptual understanding early sets a solid foundation for reasoning and exploration. Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2 offers educational tools and strategies teachers can use to integrate mathematical argumentation in early elementary classrooms, allowing space for students’ natural wonder and curiosity to shine while, at the same time, providing opportunities for students to see mathematics content in a new light.

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  Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis

  ADDICTION TREATMENT: A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE, 5th Edition, covers biological, psychological and social aspects of alcohol and eating disorders, gambling and other addictions. 12-step and harm-reduction approaches are connected to show how clients are guided down paths tailored to their needs. Data from student surveys, including high school and college students, reveals experiences with alcohol, misuse of prescriptions, vaping, marijuana and other drugs. Sections on marketing, fraternities, casinos, legalization of marijuana and the link between sexual abuse, domestic violence and alcohol intoxication allow for dynamic discussions. Whether or not addiction is in your family, you will find the the text relevant to your own life. First-person narratives about addiction and interviews with practitioners will highlight career possibilities that you might not have considered.

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  Misusing Scripture: What are Evangelicals Doing with the Bible?

  Kenneth Atkinson, Mark Elliot, and Robert Rezetko

  Misusing Scripture offers a thorough and critical evaluation of American evangelical scholarship on the Bible. This strand of scholarship exerts enormous influence on the religious beliefs and practices, and even cultural and political perspectives, of millions of evangelical Christians in the United States and worldwide. The book brings together a diverse array of authors with expertise on the Bible, religion, history, and archaeology to critique the nature and growth of "faith-based" biblical scholarship. The chapters focus on inerrancy and textual criticism, archaeology and history, and the Bible in its ancient and contemporary contexts. They explore how evangelicals approach the Bible in their biblical interpretation, how "biblical" archaeology is misused to bolster distinctive views about the Bible, and how disputed interpretations of the Bible impact issues in the public square. This unique and timely volume contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of how contemporary American evangelicals understand and use the Bible in their private and public lives. It will be of particular interest to scholars of biblical studies, evangelical Christianity, and religion in the United States.

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  Essays on the Psalms of Solomon: Its Cultural Background, Significance, and Interpretation

  Kenneth Atkinson, Patrick Pouchelle, and Felix Albrecht

  The Psalms of Solomon, a collection of 18 Jewish psalms from the Second Temple period, have long been a fascinating topic for scholarship. In this volume, leading scholars from a range of disciplines offer new insights into the cultural background, literary form, theological themes, and reception history of the Psalms of Solomon. The essays address a range of topics, including the origin of the text in Palestinian Judaism, the temple in the Psalms of Solomon, and the question of its canonical status.

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  The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies

  Amy Erdman Farrell and Susan E. Hill

  The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.

  Comprising over 20 chapters from a range of diverse and international contributors, the Reader is structured around the following key themes: theorizing gender and fat; narrating gender and fat; historicizing gender and fat; institutions and public policy; health and medicine; popular culture and media; and resistance. It is an intersectional collection, highlighting the ways that "gender" and "fat" always exist in connection with multiple other structures, forms of oppression, and identities, including race, ethnicity, sexualities, age, nationalities, disabilities, religion, and class. -- Provided by the publisher

  The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Body Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychology, and Health.

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  A Brief History of Kappa Delta Pi, Psi Chapter

  Stephen J. Fortgang and Becky W. Hawbaker

  The Psi Chapter at the Iowa State Teachers College (ISTC) was the twenty-third KDP chapter, installed on August 7th, 1923. Mabel I. Payne, the Secretary/Treasurer of the National KDP organization was in attendance as the installation officer. Eight other chapters were installed that year, and by its 25th anniversary in 1936, KDP had grown to 106 chapters nationally. Early members of the Psi Chapter included the State Teacher’s College President Homer Seerley as an honorary member and Dr. E. O. Finkbender of the Department of Education, who became the chapter counselor.

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  Methods of Teaching Early Literacy

  Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham, and Constance Beecher

  Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Next Step: University of Northern Iowa

  Nichole Harken

  Health insurance, relocating, navigating new workspaces, potential discrimination, managing time - there is so much that comes with graduating from higher education. You have built the skills and knowledge to engage in the work, but may be feeling overwhelmed for all of the other "stuff" of life. You know, the adulting stuff. Adulting may not be fun, but it is necessary. This text provides a guide to navigate adulting in a readable, actionable way. From engaging in the job search process, understanding taxes, to staying engaged as an alumni, you will find everything you need to ease your anxieties and feel more prepared for the Next Step of your life. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Cornerstone: 2023-2024 [2nd edition]

  Nikki Harken, Deb Young, Sadé Barfield, and Scott Bredman

  The Cornerstone textbook is a free, custom textbook for you, published by Rod Library. It is a compilation of materials from more than six free, openly-licensed textbooks. Your Cornerstone instructors carefully selected the best of the best for your course! -- Provided by the publisher

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  Aural Training and Sight Singing Supplement for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource [2023]

  Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley

  This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and dynamic markings to allow students and instructors the flexibility to personalize them. -- Provided by the publisher

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  America's First Eclipse Chasers: Stories of Science, Planet Vulcan, Quicksand, and the Railroad Boom

  Thomas A. Hockey

  In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the nation’s first ever eclipse chasers.

  Our tale follows the chaotic journeys of scientists and amateur astronomers as they trekked across the western United States to view the rare phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. The fascinating story centers on the expeditions of the 1869 total eclipse, which took place during the turbulent age of the chimerical Planet Vulcan and Civil War Reconstruction.

  The protagonists―a motley crew featuring astronomical giants like Simon Newcomb and pioneering female astronomers like Maria Mitchell―were met with unanticipated dangers, mission-threatening accidents, and eccentric characters only the West could produce. Theirs is a story of astronomical proportions. Along the way, we will make several stops across the booming US railroad network, traveling from viewing sites as familiar as Des Moines, Iowa, to ones as distant and strange as newly acquired Alaska.

  From equipment failures and botched preparations to quicksand and apocalyptic ‘comets’, welcome to the wild, western world of solar eclipses. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Cultivating Critical Discourse in the Classroom

  Stephanie Huffman, Stacie Lynn Finley, Pamela Correll, and Cathy Pearman

  The use of academic discourse in today’s educational environment has the potential to improve education for students from all backgrounds. To achieve this, further study on the best practices, challenges, and future opportunities is required. Cultivating Critical Discourse in the Classroom shares the benefits of empowering and engaging students at all levels of education through the use of academic discourse. The book also provides insights for educators to become more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped, to create spaces through discourse where cultural competence is cultivated. Covering key topics such as identity, linguistics, student autonomy, and language, this premier reference source is ideal for administrators, policymakers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

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  Empowering Students Through Multilingual and Content Discourse

  Stephanie Huffman, Stacie Lynn Finley, Pamela Correll, and Cathy Pearman

  In monological classrooms, the teacher's voice dominates, and the dominant culture's language is viewed as the only path to success. However, this approach limits discourse within the classroom and fails to recognize the value of student voices. Empowering Students Through Multilingual and Content Discourse explores ways to create classroom spaces where all students feel heard, valued, and empowered. Drawing on research from scholars of the use of discourse, this book guides educators on how to cultivate deeper understandings of discourse in learning environments. The book offers insights into how discourse can be used to empower students, honor the voices of all students, and promote language and literacy development. Empowering Students Through Multilingual and Content Discourse also offers guidance on culturally and linguistically sustaining discourse practices. It encourages educators to use students' home languages and discourse practices in classroom instruction and offers instructional approaches that promote discourse opportunities, and challenges educators to rethink their approach to language in the classroom and move away from centering the dominant or most prevalent culture. It offers insights on how to represent language more responsibly within the classroom and creates spaces where all the students' voices are heard. This research book is a valuable resource for academic scholars looking to explore discourse in all areas of literacy: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing. In-service and pre-service teachers looking to cultivate student-centered classroom practices will be able to implement the concepts within this book in their classrooms. By encouraging discourse among students, educators can create a space where human life holds meaning and students feel empowered to act and use their voices.

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  Pandemics in the Age of Social Media

  Vikas Kumar and Mohit Rewari

  This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national development.

  Thematically organized chapters from a global team of scholars address the different aspects of social media during the pandemic. The book begins by looking at ICT for development and how development agencies have used social media platforms, before looking at engagement with these social media campaigns and the spread of misinformation. Further chapters cover the practical uses of social media in healthcare and virtual medicine, mental health issues and challenges, remote education and government policies.

  This timely volume will be of interest to scholars and students of social media, health communication, global development studies and NGO communication. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Graduate Research Project Guide: Secondary Data Analysis

  Sei-Young Lee and Siyon Rhee

  This Open Educational Resource (OER) book presents a step-by-step guide to help graduate students complete a Master’s thesis or a graduate research project paper for those who conduct research using a secondary dataset. Almost all graduate programs require a Master’s thesis/graduate research project as a graduate requirement. However, it is not easy for students to complete a thesis/research project since it requires a mastery of knowledge and skills through the integration of research methodology and statistics. Both research methodology and statistics are not easy subjects for students as well as researchers. Nonetheless, books or other published materials that combine both research methodology and statistics are rare mainly due to the magnitude of information and the difficulty of both subjects. As instructors who have supervised graduate students’ research projects for over 20 years, we understood the struggles and challenges students often face in the process of completing their theses/projects. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present

  Annette Lynch and Jennifer Van Haaften

  The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. Because fashion is also a multifaceted subject with human agency at its core, at the confluence of the material (fabrics, clothing, dyes, tools, and machines) and the immaterial (savoir-faire, identities, images, and brands), this volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, opening its pages to researchers from a variety of complementary fields. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Experimental Design in Psychology: A Case Approach, Tenth Edition

  Kimberly MacLin

  This text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics surrounding each step of the research process. In easy-to-read, conversational language, Kim MacLin teaches students experimental design principles and techniques using a tutorial approach in which students read, critique, and analyze over 75 actual experiments from every major area of psychology. She provides them with real-world information about how science in psychology is conducted and how they can participate. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Communication for College, Career, and Civic Life

  Ryan McGeough, C. Kyle Rudick, Danielle Dick McGeough, and Kathryn B. Golsan

  To address the challenges facing us as a society and a species, students must develop a robust set of skills, ethics, and dispositions that help them work with others to promote justice, peace, and equity. This OER, in promoting a robust set of communication skills, will serve as a foundational preparation for students who want to be successful in their education, careers, and civic lives.

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  Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House

  Joyce Milambiling

  Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities. Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades. The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country. -- Provided by publisher

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  Public Administration: The Essentials

  Jayme L. Renfro

  Public Administration: The Essentials provides students with the conceptual foundation they need for an introduction to the field of public administration. This OER textbook covers the most critical issues in the field through the use of classic texts and theory as well as through modern examples. -- Provided by the publisher

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  A Parents' Guide to Grading and Reporting: Being Clear about What Matters

  Matt Townsley

  Whether resulting from the educational fallout of the COVID-19 global pandemic or merely challenging the status quo, more schools are transitioning their grading practices away from traditional points and percentages and toward 21st century grading practices such as standards-based and proficiency-based grading. A Parents’ Guide to Grading and Reporting: Being Clear about What Matters assists parents and guardians in understanding what is involved in 21st century grading and how to become better partners with educators in efforts to understand students’ strengths and areas for improvement. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Neon Kiss: A Hayden Fuller Mystery

  Grant Tracey

  Remembrance Day, 1965, and Hayden Fuller is named the game's third star. But the celebration is short-lived as he learns of his father's murder. With less than three days to solve the crime before returning to the Habs for a home-and-home series against Detroit, Fuller tumbles into the clutches of a cult, the Peoples Way to Christ and their forthcoming Black Mass, the Whiftields, a Rosedale family who made their money in munitions, home security systems, and corruption, and the Defeatniks, a group of University of Toronto students who live their lives on the edges, and seek to "dismantle the universe." While searching for the brains behind this dismantling Fuller also undergoes a personal journey, one of betrayal, darkness, and ultimately forgiveness.

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  Elements of Creative Writing

  Grant Tracey, Rachel Morgan, and Jeremy Schraffenberger

  This free and open access textbook introduces new writers to some basic elements of the craft of creative writing. The authors—Rachel Morgan, Jeremy Schraffenberger, and Grant Tracey—are editors of the North American Review, the oldest and one of the most well-regarded literary magazines in the United States. We’ve selected nearly all of our readings and examples from writing that has appeared in our pages over the years. Because we had a hand in publishing these pieces originally, our perspective as editors permeates this book. As such, we hope that even seasoned writers might gain insight into the aesthetics of our magazine as we analyze and discuss some reasons we think this work is so remarkable—and therefore teachable. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Investigating Ramps and Pathways With Young Children (Ages 3-8)

  Beth Van Meeteren

  Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3–8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering habits of mind as they explore concepts in force and motion, properties of objects, and how an object's properties affect its movement. In the process, children develop spatial thinking that is essential for future careers in STEM. The text also offers guidance for arranging the physical, intellectual, social–emotional, and promotional environments of a classroom to embrace the natural integration of literacy learning. Each volume in this series includes guidance for forming partnerships with families and administrators that support STEM learning, vignettes showing educators and children engaging in inquiry learning, tips for selecting materials, modifications and accommodations for diverse learners, ways to establish adult learning communities that support professional development, and more. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Investigating Water with Young Children (Ages 3-8)

  Beth Van Meeteren

  Water is a meaningful context for children to engage in inquiry, and to acquire and use science and engineering practices, such as developing spatial thinking and early concepts of water dynamics. This book shows teachers how to provide children with opportunities to engineer water movement through pouring and filling containers of various kinds and shapes, observing how water interacts with surfaces in large and small amounts, exploring how water can be moved, and using water to move objects. These experiences build a foundation that will support children’s more complex study of this phenomena in later schooling, as well as encourage interest in STEM fields. The text offers guidance for arranging the social–emotional, intellectual, and promotional environments of the early childhood classroom; for integrating literacy learning; and for building essential partnerships with administrators and families to enhance STEM learning for our youngest learners. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Integrating Inquiry in Social Studies Classrooms

  Carolyn A. Weber and Heather N. Hagan

  This practical guide shows how and why in-service and pre-service teachers should use inquiry in their social studies lessons to develop students' critical thinking and decision-making skills. Supported by literature and research, it provides a concrete framework for integrating inquiry in the classroom, which outlines the pedagogical practice of inquiry and provides evidence for its benefits for teaching and learning. Filled with practical advice and lesson plans for classroom use, chapters explore topics such as the following: Defining inquiry and highlighting its importance in the classroom An overview of the inquiry framework and the role of pedagogical content knowledge The literature and research about inquiry, including alternate framework structures and the different types of inquiry and Planning and scaffolding inquiry-based learning The volume also explores perennial and emerging uses for inquiry in social studies, including technology, integrating literature, utilizing civic agency, using primary sources, evaluating sources, and focusing on global issues. This is an essential read for any pre-service or in-service teacher who wants to support their students in developing inquiry skills. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

  Jolene Zigarovich

  "Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. By drawing on a variety of historical discourses-such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons-this study contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. As of yet, no single study has collected copious material and literary examples of death and mourning in the period"-- Provided by publisher

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  Semillas [Seeds]: Elementary Spanish I

  Giovanni Zimotti, Rachel Klevar, Eden Jones, and Gabriela Olivares-Chat

  Semillas: Elementary Spanish I is a comprehensive introductory Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and writing practice. To ensure that our textbook is diverse and inclusive we have built a team of writers who cross gender, age, and nationality. We have consulted with people whose voices represent diverse demographic segments of the Spanish-speaking world to include a plurality of pronunciations and appearances. This textbook underwent a rigorous review process that included professionals from more than ten higher education organizations in the United States.

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  Public Education in the Digital Age: Neoliberalism, Edtech, and the Future of Our Schools

  Morgan Anderson

  Educational technology is now ubiquitous in schooling, both in P-12 and at universities. Despite the imposition of technology in most aspects of teaching and learning, little attention has been given to the implications educational technology has for healthy student development, humane pedagogy, teacher labor, academic freedom, and the aims of social justice. Rather than merely a set of neutral tools, educational technology is bound up with systems of power and privilege that tend to deepen, rather than confront inequality. In calling for a reassessment of the relationship between schools and technology, this book asks readers to think differently about the role technology can serve in socially just schools. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well Vol: 55

  Shing-Ling S. Chen

  Due to his major contributions in qualitative inquiries, Norman K. Denzin is regarded as 'the Father of Qualitative Inquiries. 'Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well, Volume 55 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, is a compilation of writings published in his honor. Featuring chapters which detail Denzin's unrivalled contributions to qualitative inquiries, the authors describe the immense scope of Denzin's qualitative research, from symbolic interactionism and postmodernism to justice studies. Documenting Denzin's inclusive efforts to embrace various perspectives in qualitative inquiries to advance the mission of qualitative research, this edited collection chronicles Denzin's continuous efforts in nurturing the field of qualitative inquiries via editorship and conference organization, fostering generations of qualitative researchers around the world. This collection is a comprehensive and compelling read for students and academics interested in qualitative research who wish to chart the impressive impact that Norman K. Denzin's work has had on the field. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S.

  Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire

  The U.S. pandemic narratives which embodied many conflicting structures failed to provide guidance for groups and individuals to construct a clear understanding of the pandemic or a consistent measure to combat the disease. This book provides a careful examination of the discordant narratives that embodied the chaos, tensions, and conflicts in the U.S. pandemic responses. The ultimate goal of this volume is to help groups and individuals understand just what went wrong in the U.S. pandemic responses. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Gedenkschrift for David Oberhelman

  Jason Fisher and Janet Brennan Croft

  David Dean Oberhelman (1965-2018) was a librarian and scholar with wide-ranging research interests, who had a long association with the Mythopoeic Society. He was an enthusiastic supporter of other scholars, a gifted editor, and an outstanding teacher. The core concept of this collection developed from panel discussions in which David drew together a group of fantasy, science fiction, and comics scholars to discuss libraries, librarians, archives, research, writing, and related topics as depicted in these genres. In this collection, his friends and colleagues explore the enduring importance of the historical record in its many forms, the concept of writing as a creative gateway to other worlds, the otherworldly geometries of the interconnectedness of information represented as what Terry Pratchett called “L-space,” and the depiction of learning and scholarship in invented worlds. There is something recursively satisfying in books about books, research about research, writing about writing, the librarianship section in a library. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Cornerstone: 2022-2023 [1st edition]

  Nikki Harken and Deb Young

  The Cornerstone textbook is a free, custom textbook for you, published by Rod Library. It is a compilation of materials from more than six free, openly-licensed textbooks. Your Cornerstone instructors carefully selected the best of the best for your course! -- Provided by the publisher

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  Aural Training and Sight Singing Supplement for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource [2022]

  Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley

  This supplement was designed to help students build a strong foundation in aural training and sight singing by progressing through the core rhythmic and melodic patterns that are found in music. Through the progression of content, students will build skills in pattern recognition and an understanding of how music functions. Rhythms for each section include single and two-part examples as well as pitched examples for use in aural training. Melodies for each section include single line melodies, canons, duets, and chorales. Melodies were designed to be easily accessible for students with basic keyboard skills, and were written without articulation and dynamic markings to allow students and instructors the flexibility to personalize them. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Comprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource

  Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley

  This OER presents an integrated suite of learning resources developed for the core music theory and musicianship curriculum at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. It provides a more comprehensive symbiosis of musicianship and music theory learning than can be found in existing textbooks, including engaging and progressive video demonstrations and interactive listening and vocal exercises that integrate musical knowledge with foundational musical skills. This OER affords the flexibility to shape core musicianship and music theory learning to meet the needs of changing School of Music demographics well into the future, a resource for innovative and inviting music programs accessible to all. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Workbook for Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource

  Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Schwabe, and Daniel Swilley

  This workbook is a supplement to Comprehensive Musicianship: A Practical Resource. Each workbook chapter corresponds to the equivalent chapter in the textbook, and is designed to facilitate the exploration and mastery of the concepts presented through a variety of exercises. Exercises contained in the workbook consist of musical analysis and writing drills, presented both in isolated examples and in context in musical literature, as well as the application of music theory concepts through composition exercises. These exercises can be used as class examples as well as homework assignments. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Handbook on Research on Opening Pathways for Marginalized Individuals in Higher Education

  Stephanie Huffman, Denise D. Cunningham, Marjorie Shavers, and Reesha Adamson

  In recent years, gaps in college opportunities have contributed to diminished social mobility and are influenced by disparities in collegiate experiences. An integral part of the mission of colleges and universities is to advance student achievement and prepare students for a global society by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. In order to provide equal educational opportunities, further study on the best practices to create a diverse and welcoming campus community for all faculty and students is required. The Handbook of Research on Opening Pathways for Marginalized Individuals in Higher Education examines specific case studies and stories from the field, analyzes the research breadth for supporting the creation of policies to foster equitable educational access, and studies higher education inclusive policies that promote leadership, social justice, and the health and well-being of faculty and students. The book also helps to alleviate and remedy issues of “historical privilege” with a lens on diversity and support through the creation of inclusive communities of equitable educational access. Covering a range of topics such as social justice, accessibility, and healthy student interactions, this reference work is ideal for academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

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  All About the Prairie: Coloring Book of Plants, Animals, and Insects Native to Iowa Prairies

  Brianna Hull

  A coloring book with drawings of plants, animals, and insects that are native to Iowa. Includes the common and Latin names of the species as well as the Meskwaki names for some. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Cord: A Novel

  Jim O'Loughlin

  Between Earth and outer space lies the Cord…

  In the distant future lies Station, an orbiting space station tethered by a cord to Earth, allowing people to use the space elevator to travel into low-orbit without rockets, allowing for unprecedented space exploration and tourism. Envisioned as a secure and enjoyable place to work and visit, the cord is a valuable resource—one that people are willing to fight for to gain control. Travel along with a robot repairman who uncovers a disturbing conspiracy, a teenaged girl who is caught up in a revolution, and a tour guide in space trying to reestablish a lost connection with his brother on Earth. Beginning at the end and ending at the beginning, this unfolding story told over future locales and times reveals the enigma of the cord and the secrets between the fragile ties connecting lovers, friends, and the generations who traverse the cord. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Rhetoric in Civic Life

  Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch

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  Redemptive Criminology

  Aaron Pycroft and Clemens L. Bartollas

  Drawing on criminology, philosophy and theology, this book develops a theory of ‘redemptive criminology’ for practice in criminal justice settings. The therapeutic impulse for the text is a focus on the individual practitioner’s ability to embrace difference with the other, to resist harsh penal measures and to bring about change from ‘the bottom up’. By challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, the authors argue for the possibility of redemption and for forgiveness as the starting point. Using real-life examples and an interpretative approach, the book explores the connections between victims, perpetrators and the community. The text articulates challenges for the justice system and offers new insights into punishment and retribution. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Narrative Therapy with Spanish Speakers: Creative Bilingual Strategies for Individual, Family, and Group Sessions

  Roberto Swazo

  Narrative Therapy with Spanish Speakers provides counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals with a variety of culturally responsive bilingual activities developed for use with clients of all ages. Each short chapter covers topics such as fear, acceptance, and trust; the chapters also employ short fictions, sayings, and quotes, all in both Spanish and English, that professionals can share directly with clients. Additional materials on the book’s website include audio resources for both counselors and clients, and the book is replete with icons and guides to help counselors quickly find relevant material. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Using Grading to Support Student Learning

  Matt Townsley

  Using Grading to Support Student Learning offers an accessible foundation for using grading practices to support student learning through classroom assessment. Purposeful, defensible grading and reporting mechanisms cannot be neglected in today’s reform climate, and new approaches are needed to understand and refine the roles of homework, formative and summative assessments, and standards across grade levels. Evidence-based and full of illustrative examples, this book bridges research and theory on grading and assessment with classroom practices for pre-service and in-service teachers and fresh perspectives for educational researchers studying grading practices. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Investigating Light and Shadow With Young Children (Ages 3–8)

  Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren

  Children are intrigued by switches that power a light source and by items that reflect light and sparkle, and they take notice of personal shadows cast on the playground. Many STEM fields draw upon understanding of light and shadow, such as astronomy, biology, engineering, architecture, and more. This book shows teachers how to engage children (ages 3–8) with light and shadow in a playful way, building an early foundation for the later, more complex study of these phenomena and possibly piquing the curiosity of children that will ultimately lead to professions within the field of STEM. The text offers guidance for arranging the physical environment of classrooms, integrating literacy learning and investigations, and building partnerships with administrators. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Investigating STEM with Infants and Toddlers (Birth-3)

  Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren and Sherri Peterson

  The premiere book in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series introduces the Infant Toddler Inquiry Learning Model, a new way to think about how young children (birth–age 3) explore, think, and learn STEM concepts. The book also demonstrates how the Inquiry Teaching Model can guide teachers in implementing STEM experiences for this age group. Accessible to educators from a wide range of educational backgrounds, this resource is designed specifically to help guide the integration of STEM experiences into the early childhood curriculum. Readers will see how the model works in real life; how STEM topics can be naturally embedded in daily routines and activities; and how to observe, understand, and interact with children as they explore. This accessible guide presents content and pedagogy aligned with what is known about how children learn and also addresses the challenges educators encounter when implementing STEM with infants and toddlers. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Squigonometry: The Study of Imperfect Circles

  William Wood and Robert D. Poodiack

  This textbook introduces generalized trigonometric functions through the exploration of imperfect circles: curves defined by |x|p + |y|p = 1 where p ≥ 1. Grounded in visualization and computations, this accessible, modern perspective encompasses new and old results, casting a fresh light on duality, special functions, geometric curves, and differential equations. Projects and opportunities for research abound, as we explore how similar (or different) the trigonometric and squigonometric worlds might be. Comprised of many short chapters, the book begins with core definitions and techniques. Successive chapters cover inverse squigonometric functions, the many possible re-interpretations of π, two deeper dives into parameterizing the squigonometric functions, and integration. Applications include a celebration of Piet Hein’s work in design. From here, more technical pathways offer further exploration. Topics include infinite series; hyperbolic, exponential, and logarithmic functions; metrics and norms; and lemniscatic and elliptic functions. Illuminating illustrations accompany the text throughout, along with historical anecdotes, engaging exercises, and wry humor.

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  Zika and Other Neglected and Emerging Flaviviruses: The Continuing Threat to Human Health

  Lisa A. Beltz

  Offering up-to-date coverage of familiar flaviviruses that are spreading into new regions or are causing increasingly severe disease, as well as viruses that are almost unknown in most developed nations, Zika and Other Neglected and Emerging Flaviviruses brings together information that allows for easy comparison of similarities and differences of this viral group in a single, convenient volume. Each chapter includes a brief Introduction, history, the diseases, the virus, the immune response, prevention or treatment, an extensive list of references, and a summary overview. The book concludes with a chapter tying together information about flaviviruses and other potential new microbial threats. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America: A Primary Source History

  Fernando Herrera Calderón

  Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America: A Primary Source History collects political writings on human rights, social injustice, class struggle, anti-imperialism, national liberation, and many other topics penned by urban and rural guerrilla movements. In the second half of the twentieth century, Latin America experienced a mass wave of armed revolutionary movements determined to overthrow oppressive regimes and eliminate economic exploitation and social injustices. After years of civil resistance, and having exhausted all peaceful avenues, thousands of working-class people, peasants, professions, intellectuals, clergymen, students, and teachers formed dozens of guerrilla movements. Fernando Herrera Calderón presents important political writings, some translated into English here for the first time, that serve to counteract the government propaganda that often overshadowed the intellectual side of revolutionary endeavors. These texts come from Latin American countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and many more. The book will be indispensable to anyone teaching or studying revolutions in modern Latin American history.

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  Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

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  Underground and Hidden Histories in Leisure Services

  Rodney B. Dieser and Kenneth Mobily

  History is the study of past events; underground is what is beneath the surface —in this case, of a profession —and hidden is linked to conceal and obscure. These three concepts—history, underground, and hidden—explain this book. Drawing on James W. Loewen’s historiography, and Michele Foucault’s genealogy (historical research methodologies), this book reveals underground and hidden aspects of the leisure service profession that have been concealed, or not known, in most American leisure service textbooks. Broken into two parts (history and contemporary history of the recent past) the aim of Underground and Hidden Histories in Leisure Services is to show the reader that the past of leisure services was not what is always portrayed.

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  Cherished Five in Sikh History

  Louis E. Fenech

  On the 30th of March, 1699, the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh called together a special assembly at the Keshgarh Fort at Anandpur. Following the morning devotions, the Guru asked for a volunteer, saying, "The entire sangat is very dear to me; but is there a devoted Sikh who will give his head to me here and now? A need has arisen at this moment which calls for a head." One man arose and followed the Guru out of the room. When the Guru returned to the assembly with a bloodied sword, he asked for another volunteer. Another man followed. This was repeated three more times, until at last the Guru emerged with a clean sword and all five men alive and well. Those five volunteers would become the first disciples of the Khalsa, the martial community within the Sikh religion, and would come to be known as the Panj Piare, or the Cherished Five.
  
  Despite the centrality of this group to modern Sikhism, scholarship on the Panj Piare has remained sparse. Louis Fenech's new book examines the Khalsa and the role that the the Panj Piare have had in the development of the Sikh faith over the past three centuries. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Leadership Cases in Community Nonprofit Organizations

  Julianne Gassman, Norman Dolch, Stephanie Krick, Regan Harwell Schaffer, Ronald Wade, Ann Marie Kinnell, Sue Ann Strom, Susan Cruise, and Hunter Goodman

  Leadership Cases in Community Non-Profit Organizations is the result of six years of data collection. Included are six case studies used to help students understand the more academic information presented in textbooks and articles.

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  Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA

  Michael Graziano

  Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency’s concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Solar System: Between Fire and Ice

  Thomas A. Hockey

  Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System. Not content with a conventional discourse restricted to the major and minor bodies, astronomers Hockey, Bartlett, and Boice venture beyond the limits of our system to look at exoplanets and to consider future trends in space exploration and tourism. They discuss not only what scientists know about planets, asteroids, and comets but how the discoveries were made. With extensive teaching experience, their accessible prose clearly explains essential physical concepts. Lavishly illustrated as well as carefully researched, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice delights the eyes as well as feeding the mind. Detailed appendices provide additional technical data and resources for your own on-line voyage of discovery. Whether you are an educated layperson, student, teacher, amateur astronomer, or merely curious, you will come away having learned the most up-to-date knowledge and enjoyed the process. The authors bring a unique perspective to this subject, combining their years of experience in research, teaching, and history of planetary science. Prof. Thomas Hockey is a professor of astronomy, specializing in planetary science and the history of science. Dr. Jennifer Bartlett is an astronomer with a forte in dynamical motions of asteroids with liberal arts teaching experience. Dr. Daniel Boice is an active research astronomer in planetary science, especially comets, with considerable teaching experience. "In the 1980s and 90s the Viking and Voyager missions provided droves of exciting information, generating a new level of public interest. Textbooks were rewritten and scientists worked to understand the data during mission poor period that followed. In recent times, however, we have entered a new era. There has been a multinational effort to expand our knowledge of the Solar System. Data from these missions has been freely shared and has again raised the level of public interest. Within this era of renewed interest, it is appropriate, as is done in this book, to provide the public with an effort to present an integrated view of our Solar System and questions that the discovery of extrasolar planets have raised with regard to the Solar System as a whole." Professor Reta Beebe, recipient of NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal "I understand this book to be aimed at a general audience, but I can also see its use as a text in astronomy classes, especially in a community school or situations where students typically resist reading the textbook. The writing is light and entertaining, and will engage students, yet it thoroughly covers all the basic concepts of a typical Astro 101 class." - Dr. Katy Garmany, winner of the American Astronomical Society's Annie J. Cannon Award. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Psalms of Solomon: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts

  Patrick Pouchelle, G. Anthony Keddie, and Kenneth Atkinson

  The Psalms of Solomon: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts explores a unique pseudepigraphal document that bears witness to the 63 BCE Roman conquest of Jerusalem. Essays address a variety of themes, notably their political, social, religious, and historical contexts, through the lens of anthropology of religion, cognitive science, socioeconomic theory, and more. Contributors include Kenneth Atkinson, Eberhard Bons, Johanna Erzberger, Angela Kim Harkins, G. Anthony Keddie, Patrick Pouchelle, Stefan Schreiber, Shani Tzoref, and Rodney A. Werline. -- Provided by the publisher

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  On Becoming Agile

  Daniel J. Power

  Becoming agile is an ongoing journey. As the global environment changes, and becomes more complex and more uncertain, the importance of increasing agility and developing an agile mindset grows. The goal of this book is to explain and facilitate the journey. We explore agile values, practices, and principles that can help people cope with volatile and ambiguous situations. Agile values improve processes and promote communication in an organization. Agile practices advance innovation through high-performance multidisciplinary teams.

  Agile is about learning to anticipate and respond appropriately to the unexpected. Being agile is about interactions with people that result in successfully completing work tasks and meeting objectives. Agile is not about blindly moving faster, rather it is about continuous flexibility and learning. This book is targeted to advanced students and managers who are interested in learning to be agile. This accessible practical text poses 30 questions and provides answers that provide a starting point for further reflection.

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  State and Local Politics: Cases and Topics

  Jayme L. Renfro

  This book is the first of its kind to take concepts directly from the most commonly used textbooks in state and local politics and apply them directly to current events. It presents twelve chapters of case studies, richly detailing key topics ranging from how the comparative method can be used to understand the similarities and differences between diverse places, to a look at how state governments have taken the lead on COVID-19, environmental policy, civil rights, gun control, college tuition regulation, cybersecurity and elections, sex offenders, and many more subjects of contemporary interest. It devotes a complete chapter to local-level politics in Nevada, Florida, and Iowa, and wraps up with a unique chapter on regional governance bridging between states and localities. This detailed and highly readable book is designed to complement traditional state and local textbooks. It is also of interest to students of public administration, public policy, urban politics, and intro to American politics.

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  Five Hard Bites: A Collection of Hayden Fuller Mysteries

  Grant Tracey

  In these five hard-bitten tales, PI Hayden Fuller searches for a missing girl while tangling with a sex ring; mixes it up with N'oublie jamais, while dealing with a domestic abuse case; investigates his father's murder and tumbles onto a cult and a leader who wants to "dismantle the universe"; dukes it out with Nazis in Bannerville, Pop 1201, and their "triumph of redemption" featuring mechanical dragons; and stumbles through a demi-monde of underground filmmakers while busting up a sex trafficking ring. Fuller, with his fists and snub-nosed .38, unpacks a host of lies as each narrative builds to a shock ending. His is a pyrrhic journey, for in the dark, Fuller finds something more than night. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender, Race, and Class

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Clemens L. Bartollas

  This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field. The text features an empowerment approach that is unified by underlying themes of the intersection of gender, race, and class; and evidence-based research. Personal narratives supplement research and statistics to help students connect the text material with real-life situations.
  
  This new edition is informed by consideration of major ongoing social movements such as #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and the fight to reduce mass incarceration. The text stresses contemporary topics such as recognition of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in juvenile and adult facilities; the introduction of trauma-informed care in detention centers and prisons; the criminalization of Black girls and women; the effects of an increasingly militarized police culture; and the contributions of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other influential women. With its emphasis on critical thinking, this text is ideal for undergraduate courses concerning women in the justice system. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Human-Environment Interactions: An Introduction

  Mark R. Welford and Robert A. Yarbrough

  This textbook explores the growing area of human-environment interaction. We live in the Anthropocene, an era dominated by humans, but also by the positive yet destructive environmental feedbacks that are poised to completely reset the relationships between nature and society. Modern and historic political, social, and cultural processes and physical landscape responses determine the intensity of these impacts. Yet different cultural groups, political and economic entities view, react to, and impact these human-environmental processes in spatially distinct and divergent ways. Providing an accessible, up-to-date, approach to human-environment interactions with balanced coverage of both social and natural science approaches to core environmental issues, this textbook is an integrative, multi-disciplinary offering that discusses environmental issues and processes within the context of human societies. The book begins by addressing the three most pressing issues of our time: climate change, threshold exceedance, and the 6th mass extinction. From there the authors identify within chapters on resources, population, agriculture and urbanization what precipitated and continues to sustain these three issues. They end with a chapter outlining some practical solutions to our human-environment crises. The book will be a valuable resource for interdisciplinary environment related courses bridging the gap between the social and natural sciences, human geographies and physical geographies.

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  Empress Galla Placidia and the Fall of the Roman Empire

  Kenneth Atkinson

  Despite her status as one of history's most important women, the story of Galla Placidia's life has been largely forgotten. Though the Roman empress witnessed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and lived a life of almost constant suffering, her actions helped postpone the fall of Rome and had massive, widespread impact on the empire that can still be felt today. She watched the barbarian king Alaric and his horde of Visigoth warriors sack Rome, slaughter many of the city's inhabitants, and take her hostage. Surviving captivity, Galla Placidia became the queen of the barbarians who had imprisoned her. Eventually, she became the only woman to rule the Roman empire alone. Soldiers obeyed her commands while Popes and Christian saints alike sought her advice. Despite all obstacles and likely suffering from what we now know as PTSD, she lived to an old age by the standards of the time. This book uses the letters and writings of Galla Placidia's contemporaries to reconstruct, in more depth and detail than has previously been attempted, the remarkable story of her life and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming

  Shing-Ling S. Chen

  Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming explores the potential legal and ethical issues of using live streaming technology, citing that although live streaming has a broadcasting capability, it is not regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, unlike other broadcasting media such as radio or television. Without this regulation, live streaming is opened up for broad use and misuse, including broadcasts of horrifying incidents such as the mass shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019, sparking outrage and fear about the technology. Contributors provide a pathway to move forward with ethical and legal use of live streaming by analyzing the wide spectrum of critical issues through the lens of communication, ethics, and law. Scholars of legal studies, ethics, communication, and media studies will find this book particularly useful. -- Provided by the publisher

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  A Comprehensive Critique of Student Evaluation of Teaching: Critical Perspectives on Validity, Reliability, and Impartiality

  Dennis Clayson

  This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education. In evaluating data from fields including education, psychology, engineering, science, and business, this volume critically engages with the assumption that SET is a reliable and valid measure of effective teaching. Clayson navigates a range of cultural, social, and era-related factors including gender, grades, personality, student honesty, and halo effects to consider how these may impact on the accuracy and impartiality of student evaluations. Ultimately, he posits a “popularity hypothesis”, asserting that above all, SET measures instructor likability. While controversial, the hypothesis powerfully and persuasively draws on extensive and divergent literature to offer new and salient insights regarding the growing and potentially misleading phenomenon of SET. This topical and transdisciplinary book will be of great interest to researchers, faculty, and administrators in the fields of higher education management, administration, teaching and learning. Dennis Clayson is Professor Emeritus in the College of Business Administration at the University of Northern Iowa, US. Chapter 1: Issues and Debates Surrounding Student Evaluations of Teaching Chapter 2: Potential Impacts of Gender Bias on Student Evaluations Chapter 3: The Influence of Personality Traits on Student Evaluations Chapter 4: Halo Effects Impacting on Student Evaluations Chapter 5: Questioning the Truthfulness of Student Evaluations Chapter 6: Rigor, Grades and how they Impact on Student Evaluations Chapter 7: The Association between Student Learning and Student Evaluations Chapter 8: Student Evaluations and the Improvement of Instruction Chapter 9: Challenging the Statistical Reliability of Student Evaluations Chapter 10: Traditional Validity and SET Chapter 11: Identifying Valid Applications of SET Chapter 12: Validity and the Impacts of Subjectivity Chapter 13: Introducing a Likability Hypothesis Chapter 14: Justifications of the Likability Hypothesis Chapter 15: Conclusion and Recommendations – the Future of SET -- Provided by the publisher

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  Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing

  Stephanie P. Huffman, Stacey Loyless, Shelly Albritton, and Charlotte Green

  From implementation in the classroom to building security, technology has permeated all aspects of education throughout the United States. Though hardware has been developed to identify and prevent weaponry from entering a school, including video cameras, entry control devices, and weapon detectors, school safety remains a fundamental concern with the recent increase of school violence and emergence of cyberbullying. Professionals need answers on how to use this technology to protect the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of all children. Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of technology in P-12 school safety and its use to foster an environment where students can feel safe and be academically successful. The book will comprise empirical, conceptual, and practical applications that craft an overall understanding of the issues in creating a “safe” learning environment and the role technology can and should play; where a student’s wellbeing is valued and protected from external and internal entities, equitable access is treasured as a means for facilitating the growth of the whole student, and policy, practices, and procedures are implemented to build a foundation to transform the culture and climate of the school into an inclusive nurturing environment. While highlighting topics such as professional development, digital citizenship, and community infrastructure, this publication is ideally designed for educators, scholars, leadership practitioners, coordinators, policymakers, government officials, law enforcement, security professionals, IT consultants, parents, academicians, researchers, and students.

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  Iowa and the Civil War, Volume 2: From Iuka to the Red River, 1862-1864

  Kenneth Lyftogt and Hal Jespersen

  From Iuka to the Red River is volume two of a new, three-volume, comprehensive history of Iowa’s role in the Civil War, the first to be published in over 130 years. It begins with the situation in the North following the Battle of Shiloh and ends with General Frederick Steele’s fighting retreat through Arkansas following the Red River Campaign. Kenneth L. Lyftogt is a retired lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the editor of Left For The Civil War Diary of John Rath, and the author of From Blue Mills To Cedar Falls and the Civil War and Iowa’s Forgotten Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Experimental Design in Psychology: A Case Approach

  Kimberly M. MacLin

  This text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics surrounding each step of the research process. In easy-to-read, conversational language, Kim MacLin teaches students experimental design principles and techniques using a tutorial approach in which students read, critique, and analyze over 75 actual experiments from every major area of psychology. She provides them with real-world information about how science in psychology is conducted and how they can participate. -- Provided by the publisher

  Recognizing that students come to an experimental design course with their own interests and perspectives, MacLin covers many subdisciplines of psychology throughout the text, including IO psychology, child psychology, social psychology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, educational/school psychology, legal psychology, and personality psychology, among others. Part I of the text is content oriented and provides an overview of the principles of experimental design. Part II contains annotated research articles for students to read and analyze. Classic articles have been retained and 11 new ones have been added, featuring contemporary case studies, information on the Open Science movement, expanded coverage on ethics in research, and a greater focus on becoming a better writer, clarity and precision in writing, and reducing bias in language.

  This edition is up to date with the latest APA Publication Manual (7th edition) and includes an overview of the updated bias-free language guidelines, the use of singular "they," the new ethical compliance checklist, and other key changes in APA style. This text is essential reading for students and researchers interested in and studying experimental design in psychology.

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  Clinical Partnerships in Urban Elementary School Settings: An Honest Celebration of the Messy Realities in the Preparation of Teachers

  Lori Norton-Meier and Mikkaka Overstreet

  In Clinical Partnerships in Urban Elementary School Settings, early career scholars describe their work in a clinical partnership model in one large urban district partnering with teachers, children, families, and administrators making a commitment to not only educate children but also the development of elementary teachers. Topics include community-university relationships, deconstructing privilege and oppression, responsive collaboration, professional identity, and the ways teacher candidates position young children.

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  The Last Caucus in Iowa

  Jim O'Loughlin

  In The Last Caucus in Iowa, Jim O'Loughlin does for the Iowa Caucus what Anthony Bourdain did for restaurants. For over a year, O'Loughlin aimed to see as many presidential candidates as possible as they made their way through Iowa. His quest took him to meeting halls, living rooms, and more than a few craft brew pubs, and the result is a celebration of the state of Iowa and a cautionary tale about the Iowa Caucus. Chronicling a process that is alternatingly quirky, messy and inspiring, The Last Caucus in Iowa is a book for anyone interested in presidential politics and how it all begins.

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  Arctic Sustainability, Key Methodologies and Knowledge Domains: A Synthesis of Knowledge 1

  Andrey N. Petrov and Jessica K. Graybill

  This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic. It presents state-of-the-art thinking about sustainability for the Arctic from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This book aims to create a comprehensive, integrative knowledge base for the assessment of Arctic sustainability for countries such as U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, alongside emerging ideas about sustainable development in the Arctic. These ideas relate to understanding how a community's geography matters in determining the required sustainability efforts, decolonial thinking for building sustainability that is crafted by and for local and Indigenous communities, and the idea of polycentrism, i.e. that the paths toward sustainability differ among places and communities. This volume also highlights the recent thinking about sustainability and resilience over the past decade for the rapidly changing Arctic region. With patterns of thinking drawn from economic, social, environmental, community and other components of sustainability, observations and monitoring, engagement of Indigenous knowledge, and integration with policy and decision making, the book helps us understand the complexity and interconnectedness of current Arctic transformations in a more comprehensive way.

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  Business Ethics From Antiquity to the 19th Century: An Economist's View

  David G. Surdam

  This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book begins with so-called primitive people, showing how humans began to exchange goods and commodities from trade as a way to keep peace and prosper. The ancients considered the value and ethics of business, and many of their reflections influenced medieval Catholic thinkers and business participants. Protestants elevated working and profit-making to the respectable and virtuous, and some groups, such as Quakers, came to exemplify good business ethics. This book draws on the work of economists and historians to highlight the importance of changing technologies, religious beliefs, and cultural attitudes, showing that what is considered ethical differs across time and place. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Business Ethics From the 19th Century to Today: An Economist's View

  David G. Surdam

  This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into issues such as slavery, industrialization, firm behavior and monopolies, and Ponzi schemes. This book draws on the work of economists and historians to highlight the importance of changing technologies, religious beliefs, and cultural attitudes, showing that what is considered ethical differs across time and place. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession

  Elizabeth Sutton

  Angel De Cora (c. 1870–1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850–1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community. The immigration of Thronson and her family literally maps over the De Cora family’s forced migration across Wisconsin, Iowa, and onto the plains of Nebraska and Kansas. Tracing the parallel lives of these two women artists at the turn of the twentieth century, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reveals how their stories intersected and diverged in the American Midwest. By examining the creations of these two artists, Sutton shows how each woman produced art or handicrafts that linked her new home to her homeland. Both women had to navigate and negotiate between asserting their authentic self and the expectations placed on them by others in their new locations. The result is a fascinating story of two women that speaks to universal themes of Native displacement, settler conquest, and the connection between art and place. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Making Grades Matter: Standards-Based Grading in a Secondary PLC (A practical guide for PLCs and standards-based grading at the secondary education level)

  Matt Townsley

  Maximize learning by making grades more meaningful and motivating to students. With the support of this practical guide, professional learning communities (PLCs) will discover a clear road map for implementing a standards-based grading system at the secondary level. The authors provide all of the actionable ideas and tools needed to not only transition to this improved system but to achieve the greatest possible success with it. -- Provided by the publisher

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  From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson

  Clemens Bartollas

  From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States. In addition to highlighting his life, this work considers how redemption has affected his life. In addition, Minister Rico is identified as a Godfather. Much like the Godfathers found in organized crime families, Rico sees himself as providing a positive force to Vice Lords' gang members. On one hand, what this involves is taking care of their needs (he feeds 150 families a day) and, on the other hand, providing guidance and direction for members' lives. ""From Disgrace to Dignity is an important, and in some ways, enlightening book. It puts flesh on the bones of what it means to be in a gang and the leader of a gang. More importantly, it provides a personal context which is often lacking in gang literature . . . Bartollas is correct when he points out that Rico Johnson's evolution into a changed human being is more about redemption than rehabilitation, more about changes that run deep into the root of one's being than simply living within the boundaries of the law. --Michael Braswell, Professor Emeritus, East Tennessee State University ""While in the Illinois Department of Corrections, Mr. Willie Johnson provided invaluable administration and human resources in the following 21st Century Vote and in the Gang Truce, which resulted in the dramatic reduction in gang homicide rates in Chicago and elsewhere . . . After being released from prison Mr. Johnson has continued to be a positive force for change."" --Nehemiah Russell, former assistant principal of Englewood High School in Chicago ""All of my life I've been in jail because of criminal behavior; I have been in prison five or six times. When I lost my mom, Rico showed me so much love . . . There were times in the joint when I was ready to go crazy. He would pick me up. He did far more for me than I did for him. I have been out of prison now for twenty-five years."" --Carl O'Neill, former inmate who has spent time in prison with Rico Johnson and who has become a strong leader in his church ""Rico has a gift. He is determined, actually one of the most determined people I've ever known. He is able to communicate, and is concerned that we are able to do something for the community."" --Vincent Denny, former inmate who served prison time with Rico Johnson ""Minister Rico is a great and awesome guy who has influenced a lot of people. He has taught me how to become involved in positive groups. He likes to say that we need to avoid going the wrong way, because he went the wrong way and has done enough time for everybody. He is a good leader. He may be a small guy, but he is a hell of a thinker. He has seen it all. I have never heard him say anything wrong or negative. He is also extremely sincere."" --Alonzo James, former inmate who served prison time with Rico Johnson ""Rahim is a remarkable man, who has overcome so much in his life, and yet has always managed to contribute in a positive manner to the lives of other individuals."" --Walter A. Grey, an inmate who has spent years in prison with Rico Johnson Clemens Bartollas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. His publications include fifty some books and a number of articles. He has published in the areas of criminology, biographies, and spirituality. He has received a number of awards from the University of Northern Iowa, including Distinguished Scholar, the Deonald McKay Research Award for faculty excellence. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Richard Quinney: Journey of Discovery

  Clemens Bartollas and Dragon Milovanovic

  This book traces the life course of Richard Quinney, one of the most cited authors in the social sciences and a key figure in the development of critical criminology in the 70s, 80s and 90s. It provides a look into his personal thoughts in becoming a 'radical' criminologist and situates it in his various experiences, questioning, and shifts in his journey through life. Richard has contributed to a profound paradigm shift in criminology, beginning with his book, The Social Reality of Crime (1970), but also to peacemaking criminology as well as peace studies. He has also written several books via an autoethnography approach and has presented a number of photograph presentations for which he has received awards. It traces his early development on the family farm in Wisconsin to his travels in higher academe. It gives a personal perspective in becoming not only a radical criminologist, an accomplished writer in auto-ethnography, visual sociology, and photography but also how his continuous questioning of the meaning of it all came to fruition with profound insights about what it is to be human. The book will be inspirational to not only seasoned veterans in criminology, but also to emerging scholars, to undergrads and grads, showing them the struggles that come in 'making it'. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Three Women Opera Composers: A Musicological Interpretation of Ingeborg Von Bronsart, Ethel Smyth, and Thea Musgrave

  Melinda Boyd

  This book is intended to broaden our understanding of opera by investigating the contributions of selected women composers who successfully navigated educational, institutional and social restrictions, and traditions in order to bring their operas to the public theaters, where their lives, as well as their works, were subject to scrutiny and criticism of the musical press. Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840-1913), Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), and Thea Musgrave (b. 1928) all made distinguished contributions to their art, producing operas of considerable artistic merit that were admired by many of their contemporaries.

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  Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men

  Sarina Chen

  Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men presents a fine-grained analysis of how the rhetorical and social aspects of rape culture and patriarchy lead to a pattern of sexual misconduct. Contributors discuss the causes of the pattern, the obstacles to overcoming it, and potential solutions through a radical feminist lens. Scholars of media, legal, gender, and women's studies will find this volume particularly useful. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Divining Tarot: Papers on Charles Williams's The Greater Trumps and Other Works

  Janet Croft, Emily E. Auger, and Nancy-Lou Patterson

  Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until she retired in 1992. The University of Waterloo named her a Distinguished Professor Emerita and Wilfrid Laurier University awarded her an honorary doctor of letters. Patterson taught art history and was an active artist, poet, and fiction writer. She was also an enthusiastic conference participant and scholar, who published extensively on her favorite research subject, the Inklings, including Charles Williams. Many of Patterson's papers about Williams are gathered here in Divining Tarot.

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  "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J. R. R. Tolkien in the Great War

  Janet Croft and Annika Röttinger

  "Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien's body of work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, and examples of military operations and strategy; of central themes about conflict, comradeship, duty, and the destruction of the environment; and of personal trauma which he worked out in meaningful symbolic form throughout his life. In this volume, we collect a variety of perspectives on the war's impact on Tolkien's writing, building upon earlier work in this area by filling in gaps in the scholarship and incorporating new material. We trace major themes in Tolkien's legendarium that had their roots in, or were heavily influenced by, his war experiences. It is essential to any study of the Great War not to assume that only the most frequently heard voices are important; the experiences and viewpoints of participants outside of the mainstream are also necessary to give us a full picture of the impact of war, and were not neglected by Tolkien. We therefore also explore issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. At this point in the study of J.R.R. Tolkien's life and works, the centrally important topic of his Great War experience is by no means exhausted. Our hope is that this collection is not the last word on the topic, but instead sparks new ideas and future scholarship.

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  The Coolest Month

  Vince F. Gotera

  Since 2012, Vince Gotera has made the most of the month of April, writing new poems every day, in response to multiple NaPoWriMo and Poem-a-Day prompts. The Coolest Month brings together the best of those efforts, with a poem for each day of the month. The resulting collection is often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always an impressive display of poetic chops

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  Media Career Guide: Preparing for Jobs in the 21st Century

  Nichole Harken

  Targeted to today's media-savvy students, and now updated annually, this essential manual provides a comprehensive directory of media jobs, then walks readers through the entire job-search process―from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace. In includes helpful advice for getting hired in the emerging field of mobile media, as well as tips for developing and honing professional networking skills. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Comets in the 21st Century: A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!

