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River by Design: Essays on the Boise River, 1915-2015
Todd Shallat (editor), Colleen Brennan (editor), Mike Medberry (editor), Roy V. Cuellar, Richard Martinez, Erin Nelson, Travis Armstrong, Doug Copsey, Sheila Spangler, Emily Berg, Dean Gunderson, and Michael Gosney
River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.
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State Legislatures Today: Politics Under the Domes
Peverill Squire and Gary Moncrief
A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, State Legislatures Today examines legislatures and lawmakers, placing them in historical context, showing how they have evolved over the years, and differentiating them from Congress. This book covers state legislative elections, the changing job of state legislators, legislatures as organizations, the legislative process, and the various influences upon legislators.
This second edition includes new discussions of the following:
- The rise of the Tea Party movement and its impact on state legislatures
- A marked increase in one-party government, allowing for dramatic policy shifts
- Striking increases in the use of recall elections and referenda to challenge legislative policy decisions
- Highly visible state legislative policies on hot-button issues such as gun control, taxation, public employee benefits, teachers' unions, taxation, abortion, and immigration and education reform
- Attempts to significantly change the structures of several state legislatures
- The 2012 redistricting cycle that altered the nature of many legislative districts
- The rare and historic 2010 "wave election" that saw the Republican Party gain more than seven hundred seats in state legislatures and the 2014 election that resulted in the most chambers controlled by the GOP in more than seventy-five years
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Garmendia and the Black Rider
Kirmen Uribe, Mikel Valverde, and Nere Lete
Saddle up folks for a wild ride along the trail in the company of the famed Basque gunslinger Garmendia and his traveling partner Amalio. As well-known as Billy the Kid, Jesse James, or Wyatt Earp back in the day, in this first book of the Garmendia trilogy, our hero is framed for murder and pursued by evil Tidy Harry—who runs Clean City—and his henchmen Rat and Bat. Will Garmendia survive? And who is the mysterious Black Rider? Authored by the celebrated Basque poet and novelist Kirmen Uribe, and with illustrations by Mikel Valverde, Garmendia's story brings the Old West to life!
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Czars in the White House: The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools
Justin S. Vaughn and José D. Villalobos
When Barack Obama entered the White House, he faced urgent issues including the economy, health care, and climate change. Despite citizens' demand for strong presidential leadership, the development and implementation of policy requires cooperation across a range of congressional committees, federal departments, and government agencies. Following a long-standing precedent, Obama appointed administrators—so-called policy czars—charged with directing the response to the nation's most pressing crises.
Combining public administration and political science approaches to the study of the American presidency and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn and José D. Villalobos argue that the creation of policy czars is a strategy for combating partisan polarization and navigating the federal government’s complexity. They present a series of in-depth analyses on the appointment, role, and power of various czars: the energy czar of the mid-1970s, the drug czar in the late 1980s, the AIDS czar in the 1990s, George W. Bush’s trio of national security czars in the years after 9/11, and Barack Obama’s controversial czars for key domestic issues.
Laying aside inflammatory political rhetoric, Vaughn and Villalobos offer a sober, empirical analysis of what precisely constitutes a czar, why Obama and his predecessors used czars, and what role they have played in the modern presidency.
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Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens
Anthony Walsh and Jamie C. Vaske
This book examines females offending through a biosocial lens. The gender ratio problem (why always and everywhere males commit more criminal acts than females) has been called the single most important fact that criminology theories must be able to explain. Relying on conceptual and theoretical tools from a single discipline—sociology—feminist criminology has attempted to do this for decades without success. A number of famous criminologists (e.g., Travis Hirschi) have concluded that an explanation of gender differences in crime from the sociological perspective may not be possible because it excludes biological sex, the powerful underlying base of gender. It is the contention of this book that unless feminist criminology comes to grips with the evolutionary and neurological bases of fundamental gender difference, the field will continue to flounder without a compass.
Other influential criminologists such as Francis Cullen have concluded that the biosocial paradigm is the paradigm of the 21st century. This book looks at feminist criminology in general and attempts to explain its main concerns from a biosocial perspective, while showing that there is nothing illiberal about it and that biology can be a very powerful ally for criminology. The book ranges across disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, behavioral and molecular genetics, the neurosciences, and evolutionary biology in an attempt to answer the gender ratio problem. Our efforts are guided by Niko Tinbergen's four famous analytical areas for major behavior patterns: adaptive function, phylogenic history, development, and causation. It is time to apply this exciting and robust paradigm — one that avers that any trait or behavior of any living thing is always the result of biological factors interacting with environmental factors — to the most vexing issues of feminist criminology.
