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Iowa's Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Earth History
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.
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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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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 -
Governing India : issues concerning public policy, institutions, and administration
Dhivendra 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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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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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 -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Speaking of Poets: Interviews with Poets Who Write for Children and Young Adults
Jeffrey S. Copeland
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Entre amis : an interactive approach to first-year French
Michael D. Oates, Larbie Oukada, and Rick Altman
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Technology and Development: Public Policy and Managerial Issues
Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and R. Nararajan
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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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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.
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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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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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Distribution of Iowa's Endangered and Threatened Vascular Plants
Dean M. Roosa, Mark J. Leoschke, and Lawrence J. Eilers
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Educating All Students in the Mainstream of Regular Education
Susan Stainback, William Stainback, and Marsha Forest
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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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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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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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Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Asa B. Pieratt, Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Jerome Klinkowitz
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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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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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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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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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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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Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations: A Behavioral Approach
Christopher R. Edginton and John G. Williams
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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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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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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
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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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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.
During the Fall and Spring Semesters 1957-58 the experiment was carried out.
This, then, is a report of that experiment.