  Thomas Hockey and Daniel C. Boice

  The purpose of this book is to bring comets into the living rooms of general households, to familiarize politicians with these fascinating objects when they ponder funding for comet research, to teach children and young students and to provide teaching tools about these very unusual objects in our skies. The presentation is very comprehensive in its description of orbits around the Sun, the development of the coma (escaping atmosphere) from a comet's nucleus and source of all activities, various types of comet tails, trailing as well as leading as a comet orbits our Sun, ancient beliefs and explanations of these phenomena and the most recent discovery of the first interstellar comet.

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  Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900

  Julie Husband and Jim O'Loughlin

  Not just about the rise of the factories or the emergence of the modern city, this fascinating history conveys how it felt to work the assembly line and walk the bustling urban streets. Provides an overview of the dramatic economic changes occurring in the United States during industrialization, especially in the textile, meatpacking, steel, and railroad industries. Describes a political culture marked by high participation rates in the North, active suppression of the African American vote in the South, and a youth culture that made voting an important male rite of passage. Offers primary documents that invite readers to consider contrasting positions on a variety of issues, including how white supremacists justified violence and suppression of the black vote and how African American activists spoke out to resist this. Explores a variety of educational models, including manual education, Montessori education, and single-sex education, that resonate with contemporary debates on education. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Communication and Conflict Studies: Disciplinary Connections, Research Directions

  Adrienne Lamberti

  This book explores relations between communication and conflict. How one thinks about communication is demonstrated as shaping how one approaches conflict, and vice versa. Individuals engaged in conflict transformation apply the tools and strategies of their field while communicating to widely divergent audiences. Professional communicators not only create an infinite range of documents to help ensure that work is accomplished effectively, efficiently, and safely, but also address conflicts in the workplace and in the public sphere. Thoughtfully exploring connections between communication studies and conflict studies, this collection engages with research and practice on topics including the potential of social media during revolution, the role of gender during mediation, and the importance of critical genre usage during industrial crisis. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment: Performing Agency, Following Script

  Annette Lynch

  Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with an emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging social norms. Covering a range of geographic and social contexts, the book explores the role of fashion in empowering both individuals and groups to create transformation and change. Taking us from the performance of black dandyism through stylized hats, to the use of challenging dance forms and male-inspired dress by female South African dancers to express independence and equality, to ways in which recent Bond Girls have challenged traditional gender binaries, the book provides a crucial entry point into discussions of fashion as an empowerment strategy. Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment encourages the reader to critically examine the cultural and social impact of sexual objectification, as well as to consider personal and shared narratives of self-objectification and repression. With chapters ranging from the iconic self-fashioning of Princess Diana to a discussion of sex, power, and cultural constructions of masculinity, Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment provides crucial insights into global fashion, political structures, and social life. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siècle France

  Emily Machen

  In this unique study, Machen explores a moment of intense religious upheaval and transformation in France between 1880 and 1920. In these pre–World War I years, a powerful Catholic community was pitted against equally powerful anticlerical members of the French Third Republic. During this time, women became increasingly involved in faith-based organizations, engaging in social and political action both to expand women’s rights and to ensure that religion remained part of the public debate about France’s identity. By representing their faith communities as modern, progressive, and in some cases democratic, women positioned themselves to help guide a modernizing France. Women of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish faiths also reshaped the narrative of female power within the French nation and within their own religious groups. Their activism provided them with social, religious, and political influence unattainable through any other French institutions, enabling them in turn to push France toward becoming a more democratic, equitable society. Machen’s timely examination of the critical role women played in shaping the nation’s religious identity helps to illuminate contemporary issues in France as Muslim communities respond to civic pressure to secularize and as the country debates the role of women in Islam. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication

  Christopher Martin and Bettina Fabos

  The #1 introduction to mass communication text, Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age, is at the forefront of the ever-changing world of this dynamic course, addressing the most current issues of our time—including the proliferation of fake news, the #metoo movement, the use and abuse of social media platforms, consumer privacy, and the role media plays in our democracy. The Twelfth Edition of Media & Culture digs deeper than ever before into the worldwide reach and ethical implications of today’s media by highlighting global issues, such as foreign interference in social media and the effect of international box office revenue on decisions made by the domestic film industry, and ethical considerations, such as the fight against sexual harassment across the media industries and the coverage of recent mass shootings, throughout each chapter. -- Provided by the publisher

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  No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class

  Christopher R. Martin

  Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favor of the moneyed "upscale" consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how the media lost sight of the American working class and the effects of it doing so. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Essential Guide to Visual Communication

  Ryan McGeough

  The Essential Guide to Visual Communication is a concise introduction to the evolution, theory, and principles of visual communication in contemporary society. This guide helps students develop the skills they need to become critical consumers of visual media by examining images through the lens of visual rhetoric. Students see how images influence and persuade audiences, and how iconic images can be repurposed to communicate particular messages. Images selected and discussed throughout the text highlight examples of visual communication from earlier generations and the current digital environment that students encounter in their everyday lives. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Kurt Vonnegut Remembered

  Jim O'Loughlin

  Gathers reminiscences - by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once - that span Kurt Vonnegut's entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with.

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  Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way

  Amy S. Osatinski

  Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way is the first work of scholarship to comprehensively examine the history and production practices of Disney Theatrical Productions (DTP), the theatrical producing arm of the studio branch of the Walt Disney Corporation. This book uncovers how DTP has forged a new model for producing large-scale musicals on Broadway by functioning as an independent theatrical producer under the umbrella of a large entertainment corporation. Case studies of three productions (The Lion King, Tarzan, and Newsies) demonstrate the flexibility and ingenuity of DTP, and showcase the various production models that the company has employed over the years. Exploring topics such as the history of DTP, its impact on the revitalization of Times Square, and its ability to open up a new audience base for Broadway theatre, this volume examines the impact that DTP has had on Times Square and American musicals, both domestically and internationally, and how its accomplishments have helped reshape the Broadway landscape. This book is relevant to students in Musical Theatre, History of Musical Theatre, Theatre History, and Arts Management courses, along with general Disney enthusiasts. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction

  Catherine Palczewski and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco

  Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender enables and constrains people’s identities. Authors Catherine Helen Palczewski and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, with Danielle Dick McGeough, demonstrate how communication constitutes gender, rather than presenting gender as an influence on communication. Operating from an intersectional gender diversity perspective, they show how a focus on gender/sex alone omits the richness of diverse gendered lives. In addition, they explore how gender is constructed through interpersonal and public discourse in, about, and by the social institutions of family, education, work, religion, and media. Throughout the book, readers are equipped with critical analysis tools they can use to form their own conclusions about the ever-changing processes of gender in communication. -- Provided by publisher

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  Improving Library Services in Support of International Student and English as a Second Language Learners

  Leila J. Rod-Welch

  International students in the United States contribute to the diversity of university campuses, classrooms, and our communities. These students bring new ways of thinking, help to foster academic competition, and enrich the cultural diversity of campuses and the common understanding and appreciation of differences around the world. At the same time, international students encounter many difficulties and obstacles during their collegiate studies, such as cultural shock, the social isolation of being away from family and friends, being homesick, finding employment and balancing work, financial struggles, different spiritual beliefs, unfamiliar living settings and food options, different learning styles and educational systems, language barriers, and cultural differences. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Social Nonsense: Creative Diversions for Two or More Players - Anytime, Anywhere

  Doug Shaw

  This amusing book by Dr. Doug Shaw (American) is the finest in our collection. It consists of a collection of whimsical pastimes that encourage the creation of stories and art. -- provided by the publisher.

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  Women Artists and Patrons in the Netherlands, 1500-1700

  Elizabeth Sutton

  This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that women were prominent as creators in their own time and deserve to be recognized as such today. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Hasmoneans and Their Neighbors: New Historical Reconstructions from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Classical Sources

  Kenneth Atkinson

  Kenneth Atkinson adds to an already impressive body of work on the Hasmoneans, proposing that the history and theological beliefs of Jews during the period of the Hasmonean state cannot be understood without a close investigation of the histories of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires, as well as the Roman Republic. Citing evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls and classical sources, Atkinson offers a new reconstruction of this vital historical period, when the Hasmonean family changed the fates of their neighbors, the Roman Republic, the religion of Judaism, and created the foundation for the development of the nascent Christian faith. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Corrections Today

  Clemens Bartollas and Larry J. Siegel

  Get a frontline look at the field of corrections with CORRECTIONS TODAY, 4th Edition. This briefer, visual, paperback alternative to hardback Introduction to Corrections texts is ideal for readers who are interested in real-world concepts and applications. It examines the field of corrections through the lens of students -- perhaps like you -- who are giving serious thought to a career in the field or are working in corrections while seeking an advanced degree in order to be promoted or switch job paths. Updated with new professional profiles and insightful coverage of restorative justice, special offender populations, the use of private prisons, and many other timely topics, the fourth edition offers a practical, engaging, career-focused, and authoritative introduction to corrections. -- Provided by publisher

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  Speech Sound Disorders: For Class and Clinic

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

  Speech Sound Disorders: For Class and Clinic, Fourth Edition offers a readable and practical guide to the care of speech sound disorders, emphasizing evidence-based principles and procedures that underlie almost all clinical approaches, making this an ideal choice for a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. Nearly twenty-five percent of the chapters offer hands-on analyzes of speech samples from real children. The PluralPlus companion website contains dozens of downloadable assessment and treatment resources for both students and professionals. For the instructor, Speech Sound Disorders provides clear discussions of the connection between speech development and clinical decision making, consistent formatting across chapters, sample syllabi, options for PowerPoint presentations, and hundreds of review questions and "learn by doing" exercises for in-class activities and homework assignments. -- Provided by publisher

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  Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

  Media Essentials focuses on the pivotal aspects of mass communication, helping students better understand what the media is and the impact of the most vital recent changes on the mass-media landscape. The new Media Essentials features an array of Digital Turn and Media Literacy boxes with specific, detailed case studies providing windows to broader ideas about the media, and a robust program of LaunchPad videos and Web clips that drive home the book's approach to media literacy, convergence, and analysis. In its fourth edition, this more concise and more affordable option for mass communication courses is more current, flexible, and informative than ever. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election: How Various Populations Make Sense of an Unexpected Victory

  Sarina Chen

  This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for diverse populations. The narratives are designed to help students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, parents of internationally adopted children, white nationalists, etc. understand the meaning and possible consequences of Trump’s election, as well as to give voice to the responses and concerns of populations directly affected by Trump’s election. Recommended for scholars interested in political communication, rhetoric, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies. -- Provided by publisher

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  Plague in Paradise : the Black Death in Los Angeles, 1924

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  Families in the Mexican community of Los Angeles are getting sick. Some are dying. Has the Spanish Influenza returned as some suspect? Dr. Matthew Thompson, the most skilled diagnostician at Los Angeles County General Hospital, fears something even more deadly. When patients develop boils, their skin darkens, and they start coughing up blood, his worst fears are confirmed: Plague―the Black Death―has taken root just a few miles from the hospital and main center of commerce of the city. Some in civic government and even a few high ranking medical officials would like this outbreak kept quiet, even if the secrecy costs the lives of those presently afflicted. The reputation and future of a whole city is at stake. It is more important to protect "The Paradise of the West," as Los Angeles is now known for its healthful climate, beautiful beaches, and bountiful opportunities. What happens when a plague hits a minority group whose welfare is of little concern to government and medical leaders? Dr. Thompson, Nurse Maria McDonnell, and Fr. Medardo Brualla of Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish decide to fight for the welfare of all, but they find themselves facing much more than a medical crisis: fear, racism, and greed. Based on a true story.

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  Recreation & Leisure Programming: A 21st Century Perspective

  Rodney B. Dieser and Christopher R. Edginton

  In the 21st century, recreation and leisure programmers will face many social, cultural, economic, and environmental changes that affect the recreation and leisure needs, interests, and attitudes of the people they serve. These changes require recreation and leisure programmers who are highly skilled, knowledgeable, and competent in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating recreation and leisure programs and services, with the goal of creating high quality, high impact leisure experiences. Recreation and Leisure Programming: A 21st Century Perspective provides key insights into the strategies, practices, procedures, and methods for recreation and leisure programmers to fulfill their responsibility successfully.

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  The Handbook on the Sociology of Gender

  Carissa A. Froyum, Barbara J. Risman, and William J. Scarborough

  This handbook provides a comprehensive view of the field of the sociology of gender. It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage of the latest research on gender in the most important areas of social life, including gendered bodies, sexuality, carework, paid labor, social movements, incarceration, migration, gendered violence, and others. Building from previous publications this handbook includes a vast array of chapters from leading researchers in the sociological study of gender. It synthesizes the diverse field of gender scholarship into a cohesive theoretical framework, gender structure theory, in order to position the specific contributions of each author/chapter as part of a complex and multidimensional gender structure. Through this organization of the handbook, readers do not only gain tremendous insight from each chapter, but they also attain a broader understanding of the way multiple gendered processes are interrelated and mutually constitutive. While the specific focus of the handbook is on gender, the chapters included in the volume also give significant attention to the interrelation of race, class, and other systems of stratification as they intersect and implicate gendered processes.

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  Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology

  Carissa M. Froyum, Spencer Cahill, and Kent Sandstrom

  Now in its eighth edition, this best-selling reader provides an introduction to the sociological study of social psychology, interpersonal interaction, embodiment, emotion, selfhood, inequality, and the politics of everyday realities. Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology presents thirty-nine selections that include both classic and contemporary theoretical work and empirical studies. Detailed introductions to each part and article identify and explain central issues, key concepts, and relationships among topics.

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  Jupiter

  Thomas A. Hockey and William Sheehan

  Majestic and untwinkling, Jupiter is the grandest of all planets. It is the largest planet in our solar system and among the brightest objects in the night sky. It shines with a noble, steady luster, and its calming presence has inspired humans for centuries. Jupiter was the “beloved star” of the first serious observers of the planets, the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, and has inspired poetic utterances from eminent writers such as William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. It also continues to inspire contemporary astronomers and stargazers, and this beautifully illustrated volume brings our understanding of Jupiter right up to date. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition

  Julie Husband, John R. McKivigan, and Heather L. Kaufman

  This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women’s rights, economic development, and immigration. Douglass’s oratory is accompanied by speeches that he considered influential, his thoughts on giving public lectures and the skills necessary to succeed in that endeavor, commentary by his contemporaries on his performances, and modern-day assessments of Douglass’s effectiveness as a public speaker and advocate.

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  Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within: Her Final Diaries & the Diaries She Read

  Barbara Lounsberry

  In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary--and to the diaries of others--for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and Andre Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf's inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called "the Shakespeare of the diary." Lounsberry's masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Iowa and the Civil War, Volume 3: The Longest Year, 1864-1865

  Kenneth Lyftogt and Hal Jespersen

  The Longest Year is volume three of a three-volume, comprehensive history of Iowa's role in the Civil War, the first to be published in over 130 years. It begins with the spring campaign of 1864 in Georgia and ends with the mustering out of Iowa's veteran regiments. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Iowa and the Civil War, Volume I: Free Child of the Missouri Compromise, 1850-1862

  Kenneth Lyftogt and Hal Jespersen

  Free Child of the Missouri Compromise is volume one of a new, three-volume, comprehensive history of Iowa’s role in the Civil War, the first to be published in 130 years. It begins with the events and issues that led up to the war and ends with the decisive Battle of Shiloh in April of 1862. Kenneth L. Lyftogt is a retired lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the editor of Left For Dixie: The Civil War Diary of John Rath, and the author of From Blue Mills To Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War and Iowa’s Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Law, Business and Society

  Tony McAdams

  Law, Business and Society, 12e fits both upper-division undergraduate and masters levels courses in the legal environment of business, government and business, and business and society. Law, Business and Society, takes an interdisciplinary approach, using elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility, and management. Students will find an interesting, provocative reading experience filled with contemporary legal and ethical conflicts emerging from today’s news, as well as scholarly results, surveys, polls, data, anecdotes, and other specific details that lend credibility, immediacy, and interest to the reading experience. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age: Emerging Research and Opportunities

  Ramona S. McNeal

  Cyber Harassment and Policy Reform in the Digital Age: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines cyber aggression and bullying and policy changes to combat this new form of crime. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as anti-bullying programs, cyberstalking, and social exclusion, this book is geared towards academicians, researchers, policy makers, and students seeking current research on cyberstalking, harassment, and bullying. -- Provided by publisher

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  Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change

  Kristin K. Meany-Walen and Terry Kottman

  Covering the process of therapy from beginning to end, this engaging text helps students and practitioners use play confidently and effectively with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with emotional or behavioral problems or life challenges. With an accessible theory-to-practice focus, the book explains the basics of different play therapy approaches and invites readers to reflect on and develop their own clinical style. It is filled with rich case material and specific examples of play techniques and strategies. The expert authors provide steps for building strong relationships with clients; exploring their clinical issues and underlying dynamics; developing and working toward clear treatment goals; and collaborating with parents and teachers. A chapter on common challenges offers insightful guidance for navigating difficult situations in the playroom.

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  Regulating Judicial Elections: Assessing State Codes of Judicial Conduct

  Scott C. Peters

  Regulating Judicial Elections provides the first accounting of the efficacy and consequences of such rules. C. Scott Peters re-frames debates over judicial elections by shifting away from all-or-nothing claims about threats to judicial independence and focusing instead on the trade-offs inherent in our checks and balances system. In doing so, he is able to examine the costs and benefits of state ethical restrictions. Peters finds that while some parts of state codes of conduct achieve their desired goals, others may backfire and increase the politicization of judicial elections. Moreover, modest gains in the protection of independence come at the expense of the effectiveness of elections as accountability mechanisms. These empirical findings will inform ongoing normative debates about judicial elections. -- Provided by publisher

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  Data-Based Decision Making and Digital Transformation

  Daniel Power and Ciara Heavin

  Analyzing data is now a core decision support task to many businesses as they try to derive value from multiple, diverse data sources. The digitization of business activities has led to an explosive growth in data. "Big Data" has increased the need for business analytics. This major change has increased managers' need to understand the possibilities of these technologies and their application in a variety of areas including financial services, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and government. This book is targeted to busy managers and MBA students who want to grasp the basics of data analytics and business intelligence. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Three at the Door : a Novel

  Nancy Price

  Honor Sloan, graduating from college in 1955, refuses to marry Brandon Lombard. When he is drunk, he attacks her, and she hides with an aunt who does not want her. Unmarried mothers are shunned in the society of the Fifties. Pregnant Honor cannot bear to go to a doctor or hospital as an unmarried woman. In a few months Brandon Lombard finds a rich girl to marry and sends Honor an insult: an invitation to his wedding. Should Honor, her hopes ruined by Brandon, go to his wedding in revenge and anger?--Provided by publisher

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  Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball During the Roaring Twenties

  David G. Surdam and Michael J. Haupert

  As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters termed a “Golden Age of Sports.” -- Provided by publisher

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  A Fourth Face: A Hayden Fuller Mystery

  Grant Tracey

  Former NHL teammate Bobby Ehle hires Hayden Fuller to investigate the brutal murder of his ex-wife. Chances are Ehle, who has a history of domestic violence, may have done it. Fuller's investigation drops him into a world of domestic terrorism (a revolutionary group, N'oublie jamais, plans to ruin Expo 67), psychedelic drugs (Blue 27 and Red 45) that can drastically change people's personalities, and faux doctors with their hydrotherapy treatments and plastic surgery services. His quest takes an inner turn as Fuller confronts his own personal trauma and troubled past. On top of all this he reconnects with his ex, Stana Younger. Together, can they solve one murder and prevent several more?

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  Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

  Mark R. Welford

  Geographies of Plague Pandemics attempts to synthesis our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and the source of ancient and modern plagues.

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  God's Scoundrels and Misfits: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Missed

  Clemens L. Bartollas

  God's Scoundrels and Misfits examines the relationships of biblical characters with God and with each other. Some took advantage of the second chances God offered them while others missed the opportunities to change the direction of their lives. Lessons learned from the choices they made and the outcomes they experienced are explored in the context of modern families and individuals. Sibling rivalry, unbridled ambition, women's issues, suffering, and forgiveness are some of the issues that are brought forward into contemporary living. The times may have changed, but the challenges remain the same. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication in a Digital Age

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

  While we all use digital technology daily, many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The new edition of Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age enriches students' understanding of these experiences – a skill that has become more important than ever. Media & Culture starts with the digital world students know and then goes further, focusing on what these constant changes mean to them. Through new infographics, cross-reference pages, and a digital jobs feature, the book explains and illustrates how the media industries connect, interlock, and converge, Media & Culture brings together industry expertise, media history, and current trends for an engaging, exhilarating look at the media right now -- Provided by publisher

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  Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction

  Janet Croft, Emily E. Auger, and Nancy-Lou Patterson

  Papers by Nancy-Lou Patterson on Dorothy L. Sayers

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  Handbook of Research on Classroom Diversity and Inclusive Education Practice (Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design)

  Christina M. Curran and Amy J. Petersen

  As classrooms are becoming more diverse, teachers are now faced with the responsibility of creating an inclusive classroom community. As such, researching classroom pedagogies and practices is an imperative step in curriculum planning. Diversity and Inclusive Education Practice is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on ways to effectively teach all students and further refine and strengthen school-wide inclusive pedagogy, methods, and policies. Featuring extensive coverage on a number of topics such as special education, online learning, and English language learners, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, educators, and policy makers seeking current research on methods that ensure all students have equal access to curricular content and the chance for growth and success. -- Provided by publisher

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  Community Parks & Recreation: An Introduction

  Christopher R. Edginton, Samuel V. Lankford, Rodney D. Dieser, and Christopher L. Kowalski

  History and philosophical foundations of public parks and recreation. Introduction to community parks & recreation; History of public parks and recreation; Serving diverse communities and populations; Benefits and impacts of parks and recreation -- Managerial and administrative perspectives of public parks and recreation systems. Organizational and administrative practices; Planning for parks and recreation; Social marketing; Budgeting and financial management for parks and recreation; Boards and commissions; Engaging the community; Acquisition of parks and open space -- Public sector service provision in parks and recreation. Programming; Services for children and youth; Services for adults and seniors; Event management; Community-based therapeutic recreation/inclusive recreation; Area and facility management; Trends, issues, and opportunities.

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  Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities: Contemporary Readings

  Carissa M. Froyum, Katrina Bloch, and Tiffany Taylor

  Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities: Contemporary Readings offers readings on a variety of topics, with a focus on the "how" of inequality. Rather than structuring the book topically, editors Carissa M. Froyum, Katrina Bloch, and Tiffany Taylor have organized the readings around social processes that reproduce and maintain inequality.

  This unique anthology includes social change readings throughout its entirety, rather than segmenting them at the end of the reader. It also features innovative data analysis exercises, reading questions, and social change projects. With its combination of generic processes, intersectionality, full incorporation of disabilities, global perspective, and data analysis exercises, Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities will challenge students to see themselves as agents in a system of inequality rather than passive learners. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Ordered West: The Civil War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis

  Donald H. Gaff PH.D and Alan D. Gaff

  During the Civil War, Charles Curtis served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. He spent his years from 1862 to 1865 on garrison duty, interacting with Native Americans, both hostile and friendly. Years after his service and while president of Norwich University, Curtis wrote an extensive memoir of his time in the Southwest. This memoir was serialized and published in a New England newspaper and so remained unknown, until now. In addition to his keen observations of daily life as a soldier serving in the American Southwest, Curtis’s reminiscences include extensive descriptions of Arizona and New Mexico and detail his encounters with Indians, notable military figures, eccentrics, and other characters from the Old West. Among these many stories readers will find Curtis’s accounts of meeting Kit Carson, the construction of Fort Whipple, and expeditions against the Navajo and Apache. In Ordered West, editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have pulled together the pieces of Curtis’s story and assembled them into a single narrative. Annotated with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, the text is lavishly illustrated throughout with pictures of key figures and maps. A detailed biographical overview of Curtis and how his story came to print is also included. -- Provided by publisher

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  Innovative Practices in Language Teacher Education: Spanning the Spectrum from Intro- to Inter-Personal Professional Development

  Tammy S. Gregersen and Peter D. MacIntyre

  This volume addresses innovations in language teacher education, offering a diversity of personal/psychological perspectives and topics in the theory and/or practice in language teacher education. The text deals with innovations in teaching for learning, teacher autonomy, dynamic self-reflection, peace education, professionalism, action research, socio-emotional intelligence, embodiment, professional development, NeuroELT, and more. Organized in three sections, the chapters inspire readers to reflect upon what it means to grow as a teacher as they navigate the intra- to inter-personal continuum. The editors draw the main themes together and discuss them in light of an innovations framework developed by Rogers (including relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability) in order to express, in concrete terms, the ways in which each idea can be considered innovative. Throughout the anthology, the reader will find specific, novel ways in which to work towards good practice in language teacher education.--From the publisher

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  Optimizing Language Learners' Nonverbal Behavior: From Tenet to Technique

  Tammy S. Gregersen and Peter D. MacIntyre

  This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on the nonverbal means at their disposal. It does not shy away from the challenges that nonverbal communication poses in target language communication, including issues of personal and cultural identity that emerge with languages around the world. With its easy-to-use format, solid research support, and fully integrated activities and videos, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in working with the nonverbal dimensions of communication. The text will be especially valuable for language educators, pre- and in-service teachers who are looking for classroom resources and ideas, who want to create positive classroom environments and want to improve learner interaction and communication while increasing language proficiency. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who interacts with other people in more than one language.

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  Confederate Homefront: A History in Documents

  Wallace Hettle

  The study of Confederate troops, generals, and politicians during the Civil War often overshadows the history of noncombatants—slave and free, male and female, rich and poor—threatening obscurity for important voices of the period. Although civilians comprised the vast majority of those affected by the conflict, even the number of civilian casualties over the course of the Civil War remains unknown. Wallace Hettle’s The Confederate Homefront provides a sample of the enormous documentary record on the domestic population of the Confederate states, offering a glimpse of what it was like to live through a brutal war fought almost entirely on southern soil. -- Provided by publisher

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  A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

  Charles W. Holcombe

  Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. The second edition has been imaginatively revised and expanded to place emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and connections, both within East Asia and beyond, with new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture. The second edition also features a Chinese character list, additional maps and new illustrations. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Complete Stories of Kurt Vonnegut

  Jerome Klinkowitz, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, and Dave Eggers

  Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune," "Behavior," "The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln High's band director and nice guy George Hemholtz), and "Futuristic"—these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines and collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books; here for the first time five previously unpublished stories; as well as a handful of others that were published online and read by few. During his lifetime Vonnegut published fewer than half of the stories he wrote, his agent telling him in 1958 upon the rejection of a particularly strong story, "Save it for the collection of your works which will be published someday when you become famous. Which may take a little time." -- Provided by publisher

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  The Public Policy Theory Primer

  Christopher W. Larimer and Kevin B. Smith

  Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each sub-field of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis to program evaluation and policy implementation. The third edition contains the latest scholarship and approaches in the field, including new and expanded coverage of behavior economics, the narrative policy framework, implementation studies, the policy regime approach, and field experiments. Now with an appendix of sample comprehensive exam questions, The Public Policy Theory Primer remains an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy. -- Provided by publisher

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  Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey

  Rachel Morgan

  Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey occupies a tenuous place between illness and wellness, in the moments and years after insulin was discovered, making type 1 diabetes a survivable disease. The poems in this collection move between direct address to the scientists who first discovered insulin in 1921, to the lyrical reflections of a mother as she laments the burden of chronic disease that comes with her young son's type 1 diabetes. The language of science and parenthood infuse the poems, giving voice to the caregiver, where nothing is entirely gift or grief.

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  Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Methods for Systematic Inquiry

  Lauren K. Nelson

  Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Methods for Systematic Inquiry, Third Edition, is a comprehensive yet comprehendible text meant for instructors and students of research methods in the field of communication sciences and disorders. This forward-thinking text reflects the movement toward evidence-based practice in audiology and speech-language pathology.

  The author ensures that the concepts associated with evidence-based practice are integrated throughout the chapters. Rather than treating empirical research and searching for clinical evidence as separate topics, this text presents both as different applications of a process of scientific inquiry. The order of the chapters reflects the steps a researcher or clinician might complete when conducting an investigation. Also included are features that help students be more active in learning the material. Each chapter has a set of review questions or case scenarios that can be used as homework, as probe questions in class, or as a basis for group activities. In addition, the author provides lists of supplemental readings from the research literature in the field.

  The third edition benefits instructors and students alike with the addition of a companion website. The website provides convenient presentation slides for each chapter and answers to review questions for instructors. For students, the website lists the key words for each chapter, provides links to supplemental websites and documents, and displays interactive versions of many of the figures within the text. Other changes to the third edition include:

  -- Incorporating the recent information on evidence based practice.
  -- Updating the statistics chapter with additional contemporary procedures.
  -- Revising the chapter on research design.

  -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  More Voices from the Classroom: International Teachers’ Experience with Argument-Based Inquiry

  Lori Norton-Meier, Brian Hand, and Jeong-Yoon Jang

  The intent of this book is to provide a rich and broad view of the impact of argument-based inquiry in classrooms from the perspective of the teacher. There are two important reasons for such a book. The first is that we as researchers constantly work to present our views of these experiences with the voice of the teachers only being relayed through the perspective of the researcher. We need as a community to listen to what the teachers are telling us. The second reason is that as demands grow to provide opportunities for students to pose questions, make claims, and provide evidence, that is, to think critically and reason like scientists, we need to understand what this looks like from the perspective of the teacher. This book brings together a range of teachers from several countries who have used the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach to teach argument-based inquiry. These teachers have all gone through professional development programs and successfully implemented the approach at a high level.

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  Life in the Natural World: Investigating Life’s Diversity

  Steve O'Kane and Kimberly Cline-Brown

  In this collection of laboratory investigations we have chosen to follow Darwin’s lead by highlighting some of the many forms of life’s biological diversity and complexity – and there are many! Biological evolution, after all, is an extremely creative process. You’ll be examining diversity and complexity from the level of DNA, to that of species, and finally to how species are assembled into communities and how these communities are studied. You’ll also be looking at some of the important mechanisms and natural systems that underlie, maintain, and change biological diversity. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that life as we know it, in all its myriad and beautiful forms, is about variation and interaction. These labs are designed to be stand-alone activities that are primarily self-directed. You will find that your instructor will “teach” much less than you may be used to. Think of your instructor as a facilitator or as a resource for learning – the real learning is up to you. Said differently, the degree of learning you accomplish while conducting these investigations is almost entirely dependent on the effort you put into them, inside and outside the laboratory.

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  Dean Dean Dean Dean

  Jim O'Loughlin

  With Dean Dean Dean Dean Jim O'Loughlin adds a touch of the absurd to the proud tradition of American humor writing, following in a long line established by Mark Twain and contributed to by authors such as James Thurber, Woody Allen, Steve Martin and, most recently, David Sedaris. However, he merges the tradition with the twenty-first-century literary genre of flash fiction, combining some experimental pieces with more traditionally told narratives for a collection that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. Many of the stories adopt a first person narrator in characters that are archetypical of 21st century America. These stories come straight from the pulse of American life.

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  Planting Red Geraniums : Discovered Poems of James Hearst

  Jim O'Loughlin

  James Hearst (1900-83) was celebrated as the Robert Frost of the Midwest, for his carefully wrought poems that drew from his roots as an Iowa farmer-poet. He published over 600 poems throughout his career, and his work was recognized in the 2001 collection, The Complete Poetry of James Hearst. Now, an unexpected discovery of previously unpublished James Hearst poems forms the core of Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. This collection provides an important addition to the canon of the poetry of James Hearst. 19 previously unpublished poems and four uncollected works offer insights into Hearst's creative process and introduces readers to poems that are as significant as the best of his previously published work.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Great Teachers on Great Singing

  Katherine Osborne and Scott McCoy

  Interviews with 14 of America's most successful singing teachers, including Penelope Bitzas, Joyce Farwell, Julia Faulkner, George Gibson, Ruth Golden, Robert Harrison, Stephen King, Patricia McCaffrey, Everett McCorvey, Heidi Grant Murphy, Bill Schuman, George Shirley, W. Stephen Smith, and Carol Vaness. I am delighted to introduce Great Teachers on Great Singing, by Robin Rice. The subtitle for this book might Interviews with some of the finest singing teachers in America, based on observations of their lessons. These master teachers present a broad range of technical approaches to vocal excellence and artistry, proving once again that there is more than one way to “skin the cat.” Rice’s book follows in the footsteps of Jerome Hines’ masterpiece, Great Singers on Great Singing (1982), but with a twist. Hines interviewed singers with whom he worked on the great opera stages of the world, and with medical experts who attended to their health. In the process, he revealed a huge diversity of opinions and techniques, along with some significant misconceptions about physiology and resonance maintained by the top echelon of professionals. By contrast, Rice explores the diverse techniques used by highly successful teachers—people who enable the beautiful singing we love to hear. -Scott McCoy, voice professor and editor-in-chief Sold directly by the publisher, Inside View Press -- Provided by publisher

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  Arctic Sustainability Research : Past, Present and Future

  Andrey N. Petrov

  The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing concern as well as the resilience and adaptation of Arctic societies to changing conditions. This book offers key insights into the history, current state of knowledge and the future of sustainability, and sustainable development research in the Arctic. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, it presents a comprehensive progress report on Arctic sustainability research. It identifies key knowledge gaps and provides salient recommendations for prioritizing research in the next decade. Arctic Sustainability Research will appeal to researchers, academics, and policymakers interested in sustainability science and the practices of sustainable development, as well as those working in polar studies, climate change, political geography, and the history of science. -- Provided by publisher

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  Returning to Dust

  Carol Poster

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  Decision Support, Analytics, and Business Intelligence

  Daniel Power and Ciara Heavin

  Rapid technology change is impacting organizations large and small. Mobile and Cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and "Big Data" are driving forces in organizational digital transformation. Decision support and analytics are available to many people in a business or organization. Business professionals need to learn about and understand computerized decision support for organizations to succeed. This text is targeted to busy managers and students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support, including: What is analytics? What is a decision support system? What is "Big Data"? What are "Big Data" business use cases? Overall, it addresses 61 fundamental questions. In a short period of time, readers can "get up to speed" on decision support, analytics, and business intelligence. The book then provides a quick reference to important recurring questions. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Ana-Maria Rizzuto and the Psychoanalysis of Religion: The Road to the Living God

  Martha J. Reineke, David M. Goodman, Ana Maria Rizzuto, John McDargh, Mario Aletti, Arne Austad, Leif Gunnar Engedal, Anthony Stern, Jacob Waldenmaier, and Gry Stalsett

  Ana-María Rizzuto’s groundbreaking explorations of the formation of God representations in early childhood and their elaboration throughout the life cycle have made their mark, enriching the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, as well as scholarship within the psychoanalytic study of religion. Accompanied by illuminating commentaries by Rizzuto, the authors of this edited collections essays in this volume underscore Rizzuto’s most important contribution to clinical practice: rather than assert that psychoanalysis is incompatible with religious beliefs and practices or with spiritual concerns that patients may bring to a therapeutic context, Rizzuto makes room for the coexistence of psychoanalysis and religion in the therapeutic setting. Demonstrating how Rizzuto’s work has enhanced connections within and among psychoanalytic theories of religion, established pathways for new developments in psychotherapy, and facilitated interdisciplinary conversations, this volume showcases the compelling power of Rizzuto’s work and its ongoing influence. -- Provided by publisher

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  Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

  Brian Roberts

  As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident in popular culture and the interplay between two specific strains of music: middle-class folk and blackface minstrelsy.

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  Teaching From the Heart

  Kyle Rudick, Kathryn B. Golsan, and Kyle Cheesewright

  Teaching From the Heart: Critical Communication Pedagogy in the Communication Classroom uses a social-justice framework to introduce beginning instructors to classroom pedagogy.

  Readers will learn the history, vocabulary, and skill set needed to recognize teaching and learning as sites for humanization, transformation, and growth. Topics include mentoring as an act of love, assessment, power, facilitating critical dialogue about oppression and privilege, and developing social justice classroom activities for the communication classroom. -- Provided by the publisher

  Both critical and pragmatic, Teaching From the Heart is ideal for courses in teaching communication and a valuable tool for any instructor who wishes to work with students to explore issues regarding power, privilege, and oppression while learning meaningful course content.

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  Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World

  Elizabeth Sutton

  Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world. -- Provided by publisher

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  Beauty Outside Our Doors: Conservation Stories of Black Hawk County

  University of Northern Iowa. Environmental Literature (Spring 2017).

  Beauty Outside Our Doors collects stories, poems, essays, and interviews with people of Black Hawk County, Iowa, giving voice to their relationship to the land, in their own words. From beekeeping to family farms to kayaking down the Cedar River and nature therapy, this work serves as a witness to the beauty to be found here—and the challenges we still face as citizens and lovers of the natural world.

  Published as a collaboration between the Soil and Water Conservation District and students in the Spring 2017 Environmental Literature class at the University of Northern Iowa, this unique anthology invites you to open its pages to experience and honor the people and the land of Black Hawk County.

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  Running Past the Trees: Facing Childhood and Adolescence in Iowa's Cedar Valley

  University of Northern Iowa. Two-Dimensional Concepts (Spring 2017).

  This anthology is the result of a service-learning project supported by The Facing Project. Students enrolled in Two-Dimensional Concepts, a foundations art course at the University of Northern Iowa, and K-12 authors at the Waterloo Writing Project collaborated over the course of a semester through shared stories, conversations, and illustrations. The authors provided stories of their experiences and memories growing up in the Cedar Valley and were partnered with first year UNI art students who took inspiration from the authors' writings to create accompanying illustrations.

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  Globalization Reappraised: False Oracle or a Talisman

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Roopinder Oberoi

  Globalization Reappraised: A Talisman or a False Oracle analyzes the emergence of Washington Consensus inspired globalization model in the post cold war era. It presents a comprehensive scholarly survey of the literature, impact of the model on technology, ethno/religious revivalism, environment, human rights, rule of law, and income inequality, and the rise of unprincipled populist political demagogues in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States. The book also discusses the devastating impact of the 2008 global financial crisis due to unbridled, unregulated free market system. These developments have raised serious doubts about once considered inevitable, invincible globalization model. Serious soul searching to fix or even discard some of its negatives has become significant part of policy discussions from Delhi to Devos. The concluding chapter of the book analyzes several alternative models by raising the question about the direction and nature of the model itself. -- Provided by publisher

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level : Groups, Communities, and Organizations

  Katherine Van Wormer and Fred H. Besthorn

  A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and explores the impact of these worlds on human behavior. An ecosystems/sustainability framework emerges as a key characteristic of contemporary practice. What is sustainable social work? What are the characteristics of a sustainable community? How is the present exploitation of environmental resources unsustainable for future generations? In accordance with the 2015 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) standards, attention is paid to environmental justice as well as diversity and difference. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level: Individuals and Families

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level draws on a resilience model to explore the dynamics of human behavior across the life span. Biological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions are covered. Illustrations and vignettes from social work, psychology, literature, philosophy, and current events highlight the turning points in our lives. Critical thinking questions are provided. The result is an essential book that bridges theory and practice in accordance with the 2015 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) standards.

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  Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis

  ADDICTION TREATMENT covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions. The authors bridge the gap between the popular twelve-step and harm-reduction approaches, thus illuminating how you, as a future practitioner, can guide your clients down a trusted path that is tailored towards the client's particular needs. Through a number of first-person narratives about the experience of addiction, you will discover a realism and depth not commonly found in textbooks. Interesting and relevant topics -- such as the case against so-called underage drinking laws and an inside story of working in a casino -- draw you into the material and illustrate the importance of reducing harm within the bio-psychological framework that ties the text together. -- Provided by publisher

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  Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

  Jeffrey Weld

  This is the book that will flip the way you think about STEM from not me to I'm in! Author Jeff Weld is the director of the acclaimed Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council. He sees STEM as a white-hot, transformative revolution in schooling as we know it. He channels the wisdom of professionals in education, business, and government to bring you the theory and policy behind nationally recognized education models for STEM. Whether you're an educator, business professional, or policy maker, you can share Weld's infectious enthusiasm as you extract best practices that will prepare students for the future. Creating a STEM Culture's wide-ranging topics include why STEM matters; what STEM networks do; how to build community buy-in for STEM; what makes school business STEM partnerships work; and what STEM means for teachers, learning, and assessment. Each chapter is sprinkled with lighthearted case studies that complement the topic at hand. From start to finish, writes Weld, the story of STEM unfolds as a how-to, can-do, who's-who, you-too manual and memoir based on the experiences of leaders who walk the talk. -- Provided by publisher

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  TransGothic in Literature and Culture

  Jolene Zigarovich

  This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics, transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. -- Provided by publisher

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  History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond

  Kenneth Atkinson

  Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together new evidence to reconstruct how the Hasmonean family transformed their kingdom into a state that lasted until the arrival of the Romans.

  Atkinson reconstructs the relationships between the Hasmonean state and the rulers of the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic Empires, the Itureans, the Nabateans, the Parthians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Roman Republic. He draws on a variety of previously unused sources, including papyrological documentation, inscriptions, archaeological evidence, numismatics, Dead Sea Scrolls, pseudepigrapha, and textual sources from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods.

  Atkinson also explores how Josephus's political and social situation in Flavian Rome affected his accounts of the Hasmoneans and why any study of the Hasmonean state must go beyond Josephus to gain a full appreciation of this unique historical period that shaped Second Temple Judaism, and created the conditions for the rise of the Herodian dynasty and the emergence of Christianity. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Communication: Making Connections

  Melissa L. Beall, Bill Seiler, and Joseph P. Mazer

  Communication: Making Connections, a top-selling hybrid text, is unique in its integrated “Making Connections” theme and emphasis on technology. While introducing the basic principles of public speaking, interpersonal communication and group communication, the text stresses communication competence by constantly applying a solid theoretical foundation through everyday and relevant communication examples, thought-provoking questions, and boxed features. -- Provided by publisher

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  Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie

  Roy R. Behrens

  In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright transformed a small midwestern prairie community into one of the world's most important architectural destinations. Mason City, Iowa, became home to his City National Bank and Park Inn--the last surviving Wright hotel. In addition, his prototype Stockman House helped launch the Prairie School architectural style. Soon after, architect Walter Burley Griffin followed in Wright's footsteps, designing a cluster of Prairie School homes in the Rock Crest/Rock Glen neighborhood. Design historian Roy Behrens leads the way through Mason City's historic development from the Industrial Revolution to the modern era of Frank Lloyd Wright. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Theatre for Youth II : More Plays with Mature Themes

  Gretta Berghammer

  When Theatre for Youth: Twelve Plays with Mature Themes was published in 1986, it met a need for plays that could help young people deal with some of the more difficult realities of life. Responding to the sweeping changes in society over the succeeding thirty years, Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer have assembled a new collection of plays that reflects not only on themes such as aging, death and dying, friendship, courage, conformity, maturation, sexuality, and struggles with moral judgment but also on gender identity, poverty, diversity, and discrimination. -- Provided by publisher Theatre for Youth II: More Plays with Mature Themes presents twelve plays, nine of them new to this anthology, that offer a rich variety of original stories (The Tomato Plant Girl, The Arkansaw Bear, Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle), compelling adaptations (The Afternoon of the Elves, Broken Hearts, Courage!), historical drama (Mother Hicks, Johnny Tremain), diverse themes (La Ofrenda, The Transition of Doodle Pequeño), friendship (The Selfish Giant), and future societies (With Two Wings). As these plays explore some of the most challenging themes for today’s youth, including the difficulties of single parenthood, divorce, race relations, sexuality, and gender discrimination, they share messages fundamental to us all: open your imagination and dare to dream; embrace life; honor your personal passion, beliefs, and creativity; take a risk; and love with all your heart.

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  Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way

  Harry Brod

  From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby -- Provided by publisher

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  Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

  Cara Lea Burnidge

  A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful religious traditions that informed his idea of America and its place in the world.

  With A Peaceful Conquest, Cara Lea Burnidge presents the most detailed analysis yet of how Wilson’s religious beliefs affected his vision of American foreign policy, with repercussions that lasted into the Cold War and beyond. Framing Wilson’s intellectual development in relationship to the national religious landscape, and paying greater attention to the role of religion than in previous scholarship, Burnidge shows how Wilson’s blend of Southern evangelicalism and social Christianity became a central part of how America saw itself in the world, influencing seemingly secular policy decisions in subtle, lasting ways. Ultimately, Burnidge makes a case for Wilson’s religiosity as one of the key drivers of the emergence of the public conception of America’s unique, indispensable role in international relations.

  As the presidential election cycle once again raises questions of America’s place in the world, A Peaceful Conquest offers a fascinating excavation of its little-known roots. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

  Mary L. Connerley and Jiyun Wu

  This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women. This focus addresses a gap that currently exists in the quality-of-life and well-being fields. The work of the authors answers the following broad questions: Does gender matter in the well-being of working women? Do prejudices against and stereotypes of women still play a role in inter-personal interactions in the workplace that could hinder women from flourishing professionally? Does the organizational context, such as organizational culture, reward systems, and leadership, contribute to the well-being of working-women? What impact does the national context have on the well-being of working women? And finally, how can public policies help enhance the well-being of working women? These are important issues for academics, researchers, and graduate students interested in gender issues in the fields of management, sociology, psychology, social psychology, economics, and quality of life studies. Policy makers and practitioners will also find this book beneficial. Equitable treatment and outcomes for all, regardless of gender, remains a challenging goal to achieve, with various barriers in different contexts and different cultures, and this book provides strong coverage of this important topic of well-being of working women. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  I'm Published! Now What?: An Author's Guide to Creating Successful Book Events, Readings, and Promotions

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  This practical guide to conducting successful book readings, events, and promotions will help you understand and navigate the shifting sands of the publishing world. This guide will help demystify book marketing and prepare authors to work effectively with bookstore event coordinators, the best friends authors can have inside the stores. Copeland also shares what to do after events to maximize and build upon success. -- Provided by publisher

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  Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works Volume I

  Janet Croft, Emily E. Auger, and Nancy-Lou Patterson

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  Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works Volume II

  Janet Croft, Emily E. Auger, and Nancy-Lou Patterson

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  Teacher Quality and Teacher Education Quality: Accreditation from a Global Perspective

  Robin Dada, Nicholas Michelli, Deborah Eldridge, Rana Tamim, and Karen Karp

  Accreditation of teacher education programs is increasingly embraced internationally and is being modeled after the American experience, despite criticisms from some in the field of teacher education in the United States. This book examines the transformation of accreditation and the interest and perception of nations and regions choosing to use the model in their own culture, including the Middle East and Gulf Region, South America, and the United Kingdom. Its distinctive edge is the juxtaposition of three sectors: quality assurance/accreditation, teacher preparation, and global/international experiences. The authors address how the adoption of a universal requirement for accreditation embraces a particular view of what teacher quality means. The emphasis on the development of teacher preparation in concert with accreditation is of academic interest to scholars in the United States and abroad. The experiences and voices of teacher educators as international colleagues in a global climate of accountability brings a fresh perspective on shared challenges.

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  Women’s Voices in the Field of Educational Technology: Our Journeys

  Ana J. Donaldson

  In a professional world that has a tradition of the "good old boy" network, women long have fought for recognition in the educational technology field. In this book authors discuss the women in their own lives who have made the difference for them in their professional development. A group of 31 individuals from the USA, Canada, Northern Cyprus, the UK, and South Korea were asked to be part of this endeavor. The breadth of the list was intended to bring together as many perspectives as possible. Some stories included in this book are deeply private, others offer historical perspectives of women’s roles in educational technology, while others focus on mentoring. This book is intended as a resource for all individuals in the field of educational technology, instructional design, and learning design at a national and international level.

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  The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

  Louis E. Fenech and Pashaura Singh

  The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition. -- Provided by publisher The handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different "expressions" of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, and artistic expressions are considered in turn, followed by discussion of Sikhs in the Diaspora, and of caste and gender in the Panth. Each section begins with an essay by a prominent scholar in the field, providing an overview of the topic. Further essays provide detail and further treat the fluid, multivocal nature of both the Sikh past and the present. The handbook concludes with a section considering future directions in Sikh Studies.

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  Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators

  Mary C. Herring, Matthew J. Koehler, and Punya Mishra

  The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators addresses the concept and implementation of technological pedagogical content knowledge―the knowledge and skills that teachers need in order to integrate technology meaningfully into instruction in specific content areas. Driven by the growing influence of TPACK on research and practice in both K-12 and higher education, the 2nd edition updates current thinking about theory, research, and practice.

  Offering a series of chapters by scholars in different content areas who apply the technological pedagogical content knowledge framework to their individual content areas, the volume is structured around three themes:

  -- Current thoughts on TPACK Theory
  -- Research on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Specific Subject Areas
  -- Integrating Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge into Teacher Education and Professional Development

  The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators is simultaneously a mandate and a manifesto on the engagement of technology in classrooms. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640

  Reinier H. Hesselink

  Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert the Japanese. After baptizing a Japanese lord or daimyo of the area, they established Nagasaki in 1571 to provide the Portuguese a safe harbor in his domain. Profits for the daimyo and the Japanese who converted to Christianity soon followed. This book is the first comprehensive history in any language of the rise and fall of Christian Nagasaki (1560-1640). The author provides a narrative of the city's early years from both the European and Japanese perspectives.

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  Continuity of the Conquest: Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism

  Wendy Marie Hoofnagle

  The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights.

  Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the Normans’ literature of kingship envisioned government as a form of imperial rule modeled in many ways on the glories of Charlemagne and his reign. She argues that the aggregate of historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans’ ruling approach, including a program of conversion through “allurement,” political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court.

  An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and the problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Models of Psychopathology: Generational Processes and Relational Roles

  Lisa Hooper, Luciano L'Abate, Laura Sweeney, Giovanna Gianesini, and Peter Jankowski

  This book explores current relational models of psychopathology that undergird a great many conflicts and destructive outcomes in family and intimate relationships. These models have similar features and can be considered as a group. They are all: (1) generational; (2) relational; and (3) fundamentally reactive processes stemming from existing psychopathology. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Compliance Calendar/Logbook for Bulk Gasoline Plants: Less than 19,999 Gallons/Day Throughput

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  EPA has new requirements for Gasoline Distribution Bulk Terminals, Bulk Gasoline Plants and Pipeline Facilities under 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart BBBBBB (NESHAP 6B) to reduce air pollution. This calendar has been developed to assist Bulk Gasoline Plants in complying with NESHAP 6B. Additional Iowa specific NESHAP 6B rules are discussed later.

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  Compliance Calendar/Logbook for Bulk Gasoline Plants: Less that 19,999 Gallons/Day Throughput

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  EPA has requirements for Gasoline Distribution Bulk Terminals, Bulk Gasoline Plants and Pipeline Facilities under 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart BBBBBB (NESHAP 6B) to reduce air pollution. This calendar has been developed to assist Bulk Gasoline Plants in complying with NESHAP 6B. Additional Iowa specific NESHAP 6B rules are discussed later.

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  Environmental Recordkeeping Calendar for Drycleaning Facilities

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center and Iowa. Department of Natural Resources

  The Iowa Air Emissions Assistance Program (IAEAP) at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center (IWRC), supported by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is pleased to present the 2016-2017 Environmental Recordkeeping Calendar for Dry Cleaning Facilities. The use of hazardous chemicals in the dry cleaning process, including perchloroethylene (commonly known as perc), can pose safety and environmental concerns if not managed appropriately. In an effort to minimize these concerns state and federal regulations are in place that may apply to your facility. These regulations have been developed to ensure your business operations will not unexpectedly harm the environment or individuals. The use of this calendar will assist you in implementing and tracking your business's efforts to comply with hazardous waste regulations and the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for dry cleaners (40 CFR Part 63 Subpart M). NESHAP records must be kept at your facility for 5 years and the hazardous waste records for 3 years. The calendar will allow you to: • Record results of required leak checks and equipment monitoring; • Maintain records for refrigerated condensers and adsorbers; • Track perc purchases and annual usage; • Document monthly hazardous waste generation; and • Organize and document compliance in the event of a DNR or EPA inspection. While this calendar is not inclusive of all environmental regulations that may apply to your facility, it will serve as a good starting point for tracking important information related to environmental compliance.