Changes to the new edition include the integration of a larger body of empirical research and expansion of the topics (such as adding information on gender differences in brain regions) as well as an added chapter that focuses on the explanation of intimate partner violence and rape.
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Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions
Brian Wampler
In 1988, Brazil’s Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens, civil society organizations, and public officials have undertaken the slow, arduous task of building new institutions to ensure that Brazilian citizens have access to rights that improve their quality of life, expand their voice and vote, change the distribution of public goods, and deepen the quality of democracy. Civil society activists and ordinary citizens now participate in a multitude of state-sanctioned institutions, including public policy management councils, public policy conferences, participatory budgeting programs, and legislative hearings. Activating Democracy in Brazil examines how the proliferation of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has transformed the way in which citizens, CSOs, and political parties work together to change the existing state. According to Wampler, the 1988 Constitution marks the formal start of the participatory citizenship regime, but there has been tremendous variation in how citizens and public officials have carried it out. This book demonstrates that the variation results from the interplay of five factors: state formation, the development of civil society, government support for citizens’ use of their voice and vote, the degree of public resources available for spending on services and public goods, and the rules that regulate forms of participation, representation, and deliberation within participatory venues. By focusing on multiple democratic institutions over a twenty-year period, this book illustrates how the participatory citizenship regime generates political and social change.
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It's Elementary: A Parent's Guide to K-5 Mathematics
Joy W. Whitenack, Laurie O. Cavey, and Catherine Henney
What's happened to the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division you learned in school? And why are your children talking in math class and sharing answers?
In friendly, jargon-free language, It's Elementary: A Parent's Guide to K-5 Mathematics not only decodes current teaching practices but also demystifies the fundamental concepts that your children need to understand to be successful math learners—and you need to grasp to help them. Illustrated with numerous examples of real student's classroom work, It's Elementary shows you how children progress in their mathematical thinking from simple counting techniques to sophisticated strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, integers, fractions, and decimals. You will discover why—
- today's teaching emphasizes understanding why a solution works as well as how to solve the problem;
- problem solving produces more confident, creative, and accurate math students than memorizing formulas does;
- practice and drills can be great tools—but only at the right stage of learning; and
- collaborative learning—talking and sharing—not only helps children clarify their own thoughts about math but also introduces them to new ideas and strategies.
Most important, It's Elementary makes you an effective participant in your children's math education. "Things to Do" at the end of each chapter offers practical actions and activities, and a special chapter, "Mathematics at Home," provides advice and guidance, from helping with homework and dealing with math anxiety to choosing math games and talking to your children about math beyond homework and school.
It's Elementary: A Parent's Guide to K-5 Mathematics is your all-in-one source for helping your children to be successful—and happy—math students.
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Plain Language and Ethical Action: A Dialogic Approach to Technical Content in the Twenty-First Century
Russell Willerton
Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences' needs in an ethical way. Applying the BUROC framework (Bureaucratic, Unfamiliar, Rights-Oriented, and Critical) to identify situations in which audiences will benefit from plain language, this work offers in-depth profiles to show how six organizations produce effective plain-language content. The profiles show plain-language projects done by organizations ranging from grassroots volunteers on a shoe-string budget to small nonprofits to consultants completing significant federal contacts. End-of-chapter questions and exercises provide tools for students and practitioners to reflect on and apply insights from the book. Reflecting global commitments to plain language, this volume includes a case study of a European group based in Sweden along with results from interviews with plain-language experts around the world, including Canada, England, South Africa, Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand.
This work is intended for use in courses in information design, technical and professional communication, health communication, and other areas producing plain-language communication. It is also a crucial resource for practitioners developing plain-language technical content and content strategists in a variety of fields, including health literacy, technical communication, and information design.
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Rivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West
Pei-Lin Yu
America's western rivers are under assault, as development, pollution, climate change, and invasive species take a toll on the health and viability of river ecosystems. Returning these ecosystems to the time of European contact is often the stated goal for restoration efforts, but deeper evolutionary relationships and the influence of indigenous societies on rivers are not well understood.
This volume presents a unique synthesis of scientific discoveries and traditional knowledge about the ecology of iconic river species of the American West. Building from a foundation in fisheries biology and life history about key species, Rivers, Fish, and the People reveals linkages between natural and cultural evolutionary relationships and describes time-tested Nature resource management techniques by drawing from original ethnographic and archaeological sources.
From British Columbia to the Columbia Plateau, and from the Snake River Plain to the Sacramento River Delta, researchers and Native peoples are disseminating scientific information and traditional knowledge while safeguarding heritage values and ensuring relevancy, helping to lay out a pathway for further research. This approach broadens and deepens the state of our knowledge and establishes a basis for future collaborations between scientists and Native stakeholders as they create shared goals and a healthy outlook for river ecosystems.