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  Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read

  Barbara Lounsberry

  Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work—and her last to reach the public. In the only full-length book to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries & the Diaries She Read

  Barbara Lounsberry

  In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf ’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer’s life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929—what is often considered Woolf’s modernist “golden age.” During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One’s Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf’s writing at this time was influenced by other diarists—Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them—and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style. Through close readings of Woolf ’s journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf ’s development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf ’s biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy

  Kristin Meany-Walen and Terry Kottman

  Play therapy expert Terry Kottman and her colleague Kristin Meany-Walen provide a comprehensive update to this spirited and fun text on integrating Adlerian techniques into play therapy. After an introduction to the basics of the approach and the concepts of Individual Psychology, the stages of Adlerian play therapy are outlined through step-by-step instructions, detailed treatment plans, an ongoing case study, and numerous vignettes. Readers will learn straightforward methods for building a relationship with a child and exploring the child s intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, as well as ways to help the child gain insight into his or her behavioral patterns and develop new interactional skills. In addition to presenting up-to-date information on trends in play therapy, this latest edition emphasizes the current climate of evidence-based treatment and includes a new chapter on conducting research in play therapy. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Rhetoric in Civic Life

  Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch

  Rhetoric in Civic Life provides a richly textured, conceptually organized introduction to rhetorical theory and concepts. Sophisticated yet accessible, it guides students in exploring rhetorical action in a democratic society. Interweaving classical and contemporary concepts, the book shows how people in a diverse society shape ideas, make decisions about common concerns, and create social realities through symbolic action. Thoroughly updated to reflect current theory, issues, and events, the new edition provides a rich array of historical and contemporary examples that show how words, images, arguments, and narratives create social and cultural identities and have consequences to civic life, public discourse and dissent, and social policies.

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  Manifold Nature: John Burroughs and the North American Review

  Jeremy Schraffenberger and Joan Burroughs

  Manifold Nature collects the nineteen essays that the naturalist, philosopher, and critic John Burroughs wrote for the North American Review between 1889 and 1920. Burroughs's great-granddaughter Joan Burroughs writes a foreword, and editor J. D. Schraffenberger provides an introduction to the book, as well as contextual summaries of each essay.

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  The Necessary Poetics of Atheism

  Jeremy Schraffenberger, Martín Espada, and Lauren Marie Schmidt

  "The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" collects poems and essays by three award-winning contemporary poets who demonstrate how atheism informs their poetics: as "a vehicle of political protest" in the work of Martín Espada, as a form of activism and secular goodness in Lauren Marie Schmidt's poems, and as an aesthetic confrontation of a theistic worldview in J. D. Schraffenberger's writing. An enlightening foreword by the atheist philosopher Andrew Sneddon and a compelling introduction by poet Heid E. Erdrich invite us to read these "uneasy, contentious, complex, powerful, triumphant voices that allow goodness to shine without God." Espada asks, "Where, then, does an atheist poet put his or her faith? Where do we find our salvation? Some poets would say: Poetry." Put your faith in "The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" and find salvation in these provocative pages.

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  Self-Study and Diversity II: Inclusive Teacher Education for a Diverse World

  Deborah Tidwell, Linda Fitzgerald, and Julian Kitchen

  Self-Study and Diversity II is a book about the self-study of teacher education practices in a diverse world. In this volume, the authors examine the preparation of teachers through a shared orientation to diversity grounded in a commitment to addressing issues of identity, equity, diversity, social justice, inclusion, and access in their professional practice. The first chapters are autobiographical studies in which teacher educators reflect on how their personal identities as minorities within a historically oppressive culture inform their professional practice. These powerful narratives are followed by accounts of teacher educators addressing diversity issues in the United Arab Emirates, India, South Africa, and Thailand. The closing chapters attend to the challenges of preparing teacher candidates to become inclusive educators in a diverse world. Even though each chapter focusses on a particular dimension of equity and social justice or dilemma of practice, the insights in these self-studies are relevant to all teacher educators interested in improving teacher education by respecting diversity and becoming more inclusive. Particular strengths are the diversity of authors and international scope of the book. -- Provided by publisher

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  Cheap Amusements: A Hayden Fuller Mystery

  Grant Tracey

  When a missing girl is found in a suitcase with two bullets behind her right ear, Hayden Fuller, former NHL hockey player turned private investigator work the case. Now, Hayden is working a similar case, a young woman, no ransom note, but clues pointing to a high school guidance counselor.

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  The Make Cook Do Book

  University of Northern Iowa. Department of Languages and Literatures., Jennifer Cooley, and Caitlin Agrosinger

  During the spring and fall semesters of 2016, UNI students collaborated with adult Learners in English classes at the YWCA in Waterloo, Iowa as language partners. The stories below are just a sample of all the different backgrounds and talents that the adult English Learners brought to the collaboration. At the end of the fall 2016 semester, the YWCA students were invited to write about their past, present and/or future and, if they wanted to, about their family as well. (The document that prompted them to share their ideas is on the first page!) UNI students offered assistance, as needed, to help the YWCA students craft their stories. Students were also invited to share fabric from their home countries. These fragments of cloth inspired the patterns on the book cover and throughout its pages. We present this text as a means to join together words and images that linked students from around the world as partners in Learning.

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  Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age

  Congcong Wang and Lisa Winstead

  The role of technology in the learning process can offer significant contributions to help meet the increasing needs of students. In the field of language acquisition, new possibilities for instructional methods have emerged from the integration of such innovations.

  The Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age presents a comprehensive examination of emerging technological tools being utilized within second language learning environments. Highlighting theoretical frameworks, multidisciplinary perspectives, and technical trends, this book is a crucial reference source for professionals, curriculum designers, researchers, and upper-level students interested in the benefits of technology-assisted language acquisition. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  The Prairie in Seed: Identifying Seed-Bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest

  Dave Williams

  "The tallgrass prairie offers solutions to the many environmental challenges facing our water, soils, and ecosystems. Planting prairie on just 10 percent of a field can effectively remove excess phosphorous and nitrogen from the remaining 90 percent. Deep prairie roots and dense aboveground growth filter and hold soils, keeping them from eroding into our streams and rivers. Plants such as common milkweed are the key to the monarch butterfly's recovery. In light of these benefits, perhaps our love affair with European turf grass is slowly giving way to an appreciation of the beauty of our original native prairie. As interest in these wildflowers and grasses has grown, so has demand for better resources to identify the hundreds of species that make up the native prairie. In The Prairie in Seed, Dave Williams shows us how to identify wildflowers when they are out of bloom and, in particular, how to harvest their seeds. Without the flower color and shape as guides, it can be difficult to identify prairie plants. Imagine trying to distinguish between a simple prairie sunflower and an ox-eye sunflower with no flowers to look at! In this richly illustrated guide, Williams offers dormant plant identification information, seed descriptions, and advice on seed harvesting and cleaning for seventy-three of the most common wildflowers found in the tallgrass prairie. He includes photographs and descriptions of the plants in bloom and in seed to assist in finding them when you are ready to harvest. Each species description explains where the seeds are located on the plant, when seed ripening begins, and how many seeds each species produces, along with a photograph and approximate measurements of the actual seed. Finally, this guide provides assistance on how and when to hand-harvest seeds for each species, as well as some simple tips on seed cleaning. An indispensable guide for anyone involved in prairie restoration or conservation, this book is the perfect complement to Williams's The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest"--Provided by publisher

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  RDA, Resource Description & Access and Cartographic Resources

  Paige G. Andrew, Susan M. Moore, and Mary Lynette Larsgaard

  As the cataloging universe moves ever deeper into the era of RDA: Resource Description and Access, specialist catalogers need information on managing the materials in their areas of responsibility. In this manual, three expert catalogers offer a summary and overview of how to catalog cartographic resources using the new standard. Through abundant examples and sample records to illustrate the work, the authors Take a close look at what remains familiar from AACR2, and what is new and different in RDA Offer guidance for creating authorized geographic subject headings using Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Resources (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) Present a detailed examination of geographic subject headings and subdivisions Designed for both practicing map catalogers and catalogers new to cartographic resources, this volume will be a one-stop resource for all catalogers of cartographic materials looking to understand the differences between cataloging using AACR2 and cataloging using RDA. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Manual of Speech Sound Disorders: A Book for Students and Clinicians

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

  Now thoroughly updated and presented in an innovative new format, this proven resource provides a detailed, versatile guide to the care and treatment of individuals with speech sound disorders. Covering a wide range of disorders spanning client ages, populations, and settings, this authoritative book is ideal for both students and professionals. In addition to extensive updates reflecting recent clinical and theoretical advances, the new, groundbreaking Third Edition offers two valuable resources in one convenient package, complementing the traditional book with an extensive digital workbook. Digital materials include hands-on exercises to help you practice analyses and procedures described in the text, as well as downloadable forms. What hasn't changed is the book's signature practical focus, with a strong emphasis on evidence-based practice and varied options for clinical treatment to ensure an appropriate approach based on each client's unique needs. - Provided by publisher

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  Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Technical Manual

  Josh Brandt, Kirk Henderson, Jim Uthe, and Maria Urice

  The objective of this publication is to provide basic technical support for new and existing Iowa county roadside programs. The manual is also intended to provide guidance to policymakers and engineers interested in adopting or expanding integrated vegetation management in county right-of-way.

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  Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

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  Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin

  Leisl A. Carr Childers

  The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region’s resources and economic gain to those who live there. Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as outdoor recreation, weapons development, and wildlife management. It was applied to the Great Basin to bring the region, once seen as worthless, into the national economic fold. Land managers, ranchers, mining interests, wilderness and wildlife advocates, outdoor recreationists, and even the military adopted this ideology to accommodate, promote, and sanction a multitude of activities on public lands, particularly those overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Some of these uses are locally driven and others are nationally mandated, but all have exacted a cost from the region’s human and natural environment. In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts. Carr Childers’s study of multiple use in the Great Basin highlights the complex interplay between the state, society, and the environment, allowing us to better understand the ongoing reality of living in the American West. -- Provided by publisher

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  STEM Learning with Young Children: Inquiry Teaching with Ramps and Pathways

  Shelly Counsell, Lawrence T. Escalada, Rosemary Geiken, Melissa Sander, Jill M. Uhlenberg, Beth Van Meeteren, Sonia Yoshizawa, and Betty L. Zan

  This teacher's guide provides the background information, STEM concepts, and strategies needed to successfully implement an early STEM curriculum (Ramps and Pathways) with young children, ages 3-8. R&P actively engages young children in designing and building ramp structures using wooden cove molding, releasing marbles on the structures, and observing what happens. Children use logical-mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills as they explore science concepts related to motion, force, and energy. -- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I

  Janet Croft

  World War I has been called “the poets’ war,” as it was characterized by a massive outpouring of works of literature during and after the war. Much of this literary harvest, as Paul Fussell brilliantly demonstrated in The Great War and Modern Memory, hinged on an ironic response to the deadly absurdities of World War I. Yet, Fussell also acknowledges that fantasy could be a legitimate literary response to the war, a way of transforming the horrible experiences of the war into something more bearable, applicable, and relevant; into myth and “Escape” in the sense that Tolkien used the term in “On Fairy-stories”. This present volume sprang from a desire to examine selected examples of the fantastic response to World War I among British authors. The contents comprise a mix of five classic articles from the pages of Mythlore and twelve new essays. The first half of the book considers the Inklings, the Oxford literary group centered on J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, while the second half deals with other authors.

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  Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien

  Janet Croft and Leslie A. Donovan

  Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien’s fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien’s works and life as enacting essential, rather than merely supportive roles. Perilous and Fair includes seven classic articles as well as seven new examinations of women in Tolkien’s works and life. These fourteen articles bring together perspectives not only on Tolkien’s most commonly discussed female characters-- Éowyn, Galadriel, and Lúthien—but also on less studied figures such as Nienna, Yavanna, Shelob, and Arwen. Among others, the collection features such diverse critical approaches and methods as literary source study, historical context, feminist theory, biographical investigation, close-reading textual analysis, Jungian archetypes, and fanfiction reader-response.

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  Changing Minds, Changing Schools, Changing Systems: Comprehensive Literacy Design for School Improvement

  Linda J. Dorn, Salli Forbes, Mary Ann Poparad, and Barbara Schubert

  Changing Minds, Changing Schools, Changing Systems: Comprehensive Literacy Design for School Improvement is based on the theory that the change needed for school improvement results from changing the minds of educators: their thinking, perception, and understanding of how people learn.

  Editors: Linda J. Dorn, Salli Forbes, Mary Ann Poparad, and Barbara Schubert

  Foreword: Richard L. Allington and Peter H. Johnston

  Afterword: Richard F. Elmore

  The authors propose that the minds of educators can be changed only through authentic, mutual experiences that are grounded in contextually relevant events. As people work together within apprenticeship-type settings, they ask questions, identify problems, create solutions, and transform knowledge through active testing. Consequently, a school design would incorporate communicative structures for engaging all people (administrators, teachers, children) in constructive discourse and shared problem solving. From this perspective, the interaction between people and the environment becomes the lever for changing minds, subsequently changing the practices and outcomes within schools. The book provides concrete guidance for implementing systemic and sustainable change at multiple levels. It includes a wealth of practical resources to support people as they embark on a comprehensive literacy model for school improvement. -- Provided by publisher

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  Managing Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services: An Introduction

  Christopher R. Edginton, Samuel V. Lankford, Dale Larsen, and Susan D. Hudson

  It has been over 20 years since the first edition of Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations was conceptualized, written, and published. Now in it's fourth edition, Managing Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services considers three critical changes in the leisure services field: technology and information resolution, nature of the workforce, and the basic revision of our economy. These changes have greatly impacted the management of human resources, which is the main focus of this book. -- Provided by publisher

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  Taming the Wild Grape: Botany and Horticulture in the Vitaceae

  Jean Gerrath, Usher Posluszny, and Lewis Melville

  This book places grapes in the context of their family, the Vitaceae. It begins by focusing on the relationship of the family to other angiosperms and the interrelationships and characteristics of its genera. Two chapters emphasize the structure and development of its major vegetative and reproductive characteristics. Keys and illustrated descriptions for 19 North American species including 10 Vitis are provided. The three chapters on Vitis begin with a brief history of grape growing, with emphasis on North America. There is an illustrated life history of grape, following the two-year cycle from bud initiation to fruit maturity. The final chapter discusses the history of grapevine identification in North America, concluding with descriptions and illustrations of 30 important North American cold climate cultivars. The book is a general resource for understanding the growth, development, life history, and identification of grapes and the Vitaceae.

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  Hippie, Inc.

  Michael L. Klassen

  Hippie, Inc. tells the story of the original hippie community, which conceived or popularized innovative ideas and products that over the course of the next five decades, created employment for millions of Americans, pumped billions of dollars into the nation s economy, transformed U.S. consumer culture and business practices, and shaped the most commercially lucrative social movement in American history. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Gubernatorial Stability in Iowa: A Stranglehold on Power

  Christopher W. Larimer

  Since 1969, governors of Iowa have averaged a decade in office, significantly longer than their peers in other states. Why? This book draws on approval data, interviews with politicos around the state, including two former governors, and a statewide survey of Iowa voters to explain Iowa's unique tendency to reelect governors at an unprecedented rate. Results show that Iowa voters give their governors considerable leeway so long as they feel personally connected to the person holding that office. Iowa voters expect their governor to be out and about on a regular basis, an expectation that is fueled by Iowa's position as holding the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. A sagging economy doesn't necessarily spell electoral doom for a governor if he perceived as working hard on behalf of the electorate. When that feeling of connectivity is absent, however, such factors weigh heavily on governor's reelection prospects. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Public Administration Theory Primer

  Christopher W. Larimer and George H. Frederickson

  The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches-from public institutional theory to theories of governance-and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture of how these theories contribute to, and explain, what we know about public administration today. The third edition is fully revised and updated to reflect the latest developments and research in the field including more coverage of governments and governance, feminist theory, emotional labor theory, and grounded research methodology. Expanded chapter conclusions and a brand-new online supplement with sample comprehensive exam questions and summary tables make this an even more valuable resource for all public administration students.

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  Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia

  Annette Lynch and Mitchell D. Strauss

  The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, Nancy Neslund, Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, and Kristofer Neslund

  Law, Business and Society, 11th edition, fits both upper-division undergraduate and masters levels courses in the legal environment of business, government and business, and business and society. Law, Business and Society, takes an interdisciplinary approach, using elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility, and management. Students will find an interesting, provocative reading experience filled with contemporary legal and ethical conflicts emerging from today’s news, as well as scholarly results, surveys, polls, data, anecdotes, and other specific details that lend credibility, immediacy, and interest to the reading experience. -- Provided by publisher

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  Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

  John W. McCormick and Peter C. Chapin

  Software is pervasive in our lives. We are accustomed to dealing with the failures of much of that software - restarting an application is a very familiar solution. Such solutions are unacceptable when the software controls our cars, airplanes and medical devices or manages our private information. These applications must run without error. SPARK provides a means, based on mathematical proof, to guarantee that a program has no errors. SPARK is a formally defined programming language and a set of verification tools specifically designed to support the development of software used in high integrity applications. Using SPARK, developers can formally verify properties of their code such as information flow, freedom from runtime errors, functional correctness, security properties and safety properties. Written by two SPARK experts, this is the first introduction to the just-released 2014 version. It will help students and developers alike master the basic concepts for building systems with SPARK. -- Provided by publisher

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  SAFE and Fun Playgrounds: A Handbook

  Heather M. Olsen, Susan D. Hudson, and Donna Jean Thompson

  Play is important for cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Use the four components experts have identified for safety: supervision, age-appropriate design, fall-surfacing that contains approved materials, and equipment maintenance. This handbook is what you need to maintain an existing, or to create a new, pleasing, and challenging playground that is safe, but not boring. - Provided by publisher

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  Disturbing Argument

  Catherine Palczewski

  This edited volume represents the best of the scholarship presented at the 18th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation. This biennial conference brings together a lively group of argumentation scholars from a range of disciplinary approaches and a variety of countries. Disturbing Argument contains selected works that speak both to the disturbing prevalence of violence in the contemporary world and to the potential of argument itself, to disturb the very relations of power that enable that violence. Scholars’ essays analyze a range of argument forms, including body and visual argument, interpersonal and group argument, argument in electoral politics, public argument, argument in social protest, scientific and technical argument, and argument and debate pedagogy. Contributors study argument using a range of methodological approaches, from social scientifically informed studies of interpersonal, group, and political argument to humanistic examinations of argument theory, political discourse, and social protest, to creatively informed considerations of argument practices that truly disturb the boundaries of what we consider argument. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support: Role of Business Intelligence and Social Media

  Daniel Power and Lakshmi S. Iyer

  This volume explores emerging research and pedagogy in analytics, collaboration, and decision support with an emphasis on business intelligence and social media. In general, the chapters help understand where technology involvement in human decisions is headed. Reading the chapters can help understand the opportunities and threats associated with the use of information technology in decision making. Computing and information technologies are reshaping our global society, but they can potentially reshape it in negative as well as positive ways. Analytics, collaboration and computerized decision support are powerful decision aiding and decision making tools that have enormous potential to impact crisis decision making, regulation of financial systems, healthcare decision making and many more important decision domains. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Systems Analysis and Design

  Roberta Roth, Barbara Haley Wixon, and Alan Dennis

  The 6th Edition of Systems Analysis and Design continues to offer a hands-on approach to SAD while focusing on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess. Building on their experience as professional systems analysts and award-winning teachers, authors Dennis, Wixom, and Roth capture the experience of developing and analyzing systems in a way that students can understand and apply. -- Provided by publisher

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  Invention through Form and Function Analogy

  Audrey C. Rule

  Invention through Form and Function Analogy is an invention book for teachers and other leaders working with youth who are involving students in the invention process. The book consists of an introduction and set of nine learning cycle formatted lessons for teaching the principles of invention through the science and engineering design principles of form and function. An appendix contains sets of color, illustrated cards to be printed onto cardstock paper and used for sorting and sequencing activities during the lessons. This set of lessons has been field-tested with elementary and middle school students by teachers and was improved through the peer review process. The introduction section of the book addresses metaphors, analogies, and the use of form and function analogies in problem-solving and innovations. Human need related to invention and cultural universals are also discussed. Lessons address the following topics: 1) Identifying forms and functions of objects; 2) Forms and functions of the human hand; 3) Forms and functions of the body extended with tools; 4) Extending the body to serve basic human needs; 5) Tools related to forms and functions of the mouth; 6) Historical perspective of inventions; 7) Animal form and function analogies; 8) Inventors inspired by form and function; and 9) Combining SCAMPER with form and function to spur invention. Many charts are included to give teachers ideas for supporting student discussions. Teachers who field-tested the book with elementary and middle school students were uniformly positive about the lessons [25 tables, 20 figures, 7 card sets in the Appendix, 35 references.

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  The Great Sympathetic: Walt Whitman and the North American Review

  Jeremy Schraffenberger

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  Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America

  David G. Surdam

  American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have used other measures of well-being: height, weight, and longevity. The increased amount of leisure time per week and across people's lifetimes, however, has been an unsung aspect of the improved standard of living in America.

  In Century of the Leisured Masses, David George Surdam explores the growing presence of leisure activities in Americans' lives and how this development came out throughout the twentieth century. Most Americans have gone from working fifty-five or more hours per week to working fewer than forty, although many Americans at the top rungs of the economic ladder continue to work long hours. Not only do more Americans have more time to devote to other activities, they are able to enjoy higher-quality leisure. New forms of leisure have given Americans more choices, better quality, and greater convenience. For instance, in addition to producing music themselves, they can now listen to the most talented musicians when and where they want. Television began as black and white on small screens; within fifty years, Americans had a cast of dozens of channels to choose from. They could also purchase favorite shows and movies to watch at their convenience. Even Americans with low incomes enjoyed television and other new forms of leisure. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989

  David G. Surdam

  Between 1951 and 1989, Congress held a series of hearings to investigate the antitrust aspects of professional sports leagues. Among the concerns: ownership control of players, restrictions on new franchises, territorial protection, and other cartel-like behaviors. In The Big Leagues Go to Washington, David Surdam chronicles the key issues that arose during the hearings and the ways opposing sides used economic data and theory to define what was right, what was feasible, and what was advantageous to one party or another. As Surdam shows, the hearings affected matters as fundamental to the modern game as broadcasting rights, player drafts and unions, league mergers, and the dominance of the New York Yankees. He also charts how lawmakers from the West and South pressed for the relocation of ailing franchises to their states and the ways savvy owners dodged congressional interference when they could and adapted to it when necessary. -- Provided by publisher

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  Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age

  Elizabeth Sutton

  In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda. Building her exploration around the central figure of Claes Jansz Vischer, an Amsterdam-based publisher closely tied to the Dutch West India Company, Sutton shows how printed maps of Dutch Atlantic territories helped rationalize the Dutch Republic’s global expansion. Maps of land reclamation projects in the Netherlands, as well as the Dutch territories of New Netherland (now New York) and New Holland (Dutch Brazil), reveal how print media were used both to increase investment and to project a common narrative of national unity. Maps of this era showed those boundaries, commodities, and topographical details that publishers and the Dutch West India Company merchants and governing Dutch elite deemed significant to their agenda. In the process, Sutton argues, they perpetuated and promoted modern state capitalism. -- Provided by publisher

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  Anthropological Research Framing for Archaeological Geophysics: Material Signatures of Past Human Behavior

  Jason Randall Thompson

  Recent archaeological scholarship along with technical and technological advances in near-surface geophysics has brought exciting new possibilities to a growing body of archaeological thought. Yet, few explicitly theoretical attempts have been made to provide archaeological geophysics with anthropological premises. Anthropological Research Framing for Archaeological Geophysics: Material Signatures of Past Human Behavior initiates a dialogue with other archaeological and geophysical professionals to do so. Most archaeological applications of geophysics remain methodological and technical, devoted to gaining awareness of buried anthropogenic materials but not human behavior. By proposing the amelioration of communication gaps between traditional and geophysical archaeologists, Jason Randall Thompson foments dialogue and participates in bringing about new ways of thinking anthropologically about archaeological geophysics. -- Provided by publisher

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  Final Stanzas

  Grant Tracey

  In these eleven short stories by a true master of the form, Grant Tracey guides us across a wide expanse of time and place but always deep into the interior lives of the characters we encounter. From 1918 New York to 1971 Toronto to contemporary Cedar Falls, Iowa - instantly we become involved in the complex relationships of movie actors, college professors, school custodians, teenagers, housewives - always firmly and richly enmeshed in their cultures via copious allusions to history, literature, cinema, TV, and the slang that punctuates their spot-on dialogue. Final Stanzas is a tour de force by a writer who is always mindful of his craft and attentive to the minutest of details.

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  Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Roopinder Oberoi

  Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies is an anthology of seven case studies plus two theoretical chapters in a comparative context. It analyzes issues related to the rise of multinational corporations, their immense economic and political influence in a globalized world, and their social responsibility/corporate citizenship. Corporate social responsibility is closely examined in terms of meeting the challenges of the widening gap between rich and poor, relationships with sovereign states, environmental degradation, exploitation of natural resources, labor practices, and human rights issues in societies in which multinational corporations operate. Are these corporations exempt from social roles and accountable to only their shareholders (the minimalist position propounded by economists such as Milton Friedman ), or do they also have ethical and social responsibilities to participate in improving the quality of human lives in impoverished societies in Africa , Asia and Latin America? -- Provided by publisher

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  Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future: The U.S. in Global Context

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link

  Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future by Katherine S. van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies—including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice—within a global context. Guided by the belief that forces from the global market and globalization affect all social workers in their practice, the book addresses a wide range of relevant topics, including the refugee journey, the impact of new technologies, war trauma, global policy instruments, and restorative justice. A sustainability policy analysis model and an ecosystems framework for trauma-informed care are also presented in this timely text. -- Provided by publisher

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  Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance: How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor

  Brian Warby

  This book analyzes the affect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as and law order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness. The conditions that promote poverty alleviation are not entirely the same as those upon which major microfinance investors base their funding decisions. The result is that much microfinance funding is going to the wrong places. This means that not only is microfinance not helping the poor, but under the wrong conditions it actually exacerbates poverty. The author arrives at these conclusions through a mixed methods approach, using both statistical analysis and case studies. -- Provided by publisher

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  Reconstructing the Authoritarian State in Africa

  Pita Ogaba Agbese and George Klay Kieh

  This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be democratically reconstituted.

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  Juvenile Delinquency

  Clemens L. Bartollas and Frank J. Schmalleger

  Juvenile Delinquency, Ninth Edition, explores what delinquency is, its causes and influences, and strategies for delinquency prevention. Beyond simply analyzing the problems of delinquency in American society, the authors also examine what can be done about delinquent behavior. The text follows a strong sociological focus and discusses how delinquency develops across a life course, including how it begins, persists, and/or how it terminates in the lives of individuals. The text is unified by the theme of delinquency prevention and offers evidence-based policy recommendations and suggestions for possible treatment interventions. -- Provided by publisher

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  Juvenile Justice in America

  Clemens Bartollas and Stuart Miller

  Juvenile Justice in America, Seventh Edition, provides an intimate look at the lives of juveniles, their experiences in society, and the consequences of those experiences. The text carefully examines the characteristics, procedures, policies, and problems of American juvenile justice systems. The authors also discuss the issues and challenges that must be faced in order to develop more just systems and a more humane present and future for juveniles. The text maintains a balance of theory, evidence-based findings, law, and practice, and provides the most up-to-date material possible. -- Provided by Publisher

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  The Late Eight

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

  The Late Eight, now in its second edition, is a popular resource for clinicians, students, and academics working with students whose speech contains errors affecting [th] (voiced theta), [th] (unvoiced theta), [s], [z], [l], Vocalic [r], [r], [sh], or [ts]. These nine sounds typically are the last acquired by English speaking children, and they are the sounds most likely to challenge school-aged students and non-native English speakers, both children and adults. This text fills the need for a resource that a student or clinician can turn to when treating a school-aged student or non-native English speaker who experiences difficulties with one or more late-acquired sound.

  Resources for each late-acquired sound include:

  -- Technical and non-technical definitions

  -- Age of acquisition

  -- Common errors

  -- Key phonetic environments

  -- Useful metaphors

  -- Touch cues

  -- Initial screening tests

  -- Stimulability tests

  -- Demonstrations of place, manner, and voicing

  -- Phonetic placement and shaping techniques

  -- Speech exercises

  -- Language awareness and speech activities

  -- List of words divided by phonetic and word environments

  -- Minimal pairs

  A companion DVD contains reproducible "cheat sheets," exercises, and word lists for clinical use. Included in these materials are:

  -- 24 different demonstrations of place, manner, and voicing

  -- More than 70 phonetic placement and shaping techniques

  -- Different types of speech exercises

  -- 35 language awareness and speech activities

  -- More than 4,000 words divided by phonetic and word environments

  -- More than 2,200 minimal pairs

  The second edition includes a new chapter, written by Carlin Hageman, gives a motor learning perspective on assessing and treating the late eight.

  In addition, the companion DVD has been greatly expanded, including 20 new phonetic placement and shaping techniques and 20 videos. Each video is focused on a specific aspect of assessing and treating the late eight, including demonstrations and discussions of thorny topics. -- Provided by publisher

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  Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

  It's no secret today's media landscape is evolving at a fast and furious pace — and students are experiencing these developments firsthand. While students are familiar with and may be using the latest products and newest formats, they may not understand how the media has evolved to this point or what all these changes mean. This is where Media and Culture steps in. The eighth edition pulls back the curtain and shows students how the media really works, giving students the deeper insight and context they need to become informed media critics. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Ain't No Harm to Kill the Devil: The Life and Legend of John Fairfield, Abolitionist for Hire

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  One of the most amazing characters in American history was John Fairfield, a member of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves to freedom before the Civil War. His exploits are mentioned by notables such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Levi Coffin (the 'President' of the Underground Railroad). All greatly admired him but were shocked by his tactics. Fairfield was the only high-profile abolitionist to charge people for his work. Some assert Fairfield exploited the slaves because he charged relatives in Canada to get their family members to safety, but he used the fees to help concoct elaborate ruses that he used to steal the slaves and help them to freedom.

  One time he led nineteen slaves to freedom by pretending to be an undertaker taking the body of a slave across the Ohio River to a slave cemetery on the other side. He had one slave (in an open coffin) pretend to be the deceased--and the other eighteen marched in a funeral procession right through the middle of town in plain sight. The townspeople stepped aside, out of respect for the 'deceased,' and watched him take all of them across the river to their freedom! Another time he pretended to be a poultry dealer, gaining the respect of all in a town, and then stole their slaves. Still another time he passed himself off as a businessman who needed to build boats to take salt to the South for a very profitable venture. He got many of the leading citizens of that town to invest in his project, and when the boats were finished, he chose a moonless night to get all the slaves to the boats--and had them row to freedom.

  Fairfield was seen by some as a scoundrel, a con-man, and a criminal. Others saw him as a very religious man who believed with all his heart that the evils of slavery needed to be wiped out--and he was willing to go to extremes to help with that cause. Fairfield wasn't as violent as, say, John Brown, but he still got the job done. -- Provided by publisher

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  Finding Fairfield: The Behind the Scenes Story of "Ain't No Harm to Kill the Devil"

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  Finding Fairfield is the "behind-the-scenes" story of the writing of Jeffrey Copeland's Ain't No Harm to Kill the Devil: The Life and Legend of John Fairfield, Abolitionist for Hire. John Fairfield was one of the most gifted and notorious abolitionists fighting for freedom for all in the decade before the American Civil War. In the pages of Finding Fairfield, Jeffrey recounts his adventures in gathering the details and information needed to write Fairfield's tale. These adventures took him to historic homes, important landmarks of the pre- Civil War era, Underground Railroad depots/museums, and other sites frequented by John Fairfield and others who proudly carried the torch of abolitionism. Jeffrey's journey was not always an easy one: getting terribly lost in the middle of nowhere while searching the Sandy & Beaver Canal system (a waterway once used to transport runaway slaves, by boat, to freedom), participating in a "ghost tour" near one of the most important Underground Railroad havens, and even spending the night in a haunted inn where John Fairfield himself once slept. Finding Fairfield also recounts Copeland's efforts to re-trace the journey made by John Fairfield when he once led nine slaves from Kentucky to their freedom in Canada. Finding Fairfield is both the story of a writer's craft and an engaging travelogue—a combination sure to please those who love American history and stories of "important Americans" who have had such profound impact on the world we live in today. - Provided by publisher

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  Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey

  Janet Croft, John William Houghton, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff, and Robin Anne Reid

  Widely considered one of the leading experts on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Alan Shippey has informed and enlightened a generation of Tolkien scholars and fans. In this collection, friends and colleagues honor Shippey with 15 essays that reflect their mentor's research interests, methods of literary criticism and attention to Tolkien's shorter works. In a wide-ranging consideration of Tolkien's oeuvre, the contributors explore the influence of 19th and 20th century book illustrations on Tolkien's work; utopia and fantasy in Tolkien's Middle-earth; the Silmarils, the Arkenstone, and the One Ring as thematic vehicles; the pattern of decline in Middle-earth as reflected in the diminishing power of language; Tolkien's interest in medieval genres; the heroism of secondary characters; and numerous other topics. Also included are brief memoirs by Shippey's colleagues and friends in academia and fandom and a bibliography of Shippey's work.

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  Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction

  Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, Catherine Palczewski, and Danielle E. McGeough

  Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction, Second Edition examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender enables and constrains people’s identities. Authors Catherine Helen Palczewski and Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, with Danielle Dick McGeough, demonstrate how communication constitutes gender, rather than presenting gender as an influence on communication. Operating from an intersectional gender diversity perspective, they show how a focus on gender/sex alone omits the richness of diverse gendered lives. In addition, they explore how gender is constructed through interpersonal and public discourse in, about, and by the social institutions of family, education, work, religion, and media. Throughout the book, readers are equipped with critical analysis tools they can use to form their own conclusions about the ever-changing processes of gender in communication. -- Provided by publisher

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  Language, Immigration and Labor: Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

  Elise M. DuBord

  Language, Immigration, and Labor explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Focusing its ethnographic research on Arizona, a state that intensely regulates transnational migrants and Spanish speakers through its immigration and language policies, this book examines the realities of intercultural communication in fast-paced job negotiations between undocumented workers and their employers. The research reveals the ways that dominant discourses reverberate down to localized social and language practices and how day laborers respond by legitimating their participation in society—a kind of cultural citizenship—and constructing identities as language learners and productive workers. -- Provided by punisher

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  Leisure as Transformation

  Christopher R. Edginton

  Leisure as transformation, 2nd ed., offers an examination of the ways in which individuals, communities, and nations can create the future. Core strategies and concepts are offered that provide a dynamic platform to bring about a needed focus on the ways in which change can be addressed. This second edition ... presents updated facts, figures, and data and provides new insights into key elements of this process. Transformation requires leadership and an understanding of the methods and procedures that can be utilized to bring about change. Many concepts have been introduced into the literature, but all have had the same fundamental goal: how to help individuals, communities, and nations cope with a more dynamically challenging environment that is socially, culturally, and economically turbulent. -- Provided by publisher

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  Physical Education & Health: Global Perspectives & Best Practice

  Christopher R. Edginton and Ming-Kai Chin

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  Historical Dictionary of Sikhism

  Louis E. Fenech and W. H. McLeod

  Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in northwest India. Today the total number of Sikhs is approximately twenty million worldwide. About a million live outside India, constituting a significant minority in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Many of them are highly visible, particularly the men, who wear beards and turbans, and they naturally attract attention in their new countries of domicile. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sikhism covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key persons, organizations, the principles, precepts and practices of the religion as well as the history, culture and social arrangements. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sikhism. -- Provided by publisher

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  Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology

  Carissa M. Froyum, Spencer Cahill, and Kent Sandstrom

  Now in its seventh edition, this best-selling reader provides an introduction to the sociological study of social psychology, interpersonal interaction, embodiment, emotion, selfhood, inequality, and the politics of everyday realities. Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology presents forty-two selections that include both classic and contemporary theoretical work and empirical studies. Detailed introductions to each part and article identify and explain central issues, key concepts, and relationships among topics.

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  Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality: From Premise to Practice

  Tammy S. Gregersen and Peter D. MacIntyre

  This book closes the gap between theory and classroom application by capitalizing on learners' individuality in second or foreign language learning. Issues of content are targeted through a description of the variables of anxiety, beliefs, cognitive abilities, motivation, strategies, styles and willingness to communicate. Teachers are given support in how to address these issues by the provision of activities at the end of each chapter. -- Provided by publisher

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  Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2nd Edition

  Thomas A. Hockey

  The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike. It includes approx. 1850 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times. It is the collective work of 430 authors edited by an editorial board of 8 historians and astronomers. This reference provides biographical information on astronomers and cosmologists by utilizing contemporary historical scholarship. The fully corrected and updated second edition adds approximately 300 biographical sketches. Based on ongoing research and feedback from the community, the new entries will fill gaps and provide expansions. In addition, greater emphasis on Russo phone astronomers and radio astronomers is given. Individual entries vary from 100 to 1500 words, including the likes of the super luminaries such as Newton and Einstein, as well as lesser-known astronomers like Galileo's acolyte, Mario Guiducci. -- Provided by publisher

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  Symbolic Interaction and New Social Media

  Mark D. John, Sarina Chen, and Laura Terlip

  This volume builds on and expands the existing symbolic interactionist perspective to include the study of social interaction made possible by the use of new social media. -- Provided by publisher

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  A Corporal's Story: Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts

  George Kimball, Alan D. Gaff, and Donald H. Gaff

  When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he remained, working for the Boston Journal for the next four decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.
  With the Twelfth Massachusetts, Kimball saw action at many of the most critical and ferocious battles in the eastern theater of the war, such as Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg—engagements he vividly renders from the infantry soldier’s point of view. Aware that his readers might not be familiar with what he and comrades had gone through, he also describes many aspects of army life, from the most mundane to the most dramatic. In his accounts of the desperate action and immediate horrors of war, Kimball clearly conveys to readers the cost of preserving the Union. Never vindictive toward Confederates, he embodies instead the late nineteenth-century’s spirit of reconciliation.
  Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have added an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as maps and illustrations, to provide further context and clarity, making George Kimball’s memoir one of the most complete and interesting accounts of what it was to fight in the Civil War—and what that experience looked like through the lens of time. -- Provided by publisher

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  Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought.

  Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959. Did Wright reject all of Victorian thinking about the home, or do his attentions to a minister's sermon on "the house beautiful" deserve closer attention? Was Wright echoing the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or was he more in step with the philosophy of William James? Did he reject the Arts and Crafts movement, or repurpose its beliefs and practices for new times? And, what can be said of his deep dissatisfaction with architectural concepts of his own era, the dominant modernism that became the International Style? Even the strongest advocates of Frank Lloyd Wright have been puzzled by his objections to so much that characterized the twentieth century, from ideas for building to styles of living.

  In Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought, Klinkowitz, a widely published authority on twentieth-century literature, thought, and culture, examines the full extent of Wright's books, essays, and lectures to show how he emerged from the nineteenth century to anticipate the twenty-first. -- Provided by publisher

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  Chicotealma

  Robert Krueger

  Este texto teatral é baseado nas narrativas escritas e ditadas por escravizados brasileiros. Uma noite, num beco, um grupo de jovens de rua encontra um casal de ex-escravos, bem idosos, que possuem uma farinha mágica que evoca uma sucessão de personagens reais, escravizados heroicos. Um africano traficado no Brasil que, nos Estados Unidos, consegue a liberdade e segue em seu longo caminho rumo à África. A santa afro-brasileira Rosa Egipcíaca, que sofre os horrores da Inquisição. A grande figura de Luís Gama, revolucionário, poeta e libertador de negros cativos. Os quilombolas de 1787, que escreveram um documento sobre direitos humanos ainda hoje não respeitados. --- Provided by the publisher.

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  Arctic Social Indicators: ASI II - Implementation

  Joan Nymand Larsen, Peter Schweitzer, and Andrey Petrov

  Arctic Social Indicators II (ASI-II) is a follow-up activity to ASI-I (2010) and the first Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR, 2004). The objective of ASI (2010) was to develop a small set of Arctic specific social indicators that as a collective would help facilitate the tracking and monitoring of change in human development in the Arctic. ASI indicators were developed for six domains that are considered prominent aspects of human development in the Arctic by residents in the Arctic: Health and Population; Material Wellbeing; Education; Cultural Wellbeing; Contact with Nature; and Fate Control. The objective of the present volume of ASI is to present and discuss the findings of the work on measuring the set of recommended ASI indicators; to conduct a series of regional case studies to illustrate and test the strength and applicability of these indicators; to identify and describe data challenges for the Arctic region specifically in relation to these Arctic specific indicators and to draw conclusions about the ability of ASI to track changes in human development; and to formulate policy relevant conclusions for the long-term monitoring of Arctic human development. The core content of ASI-II is a set of five carefully selected case studies, which form the basis for drawing conclusions about the applicability of the ASI indicators and for formulating policy relevant conclusions. Case studies are performed for Sakha Republic (Yakutia); the West-Nordic Region; Northwest Territories; Inuit Regions of Alaska; and the Inuit World, with the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) used to augment ASI.Findings on the state and changes in Arctic human development and wellbeing are presented. Based on our analysis and conclusions from the five case studies the framework for an ASI monitoring system is introduced. We argue that the long-term monitoring of human development in the Arctic would be greatly facilitated by the regular and frequent collection and reporting of relevant data, including those required for the proposed small set of ASI indicators. -- Provided by publisher

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  Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction

  Christopher Martin, Richard Campbell, and Shawn Harmsen

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  Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide: Poems

  Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

  Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide, 2nd Edition offers a powerful, poetic response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This edition of the collection by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure adds three new poems and additional explanatory notes to his original 2006 collection. Ishmael Reed lauded that 2006 release, stating that Mvuyekure, one of our best critics, uses his rich, eloquent poetic voice to insure that the memories of one of the Twentieth Century s most horrific Holocausts won t be buried as unsung as the victims were.--From the publisher.

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  State and Local Government 2014-2015

  Jayme L. Nieman and Kevin B. Smith

  State and Local Government: 2013–2014 Edition, skillfully edited by Kevin B. Smith and Jayme Neiman, is an all-new collection of compelling readings from such respected sources as Governing, State Legislatures, Stateline.org, State and Local Government Review, and Capitol Ideas. Year after year, these highly readable and up-to-date articles hit all the crucial marks for your state and local course, covering significant issues―from voter ID laws to turnover and new directions in state legislatures, and from new challenges for public agencies to local government financial management. With the context and currency you have come to expect as hallmarks of this reader, the 2013–2014 Edition brings timely and sharp analysis into your state and local government classroom.

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  Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester

  Nicholas J. Pace

  This extended, real-world case study provides an authentic, unvarnished account of a fully-human principal knee deep in what is appropriately called the toughest job in education. -- Provided by publisher

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  Applying Complexity Theory: Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work

  Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas

  Complexity theory—which examines the dynamic interactions of parts in a system—has increasingly been used to study human organizations. This is the first book to explore its application to professions in criminal justice and social work. It brings together experts in this emerging theoretical field from a range of different perspectives, providing detailed but accessible discussions of the key issues at hand, including the nature of complex adaptive systems, their application to service delivery, and the efficacy and ethics of criminal justice and social work interventions. Together the contributors demonstrate the usefulness of complexity theory in addressing some of our most significant and intractable social problems. -- Provided by publisher

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  Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory

  Martha J. Reineke

  For René Girard, human life revolves around mimetic desire, which regularly manifests itself in acquisitive rivalry when we find ourselves wanting an object because another wants it also. Noting that mimetic desire is driven by our sense of inadequacy or insufficiency, Girard arrives at a profound insight: our desire is not fundamentally directed toward the other’s object but toward the other’s being. We perceive the other to possess a fullness of being we lack. Mimetic desire devolves into violence when our quest after the being of the other remains unfulfilled. So pervasive is mimetic desire that Girard describes it as an ontological illness. In Intimate Domain, Reineke argues that it is necessary to augment Girard’s mimetic theory if we are to give a full account of the sickness he describes. Attending to familial dynamics Girard has overlooked and reclaiming aspects of his early theorizing on sensory experience, Reineke utilizes psychoanalytic theory to place Girard’s mimetic theory on firmer ground. Drawing on three exemplary narratives—Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Sophocles' Antigone, and Julia Kristeva’s The Old Man and the Wolves—the author explores familial relationships. Together, these narratives demonstrate that a corporeal hermeneutics founded in psychoanalytic theory can usefully augment Girard’s insights, thereby ensuring that mimetic theory remains a definitive resource for all who seek to understand humanity’s ontological illness and identify a potential cure. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Waxen Poor : Poems

  Jeremy Schraffenberger

  Informed by brothers both classical (Hypnos and Thanatos) and biblical (Cain and Abel), The Waxen Poor is at once a lamentation and a psalm of brotherly love. These are personal poems of psychosis and paranoia, of strangeness laced with beauty and grief, of lyrical mourning and narrative meditation.

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  Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

  Jesse G. Swan

  Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr. -- Provided by publisher

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  Civil-Military Relationships in Developing Countries

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Glen Segell

  This book examines two sides of civil–military relations in developing countries. One is the place of civil-military relations within a state’s political and economic systems; the other is the role of the military on a state’s maintenance of peace and stability. The book thus proposes that the function of soldiers is not only to defend and deter, but also to develop. The chapters provide a comprehensive analysis of civil–military relationship with comparative cases on Botswana, China, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, and The Arab Spring Countries of the Middle East including Bahrain, Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Libya. Each chapter analyzes the historical, cultural and political factors that shape the direction of the man on the white horse (military elite) and the politician. In doing so, this book reveals the potential impact of the nature of civil military relations on democratization, political and economic development, and on regional/international security.
  
  Dhirendra Vajpeyi and Glen Segell discuss and critique the current models and literature on civil-military relations. The innovative framework and careful choice of case studies, presented in a jargon-free, accessible style, makes this book attractive to scholars and students of civil military relations and development studies, as well as policymakers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Women and the Criminal Justice System

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas

  Women and the Criminal Justice System, Fourth Edition, presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as offenders, and as professionals in the justice system. The text features an empowerment approach is unified by underlying themes of the intersection of gender, race, and class; and evidence-based research. Personal narratives highlight the information provided to help students connect the text material with real-life situations. An emphasis on critical thinking teaches students to look beyond media hype concerning female offenders to study the real stories behind women affected by and working in the justice system. -- Provided by publisher

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  Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy

  Janet Croft

  Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. She is one of the most respected names in the field, always delivering polished, thoughtful, and well-crafted writing. She consistently addresses great issues and problems on a human level, where they are faced by quirky, prickly, and very real characters, and her exploration of the theory of reader-response is an important critical contribution. Yet there has been a surprising dearth of serious critical writing about her output--in part because she resists neat and easy classification by genre, politics, or subject matter. This collection of fresh essays aims to correct that situation by presenting critical insights into many aspects of her writing. Attention is given to both her Miles Vorkosigan science fiction series and her Chalion and Sharing Knife fantasy series, as well as the books that fall outside these series.

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  Geography of the Holy Land: New Insights

  William Dando, Caroline Dando, and Jonathan J. Lu

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  Leisure Education: A Person-Centered, System-Directed, Social Policy Perspective

  Rodney B. Dieser

  One of the chief aims of Leisure Education: A Person-Centered, System-Directed, and Social Policy Perspective is to provide a book that brings different leisure education voices together and provides a broad overview of the many different theories and models of leisure education. The aim of this book is to propel the field of leisure education forward by helping readers understand the history of leisure education, including the many theories and models of leisure education; outline the progress and dynamic aspects of leisure education, such as the difference between person-centered and system-directed leisure education; and move the leisure education field forward toward social policy development so that leisure education can have a voice related to preventing and remedying social problems. -- Provided by publisher

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  Enhancing Teaching and Learning: A Leadership Guide for School Libraries

  Jean Donham

  This new edition of a classic shows how to take a proactive role in shaping instruction by learning how to develop and implement a library media program and integrate it into the total educational experience. Revised and updated, Donham's third edition covers all aspects of the school system: students, curriculum and instruction, principals, district administration, and the community. It demonstrates how to interact and collaborate in order to integrate the school library media program throughout these environments. This new edition offers

  -- Real-life examples of issues in school librarianship

  -- Current statistics and research results on early learning, child poverty, and other topics

  -- A new chapter on "the virtual school library"

  -- Expanded coverage of nonfiction and complex texts

  Readers will benefit from this complete coverage of the school environment--common staff structures, budget issues, and more. -- Provided by publisher

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  Media in Society: A Brief Introduction

  Bettina Fabos, Richard Campbell, Joli Jensen, Douglas Gomery, and Julie Frechette

  Critiquing the mass media, and the role those media play in our lives, requires a critical eye. Media in Society gives students in upper level media courses a unique narrative-based approach to media criticism, exploring the stories media tell, as well as the stories we tell about the media when we describe how it affects us. Organized thematically, Media in Society examines topics like narrative genre, entertainment culture, news, politics, and economics, emphasizing both the pleasures and pitfalls of the media narratives that surround us. Written by an esteemed team of media scholars, specifically for media students, this compact and affordable text makes a great backbone or addition to a media and society course.

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  The Sikh Ẓafar-Nāmah of Guru Gobind Singh: A Discursive Blade in the Heart of the Mughal Empire

  Louis E. Fenech

  Louis E. Fenech offers a compelling new examination of one of the only Persian compositions attributed to the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708): the Zafar-namah or 'Epistle of Victory.' Written as a masnavi, a Persian poem, this letter was originally sent to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (d. 1707) rebuking his most unbecoming conduct. Incredibly, Guru Gobind Singh's letter is included today within the Sikh canon, one of only a very small handful of Persian-language texts granted the status of Sikh scripture. As such, its contents are sung on special Sikh occasions. Perhaps equally surprising is the fact that the letter appears in the tenth Guru's book or the Dasam Granth in the standard Gurmukhi script (in which Punjabi is written) but retains its original Persian language, a vernacular few Sikhs know. Drawing out the letter's direct and subtle references to the Iranian national epic, the Shah-namah, and to Shaikh Sa'di's thirteenth-century Bustan, Fenech demonstrates how this letter served as a form of Indo-Islamic verbal warfare, ensuring the tenth Guru's moral and symbolic victory over the legendary and powerful Mughal empire. Through analysis of the Zafar-namah, Fenech resurrects an essential and intriguing component of the Sikh tradition: its Islamicate aspect. -- Provided by publisher

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  Learning, Problem Solving, and Mindtools: Essays in Honor of David H. Jonassen

  Mary C. Herring, J. Michael Spector, Barbara B. Lockee, and Sharon B. Smaldino

  Learning, Problem Solving, and Mindtools is inspired by the substantial body of learning research by David H. Jonassen in the areas of mind tools and problem solving. The focus of the volume is on educational technology, especially with regard to how new technologies have facilitated and supported problem solving and critical thinking. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of learning with technology and elaborates the implications for the design and implementation of learning environments and activities aimed at improving the conceptualization of problems, reasoning and higher-order thinking, and solving challenging problems. This collection of scholarly essays provides a highly engaging treatment of using tools and technologies to improve problem solving; multiple perspectives on integrating educational technology to support learning in complex and challenging problem solving domains; guidance for the design of instruction to support problem solving; a systemic account of the relationships between mental models, instructional models, and assessment models; and a look into the future of educational technology research and practice. -- Provided by publisher

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  Technological Tools for the Literacy Classroom

  Stephanie Huffman, Jeff Whittingham, Wendy Rickman, and Cheryl Wiedmaier

  Emerging technologies and its pervasiveness within our society has changed the definition of literacy in the classroom. It is therefore important for literacy and language art teachers, educators, and librarians to embrace these new technologies for curriculum implementation. Technological Tools for the Literacy Classroom combines practical and effective classroom practices with the latest technological research findings utilized in literacy instruction. This reference source is aimed for professionals and researchers in the fields of literacy, language arts, and information and library science who are interested in improving their understanding of these new technologies.

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  Drycleaner Compliance Manual

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center. and Iowa. Department of Natural Resources.

  The Iowa Waste Reduction Center (IWRC) at the University of Northern Iowa has provided environmental services including business assistance, industry training, as well as research and development for nearly 25 years. Since inception, the center has conducted over 3,600 on-site reviews in all 99 Iowa counties and as a result has become a national leader in small business environmental assistance. The IWRC works with dry cleaning facilities providing environmental on-site assistance offering recommendations for air, hazardous waste, wastewater, and solid waste compliance issues. The Iowa Air Emissions Assistance Program (IAEAP) at the IWRC, supported by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is pleased to present the Dry Cleaner Compliance Manual. The purpose of this manual is to help Iowa dry cleaning facilities using perchloroethylene, petroleum solvents, or alternative solvents understand and comply with state and federal regulations. The manual is to be used in conjunction with the Environmental Recordkeeping Calendar for Dry Cleaning Facilities. Electronic copies of the Compliance Manual and the Recordkeeping Calendar can be found on the IAEAP website at http://iwrc.org/services/iaeap/dry-cleaning/. The use of hazardous chemicals in the dry cleaning process, including perchloroethylene (commonly known as perc), petroleum solvents, and even alternative solvent-based cleaners can pose safety and environmental concerns if not managed appropriately. In an effort to minimize these concerns state and federal regulations are in place that may apply to your facility. These regulations have been developed to ensure your business operations will not unexpectedly harm the environment or individuals. This manual is organized into three sections; one for each of the most commonly used types of dry cleaning chemicals. Section 1 : Perchloroethylene-Based Dry Cleaning Systems Section 2: Petroleum Solvent-Based Dry Cleaning Systems Section 3: Alternative Solvent-Based Dry Cleaning Systems Each section will cover the applicable requirements to comply with regulations for air quality, hazardous waste, and wastewater for the specific type of cleaner being used.

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  The Public Policy Theory Primer

  Christopher W. Larimer and Kevin B. Smith

  Public policy has developed into a broad and interdisciplinary area of study. Research in the field tends to reflect this wide-ranging nature, with scholarly activity focusing on policy process, policy design, program evaluation, specific policy issues, and research classified simply as "policy studies.” Yet for those teaching and studying in the field, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome.

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  Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Methods for Systematic Inquiry

  Lauren K. Nelson

  This popular text, now in its second edition, arose from the author s inability to find a textbook that fully met her or her students' needs! Overly comprehensive texts generate blank faces, while excessively concise texts fail to fully meet the need for an effective depth of learning. This text achieves a great balance between depth of coverage and readability, but balance is not the only reason this book is needed. Reflecting the movement toward evidence-based practice in audiology and speech-language pathology, the author has ensured that the concepts associated with evidence-based practice are integrated throughout the chapters (not just added as a separate chapter or course segment). Also included are features that help students be more active in learning the material. Each chapter has a set of review questions or case scenarios that can be used as homework, as probe questions in class, or as group activities. Importantly, the author has included lists of supplemental readings from the research literature in the field. The second edition has been updated with new references and resources throughout. The chapter on research ethics was expanded to include broader coverage of responsible conduct of research and the impact of HIPAA. Additional information reflecting current practices in evidence-based practice has been added to the chapters on research questions, research design, statistics, and reporting research. The author has added two cases studies designed to promote discussion to the chapters on research ethics and quantitative research design. Tables illustrating example studies from communication sciences and disorders journals have been added to the chapters on non-experimental and experimental design, and the coverage of qualitative research designs has been expanded. Chapter 10 now includes a section on preparing a review of literature. With its many added features and updated, enhanced content, Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Methods for Systematic Inquiry, is the ideal textbook for research-related courses. -- Provided by publisher

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  State and Local Government 2013-2014

  Jayme Nieman and Kevin B. Smith

  State and Local Government: 2013–2014 Edition, skillfully edited by Kevin B. Smith and Jayme Neiman, is an all-new collection of compelling readings from such respected sources as Governing, State Legislatures, Stateline.org, State and Local Government Review, and Capitol Ideas. Year after year, these highly readable and up-to-date articles hit all the crucial marks for your state and local course, covering significant issues―from voter ID laws to turnover and new directions in state legislatures, and from new challenges for public agencies to local government financial management. With the context and currency you have come to expect as hallmarks of this reader, the 2013–2014 Edition brings timely and sharp analysis into your state and local government classroom.

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  Reality Calling: The Story of a Principal's First Semester

  Nicholas J. Pace

  This extended, real-world case study provides readers an authentic, unvarnished account of a fully-human principal knee deep in what is appropriately called the toughest job in education. -- Provided by publisher

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  Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader

  Aaron Podolesfsky, Peter J. Brown, and Scott M. Lacey

  The ninth edition of Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles that provide compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. In this age of globalization and increased cultural intolerance, the basic messages of public anthropology are more important than ever. This new edition offers ten new readings that refer to contemporary social issues such as religious belief, work and family, social class, food production, relationships, consumerism, the effects of climate change on culture, and globalization. -- Provided by publisher

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  Decision Support Analytics and Business Intelligence

  Daniel J. Power

  This revised edition is targeted to busy managers and MBA students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support. Some of the topics covered include: What is a DSS? What do managers need to know about computerized decision support? And how can managers identify opportunities to create innovative DSS? Overall the book addresses 35 fundamental questions that are relevant to understanding computerized decision support. -- Provided by publisher

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  Engineering Effective Decision Support Technologies: New Models and Applications

  Daniel J. Power

  In modern, information-centric business environments, Decision Making Support Systems (DMSS) present a critical consideration for any organization serious about maintaining competitive advantage. Advances in information systems, knowledge management technologies, and other decision support systems necessitate a critical understanding of the latest trends and research.

  Engineering Effective Decision Support Technologies: New Models and Applications presents a collection of the latest research in DMSS and applies those theoretical considerations to best practices in the field. This reference includes empirical case studies and an analysis of new models and perspectives in knowledge management, promoting discussion of DMSS strategies among managers, researchers, and students of information science. -- Provided by publisher

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  Communication: Making Connections

  William J. Seiler, Melissa L. Beall, and Joseph P. Mazer

  Communication: Making Connections, a top-selling hybrid text, is unique in its integrated “Making Connections” theme and emphasis on technology. While introducing the basic principles of public speaking, interpersonal communication and group communication, the text stresses communication competence by constantly applying a solid theoretical foundation through everyday and relevant communication examples, thought-provoking questions, and boxed features. -- Provided by publisher

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  CRISTAL (Chemistry Resources and Instructional Strategies for Teaching All Learners for MS & HS Chemistry)

  Jody Stone

  The CRISTAL program was developed for the purpose of (1) increasing the number of quality laboratory experiences carried out in high school chemistry classes (2) providing learning activities designed to stimulate the development of reasoning/problem-solving skills and (3) providing chemistry teachers with ideas and strategies for creating a more student-centered classroom. The intended audience is all students enrolled in high school chemistry, especially those students needing additional motivation for learning chemistry.

  The CRISTAL materials include a teacher's resource manual containing over 100 activities. These laboratories are arranged in a learning cycle format involving exploratory and application activities. One or more learning cycles are included on each major concept typically covered in high school chemistry. The learning cycle activities include high interest activities involving everyday experiences and/or interesting problems which students are challenged to solve. The guide supports the teacher in developing a chemistry curriculum which is compatible with any chemistry text. The teacher identifies the concepts to be taught, then uses the guide to select appropriate learning cycle activities to use to help teach those concepts. The guide contains student activity sheets which may be reproduced, as well as teacher notes with suggested teaching strategies on how to implement each CRISTAL activity, sample data, and answers to student questions.

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  Run to Glory & Profits: The Economic Rise of the NFL during the 1950s

  David G. Surdam

  The National Football League has long reigned as America’s favorite professional sports league. In its early days, however, it was anything but a dominant sports industry, barely surviving World War II. Its rise began after the war, and the 1950s was a pivotal decade for the league. Run to Glory and Profits tells the economic story of how in one decade the NFL transformed from having a modest following in the Northeast to surpassing baseball as this country’s most popular sport.

  To break from the margins of the sports landscape, pro football brought innovation, action, skill, and episodic suspense on “any given Sunday.” These factors in turn drove attendance and rising revenues. Team owners were quick to embrace television as a new medium to put the league in front of a national audience. Based on primary documents, David George Surdam provides an economic analysis in telling the business story behind the NFL’s rise to popularity. Did the league’s vaunted competitive balance in the decade result from its more generous revenue sharing and its reverse-order draft? How did the league combat rival leagues, such as the All-America Football Conference and the American Football League? Although strife between owners and players developed quickly, pro-football fans stayed loyal because the product itself remained so good. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish: Basic Vocabulary and Interventions for the Non-Spanish Speaker

  Roberto Swazo

  Designed specifically with mental health professionals in mind, The Bilingual Counselor’s Guide to Spanish is perfect for counselors interested in expanding their client base and language skill set. Featuring terminology and cultural phrases specific to the mental health profession, this text offers an easy introduction to both the Spanish language and interfacing with Spanish-speaking clients in a counseling setting. Sections of useful and practical vocabulary are followed by ¡Practique! sections, which enable to reader to put his or her developing skills to use. These sections are augmented by case studies in English and Spanish, as well as brief overviews of Latino history, customs, and social manners that will greatly enhance any counselor’s depth of interaction with Spanish-speaking clients. For counselors who want to communicate with the large and rapidly expanding population of Spanish speakers in the United States, or for those who are simply interested in developing or improving their Spanish-language skills, The Bilingual Counselor’s Guide to Spanish is the place to start. -- Provided by publisher

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  Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security: A Comparative Analysis

  Dhirendra Kumar Vajpeyi

  This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor tropical regions of the world for various reasons. The main focus of this collection of essays is to analyze the pro and cons of the global warming and climate change debate among scholars, policymakers, and scientists, as well as to examine the potential adverse impact of global warming/climate change on social and economic development and human security (food, health, immigration etc.). Much controversy exists on the topic, and many scientific reports issued by think tanks, United Nations, groups of scientists, NGOs, environmentalists, and policymakers are concerned about it. An extensive discussion and review of literature sets the tone and framework for the volume, and facilitates the volume’s analyses of the relationship between prevailing climate change/global warming models and their ability to provide us information on the topic. Exclusion of North America is deliberate; included are case studies from countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. -- Provided by publisher

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  Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Lorenn Walker

  Restorative Justice Today: Applications of Restorative Interventions takes a hard look at the issues and concepts surrounding restorative justice and current restorative practices used in a broad range of areas today. In a time when the cost of prisons and jails is on the rise resulting in more offenders being kept out of the community, this timely and contemporary book exposes readers to a range of restorative practices that can be implemented. The authors, renowned experts in the area of restorative justice, provide information not found in other restorative justice texts. -- Provided by publisher

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  Religion in the Public Schools: Negotiating the New Commons

  Michael D. Waggoner

  Since September 11, 2001, the profile of religion's role in our global society has increased significantly. Religion has long been a force in people's lives as numerous studies and polls show, yet we continue to struggle with understanding differing religious traditions and what they mean for our common life. There are few places where Americans can meet together to learn about each other and to share in the common construction of our futures. One such place for many is public education. The purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of the social, cultural, and legal milieu of schooling in the United States in which the improvement of religious literacy and understanding must take place. Public education is the new commons. We must negotiate this commons in two meanings of that term: first, we must come to mutual understandings and agreement about how to proceed toward a common horizon of a religiously plural America; second, we must work our way through the obstacles in these settings in practical ways to achieve results that work.

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  Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature

  Jolene Zigarovich

  This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the relationship between sex, death, history, and eighteenth-century culture, but is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of perspectives and methodologies previously unseen. As the contributors demonstrate, eighteenth-century anxieties over mortality, the body, the soul, and the corpse inspired many writers of the time to both implicitly and explicitly embed mortality and sexuality within their works. By depicting the necrophilic tendencies of libertines and rapacious villains, the fetishizing of death and mourning by virtuous heroines, or the fantasy of preserving the body, these authors demonstrate not only the tragic results of sexual play, but the persistent fantasy of necro-erotica. This book shows that within the eighteenth-century culture of profound modern change, underworkings of death and mourning are often eroticized; that sex is often equated with death (as punishment, or loss of the self); and that the sex-death dialectic lies at the discursive center of normative conceptions of gender, desire, and social power. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Queen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C.E.

  Kenneth Atkinson

  As the ruler of Judea from 76 to 67 B.C.E., Queen Salome Alexandra (ca. 141 b.c.e.-67 b.c.e.) appointed the kingdom's high priest, led its men in battle, subjugated neighboring kings, and stopped the religious violence that plagued her society. Presiding over Judea's greatest period of peace and prosperity, she shaped the Judaism of Jesus' day as well as our own. Virtually unknown today, Queen Salome remained so unique that historians have largely ignored her rather than try to explain the perplexing circumstances that brought her to power. This volume recreates Queen Salome's fascinating life and the time in which she lived--an age when women ruled the Middle East. -- Provided by publisher

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  Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook

  Roy R. Behrens

  This is an anthology of twenty-six all but unknown writings about World War I ship camouflage, published during and after the war. They were written by various authors, including the camouflage artists themselves. These are supplemented by brief eyewitness comments from the same era, and rare historic ship photographs, diagrams and news clippings. An unprecedented research collection, the book concludes with a 40-page camouflage bibliography, the largest ever compiled on that subject (not just ship camouflage). Most of the articles are about "high difference" or "disruptive" camouflage, a counter-intuitive method in which ships were painted in brightly colored abstract shapes, which made them conspicuous but difficult to aim at. This practice captured the imagination of the public. It became known by such names as "dazzle camouflage," "baffle painting," "jazz painting" and "parti-coloring." In publications at the time, it was frequently compared to Modern-era styles of art, including cubism, futurism, vorticism and surrealism. Wartime news articles claimed that dazzle camouflaged ships looked like crazy-quilts, "sea-going Easter eggs," barber poles, painted Jezebels-and even, the delirium tremens. Did dazzle camouflage actually work? It is often assumed that it did not, because, if for no other reason, there is supposedly no scientific evidence from World War I to prove it was effective. But among the documents in this new book is an account of postwar "laboratory experiments" at MIT that appear to confirm that-not only did it work-it worked far better than anyone thought. Edited by the author of the highly acclaimed False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage (2002); and Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage (2009). -- Provided by publisher

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  Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico: Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982

  Fernando Calderón and Adela Cedillo

  The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly referred to as the "dirty wars." Thousands of leftists, students, intellectuals, workers, peasants, labor leaders, and innocent civilians were harassed, arrested, tortured, raped, murdered, or 'disappeared.' Many studies have been done about this phenomenon in the other areas of Latin America, but strangely, Mexico's dirty war has been excluded from this particular scholarship. Here for the first time is a sustained look at this period and consideration of the many facets that make up the nearly two decades of the Mexican dirty war. Offering the reader a broad perspective of the period, the case studies in the book present narratives of particular armed revolutionary movements as well as thematic essays on gender, human rights, culture, student radicalism, the Cold War, and the international impact of this state-sponsored terrorism.

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  Shell Games: The Life and Times of Pearl Mcgill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  Set against a backdrop of murder, intrigue, and industrial labor conflict in the early twentieth century pearl button industry, Shell Games graphically portrays one of the most important battles in the fight for safe and humane working conditions. Filtered through the thoughts and emotions of Pearl McGill, a woman who stood heroically against the injustices destroying the lives of so many around her in the shops and factories, this conflict vividly comes to life and underscores many of the concerns contemporary workers still encounter. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Federal Government and Urban Housing

  R. Allen Hays

  A comprehensive history of U.S. housing policy that illuminates the political struggles that have accompanied the nation’s effort to assist those citizens who are in desperate need of decent, affordable housing. Since its initial publication, The Federal Government and Urban Housing, Third Edition has become a standard reference on the history of housing policy in the United States. It remains a unique contribution, going beyond simply describing current housing policy to situate it firmly within a broader political context. Specifically, the book examines American housing policy in the context of the ideological crosscurrents that have shaped virtually all areas of domestic policy. In this newly revised and expanded third edition, R. Allen Hays has comprehensively updated the original material and added chapters covering the important developments in housing policy that have taken place since the publication of the second edition in 1995. Spanning more than eighty years, from the Great Depression to the first two years of the Obama administration, the book argues that while our nation’s policy makers have learned a great deal about how to create and implement successful housing programs, the United States, as a country, has yet to summon the political will to address the urgent housing needs of its many citizens who are unable to afford decent housing on their own. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Public Administration Theory Primer

  Christopher W. Larimer, Kevin B. Smith, George H. Frederickson, and Michael J. Licari

  The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors describe several theories and analytical approaches that contribute to what we know about policy administration and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important—both now and for the future.

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  Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism

  Annette Lynch

  The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium signaled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity. This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples from popular tabloids to campus culture to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic. -- Provided by publisher

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, Nancy Neslund, and Kiren Dosanjh Zucker

  In the tenth edition of Law, Business, and Society, Tony McAdams discusses the role of the market, ethics/social responsibility, and the law in regulating the complex relationship between business and the larger society. McAdams examines whether the market and ethics/social responsibility have failed, and if government intervention is needed to maintain a healthy relationship between business practice and society’s general welfare. The text serves as a general introduction to the legal system, including chapters on constitutional law, the common law of contracts and torts, and employment law. The closely written narrative, edited law cases, contemporary vignettes from daily life and an abundance of thought-provoking questions help convey key points. In addition, Law, Business, and Society precisely conforms to AACSB International accreditation expectations. -- Provided by publisher

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  Life in the Natural World: Investigating Life’s Diversity

  Steve O'Kane and Kimberly Cline-Brown

  In this collection of laboratory investigations we have chosen to follow Darwin’s lead by highlighting some of the many forms of life’s biological diversity and complexity – and there are many! Biological evolution, after all, is an extremely creative process. You’ll be examining diversity and complexity from the level of DNA, to that of species, and finally to how species are assembled into communities and how these communities are studied. You’ll also be looking at some of the important mechanisms and natural systems that underlie, maintain, and change biological diversity. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that life as we know it, in all its myriad and beautiful forms, is about variation and interaction. These labs are designed to be stand-alone activities that are primarily self-directed. You will find that your instructor will “teach” much less than you may be used to. Think of your instructor as a facilitator or as a resource for learning – the real learning is up to you. Said differently, the degree of learning you accomplish while conducting these investigations is almost entirely dependent on the effort you put into them, inside and outside the laboratory.

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  Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs and Trade: Geographic Perspectives on Ghana's Timber Industry and Development

  John Henry Owusu

  This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade by various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liberal era. In relation to this, Owusu documents the structural and organizational changes that have occurred in the region resulting from national and international development policies, such as modernization and neo-liberal structural adjustment on industrialization and development, and assesses the roles played by powerful international organizations such as The World Bank as agents of economic change. The discussion is couched in the critical but often unrecognized or neglected role the discipline of geography and its associated perspectives play in relation to examining and understanding the unequal relationship between the advanced and developing economies, and how that relationship affects development and trade behavior of developing economies. The core argument made regarding this relationship is tied to the structuralist perspective that Africa’s persistent underdevelopment problem is rooted in the very structure of its political economy. Based on the discussion, Owusu identifies and distills lessons from Ghana’s experience for Development policy and practice in Africa and comparable Developing countries in the 21st Century. -- Provided by publisher

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  Rhetoric in Civic Life

  Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch

  Rhetoric in Civic Life provides a richly textured, conceptually organized introduction to rhetorical theory and concepts. Sophisticated yet accessible, it guides students in exploring rhetorical action in a democratic society. Interweaving classical and contemporary concepts, the book shows how people in a diverse society shape ideas, make decisions about common concerns, and create social realities through symbolic action. Thoroughly updated to reflect current theory, issues, and events, the new edition provides a rich array of historical and contemporary examples that show how words, images, arguments, and narratives create social and cultural identities and have consequences to civic life, public discourse and dissent, and social policies.

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  GEOMES (Geoscience Educational Opportunities for Motivating Every Student)

  Jody Stone

  The intent of the GEOMES materials is to provide earth science teachers with resources and strategies that will generate interest and enthusiasm among students and teachers for the study of earth science. So there you have it—Geoscience Educational Opportunities for Motivating Every Student (GEOMES). The study of earth science should provide individuals with understandings that prepare them to make more intelligent decisions on processing issues. It should provide students with insights that make the interpretation of events in their environment more meaningful.

  The format of the teaching strategies employed in the GEOMES program is designed to attract the student's interest in a phenomena, have the student learn a basic relationship and then apply these relationships in new situations. This strategy is a model used to help develop reasoning skills in our students. Concrete learners need introductory experiences such that they experience mental encounters that challenge them to do their own reasoning to find patterns. Teacher lectures and discussions without appropriate student involvement often stimulate only memorization. The activities in this guide provide thought-provoking activities organized around the topics typically covered in high school earth science. However, the teacher should feel free to add other learning experiences or alter these to fit the interests and needs of the local students. However, we strongly recommend adhering to the learning cycle format of exploratory activities, concept development and application experiences.

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  The Rise of the National Basketball Association

  David G. Surdam

  Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glamorous: in the 1940s and 1950s, the NBA and its predecessor, the Basketball Association of America, were scrambling to attract fans. Teams frequently played in dingy gymnasiums, players traveled as best they could, and their paychecks could bounce higher than a basketball. How did the NBA evolve from an obscure organization facing financial losses to a successful fledgling sports enterprise by 1960? Drawing on information from numerous archives, newspaper and periodical articles, and Congressional hearings, The Rise of the National Basketball Association chronicles the league's growing pains from 1946 to 1961. David George Surdam describes how a handful of ambitious ice hockey arena owners created the league as a way to increase the use of their facilities, growing the organization by fits and starts. Rigorously analyzing financial data and league records, Surdam points to the innovations that helped the NBA thrive: regular experiments with rules changes to make the game more attractive to fans, and the emergence of televised sports coverage as a way of capturing a larger audience. Notably, the NBA integrated in 1950, opening the game to players who would dominate the game by the end of the 1950sdecade: Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson. Long a game that players loved to play, basketball became a professional sport well supported by community leaders, business vendors, and an ever-growing number of fans. -- Provided by publisher

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  Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa

  Elizabeth A. Sutton

  Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since variations of the images and text were repeated in other European travel collections and decorated maps, Sutton is able to trace how the framing of text and image shaped the formation of knowledge that continued to be repeated and distilled in later European depictions of Africans. She reads the engravings in De Marees' account as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry, and Dutch mercantilism. At the same time, by analyzing the marketing tactics of the publisher, Cornelis Claesz, this study illuminates how early modern epistemological processes were influenced by the commodification of knowledge. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade, and travel. Exploring how the images and text function together, Sutton suggests that Dutch visual and intellectual traditions informed readers' choices for translating De Marees' text visually. Through the examination of early modern Dutch print culture, Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa expands the boundaries of our understanding of the European imperial enterprise. -- Provided by publisher

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  Water Resource Conflicts and International Security: A Global Perspective

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

  Water Resource Conflicts and International Security: A Global Perspective is an edited collection by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi which analyzes the increasing global demand for water in economic and social development, and the dire need to efficiently manage this vital natural resource, particularly in water-scarce countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Several environmental- and human-induced factors, such as urbanization, industrialization, climate change, and agricultural needs, have created a near-crisis situation in many countries. Subsequently, there is an increasingly intense competition to utilize available water resources in these most heavily-affected regions; transboundary rivers, lakes, and streams which are shared by more than one country pose potential for political conflict, armed conflict, and, in the best of cases, cooperation. The contributors of Water Resource Conflicts and International Security present ten case studies in seven chapters, highlighting the competition between countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In his conclusion, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi suggests several policy measures that governments may implement in order to minimize the potential for conflict. -- Provided by publisher

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  Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis

  ADDICTION TREATMENT covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions. As symbolized by the image on the book's cover, the authors bridge the gap between the popular twelve-step and harm-reduction approaches, thus illuminating how practitioners can guide clients down a trusted path that is tailored towards the client's particular needs. Through a number of first-person narratives about the experience of addiction, you will discover a realism and depth not commonly found in textbooks. In addition, the authors include topics such as the case against so-called underage drinking laws that will draw you into the material and illustrate the importance of reducing harm within the biopsychological framework that ties the text together. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South

  Katherine S. Van Wormer, David W. Jackson, and Charletta Sudduth

  The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people--both white and black--these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South. The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system: Vinella Byrd, for instance, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, recalls how a farmer she worked for would not allow her to clean her hands in the family's wash pan. These narratives are complemented by the voices of white women, such as Flora Templeton Stuart, from New Orleans, who remembers her maid fondly but realizes that she knew little about her life. Like Stuart, many of the white narrators remain troubled by the racial norms of the time. Viewed as a whole, the book presents varied, rich, and detailed accounts, often tragic, and sometimes humorous. The Maid Narratives reveals, across racial lines, shared hardships, strong emotional ties, and inspiring strength. -- Provided by publisher

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  Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action

  Katherine S. Van Wormer, Laura Kaplan, and Cindy Juby

  Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, it unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. Since publication of the first edition of the book, sweeping changes related to the market economy, immigration, wars in the Middle East, and political leadership have taken place in the United States and beyond. Authors van Wormer, Kaplan, and Juby have updated this respected text to ensure relevancy and bring focus to new issues and perspectives while also enhancing areas covered in the first edition. -- Provided by publisher

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  Cognitive and Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy with Couples: Theory and Practice

  Ann S. Vernon

  The book addresses the problems that couples experience through the life cycle. Each chapter includes an up-to-date review of the literature pertinent to the topic, with a focus on practical interventions which are generally based upon, but not limited to, cognitive and rational emotive behavioral principles. Case studies or vignettes further illustrate application of principles. Worksheets, checklists, or other resources that would be useful in working with couples are also included where relevant. This book presents interventions based upon research, theory, and most of all on practice. And is relevant to marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, family law experts, social workers and relationship coaches. In addition, it can serve as a textbook for students in marriage and family therapy.-- Provided by publisher

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  Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge

  Kristen P. Williams, Steven E. Lobell, and Neal Jesse

  This book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them—or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships with other states, or on how great or major powers challenge or balance the hegemonic state. Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons seeks to explain why weaker states follow more powerful global or regional states or tacitly or openly resist their goals, and how they navigate their relationships with the hegemon. The authors explore the interests, motivations, objectives, and strategies of these 'followers'—including whether they can and do challenge the policies and strategies or the core position of the hegemon. Through the analysis of both historical and contemporary cases that feature global and regional hegemons in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South Asia, and that address a range of interest areas—from political, to economic and military—the book reveals the domestic and international factors that account for the motivations and actions of weaker states. -- Provided by publisher

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  Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education

  Betty Zan and Rheta DeVries

  This classic bestseller, now updated for today's diverse teaching force and student populations, explores the benefits of sociomoral practices in the classroom. The authors draw on recent research to show how these approaches work with children ages 2-8. They focus on how to establish and maintain a classroom environment that fosters children's intellectual, social, moral, emotional, and personality development. Extending the work of Jean Piaget, the authors advocate for a cooperative approach that contrasts with the coercion and unnecessary control that can be seen in many classrooms serving young children. Practical chapters demonstrate how the constructivist approach can be embedded in a school program by focusing on specific classroom situations and activities, such as resolving conflict, group time, rule making, decision making and voting, social and moral discussions, cooperative alternatives to discipline, and activity time. -- Provided by publisher

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  Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives

  Jolene Zigarovich

  Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives asks its reader: Why do Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins see the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? What does it mean to have an enigmatic ending? And what happens when the mortality of a character is left in our hands? Beginning with an exploration of narrative deferment, suspended mourning, and incomplete burials, Jolene Zigarovich uniquely argues that the missing body plot dramatizes the desire for cultural stability and religious certainty, and that the epitaph becomes the narrative model for rhetorical deaths. Drawing from theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Paul de Man, this study maintains that the narrating of death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an increasingly industrial and destabilizing culture. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Communication and Swallowing Changes in Healthy Aging Adults

  Angela N. Burda

  Communication and Swallow Changes in Healthy Aging Adults compiles and presents the available research on healthy aging adults’ performance and abilities in the following areas: auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking, writing, voice and motor speech abilities, cognition, and swallowing. This text also presents principles from the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its applications to aging adults. One of the first texts to cover these principles, this book will address the need for a comprehensive view of communication and swallow issues in aging for students of speech-language pathology. Speech-language pathologist students will learn how to fully compare what would be considered normal for their elderly patients rather than overestimating or underestimating what aging adults are capable of doing. Knowing what would be considered within the spectrum of normal, will help speech-language pathologists to address therapy as effectively as possible. Having this information at hand is particularly important as the nation’s population is aging at a rapid rate and there is a need for evidence-based practice in speech-language pathology. Written in an easy to follow format, Communication and Swallow Changes in Healthy Aging Adults includes original research data, discussion questions and a list of Quick Facts at the end of each chapter to summarize key points. This text will serve as a useful resource as students see elderly clients in on-campus speech and hearing clinics and when they intern at hospitals and long-term care facilities.

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  Ramps & Pathways: A Constructivist Approach to Physics with Young Children

  Rheta DeVries and Christina Sales

  If you think the words young children and physics don't belong together, think again. Based on the theories of Piaget and the work of DeVries and Sales, this book successfully makes the case for building a constructivist approach to physical science learning in the early childhood classroom. Reviews how children construct content knowledge and the mental ability to organize knowledge (intelligence). Explains why ramps activities engage children deeply in reasoning about physical objects and phenomena such as force and motion, across a range of ages and developmental levels, even over several years Provides a rationale you can use to explain and defend the educational value of children's play and exploration Shows you how to apply the 10 principles of constructivist teaching in your classroom Includes dozens of full-color photographs of children's amazing structures. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leadership for Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services

  Christopher R. Edginton, Susan D. Hudson, Kathleen G. Scholl, and Lara Lauzon

  This book presents new perspectives on the importance of leadership in the profession. Integrating theory with practice, the book provides foundational perspectives in the study of leadership at all levels -- direct service, supervisory, managerial and community/civic -- in recreation, parks and leisure service settings. Organised into three sections, the first portion of the book presents theoretical and foundational information on the work of the leader. This is followed by a presentation of the work of leaders within groups. The last section addresses leadership in a number of recreation, parks and leisure service settings. New chapters in this addition include Caring and Ethical Leadership; Leading Change: Innovation, Decision Making and Problem Solving; Leadership and Diversity and Leadership and the Programming Process. The book includes a variety of pedagogical elements including marginal quotes, case studies, vignettes of significant, historical and current leaders, experiential learning experiences and leadership perspectives from current recreation, parks and leisure service professionals. A North American perspective is offered including examples from Canada and the United States. -- Provided by publisher

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  Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion

  Nancy P. Hamilton

  Since the 1950s, Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion has remained the definitive kinesiology text for college students. The twelfth edition continues the text’s tradition of examining human motion through the integrated presentation of anatomy and biomechanics and applying that knowledge to a wide variety of motor skills. This edition retains the text’s strong coverage of physiology combined with current scholarship in biomechanics as applied to motor skills. -- Provided by publisher

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  Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory

  Wallace Hettle

  Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have been uneven at best and often contentious. As an occasionally eccentric and elusive college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting the famed general by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shaped our current understanding Stonewall. -- Provided by the publisher

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  How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day & Night

  Thomas A. Hockey

  Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and the moon to tell them the time and on the stars to guide them through the seas. Nowadays, we don’t need the sky, which is good, because we’ve made it far less accessible, hiding it behind the skyscrapers and the excessive artificial light of our cities. How We See the Sky gives us back our knowledge of the sky, offering a fascinating overview of what can be seen there without the aid of a telescope. Thomas Hockey begins by scanning the horizon, explaining how the visible universe rotates through this horizon as night turns to day and season to season. Subsequent chapters explore the sun’s and moon’s respective motions through the celestial globe, as well as the appearance of solstices, eclipses, and planets, and how these are accounted for in different kinds of calendars. In every chapter, Hockey introduces the common vocabulary of today’s astronomers, uses examples past and present to explain them, and provides conceptual tools to help newcomers understand the topics he discusses. Packed with illustrations and enlivened by historical anecdotes and literary references, How We See the Sky reacquaints us with the wonders to be found in our own backyards. -- Provided by publisher

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  Biofuels

  Lou A.T. Honary

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  Biobased Lubricants and Greases: Technology and Products

  Lou Honary and Erwin Richter

  Due to the rise in petroleum prices as well as increasing environmental concerns, there is a need to develop biochemicals and bioproducts that offer realistic alternatives to their traditional counterparts; this book will address the lack of a centralized resource of information on lubricants and greases from renewable sources, and will be useful to a wide audience in industry and academia. It is based on 20 years of research and development at the UNI-NABL Center, and discusses the various types of vegetable oils available, comparing their characteristics, properties and benefits against those of typical petroleum oils as well as discussing common evaluation tests and giving examples and case studies of successful applications of biobased lubricants and greases. Whilst scientific and engineering research data is included, the book is written in an accessible manner and is illustrated throughout.

  -- Focuses on an industrial application of lubrication technology undergoing current explosive growth in the global market.
  -- Includes a detailed review of the material benefits of plant-based lubricants that include a better viscosity index and lubricity even at extreme temperatures, lower flammability due to higher flash points and lower pour points.
  -- Covers the basic chemistry of vegetable oils as well as their profiles for use in lubricants and greases and environmental benefits.
  --Includes examples and case studies of where vegetable-based lubricants have been successfully employed in industry applications. -- Provided by publisher

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  Cases on Building Quality Distance Delivery Programs: Strategies and Experiences

  Stephanie Huffman, Shelly Albritton, Barbara Wilmes, and Wendy Rickman

  The field of education is continually changing to reflect the needs and demands of students. The greatest impact on education came with the introduction of audiovisual technologies, computer technologies, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. Cases on Building Quality Distance Delivery Programs: Strategies and Experiences targets pressing needs in distance education by connecting theory and practice, addressing emerging leadership issues, and identifying best practices in teaching and learning. This book unites cases that not only can be used for teaching, but also as a resource for building quality distance delivery programs.

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  Complex Worlds : Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication

  Adrienne P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards

  'Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication' is a collection of thought-provoking scholarly essays by teachers and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields. Scrupulously edited for a range of readers, the collection aims to help familiarize advanced students, teachers, and researchers in professional communication, computers and writing, literacy, and sister disciplines with key issues in digital theory and practice. An emphasis on the situations of and audiences for digital communication identifies 'Complex Worlds' as a rhetorical approach. In an era when globalizing markets and digital technologies are transforming culture around the world, readers should find the collection both engaging and timely. The collections' twelve essays constitute a diverse and thematically coherent set of inquiries. Included are explorations of topics such as cyber activism, digital 'disposition', citizen and open-source journalism, broadband affordances, XML, digital resumes, avant garde performance art, best pedagogical practices, and intercultural communication between East and West, North and South. The text is especially well suited for advanced courses in professional and applied writing, contemporary rhetorics, and digital culture. The complexity highlighted in the collection's title is brought into relief by authors who address how the digital is daily unmaking our assumptions about the boundaries between work and school, the global and the local, the private and the public. 'Complex Worlds' offers readers an opportunity to build on their rhetorical awareness by expanding their understanding of the means, aims, and strategies of effective communication--today and in the future. -- Provided by publisher

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  Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with ADA

  John W. McCormick

  The arrival and popularity of multi-core processors has sparked a renewed interest in the development of parallel programs. Similarly, the availability of low-cost microprocessors and sensors has generated a great interest in embedded real-time programs. This book provides students and programmers whose backgrounds are in traditional sequential programming with the opportunity to expand their capabilities into parallel, embedded, real-time and distributed computing. It also addresses the theoretical foundation of real-time scheduling analysis, focusing on theory that is useful for actual applications. Written by award-winning educators at a level suitable for undergraduates and beginning graduate students, this book is the first truly entry-level textbook in the subject. Complete examples allow readers to understand the context in which a new concept is used, and enable them to build and run the examples, make changes, and observe the results. -- Provided by publisher

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  Iowa Past to Present: The People and the Prairie

  Lynn Nielsen, Dorothy Schwieder, and Thomas Morain

  In Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa’s history with years of experience addressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the people and events that populate Iowa’s rich heritage. This revised edition brings the story into the twenty-first century and makes a paperback edition available for the first time. Beginning with Iowa’s changing geological landforms, the authors progress to historical, political, and social aspects of life in Iowa through the present day. The chapters explore such topics as the native peoples of the region; pioneer settlements on the prairie; the building of the railroad; the Civil War; the influence of immigrants; the formation of the state government and development of the current politic system; education; the Great Depression; religion (including a separate chapter on Mennonites and the Old Order Amish); life on the farm; business, industry, and economics; and the turmoil caused by World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. A new chapter written specifically for this edition explains the impact of 9/11 on Iowa, discusses the roles played by Iowa soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and updates information on the newest immigrant populations of the state. The authors have teamed with Iowa Public Television's Iowa Pathways project to create a new Iowa Past to Present teacher's guide available online at . This guide includes additional articles, videos, links, and curriculum resources to support the textbook.

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  Voices from the Classroom: Elementary Teachers' Experience with Argument-Based Inquiry

  Lori Norton-Meier and Brian Hand

  The intent of the book is to provide a rich and broad view of the impact of argument-based inquiry in the elementary classrooms from the perspective of the teacher. All the teachers and professional development authors were engaged in promoting and using argument based inquiry as the approach to teaching science. They were implementing the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach as the argument based approach for classroom practice.

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  The Principal's Hot Seat: Observing Real-World Dilemmas

  Nicholas J. Pace

  The Principal's Hot Seat: Observing Real-World Dilemmas transcends traditional educational leadership case study books, featuring video footage of fifteen aspiring principals assuming the principal's role to face unique, unpredictable dilemmas recreated by real principals. One by one, the principals are challenged to think on their feet and respond to agitated teachers, angry students, and irate parents in a way that reflects their knowledge of the law, school leadership standards and their own styles. From questions over the appropriateness of eighth grade reading material, to a report of possible child abuse and teachers' turf wars, readers feel the intensity common in today's principalship.
  
  Every action in this unscripted exercise has been captured on DVD, giving readers a unique opportunity to thoroughly evaluate the principals' performance related to speech, body language, and presence. In addition to DVD footage, each scenario features background information and a complete transcript of the conversation, allowing for careful analysis of the principal's performance. Each scenario also includes specific questions for reflection and discussion, valuable suggested readings and resources, and potential internship experiences. -- Provided by publisher

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  Decision Support: An Examination of the DSS Discipline

  Daniel Power, David Schuff, David Paradice, Frada Burstein, and Ramesh Sharda

  This volume of Annals of Information Systems will acknowledge the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) by documenting some of the current best practices in teaching and research and envisioning the next twenty years in the decision support systems field. The volume is intended to complement existing DSS literature by offering an outlet for thoughts and research particularly suited to the theme of describing the next twenty years in the area of decision support. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Iowa Past to Present: The People and the Prairie

  Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen

  In Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa’s history with years of experience addressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the people and events that populate Iowa’s rich heritage. This revised edition brings the story into the twenty-first century and makes a paperback edition available for the first time.

  Beginning with Iowa’s changing geological landforms, the authors progress to historical, political, and social aspects of life in Iowa through the present day. The chapters explore such topics as the native peoples of the region; pioneer settlements on the prairie; the building of the railroad; the Civil War; the influence of immigrants; the formation of the state government and development of the current politic system; education; the Great Depression; religion (including a separate chapter on Mennonites and the Old Order Amish); life on the farm; business, industry, and economics; and the turmoil caused by World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. A new chapter written specifically for this edition explains the impact of 9/11 on Iowa, discusses the roles played by Iowa soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and updates information on the newest immigrant populations of the state.

  The authors have teamed with Iowa Public Television's Iowa Pathways project to create a new Iowa Past to Present teacher's guide available online at <http://iptv.org/iowapathways>. This guide includes additional articles, videos, links, and curriculum resources to support the textbook.

  Iowa Past to Present, its inviting format enhanced by hundreds of illustrations, is informed by three of the state’s most respected historians. The latest revision continues to be an important part of the curriculum for teachers and parents wanting their children to know all about Iowa history.

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  Spatial Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices

  Ramanathan Sugumaran and John DeGroote

  Although interest in Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) continues to grow rapidly in a wide range of disciplines, students, planners, managers, and the research community have lacked a book that covers the fundamentals of SDSS along with the advanced design concepts required for building SDSS. Filling this need, Spatial Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices provides a comprehensive examination of the various aspects of SDSS evolution, components, architecture, and implementation. It integrates research from a variety of disciplines, including the geosciences, to supply a complete overview of SDSS technologies and their application from an interdisciplinary perspective. This groundbreaking reference provides thorough coverage of the roots of SDSS. It explains the core principles of SDSS, how to use them in various decision making contexts, and how to design and develop them using readily available enabling technologies and commercial tools. The book consists of four major parts, each addressing different topic areas in SDSS: 1. Presents an introduction to SDSS and the evolution of SDSS 2. Covers the essential and optional components of SDSS 3. Focuses on the design and implementation of SDSS 4. Reviews SDSS applications from various domains and disciplines -- investigating current challenges and future directions. The text includes numerous detailed case studies, example applications, and methods for tailoring SDSS to your work environment. It also integrates sample code segments throughout. Addressing the technical and organizational challenges that affect the success or failure of SDSS, the book concludes by considering future directions of this rapidly emerging field of study. -- Provided by publisher

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  Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression

  David G. Surdam

  Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the economic upheavals of the Depression none of the sixteen Major League Baseball teams folded or moved. In this economist’s look at the sport as a business between 1929 and 1941, David George Surdam argues that although it was a very tough decade for baseball, the downturn didn’t happen immediately. The 1930 season, after the stock market crash, had record attendance. But by 1931 attendance began to fall rapidly, plummeting 40 percent by 1933. To adjust, teams reduced expenses by cutting coaches and hiring player-managers. While even the best players, such as Babe Ruth, were forced to take pay cuts, most players continued to earn the same pay in terms of purchasing power. Baseball remained a great way to make a living. Revenue sharing helped the teams in small markets but not necessarily at the expense of big-city teams. Off the field, owners devised innovative solutions to keep the game afloat, including the development of the Minor League farm system, night baseball, and the first radio broadcasts to diversify teams’ income sources. Using research from primary documents, Surdam analyzes how the economic structure and operations side of Major League Baseball during the Depression took a beating but managed to endure, albeit changed by the societal forces of its time. -- Provided by publisher

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  Women and the Criminal Justice System

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas

  Women and the Criminal Justice System, third edition, has been thoroughly updated to reflect the continuing impact of globalization and economic insecurity on the criminal justice system, as well as the increasing feminization of poverty. The text examines the various roles of women in the criminal justice system within a social context in which women are oppressed. The authors introduce students to the empowerment approach, emphasizing gender and ethnic diversity along with the strengths of oppressed people, especially women of color. A wide range of issues are covered, including the rate of early childhood sexual abuse, victimization in female inmates, priest abuse of girls, female inmate rape by male prison guards, and obstacles for women lawyers achieving partnerships in their firms. -- Provided by publisher

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level: Groups, Communities, and Organizations

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Fred Besthorn

  A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and the impact of these worlds on human behavior. Its major new theme, sustainability, emerges as a key characteristic of contemporary practice. What is sustainable social work? What are the characteristics of a sustainable community? How is the present exploitation of environmental resources unsustainable for future generations? Following the greatest economic upheaval since the Great Depression, how can we envision a sustainable economy that will benefit all the people, not only the wealthy few? Human behavior results from biological, psychological, socio-economic, and cultural forces, but the mental health field has placed the most emphasis on intrapsychic factors to the near exclusion of socio-economic and cultural considerations. This significant collaboration seeks to correct this omission by helping students recognize patterns in the family, culture, and value systems in order to create safe and sustainable environments for their future clients. The emphasis on sustainable and unsustainable social welfare programs is geared to helping readers engage in advocacy for social justice. *Integrates up-to-date research findings, models, and government statistics *Enhanced discussions of theory, group dynamics, family, community, and the environment *Theoretical concepts and practice implications in each chapter *Highlights the importance of the natural environment and ecology-the "community of the earth"-to human and group behavior *Sets forth a refined understanding of the role of spirituality-the "community of faith"-in people's lives *Focuses on evidence-based theory and research *Teaches from a global, cross-cultural, perspective, highlighting themes of empowerment and social justice. -- Provided by publisher

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  Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education: Connecting Parallel Universities

  Michael D. Waggoner

  Both sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have been privileged in most institutions in the modern era. Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews at public, private, and faith-based colleges and universities in the interest of academic freedom, and intellectual and moral dialogue. Contributors to this edited collection argue that sacred perspectives are as integral to contemporary higher education in the United States as the more dominant secular perspectives. The debates and issues addressed in this book attempt to rebalance the dialogue and place an emphasis on pluralism, rather than declare victory of one paradigm over the other. Student affairs administrators, higher education and religious studies faculty, and campus ministers and chaplains will benefit from better understanding the interplay of these sometimes competing and sometimes complementary ideas on campus, and the impact of the debate on the lives of faculty, students, and staff. -- Provided by publisher

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  Selections from the UNI Permanent Art Collection

  Charles M. Adelman

  The University of Northern Iowa (UNI), specifically the Department of Art and its Gallery of Art in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, has been the home of a substantial collection of pieces of art for many years. Better known as the Permanent Collection, the Gallery of Art is the repository of paintings, etchings, drawings, lithographs and other artistic modi. The Collection holds objects donated by alumni, benefactors and faculty from the famous masterpiece to the not so well known. Still, all the pieces in the Collection, from Rembrandt to Rauschenber and from Dali to Grosz, are precious in their own right and of interest to the art historians and connoisseurs of art.

  This collection may not be well known to outsiders. For many years, Darrell Taylor, Director of the UNI Art Gallery, and I have discussed ways to showcase the holdings. The occasional show in the UNI Gallery of Art and the display in some other venues considerably limit the exposure that the permanent collection should receive. Yet, the permanent collection remains a hidden treasure for the most part.

  With this catalog we are taking the first step towards documenting and providing access to the UNI Permanent Collection for internal and external audiences. We are indebted to Professor Charles M. Adelman, art historian in the UNI Department of Art, for initiating and realizing the project. Professor Adelman's guidance and supervision of a number of students produced a catalog of selected pieces. It also achieved several essential objectives, for example,

  -- It gave students an opportunity to research write and organize information on the artists and their works, in other words, it became a learning instrument;

  -- Even though its scope was limited, it archived for the first time a number of objects in our Permanent Collection in the form of a catalog;

  Understanding the intrinsic value of the project, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Department of Art supported the project from its inception. I congratulate Professor Adelman and the students who were instrumental in creating this collection for their achievement. It will make the UNI Permanent Collection even more permanent.

  R. K. Bubser, Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, 13 July 2009

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  Juvenile Justice In America

  Clemens Bartollas

  Unique in approach, JUVENILE JUSTICE IN AMERICA, sixth edition, gives students an intimate look at the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the juvenile offender and the juvenile justice system. Its comprehensive approach progresses from the history of juvenile justice to the types of delinquency, to the causes of offending, to juvenile courts, corrections, probation and community-based programming. Fully revised, this edition includes a new chapter on juvenile aftercare and sections on youth development and treatment. Voices in the system are heard via a unique collection of first-person accounts that capture the personal, psychological and thinking processes that characterize juvenile misbehavior. - - Provided by publisher

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  Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide

  Melinda Boyd and Karin Pendle

  Testifies to the variety of subjects and approaches represented in writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

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  Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity

  Harry Brod and Shawn Zevit

  Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity is an international collection of new essays on Jewish men by academics and activists, rabbis and secularists, men and women, on personal experience and congregational life, gendered bodies and Jewish minds, poetry and prayer, literature and film, and more. Simultaneously particular and universal, all engagingly illuminate how masculinities and Judaisms engage each other in gendered Jewishness - Provided by publisher

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  Olivia's Story: The Conspiracy of Heroes Behind Shelley v. Kraemer

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  The story of the landmark 1948 Supreme Court decision, Shelley v Kraemer, told through the voice of one of the participants, an African-American teacher in the St. Louis schools. Many battles have been fought through the years to gain dignity, justice and equality for all in America. Few of those battles have had the lasting significance and impact of the one described in the telling of Olivia's Story. Olivia Merriweather Perkins joined a brave group of people in St. Louis, Missouri who came together, without regard to their personal safety and well-being, to fight for rights that had been denied to people of color, the right to property. Their sacrifices eventually led to "Shelley vs Kraemer," one of the most important legal battles of modern times, the impact of which was felt in every corner of America. This legal case changed the face of a nation, not only in housing but also in other area taken for granted today. -- Provided by publisher

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  Managing for Excellence: Programs of Distinction for Children and Youth

  Christopher R. Edginton, Julianne Gassman, and Angeka J. Gorsuch

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  The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

  Samuel Lyndon Gladden

  The Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde's personal downfall when his lover's father, who would later bring about Wilde's arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production. In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde's work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life. -- Provided by publisher

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  Tools for Dossier Success: A Guide for Promotion and Tenure

  Lisa Hooper, Joy Burnham, and Vivian Wright

  Tools for Dossier Success demystifies the dossier process from start to finish. Written for faculty members at different points in their academic trajectory, this is a practical, step-by-step guide to planning, creating, and polishing the best possible representation of accumulated evidence and accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. The "how to" information offered here is essential for those seeking tenure or promotion from associate professor to professor, senior faculty serving as mentors, and graduate students planning an entrance into academia. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures

  Julie Husband

  Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the "family protection campaign" powerfully influenced Americans sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne. -- Provided by publisher

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  Schemas in Conversation: A Situated Social Cognition Approach

  Kimberly M. MacLin

  This book reviews literature and provides a theoretical rationale that cognition is inherently situated in a social context, and reports on an empirical test of this proposition. Specifically, individuals who varied on their schemas about college life (from very academically to very socially oriented) were placed in a situation in which they had to converse with another person about college. What they did not know was that the other person either held the same or different schema. Data were collected in the form of questionnaires and detailed analyses of the structure and content of the videotaped conversations. Results showed that the structure and content of their talk was affected by the schema composition of the conversing pair and that the schemas themselves were affected by the conversation. Discussion focuses on the theoretical and empirical value of conceptualizing schemas as situated.

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  Dramaturgas Puertorriquenas De 1990 A 2010

  Sara V. Rosell

  Examines Puerto Rican women playwrights' works in light of postcolonial theories. This work focuses on the notions of identity (sexual, racial, and transnational/transcultural), and gender construction. It includes writers from both the Island and the Diaspora. -- Provided by publisher

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  Basic Statistics for Social Workers

  Robert A. Schneider

  Basic Statistics for Social Workers, now in a revised edition, was developed by Schneider after teaching statistics to undergraduate and graduate social work students for over ten years. The statistical concepts that are necessary for students to know are covered, ranging from simple descriptive statistics such as crosstabs and tabular data up to a limited discussion of multiple regression. The text is written simply for students who may not have a strong quantitative background. The text is simple enough that with the practice problems and perhaps a little consultation a motivated student could self-teach the content. -- Provided by publisher

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  Child of China: Meet My Friend Judy

  Chris Schrage

  Wang Yi Xin has an English name, Judy.

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  Child of Kenya: Meet My Friend Adrian

  Chris Schrage

  In a desire to share cultural differences to children, author Chris Schrage began this project with the goal of sharing real life stories of the children she got to know in various places around the world.

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  Communication: Making Connections

  William J. Seiler and Melissa L. Beall

  Updated in a new 8th edition, Communication: Making Communications is a popular, comprehensive introduction to speech communication that skillfully blends theory, current research and skills, while emphasizing the connections between communication and our daily lives.
  
  Unique in its integrated “connections” theme and streamlined pedagogy, this book introduces the basic principles of public speaking, interpersonal communication and group communication. The constant application of a solid theoretical foundation to everyday communication through relevant examples, thought-provoking questions and boxed features stress Communication Competence.
  
  Communication has new and strengthened pedagogy highlights and reinforces the “connections” theme throughout the book, demonstrating how communication connects us to each other in a variety of contexts: the workplace, family, friends, community, school, public communication settings, the Internet and across cultures. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest

  Daryl Smith, David W. Williams, Gregory A. Houseal, and Kirk Henderson

  Although less than 3 percent of the original vast landscape survives, the tallgrass prairie remains a national treasure, glowing with a vast array of colorful wildflowers in spring and summer, enriched by the warm reds and browns of grasses in fall and winter. This comprehensive manual, crafted by the staff of the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa, will be an essential companion for everyone dedicated to planning, developing, and maintaining all types of prairie restorations and reconstructions in the tallgrass prairie region of Iowa, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southwestern Wisconsin, southwestern Minnesota, eastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, northwestern Missouri, and northeastern Kansas.

  Focusing on conservation plantings, prairie recovery, native landscaping in yards and at schools, roadside plantings, and pasture renovations, the authors—who collectively have more than a hundred years of experience with prairie restoration—have created a manual that will be particularly useful to landowners, conservation agency personnel, ecosystem managers, native-seeding contractors, prairie enthusiasts, teachers, and roadside managers. A wealth of color and black-and-white photographs taken in the field as well as checklists and tables support the detailed text, which also includes useful online and print sources and references, a glossary, and lists of common and scientific names of all plant species discussed.

  The text is divided into five parts. Part I, Reconstruction Planning, provides an overall summary of the entire process, information about securing good-quality seed, and the design of seed mixes. In Part II, Implementing Reconstruction, the authors consider ways to prepare and seed the site, manage the site in its first growing season, identify seedlings, and evaluate success. Part III, Prairie Restoration and Management, deals with identifying and assessing prairie remnants, working toward a predetermined restoration goal, and managing restored prairie remnants and completed reconstructions, including prescribed burning. Chapters in Part IV, Special Cases, discuss the uses of prairie in public spaces, roadside vegetation management, and landscaping on a smaller scale in yards and outdoor classrooms. Part V, Native Seed Production, describes the processes of harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing native seed as well as propagating and transplanting native seedlings.

  Although we cannot recreate the original black soil prairie, tallgrass prairie restoration offers the opportunity to reverse environmental damage and provide for the recovery of vital aspects of this lost ecosystem. Anyone in the Upper Midwest who wishes to improve water quality, reduce flood damage, support species diversity, preserve animal habitats, and enjoy the changing panorama of grasses and wildflowers will benefit from the clear, careful text and copious illustrations in this authoritative guide. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Ball Game Biz: An Introduction to the Economics Of Professional Team Sports

  David G. Surdam

  This work uses economic theory, simple probability, statistical concepts and game theory to analyze the economics of professional sports. It treats sports leagues as cartels and uses historical examples to test theories regarding labor economics. Many key issues that have sparked raging arguments among fans and writers are addressed, including free agency's effect on competitive balance, how rising player salaries have/haven't affected ticket prices, and the effect of a new stadium on the local economy, among many others. -- Provided by publisher

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  Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice

  Deborah Tidwell, Melissa Heston, and Linda Fitzgerald

  This is a book designed with the teacher educator in mind. It provides in depth examination of specific methods used effectively in self-study research. The chapters are written by researchers engaged in self-study of their practice. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level: Individuals and Families

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  While social work policy can be considered the what, and practice, the how, the study of human behavior is concerned with why. Why do people do the things they do? Why do individuals behave differently in groups than when alone? Why do some people become the victims of their lives while others who have endured tragedy become life's heroes?
  
  Resilience across the life span is a new major theme of the second edition of the bestselling Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level. In an elegant and accessible manner, Katherine van Wormer explores the nuances of the biological, psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of our social lives from an ecosystems and empowerment-based perspective. Drawing on examples from social work, psychology, literature, philosophy, and current events, vignettes highlight the turning points in our lives and invite students to explore the contradictions between how we mean to be and how others view us. The result is an essential book that bridges theory and practice, providing extraordinary insight into our drives and motivations, and revealing the myriad patterns and paradoxes of our behavior in the social context. -- Provided by publisher

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  Working with Female Offenders: A Gender Sensitive Approach

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  Taking into account the special needs of girls and women within a system designed by men for male offenders, Working with Female Offenders offers counselors, correctional officers, lawyers, probation officers—in short, anyone who works in some capacity with female offenders–an evidence-based, gentler approach for working effectively and successfully with girls and women in trouble with the law. Working with Female Offenders provides coverage devoted to the nature of female crime and to the institutional settings in which much of the female-specific programming is designed to take place. This timely volume equips professionals with proven counseling strategies tailored to fit this population. -- Provided by publisher

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  Evidence-based Practice in the Field of Substance Abuse: A Book of Readings

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Bruce A. Thyer

  This one-of-a-kind anthology presents state-of-the-art material to help researchers better understand which interventions work and why, and it includes editorial commentary and critical thinking questions for each selection. The editors have organized this volume according to the process of evidence-based practice―introduction to evidence-based practice, assessment, gender-based and culturally sensitive interventions, treatment issues and innovations, and policy considerations. Connecting science and clinical research to the practical needs of persons with substance and mental health disorders, this volume is a groundbreaking resource for those who need empirically based material on treatment innovations. -- Provided by punisher

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  The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest

  Dave W. Williams

  Settlers crossing the tallgrass prairie in the early 1800s were greeted by a seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. Today, although the tallgrass prairie has been reduced to a tiny percentage of its former expanse, people are working to restore and reconstruct prairie communities. This lavishly illustrated guide to seeds and seedlings, crafted by Tallgrass Prairie Center botanist Dave Williams and illustrator Brent Butler, will insure that everyone from urban gardeners to grassland managers can properly identify and germinate seventy-two species of tallgrass wildflowers and grasses in eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, Iowa, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, northwestern Missouri, and eastern Oklahoma.

  Williams has created a brilliant, nearly foolproof system of identification and verification. Two primary keys lead to eleven secondary keys that link to characteristic groups of tallgrass plants: seven groups for wildflowers and four groups for grasses. To identify a seedling, use the primary key to discover its place in the secondary key, then turn to that characteristic group to find your seedling. Circles on each full seedling photograph correspond to close-up photographs; triangles on these close-ups illustrate information in the text to further pinpoint identification. Drawings of leaves illuminate exact identification, and enlarged photographs of each seed provide yet another way to confirm identification.

  Thousands of seeds were sprouted in the Tallgrass Prairie Center’s greenhouse to provide seedlings close in size and development to those grown in the field near the end of their first season; research and photography took place over four years. Williams’s text for each species includes a thorough description, a comparison of similar species, and guidance for germination and growth. A complete glossary supports the text, which is concise but detailed enough to be accessible to beginning prairie enthusiasts.

  Anyone in the Upper Midwest who wishes to preserve the native vegetation of prairie remnants or reconstruct a tallgrass prairie of whatever size—from home gardens to schoolyards to roadsides to large acreages—will benefit from the hundreds of photographs and drawings and the precise text in this meticulously prepared guide. -- Provided by publisher

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  Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage

  Roy R. Behrens

  This is an encyclopedic sourcebook on the history and theory of Modern-era camouflage, both biological and military. It provides detailed information about pioneering studies of protective coloration in animals since the late 19th century, and the application of those same principles for military purposes during and after World War I. Organized alphabetically by subject, it focuses on the contributions of artists, architects, theatre designers, filmmakers, zoologists, game hunters, chemists, physicists, and optical physiologists-even automobile stylists and golf course planners. The involvement in camouflage of scores of well-known people (whether military or civilian is documented, among them Abbott H. Thayer, Everett L. Warner, Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, Ellsworth Kelly, Bill Blass, Seymour Reit (who originated Casper the Friendly Ghost), Max Bill, Jon Gnagy (Learn to Draw tv series), Harley Earl, and many many others. Much of the information contained was discovered in archival sources and has never appeared in books before. Written by the author of False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage, and Cook Book: Gertrude Stein, William Cook and Le Corbusier. -- Provided by publisher

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  Contracting Child Care: A Case Study of the Military Child Care Act and Camp Adventure™ Youth Service

  Julianne Gassman

  The Department of Defense is the single largest provider of employer-sponsored child care in the U.S. The 1989 Military Child Care Act (MCCA) is the legal authority for the military's child care system. This study explores the dynamics of child care delivery between a contractor, Camp Adventure Youth Services, a program in the Department of the Army, and their agreement to provide programs to school-age children during the summer. A detailed description of the origins of Camp Adventure, its operations and growth, all dependent on its contracts with the military is outlined. Findings suggest a good fit between Camp Adventure and military child care programs. Programs delivered by Camp Adventure appear to be well aligned with contract specifications, program goals, and the expectations of the MCCA. There is a co-dependent relationship between Camp Adventure and military child care programs with the military exerting somewhat greater leverage. This case study describes how two organizations, grounded in different cultures, with different goals, form a beneficial relationship, bounded by the regulations of policy and contracting, that meets the needs of both.

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  Sustainable Printing Workbook, Iowa

  Graphic Arts Training & Consulting Group and Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  This manual contains information on the main environmental rules that apply to a printing business. Depending on your own situation, there may be other rules, not included in here that you need to consider; also, environmental rules are changing constantly. Therefore, this is intended solely as guidance, and does not replace the actual regulations that apply to a facility at any given time. This (document or tool) cannot be used to bind the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and is not a substitute for reading applicable statutes and regulations.

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  Postville, U.S.A.: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America

  Mark A. Grey, Michele Devlin, and Aaron Goldsmith

  Postville is an obscure town in the northeast corner of rural Iowa where the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant flourished for more than a decade. As a result, unparalleled ethnic diversity sparked the curiosity of international media. But Postville’s momentum was stopped in its tracks on May 12, 2008, when Agriprocessors was crushed by a massive US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid. More than 20 percent of the town’s population was arrested, a battery of criminal charges was levied against the company’s management and a disastrous immigration policy was exposed. The meatpacker’s ensuing bankruptcy contributed to the near economic and social collapse of the town. Today Postville is attempting to survive a near terminal blow. The lessons from Postville’s struggle provide urgently needed insights for small towns all across rural America undergoing rapid ethnic change in the face of new global economics and international migration. -- Provided by publisher

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  Using Action Research to Improve Instruction: An Interactive Guide for Teachers

  John E. Henning, Jody M. Stone, and James L. Kelly

  Action research is increasingly used as a means for teachers to improve their instruction, yet for many the idea of doing "research" can be somewhat intimidating. Using Action Research to Improve Instruction offers a comprehensive, easy-to-understand approach to action research in classroom settings. This engaging and accessible guide is grounded in sources of data readily available to teachers, such as classroom observations, student writing, surveys, interviews, and tests. Organized to mirror the action research process, the highly interactive format prompts readers to discover a focus, create research questions, address design and methodology, collect information, conduct data analysis, communicate the results, and to generate evidence-based teaching strategies. Engaging in these decision-making processes builds the skills essential to action research and promotes a deeper understanding of teaching practice. Special Features Include: -An Interactive Text -Reflection Questions and Activity Prompts -A Sample Action Research Report -Numerous Examples and Practice Examples -Numbered Sections for Cross Referencing This original text is a must-read for teachers interested in how they can use their current knowledge of instruction and assessment to meaningfully engage in action research.

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  Contemporary Precalculus: A Graphing Approach

  Thomas W. Hungerford and Doug Shaw

  Respected for its detailed guidance in using technology, CONTEMPORARY PRECALCULUS: A GRAPHING APPROACH, Fifth Edition, is written from the ground up to be used with graphing calculators that you may be using in your precalculus course. You'll appreciate that the text has also long been recognized for its careful, thorough explanations and its presentation of mathematics in an informal yet mathematically precise manner. The authors also emphasize the all-important "why?" of mathematics--which is addressed in both the exposition and in the exercise sets by focusing on algebraic, graphical, and numerical perspectives. -- Provided by publisher

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  Affirmative Action

  John W. Johnson and Robert P. Green Jr.

  "Special consideration" or "reverse discrimination"? This examination traces the genesis and development of affirmative action and the continuing controversy that constitutes the story of racial and gender preferences. It pays attention to the individuals, the events, and the ideas that spawned federal and selected state affirmative action policies—and the resistance to those policies. Perhaps most important, it probes the key legal challenges to affirmative action in the nation's courts.

  The controversy over affirmative action in America has been marked by a persistent tension between its advocates, who emphasize the necessity of overcoming historical patterns of racial and gender injustice, and its critics, who insist on the integrity of color and gender blindness. In the wake of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2007, Affirmative Action brings the story of one of the most embattled public policy issues of the last half century up to date, demonstrating that social justice cannot simply be legislated into existence, nor can voices on either side of the debate be ignored. -- Provided by publisher

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  Kurt Vonnegut's America

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Kurt Vonnegut's death on April 11, 2007, marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture--a conversation that produced fourteen novels and hundreds of short stories and essays. Spanning Vonnegut's half-century literary career, Kurt Vonnegut's America integrates discussion of myriad fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it emerged--and which it in turn helped shape.

  Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study traces Vonnegut's career, decade by decade, drawing connections between the nation's preoccupations, the author's biography, and his literary productions. Vonnegut's 1950s saw him starting out as a short story writer, using his training in anthropology and experience in journalism and public relations to offer comic insights on middle-class behaviors. In the 1960s the author produced a series of darkly humorous novels rooted in the sense of apocalypse he'd experienced as a prisoner of war during the destruction of Dresden, Germany. Vonnegut's rising fame made him a public figure by 1970, with his novels and increasingly prominent essays serving as commentaries on the trends and patterns of these changing times. By the 1980s Vonnegut was sufficiently comfortable with his celebrity status to offer broader perspectives in his work, including his take on human evolution and artistic development. The 1990s found Vonnegut writing the strongest fiction and commentary of his career, melding them into a masterpiece, Timequake, the virtual autobiography of a novel.
  
  Among his artistic peers, Vonnegut was uniquely gifted at anticipating and articulating the changing course of American culture. Far from being A Man without a Country, as his last book was titled, Vonnegut achieved greatness by passing his own test--opening the eyes of his audience to help them better understand their roles and possibilities in the common culture they both shared and crafted. -- Provided by publisher

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  Improving Teacher Quality: Using the Teacher Work Sample to Make Evidence-Based Decisions

  Frank Kohler, John Henning, Victoria Robinson, and Barry Wilson

  The teacher work sample (T.W.S.) has become increasingly widely adopted as an end-of-program, performance-based assessment for student teachers. Improving Teacher Quality offers a comprehensive introduction to teacher work sample methodology for teacher educators, student teachers, student teacher supervisors, cooperating teachers, program coordinators, and school administrators. This well-organized and clearly written guide shows how implementation of the T.W.S. can catalyze a series of widespread changes in assessment, teaching, and program improvement. The authors use their extensive experience to describe how to implement the T.W.S. in a carefully sequenced progression that includes creating a valid and reliable system of scoring, teaching reflective thinking skills, making program improvements, and conducting research with T.W.S. data. Helpful suggestions are provided throughout for those interested in adopting the T.W.S. as a performance-based assessment in their teacher education program, those interested in how the T.W.S. can provide evidence of minimal competency, and those interested in how the T.W.S. can provide data for making program improvements. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Public Policy Theory Primer

  Christopher W. Larimer and Kevin B. Smith

  Public policy has developed into a broad and interdisciplinary area of study. Research in the field tends to reflect this wide-ranging nature, with scholarly activity focusing on policy process, policy design, program evaluation, specific policy issues, and research classified simply as “policy studies.” Yet, for those teaching and studying in the field, this disjointedness can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a reasoned and structured framework for the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer not only discuss several major theories but also offer a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field. This organized and comprehensive approach addresses core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates. The Public Policy Theory Primer is an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy. -- Provided by publisher

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  Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy

  Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

  Neoclassical realism is an important approach to international relations. Focusing on the interaction of the international system and the internal dynamics of states, neoclassical realism seeks to explain the grand strategies of individual states as opposed to recurrent patterns of international outcomes. This book offers the first systematic survey of the neoclassical realist approach. The editors lead a group of senior and emerging scholars in presenting a variety of neoclassical realist approaches to states' grand strategies. They examine the central role of the 'state' and seek to explain why, how, and under what conditions the internal characteristics of states intervene between their leaders' assessments of international threats and opportunities, and the actual diplomatic, military, and foreign economic policies those leaders are likely to pursue. -- Provided by publisher

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  Negotiating Science: The Critical Role of Argument in Student Inquiry

  Lori Norton-Meier, Brian Hand, Jay Staker, and Jody Bintz

  Knowing from the inside out how argument works is a literacy skill now universally recognized as essential.

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  Life in the Natural World: Investigating Life’s Diversity

  Steve O'Kane and Kimberly Cline-Brown

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  The Principal's Challenge: Learning from Gay and Lesbian Students

  Nicholas J. Pace

  This unique book presents lessons a straight principal-turned-professor has learned through personal experience and research with gay and lesbian high school students. It begins with a young principal acknowledging that he, nor his administrative education program, had given any thought to issues surrounding students' sexual orientation. However, when a senior in his tiny rural high school came out, the principal started down an unexpected path that would change his outlook on school leadership-and transform his practice. Presented in eight unique stories in students' own words, we experience their challenges, fears, and triumphs-and see how their schools and the people in them both helped and hurt. Through their poignant, honest, familiar, and often surprising stories, we see how these eight students navigate what Unks (2003, p. 323) calls “the most homophobic institutions in American society.” Their stories also reveal an unexpected, yet vital lesson for educators, policy makers, and all those concerned with meeting students' needs-that being gay or lesbian in high school does not automatically lead to bad outcomes. The students' firsthand accounts, along with lessons learned by the once apprehensive principal, show that there is a much more positive, optimistic, and seldom-told story. The book challenges practicing and aspiring school leaders to: *Move beyond what we think we know about gay and lesbian students and see them as unique people with strengths and struggles, gifts and challenges *Examine the unique context of their schools and see how one size solution doesn't fit all *Understand agency, agendas, and how gay-straight alliances can benefit all students *Summon the courage to transform our mission statements from slogans and live them everyday. -- Provided by publisher

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  Decision Support Basics

  Daniel Power

  Because of increasing complexity, rapid change and risk, managers have an obligation to shareholders to learn about and understand computerized decision support systems (DSS). Managers must know much more about information technology solutions and especially computerized decision support. This book is targeted to busy managers and MBA students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support. Some of the topics covered include: What is a DSS? What do managers need to know about computerized decision support? And how can managers identify opportunities to create innovative DSS? Overall the book addresses 35 fundamental questions that are relevant to understanding computerized decision support. In a short period of time managers can "get up to speed" on decision support, analytics and business intelligence. The book then provides a quick reference to important recurring questions. The questions are arranged in a logical order from more general questions to more specific, including specialized questions of interest to managers and future managers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him

  Loree Rackstraw

  A loving, intimate memoir from a lifelong friend of Kurt Vonnegut, including photos and never-before-published correspondence

  When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ducked into his classroom at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in September of 1965, his jokes drew only weak laughter and a few rolled eyes. But workshop student Loree Rackstraw was quietly impressed by this “great bear of a man” and his down-to-earth sensibilities about writing.

  That fall, an impossible romance began between the then-unknown author and his student—a brief affair that matured into a joyful, lifelong friendship. Rackstraw distills four decades of memories and Vonnegut’s letters to her into an affectionate memoir that crackles with the creative energy of one of America’s most beloved writers.

  Rackstraw’s unique perspective on Vonnegut’s life and how it shaped his famous works portrays a deeply humane man who looked for the humor and absurdity in life in order to survive. And then there are Vonnegut’s own letters: Whether energetic about new projects or frustrated with the “game” of writing and selling “a gazoolian copies,” Vonnegut writes with the playful imagination and generous, accessible brilliance that have always been his trademarks. -- Provided by publisher

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  Post-Reform Development in Asia: Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi

  Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Shahina Amin, and Mandira Sanyal

  This festschrift volume for professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi dwells on issues often raised in the development debate whether neo-liberal reforms in developing nations have raised inequality and poverty, food insecurity, hindered empowerment of women, aggravated agrarian distress, reallocated resources for private profitability and facilitated the rise of multi-national oligopoly according inferior status to the domestic industries in the host countries most of the issues have been examined on the basis of empirical data drawn from China, India and Bangladesh essays on china concentrate on post-reform issues of inequality across regions and rural-urban locations and its failure to achieve targets of human development while experiencing rapid economic growth discussions on changes in policy environment since the early days of the people's republic of china also constitute the basic themes of the essays food insecurity, growth-poverty-employment relationship, gender discrimination in the labour market and agrarian distress caused by withdrawal of state support to small farmers growing commercial crops and revision of priority sector lending policy at the cost of small farmers and entrepreneurs are the major themes of essays written in the Indian context of post-reform development in an essay on Bangladesh the poverty issues has been revisited in the context of child work agrarian issues have also been raised in an essay where the author proposes an alternative peasant social construction for the dual affirmation of land rights of the state and of the peasant family in the last two essays authors look far beyond the mainstream tradition to develop an analytical framework for understanding issues relating to the recent rise of multi-national firms and the phenomenal growth of India's software technology. -- Provided by publisher

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  Child of Ghana: Meet My Friend Emmanuel

  Chris Schrage

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  Child of Nicaragua: Meet My Friend Hassel

  Chris Schrage

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  Lovers & Strangers

  Grant A. Tracey

  Lovers & Strangers is a collection of thirteen stories, rockets through the complexities of love, internal struggle, and human relationships with a sense of wound and wonder. The title story explores the deepness of what love truly is. Throughout these looks at love, the narrative voice combines sharp, scenic detail with summary density. The tone is reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson and Bernard Malamud. Tracey’s characters are authentic, quirky, loving, innocent, and bound to truth by the universal desire to understand what makes us human, what it means to love, and be loved. -- Provided by publisher

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  Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and Murder-Suicides

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Albert R. Roberts

  Each year, about 33 percent of all women and 3 percent of all men murdered in the United States, are killed by a so-called intimate, a spouse, partner, or lover. Nationwide, murder by an intimate is the number one cause of death for pregnant women. And murder by an intimate is not just an American problem. A European task force recently found domestic violence accounts for 25 percent of all homicides in London, and 35 percent across England and Wales. In this timely book, van Wormer and Roberts describe the problem, and what they have seen and heard on the front lines with both women and men who have escaped domestic violence that was escalating toward deadly levels. The text examines not only the psychology of the batterer but of domestic murder, and domestic murder-suicide. Drawn from the experience and insights of these two widely-known social workers, the text includes a safety plan for those at risk and a chapter providing narratives of women in prison for killing their abusive husband or partner.
  
  Drawing on the experience and insights of these two widely-known social workers, Death by Domestic Violence separates domestic violence myths and facts, explains the traumatic bonding that occurs between batterer and victim, and details how one facet of the solution could be school-based interventions and education. The book culminates with recommendations for further reduction of harm and a safety plan for those at risk. -- Provided by publisher

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  Finding Purpose in Narnia: A Journey with Prince Caspian

  Gina Burkart

  Finding Purpose in Narnia weaves C.S. Lewis' biographical information from his own autobiography and letters to help readers better understand Prince Caspian, the second in the classic and wildly popular Chronicles of Narnia series. The author, who grew up loving these books, offers a series of reflections arranged in five parts shaped around the Scripture verse 1 Corinthians 13 and divided into three sections: Faith, Hope and Love.

  Just in time for the eagerly awaited movie, this engagingly written book is a resource that invites personal reflection and growth by inviting readers to interact with the insights of C.S. Lewis, the author's reflections, and Scripture passages. Throughout the book are helpful reflection questions help readers understand how C.S. Lewis found purpose in Narnia, and how we can as well. -- Provided by publisher

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  Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication

  Richard Campbell, Christopher Martin, and Bettina Fabos

  Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell’s Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active participants in the media. Media & Culture’s integrated cultural perspective focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the mass media and our shared culture — how cultural trends affect our media and how historical developments, technology, and key media leaders have shaped our society. Completing the full picture of the mass media is the text’s in-depth coverage of the history, structure, and economics of each industry. Continuing the tradition of cutting-edge content, the 2009 Update includes the most current media trends and developments. -- Provided by publisher

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  Information Literacy Instruction Handbook

  Christopher N. Cox and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay

  Information Literacy Instruction Handbook is designed primarily for librarians new to teaching or management of information literacy instruction. In addition, it serves as a one-stop refresher source on key topics for more experienced librarians. The approach is practical, with an emphasis on up to date situations and approaches. It contains concise and practical chapters, written by experienced information literacy instruction librarians, providing the basics but with references to other key sources for those who would like to explore topics further. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure as Transformation

  Christopher R. Edginton

  How does leisure promote, facilitate, and enable change? Blending Eastern perspectives, Leisure As Transformation provides insight as to how leisure can be an optimal medium for change. Will today's leisure service professionals be the victims or the agents of change. -- Provided by publisher

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  Managing Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services: An Introduction

  Christopher R. Edginton, Susan D. Hudson, Samual V. Lankford, and Dale Larsen

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  The Darbar of the Sikh Gurus: The Court of God in the World of Men

  Louis E. Fenech

  The Divine Court (Darbar) of the Sikh Gurus grew in size and importance as the line of Gurus progressed, beginning with the comparatively simple following, which gathered around Guru Nanak, and climaxing in the celebrated darbar of Guru Gobind Singh. Focusing on the traces of documentary evidence available in Punjabi, Hindi and Persian sources, this book meticulously reconstructs the evolving nature of the darbars of the Sikh Gurus in different historical contexts. Fenech also deals incisively with Nand Lal, the most prominent member of the tenth Guru's many attendant poets. According to the modern Sikh Rahit Marayada, he commands a semi-canonical status equaled only by Bhai Gurdas, yet his works are seldom consulted.

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  Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion

  Nancy Hamilton, Wendi Weimar, and Kathryn Luttgens

  This introductory text provides undergraduate students with the basics of anatomy, physiology, and the applications of kinesiology. It uses a qualitative approach with an easy-to-follow writing style. Theory is balanced with many sport and real-world applications to promote the integrated nature of kinesiology, including the anatomical and biomechanical concepts. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Art of Discussion-Based Teaching: Opening Up Conversation in the Classroom

  John E. Henning

  Opening Up the Conversation leads practicing and preservice K-12 teachers through the process of creating more open, student-centered discourse in their classrooms. Readers are first introduced to types of teacher questions, student responses, and teacher follow-up moves that are associated with both open and closed discourse. Author John Henning then helps readers identify the most likely places for open and closed classroom discourse by examining an entire unit of instruction and by looking closely at three distinct types of discussions-framing, conceptual, and application. Readers are introduced to specific discourse moves, the patterns of discussion, the amount of preparation, and the types of accountability strategies needed to construct each of these discussions. The final chapter of the book shows readers how to videotape and analyze their classroom interactions in a teacher study group. © 2008 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.

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  Building Playgrounds: A Guide to the Planning Process

  Susan D. Hudson, Donna Jean Thompson, and Heather Olsen

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  Seeing All Kids as Readers: A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom

  Christopher Kliewer

  For young children with moderate to severe disabilities, developing literacy skills can lead to more active and fulfilling membership in society. This motivating, forward-thinking book will help educators see all their students as literate and use an innovative social model of literacy to enrich the skills of children with and without disabilities. Relating in-depth stories from hundreds of hours spent observing inclusive preschool classrooms, literacy researcher Christopher Kliewer inspires readers to view literacy as more than direct interaction with alphabetic text use dynamic, imaginative methods—dramatic play, drawing, painting, dance, movement—to help students with disabilities acquire useful literacy skills encourage students with and without disabilities to collaborate on literacy-building activities throughout the day incorporate the interests, imaginations, and histories of students with disabilities in classroom routines and lessons Special and general educators will discover how this bold new vision of literacy and inclusion will benefit all their students, and they'll use the vivid examples as models in their own classrooms. A passionate, carefully researched call to action, this eye-opening book will help educators move beyond the labels and expectations often associated with disability, presume competence instead of limitation, and ensure that students with significant disabilities reach their full potential as literate citizens. -- Provided by publisher

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  Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces

  Alexandra Kogl

  Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces offers a conceptual framework for thinking politically about place and space in an era in which globalization seems to be destabilizing places and transforming spaces at an unprecedented rate and scale. Responding critically to the tendencies within contemporary political theory to dismiss places as inherently confining spaces, author Alexandra Kogl explores the roles that places play in supporting a democratic politics of efficacy and resistance. Using concrete examples and cases, this interdisciplinary work is accessible to a broad scholarly audience, including political theory, urban affairs, geography and sociology scholars. -- Provided by publisher

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  Experimental Psychology: A Case Approach

  M. Kimberly MacLin and Robert L. Solso

  Presenting a principle or problem in experimental design, the authors then show how the problem has been dealt with in psychological literature. Organized into two parts (Basic Principles of Experimental Design and Analysis of Experiments), this book combines a text and case approach to examine the methods of experimental psychology. Using published research findings, students read, critique, and analyze actual cases/experiments from all aspects of psychology that exemplify various design principles. -- Provided by publisher

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  Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation

  Ramona S. McNeal, Karen Mossberger, and Caroline J. Tolbert

  Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of the population are still excluded from digital citizenship. The authors of this book define digital citizens as those who are online daily. By focusing on frequent use, they reconceptualize debates about the digital divide to include both the means and the skills to participate online. They offer new evidence (drawn from recent national opinion surveys and Current Population Surveys) that technology use matters for wages and income, and for civic engagement and voting. Digital Citizenship examines three aspects of participation in society online: economic opportunity, democratic participation, and inclusion in prevailing forms of communication. The authors find that Internet use at work increases wages, with less-educated and minority workers receiving the greatest benefit, and that Internet use is significantly related to political participation, especially among the young. The authors examine in detail the gaps in technological access among minorities and the poor and predict that this digital inequality is not likely to disappear in the near future. Public policy, they argue, must address educational and technological disparities if we are to achieve full participation and citizenship in the twenty-first century.

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  Questions, Claims, & Evidence: The Important Place of Argument in Children’s Science Writing

  Lori Norton-Meier, Brian Hand, Lynn Hockenberry, and Kim Wise

  A guide to science teaching focuses on literacy and inquiry to increase students' interest in science, improve their analysis skills, and increase their science writing skills.

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  No Mulligans Allowed

  Gayle Pohl

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  Saint Joe's Passion : Poems

  Jeremy Schraffenberger

  In the tradition of Catullus' love poems and John Berryman's Dream Songs, the poems of Saint Joe's Passion recount the lonely lecherous life of Joseph Johnstone-cancer patient, classical music DJ, former voice-talent. The poems swing back and forth from Joe's hospital bed to moments of his past: a past of religion, little league baseball, music, and marital friction. The collection paints the portrait of a man who was never quite able to open himself up to genuine love and intimacy.

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  The Postwar New York Yankees: Baseball's Golden Age Revisited

  David G. Surdam

  The Yankees and New York baseball entered a golden age between 1949 and 1964, a period during which the city was represented in all but one World Series. While the Yankees dominated, however, the years were not so golden for the rest of baseball.
  In The Postwar Yankees David George Surdam deconstructs this idyllic period to show that while the Yankees piled on pennants and World Series titles through the 1950s, overall Major League Baseball attendance consistently declined and gate-revenue disparity widened through the mid-1950s. Contrary to popular belief, the era was already experiencing many problems that fans of today’s game bemoan, including competitive imbalance and callous owners who ran the league like a cartel. Fans also found aging, decrepit stadiums ill equipped for the burgeoning automobile culture, while television and new forms of leisure competed for their attention.
  Through an economist’s lens, Surdam brings together historical documents and off-the-field numbers to reconstruct the period and analyze the roots of the age’s enduring mythology, examining why the Yankees and other New York teams were consistently among baseball’s elite and how economic and social forces set in motion during this golden age shaped the sport into its modern incarnation. -- Provided by publisher

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  Globalization, Governance, and Technology: Challenges and Alternatives

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Renu Khator

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  Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Diane Rea Davis

  Addiction Treatment covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions. First-person narratives about the experience of addiction provide you a realism and depth of study not commonly found in textbooks. In addition, you will study topics that interest you, such as the case against so-called underage drinking laws, to show you the importance of reducing the harm of any addictive behavior. -- Provided by publisher

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  Reconstituting the State in Africa

  Pita Ogaba Agbese and George Klay Kieh

  Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed. They do not argue for the scrapping of the state but its reconstitution in ways that will enable it to be people’s-oriented.

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  A Student Guide to Exploring Teaching: Exploring Teaching 200:017 Student Manual

  Radhi Al-Mabuk and Michael P. Fanelli

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  Federated Searching: Solution or Setback?

  Christopher N. Cox

  Understand federated searching implementation better—and what works best in your library Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services is a comprehensive guide to choosing, implementing, testing, teaching, and marketing federated search products in libraries. Experts in the field and librarians across the United States provide firsthand information on using federated search engines in different types of libraries (small, academic, and consortia), integrating search engines into library Web sites, homegrown upgrades, bidding on a product, other uses for software, and the future of federated searching. Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services explains what factors come into play when choosing which federated search engine is appropriate for a library. This helpful resource discusses how to go out to bid for a product and provides a variety of case examples that illustrate implementation in libraries of different sizes. The book also includes information of what happened once federated search was implemented on various campuses, such as usability studies, teaching issues, getting buy-on from librarians, and marketing to students. -- Provided by publisher

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  Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language

  Janet Croft

  Tolkien and Shakespeare: These essays focus on the broad themes and motifs which concerned both authors. They seek to uncover Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien through echoes of the playwright's themes and even word choices, discovering how Tolkien used, revised, updated, "corrected," and otherwise held an ongoing dialogue with Shakespeare's works.

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  Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach

  Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Palczewski

  Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach examines the variety of ways in which communication of and about gender enables and constrains people's intersectional identities. Authors Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Catherine Helen Palczewski place an emphasis not on how gender influences communication, but on how communication constitutes gender. Operating from a gender diversity perspective, Communicating Gender Diversity explores how gender is constructed through interpersonal and public discourse about and in the institutions of family, education, work, religion, and media. The book equips readers with the necessary critical analysis tools to form their own conclusions about the ever changing processes of gender in communication. This comprehensive gender in communication book is the first to extensively address the roles of religion, the gendered body, single-sex education, an institutional analysis of gender construction, social construction theory, and more. - Provided by publisher

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  The Butterflies of Iowa

  John Downey, Dennis Schlicht, and Jeff Nekola

  This beautiful and comprehensive guide, many years in the making, is a manual for identifying the butterflies of Iowa as well as 90 percent of the butterflies in the Plains states. It begins by providing information on the natural communities of Iowa, paying special attention to butterfly habitat and distribution. Next come chapters on the history of lepidopteran research in Iowa and on creating butterfly gardens, followed by an intriguing series of questions and issues relevant to the study of butterflies in the state. The second part contains accounts, organized by family, for the 118 species known to occur in Iowa. Each account includes the common and scientific names for each species, its Opler and Warren number, its status in Iowa, adult flight times and number of broods per season, distinguishing features, distribution and habitat, and natural history information such as behavior and food plant preferences. As a special feature of each account, the authors have included questions that illuminate the research and conservation challenges for each species. In the third section, the illustrations, grouped for easier comparison among species, include color photographs of all the adult forms that occur in Iowa. Male and female as well as top and bottom views are shown for most species. The distribution maps indicate in which of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties specimens have been collected; flight times for each species are shown by marking the date of collection for each verified specimen on a yearly calendar. The book ends with a checklist, collection information specific to the photographs, a glossary, references, and an index. The authors’ meticulous attention to detail, stimulating questions for students and researchers, concern for habitat preservation, and joyful appreciation of the natural world make it a valuable and inspiring volume.

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  Fighting Kite: Poems

  Vince Gotera

  Fighting Kite narrates, in verse, the life of Martin Avila Gotera--son, trickster, soldier, schizophrenic, visionary, lawyer, workingman, father--a life that glimmers like the node, a shimmery knot, a glowing nexus, of the shared histories of the Philippines and the United States. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

  Thomas A. Hockey, Virginia Trimble, and Katherine Bracher

  The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike. The two volumes include approximately 1550 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times. It is the collective work of about 400 authors edited by an editorial board of 9 historians and astronomers, and provides additional details on the nature of an entry and some summary statistics on the content of entries. This new reference provides biographical information on astronomers and cosmologists by utilizing contemporary historical scholarship. Individual entries vary from 100 to 1500 words, including the likes of the superluminaries such as Newton and Einstein, as well as lesser-known astronomers like Galileo s acolyte, Mario Guiducci. A comprehensive contributor index helps researchers to identify the authors of important scientific topics and treatises." -- Provided by publisher

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  Tallgrass Prairie Center's Native Seed Production Manual

  Gregory A. Houseal

  The intent of this manual is to provide basic information for native seed production of nearly 50 species of the tallgrass prairie flora of the upper Mid-west. The information presented is compiled from published accounts coupled with native seed production experience at the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Critical to this effort were publications from the USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Program, published research articles and technical notes, and Internet resources. Botanical nomenclature follows USDA PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov).

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  Leadership in Leisure Services: Making a Difference

  Debra J. Jordan

  Leadership is a process and an experience that impacts all of us in our roles as leaders and as followers. This text presents leadership as a personal journey that takes conscious effort to undertake and develop. Leadership is one of the keystones of successful parks, recreation and leisure services agencies, organizations and programs. How we deal with people, how we interact with fellow staff supervisors, participants, and the general public all make an incredible statement about who we are and what our profession is about. This book is designed to help students of leadership begin, or renew, their personal journey toward leadership. -- Provided by publisher

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  Decision Support for Global Enterprises

  Uday Kulkarni, Daniel Power, and Ramesh Sharda

  India is becoming the "global back office" to international supply chains. This book consists of peer-reviewed and invited papers with two primary goals: (1) Stimulate creative discussion between academic researchers and the practitioner IS community to improve the research and practice in the area. (2) Increase awareness of the problems and challenges faced by global enterprises that can be met with innovative decision support systems. -- Provided by publisher

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  Iowa's Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War

  Kenneth Lyftogt

  Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. This biography details the amazing life of this remarkable man.

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  Changing Fashion: A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning

  Annette Lynch and Mitchell D. Strauss

  Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, and more. Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a wide range of contemporary and historical case material which provides practical examples of trend analysis and change, from the art deco textile designs of Sonia Delaunay to the chameleonic shifts in Bob Dylan's appearance over time. Key issues in fashion and identity, such as race, gender and consumption are examined from different disciplinary angles to provide a critical overview of the field. -- Provided by publisher

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  Cognitive Psychology

  M. Kimberly MacLin and Robert L. Solso

  One of the top sellers in the field, Cognitive Psychology is well-written, humorous, and remains one of the most comprehensive and balanced books in the area of cognition. MacLin and MacLin, inheriting the book from the late Robert L. Solso, boldly revised and reorganized the Eighth Edition to reflect emerging trends in the field, while retaining the strengths that made it one of the most popular books in the field. The book features a sequential model of human cognition from sensation to perception, to attention, to memory, to higher-order cognition, and features new cutting-edge coverage of consciousness, cognitive neuroscience, memory and forgetting, and evolutionary psychology. -- Provided by publisher

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, Nancy Neslund, and Kristofer Neslund

  Law, Business, and Society, eighth edition, by Tony McAdams, takes an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility and management. The author produces a compelling holistic picture of these concepts by giving extensive attention to readings, provocative quotes and factual details. Students learn not merely the law but the law in context. -- Provided by publisher

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  The "Dark Heathenism" of the American Novelist Ishmael Reed: African Voodoo As American Literary Hoodoo

  Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

  This book posits that Neo-HooDooism, an African Voodoo-derived aesthetic, evinces Ishamel Reed s post-colonial transformation of the English language, colonialist discourses, and imperial cultural systems into discourses of self-empowerment and self-representation. As Reed s return to dark heathenism, Neo-HooDooism represents an attempt to rediscover pre-slavery and pre-colonial African languages and oral traditions to remedy the impact of physical and linguistic displacement that African-Americans continue to experience in the United States. Reed s nine novels are post-colonial writings whose production affects social, cultural, political, and historical contexts from African-American, American multi-ethnic, Caribbean, African, Third-World, and global perspectives. This book analyzes Neo-HooDooism as a post-colonial discourse/literary theory and a multi-cultural poetics through which Reed reconnects the African Diaspora to Africa within a global perspective. To accomplish this, an investigation is made into slavery, hegemony, language, place and displacement, race, gender, feminism, writing, post-coloniality, and theory as post-colonial themes that permeate Reed s nine novels. -- Provided by publisher

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  Letter-writing Manuals and Instruction From Antiquity to the Present : Historical and Bibliographic Studies

  Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell

  Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials that form the basis for its study. -- Provided by publisher Robert G. Sullivan pushes back the origin of the genre to Isocrates' classical epistolary theory and letters, and Poster continues the search through antiquity by summarizing Greek and Latin works to discover the epistolary theory that permeated ancient schooling. Malcolm Richardson surveys medieval dictamen, and Martin Carmago places letter-writing manuals in their educational context of fifteenth-century Oxford. Moving into the largely unchartered territory of Renaissance epistolary theory, Gideon Burton examines philology and letter-writing theory in relation to medieval precursors. Lawrence D. Green discusses editions of letter-writing treatises in England; W. Webster Newbold explores the relationship between epistolarity and rise of vernacular English literacy; and Judith Rice Henderson investigates the uses of Erasmus' Opus de conscribendi epistolis in sixteenth-century schools. Drawing attention to the broadening of the Renaissance model, Mitchell traces modern letter-writing instruction through eloquence handbooks, self-teaching manuals, and grammar books. John T. Gage surveys the patterns of inclusion and exclusion from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century composition textbooks, and Joyce R. Walker considers how the electronic medium is reviving a long-neglected form of the epistolary tradition. A substantial collection of bibliographies close the volume, offering a compendium of sources for this burgeoning field.

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  The Butterflies of Iowa

  Dennis W. Schlicht, John C. Downey, and Jeff C. Nekola

  This beautiful and comprehensive guide, many years in the making, is a manual for identifying the butterflies of Iowa as well as 90 percent of the butterflies in the Plains states.

  It begins by providing information on the natural communities of Iowa, paying special attention to butterfly habitat and distribution. Next come chapters on the history of lepidopteran research in Iowa and on creating butterfly gardens, followed by an intriguing series of questions and issues relevant to the study of butterflies in the state.

  The second part contains accounts, organized by family, for the 118 species known to occur in Iowa. Each account includes the common and scientific names for each species, its Opler and Warren number, its status in Iowa, adult flight times and number of broods per season, distinguishing features, distribution and habitat, and natural history information such as behavior and food plant preferences. As a special feature of each account, the authors have included questions that illuminate the research and conservation challenges for each species.

  In the third section, the illustrations, grouped for easier comparison among species, include color photographs of all the adult forms that occur in Iowa. Male and female as well as top and bottom views are shown for most species. The distribution maps indicate in which of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties specimens have been collected; flight times for each species are shown by marking the date of collection for each verified specimen on a yearly calendar.

  The book ends with a checklist, collection information specific to the photographs, a glossary, references, and an index. The authors’ meticulous attention to detail, stimulating questions for students and researchers, concern for habitat preservation, and joyful appreciation of the natural world make it a valuable and inspiring volume.

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  Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life

  Marybeth C. Stalp

  Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of gendered cultural production. In Quilting, sociologist and quilter Marybeth C. Stalp explores how and why women quilt. This close ethnographic study illustrates that women's lives can be transformed in often surprising ways by the activity and art of quilting. Some women who quilt as a leisure pastime are too afraid to admit to being a quilter for fear of ridicule; others boldly identify themselves as quilters and regard it as part of their everyday lives. The place of quilting in women's lives affects core family and personal identity issues such as marriage, childcare, friendship and aging. The book's accessible and intimate portrayal of real quilters' lives provides a fabric for the sociology, anthropology and textile student to understand more about wider issues of cultural production and identity that stem from this very personal pastime. -- Provided by publisher

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  S.A.F.E. Play Areas: Creation, Maintenance, and Renovation

  Donna Jean Thompson, Susan D. Hudson, and Heather M. Olsen

  For children, playgrounds and play areas are a recipe for fun—or perhaps an accident waiting to happen. Playing without fear or tears provides many benefits to a child's development. Yet every year, hundreds of thousands of children suffer serious playground-related injuries that require emergency medical treatment. -- Provided by publisher

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Micro Level: Individuals and Families

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  In a fresh, elegant, and accessible manner, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level explores the nuances of the biological, psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of our social lives. Drawing on examples from social work, psychology, literature, philosophy, and current events, it richly illustrates human development and behavior, both normal and abnormal. Katherine van Wormer skillfully integrates recent research ranging from brain imaging to international surveys on happiness, lending extraordinary insight into our drives and motivations. The result is a singular textbook that truly bridges theory and practice by revealing the patterns and paradoxes of our behavior in the social context. -- Provided by publisher

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  Women and the Criminal Justice System

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas

  This text examines the various roles of women in the criminal justice system within a social context in which women are oppressed. It emphasizes gender and ethnic diversity along with the strengths of oppressed people, especially women of color. A wide range of issues are covered, including the rate of early childhood sexual abuse, victimization in female inmates, priest abuse of girls, female inmate rape by male prison guards, and obstacles for women lawyers achieving partnerships in their firms.

  The text examines the following three roles of women in criminal justice: Women as victims of crimes; Women as criminals convicted and sentenced for crimes; and, Women as workers in various agencies in the criminal justice system.--From the publisher.

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  Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Macro Level: Groups, Communities, and Organizations

  Katherine S. Van Wormer, Fred H. Besthorn, and Thomas Keefe

  Each person is a unique individual, yet we all are also defined by groups - those we belong to and those we are excluded from, voluntarily or involuntarily. In the second half of the Human Behavior and the Social Environment sequence, Katherine van Wormer, Fred Besthorn, and Thomas Keefe take a stimulating new approach to exploring this macro view of humanity and demonstrating how each component of society, from the single person to the sprawling organization, is part of a dynamic whole. Their collaboration has produced a remarkable volume that will help students recognize and consider interactions between and among individuals and social systems, and thereby develop into truly effective social workers.

  *Outlines theoretical concepts and practice implications in each chapter *Highlights the importance of the natural environment and ecology - the "community of the earth" - to human and group behavior *Sets forth a refined understanding of the role of spirituality - the "community of faith" - in people's lives *Focuses on evidence-based theory and research *Teaches from a global, cross-cultural perspective, highlighting themes of empowerment and social justice *Features dynamic readings and personal narratives that highlight each chapter's topic *Accompanied by an online instructor's manual with Power Points for lecture presentations, chapter summaries, key terms, suggested classroom activities, and a test bank with essay and multiple choice questions--From the publisher.

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  The Iron Curtain of Language

  Jennie Wang

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  Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience

  John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman

  Group Communication Pitfalls: Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, providing students with the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. By assuming this orientation, authors John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman offer readers a map of the group pitfall terrain and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups.

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  Inman's War: A Soldier's Story of Life in a Colored Battalion in WWII

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

  "Inman's War is on one level an ugly story about America and racism and prejudice and discrimination and sexism, but it is also a human story, a story about real people, a story of friendship and loyalty, a story of the human spirit as it tries to overcome adversity. It is a magnificent slice of history." -Dick Gregory, from the Introduction
  
  Information about life in the "Colored Battalions" of WWII is very limited; this book takes a look inside a part of history hidden from the eyes of the world. Those who served in these battalions were unsung heroes of the Allies' fight for freedom and rights for all, yet they were often sacrificed along the way to attaining those goals. At long last, their story is told.
  
  Some of the most important and symbolic events in American history end up relegated to the dark corners of memory. Events once so significant become little more than footnotes, little more than wisps of story once held dear. This is such a story. There are accounts of the contributions of African Americans during the great conflict of WWII. However, most of these are group histories related to units such as the Red Ball Express, Tuskegee Airmen, and the Buffalo Soldiers. Individual, personal accounts of life and service in what were called the "Colored Battalions" are almost non-existent.
  
  This story is based in part upon the nearly one hundred and fifty letters written by Sergeant Inman Perkins during that period that detail his day to day life and his marriage while on leave to his young bride, Olivia. This book presents a look into the past that many thought locked away and forgotten forever, a look into an important slice of our American heritage off limits for too long to the eyes of history. From basic training to the war in Europe, Inman's War presents the fresh territory of a story not told before. It is the story of an individual, Inman Perkins, and it is also the story of the other African American heroes of this era. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives

  Rodney B. Dieser, Christopher R. Edginton, Susan Edginton, and Donald DeGraaf

  With a practical, contemporary focus, this text provides students with a solid foundation for the study of leisure, exploring the role of the professional, government, nonprofit, and commercial agencies and institutions that deliver leisure services. Using the life satisfaction theme, it provides a framework for understanding the work of leisure professionals and helps students focus on the future. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Miniature Room: Poems

  Rebecca Dunham

  With tender probing and tight, expressive language, "The Miniature Room" explores the grace and power of the minuscule as it exists within an infinite universe. This 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection utilizes rich imagery and complex interlocking meanings as author Rebecca Durham builds off the classical themes of art, history, nature, love, life, religion, and motherhood to provide a sensual and inquisitive body of work. -- Provided by publisher

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  Everyday Ebay: Culture Collecting and Desire

  Nathan Scott Epley, Ken Hillis, and Michael Petit

  Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from a wide variety of perspectives as a bellwether of taste and material culture; as a rich site of cultural, racial, and sexual discourse and practice; as an emergent media form; and as a facilitator of global consumerism. From old toys steeped in nostalgia to 'rare' limited edition shoes, the contributors demonstrate that value on eBay is never simply about 'price'. On any given day, more than two million items are listed for sale on eBay, from everyday objects to kitsch and collectibles to the truly bizarre. Since its debut ten years ago, eBay has quickly become a central destination for millions of web browsers. According to eBay itself, up to 165,000 Americans now make their living by selling through the website, and other business analysts project that hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide now make their living through eBay.

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  Narratives from the 1971 Attica Prison Riot: Toward a New Theory of Correctional Disturbances

  Richard Andrew Featherstone

  In this work, six major published narratives on the event are examined, each written by a major participant. The author analyzes the discursive aspect of each narrative and excavates four common themes providing the basis of each narrative. He then illustrates how each narrator used these themes to craft unique stories of the event, each shaped by their occupational and social positions. In 1972, the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault visited the prison in Attica, New York, as part of his research on the history of punishment. A year prior, Foucault had formed a research group on the prison system, "Groupe d'information sur les prisons," which led to various critical studies and reform proposals of the French prison system. In 1973, Foucault edited a book containing the memoirs of a murderer, and, two years later, he published his famous study on the history of the prison, Discipline and Punish, a work that has been extremely influential for the study of the prison and other forms of social control until this day. What struck Foucault the most when he visited Attica was the entrance of the prison building. The entrance appeared to Foucault, as it might to us, to resemble that of a make-believe medieval fortress, the kind one could find in Disneyland. Behind this spectacular entrance was a grand sophisticated machine that was based on principles of efficiency and calculation to know and see each and all. Whereas the exterior architecture of Attica was kitsch, its inside presented a cold, hygienic, and well-organized machine of exclusion and supervision. In the fall of 1971, however, the Attica prison machine had broken down, and its Disneyesque facade would be forever marred. From September 9 to 12, 1971, inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison. Holding some forty guards hostage, the prisoners presented the authorities with a list of demands that sought better living conditions as well as improved educational and vocational opportunities. After four tense days of negotiations, the uprising ended when several hundred agents of the state stormed the facility and placed it back in the hands of the authorities. Thirty-nine men died in the recapture of the prison. Richard Featherstone's study on the Attica prison uprising provides a fascinating examination of what happened during those fateful days in 1971. Based on innovative insights from the sociology of narrative analysis, Featherstone examines five different first-hand accounts of the prison riot, each of which provides a unique insider's view of the pattern and dynamics of the uprising. From these various stories Featherstone identifies four central themes: the use of military metaphors involving war and battle between opposing groups; racial friction between whites and blacks; an underdog theme revolving around the estimated strength and weakness of others and selves; and, finally, a theme of the attribution of responsibility to other people and circumstances. Though the four identified themes are present in all the narratives that are analyzed, Featherstone thoughtfully extends the identification of themes to incorporate a sociological inquiry of the characteristics of the social structure in which the various authors of the narratives are located. As Featherstone aptly argues, the diverse positions of the authors determine the manner in which the themes are articulated in their respective stories. In the very best tradition of a structurally oriented sociological analysis, Featherstone attributes the meaning and articulation of the four identified themes in each analyzed narrative to the social and occupational position of their respective authors. The structural component of Featherstone's work also pushes the narrative analysis further to ponder the conditions that led to the uprising itself. Specifically, Featherstone convincingly argues that the differences in social location among inmates and guards contributed to the reciprocally corrosive nature of their relationships. This dynamic explains how certain general characteristics of the social structure play out in the interactional context of the concrete dynamics that exist among the inhabitants of a prison. What is insightful about this component of Featherstone's work is that it not only broadens a narrative analysis of meaning to a structural analysis of the conditions of narrative, but it also situates this narrative component in the social-structural conditions of the disturbing events that gave rise to those narratives in the first place. Featherstone's study is not a mere intellectual exercise in the study of words, but a profoundly sociological narrative analysis that is placed in the context of the socio-historical conditions of an important social event. In many ways, the events of Attica are still with us today. Attica has become a metaphor that is now part of our collective consciousness, popping up regularly in movies, music, and other forms of popular culture. Yet a continued need to investigate the conditions of our prisons today is an important part of the legacy of Attica. The prison population in the United States has grown exponentially in the decades since the events in Attica. Time and again, new ways are sought to reform the prison and, as many times, reforms are said to fail. Prison riots are not uncommon. As total institutions with highly regimented lives, Michel Foucault argued, prisons will always invoke resistance. But the sociologist is in need of a methodical analysis and a theoretically guided inquisition of relevant facts much more than the philosopher. Featherstone's study provides exactly that. Thanks to the penetrating work of Featherstone, the events of Attica may affect us today in a way that is both meaningful and revealing. -- Provided by publisher

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  Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President's Big Speech

  Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard

  The State of the Union is no ordinary speech on at least two accounts: it is a fundamental statement of how a president approaches current policy debates, and it is the one presidential address that US citizens are most likely to hear each year. Donna Hoffman and Alison Howard document the political significance and legislative impact, or often, lack of impact, of this most visible of presidential communications. Exploring how and why the State of the Union address came to be a key tool in the exercise of presidential power, the authors outline the ways presidents use it to gain attention, to communicate with target audiences, and to make specific policy proposals. Their richly textured analysis offers a penetrating look at the complex relationship between contemporary presidential leadership and Congressional lawmaking. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb

  Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz and Jerome Klinkowitz

  Best-selling authors, sensational lecturers, documentary filmmakers, amateur archaeologists, spies for FDR--Dana and Ginger Lamb led the life of Indiana Jones long before the movie icon was ever scripted. "We blaze the trail," Ginger said, "and the scientists follow."
  
  The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb is the first biography of this captivating, entrepreneurial couple. In Southern California, they started married life in 1933 by building a canoe. With only $4.10 in their pockets, they paddled to Central America and through the Panama Canal. Three years later they returned triumphant, bearing a photographic record of the amazing trek that made them famous.
  
  After releasing their best-selling book, Enchanted Vagabonds, the two became exactly that. They relentlessly lectured for the public and mooned for the media until they were able to fund more exotic voyages to remote jungles and rivers. So convincing were they on the circuit that their most powerful fan, President Franklin Roosevelt, coerced J. Edgar Hoover into hiring the Lambs as spies in Mexico. After World War II they launched their Quest for the Lost City, which yielded another book and documentary.
  
  Drawing on historical records, the Lambs' books and letters, and recently declassified espionage documents, biographers Julie Huffman-klinkowitz and Jerome Klinkowitz show how the Lambs succeeded in marketing their conquests and films to armchair explorers around the world and how they became, in popular imagination, the quintessential American adventurers.
  
  As an independent scholar, Julie Huffman-klinkowitz has published widely in genealogy and popular culture. Jerome Klinkowitz is professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and is the author of several books, including Pacific Skies: American Flyers in World War II (University Press of Mississippi). -- Provided by publisher

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  A Central European Synthesis of Radical and Magisterial Reform: The Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier

  Kirk R. MacGregor

  Challenging the widespread classification of evangelical theologian Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) as a Schleitheim-adhering Anabaptist, this book argues that Hubmaier should instead be understood as a bridge between the Radical and Magisterial branches of the Reformation. Paramount among this book's new discoveries is the overarching three-tiered structure of Hubmaier's theological system, consisting of a libertarian anthropology, sacramental theology, and ecclesiology. While recent studies have demonstrated the favorable reception of Bernard of Clairvaux by Luther and Calvin, this book reveals that Bernard also exerted a profound impact upon Hubmaier's anthropology. Consequently, Hubmaier crafted highly philosophically realist doctrines of believers' baptism and the Eucharist as grace-imparting sacraments instead of ordinances without salvific power. In Hubmaier's baptism, God not only regenerated neophytes, but also predestined them to final salvation. By partaking of the Eucharist, Hubmaier insisted that believers themselves (not the bread and wine) were literally consubstantiated with the physical body of Christ. Intertwining church discipline with sacramental reception, Hubmaier devised a strikingly progressive ecclesiology in which free churches were administered by local governments. This book provides for a deeper understanding of one of the 16th century's most creative and sophisticated thinkers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Veblen in Plain English: A Complete Introduction to Thorstein Veblen's Economics

  Ken McCormick

  Most economists will agree that the task of understanding and teaching Veblen is not an easy one. Locating a book for the non-specialist is even harder, and hence the purpose of this book. This pioneering text fully delivers what its title promises - Veblen in Plain English. For the non-specialist and student alike, Professor McCormick illuminates the ideas of Veblen in a manner that is well written and easy to understand. This is a refreshing and most welcome addition to literature on Veblen. -- Provided by publisher

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  Holding Your Square: Masculinities, Streetlife and Violence

  Christopher W. Mullins

  This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on the streets, contextualizing criminal violence within this deviant subculture, and with a specific focus on issues of gender. The book provides one of the most detailed descriptions yet of the forms masculinity takes in disadvantages communities in the United States. it establishes how street based gender identity motivated and guided men through violent encounters, exploring how men's relationships with women and their families instigated violence. One key issue addressed is why men resorted to violence in certain situations and not in others, exploring the range of choices open to them and how these opportunities were interpreted. The book makes a major contribution to the study of the relationship between masculinities and violence, making use of a much larger sample than elsewhere.

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  Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide: Poems

  Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

  Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure is a poignant, often-painful reflection on the travesties of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. This collection combines diverse linguistic and cultural traditions to offer poetic explorations of the violence and aftermath of genocide. With fifteen poems and an extensive section of notes on Rwandan culture, Lamentations on the Rwandan Genocide both documents a historical tragedy and forges new literary ground. -- Provided by publisher

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  Self-Study and Diversity

  Deborah Tidwell, Linda Fitzgerald, and Julian Kitchen

  Self-study and Diversity is a book about self-study of teaching and teacher education with equity and access as focal issues of practice. Chapters in this book have a shared orientation to diversity grounded in the acknowledgement that educators have a responsibility to address equity and access issues inherent in teaching. To that end, individual chapters address such areas of diversity as race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and power, as well as broader areas of social justice, multiculturalism, and ways of knowing. Even though the focus in a chapter may be on one particular dimension of diversity, the dilemmas and responses of a teacher educator, elicited through self-study, can apply well beyond that immediate context. This broadens the appeal of the book beyond the self-study community and beyond specific issues of diversity, to people interested in teaching in general and in the process of improving practice. The chapters of the book are organized in five sections, with each section containing similar self-study approaches. These self-study approaches were specifically chosen by the researchers as effective avenues toward understanding the complex dynamics inherent in their diversity contexts. Section one comprises autobiographical research, drawing readers in through life stories. In section two the autobiographical method is grounded in explicit theory. Section three takes the reader into classrooms where practices of teaching and learning are illuminated. In section four, collaboration is highlighted as the focal point within classroom-based self-studies. In section five, self-study is supported by the use of artifacts and visual representation. An additional strength of this book is the inclusion in each chapter of information regarding the use of particular strategies, both for self-study and for teaching for diversity. -- Provided by publisher

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  Playing Mac: A Novella in Two Acts, and Other Scenes

  Grant A. Tracey

  In the novella Playing Mac, Stan doesn’t know why he’s auditioning for a community theater production of 42nd Street. Maybe it’s because his wife wants a divorce, his oldest son feels awkward around him, and his youngest son isn’t even talking. Maybe Stan just wants a fresh start, a new beginning. Whatever his initial motivation to act, Stan finds himself transformed through his theater experience. In playing Mac, Stan discovers a second family. He finds friendship, fellowship, and romance with Ciara, a woman half his age. He’s given a second chance in love and family, but will that promising future with Ciara be obscured by the past? This book also features eight other “scenes,” character-driven short stories with a lot of heart. -- Provided by publisher

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  Notes from the Flyover: Celebrating the Life and Works of Barbara Lounsberry

  Grant A. Tracey, G. Scott Cawelti, Ron Sandvik, and Barbara Lounsberry

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  Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work: The U.S. in Global Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  This introductory social work book provides both a theoretical and applied overview of the U.S. social welfare system, with international perspectives throughout. Other strengths include themes of empowerment theory and practice and an ecosystems framework. Part I is devoted to the history of social work in the U.S. as well as issues of economic oppression, social oppression, human rights, and restorative justice. Part II is devoted to social work across the life cycle. -- Provided by publisher

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  Modern Woodworking: Tools, Materials, and Processes

  Willis H. Wagner and Clois E. Kicklighter

  Modern Woodworking is a comprehensive text designed to meet the needs of both beginning and advanced woodworking classes. This text provides full coverage of standard woodworking procedures, as well as new methods, tools, and materials. Safety is strongly stressed throughout the book, with particular emphasis given to explanation of OSHA and EPA regulations as they apply to woodworkers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Wen Pu Xi: Zhong Mei Wen Hua Shi Ye Xia De Mei Hua Wen Xue Yan Jiu

  Jennie Wang

  Proceedings of a conference called Querying the Genealogy : An International Conference on Chinese American Literature and Chinese Language Literature in the United States held in 2005 in Shanghai.

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  Global Business Citizenship: A Transformative Framework for Ethics and Sustainable Capitalism

  Donna J. Wood, Jeanne M. Logsdon, Kim Davenport, and Patsy Lewellyn

  This practical and engaging book provides a coherent approach to global business responsibility and ethics based on the latest research, theory, and practice. The authors incorporate numerous interesting and current real world examples to support the argument that corporations need to - and can - identify and implement processes that foster ethical conduct, ensure basic human rights, protect the natural environment, and enhance social justice wherever businesses operate around the globe. "Global Business Citizenship" combines elements of political theory, stakeholder relationships, business ethics, corporate social performance, accountability and measurement, and organizational change. Its practical approach encompasses "best practices" in stakeholder management, experiments in applying corporate values to local conditions, and social environmental auditing and reporting. Focusing on the strategic alignment and change management process for implementing business citizenship principles and practices, it is an essential supplement for any course concerned with ethics and social responsibility in today's global business climate.

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  Cook Book: Gertrude Stein, William Cook and Le Corbusier

  Roy R. Behrens

  " ... a biographical sketch of one of Gertrude Stein's closest friends, a largely unknown artist named William Edwards Cook (1881-1959)" -- Dust jacket.

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  A Parent's Guide to Harry Potter

  Gina Burkart

  Harry Potter has captivated the imagination of millions of children. And Harry Potter has caused controversy in churches and schools. What's a parent to do with the magical, mystical world of Harry and his friends? Gina Burkart chose to read the books with her own children. As they read together, she discovered many parallels between Christian faith and the themes of these books. Indeed, the escapades of Harry Potter sparked significant conversation between Burkart and her kids. In this helpful, entertaining guide, Burkart shows how Harry Potter fits into the tradition of fairy tale writing and how this type of literature aids in building a moral framework. She highlights specific situations and emotions from Harry's world that children face in their own life, such as fear, anger, bullies, diversity and the choice of good over evil. Instead of magic words or easy answers, Burkart offers solid, practical advice for helping parents and children navigate Harry Potter's world--and our own--together. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leadership for Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Service

  Christopher R. Edginton, Susan D. Hudson, and Kathleen G. Scholl

  This book presents new perspectives on the importance of leadership in the profession. Integrating theory with practice, the book provides foundational perspectives in the study of leadership at all levels -- direct service, supervisory, managerial and community/civic -- in recreation, parks and leisure service settings. Organised into three sections, the first portion of the book presents theoretical and foundational information on the work of the leader. This is followed by a presentation of the work of leaders within groups. The last section addresses leadership in a number of recreation, parks and leisure service settings. New chapters in this addition include Caring and Ethical Leadership; Leading Change: Innovation, Decision Making and Problem Solving; Leadership and Diversity and Leadership and the Programming Process. The book includes a variety of pedagogical elements including marginal quotes, case studies, vignettes of significant, historical and current leaders, experiential learning experiences and leadership perspectives from current recreation, parks and leisure service professionals. -- Provided by publisher

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  Youth Work: Emerging Perspectives in Youth Development

  Christopher R. Edginton, Christopher L. Kowalski, and Steven W. Randall

  Youth Work provides an introductory overview of the professional practice of youth work and youth development. This book captures the elements that make youth work a unique and powerful experience for those working with young people. Topics include adolescence as a life stage, historical perspectives, approaches and orientations to youth work, practical program and leadership strategies, ethics, multi-culturalism, policy formation, professional career development and more! -- Provided by publisher

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  Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition: Playing the 'Game of Love'

  Louis E. Fenech

  Through an analysis of the Sikh scriptures, eighteenth and nineteenth century Sikh literature, as well as the voluminous tracts and newspapers produced under the auspices of the late nineteenth-century 'reform' movement, the Singh Sabha, this book examines how and why Sikhs began to represent their history as a history of persecutions and martyrdoms. - Provided by publisher

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  Invitation au Monde Francophone

  Anne V. Lair

  Helps students acquire proficiency in communicating within culturally-significant contexts, inviting students to examine and appreciate differences and similarities among individuals and cultures in an interconnected world. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions

  Daniel Power

  Author Dan Power has spent almost 30 years building, studying and teaching others about computerized Decision Support Systems. Dr. Power is first and foremost a Decision Support evangelist and generalist. From his vantage point as editor of DSSResources.COM, he tracks a broad range of contemporary DSS topics. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Communication: Making Connections

  William J. Seiler and Melissa L. Beall

  Lively, clear, and geared to students' needs, Communication: Making Connections directs students on the path to become more skilled, educated, and competent communicators in their everyday lives. Centered on the authors' belief that communication is about connecting, linking, sharing, participating, bonding, coupling, and joining with others, this text introduces students to the skills and theory of communication. It combines student-oriented case studies, exercises, examples, and the authors' conversational style to draw students into the text and motivate them to learn and understand the basic principles of communication. An integrated emphasis on technology-both in the text itself and in the supplements package-helps students learn about its relationship to communication. -- Provided by publisher

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  Teaching Sociological Concepts and the Sociology of Gender

  Marybeth C. Stalp

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  Postmodern Medievalisms

  Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan

  Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and international collection. The volume also effects a critically celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts of "postmodern" scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, and together they indicate, broadly, what is happening both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. The fourteen essays of the collection are organized into four sections, Music (including Pavel Chinizul, Negru Voda, Arvo Part), Art and Architecture (contemporary architecture, Robert Rauschenberg and more), Cinema (Tolkien, Bresson, I>Braveheart among the matters discussed), and Literature (including Sir John Mandeville, Marco Polo, Marvel, Naomi Mitchison). Contributors: FLORIN CURTA, PAUL MURPHY, LEOPOLD BRAUNEISS, JOHN M. GANIM, KARL FUGELSO, VERLYN FLIEGER, WILLIAM D. PADEN, BRIAN LEVY, LESLEY COOTE, A.E. CHRISTA CANITZ, JENNIFER COOLEY, PAUL SMETHURST, ELENA LEVY-NAVAFRO, ANITA OBERMEIER, SYLVIA MITTLER. -- Provided by publisher

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  Sephardic Identity: Essays on a Vanishing Jewish Culture

  George K. Zucker

  The Sephardim, a fast-disappearing group of Jews whose ancestors were exiled from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century, have fought to retain their identity while necessarily assimilating to the surrounding society. This culture was changed by settlement and residence in non-Spanish areas for over four centuries, a Diaspora in the late nineteenth century, and the Nazi Holocaust. Sephardic settlements in Latin America, the United States, Israel, and elsewhere were the result. Because Judaism is as much a culture as a religion, any move toward assimilation into a non-Jewish culture has historically been seen as a threat to Jewish identity: this is an ongoing crisis in Sephardic life. These essays, representing some of the most innovative work being done in Sephardic studies, are divided into sections exploring history, sociology, anthropology, language, literature and the performing arts. Topics include the possibility that the Sephardim are Judaized Arabs, Berbers and Iberians; the role of Spanish exiles in the Ottoman Empire; Sephardic remnants in Greece; Sephardic philosophy; the literature of New Christians (the community that arose out of forcibly converted Jews) whose works reveal Jewish roots; the Judeo-Spanish press in Salonika; and the influences of Sephardism on contemporary Argentine literature. An introduction to Sephardism begins the work and a conclusion discusses the Sephardic Education Center, which hopes to assure the culture's future. -- Provided by publisher

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  I Cried to the Lord: A Study of the Psalms of Solomon's Historical Background and Social Setting

  Kenneth Atkinson

  This study examines the date of composition, the social setting, the provenance, and the religious affiliation of the eighteen Greek poems known as the Psalms of Solomon, a Palestinian Jewish pseudepigraphon from the first century B.C.E. The book is divided into two major historical units: Pompeian and pre-Pompeian era Psalms of Solomon. A separate chapter examines the remaining Psalms of which the precise historical backgrounds are uncertain. All chapters include a translation of the psalm under examination, textual notes, and a discussion of all the characters mentioned in the text. The book explores the Psalms of Solomon's use of poetry to document Pompey's 63 B.C.E. conquest of Jerusalem through a comparison with contemporary classical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, and archaeology. -- Provided by publisher

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  Judaism

  Kenneth Atkinson

  The volumes in the new series Religions of the World surveys religions that have had a major impact on the history of the world and that continue to play a role in relationships between nations and ethnic groups. All aspects--including roots and founding, primary beliefs and cultural activities, the way the faiths are viewed by the rest of the world, and the experience of growing up as a member of the religion--are be examined. As one of the world's most ancient religions, Judaism serves as a foundation for the belief systems of two other major faiths--Christianity and Islam. Although the Jews have faced a long history of persecution, they have managed to survive and to maintain their religion with many of its original practices intact. -- Provided by publisher

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  Manual of Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Infancy through Adulthood

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

  Covers articulation and phonological disorders that span client ages, populations and settings and provides an overview of speech and its orders and addressing how children develop speech perception and production skills for communication. - Provided by publisher

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  Politics In The Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform

  Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri

  The Andean region is perhaps the most violent and politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. Politics in the Andes is the first comprehensive volume to assess the persistent political challenges facing Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Arguing that Andean states and societies have been shaped by common historical forces, the contributors' comparative approach reveals how different countries have responded variously to the challenges and opportunities presented by those forces. Individual chapters are structured around themes of ethnic, regional, and gender diversity; violence and drug trafficking; and political change and democracy. Politics in the Andes offers a contemporary view of a region in crisis, providing the necessary context to link the often sensational news from the area to broader historical, political, economic, and social trends. -- Provided by publisher

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  Legal Solutions in Electronic Reserves and the Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan

  Janet Croft

  Avoid legal consequences in your library by knowing copyright law! Legal Solutions in Electronic Reserves and the Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan guides you through the process of developing policies to protect you, your library, and your patrons. The book examines the philosophy and regulations behind the laws and guidelines that apply directly to library services, allowing library staff and administration to better understand why these rules are needed. This vital resource offers suggestions and advice to ensure your library can offer the best services to your patrons while staying within the boundaries of the law.

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  Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings

  Janet Croft

  This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Peter Jackson's film adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings including scriptwriting and the creative process, the place of the films in cinematic history, gender roles in the films and the books, wisdom and councils, hobbits and heroism, fan culture and fanfic, the use of Tolkien's languages in the films, and other issues.

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  Civil-Military Relations, Nation-Building, and National Identity: Comparative Perspectives

  Constantin P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra Kumar Vajpeyi, and Amir Bar'or

  In an increasingly complex post-Cold War world system, scholars interested in conflict and conflict resolution must consider a wider collection of variables in drawing conclusions about important security issues. This compendium features 13 original essays that explore the importance of culture and identity with respect to civil-military relations, national security, and nation building. Contributors reflect upon both theoretical and substantive issues and draw from case studies representing different regions of the world. The work begins with two articles offering theoretical and cross-cultural treatment of conflict and conflict resolution. Next, authors include ten case studies that explore the re-emergence of identity as a focal ingredient in determining national security doctrine. Case studies range from China to Southern Europe to Liberia to Brazil. A third section concentrates on the role of nationalism. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure Programming: A Service-Centered and Benefits Approach

  Rodney B. Dieser and Christopher R. Edginton

  This comprehensive text addresses all three levels of leisure programming: direct service delivery; program planning, and program management. It focuses on issues related to customer service and benefits-such as providing leisure experiences, assessing customer needs, evaluating program impact, promoting positive customer and leader interactions, analyzing and implementing policies, and supervising staff. -- Provided by publisher

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  Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialization of the Internet

  Bettina Fabos

  Offers a critique of the role of the Internet in American schools. Investigates the advertising campaigns and other corporate maneuvers that got schools online, as well as the way that educators use the Web in the classroom. -- Provided by publisher

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  Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870- 1900

  Julie Husband and Jim O'Loughlin

  Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before. First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work. -- Provided by publisher

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  Golf Course Pollution Prevention Guide

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pollution prevention can be defined as: “The use of materials, processes, or practices that reduces or eliminates the creation of pollutants or wastes at the source.” Pollution prevention represents a shift away from the old school of thought, “pollution control,” in which waste was not dealt with until after it was generated. Through pollution prevention, we look at the processes that generate the waste to see if we can avoid creating a waste in the first place, or at least reduce the hazardous nature of the waste. When this is not possible, the next best solution to prevent wastes from having a negative impact on the environment is through careful management and recycling. This manual will help golf course maintenance staff identify areas where pollution prevention techniques can be applied in a practical manner. Each section presents a waste type common to golf courses accompanied by pollution prevention recommendations. Although the focus of this manual is on pollution prevention, regulatory information is given as necessary where it impacts pollution prevention practices and to illustrate how pollution prevention can help reduce regulatory requirements.

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  Pacific Skies: American Flyers in World War II

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these skies that air power launched from carriers became a new form of engagement and where the war ultimately ended with kamikaze attacks and with atomic bombs dropped over Japan.
  
  Throughout the conflict American flyers felt a compelling call to supplement the official news and military reports. In vivid accounts written soon after combat and in reflective memoirs recorded in the years after peace came, both pilots and crew members detailed their stories of the action that occurred in the embattled skies. Their first-person testimonies describe a style of warfare invented at the moment of need and at a time when the outcome was anything but certain.
  
  Gathering more than a hundred personal narratives from Americans and from Japanese, Pacific Skies recounts a history of air combat in the Pacific theater. Included are the words of such famous aces and bomber pilots as Joe Foss, Pappy Boyington, Dick Bong, and Curtis Lemay, as well as the words of many rank-and-file airmen. Together their stories express fierce individualism and resourcefulness and convey the vast panorama of war that included the skies over Pearl Harbor, Wake, and Guadalcanal and missions from Saipan and Tinian.
  
  As Pacific Skies recounts the perilous lives of pilots in their own words, Jerome Klinkowitz weaves the individual stories into a gripping historical narrative that exposes the shades of truth and fiction that can become blurred over time. A book about experiencing and remembering, Pacific Skies also is a story of unique perspectives on the war.
  
  Jerome Klinkowitz, a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of forty books, including such World War II titles as Their Finest Hours, Yanks over Europe, and With Tigers over China. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Vonnegut Effect

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible. -- Provided by publisher

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  Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz

  Jerome Klinkowitz, Zygmunt Mazur, and Richard J. Utz

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  Mixed Automorphic Forms, Torus Bundles, and Jacobi Forms

  Min Ho Lee

  This volume deals with various topics around equivariant holomorphic maps of Hermitian symmetric domains and is intended for specialists in number theory and algebraic geometry. In particular, it contains a comprehensive exposition of mixed automorphic forms that has never yet appeared in book form. The main goal is to explore connections among complex torus bundles, mixed automorphic forms, and Jacobi forms associated to an equivariant holomorphic map. Both number-theoretic and algebro-geometric aspects of such connections and related topics are discussed. -- Provided by publisher

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  Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation

  Stephen E. Lobell and Philip Mauceri

  Combining theoretical analyses with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state regional and international actors, changes in the ethnic balance of power, and the degree of economic, social, and cultural integration within the regional or global system. The variety of approaches provides useful analytical tools for students, while the diversity of cases from different regions gives the reader a sense of the scope of such problems. -- Provided by publisher

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  Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media

  Christopher Martin

  Christopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put the labor movement in a bad light even while avoiding the appearance of bias. Martin has found that the news media construct "common ground" narratives between labor and management positions by reporting on labor relations from a consumer perspective. Martin identifies five central storytelling frames using this consumer orientation that repeatedly emerged in the news media coverage of major labor stories in the 1990s: the 1991–94 shutdown of the General Motors Willow Run Assembly Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan; the 1993 American Airlines flight attendant strike; the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, the 1997 United Parcel Service strike, and the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization's conference in Seattle. In Martin's view, the news media's consumer "take" on the labor movement has the effect of submerging issues of citizenship, political activity, and class relations, and elevating issues of consumption and the myth of a class-free America. Instead of facilitating a public sphere, the democratic ideal in which the public can engage in discovery and rational-critical debate, Martin says, news organizations have fostered a consumer sphere, in which public discourse and action is defined in terms of consumer interests―the impact of strikes, lock-outs, shut-downs, and protests on the general consumer economy and the price, quality, and availability of things such as automobiles, airline flights, and baseball tickets. -- Provided by publisher

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  The legacy of the Holocaust : national perspectives

  Zygmunt Mazur

  Reversal of fortune / Ellen Ben-Sefer -- Raoul Wallenberg : commemorating his moral courage in Budapest in the nations of Hungary, Sweden, Israel, and the USA / Ruth G. Biro -- The Holocaust through the eyes of an artist : the German-American Walter Gaudnek grapples with the Nazi past / Bernard H. Decker -- The politics of memory : in the best interest of Jewry / Brenda Gaydosh -- Modern day Masada : moral commitment and the sacrifice of Norway's Jews / Ethan Hollander -- "Don't turn away -- look!" : US Army Signal Corps film footage of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and American perspectives on the Holocaust, 1945-1948 / Julie Jacoby -- The good soldier and his daughter : family silence and the roots of Holocaust denial / Jeff Kleiman -- German victims of KL Auschwitz / Joachim Neander -- Accurate? : oral history of the survivor / Diane M. Plotkin -- An alternative perspective : historical revision and Holocaust denial / Mark Polnoroff -- Teaching the Holocaust in US schools today : prognosis, problems, and prescriptions / Donald Schwartz -- Identity politics and the Holocaust : retrospective views of three Polish experiences / Susanne Bleiberg Seperson -- From the depths : Monsieur Klein, France / Simon P. Sibelman -- We have failed, again / Anton Weiss-Wendt.

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, Nancy Neslund, and Kristofer Neslund

  Law, Business, and Society, 7/e, by Tony McAdams, takes an interdisciplinary approach utilizing elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility and management. The author’s primary goal is to produce a compelling holistic picture of the concepts by giving extensive attention to readings, provocative quotes and factual details. Students learn not merely the law but the law in context.

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  West African Kingdoms, 500-1590

  Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

  World Eras is patterned after the award-winning American Decade's series. Covering areas often overlooked by other publications, World Eras provides a multicultural approach that directly reflects changing curriculum standards, with a cross-disciplinary overview of world history and a strong emphasis of daily life and social history.

  Each volume in this set contains in-depth coverage of one era and is organized into ten chapters: World events -- A Chronology; Geography; The Arts -- Sculpture, Architecture, Painting and Music; Communications, Transportation and Exploration; Social class Systems and the Economy -- focusing on social-economic hierarchy ; Politics, Law and the Military; Leisure, Recreation and Daily life -- housing, clothing, food, education, etc.; Family and Social Trends -- customs, beliefs, roles and responsibilities; Religion and Philosophy; Science, Technology and Health.

  Each volume includes an introductory essay that provides context and overview of the era written by a scholar in the field and will contain 150 photographs, line drawings, diagrams, illustrations and sidebars. Each chapter within a volume includes an introductory essay, a timeline, entries on specific topics, events or movements, biographies of prominent individuals, and important publications of the era. A glossary of subject-specific terms appears at the end of the book.

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  World Eras Volume 10: West African Kingdoms, 500-1590

  Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

  This volume, focusing on West African kingdoms and empires, presents topical entries on events, ideas, developments, material conditions, and personalities.

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  Hinduism

  James Burnell Robinson

  Although the polytheistic religion of India has had a limited influence outside its native nation, it has none-the-less always been a subject of interest to both scholars and lay people alike. With its controversial caste system and its pantheon of unusual deities, Hinduism is very different from most faiths common in the West. -- Provided by publisher

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  Exploring Mathematics Through Literature: Articles and Lessons for Prekindergarten Through Grade 8

  Diane Thiessen

  This collection of articles and lessons provides classroom examples of how to use children's literature to teach mathematics effectively in prekindergarten through eighth grade. The articles focus on five content strands number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability and describe how the different authors have used specific books to help their students learn mathematics. Most of the articles involve communication, problem solving, representation, and reasoning, and some of them address connections. Helpful teacher notes indicate the grade range, topic, literature selection featured in the lesson, materials needed, discussion of the mathematics, and questions for students. Blackline masters of recording sheets are also included for most lessons. -- Provided by publisher

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  Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  Katherine van Wormer's Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, she unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. Readers will find extensive discussion of the skills of critical analysis needed to confront oppression and injustice, backed up by examples of human services programs that successfully deploy strategies of empowerment. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Game of Science Education

  Jeffrey Weld

  An accessible and authoritative approach to effective science teaching, this text is the work of 16 contributors who each employ a single metaphor that will resonate with readers-that science education can and should be considered a game of sorts. Because metaphor has been demonstrated to be a potent tool for learning a novel concept in science, the authors use the universality of games and sports to educate teachers about science teaching. Each author has carefully woven a game or sports metaphor into his/her chapter and supplemented it with a quotation pertinent to the theme. Many of this book's contributors were involved in the development and draft review of the National Science Education Standards, and therefore fully appreciate the importance of overtly linking research-based commentary and recommendations to the Standards. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Find Group Pottery from the Swedish Excavations at Sinda, Cyprus: Significant Sherds Selected by Arne Furumark for his Working Notebook

  Charles M. Adelman and Arne Furumark

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  Student-directed learning

  Martin Agran

  This volume offers specific teaching strategies for helping students learn self-monitoring, self-evaluation, picture cues, self-instruction, problem solving and other student-directed learning strategies.--Publisher.

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  Juvenile Delinquency

  Clemens Bartollas

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  Voices of Delinquency

  Clemens Bartollas

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  White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories

  Harry Brod, Emmett Schaefer, Loewen, and Cooper Thompson

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  Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels: the Radicalism of American Womanhood, 1830-1865

  Barbara Cutter

  "Cutter argues that "redemptive womanhood"--The idea that women hold active responsibility for the nation's moral and religious health - is the key element of gender ideology in antebellum and Civil War America. In this era, society for the first time allowed and encouraged women's involvement in the public sphere, as long as it was done for the good of the country. The idea of redemptive womanhood prepared women to go to any lengths to defend their nation. During the Civil War, this ideology encouraged women, particularly those from the North, to organize relief efforts, nurse soldiers, and even enlist in the army disguised as men." "Exploring the ways in which nineteenth-century women transformed American society, Domestic Devils, Battlefield Angels sheds new light on a gender ideology that fostered public participation and action - even violence - in the name of women's redemptive moral power."--Jacket

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  Leisure: Basic Concepts

  Christopher R. Edginton, Roger L. Coles, and Michelle L. McClelland

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  Research in Reading Recovery: Volume 2

  Salli Forbes and Connie Briggs

  In the national debate about scientifically based research and accountability, Reading Recovery (R) has come under scrutiny-and has proven its worth. Evidence supports Reading Recovery on several fronts: its solid research base since its inception, its high success rate with the lowest-performing first-grade students, its cost-effectiveness, its assessment measures, and its response to change, including specific adaptations to emphasize phonemic awareness and phonics. This book goes even further in documenting Reading Recovery's real research, bringing readers up to date on findings since the first volume of the same name appeared in 1997.
  Salli Forbes and Connie Briggs have collected many of the best research articles published from 1998 to 2002 in Literacy Teaching and Learning, the journal of the Reading Recovery Council of North America. The articles address many of the aspects of the design of Reading Recovery, especially those related to children's learning and development. These aspects include:
  the importance of writing as part of early literacy instruction
  motivation as a key factor in learning
  phonological awareness as it is taught in Reading Recovery.
  Other articles address issues related to program description and evaluation, including:
  results of Reading Recovery instruction of English language learners
  sustained effects of the Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura results
  impact of Reading Recovery on children's personal and emotional development
  effects of success on children's home literacy experiences
  development of leadership skills through teacher leader training.
  Constant fine-tuning is the key to the success of Reading Recovery. Continually evolving and expanding in relation to new research, it sets an example for ongoing professional development. This book will contribute to that development for Reading Recovery teachers, teacher leaders, and trainers, as well as other early literacy educators. Its publication supports the efforts of the Reading Recovery Council of North America.
  *The Reading Recovery Council of North America, Inc. is a not-for-profit association of Reading Recovery professionals, advocates, and partners. The Council provides a network of opportunities for leadership and professional development. Nearly 11,000 individuals have become members of the Council since its establishment in 1995. Members include Reading Recovery teachers, teacher leaders, site coordinators, university trainers, partners who are classroom teachers, early literacy educators, Title I teachers, school principals and administrators, school board members, researchers, parents, and community members. -- Provided by publisher

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  Swedish Excavations at Sinda, Cyprus: Excavations Conducted by Arne Furumark 1947-1948

  Arne Furumark and Charles M. Adelman

  When Arne Furumark was entrusted with writing the Late Bronze Age summary volume for the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, he realized that a habitation site was needed in order to clarify problems associated with the last phases of that period. As neither the French nor the Cypriote excavations at Enkomi had yet been published he decided to find his own site: he scouted several, but settled on Sinda because recent illicit digging there had thrown up sherds of a sort never before seen on the Island, namely Mycenaean IIIC1b. He conducted two short excavation seasons but the control excavation he planned was aborted when he received notice from the Cypriote authorities that there was large scale destruction of the site. Although there is evidence of earlier and later habitation at Sinda, the most important is the Late Bronze Age fortified town (probably built along the copper trading route), with its three phases: Sinda I, II, and III.
  Sinda I, which saw the building of the defense system and had a material culture including local Cypriote wares as well as examples of Mycenaean IIIB, suffered major destruction. Sinda II followed: Structures were repaired and built, and were accompanied by a rich material culture including Mycenaean IIIC1a and great quantities of locally produced, early IIIC1b materials. A second catastrophe brought an end to that town. Sinda III followed, a poorer town, but with examples of locally produced, developed IIIC1b wares of the Close Style. Furumark's interpretation that the two destructions were brought about first by Greek settlers and then by Sea Peoples has been challenged by more recent archaeological evidence which lowers the date of Mycenaean IIIB. Paul Astrom, in his summary suggests a reasonable alternative, that pirates and adventurers were responsible for the destructions. -- Provided by publisher

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  Ghost Wars

  Vince Gotera

  Winner of the 2004 Global Filipino Award for Poetry, Ghost Wars brings together sixteen new and previously published poems that work to understand the effects of war on all who are touched by it. As a Vietnam era veteran, as well as the grandson, son, and brother of combat veterans, Gotera writes from experience on the contradictory psychological demands made of soldiers. In Ghost Wars men in combat exist in the moment, capturing and being captured by the power of violence. But the individuals of war s aftermath live with the implications of their actions, struggling with an always-present past as they endeavor to carve out moments of understanding, of forgiveness, and of love. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Cutting Fluid Management: Small Machining Operations

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  This manual has been organized into seven sections. Section 1 introduces the reader to fluid management and potential rewards of a fluid management program. Section 2 provides a brief review of cutting fluid systems, functions of cutting fluids and characteristics a fluid should have in order to perform safely and effectively. Section 3 presents information on cutting fluid selection and types of cutting fluids available. It covers the four types of metalworking fluids used today, their advantages and disadvantages, and factors to consider in selecting a fluid. Section 4 is the main focus of this manual. It discusses the four integral components of fluid management–administration, monitoring, maintenance, and recycling. It provides information on practices that can be readily adopted to prevent the onset of fluid degradation, maintain fluid quality, extend fluid service life and reduce waste. Section 5 presents information on waste management and disposal. It provides an overview of environmental regulations that pertain to spent cutting fluid and reviews possible disposal alternatives for waste cutting fluid. Section 6 looks at alternatives to cutting fluids. Advantages and disadvantages of dry machining and other existing technology is examined, and information is presented on a number of emerging technologies that can extend cutting fluid life or even eliminate traditional cutting fluids altogether. Section 7 provides detailed information on the subject of worker health and safety, and provides sources for additional information on this subject. Appendix A contains several case studies. These studies demonstrate how the many pieces of a cutting fluid management system can be fit together to provide an effective, economical and efficient operation.

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  Building Competence in Classroom Management and Discipline

  Annette M. Iverson

  With an emphasis on Ecological theory, while incorporating the principles of Positive Behavior Support, and Problem-Solving/Functional Behavioral Assessment, this book addresses classroom management theory and strategies for three age groups: early childhood, middle school, and secondary school. As in prior editions, the goal of this book is to broaden and deepen future teachers' understanding of the behavioral problems they are likely to encounter, as well as the solutions they are likely to find effective. Current trends in education are thoroughly explored and analyzed; and, research-based strategies are drawn from the full spectrum of management styles: behavioral, cognitive behavioral, social learning, and humanistic. For future teachers of pre, middle, and secondary school students in tomorrow's classrooms. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Challenge of Hegemony: Grand Strategy, Trade, and Domestic Politics

  Steven E. Lobell

  The Challenge of Hegemony explains how international forces subtly influence foreign, economic, and security policies of declining world powers. Using detail-rich case studies, this sweeping study integrates domestic and systemic policy to explain these countries' grand strategies. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications for the future of American foreign policy. -- Provided by publisher

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  Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

  Michael J. Schott and Norah Moloney

  The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function, means of production, raw material sourcing and exchange systems, and the evolution of human cognition, social organization and symbolic behavior.

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  Parallel Lines and the Hockey Universe

  Grant A. Tracey

  Parallel Lines and the Hockey Universe is a novel that is often like a short story collection--it begins with a family of Macedonian-Canadians, the Traicheffs. One son stays in a working class suburb of Toronto, driving a cab while he tries to decide what to do with his life. His brother marries a middle-class Iowan and takes to writing sports for the Waterloo paper. He writes about hockey, the Canadian national game, which has also emigrated. And Tracey writes about the players on the team and their coaches and fans, about the kids the brothers knew in school, and about the music and movies they use as points of reference on their way to adulthood. I read it all at once, almost afraid to pause to look back at a book so undeniably real. Like life, perusal has no time outs. -- Provided by publisher

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  Local Democracy and Politics in South Asia : Towards Internal Decolonization?

  Dhirendra Vajpeyi

  The book provides an analysis of local government in five South Asian countries; their evolution from the colonial period to present, and recent steps towards democratisation, decentralization, debureaucratization and fiscal autonomy. Most of these countries share a common colonial legacy and an administrative framework inherited from the British, yet, their paths to nation-building and political development have been quite diverse. -- Provided by publisher

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  Addiction Treatment : a Strengths Perspective

  Katherine Van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis

  This book presents the strengths perspective as the unifying framework of the text to bridge the gap between 12-step approaches and harm reduction in addictions treatment. This perspective is applied to the treatment of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions. The biopsychosocial framework is the organizing framework for this text. Divided into four parts, ADDICTION TREATMENT is comprised of three core sections that cover the biology, psychology, and social aspects of addiction respectively.-- Provided by publisher

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  Invitation to Corrections: With Built-in Study Guides

  Clemens L. Bartollas

  This new text invites students to look at corrections through a variety of lenses, to become involved in policy and practice as informed citizens, and to consider careers in corrections. This low cost paperback with a built-in Study Guide is a tremendous value! Students gain a balanced perspective on the realities of the corrections system, the people involved both inside and outside the system, and positive approaches to problems and solutions. Practical information, the lived experiences of individuals, and issues and ideas take center stage. A sociological approach helps students understand how the corrections system works in relation to social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts. -- Provided by publisher

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  False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage

  Roy R. Behrens

  An engaging and often amusing account of the little known use of artists, designers, and architects as army, navy, and civilian camouflage experts (called "camoufleurs") during World Wars I and II. Described and illustrated are documented attempts--some ingenious, others bizarre--at "fooling the eye" by such prominent artists (from France, England, the US, and Germany) as Abbott H. Thayer, Jean-Louis Forain, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Jacques Villon, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Norman Wilkinson, Everett Warner, Sherry Fry, Barry Faulkner, Homer Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Waugh, Edward Seago, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Charles Burchfield, Oskar Schlemmer, Franz Marc, Edward Wadsworth, William Stanley Hayter, Roland Penrose, Julian Trevelyan, Eric Sloane, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, Jon Gnagy, Arshile Gorky, Victor Papenek, and Ellsworth Kelly. Illustrated by 120 vintage photographs, diagrams, and artworks, the text explains how the strategies used to conceal objects in nature and warfare are based on the very same "unit-forming factors" that artists, designers, and architects use every day in the creation of paintings, prints, fonts, logos, page layouts, web sites, furniture, buildings, and so on. Throughout the book, the author makes shrewd observations about the connections of art, design, and camouflage to such seemingly wide-ranging topics as Gestalt psychology, esthetics, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, psychoanalysis, kindergarten, creativity, the Bauhaus, Frank Lloyd Wright, humor, dream analysis, Rockwell Kent, poetry, pickpockets, and sleight of hand. Of additional interest are a camouflage timeline, an account of the etymology of the word camouflage, and a 10-page bibliography, the largest ever compiled on the subject of art and camouflage. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the Holocaust

  Harry Brod, Zygmunt Mazur, Arnold Krammer, and Wladyslaw Witalisz

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  Courtiers, Courtesans, Picaros, and Prostitutes: the art and artifice of selling one's self in Golden Age Spain

  Jennifer Jo Cooley

  This work examines the place of literature in Golden Age Spain by exploring the implications of the shifting means of evaluating the worth of the individual in a culture bent on preserving traditional societal divisions. A blend of textual analysis of canonical literature and theoretical concerns, the examination of traditionally divergent sets of literary genres explores two disparate worldviews, the cultural elite versus the marginalized. The book analyzes questions of social mobility and linguistic performance: how battles for the acquisition and preservation of status lead to the ultimate revelation of the ‘self’s’ verbal and intellectual skills as merely a ruse. The emergence of a ‘self’ defined by its success in social exchange then becomes a parallel for commercial exchange in a developing capitalist society.

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  Medieval Forms of Argument: Disputation and Debate

  Georgiana Donavin, Carol Poster, and Richard Utz

  These studies illustrate the various high and late medieval transformations of formal and formalized argument, from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective and it challenges today's dominant disciplinary approaches to what was and is still a pervasive mode of thought in the West. Many current treatments of disputational texts have a narrow focus either on the history of scholasticism, rhetoric, and pedagogy, or the genesis and function of such period-specific forms of academic altercation as demonstrative, dialectic, or sophistic disputation, or the later quaestiones, quodlibeta, and sophismata. Moreover, scholarship in literature often ignores the parallel structures of academic argument and narrowly focuses on the narrative and aesthetic functions of debate poetry. In contrast to these tendencies, the contributions to this volume afford a view which enables readers to recognize that the manifold formalized discursive practices of positing a thesis, constructing a counter antithesis, and then finding a synthesis permeated not only the cathedral schools and universities and their direct textual products (commentaries, formal disputations, sermons, and so forth), but were received by a wide range of other discursive realms. Especially in the high and late Middle Ages the academic disputation gradually moved from the isolation of the universities and toward extracurricular forms of debate between theologians (e.g., the public quaestiones disputatae; epistolary theological debates between Christians and Muslims) and in literary genres (e.g. querelle, debate poem). By confronting sample investigations from all these related forms of medieval argument, the volume examines the ways in which disputational forms - sometimes directly dependent on academic practices, sometimes showing organizational, structural, and discursive parallels - established themselves as a central mode of thinking for Western society. To achieve this goal, the volume unites contributions from the English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of the disputational mode and discusses central issues of academic, political, theological, courtly and literary debates. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives

  Christopher R. Edginton, Debra J. Jordan, Donald G. DeGraaf, and Susan Edginton

  What is life satisfaction? What is the connection between leisure and life satisfaction? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives. See how leisure professionals craft environments that help individuals, groups, and communities achieve a better quality of life and greater happiness and satisfaction. Gain an understanding of the phenomenon of leisure by examining it from its sociological and psychological perspectives. -- Provided by publisher

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  Camp Leadership: A Staff Development Approach

  Julianne Gassman, Donald G. DeGraaf, Ronald D. Ramsing, and Kathy H. DeGraaf

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  Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works

  Samuel Lyndon Gladden

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  Organizational Change, Environmental Uncertainty, and Managerial Control in a Large Post-Reform American Prison System

  Joe Gorton

  This work by Dr. Gorton demonstrates how organizational restructuring centralized control over the managerial process and also provides an in-depth analysis of how a large prison system was restructured in response to rapid growth and increased pressure from outside the organization by civil rights activists practitioners, scholars, and the federal courts. Preface; Many people are fascinated by the dangerous and mysterious world of American prisons. This is not surprising, for contemporary prisons are truly remarkable organizations. Confronted by constantly changing political, cultural and demographic forces, modern prisons are complex organizations that often pursue disjointed goals. On one hand, they administer punitive sanctions against large aggregates of social misfits, many of whom actively resist coercive social control. Making matters more difficult is the requirement that the punitive enterprise comply with ever-changing legal standards that define permissible forms of punishment. On the other hand, most prisons are required to provide services that seek to promote inmates' personal growth. Visit most large prisons and you will discover programs focusing on substance abuse treatment, vocational training, secondary and post-secondary education, domestic violence counseling, psychological treatment, faith-based counseling, and so on. The conflicting goals of treatment and control are complicated by the necessity to safeguard the security of inmates, staff, visitors and the facility itself. Moreover, much of this work is performed by correctional officers whose jobs earn them low salaries and little prestige. Given these complex mandates, it is understandable that social scientists and others have long been interested in prisons. However, even a basic familiarity with the research literature reveals that the most intense focus of this attention has been on prison subcultures. Surprisingly, few scholars have conducted in-depth analyses of prisons as bureaucracies. -- Provided by publisher

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  Prisoners From Nambu : Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy

  Reinier H. Hesselink

  On July 29, 1643, ten crew members of the Dutch yacht Breskens were lured ashore at Nambu in northern Japan. Once out of view of their ship, the men were bound and taken to the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in Edo, where they remained imprisoned for four months. Later the Japanese government forced the Dutch East India Company representative in Nagasaki to acknowledge that the sailors had in fact been saved from shipwreck and that official recognition of the rescue (i.e., a formal visit from a Dutch ambassador) was in order. Prisoners from Nambu provides a lively, engrossing narrative of this relatively obscure incident, while casting light on the history of the period as a whole. Expertly constructing his tale from primary sources, the author examines relations between the Dutch East India Company and the shogunal government immediately following the promulgation of the "seclusion laws" (sakokurei) and anti-Christian campaigns.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Technical Assistance Providers' Guide to Extending Your Reach Through Local Economic Development

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  The Guide to Extending Your Reach through Local Economic Developers was prepared as a step-by-step work plan for technical assistance providers to extend their targeted promotional efforts through local economic developers. Building on existing relationships that the economic developers have with area businesses, the Guide provides advice, support material, and insight into the process of partnering with a local, trusted entity to build a strong foundation in the community with regard to utilizing the provider’s technical assistance program to fill the environmental niche in the business community.

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  Material Weights and Conversions

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center and Iowa Waste Exchange

  The reference information below is designed as a guide for the listing of materials on the Iowa Waste Exchange database. All materials need to be listed in pounds. This information is intended for estimation purposes when the material’s weight is unavailable.

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  The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems

  Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson

  The Farm as Natural Habitat is a vital new contribution to the debate about agriculture and its impacts on the land. Arising from the conviction that the agricultural landscape as a whole could be restored to a healthy diversity, the book challenges the notion that the dominant agricultural landscape - bereft of its original vegetation and wildlife and despoiled by chemical runoff - is inevitable if we are to feed ourselves. Contributors bring together insights and practices from the fields of conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, and environmental restoration to link agriculture and biodiversity, farming and nature, in celebrating a unique alternative to conventional agriculture. Rejecting the idea that "ecological sacrifice zones" are a necessary part of feeding a hungry world, the book offers compelling examples of an alternative agriculture that can produce not only healthful food, but fully functioning ecosystems and abundant populations of native species. Contributors include Collin Bode, George Boody, Brian DeVore, Arthur (Tex) Hawkins, Buddy Huffaker, Rhonda Janke, Richard Jefferson, Nick Jordan, Cheryl Miller, Heather Robertson, Carol Shennan, Judith Soule, Beth Waterhouse, and others. The Farm as Natural Habitat is both hopeful and visionary, grounded in real examples, and guided by a commitment to healthy land and thriving communities. It is the first book to offer a viable approach to addressing the challenges of protecting and restoring biodiversity on private agricultural land and is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of land or biodiversity conservation, farming and agriculture, ecological restoration, or the health of rural communities and landscapes.

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  Hero of the Heartland: Billy Sunday and the Transformation of American Society, 1862-1935

  Robert Martin

  Hero of the Heartland is an interpretive biography that focuses on the ways in which the man and his career resonated with the hopes and fears of his contemporaries as they coped with the economic, social, and cultural changes around the start of the 20th century. Robert F. Martin shows how Sunday and his revivalism helped his followers bridge the gap between the traditional past and the progressive future, and made more comfortable the transition from the old order to the new. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers

  Daniel J. Power

  For MIS specialists and nonspecialists alike, teacher and consultant Dan Power provides a readable, comprehensive, understandable guide to the concepts and applications of decision support systems. Not only does his book help enhance your DSS design and development capabilities, it also shows how DSS can buttress organization goals and the impact DSS have throughout organizations and at all levels of management. Power defines DSS broadly: interactive computer-based systems and subsystems that help people use computer communications, data, documents, knowledge, and models to solve problems and make decisions. He focuses his book on practical applications, but also includes important and relevant empirical research and underlying theory. His book thus provides enough concrete detail to help grasp the essentials of DSS, but it also gives advanced tips and suggestions to DSS specialists too. For people trained in fields outside the information sciences, Power's book is especially valuable. It gives them the knowledge they need to work with their MIS colleagues and to truly appreciate the management value of information technology overall.

  Power makes clear that decision support systems differ and that managers must specify what they want, based on their needs and the purposes to which the systems will be put. They should know how to build DSS and understand the basics of networking, security, and web-based DSS. Thus, of special interest is the structure that Power uses to organize his book. In Chapter 1 he presents an expanded framework for categorizing DSS. Chapters 2-5 provide a general managerial and technical perspective on building DSS. In Chapters 7 through 11 he lays out the details and gives examples of the general types of DSS. The last chapter, Evaluating Decision Support System Projects, reviews and discusses the tools and issues associated with assessing proposals for DSS projects. The book also includes a glossary and DSS audit questions, giving it special, ongoing value to all readers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Teaching Clay Science

  Audrey C. Rule and Stephen Guggenheim

  The teaching of clay science is often thought of as forming the curriculum of an upper-level college course for juniors, seniors and graduate students. Although clays and clay minerals are complex subjects often requiring extensive background to understand in detail, introducing topics related to clays does not require such specialization. Furthermore, clays are a part of modern everyday life, being found in common household products (from toothpaste, toilets, and cat litter to paper, plastics, and fine china). It does not seem reasonable to wait until a student reaches the upper-college level to introduce the subject, although the introduction of clay science must be approached at levels appropriate to the student's development and background. In fact, one of us (A. Rule) has successfully introduced crystallography concepts of crystal shape and symmetry, and has taught lessons in the industrial uses of clay minerals at the primary-school level. Education scholars have developed procedures for teaching that closely parallel the way humans learn. For the most part, these instructional practices have not been implemented at the college level, although such teaching methods could easily be applied to benefit college-level students. The idea of a Teaching Clay Science Workshop was developed over the last three years to integrate the efforts of education scholars, high-school teachers and college professionals toward improving clay-science instruction. This integration of learning theory with clay-science teaching has produced a unique set of example lessons, which resulted in this volume of Workshop Lectures. Finally, we express our appreciation to P. Schroeder for taking our edited manuscripts and organizing them to conform to the CMS Workshop Lectures Series. Also, we thank M. Krekeler for working through all of the laboratories presented here and for providing his comments to the authors.-- Provided by Amazon.com

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  Communication: Making Connections

  William J. Seiler and Melissa L. Beall

  Designed to give your students the extra support they need to succeed in your classroom, our Study Edition of Seiler/Beall's Communication: Making Connections, Fifth Edition, offers perforated chapter practice tests at the end of the textbook, an optional Practice Test Solutions Manual with access to professional tutoring, and an Instructor's Answer Key with solutions and ready-made midterm and final exams. Containing the same engaging and effective features that have made Communication: Making Connections such a success, the Study Edition offers an additional bonus: perforated chapter quizzes at no extra cost to students. Because the answers to the practice tests are not included in the Study Edition, instructors can use the tests as quizzes or as extra homework. If instructors prefer to give students the option of checking their own results, they can package the Study Edition with our Practice Test Solutions Manual for FREE. Also included FREE with this option is our Tutor Center Access Card to provide students with extra study support from our qualified Tutor Center professionals by phone, fax, e-mail, and the Internet. With either ordering option, students get a valuable and effective study system not found in other books! The text authors, experienced in the teaching and management of the basic communication course, believe that communication is about connecting, linking, sharing, participating, bonding, coupling, or joining with others. This text uses student-oriented scenarios, exercises and examples, as well as the authors' conversational style, to draw students into the book and motivate them to learn and understand the basic principles of communication. An integrated emphasis on technology-both in the text itself and in the supplements package-helps students learn about its relationship to communication. -- Provided by publisher

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  Filmography of American History

  Grant A. Tracey

  Containing over 200 films, this resource is ideal for students, teachers, and other viewers who are interested in using films to enhance their knowledge of American historical events and periods. Along with traditional historical categories, such as the two World Wars, the Civil War, and the Great Depression, the book emphasizes immigrant, multicultural, and women-centered films to portray the fullness of the American experience. It also analyzes representations of people and events across different films for a variety of viewpoints, and considers how films reconfigure a past era through the issues of the day in which they were produced.

  For ease of use, the book is organized into time periods. Each entry contains:

  -- the setting

  -- director

  -- cast

  -- credits

  -- the year of production

  -- distributor

  Ratings are supplied to identify audience-appropriateness. The detailed narrative supplies a brief plot summary along with a thesis supported by strong examples from the film, such as excerpts of dialogue and factual details from history. The entries encourage readers to view the film through the lens of history and to consider it within the larger nexus of films listed in that particular chapter. Frequently, the historical focus considers both the time period depicted in the film and the time period in which it was made. The running times provide readers with a quick access to key scenes for further study. Each entry also concludes with sources for further reading, and indexes identify those films with multicultural and women's themes. -- Provided by publisher

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  Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948

  Richard Utz

  In her magisterial study, Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900, Caroline Spurgeon stated that 'The work done on Chaucer by scholars in modern Germany is so vast that it would need a volume to itself to deal adequately with it'. This study fills this scholarly desideratum by surveying the genesis and development of the largest body of non-Anglophone Chaucer criticism from the beginning of the nineteenth century to 1945. Such a history of Chaucer reception mirrors the general cultural and political developments in Germany and in German academia from the revolutionary and liberal Chaucer of the 'Vormaerz' (pre-March 1848) period, the conservative Chaucer of the post-1848 restoration, the 'Germanization' of Chaucer after the country's formation as a nation state (1871), the demise of German Chaucer studies after World War I and during the Weimar Republic, the ideological utilization of Chaucer during the Third Reich, to the sporadic Chaucer criticism after 1945. A strong focus will be upon the 'Chaucerphilologie' (1870-1914) when philological positivism evolved and triumphed, and how even today positivism and philological source study and editorial work is esteemed above 'foreign' (non-German) scholars who engage in aestheticist, essayistic and hence 'unscientific' approaches. The study follows German Chaucer criticism in a largely chronological manner, with biographies of key scholars (Ten Brink, Koch, Zupitza) and studies of specific philological feuds (Lange vs. Langhans on the authenticity of Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la Rose; Curtius vs. Glunz on the superiority of philology over literary aesthetics). The investigation is based on the theories of Anglo-American 'Medievalism' (and 'New' Medievalism/Philology) and its German sibling 'Mittelalter-Rezeption', the reception theories of Iser, Jauss and Fish, and discourse theories of Foucault. -- Provided by publisher

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  What Works When with Children and Adolescents: A Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques

  Ann Vernon

  This practical handbook is designed for counselors, social workers, and psychologists in schools and mental health settings. It offers over 100 creative activities and effective interventions for individual counseling with children and adolescents (ages 6-18). The activities include stories, songs, games, worksheets, role plays, and other strategies that address problems, such as anger, anxiety/worry, depression, underachievement, procrastination, perfectionism, self-downing, and acting out. The interventions, which are based on the principles of rational emotive behavior therapy, can be used for helping students with normal developmental issues as well as for helping those with more serious emotional or behavioral problems. Dr. Vernon provides strategies for establishing a therapeutic relationship with students who are sometimes apprehensive or opposed to counseling. Several case studies are included to help illustrate the counseling techniques and interventions. The book also includes a chapter on working with parents and teachers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Developing Constructivist Early Childhood (Early Childhood Education, 81)

  Betty Zan, Rheta DeVries, Rebecca Edmiaston, and Christina Sales

  Discusses how children can benefit from certain kinds of play during early childhood education, allowing them to explore their surroundings while still being conventially educated in the classroom. -- Provided by publisher

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  Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World

  Pita Ogaba Agbese, John Mukum Mbaku, and Mwangi S. Kimenyi

  Written by an international group of researchers, this volume explores different approaches of dealing with ethnic conflict in the Third World. It aims to provide policymakers in Third World countries with practical policy options for dealing with group coexistence in a more sustainable way.

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  Managing Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services : An Introduction

  Christopher R. Edginton, Susan Hudson, and Sam Lankford

  It has been over twenty years since the first edition of Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations was conceptualized, written, and published. Now in its second edition, Managing Recreation, Park, and Leisure Services considers three critical changes in the leisure service field: technology and information resolution; nature of the workforce; and the basic revision of our economy. These changes have made a great impact on the management of human resources, which is the main focus of this book. - Provided by publisher

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  Who Speaks for the Poor?: National Interest Groups and Social Policy

  R. Allen Hays

  This book addresses the central question of how the interests of the poor gain representation in the political process by examining the interest group system. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War

  Wallace Hettle

  Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter―a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a "Civil War synthesis," The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric that emphasized the shared interests of white men, slaveholder and non-slaveholder alike. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C. to 907 A.D

  Charles Holcombe

  The Genesis of East Asia examines in a comprehensive and novel way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an impressive array of both primary material and modern interpretations, Charles Holcombe unravels what East Asia means, and why. He brings to bear archaeological, textual, and linguistic evidence to elucidate how the region developed through mutual stimulation and consolidation from its highly plural origins into what we now think of as the nation-states of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

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  Historic U.S. Court Cases : an Encyclopedia

  John W. Johnson

  This collection of essays looks at over 200 major court cases, at both state and federal levels, from the colonial period to the present. Organized thematically, the articles range from 1,000 to 5,000 words and include recent topics such as the Microsoft antitrust case, the O.J. Simpson trials, and the Clinton impeachment. This new edition includes 43 new essays as well as updates throughout, with end-of-essay bibliographies and indexes by case and subject/name. -- Provided by the publisher

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  You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renowned scholar Jerome Klinkowitz sorts out the wrong ways of teaching literature before devising a new, successful method. Specifically, he concludes that a historically based “story of English” is precisely the wrong narrative approach to making sense of what literature does. Instead, Klinkowitz proposes a new method focused not on the product of literary writing but on the process of writing. Long involved with the making of contemporary literature, Klinkowitz shows how his classroom approach draws on the same strengths and inspirations writers use in the creation of literature. He involves students in the literary work as production.
  
  Despite almost universal agreement that literary studies fail both writers and students, solutions have been limited to suggestions by superstar theorists teaching cream-of-the-crop students at elite universities. Klinkowitz aims not at the elite but at the ordinary student in an introduction to literature class. His goal is to introduce teachers to a new philosophy of teaching literature and to further deepen students’ natural love for the subject. He also seeks to revive the love of fine writing in those whose joy in the subject fell victim to obtuse teaching methods. Uniquely, his is not an esoteric theory developed by the best academics for elite students but a commonsense approach that works well in the kind of schools most students attend. -- Provided by publisher

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, James Freeman, and Laura Pincus Hartman

  Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this text utilizes elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility and management. It aims to produce a holistic picture of the concepts by giving attention to readings, quotes and factual details. -- Provided by publisher

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  Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War

  David G. Surdam

  Addressing an aspect of the Civil War that has long been a source of controversy among historians, David G. Surdam offers an unconventional analysis of the Union's naval blockade. He questions common methods of evaluating the strength of the 3,500-mile siege line, disputes widely held interpretations of its impact, and explores previously unexamined aspects of the blockade as he presents a case for the effectiveness of the Union naval effort. Surdam seeks to explain the failure of the Confederacy to wage war and sustain independence despite an apparently sufficient supply of raw cotton to trade with Europe and Canada for war materiel and enough beef and corn to feed its troops. To do so he expands the traditional approach to the blockade, finding that a focus on the number of goods that slipped past Union ships overlooks two of the blockade's most important achievements: disrupting intraregional trade and denying the Confederacy badly needed revenue from the export of raw cotton and other staple products. Explicating the blockade's indirect yet devastating results, Surdam examines the degradation of railroad lines, collapse of specific internal markets, and effect on the exportation of cotton. He also explores how the blockade affected the cross-country movement of crops to hungry soldiers and civilians and how costs associated with the blockade consumed most of the higher prices that Europeans paid for Southern cotton. -- Provided by publisher

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  Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis

  Dhirendra Kumar Vajpeyi

  According to available estimates, forests cover more than one quarter of the world's total area. About sixty percent of these forests are situated in tropical countries. However, these forests are disappearing at a very fast pace. Between 1980 and 1995, an area larger than Mexico had been deforested. This accelerated destruction of forests poses a serious threat to the environmental and economic well-being of the earth. Several studies have demonstrated that natural forests are the single most important repository of terrestrial biological diversity--of ecosystems, species, and genetic resources. Forests also act as major carbon sinks, absorbing massive quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Deforestation, according to these studies, is directly linked to adverse climate change, soil erosion, desertification, and water cycling. Until recently deforestation was deemed to be a local/national problem. However, increased awareness and scientific data have pointed out that the problem transcends national boundaries. Deforestation affects the entire earth's environment and economic development.
  
  This collection of essays analyzes the forces responsible for deforestation, the governmental policies that effect this destruction and the roles multilateral aid agencies, NGOs, play in the environmental debate. The collection critically examines the principles and criteria suggested by forest-experts for a sustained economic growth vis-á-vis forest stewardship in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. An invaluable resource for scholars, students, researchers, and policymakers involved with environmental and public policy issues. -- Provided by publisher

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  Counseling Female Offenders And Victims: A Strengths-restorative Approach

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  Establishes a link between the crimes of female offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and sexual abuse. Combines strategies from the fields of criminal justice and social work to show how to empower female offenders and rehabilitate them. Uses a 'strengths-restorative' approach. For counselors and students. -- Provided by publisher

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  An Intertextual Study of the Psalms of Solomon: Pseudepigrapha

  Kenneth Atkinson

  This is a study of the Psalms of Solomon, which were composed between 63-37 BC as a series of reflections on the violence that accompanied the Roman dominance of Palestine. -- Provided by publisher

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  Enhancing the Livability of Iowa Communities: The Role of Recreation, Natural Resource Development and Tourism

  Christopher R. Edginton

  Promoting greater community livability through recreation, natural resource development and tourism presents an exciting opportunity for all Iowans. Essential to community livability is the effective development of management of social, cultural, historic, environmental and economic resources. The creation of vibrant, dynamic and meaningful opportunities for community involvement is essential to insure greater livability, well being and a higher quality of life for Iowans. The Governor's Summit on "Promoting the Livability of Iowa's Communities: The Role of Recreation, Natural Resource and Tourism" was organized to provide an opportunity for legislative policy makers, professional managers and citizens to play a role in the shape and nature of the enhancement of the livability of Iowa's communities.

  This document contains the proceedings of the Governor's Summit. Organized in chapter format, the contents include presentations by Governor Tom Vilsack, State of Iowa; Nancy Landess, Administrator, Iowa Division of Tourism; Dr. Christopher R. Edginton, Director, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa; Dr. Dan Dustin, Professor, Florida International University; Gerald F. Schnepf, Past Director, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation; Brent Siegrist, Speaker of the House, State of Iowa. The Governor's Summit discussion sessions focused on validating the components of the livability mix in Iowa and identifying mechanisms to improve social policy. The small group discussions were facilitated under the direction of Ladene H. Bowen, Institute for Decision Making, University of Northern Iowa.

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  Adding a Filter to Your Parts Washer

  Jeff England

  Filtering parts washing solvent is a good way to increase the life of cleaning solvent, and improve the cleaning performance of a parts washer. There are several options when considering filtration. If a business is adding or replacing units, the reasonable thing to do is to simply purchase a parts washer with a filtering unit built in. However, if the cost of new units is a concern, or if the old units are in working order, it might be more desirable to add a filtration unit to the current system.

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  Handbook of Environmental Regulations for Agribusiness

  Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  This Handbook is intended to provide the information needed for agribusiness facilities to comply with state and federal environmental regulations. Staff at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center wrote the Handbook. Technical input and review was provided by Dan Eddinger, Nebraska Department of Enviromental Quality; Mark Lohafer and John Whipple, Iowa Department of Land and Agricultural Stewardship; staff at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.EPA) Region 7; staff at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR); and Chris Murray, Agribusiness Association of Iowa.

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  Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky

  Mario Roberto Morales and Edward Waters Hood

  Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky is a novel that accurately depicts the horrors of the Guatemalan civil war fought out in the 1980s. In these pages we encounter the distinct voices of the elderly, the children, and the men and women whose stories from the Left and from the Right which Mario Morales collected and then wove together in this articulate, powerful, candid, vividly recounted, memorable work. -- Provided by publisher

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  University of Northern Iowa, from the College History Series

  Gerald L. Peterson

  The University of Northern Iowa has evolved from its humble beginnings in 1876 as a normal school with 27 students to a thriving educational community with a student body of over 13,000. But as this pictorial history vividly depicts, its founding principles have remained the same: a commitment to high-quality education, an impressive teaching staff, and eager students with a desire to learn. Originally established in a former home for the orphans of Iowa's Civil War veterans, the University of Northern Iowa has matured from a small teacher's college to the university which is internationally known today. Inspired leadership from university presidents helped bridge this transition, and to give guidance to an institution deeply affected by the Great Depression, emerging only to face new challenges brought on by World War II. WAVES and US Army Air Corps personnel trained here, and GIs were educated upon their return from service. Civil Rights, the anti-war movement, and the technology revolution all helped shape the university into the excellent institution it is today. -- Provided by publisher

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  American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle Class Culture (2000)

  Brian Roberts

  California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability. -- Provided by publisher

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  Women and the Criminal Justice System

  Katherine S. Van Wormer and Clemens Bartollas

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  Teaching Forensic Social Work: Course Outlines on Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Victimology

  Katherine S. Van Wormer, Albert R. Roberts, and Council on Social Work

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  Social Work with Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: A Strengths Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer, Joel Wells, and Mary Boes

  This book joins the strengths approach with an overview of social work practice with an oppressed population. A strengths approach provides a skills framework that can be used with any vulnerable or oppressed group. The book speaks directly to the reader through illustrations and boxes written by undergraduate students, as well as a wealth of case examples provided by experienced family counselors. -- Provided by publisher

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  Modern Woodworking: Tools, Materials, and Processes

  Willis H. Wagner and Clois E. Kicklighter

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  Modern Carpentry: Building Construction Details in Easy-to-Understand Form

  Willis H. Wagner and Howard Bud Smith

  Modern Carpentry is a colorful, easy-to-understand source of authoritative and up-to-date information on building materials and construction methods. The text provides detailed coverage of all aspects of light frame construction, including site preparation and layout; foundations; framing; sheathing; roofing; windows and doors; exterior finish; stairs; cabinetwork and interior wall, floor, and ceiling finish. Special emphasis is placed on the use of the latest tools, materials, and prefabricated components. -- Provided by publisher

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  Experimentum Mundi : Utopie als Ästhetisches Prinzip : zur Funktion Utopischer Entwürfe in Irmtraud Morgners Romanwerk

  Siegrun Wildner

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  Policing in America

  Clemens Bartollas and Larry D. Hahn

  From Mark Fuhrman to the Rodney King incident, the image of the rogue cop is embedded in the minds of many American citizens. The high profile of police deviancy in the media has provided the public with an overwhelmingly negative image of police integrity. In this book, readers are given a glimpse at the other side of this image and the inner stresses and truths about policing in America. Written by an experienced author (Bartollas) and a practitioner (Hahn), this book brings together an ideal mix of the academic and the practical in an intriguing and comprehensive overview of the state of policing today. Human interest stories interspersed between the discussion of such important topics as police stress, police corruption, excessive and deadly force, constitutional law, and suspect's rights add to the readability of this informative book. In every chapter, there is an effort to place the role and functions of the police in context, whether it is historical, sociocultural, legal, political, or economic. This wide range of contexts provides readers with a complete picture of policing as it relates to various aspects of daily life. Law enforcement officers, students of law enforcement, and anyone else interested in the current state of policing today. -- Provided by publisher

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  Oral Communication: A Guide

  Melissa L. Beall

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  Aristophanes

  Smith Palmer Bovie and David R. Slavitt

  The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Service Organizations

  Christopher R. Edginton, Susan D. Hudson, and Phyllis M. Ford

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  Schoolwide and Classroom Management: The Reflective Educator-Leader

  Leonard A. Froyen and Annette M. Iverson

  Key Benefit: With an emphasis on Ecological theory, while incorporating the principles of Positive Behavior Support, and Problem-Solving/Functional Behavioral Assessment, this book addresses classroom management theory and strategies for three age groups: early childhood, middle school, and secondary school. As in prior editions, the goal of this book is to broaden and deepen future teachers' understanding of the behavioral problems they are likely to encounter, as well as the solutions they are likely to find effective. Key Topics: Current trends in education are thoroughly explored and analyzed; and, research-based strategies are drawn from the full spectrum of management styles: behavioral, cognitive behavioral, social learning, and humanistic. Market: For future teachers of pre, middle, and secondary school students in tomorrow's classrooms. -- Provided by publisher

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  Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter Before Photography

  Thomas A. Hockey

  Since the earliest times one of the brightest lights in the heavens has been that of Jupiter, mythical king of the gods and the largest planet in the solar system. It was only natural that peoples from the dawn of history would be interested in such a planet and, indeed, Jupiter was one of the first objects to be observed with the telescope. Even today Jupiter captures the public interest like no other planet: a vast gaseous world, home to violent storms (larger than the Earth) that have raged for centuries. Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography presents the history of humankind's quest to understand the giant planet in the era before photography, a time when the only way to observe the universe was with the human eye. The book provides a comprehensive and fascinating account of the people involved in this quest, their observations, and the results of their findings. Many of the planetary features studied in detail by today's space probes were once glimpsed by keen-eyed, amateur astronomers. These Earth-bound explorers made up for their modest instruments and viewing conditions with their patience, perseverance, and passion for the night sky. Their greatest challenge was the fifth planet from the Sun and the search for its imagined surface-a revelation of the "real Jupiter." In the process, these part-time observers redefined the meaning of the word "planet." The book recounts their story from the earliest times right up until the invention of the camera. -- Provided by publisher

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  Owning a Piece of the Minors

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Owning a Piece of the Minors is by and about a man who lived his dream and acquired a baseball team. When Jerry Klinkowitz joined the group that ran the Waterloo, Iowa, Diamonds in the 1970s, ownership of a minor league baseball franchise conferred little mystique. Neglected for a half century, minor league baseball was at best obscure. Yet in the purchase of fantasy, what difference if your desire is out of style?
  
  Klinkowitz continued his work with the Diamonds through the 1980s and much of the 1990s. In Owning a Piece of the Minors, he maps out his personal journey through baseball and probes his fluctuating fortunes and those of his team as he evolves from a fan to a team executive and, most important, to a writer writing about baseball. This baseball story begins with a nine-year-old Klinkowitz who is elated when Milwaukee lures the Braves from Boston; this story of a love affair with baseball might have died—and in fact suffered a ten-year hiatus—when the apostate Braves fled to Atlanta in 1965.
  
  Klinkowitz rediscovered the joy of being at the baseball park when, as a middle-aged professor, he took his own children to the Waterloo Diamonds games. Gradually his involvement with the Diamonds grew deeper until he owned the team. His immersion into team activities was complete, from shagging batting practice and working the beer bar to struggling with the Cleveland Indians and then the San Diego Padres as minor league affiliates to accommodate baseball's resurgence.
  
  Klinkowitz writes of loss—first the Braves and later the Diamonds; of writing baseball fiction; of attending the 1982 World Series back in Milwaukee; of the great old ballparks around the country, including Wrigley, Fenway, and old Comiskey Park; of fictional and factual accounts of how the Diamonds franchise was lost; of friendships among season ticket holders in "Box 28"; and of Mildred Boyenga, the club president and Baseball Woman of the Year. A first-rate stylist, Klinkowitz shows the problems and perks and, most rewarding, the priceless relationships made possible in the world of baseball. -- Provided by publisher

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  With the Tigers Over China, 1941-1942

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII. Pilots including Claire Chennault, "Pappy" Boyington, and Art Donahue bought time for an Allied regrouping against Japan's relentless assault in the China-Burma-India theater. In the face of the 1941 bombings, Chiang Kai-shek turned to air power to survive, which he did thanks to Chennault's rebuilding of the Chinese Air Force and the leadership of the American Volunteer Group, or AVG. Formed by Chennault, the AVG, also known as the Flying Tigers, were contract employees working for the Chinese government. As a result, they received virtually no official American recognition for their efforts. The group was known for their romantic, reckless spirit. They performed remarkably with outdated planes and equipment in ill-repair, were almost always heavily outnumbered in battle, and were seen by outsiders as hard-drinking rebels. Whatever their image, the Flying Tigers were highly effective. In the words of Air Force Major General Charlie Bond, "During that first week of action the AVG destroyed fifty-five enemy bombers and fighters while losing only five Tomahawks. Unfortunately, two of our colleagues were killed, but at the same time two hundred enemy airmen were either killed or captured. We were shattering the myth that the Japanese Air Force was invincible." Jerome Klinkowitz, whose earlier books focused on flyers' attitudes toward the air war in Britain and Europe, continues his work with an exceptionally interesting group of Pacific warriors. He brings together not only the commanders' stories but the often more colorful--and sometimes more accurate--accounts of life and battle by the men who flew these planes and the women who participated on the ground. -- Provided by publisher

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  Conflict & Diplomacy From The Great War to the Cold War

  Donald E. Shepardson

  Conflict and Diplomacy from the Great War to the Cold War begins with the weakening of the old European order in World War I - the challenge of communism and fascism to the established international system. The author examines the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe and the advent of global war following the German attack on the Soviet Union, as well as Japanese aggression in the Pacific. The middle chapters cover the period of Axis triumph to the turning points of El Alamein and Stalingrad. The prospect of Allied victory helped to bring the disintegration of the grand alliance and a return to the Soviet-Western rivalry, which existed prior to World War II. The final part of the book deals with the defeat of Japan and the controversy surrounding the atomic bomb. -- Provided by publisher

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  Learning Through Problems: Number Sense and Computational Strategies

  Paul R. Trafton

  Learning Through Problems describes a powerful approach to mathematics instruction that honors children's thinking and sense-making ability. Too often, the strands of mathematics (addition, subtraction, place value, and problem solving) are viewed as isolated topics. Paul Trafton and Diane Thiessen weave these strands together and offer a wide variety of contexts for genuine mathematical exploration. While grounded in solid theory, Learning Through Problems is above all a practical resource, based on many years of field testing. The book takes you into classrooms where students value challenges, reflect on their work, and participate in thoughtful discussions with their classmates. Throughout the book, classroom teachers reflect on their experiences and offer suggestions on a comprehensive range of issues, including how to get started, where to find good problems, when to provide help, when to step back, where manipulatives fit in, how to integrate problem solving into the curriculum, and how to assess students' learning. The book also shows how number sense and computation can be learned within a problem-centered framework. Thus, understanding and skills develop as mutually supporting aspects through a single approach. They do not have to be dichotomous. Numerous classroom examples and teacher observations provide guidance in developing both invented and familiar computational approaches. In addition to providing valuable information about the development of children's mathematical thinking, this book is an inspiring look at what students can accomplish when they are given the opportunity, time, and freedom to solve problems in ways that make sense to them. -- Provided by publisher

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  Counseling Children and Adolescents

  Ann Vernon

  This highly practical new edition of "Counseling Children and Adolescents" combines innovative techniques with solid theory for helping children. It is a developmental approach with major revisions in all chapters. The new chapter on counseling culturally and ethnically diverse youth shows how to develop cultural, ethnic, and racial self-awareness as a counselor. The book offers a plan for designing a developmental counseling curriculum from primary grades through high school. It presents empirically based strategies and shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions. Play therapy, brief counseling, rational - emotional therapy, small group counseling, working with at-risk youth, and working with parents are all part of this text. The rich experiences of the authors as both practitioners and clinicians, in addition to being counselor educators, bring a wide array of innovations and creative techniques to this new volume. -- Provided by publisher

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  Everything Paid For

  Robley Wilson

  Robley Wilson’s third book of poems is written in a delightful variety of forms--syllabics, couplets, nonce sonnets, internal rhymes, and a marvelously supple blank verse. His concerns are the age-old concerns of being human: the difficulty of loving and communicating, the maddening challenges of living a "normal" life in suburbia, the ripple effect of our every act on others. But there is nothing dour in his approach. His tone is often wry and witty, always thoughtful. He digs deep and comes up with poems written from totally unexpected perspectives--the Kent State massacre from the point of view of one of the now-aging National Guardsmen; World War II from the point of view of a German girl chosen to present flowers to General Himmler; or a man living (literally) on the moon. Wilson has published four books of stories, and his gift as a storyteller is apparent in these poems. He sets the scene, gives us the facts--of a life, a mood, a moment--and we are drawn into the world of each separate poem. "Judge not . . ." is implicit, and we see ourselves in these poems and learn about ourselves as we read. Robley Wilson, editor of the North American Review, is professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He has published two previous books of poetry, Kingdoms of the Ordinary (1987) and A Pleasure Tree (1991). -- Provided by publisher

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  Iowa's Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Change

  Wayne I. Anderson

  Iowa's rock record is the product of more than three billion years of geological processes. The state endured multiple episodes of continental glaciation during the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the last glacier retreated from Iowa a mere (geologically speaking) twelve thousand years ago. Prior to that, dozens of seas came and went, leaving behind limestone beds with rich fossil records. Lush coal swamps, salty lagoons, briny basins, enormous alluvial plains, ancient rifts, and rugged Precambrian mountain belts all left their mark. In Iowa's Geological Past, Wayne Anderson gives us an up-to-date and well-informed account of the state's vast geological history from the Precambrian through the end of the Great Ice Age. Anderson takes us on a journey backward into time to explore Iowa's rock-and-sediment record. In the distant past, prehistoric Iowa was covered with shallow seas; coniferous forests flourished in areas beyond the continental glaciers; and a wide variety of animals existed, including mastodon, mammoth, musk ox, giant beaver, camel, and giant sloth. The presence of humans can be traced back to the Paleo-Indian interval, 9,500 to 7,500 years ago. Iowa in Paleozoic time experienced numerous coastal plain and shallow marine environments. Early in the Precambrian, Iowa was part of ancient mountain belts in which granite and other rocks were formed well below the earth's surface. The hills and valleys of the Hawkeye State are not everlasting when viewed from the perspective of geologic time. Overall, Iowa's geologic column records an extraordinary transformation over more than three billion years. Wayne Anderson's profusely illustrated volume provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of the state's remarkable geological past. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure Programming: A Service-Centered and Benefits Approach

  Christopher R. Edginton, Carole J. Hanson, Susan Edginton, and Susan D. Hudson

  This comprehensive text addresses all three levels of leisure programming: direct service delivery, program planning, and program management. It focuses on issues related to customer service and benefits-such as providing leisure experiences, assessing customer needs, evaluating program impact, promoting positive customer and leader interactions, analyzing and implementing policies, and supervising staff. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives

  Christopher R. Edginton, Debra J. Jordan, Donald G. DeGraaf, and Susan Edginton

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  The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story

  Rick Feddersen, Susan Lohafer, Barbara Lounsberry, and Mary Rohrberger

  The 1990s have seen a renaissance in short fiction studies. Today's short story writers are testing the boundaries of short fiction through minimalist works; extended short story cycles; narrative nonfiction forms, such as histories, memoirs, and essays; and even stories created interactively with readers on the computer. Short story critics, in turn, are viewing the short story from the perspective of genre, history, cultural studies, and even cognitive science. This volume brings together the opinions, theories, and research of many of today's best-known short story writers, theorists, and critics. Contributors include some of the most widely read contemporary authors, such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Gay Talese, W. P. Kinsella, Robert Coover, Barry Hannah, and Leslie Marmon Silko. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Literature and Expressive Activity

  Jeanne McLain Harms and Lucille Lettow

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  Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

  Nancy Isenberg

  With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state, and family. In addition, Isenberg shows, they developed a rich theoretical tradition that influenced not only subsequent strains of feminist thought but also ideas about the nature of citizenship and rights more generally. By focusing on rights discourse and political theory, Isenberg moves beyond a narrow focus on suffrage. Democracy was in the process of being redefined in antebellum America by controversies over such volatile topics as fugitive slave laws, temperance, Sabbath laws, capital punishment, prostitution, the Mexican War, married women's property rights, and labor reform--all of which raised significant legal and constitutional questions. These pressing concerns, debated in women's rights conventions and the popular press, were inseparable from the gendered meaning of nineteenth-century citizenship. -- Provided by publisher

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  Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility

  Christopher Kliewer

  This volume explores Down syndrome disability in the cultural context of the school. The author traces the history of community banishment on people with Down syndrome. Based on fieldwork, and using examples, the author describes school contexts currently resisting traditions of segregation. -- Provided by publisher

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  Keeping Literary Company: Working with Writers Since the Sixties

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Starting in the 1960s, a group of radically new fiction writers began having success at reinventing the novel and short story for postmodern times. These writers found an ally in a young reader named Jerome Klinkowitz. Beginning in 1969 he published the first scholarly essays on Vonnegut, Kosinski, Barthelme, and the others in turn. Keeping Literary Company details Klinkowitz's work with these writers - not just researching their fiction and other publications, but introducing them to one another and taking part in the business-world activities that spread news of their innovations. He shows how what they wrote was so much a part of those turbulent times that a new literary generation found itself defined in such works as Slaughterhouse-Five, Being There, and Snow White. Here is a fascinating first-person account of what these important figures wrote, how they wrote it, and what it means in the development of American fiction. -- Provided by publisher

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  Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  In this volume, Jerome Klinkowitz traces the emergence of Vonnegut's nonfiction since the 1960s, when commentary and feature journalism replaced his rapidly dying short-story market. Offering close readings and insightful criticism of Vonnegut's three major works of nonfiction, his many uncollected pieces, and his unique manner of public speaking, Klinkowitz explains how Vonnegut's personal visions developed into a style of great public responsibility that mirrored the growth of his fiction. The investigation of the writer's extensive nonfiction provides a key to understanding his distinctively inventive novels and the manner in which his public spokesmanship influenced his artistic expression. -- Provided by publisher

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  Guide to Reference Materials for School Library Media Centers

  Barbara Ripp Safford

  You can find the best, most affordable, and most appropriate reference materials for your school library collection with this guide. Organized by topics within broad subject categories, the book describes and evaluates books, CD-ROMs, and other electronic reference sources in all curricular areas and in some extracurricular areas. More than 2,000 entries are included, with titles of special interest to elementary schools noted. Safford's new edition reviews more electronic sources than previous editions, and it has a new section on electronic information systems that describes the shift of resources to World Wide Web-based delivery. The book also covers many new and varied types of reference sources appearing in print, and the section on collection management has been reorganized. An essential tool for the school library media specialist, this book will also be useful to librarians at two-year colleges, to children's and young adult librarians at public libraries. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Quality Problem Solving

  Gerald F. Smith

  An in-depth and comprehensive reference, this text offers problem solving insights and prescriptions for those trying to solve complex, real-world quality problems. -- Provided by Publisher

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  The Wonderful World of Mathematics: A Critically Annotated List of Children's Books in Mathematics

  Diane Thiessen, Margaret Matthias, and Jacqueline Smith

  This annotated list of more than 550 titles analyses each book's content and accuracy, illustrations, style and any included activities. Highlights include a new section titled "Series and Other Resources" to accommodate the large number of books that have been issued in series, as well as a new subsection called "Incidental Geometry-Quilting," which lists books that help students make connections among geometry, history and quilting. -- Provided by Publisher

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  Auto Body Surface Coating: A Practical Guide to Reducing Air Emissions

  University of Northern Iowa. Small Business Pollution Prevention Center.

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  Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman

  Richard Utz, T. A. Shippey, and Leslie J. Workman

  This interdisciplinary collection of essays from leading scholars in Europe, North America, and Australia examine the phenomenon of medievalism from the perspective of history, politics, scholarship, art, and literature.

  The twenty-six essays in this volume examine the process of creating the Middle Ages. In doing so, they honour Leslie Workman, who has led the revival of the study of medievalism in the past two generations, and leads this sub-discipline towards the comprehensiveness that Lord Acton as early as 1859 had promised: ´Two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery: antiquity and the Middle Ages. These are the two civilizations that have preceded us, the two elements of which ours is composed. All political as well as religious questions reduce themselves practically to this. This is the great dualism that runs through our society.` While using different approaches and discussing topics in a variety of specialised fields, the contributions clearly centre on negotiating the reception of medieval culture in the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary periods, thus presenting a broad and representative picture of current research in medievalism.--From the publisher.

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  Water Resource Management: A Comparative Perspective

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

  According to available estimates, only .3% of the total fresh water is usable for the world's entire human and animal populations. Some experts have observed that in the near future, the earth will face severe scarcity of water, resulting in an insufficient amount of water to sustain our ever increasing future needs. Others believe that such pessimistic estimates are unwarranted.
  
  Due to conflicting opinions and data-interpretations, the future levels of scarcity are difficult to accurately forecast. One fact, however, is above controversy: water resources are not evenly distributed. The world's 38 poorest countries are located near areas that lack ample water supplies. Even some areas, which seem to possess sufficient supplies, suffer zonal or regional shortages. In recent years there has been an increasing realization not only of the importance of water as a key factor for sustainable development, but also the impending strategies for water in the near future. The chapters in this collection examine this critical resource and the policies being pursued to meet the challenge of decreasing access to usable water by selected countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. A major study for students, researchers, and policymakers involved with environmental and development issues. -- Provided by publisher

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  Governing India : Issues Concerning Public Policy, Institutions, and Administration

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Onkar P. Dwivedi, and R. B. Jain

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  U.S. Department of Transportation: A Reference History

  Donald Robert Whitnah

  Tracing the antecedents and the creation of the U.S. Department of Transportation, this work assesses its role in both the control of transportation and the encouragement of big businesses in the industry. The U.S. government has struggled for over a century with the complex issue of transportation regulation. The prevailing view from the 1880s until recently was to consider private transportation a public utility, which led to the creation of the DOT in 1966. This work covers much of the regulation/deregulation debates from Hoover to the Nixon presidencies, and focuses on the bipartisan crescendo for deregulation led by Gerald Ford and Edward Kennedy. Whitnah also analyzes the heated debate over airline deregulation that resumed in the Carter years and continues to have an impact today. -- Provided by publisher

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  Juvenile Delinquency

  Clemens Bartollas

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  American Criminal Justice: An Introduction

  Clemens Bartollas and Michael Braswell

  American Criminal Courts, Second Edition is unique among texts for introductory courts courses in its providing a framework for students and instructors to understand courts. The author presents three central themes in the first chapter, which are then built upon and connected in each succeeding chapters. Students do not just learn from this book by reading. A unique collection of original web-based cases (free to instructors and their students), given students an opportunity to participate as courtroom actors and to engage in court processes and procedures. Students learn, both by reading and doing from the unique print/digital package of materials. Students can complete exercises and send them digitally to their instructors to demonstrate their mastery of criminal court processes and principles.--From the publisher

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  Religion, Identity and Empire : a Greek Archbishop in the Russia of Catherine the Great

  Gregory L. Bruess

  During the early Russian Empire, tensions between the state and Church and the beliefs of many ethnic minorities and social groups shaped the religious culture of Russia's southern frontier. Religion, Identity, and Empire explores the dynamic between religion and both religious and political institutions. Gregory Bruess recreates the struggle of the government and church to consolidate its diverse population into a single, unified, secular Russia. He illuminates historical and cultural aspects of this era, including the attempts of Archbishop Nikiforos to bring the "correct" message of Christ to ethnically diverse parishioners for their religious, moral and civic benefit. In addition, his account of those who strayed provide a fascinating glimpse of daily lives and struggles on the frontier as well as the stigmatization that resulted from their nonconformity. Religion, Identity, and Empire is an important contribution to current knowledge of early imperial Russia, and the history of religion as well. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy

  Maxwell A. Cameron and Philip Mauceri

  A country perceived as having unusually complex political, economic, and social problems, Peru has long fascinated social scientists. The Peruvian Labyrinth brings together a new generation of scholars to explore the multifaceted Peruvian 'experiment' as it has evolved further, in often dramatic ways, in the 1980s and 1990s.The volume focuses special attention on the administration of Albert Fujimori, who suspended the constitution in 1992, two years after he first became president, but then was reelected in 1995. The experience of Peru under his regime raises important questions about the nature of democracy in Latin America, the challenges of economic and political reform, and the prospects for combining stable democratic governance and sustained development. Topics covered in the volume include the legacies of democratic transitions, human rights and political violence, the decline of the Shining Path, the Fujimori 'autogolpe,' the changing roles of business and organized labor, the political impact of the informal sector changes in the agrarian sector, and the shift in economic strategies from the developmentalism and toward neoliberalism. -- Provided by publisher

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  When a Crisis Hits: Will Your School Be Ready?

  Robert Decker

  The author includes surveys, checklists, and other assessment tools help you determine your school's preparedness for an emergency. You'll find over 30 examples of different types of plans that cover such occurrences as bomb threats, fires, floods, kidnappings, shooting, suicides, and tornadoes. -- Provided by publisher

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  Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management

  Joanne A. Goldman

  This wide-ranging study offers a unique perspective to examine the conditions, constraints, and concerns of city government during the first half of the nineteenth century. Decisions concerning wastewater disposal in New York City reflect nineteenth-century notions of disease, the environment, and city responsibility. The decision to construct a comprehensive sewer system was a complex one that pitted individual liberty against the common good and political considerations against those of professional physicians and engineers. This history of policy formation is, then, a story of changing values and ideas that must be understood within the context of the social, economic, political, and intellectual milieu of the middle of the nineteenth century. -- Provided by publisher

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  National Program for Playground Safety's Selected Annotated Bibliography about Public Playground Safety

  Susan D. Hudson and Donna Jean Thompson

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  The Struggle for Student Rights: Tinker V. Des Moines and the 1960s

  John W. Johnson

  The tension between free speech and social stability has been a central concern throughout American history. In the 1960s that concern reached a fever pitch with the anti-Vietnam War movement. When anti-war sentiment "invaded" American schools, official resolve to retain order in the classroom vied with the rights of students to speak freely. A key event in that face-off was the Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des Moines. -- Provided by publisher

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  Nominalism And Literary Discourse: New Perspectives

  Hugo Keiper, Christoph Bode, and Richard Utz

  Influential accounts of European cultural history variously suggest that the rise of nominalism and its ultimate victory over realist orientations were highly implemental factors in the formation of Modern Europe since the later Middle Ages, but particularly the Reformation. Quite probably, this is a simplification of a state of affairs that is in fact more complex, indeed ambiguous. However, if there is any truth in such propositions - which have, after all, been made by many prominent commentators, such as Panofsky, Heer, Blumenberg, Foucault, Eco, Kristeva - we may no doubt assume that literary texts will have responded and in turn contributed, in a variety of ways, to these processes of cultural transformation. It seems of considerable interest, therefore, to take a close look at the complex, precarious position which literature, as basically a symbolic mode of signification, held in the perennial struggles and discursive negotiations between the semiotic 'twin paradigms' of nominalism and realism.

  
  This collection of essays (many of them by leading scholars in the field) is a first comprehensive attempt to tackle such issues - by analyzing representative literary texts in terms of their underlying semiotic orientations, specifically of nominalism, but also by studying pertinent historical, theoretical and discursive co(n)texts of such developments in their relation to literary discourse. At the same time, since 'literary nominalism' and 'realism' are conceived as fundamentally aesthetic phenomena instantiating a genuinely 'literary debate over universals', consistent emphasis is placed on the discursive dimension of the texts scrutinized, in an endeavour to re-orient and consolidate an emergent research paradigm which promises to open up entirely new perspectives for the study of literary semiotics, as well as of aesthetics in general. Historical focus is provided by concentrating on the English situation in the era of transition from late medieval to early modern (c. 1350-1650), but readers will also find contributions on ChrÉtien de Troyes and Rabelais, as well as on the 'aftermath' of the earlier debates - as exemplified in studies of Locke and (post)modern critical altercations, respectively, which serve to point up the continuing relevance of the issues involved. A substantial introductory essay seeks to develop an overarching theoretical framework for the study of nominalism and literary discourse, in addition to offering an in-depth exploration of the 'nominalism/realism-complex' in its relation to literature. An extensive bibliography and index are further features of interest to both specialists and general readers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Odyssey of the Psyche: Jungian Patterns in Joyce's Ulysses

  Jean Kimball

  The result of the interaction between Bloom and Dedalus, Kimball argues as a central tenet in her unique reading of Ulysses, is the gradual development of a relationship between the two protagonists that parallels C. G. Jung’s descriptions of the encounter between the Ego and the Shadow in that stage of his theoretical individuation process called "the realization of the shadow." These parallels form a unifying strand of meaning that runs throughout this multidimensional novel and is supported by the text and contexts of Ulysses. Kimball has provided the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Jungian psychology and Joyce’s Ulysses. Bucking critical trends, she focuses on Stephen rather than Bloom. She also notes certain parallels—synchronicities—in the lives of both Jung and Joyce, not because the men influenced one another but because they speculated about personality at the same historical time. Finally, noting that both Jung and Joyce came from strong Christian backgrounds, she asserts that the doubleness of the human personality fundamental to Christian theology is carried over into Jung’s psychology and Joyce’s fiction. -- Provided by publisher

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  Legal Environment Of Business: Ethical and Public Policy Contexts

  Tony McAdams and Laura Pincus Hartman

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  Working Together : A Conference on Doctoral Studies in the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa, April 11-12, 1997

  Joane W. McKay

  This document is one outcome of the Invitational Working Conference, April 11-12, 1997, on Doctoral Studies in the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Sponsored by the College Committee on Doctoral Studies and the Institute for Educational Leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, the conference gave UNI faculty in the College of Education, practitioners in the local schools, and candidates in the doctoral program the opportunity to discuss five main issues:

  ■ Distinctive Qualities of the Ed.D. Program

  ■ The Student's Role in Shaping Doctoral Study

  ■ Doctoral Research/Scholarship

  ■ Doctoral Program Delivery: Organization and Staffing

  ■ Socialization in the Doctoral Program

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  Contemporary Popular Writers

  Dave Mote, Jerome Klinkowitz, and Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz

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  Sacrificed Lives: Kristeva on Women and Violence

  Martha J. Reineke

  Why did medieval women mystics starve themselves? Why were “witches” hunted, tortured, and killed? Why has the Christian West found maternal figures threatening? To answer these questions, Reineke advances a theory of sacrifice, inspired by Julia Kristeva and René Girard, that attempts to account for women’s special vulnerability to violence in Western culture. -- Provided by publisher

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  Economic Dimensions of Gender Inequality: A Global Perspective

  Janet M. Rives and Mahmood Yousefi

  This contributed volume explores the status of women in the economies of countries at various developmental stages. Issues covered include, first, evidence of economic and social inequality throughout the world. Second, gender inequality in many societies can be explained by inadequate investment in human capital. Third, by overlooking women's non-market output, countries generally overlook women's economic contributions to a nation. Finally, with economic progress women become healthier as well as better educated and trained. Part I addresses the interaction of economic development and gender inequality, while Part II discusses women in France, Mexico, Nigeria, and Turkey. Part III considers some special concerns facing women. Part I addresses the interaction of economic development and gender inequality. Chapters explore gender inequality in newly industrialized countries, the effects of economic development on employment status in less developed countries in the Western Hemisphere, and the economic development and status of women in South Korea. Part II discusses the economic status of women in France, Mexico, and Nigeria. This section also presents models used to estimate labor force participation and earnings of men and women in Turkey. Part III covers special concerns facing women in several countries, including health issues, the status of women during the economic transition in Poland, the gap between actual and official labor force participation of women in Pakistan, and the impact of social technology on the economic status of women in India. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Russian Reference Grammar : Core Grammar in Functional Context

  James W. Sweigert and John L. Watzke

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  Ready-To-Use Activities for Teaching Much Ado About Nothing

  John Wilson Swope

  Each volume contains more than 100 classroom-tested whole-language activities ranging from role-playing, response journals, character study, and language exploration. Includes extended activities, reproducible maps, and background information. -- Provided by publisher

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  Social Welfare: A World View

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  Dedicated to the world's marginalized people, this exhaustively documented text studies that United States' social welfare system in comparison to international approaches with extensive coverage of the systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, and Norway. This timely offering coincides with social work's growing international commitment, and explores how this concern affects the profession on both individual and policy-making levels. Initially van Wormer describes social work's historical beginnings and then establishes the groundwork for contemporary practice. The text meets CSWE's requirement that the social work curriculum provide content on discrimination, economic deprivation, and oppression and their effects on people of color, women, and gay and lesbian persons. Knowledge of these dynamics will prompt social work students to accept their role as citizens of not just their own countries, but also of the world. -- Provided by publisher

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  Novelistic Love in the Platonic Tradition: Fielding, Faulkner and the Postmodernists

  Jennie Wang

  The love story is an integral part of many novels. What is its narrative status? How does it function, and why? In this original study of Socratic 'love stories,' from Plato through Fielding and Faulkner to the Postmodernists, Jennie Wang proposes a new narrative theory in the study of the novel, which deconstructs the mimesis of 'love stories' and reconstructs their historicity. Wang claims that in the Platonic tradition, the construction of 'love stories' is often a dramatization of the author's historical vision, philosophical speculations, cultural criticism, or political ideology. Novelistic love functions as a literary medium, a power of free speech, that enables the novelist to speak unspeakable truths and include excluded subjects. -- Provided by publisher

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  Speaking of Sex: Sexual Communication in Intimate Relationships

  Joel Wells and Ken Jacobsen

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  Articulation & Phonological Disorders: A Book Of Exercises

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

  Following the immense success of the best-selling first edition, Child Phonology: A Book Of Exercises For Students, this new edition is more than double the size of its predecessor and provides the very latest up-to-date information in an eclectic workbook format. Articulation And Phonological Disorders: A Book Of Exercises provides essential and valuable information - encompassing everything that is needed practical applications of phonological principles. - Provided by publisher

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  Lithographic Technology in Transition

  Ervin A. Dennis, Olusegun Odesina, and Daniel G. Wilson

  Designed for the serious graphic communications student, this text examines both the traditional and cutting-edge technologies of lithography. Technology, business and career topics are discussed in depth as the text assists the reader in making the transition from traditional lithography to the high technology printing, processes of the present and the future. -- Provided by publisher

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  Picture Books to Enhance the Curriculum

  Jeanne McLain Harms and Lucille Lettow

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  The Comet Hale-Bopp Book : Guide to an Awe-Inspiring Visitor from Deep Space

  Thomas A. Hockey and Thomas Bopp

  The Comet Hale-Bopp Book is a fascinating introduction to the recently discovered Comets Hale-Bopp, one of the most-studied and perhaps brightest of the comets. The Comet Hale-Bopp Book tells the story of the comet's discovery, astronomer's reaction to it, and their preparation for its arrival. Written in a lucid, accessible style for the non-technical general reader, The Comet Hale-Bopp Book is a compendium of biographical details and first-person quotes from Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, (and many others) humanizing the science behind the comet and capturing the "feel" of what could well be the astronomical event of the decade. The Comet Hale-Bopp Book provides charts and tables to locate and observe the comet. The comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Hyakutake are also discussed to explain their significance as well. -- Midwest Book Review

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  Leadership in Leisure Services : Making a Difference

  Debra Jean Jordan

  Leadership is a process and an experience that impacts all of us in our roles as leaders and as followers. This text presents leadership as a personal journey that takes conscious effort to undertake and develop. Leadership is one of the keystones of successful parks, recreation and leisure services agencies, organizations and programs. How we deal with people, how we interact with fellow staff supervisors, participants, and the general public all make an incredible statement about who we are and what our profession is about. This book is designed to help students of leadership begin, or renew, their personal journey toward leadership. Leadership is best developed and refined through experience. Thus, during the learning process presented in this text, readers are encouraged to seek out as many opportunities for leadership practice as possible, including public communication skills, conflict resolution skills, and motivation skills; to expose themselves to issues and experiences outside of their comfort zone and stretch themselves; to increase their self-awareness; and as much as possible, to practice, reflect on experiences, seek out feedback and practice some more. 1, The Developing the Underlying Construct, Section 2, Working with the Essential Skills of Leadership, Section 3, Pulling it all together.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Here at Ogallala State U. : The Collected Effusions (With Commentary) of Our "Milt" Elliott

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Yanks Over Europe: American Flyers in World War II

  Jerome F. Klinkowitz

  Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers' war support Klinkowitz's belief that notions of the air war were determined by one's position in it. He extends his thesis by showing the vastly different style of air war described by veterans of the North African and Mediterranean campaigns and concludes by studying the effects of such combat on adversaries and victims. - Provided by publisher

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  This is PR : the Realities of Public Relations

  Dean Kruckeberg, Doug Newsom, and Judy VanSlyke Turk

  This text, the most comprehensive in the field, presents the overall view that through professional research, application or theory and appropriate ethical practice, public relations is an essential management function and social force. Following an overview and definition of public relations (discussing its various functions), its history and future trends, subsequent chapters cover research, theory, ethics, and law, as well as tactics and channels, campaigns and cases. -- Provided by publisher

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  State Under Siege: Development and Policy Making in Peru

  Philip Mauceri

  Using a framework that highlights how societal and international factors have shaped state capacities, Philip Mauceri examines the volatile politics in Peru from the Velasco through the Fujimori regimes as the country has moved from a “developmentalist” state to neoliberalism. Dr. Mauceri begins by reassessing the reformist experiment of the Peruvian military regime (1968–1980), arguing that it led to the development of unexpected challenges to state authority, both from new social actors and international financial organizations. During the 1980s, these challenges intensified, made even worse by poor planning and limited policy choices. The author then argues that the attempt by the Fujimori regime, backed by a neoliberal coalition, to “retool” the state indicates the degree to which state capacities are determined by social and international conditions. Mauceri also gives special attention to the relation between changing state power and social control. Separate chapters on the evolution of a Lima shantytown and the Shining Path examine how changes in state-society relations have had impacts at the grassroots level. -- Provided by publisher

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  A University in Pursuit of Quality: The Future of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northern Iowa

  G. Roger Sell and Barbara Lounsberry

  How does a good university get even better? One response to this question is through ongoing deliberations on its mission and the environment for teaching and learning it is fostering. This volume seeks to capture this dialogue, to show what such deliberations toward quality are like at one mid-sized comprehensive university. As such, it does not claim to offer all the answers for enhancing the quality of higher education in America-although we hope you will find many provocative and useful ideas in these pages. Rather, this volume attempts to showcase a process for ensuring ongoing advancement.

  Nearly 200 of our colleagues invested valuable time and effort during a two-day conference, "The Future of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northern Iowa," held on October 13-14, 1995 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

  This volume is a product of that conference.

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  Inclusion: A Guide for Educators

  Susan Bray Stainback

  This practical resource explains how to make inclusion work, providing practicing and prospective educators with the tools and techniques they need to transform classrooms into places where all students have the opportunity to succeed. Highly regarded experts address topics including basic strategies, professional and student collaboration, curriculum adaptation, and behavioral challenges. -- Provided by publisher

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  Controversial Issues Confronting Special Education: Divergent Perspectives

  William Stainback and Susan Stainback

  The book draws together, in one source, divergent perspectives on critical issues or questions confronting the field of special education. Each issue is addressed in a pro/con format. -- Provided by publisher

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  Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality

  Gay Talese and Barbara Lounsberry

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  Pollution Prevention Manual for Lithographic Printers

  Sue Behrns, Kathleen Gordon, Lisa Hurban, and Cathy Zeman

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  Environmental Policies in the Third World: A Comparative Analysis

  O. P. Dwivedi and Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

  Analyzes environmental problems and policies in developing countries around the world and discusses new prospects for international cooperation and funding. Considers hard political choices, who is to blame for environmental decay, who should pay to overcome problems, and how policies should be administered. Experts from different countries offer their perspectives about the role of multilateral agencies, the North-South dimensions of environmental problems since 1972, internal and external factors that have affected Third World development, new measures and opportunities since the Rio Summit conference, and case studies of representative countries―India, China, Indonesia, Africa, Nigeria, Chile, and Mexico. A bibliography enhances this authoritative study for the use of political scientists, economists, and public administrators, for teachers, students, and professionals. -- Provided by publisher

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  Leisure and Life Satisfaction : Foundational Perspectives

  Christopher R. Edginton

  This text provides a foundation for the study of leisure and of those organizations that deliver leisure services. Intended for both graduate and postgraduate students of leisure studies and recreation management, it aims to offer an analysis of the societal factors influencing leisure, and to helping students understand how leisure services are organized and delivered by government, non-profit and commercial agencies.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Selected Papers of the Academy of Youth Leaders

  Susan R. Edginton, Christopher Edginton, and Wendy L. Walser

  The provision of high quality, high impact services is the quest of all youth service organizations. Selected Papers of the Academy for Youth Leaders presents a series of presentations from the U.S. Army Youth Services 25th anniversary celebration conference--A Silver Salute: A Journey into Excellence--held at the University of Northern Iowa.

  There are a number of national trends impacting youth today that reinforce the need for strong, well-managed youth services in our communities. For example, it has been reported that over 40% of a youth's day is discretionary or leisure time and much of this time is spent without adult supervision. The way in which young people meet their basic needs and develop as individuals will be impacted by individuals, organizations and agencies that influence their lives. This document combines essential information from leaders in the fields of leisure and youth development. The articles presented in Selected Papers of the Academy for Youth Leaders focus on the key elements required for professional excellence in serving youth.

  The University of Northern Iowa's Academy for Youth Leaders' curriculum was designed to emphasize three (3) major areas that promote and enhance professional excellence--knowledge of youth development principles, management and leadership skills, and an awareness of the philosophy and values that guide our profession. Emphasis was placed on current topics such as conflict resolution for youth, multicultural programming, youth development, innovative leisure program designs and Total Quality Program Planning (TQP).

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  The Dynamic Interaction of Higher Education, Teacher Education, and School Reform : A TECSCU Dialogue

  David Else

  In partnership with the Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities (TECSCU), this unique IEL working conference format was utilized at the 1994 Fall TECSCU Conference in Denver, Colorado. Conference participants self-selected one of four issue areas for indepth dialogue: (a) Changing the Architecture of the University to Support Teacher Education; (b) Expanding Technology to Change the Face of Teacher Education: What are the Possibilities?; (c) Defining and Disseminating Alternative Delivery Systems for Teacher Education: The University Response; and (d) Defining the Role of Teacher Education In Changing Schools. Prior to the conference, participants were invited to write a position paper relative to the issue area selected. To ensure active participation and lively dialogue, two dialogue groups were provided for each issue area. The goals for each dialogue group were to: (a) identify, define, and prioritize critical issues within the broader issue area; (b) explore options for resolution of the critical issues; and (c) reach consensus on recommendations for advancing interaction of higher education, teacher education, and school reform.

  Time allowed for consensus only within each dialogue group. Consensus reports reflect the collective wisdom of the participants in each group and may not necessarily reflect the views of TECSCU institutions, or TECSCU itself. This compilation of position papers and issue area dialogue groups' consensus reports represents the individual and collaborative intelligence of educational leaders in TECSCU institutions relative to the dynamic interaction of higher education, teacher education, and school reform. It is the intent of TECSCU that this unique knowledge base, informed by professional practice, will offer innovative ideas and new insights to serve as a foundation for decisionmaking.

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  The Federal Government and Urban Housing: Ideology and Change in Public Policy

  R. Allen Hays

  This book provides a complete picture of federal housing and community development policy during the last sixty years. Since the first edition was published in 1985, the quality and quantity of published works on U.S. housing policy have increased considerably. But this book still stands out from other works in the breadth of its coverage and analysis. This second edition covers virtually every major program that has attempted to provide housing for disadvantaged persons and compares and contrasts their underlying approaches to housing problems. It also examines the impact of major community development programs--urban renewal and Community Development Block Grants--on urban housing. The coverage of U.S. housing policy extends through the first year of the Clinton administration. Most notably, Hays calls into question the generally negative appraisal of housing programs that is widespread in the public policy and urban politics literature. He shows that although most of these programs have experienced major problems, none has been an unqualified failure, and most have improved the housing conditions of millions of people. Placing the federal government's attempts to deal with housing problems within a broader analytical framework by relating them to long and short-term political changes, Hays argues that the political variable with the most impact on the course of housing policy has been ideology--in particular, the ideological orientations of the various presidential administrations during the past sixty years. -- Provided by publisher

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  Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Metal Manufacturers

  Iowa Small Business Development Centers and Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Metal Manufacturers was prepared as part of the Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative (IPPI) pilot project. IPPI demonstrated the team approach to small business pollution prevention technical assistance through integration of existing Iowa Small Business Development Center and Iowa Waste Reduction Center services. This cooperative effort was designed to help small businesses learn about and implement pollution prevention through recognition of pollution prevention options, comparison of costs and benefits, and evaluation of financing options. The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan (PPIP) for Metal Manufacturers provides: • An overview of pollution prevention options, • A review of the costs and benefits associated with these options, and • Steps for pollution prevention implementation and financing Use of the PPIP will help a small business select pollution prevention practices that have a high probability of being successful from quality/production, environmental and economic standpoints. While this particular PPIP addresses the metal manufacturing industry, other PPIP’s are available for printing and vehicle maintenance facilities.

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  Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Printing Industries

  Iowa Small Business Development Centers and Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Printers was prepared as part of the Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative (IPPI) pilot project. IPPI demonstrated the team approach to small business pollution prevention technical assistance through integration of existing Iowa Small Business Development Center and Iowa Waste Reduction Center services. This cooperative effort was designed to help small businesses learn about and implement pollution prevention through recognition of pollution prevention options, comparison of costs and benefits, and evaluation of financing options. The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan (PPIP) for Printers provides: • An overview of pollution prevention options, • A review of the costs and benefits associated with these options, and • Steps for pollution prevention implementation and financing Use of the PPIP will help a small business select pollution prevention practices that have a high probability of being successful from quality/production, environmental and economic standpoints. While this particular PPIP addresses the printing industry, other PPIP’s are available for metal manufacturing and vehicle maintenance facilities. Many pollution prevention options recommended for lithographic printing can be adapted to all types of printing shops and printing methods.

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  Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Vehicle Maintenance

  Iowa Small Business Development Centers and Iowa Waste Reduction Center

  The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan for Vehicle Maintenance was prepared as part of the Iowa Pollution Prevention Initiative (IPPI) pilot project. IPPI demonstrated the team approach to small business pollution prevention technical assistance through integration of existing Iowa Small Business Development Center and Iowa Waste Reduction Center services. This cooperative effort was designed to help small businesses learn about and implement pollution prevention through recognition of pollution prevention options, comparison of costs and benefits, and evaluation of financing options. The Pollution Prevention Implementation Plan (PPIP) for Vehicle Maintenance provides: • An overview of pollution prevention options, • A review of the costs and benefits associated with these options, and • Steps for pollution prevention implementation and financing Use of the PPIP will help a small business select pollution prevention practices that have a high probability of being successful from quality/production, environmental and economic standpoints. While this particular PPIP addresses the vehicle maintenance facilities, other PPIP’s are available for printing and metal manufacturing industry.

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  Basepaths

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  In the timeless world of fiction it is "next year" for the Mason City Royals of Jerry Klinkowitz's award-winning Short Season and Other Stories. Who's back? Just three players: Billy Harmon, Dave Alpert, and the baby-fat slugger Mark Wiggins. But that's good, for in minor league baseball the best players are promoted while the failures are dropped. So except for Billy, Dave, and Mark, who expect just another half-season of fine-tuning before moving up, it's an open field for a new season of hopes and dreams - but for nightmares too. The team gets a new manager, Ken Boyenga (with a colorful major league past) just as its local ownership elects a new club president, Al Swenson (a man with two daughters and a business with the hopeful title of "Swenson & Son Electric"). Plus there's Mike Jacobs, a contract garbage hauler who's just joined the board of directors (and already thinks he owns the team). Added to the busload of rookies on this fresh season's team, this "new leadership" on and off the field lets readers enjoy the parallel spectacle of a sports business being constructed - and deconstructed - and finally utterly demolished right before their eyes all in the spirit of boisterous hilarity that has come to characterize minor league baseball at its most fun. -- Provided by publisher

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  Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium on Language Teaching Methodology, Beijing-Hohhot

  Fritz König, Stephen J. Gaies, Gao Yuan, Li Baokun, and Tang Dexin

  On October 4-13 an international symposium on language teaching methodology was held in Beijing-Hohhot, People's Republic of China. The symposium was jointly sponsored by the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), USA, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), PRC, Inner Mongolia Engineering College (IMEC), PRC, and Richmond College (RC) of the United Kingdom. 38 non-Chinese from 8 countries of the world and over 40 Chinese scholars from all parts of the country made the symposium a truly international gathering of linguists and language teachers; the presentations and discussions were full of insight and variety. It was decided then to compile a volume of proceedings of the Symposium, and the work was entrusted to UNI and BUAA.

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  A Century of Leadership [Volume 2]: Iowa State Normal School 1876-1909, Iowa State Teachers College 1909-1961, State College of Iowa 1961-1967, University of Northern Iowa 1967-

  William C. Lang and Daryl Pendergraft

  Table of Contents:

  Foreword --- vii
  Preface --- viii
  Acknowledgments --- xi
  Chapter VIII: The Latham Presidency: Achieving Full Collegiate Status In Years of Economic Constriction --- 1
  Chapter IX: The Price Administration, 1940-1950 --- 101
  Chapter X: The Maucker Years--1950-1970, Part 1 --- 173
  Chapter XI: The Maucker Years, 1950-1970, Part 2 --- 249
  Chapter XII: The Maucker Years, 1950-1970, Part 3 --- 325
  Chapter XIII: Completing a Century of Service --- 379
  Appendix --- 487
  Notes --- 489
  Index --- 521

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  Personnages

  Michael D. Oates

  An Intermediate Course in French Language and Francophone Culture/Instructor's Edition -- Provided by publisher

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  Основы экономической теории : микроэкономическая теория рынков продукции

  Ernest Raiklin

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  Comportamiento Etico de la Poesía de Antonio Machado

  Elisa Rosales Juega

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  Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream

  Donald E. Shepardson

  Rosa Luxemburg was a Jew, a Pole, and a woman who considered herself to be a prophet of socialism - and only a citizen of the proletariat. She dedicated her life to fulfilling the noble dream of socialism in the belief that only socialism could bring true freedom and the end of oppression. Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream covers her life as a theorist, writer, and revolutionary during the years prior to World War I. It concludes with the collapse of Germany during the war, Luxemburg's role in founding the German Communist party, and her execution following the Spartacist rebellion in January of 1919. -- Provided by publisher

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  Vehicle Maintenance Pollution Prevention

  University of Northern Iowa. Small Business Pollution Prevention Center.

  Pollution prevention can be defined as: "The use of materials, processes, or practices that reduces or eliminates the creation of pollutants or wastes at the source.” (EPA) Pollution prevention represents a shift away from the old school of thought, “pollution control,” in which waste was not dealt with until after it was generated. Through pollution prevention, we look at the processes that generate the waste to see if we can avoid creating a waste in the first place, or at least reduce the hazardous nature of the waste. When this is not possible, the next best solution to prevent wastes from having a negative impact on the environment is through careful management and recycling. If you are a vehicle maintenance and repair shop owner or service manager, this manual is for you. It will help you identify areas in your facility where pollution prevention techniques can be applied in a practical manner. Each section presents a waste stream common to vehicle maintenance accompanied by pollution prevention recommendations. Appendices to this manual contain lists of equipment vendors and service providers, regulatory summaries, and other information necessary to implement recommendations. Although the focus of this manual is on pollution prevention, regulatory information is given as necessary where it impacts pollution prevention practices and to illustrate how pollution prevention can help reduce regulatory requirements. A shop with good pollution prevention practices will be well on its way to regulatory compliance.

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  Investigating the Unliterary: Six Essays on Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes

  Richard Utz and Elizabeth Sharpe

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  Alcoholism Treatment: A Social Work Perspective

  Katherine S. Van Wormer

  This book provides an ecosystems approach to alcoholism and its treatment. It bridges the gap between the twelve-step approach and the scientifically based Responsibility model. Van Wormer views the individual behavior. Biological and psychological factors in alcoholism are covered. The text draws upon literature from several cultures to discuss the role of alcohol in society. Gender, minority, and gay-lesbian issues are integrated throughout. -- Provided by publisher

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  What Growing Up Is All About: A Parent's Guide to Child and Adolescent Development

  Ann Vernon and Radhi H. Al-Mabuk

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  Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France

  Charlotte Catherine Wells

  Scholars of French history have long maintained that the modern French notion of citizenship--including the concept that citizenship endows one with certain civil rights--is a product of the Enlightenment. But in Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France, historian Charlotte Wells argues that many of the ideas that found their way into Enlightenment tracts in fact had their roots in the French Renaissance. Wells shows how an understanding of the droit d'aubaine--the legal disabilities of foreign-born residents of the French kingdom--helps to identify the implied rights of native citizens. She then describes how such sixteenth-century jurists as Jean Bacquet, René Choppin, and Jean Bodin combined Roman law and feudal principles into an organized concept of citizenship. Through an examination of key 17th-century trials, Wells demonstrates how French "citizens" were gradually transformed into "subjects" during the absolutist reign of Louis XIV. A century later, however, jurists and such writers as Diderot and Montaigne rehabilitated earlier notions of citizenship, thus providing the foundation for further developments in political and legal theory.

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  Juvenile Justice in America

  Clemens Bartollas and Stuart J. Miller

  The purpose of this text is to explore and define the important and emerging component of juvenile justice in the United States. As a field of study, juvenile justice has been largely neglected, and a definitive study has not been made. We judge that the history of juvenile justice, the processing of youth, the philosophy of juvenile justice, the detention of juveniles, and the diversion of youth from the juvenile justice system should all be included in discussing juvenile justice. -- Provided by publisher

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  Theorizing Masculinities

  Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman

  Drawing together the broad range of theoretical issues posed in the new study of masculinity, contributors from diverse backgrounds address in this volume the different disciplinary roots of theories of masculinity - sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality studies. Subsequent chapters theoretically model many issues central to the study of men - power, ethnicity, feminism, homophobia - or develop theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men including the military and the men's movement. -- Provided by publisher

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  Speaking of Poets 2: More Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children And Young Adults

  Jeffery Scott Copeland and Vicky L. Copeland

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  Women's Voices in our Time : Statements by American Leaders

  Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco and Marvin D. Jensen

  Voices of wisdom and inspiration and outrage, words that move and lead, are expressions of character--not reflections of gender. This collection, then, is an attempt to address the exclusion of female rhetors from traditional anthologies by featuring the speeches of twenty-eight American women who represent a new style of leadership. These women vary in age, ethnicity, and political and social ideology, yet as speakers they share several traits: all speak with active, not passive, voices; all have messages for men as well as women; all demonstrate an awareness of their audience; all speak for something--offering listeners not just a perception of wrongs but an affirmation of alternatives; and all offer some vision that goes beyond narrow ideology. Moreover, the editors have presented each speech in context, documenting when possible the intention and approach of the speaker, as well as the audience response. Women's Voices in Our Time is an important step in the documentation of women's attempts to claim the public speaking platform as their own. - Provided by publisher

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  Youth Programs: Promoting Quality Service

  Susan Edginton and Christopher R. Edginton

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  Vascular Plants of Iowa: An Annotated Checklist and Natural History

  Lawrence J. Eilers and Dean M. Roosa

  Anyone who works with the vascular plants of Iowa—researchers, conservationists, teachers, agricultural specialists, horticulturists, gardeners, and so on—and those who are simply interested in knowing more about the state's plants have long felt a need for a comprehensive flora of Iowa. This meticulously researched volume is a giant first step toward such a flora. This book consists of an extended essay on the natural history of the vascular plants of Iowa, a discussion of their origins, a description of the state's natural regions, and a painstakingly annotated checklist of Iowa vascular plants. The data, which apply to over 150 years, took more than 15 years to collect. All known vascular plants that grow and persist in Iowa without cultivation are included in the checklist. These are native plants, primarily, but a large number of introduced species have become established throughout the state. Also included are Iowa's major crop plants and some of its common garden plants. The lengthy checklist provides an accurate and up-to-date listing of species names and common names, synonyms, distribution, habitat, abundance, and origin; county names are given for very rare species, and the most complete information has been provided for all rare plants and troublesome species. The wealth of information is this well-organized, practical volume—which describes more than two thousand species from Adiantum pedatum, the northern maidenhair fern of moist woods and rocky slopes, to Zannichellia palustris, the horned pondweed of shallow marshes and coldwater streams—makes it possible to identify Iowa plants correctly. All Midwesterners will want to own a copy of The Vascular Plants of Iowa. -- Provided by publisher

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  Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women

  Annie Finch

  A collection of more than 40 poems including brief critical statements by each poet and concise critical mini-essays on the poetry of each poet. Finch examines the course of 20th century poetry by American women, exploring the strain of male dominance that submerged more than two generations of women writers. -- Provided by publisher

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  Dragonfly

  Vince Gotera

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  Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans

  Vince Gotera

  The first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to poetry by Vietnam veterans, Radical Visions argues that this body of writing registers an important advance in the aesthetics and poetics of war literature and offers a cogent antiwar statement rooted in personal experience. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Skipped Stones : Faces in Time

  Harvey Hess

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  Surrounded by Dangerous Things : Poetry

  Carol Poster

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  Vietnam, Perspectives & Performance : Two Plays About Real People Affected by the Legacy of the Vietnam Conflict, Told in Their Own Words From Their Own Experiences

  Mary Rohrberger

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  Modernizing China

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

  This volume of 10 essays on modernizing China discusses crucial issues on: China's economic policies; state-church relationship; environmental problems; the Four Modernizations; the role of new economic zones; China's perception of external threats; the role of intellectuals; the status of art policy; and the rights of women in society. The essays examine changes taking place in modern China and attempt to generate intellectual debate on issues such as: whether these changes will lead to a pluralistic, less oppressive open society or whether they will strengthen the hardliners in consolidating their power. They also examine the future of China after Deng. -- Provided by publisher

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  Collaborative Peer Review: The Role of Faculty in Improving College Teaching

  Michael D. Waggoner and Larry Keig

  Attempts to establish a rationale for formative evaluation and peer review for instructional improvement. Discusses the potential roles of peers, popular methods, actual programs, and the benefits to students, faculty, and the institution. -- Provided by publisher

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  Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education

  Betty Zan and Rheta DeVries

  This work addresses the question of how to establish an interpersonal classroom atmosphere that fosters children's intellectual, social, moral, emotional and personality development. The authors draw upon and extend the constructivist work of Jean Piaget in sociomoral development. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Care of Children with Long-Term Tracheostomies

  Ken Mitchell Bleile

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  Speaking of Poets: Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

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  Applied Photography

  Ervin A. Dennis

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  The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse

  Annie Finch

  A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Ownership, Control, and the Future of Housing Policy

  R. Allen Hays

  This comparative study is the first to center on the key issues of homeownership and control today in a number of industrialized countries. Experts from Canada, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States draw a cross-national and interdisciplinary, informed picture of basic issues and values, current trends, and different policy approaches that have been tested in recent years. This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control. Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy. How are notions about ownership and control tied to culture? What are some of the basic values about homeownership in western societies? What place has homeownership played in the life cycles of black and white families in the United States? What limitations to privatization exist in housing reform in Russia now? Who benefits or loses from public housing sales in Britain? How are multi-family public housing projects of the 1960s in the United States being converted to community-corporation control? What different kinds of tenant attitudes exist toward tenant management in two U.S. public housing developments? What type of role do nonprofit housing cooperatives in Canada play? These are only some of the questions that the ten chapters set out to answer. Reference lists accompany each of the chapters, adding to the usefulness of this public policy study for text purposes. -- Provided by publisher

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  Interactive Television Preservice Teacher Education Innovative Applications: A Monograph

  Mary C. Herring, Sharon Smaldino, and Ann Thompson

  In Iowa, the practice of two-way interactive full motion video instruction is embodied in the use of the Iowa Communication Network (ICN). To facilitate innovative practices in distance education, the preservice component of the Iowa Distance Education Alliance's (IDEA) Teacher Education Alliance provided support for pilot projects which had the following goals: (1) support of Iowa teacher educators in innovative use of the ICN for distance education; (2) creation of activities that expand and enhance teacher education experiences; and (3) contribute to the distance education knowledge base. A workshop was conducted over the ICN to introduce a long-term science, mathematics, and technology education reform initiative. Participants' evaluations are presented. Research reports a e provided on projects that included: the preparation of multimedia-based instruction using the ICN, science instruction for students with disabilities, and professional networking opportunities through the ICN. Also included are vision statements by teacher education experts in the fields of foreign language, literacy, mathematics, science, and vocational education that serve as perspectives concerning the application of distance education methods to these disciplines. (AEF)

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  Instructor's Manual to Accompany Essentials of the Dynamic Universe: Introduction to Astronomy

  Thomas Hockey and Siobahn Morgan

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  Roger Shimomura : Return of the Yellow Peril

  William W. Lew and Roger Shimomura

  "Exhibitions: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington, February 19-March 28, 1993; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, April 19-May 30, 1993; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, August 25-September 21, 1993; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, October 3-November 14, 1993."

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  From Blue Mills to Columbia : Cedar Falls and the Civil War

  Kenneth L. Lyftogt

  Historian Kenneth Lyftogt introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa’s role in the Civil War. Many of these soldiers served the Union for the duration of the war, from the early fighting in Missouri to Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s destructive marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their letters home are Lyftogt’s primary sources, as are editorials and articles published in the Cedar Falls Gazette.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Practiquemos Mas : a Structural-cultural Spanish Workbook. Book 1

  Hildegard Morales and Terri A. Gebel

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  The Basic Essentials of Alpine Skiing

  Carol Poster

  Beginners use more energy than novice and advanced skiers so it's a good idea to embark on a pre-season conditioning program. Condition and adapt your body for the unusual demands placed on it from cold weather, high altitude, and new movements. Understand equipment and clothing selection for your body type to meet your expectations. Negotiate and familiarize yourself with tricky resort rules and etiquettes from the parking lot, to various types of lifts, all the way down the slopes; so that you don't look like a greenhorn. Read trail maps correctly. Gather expectations of PSIA certified ski schools to take full advantage of your first lessons. Develop a proper skiing stance. Use the wedge for braking and turning. Maintain your expensive gear for years of enjoyment. Glossary included. -- Provided by publisher

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  After the Demise of Empiricism : the Problem of Judging Social and Education Inquiry

  John K. Smith

  A follow-up to The Nature of Social and Educational Inquiry, this volume explores the problem of criteria for distinguishing knowledge from false claims to knowledge and good research from bad research. -- Provided by the publisher

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  Pragmatism and Pluralism : John Dewey's Significance for Theology

  Jerome Paul Soneson

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  New Horizons in Sephardic Studies

  Yedida K. Stillman and George Zucker

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  Counseling Children and Adolescents

  Ann Vernon

  This highly practical new edition of "Counseling Children and Adolescents" combines innovative techniques with solid theory for helping children. It is a developmental approach with major revisions in all chapters. The new chapter on counseling culturally and ethnically diverse youth shows how to develop cultural, ethnic, and racial self-awareness as a counselor. The book offers a plan for designing a developmental counseling curriculum from primary grades through high school. It presents empirically based strategies and shows how to assess needs and design helpful interventions. Play therapy, brief counseling, rational - emotional therapy, small group counseling, working with at-risk youth, and working with parents are all part of this text. The rich experiences of the authors as both practitioners and clinicians, in addition to being counselor educators, bring a wide array of innovations and creative techniques to this new volume. -- Provided by publisher

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  Developmental Assessment and Intervention with Children and Adolescents

  Ann Vernon

  This book addresses the normal problems that kids face and provides a practical approach to assessment procedures and provides strategies. -- Provided by publisher

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  Tropical Seas to Prairies : a Natural History Field Trip in Black Hawk and Bremer Counties, Iowa

  Wayne I. Anderson, James C. Walters, and Daryl Smith

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  Introduction to Corrections

  Clemens Bartollas and John Phillips Conrad

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  Hegel's Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity, and Modernity

  Harry Brod

  Focusing on Hegel's political philosophy, this text demonstrates the unifying role played by the doctrine of the collective historical social consciousness. -- Provided by publisher

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  Twenty Poems of Viktor Bokov

  Edward Jamosky and Viktor Bokov

  This bilingual volume (English-Russian) represents the first time twenty poems of Victor Bokov have appeared in one place. He is an important Russian poet whose original works first appeared in the sixties & seventies. Three of his poems are already in George Reavy's NEW RUSSIAN POETS 1953-1956 & in a collection by Olga Carlisle. But mentions of him by other American authors are few & far between. The twenty poems are a sampling of all of Bokov's poetry. There is some nature poetry--some love poetry, some poetry of the philosophical-meditative turn, some of the patriotic-national variety. Some refer to Russia's long tradition of folk tales & folklore. Still other poems refer to the theme of the poet & one poem is devoted to Alexander Pushkin. The poems show that as a modern poet he is very traditional; rhyme & meter are present in all of his poems. He is not inclined to experiment with blank verse. Bokov's numerous poems on birch trees, flowered meadows, & even personified meadow grass give him a strong dimension that would best compare him to Walt Whitman, one of our own nature poets. There seems to be a fusion of Russia itself with all of these wonderments of nature. -- Provided by publisher

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  Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, “content” does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today’s novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz’s focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, and, by thus “structuring the void,” have created a new form of fiction. Among the writers Klinkowitz discusses are Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Max Apple, Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Susan Quist, Gerald Rosen, Rob Swigart, and Grace Paley. He shows how, in the absence of subject matter, these writers persist in the act of structuring—by organizing autobiography as a narrative device, ritualizing national history and popular culture, or formalizing a comic response to a new imaginative state, the state of California. Klinkowitz also considers subjects such as gender and war, which, though they cannot be represented, nevertheless exercise constraints on a writer’s intention to structure. What emerges from Klinkowitz’s analysis is a clear sense of what today’s fiction—and fiction writing—is about. As such, Structuring the Void will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary literature. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Writer in You: A Writing Process Reader

  Barbara Lounsberry

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  Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion

  Kathryn Luttgens, Helga Deutsch, and Nancy Hamilton

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  Law, Business, and Society

  Tony McAdams, Amy Gershenfeld Donella, James Freeman, and Nancy Neslund

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  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hadronic Mechanics and Nonpotential Interactions : Held at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, August 13-17, 1990

  Hyo Chul Myung

  This volume contains the papers devoted to physics presented at the Fifth International Conference on [title] which was held at the U. of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, August 1990. Among the topics in 28 Lie-admissible complex time model, coherent nuclear states in a supermanifold, meson-mes

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  Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonassociative Algebraic Models : Held at Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, April, 1989

  Hyo Chul Myung and Santos González

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  Simbu Law : Conflict Management in the New Guinea Highlands

  Aaron Podolefsky

  Law and the disputing process -- Simbu culture and society -- Conflict management I: dyadic processes -- Conflict management II: triadic processes -- The social organization of conflict management -- The disputing process -- The role of goals in decision making and action.-- Provided by Publisher

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  Unnatural Fauna : a Guide to the People of the American Outdoors

  Carol Poster

  Identify some of the more common species of homo sapien you're likely to encounter on excursions into the North American wilderness including Academius urbanus, Pescadoris immobilis, Homo organicus and the always present Horde orientalis. Learn to recognize the lumbering Beerbellius giganticus by locating his scat of beer can droppings. Along the rivers and lake shores you will find a preponderance of Popellus petrolealis shreddus, caravanus hazardous Locali, and Flotsam fluvialis. Detect the mannerism of studentus inebrius with insight into its eccentricities. In the campground, observe Ornithologus trivialis, commonly known as the bandy-legged geek. Recognize Winnebagus hospitalus and heterogeneous flocks of Swarm familias. No species of homo sapien escapes ridicule. That's the fun of it! Carol Poster makes us laugh at the generalized idiosyncratic behavior of us all in an attempt to curb some of our own unwitting indiscretions. -- Provided by publisher

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  Curriculum Considerations in Inclusive Classrooms: Facilitating Learning for All Students

  Susan Stainback and William Stainback

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  Controversial Issues Confronting Special Education: Divergent Perspectives

  William Stainback and Susan Stainback

  The book draws together, in one source, divergent perspectives on critical issues or questions confronting the field of special education. Each issue is addressed in a pro/con format. -- Provided by publisher

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  Empowering Networks: Computer Conferencing in Education

  Michael D. Waggoner

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  Guide to Oral Communication

  Melissa L. Beall

  Course guide for students and instructors at University of Northern Iowa-- Provided by Publisher

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  Cultural Change and Imperial Administration

  Robert L. Dise

  During the last fifty years, scholars have devoted considerable effort to studying the social and economic evolution of the provinces of the Roman empire, but very little has been done to illuminate the institutional history of the apparatus of provincial administration, or to explain why that apparatus evolved the way it did. This study fills the void. Focusing on the provinces of Noricum, Pannonia, and Moesia superior, it is the first systematic examination of the emergence of the apparatus of Roman provincial administration, and presents compelling evidence that this apparatus evolved in direct response to social, economic, and cultural change.

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  Realizing Peace : an Introduction to Peace Studies

  Thomas Keefe and Ron E. Roberts

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  Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme’s work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times. -- Provided by publisher

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  Listen-Gerry Mulligan: An Aural Narrative in Jazz

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Writing Baseball

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Left for Dixie : the Civil War diary of John Rath

  Kenneth Lyftogt

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  Entre Amis : an Interactive Approach to First-Year French

  Michael D. Oates, Larbie Oukada, and Rick Altman

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  Applying Cultural Anthropology : an Introductory Reader

  Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J. Brown

  "The ninth edition of Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles that provide compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. In this age of globalization and increased cultural intolerance, the basic messages of public anthropology are more important than ever. This new edition offers ten new readings that refer to contemporary social issues such as religious belief, work and family, social class, food production, relationships, consumerism, the effects of climate change on culture, and globalization"-- Provided by the publisher

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  Technology and Development: Public Policy and Managerial Issues

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and R. Nararajan

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  Salzburg Under Siege : U.S. Occupation, 1945-1955

  Donald Robert Whitnah and Florentine E. Whitnah

  How did mostly unwanted American military and civilian leaders help conquered people restore law and order, reopen schools, and provide food and housing for a nearly starved population swollen with refugees, war prisoners, and displaced persons in the aftermath of war? Two historians--participants in the U.S. occupation of the province of Salzburg already in 1945--trace the ins and outs of a ten-year period, at the end of World War II, when Austria was in a precarious situation and when Americans were helping the young republic survive, reviving its economy, and preventing Nazis from returning to office. This unusual success story is based on first-hand accounts then and later, and is written to appeal to veterans, scholars, and readers interested generally in military and diplomatic history, intergovernmental administration, and European affairs. This case history offers a good background for understanding the complex European situation in 1945, and then traces how the Americans helped assist, control, regulate, promote, or even restrict the Austrian recovery, pointing particularly to the first crucial years of the American presence in Salzburg. Despite frictions, a key factor promoting success was the leeway given Austrian officials to plan and govern themselves and the freedom granted to the press. The occupation of Salzburg is compared to the American administration in other parts of Austria and in Germany and to the French occupation of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg and the British occupation of Carinthia. This assessment details reactions by Austrians and Americans both, official government evaluations in 1947 and 1955, and scholarly interpretations and misinterpretations. The Whitnahs' book includes illustrations and is based on extensive research and lengthy study of personal letters and papers, oral interviews, and official documents in Washington, D.C. and in Austria. -- Provided by publisher

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  The Victim's Daughter : a Novel

  Robley Wilson

  Returning home for her eagerly anticipated fifteenth anniversary high school class reunion, Lissa Cooper finds her father brutally beaten to death, and she must slowly come to terms with how his murder will forever alter her life. -- Provided by publisher

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  Microsoft Works Through Applications : IBM PC Version

  Leigh Zeitz, LeRoy Finkel, and Jack McManus

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  Algebra 2 With Trigonometry

  Clyde A. Dilley

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  Boeings and Bullock-Carts: Studies in Change and Continuity in Indian Civilization: Essays in Honour of K. Ishwaran

  K. Ishwaran, Yogendra K. Malik, and Dhirendra Kumar Vajpeyi

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  Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.--From the publisher.

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  A Century of Leadership [Volume 1]: Iowa State Normal School 1876-1909, Iowa State Teachers College 1909-1961, State College of Iowa 1961-1967, University of Northern Iowa 1967-

  William C. Lang

  Table of Contents:

  Foreword --- vii
  Preface --- viii
  Acknowledgments --- xi
  Chapter I: The Birth of a State "School For . . . Training of Teachers of Common Schools." --- 1
  Chapter II: The Iowa State Normal School, 1876-1886; Infancy and Economic Malnutrition --- 27
  Chapter III: The Iowa State Normal School, 1886-1902; Adolescence and Acceptance --- 90
  Chapter IV: From Normal School to Teachers College (1903-1909) --- 218
  Chapter V: Through Troubled Times (1909-1920) --- 268
  Chapter VI: The College Completes a Half-Century of Service; President Seerley Retires (1920-1928) --- 369
  Chapter VII: Campus Life During Times of Transition (1903-1928) --- 436
  Appendixes --- 487
  Notes --- 494
  Index --- 547

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  The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction

  Barbara Lounsberry

  The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost three times as many reviews of nonfiction as fiction, critical appreciation of this work has lagged behind. The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. By discussing contemporary literary nonfiction in relation to the early prose narrative forms and to the news/novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the opening chapter defines the discourse known as literary or artistic nonfiction. Dr. Lounsberry then describes four characteristics of literary nonfiction and grounds these characteristics in contemporary works. -- Provided by the publisher

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  The Original Non-Cookbook Environmentally Safe Laboratory Guide Using Cheap Chemicals for Beginning Chemistry Students

  Edwin W. Richter

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  Support Networks for Inclusive Schooling: Interdependent Integrated Education

  William Stainback and Susan Stainback

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  Literarischer Nominalismus im Spätmittelalter: Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Geoffrey Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde

  Richard Utz

  Innerhalb der philologischen Deutungen von Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde existieren eine Reihe kontrovers diskutierter Problemstände, etwa die proverbiale Redeweise des Pandarus, die Charakterzeichnungen der Criseyde und des Troilus oder die Spannungen zwischen der Haupthandlung und dem sogenannten Epilog. Bisherige methodische Ansätze, die meist auf Beobachtungen früh- und hochmittelalterlicher oder gar antiker Sprach- und Denktheorien basierten, konnten die erkannten Widersprüchlichkeiten keiner befriedigenden Lösung zuführen. Die diagnostizierte Defizienz vor allem allegorisch-exegetischer beziehungsweise boethianischer Erklärungsversuche wird in der vorliegenden Untersuchung durch die Konfrontation des literarischen Werkes mit einer ihm synchronen spätmittelalterlichen Kulturkonstituente, der philosophischen Denkbewegung des Nominalismus, überwunden. Das Einbringen dieser Folie des bestimmenden philosophischen Superstrats des 14. Jahrhunderts erhellt die spezifisch spätmittelalterliche Eigenart von Chaucers Werk. Die genannten Aporien der Forschung hinsichtlich Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur werden als Ausprägungen eines originellen, literarischen Nominalismus des Dichters erklärbar. -- Provided by publisher

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  Local Government and Politics in the Third World: Issues and Trends

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

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  On Our Knees : Scripture-based Prayers for Worship

  Kimberly Groninga

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  Their Finest Hours: Narratives of the R.A.F. and Luftwaffe in World War II

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  From 1940 through the spring of 1945, the skies of England and Europe hosted an aerial combat unique in the history of warfare.--Amazon web site.

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  Their Finest Hours : the RAF and the Luftwaffe in World War II

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Applying Anthropology : an Introductory Reader

  Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J. Brown

  Introducing anthropology, this book aims to demonstrate the impact it has on our everyday lives. The text covers such topics as AIDS, archaeology and biological anthropology. The authors profile four anthropologists in order to encourage students to consider anthropology as a career.-- Provided by publisher

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  Distribution of Iowa's Endangered and Threatened Vascular Plants

  Dean M. Roosa, Mark J. Leoschke, and Lawrence J. Eilers

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  The Nature of Social and Educational Inquiry : Empiricism Versus Interpretation

  John K. Smith

  In a clear, concise fashion, this book describes the underlying issues involved in the current discussion over different approaches (empiricist vs. interpretive, quantitative vs. qualitative, scientific vs. naturalist) to social and educational inquiry. The author shows why the issues are currently of interest, briefly describes the standard empiricist perspective on inquiry, and examines the historical origins of the issues. Additionally, there is a discussion of the relationship of the researcher to the subject matter, the relationship of facts and values, the goal of inquiry, and the role of procedures in the inquiry process. In the final chapter there is a summary of these points in terms of the major question of objectivism versus relativism.

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  Educating All Students in the Mainstream of Regular Education

  Susan Stainback, William Stainback, and Marsha Forest

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  Making the Grade

  Susan Stainback, William Stainback, and Max Kidd

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  Elementary Mathematical Methods

  Diane Thiessen and Donald D. Paige

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  Religious and Ethnic Minority Politics in South Asia

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Yogendra K. Malik

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  Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Adolescents/Grades 7-12

  Ann Vernon

  This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy. It helps students learn to overcome irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result. The curriculum consists of two volumes -- one for grades 1-6 and one for grades 7-12. Each volume contains 90 field-tested activities that are carefully arranged by grade level. The activities include simulation games, stories, role plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities. -- Provided by publisher

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  Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Children/Grades 1-6

  Ann Vernon

  This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy. It helps students learn to overcome irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result. The curriculum consists of two volumes -- one for grades 1-6 and one for grades 7-12. Each volume contains 90 field-tested activities that are carefully arranged by grade level. The activities include simulation games, stories, role plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities. The activities are organized into five categories: 1 Self-Acceptance2 Feelings3 Beliefs and Behavior4 Problem Solving/Decision Making5 Interpersonal Relationships Thinking, Feeling, Behaving is designed for use in the classroom or in small-group settings and can also be adapted for use in individual counseling. A sampling of the activities from grades 1-6: I'm Afraid, It's OK to Goof Up, Like 'Em or Not, Goal for It, I Have to Have It My Way, Multiple Solutions, Talking It Out, Glad to Be Me, Put-Downs, How Might They Feel, Rose-Colored Glasses. -- Provided by publisher

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  Who Do You Think You Are? : How to Build Self-Esteem

  Joel Wells

  Explains how to improve one's self-esteem by dealing with put-downs, body image, and self-respect -- Provided by publisher

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  American Criminal Justice: An Introduction

  Clemens Bartollas and Loras L. Jaeger

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  A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity

  Harry Brod

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  How to Conduct Community Needs Assessment Surveys in Public Parks and Recreation

  Susan D. Hudson

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  Rosenberg/Barthes/Hassan: The Postmodern Habit of Thought 

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Short Season and Other Stories

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with "no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days." Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions. -- Provided by publisher

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  Public Relations and Community : a Reconstructed Theory

  Dean Kruckeberg and Kenneth Starck

  This slim volume hits hard at one major point: public relations practitioners need to abandon their dominant attitude of narrowly serving the needs of their clients and instead attempt to engender a broad-based sense of community. By approaching public relations from this broader perspective both the needs of the client and the community are served. Implicit in this theory is that a closer-knit community will retain more traditional family-based values and therefore comprise a more stable and appreciative economic unit for one's client. -- Provided by publisher Public relations is commonly viewed as using persuasive communications to achieve a client's vested goal. Kruckeberg and Starck challenge this oversimplified approach, asserting that public relations is a complex, multi-flow process that should--and can--affect society as a whole. In Part I, they examine critically the historical definition and practice of public relations, outlining the shortcomings of this narrow approach. Part II explores how the community itself has changed. Such issues as the shift from rural to urban life and the attempt to regain a sense of community are discussed. Part III attempts to reconcile the authors' new notion of public relations and community through an in-depth case-study. The results lead the authors to conclude that only if public relations is practiced as an active attempt to build a sense of community can it become a full partner in the communications milieu.

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  The Sullivan Family of Waterloo

  Kenneth L. Lyftogt and Alvin R. Sunseri

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  India: The Years of Indira Gandhi

  Yogendra K. Malik and Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

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  How to Help Your Child Succeed in School

  Susan Stainback and William Stainback

  Tells how to motivate children, teach good study habits, handle behaviorial problems, and help children handle school-related stress--Provided by publisher

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  The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies

  Harry Brod

  This book is both simple in conception and ambitious in intention. It aims at legitimating the new interdisciplinary field of men's studies as one of the most significant and challenging intellectual and curricular developments in academia today. The fourteen essays included here are drawn from such diverse disciplines as men's studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, Black studies, biology, English literature, and gay studies. -- Provided by publisher

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  Problem Solving with Number Patterns

  David R. Duncan and Bonnie H. Litwiller

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  Sleep and Dreams: A Sourcebook

  Jayne Gackenbach

  Unlike many books on sleep and dreams, the emphasis in this volume is on dreaming rather than on sleeping. This book gives the reader a basic grounding in what we know about the sleep state and then details sleep mentation or dreaming.

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  Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography

  Asa B. Pieratt, Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Selected poems of Jacques Prévert

  Carol Poster

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  Illustration as an Art

  Roy R. Behrens

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  Commercial Leisure Services: Managing for Profit, Service, and Personal Satisfaction

  John J. Bullaro and Christopher R. Edginton

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  The Book of the Moon: A Lunar Introduction to Astronomy, Geology, Space Physics, and Space Travel

  Thomas A. Hockey

  Presents a nontechnical overview of intriguing information about our natural satellite, from the dawn of time to the day Neil Armstrong set foot on its surface, to 2001 and beyond. Fully illustrated with charts and photographs that clarify scientific points. Also explores exciting possibilities in years ahead--for the mining, colonization, and whatever its compelling, silvery presence inspires! - Provided by publisher

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  The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth—coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism—became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America’s modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us—the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the décor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live. -- Provided by publisher

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  Strategic Management Skills

  Daniel Power

  Designed to help readers learn the specific skills needed for performing business and industry analysis, this book shows how to think, discuss, and act in order to create a stable future for an organization.

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  General Geology of North-Central Iowa: Guidebook for the 48th Annual Tri-State Geological Field Conference

  Wayne Anderson

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  Correctional Treatment: Theory and Practice

  Clemens Bartollas

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  Juvenile Delinquency

  Clemens Bartollas

  This is the fifth edition of a book that has long been popular with students. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of juvenile delinquency with a focus on a sociological examination of the issues. The chapters on causation examine old as well as new theories. The revision includes a new chapter on social reaction theories and one on female delinquency. The chapters on the family, school, gangs, and drugs have been thoroughly revised and updated for the fifth edition. -- Provided by publisher

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  Applied Photography

  Ervin A. Dennis

  This book should be of interest to introductory courses in photography. -- Provided by publisher

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  Literary Subversion: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Klinkowitz’s comprehensive Introduc­tion provides the clearest, liveliest explo­ration to date of the technical and criti­cal developments in the art of the novel over the past two decades. Using a variety of approaches from po­lemic and lyric to personal witness, Klinkowitz discusses John Updike, Grace Paley, Robley Wilson, Ishmael Reed, John Gardner, Thomas McGuane, John Irving, Richard Yates, John Barth, Jerzy Kosinski, Dan Wakefield, and Tom Glynn. -- Provided by publisher

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  Integration of Students With Severe Handicaps into Regular Schools

  Susan Stainback and William Stainback

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  The Cedar Valley Formation (Devonian), Black Hawk and Buchanan Counties; Carbonate Facies and Mineralization

  Wayne Anderson and Paul L. Garvin

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  The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  “The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the crea­tive process, a narrative that is not about something but is something. Klinkowitz first characterizes the “modern” fiction of the earlier 20th cen­tury wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is “self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes “self-apparent.” -- Provided by publisher

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  Young Goodman Brown ; The Minister's Black Veil

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Deceiving the Worms

  Carol Poster

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  Geology of Iowa: Over Two Billion Years of Change

  Wayne Anderson

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  Participants in American Criminal Justice: The Promise and the Performance

  Clemens Bartollas, Stuart J. Miller, Paul B. Roy, Roy C. Mclaren, William B. Sanders, and William F. Wegener

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  Design in the Visual Arts

  Roy R. Behrens

  Book gives details on designing in visual arts. -- Provided by publisher

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  Deutsch im Sprachgebrauch

  Reinhold K. Bubser and Wulf Köpke

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  The Recreation and Leisure Service Delivery System

  Christopher R. Edginton and Charles A. Griffith

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  Opinions of Freshmen Students Enrolled at the University of Northern Iowa, Spring Semester 1983, Who Submitted Declaration of Curriculum (Academic Major) Statements

  Paul C. Kelso

  The purposes of this study were to:

  1. Secure information from selected University of Northern Iowa freshmen students regarding their (a) future plans, (b) achievement and development during their freshman year, (c) use of and satisfaction with university services and activities, (d) degree of satisfaction with areas related to instruction, (e) employment while attending UNI, (f) most rewarding experience at UNI and (g) biggest disappointment at UNI.

  2. Provide information to university staff members which may be utilized in assisting students and in evaluating existing programs and services.

  This report summarizes the results of the questionnaire survey conducted at the University of Northern Iowa during the Spring Semester 1983.

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  Peter Handke and the Postmodern Transformation: The Goalie's Journey Home

  Jerome Klinkowitz and James Knowlton

  In 1966, Peter Handke disturbed the world of German letters with the publication of his first novel and with his attacks on the complacency of German-language writers and their audiences. Since then, Handke—an Austrian whose works include drama, poetry, and critical theory as well as fiction—has become a leading European figure in the internationally established postmodern movement. Klinkowitz and Knowlton survey Handke’s progress as a writer, concentrating on his novels, to determine whether his creativity has been exhausted by his persistent assault on the systems that underlie conventional fiction, drama, and poetry. By placing Handke’s work in the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism and Donald Barthelme’s innovative fictions, the authors demonstrate that postmodern writers can create works of art in which content is effaced and the process of composition assumes increasing importance. Indeed, in so doing, Handke has made that process as humanly interesting and as fictionally dramatic as any stories of The Great Tradition: he has learned to address the human condition within the limits of a rebellious aesthetic. The lesson of the postmodern transformation, Klinkowitz and Knowlton argue, is that the abstraction of content is not a loss; instead, it leads directly to the most essential human concerns. -- Provided by publisher

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  Case Studies in Community Crime Prevention

  Aaron Podolefsky

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  Government Agencies

  Donald R. Whitnah

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  American Psychology Since World War II : a Profile of the Discipline

  Albert R. Gilgen

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  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Offers a profile of the American writer, discusses the main themes of each of his novels, and describes his place in modern literature.--Provided by publisher.

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  Elementary Mathematical Methods

  Donald D. Paige, Diane Thiessen, and Margaret Wild

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  Teaching Eating Skills: A Handbook for Teachers

  Susan Stainback and Harriet Healy

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  Introduction to Corrections

  Clemens Bartollas

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  Art & Camouflage: Concealment and Deception in Nature, Art, and War

  Roy R. Behrens

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  Government and Politics in India

  Baljit Singh and Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

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  Modern Industry: Structure, Materials, Processes, Products & Career

  Willis H. Wagner

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  Lithographic Technology

  Ervin A. Dennis

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  The Severely Motorically Impaired Student: A Handbook for the Classroom Teacher

  Harriet Healy and Susan Stainback

  The purpose of this handbook is to assist educators in developing a basic understanding and knowledge of these children being mainstreamed into their schools and classrooms. Hopefully this text will provide basic information and procedures that will enable educators to be more comfortable in working with the motorically handicapped. It should also provide programming strategies, techniques, and activities to enhance the academic, social, and physical needs of the motorically handicapped student. --Preface

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  Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  The American 1960's: Imaginative Acts in a Decade of Change

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Looks at how politicians, writers, journalists, rock musicians, and, especially, Vietnam affected the culture of the sixties--Provided by publisher

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  The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present

  Jerome Klinkowitz

  Traces the development of realism in U.S. fiction, looking closely at the work of Hawthorne, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Updike, and Vonnegut.

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  Educating Children with Severe Maladaptive Behaviors

  Susan Stainback and William Stainback

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  Help Yourself to a Healthier You: A Handbook of Emotional Education Exercises for Children

  Ann Vernon

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  Industrial Education in Scandinavia

  Ronald Bro

  The Problem An investigation of curricular programs in industrial education in the public school and teacher education institutions of the Scandinavian countries. The emphasis was on contemporary curricula, program purposes, characteristics, and facilities.

  Purpose of the Study Early forms of industrial education in the Scandinavian countries were influential in the origin and development of industrial education in the United States. Available literature contained little information about current systems of industrial education in Scandinavia. The purpose of this study, therefore was to go to the Scandinavian countries to (1) investigate the industrial education programs on various educational levels, (2) ascertain the nature (purposes, characteristics, and methodologies) of contemporary programs and (3) to identify current trends.

  Significance of the Study Departments of Industrial teacher education in the United States usually offer at least one course involving the history of industrial education. This researcher is responsible for teaching such a course. The European antecedents are essential components of the history. Professional literature in this field, however reveals little about their growth and development in the last century. Industrial technology and the standards of living in Northern European countries have risen to high levels in recent years. In view of these advances it would seem timely that an investigation of their industrial education systems be conducted. The findings of this study should be of value to industrial teacher educators and could have significant implications for future program development.

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  A Comparison of the Responses of UNI Students Direct from High School, Fall Semester 1979, and Their Parents to Statements Pertaining to Selected Educational and Social Issues

  Paul C. Kelso

  This paper summarizes the results of the student-parent survey conducted on the University of Northern Iowa during pre-orientation session for new students and their parents in June and July 1979.

  The purposes of the survey were to:

  1. Secure the opinions of new students and their parents regarding selected current educational and social issues.

  2. Compare the opinions of the students and parents.

  3. Present the findings as a part of the orientation program.

  4. Utilize the opinions of the students and parents in developing future programs in the various student: services areas at the University of Northern Iowa.

  5. Secure demographic information pertaining to the students and their parents.

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  Student Opinions and Interests Regarding a Proposed Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Northern Iowa

  Paul C. Kelso

  During the 1978-79 school year, officials from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) detachment at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa contacted officials at the University of Northern Iowa regarding the possibility of establishing an ROTC extension center at the University of Northern Iowa.

  Following the initial contacts and visits to the campus by ROTC officers from the University of Iowa, officials at the University of Northern Iowa decided to conduct a survey of University of Northern Iowa students to determine their interest in the proposed ROTC program.

  This report summarizes the results of the questionnaire survey conducted on the University of Northern Iowa campus during pre-registration and registration for returning and new undergraduate students for the Fall Semester 1979.

  The purpose of the survey was to provide students with an opportunity to indicate if ROTC would be beneficial to the students and to the university and to determine their interest in participating in ROTC if the proposed program was available.

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  Children's Mathematics Books: A Critical Bibliography

  Margaret Matthias and Diane Thiessen

  About two hundred children's books dealing with mathematics for the early grades are classified by subject and reviewed for content and accuracy, style, and appropriateness.

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  The Diaries of Willard Motley

  Willard Motley and Jerome Klinkowitz

  From 28 exhaustive volumes kept by Willard Motley from 1926 to 1943, Jerome Klinkowitz has selected a revealing self-portrait of an important American writer at work.

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  The 101 Graduates Who Earned Specialist's Degrees at the University of Northern Iowa, 1960/1978

  Gordon J. Rhum

  This is a record of experiences at the University of Northern Iowa with two intermediate graduate degree programs: Specialist in Education, since 1960; Specialist, since 1970. The report extends through calendar year 1978.

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  Modernization and Social Change in India

  Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

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  Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations: A Behavioral Approach

  Christopher R. Edginton and John G. Williams

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  Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War

  Jerome Klinkowitz and John L. Somer

  Fictional narratives depicting the experiences of American and Vietnamese characters demonstrate the horror and senselessness of war.

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  The Life of Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz and Roy R. Behrens

  "Applying a radically new style of criticism to the 'new fiction' of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Donald Barthelme, Hunter S. Thompson, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, Gilbert Sorrentino, and others." -- Provided by publisher

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  Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut

  Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler

  This book containing original essays, Vonnegut's life from childhood until the published date of this book are discussed. -- Provided by publisher

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  Donald Barthelme: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist

  Jerome Klinkowitz, Asa B. Pieratt, and Robert Murray Davis

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  Cypro-Geometric Pottery, Refinements in Classification

  Charles M. Adelman

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  Juvenile Victimization: The Institutional Paradox

  Clemens Bartollas, Stuart J. Miller, and Simon Dinitz

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  Younger Critics of North America: Essays on Literature and the Arts

  Richard Kostelanetz and Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Literary Disruptions: Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction

  Jerome Klinkowitz

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  Woodworking

  Willis H. Wagner

  An introductory text for a basic course in woodworking, stressing hand tool operations, the importance of planning and design, and safe work habits. -- Provided by publisher

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  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist

  Asa B. Pieratt and Jerome Klinkowitz

  First edition. Includes all facets of Vonnegut's work. Presentation from Asa Pieratt dated December 22, 1973 on title page. Prospectus also signed by Pieratt loosely inserted.

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  Classroom Discipline: A Positive Approach

  Susan Stainback and William Stainback

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  The Vonnegut Statement

  Jerome Klinkowitz and John L. Somer

  After twenty years of careful preparation as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has emerged as a major American novelist whose books have sold in the millions. This volume contains fourteen original essays by various academic critics and novelists on all facets of Vonnegut's life and work which, taken together, offer the most complete and coherent picture of the writer's career. The book deals with Vonnegut as a public personage as well as a literary figure and assesses his literary achievement. Contributors include Dan Wakefield, Robert Scholes, Joe David Bellamy, James Mellard, Jess Ritter, and other well-known writers and critics. Jerome Klinkowitz has published essays on Hawthorne, Howells, Faulkner, and on numerous contemporary novelists. He teaches at the University of Northern Iowa. John Somer is the author of several textbooks on literature and composition, and is now preparing a book-length study of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. He is an assistant professor at Kansas State College. -- Provided by publisher

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  Political Stability and Continuity in the Indian States During the Nehru Era, 1947-1964: A Statistical Analysis

  Baljit Singh and Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi

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  General Geology in the Vicinity of Northern Iowa

  Wayne Anderson

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  The General Geology of Black Hawk County and Adjacent Areas

  Wayne Anderson

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  Innovative Fiction: Stories for the Seventies

  Jerome Klinkowitz and John L. Somer

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  Woodworking

  Willis H. Wagner

  An introductory text for a basic course in woodworking, stressing hand tool operations, the importance of planning and design, and safe work habits.--Provided by publisher

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  A History of the United States Weather Bureau

  Donald Robert Whitnah

  A history of the weather bureau in the United States from 1961.-- Provided by Publisher

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  An Experiment in 33:10 General Drawing: An Attempt to Find Ways to Make More Efficient Use of the Instructor and to Improve the Course of Instruction

  Lawrence S. Wright

  In the spring and early summer of 1957, with the encouragement of Dr. H. O. Reed, Chairman, Department of Industrial Arts, and Dr. T. A. Lamke, Coordinator of Research, a proposal for experimentation with the general drawing course was developed and submitted to the committee on Research at Iowa State Teachers College. In the main, the proposals was approved.

  Work began in August of 1957. During that time a "Plan for Conducting an Experiment in 33:10, General Drawing" was developed. -- Provided by the publisher

  During the Fall and Spring Semesters 1957-58 the experiment was carried out.

  This, then, is a report of that experiment.

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  The First 75 Years

  Irving H. Hart

  A history of Iowa State Teachers College (previously known as Iowa State Normal School and now known as the University of Northern Iowa), from 1876 to 1951.

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  A History of Religious Activities at Iowa State Teachers College

  Marshall Rust Beard

  Religious activities have always held a permanently place in the lives of students at Iowa State Teachers College.

  The fact that from 1885 to 1954, 154 of her graduates are known to have entered full-time religious work as ministers, missionaries, etc., points with some significance to the Christian influence existing on this campus.

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  When Cedar Falls Was Young

  Roger Leavitt

  This booklet recounts historical incidents in the early history of Cedar Falls, Iowa, form 1845 to 1866.

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  Fifty Years at the Teachers College

  David Sands Wright

  A history of the Iowa State Teachers College, later known as the University of Northern Iowa.

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  Miscellaneous Addresses, 1885-1920

  Homer H. Seerley

  Homer Horatio Seerley was the second chief administrator of UNI. His predecessor was James Cleland Gilchrist. Seerley led the school from 1886 to 1928.

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  The Negro Community in Waterloo, Iowa: The Early Years, 1912-19

  Robert J. Neymeyer