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Becoming Basque: Ethnic Heritage on Boise's Grove Street
John Bieter (editor), Dave Lachiondo (editor), John Ysursa (editor), Larry Burke (editor), Patty A. Miller (editor), and Todd Shallat (editor)
Becoming Basque tells the richly historical story of Boise's most ethnic streetscape. Centered on the Basque Block of Grove Street, where a sapling from the Tree of Gemika shades a world-renowned cultural center, the book is the fifth in an annual series on trends that shape metropolitan growth.
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Fifteen Days in Urgain: A Basque Mystery
Jose Antonio Loidi Bizkarrondo and Nere Lete
When the skeleton of a murdered woman is found in the graveyard of the small Basque village of Urgain the town races to find the murdered in their midst. Armed with a meticulous mind, Detective Garaidi is just the man to discover what secrets lie buried in Urgain. With the help of the town's chatty innkeeper and the old gravedigger, Garaidi unravels a twisting plot, and discovers that the village's residents have more to hide than originally meets the eye. In Nere Lete's masterful translation of Jose Antonio Loidi Bizkarrondo's novel, the first traditional detective novel ever published in the Basque language, the characters and their stories come to life for the first time for an English readership as they have charmed and intrigued generations of Basque readers. with an insightful sense of the atmosphere of the traditional Basque village in a time not so long past, the reader is invited here to spend a thrilling fifteen days in Urgain.
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Fictions Inc. : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
Ralph Clare
Worries over global economics aside, even representations of "American" corporations demonstrate that America's preoccupation with the virtues and vices of capitalism has been ongoing and, moreover, responsive to its particular historical context. For all their power, influence, and pervasiveness, however, corporations also make themselves into visible, material, and substantial targets for an ever-changing system driven by unseen and immaterial capital. And while the corporate imagination is bent upon finding new ways to accumulate capital and convince consumers to purchase more and more, our own imaginations are not so easily bound so long as they remain focused on conceiving of other possible lives and other possible worlds to this one, and, in the end, fostering the common commitment and the willingness to bring them about
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Before the West was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers
Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard
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Your Undergraduate Degree in Psychology: From College to Career
Paul I. Hettich and R. Eric Landrum
Nearly 100,000 students graduate each year with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and a majority of these students will enter the workforce instead of persuing a graduate degree. Many will find themselves tentatively deciding their next steps amid a complex and changing economic and job environment.
In this text, authors and professors Paul I. Hettich and R. Eric Landrum provide innovative strategies and tools for succeeding after college with an undergraduate degree in psychology. Drawing on current research data, applied theory, and both academic and workplace experiences, they help stimulate self-reflection and improve decision making as students approach their careers. The text covers key topics in the college-to-career transition, including career planning and development, identifying and transferring marketable skills, building and sustaining strong networks, understanding what employers want and don't want, coping with personal life changes, becoming a valued employee, and more.
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Identification and Evaluation of Learning Disabilities: The School Team's Guide to Student Success
Evelyn S. Johnson and Anne B. Clohessy
When it comes to designing assessment and instruction for students with learning disabilities, one size does not fit all—and that's also true for identifying and evaluating learning disabilities. Theories and legislation aside, it's critical for your school team to have a comprehensive plan to make sure every child gets the right kind of attention—and no one falls through the cracks.
This compelling, easy-to-use handbook guides general educators, special educators, administrators, and school psychologists through the stages of eligibility and evaluation to ensure that every student gets the best services and interventions. You'll find
- Guidance on what data to collect and how to collect it
- Strategies for combining RTI with a comprehensive evaluation to diagnose specific learning disabilities
- Detailed case studies—with graphs, figures, and test scores—at the school, classroom, and individual student level
Everyone on your team has the same goal: to help students with learning challenges achieve success. This comprehensive resource provides the tools you need to make that happen.
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Supervision in Social Work
Alfred Kadushin and Daniel Harkness
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice. This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number of articles and books published on supervision since 2002. Changes in public health and social welfare policy have intensified concern about the social work supervision of licensed practitioners. Tax and spending limitations at all levels of government, combined with the unfolding effects of welfare ref.
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Human Resource Management Study Games: Certification Prep and Refresher
Gundars Kaupins
Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management. The games focus on learning terms and laws, brainstorming human resource concepts, understanding human resource laws in a consistent and organized way, and experiencing a sample of multiple choice questions in the major areas of human resources. With the help of this book, human resource instructors can develop game-oriented ways to teach for-credit university human resource classes and noncredit certification courses.
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Ultrasounds: Basque Women Writers on Motherhood
Gema Lasarte, Nere Lete, Linda White, Elizabeth Macklin, and Mari Jose Olaziregi
The mother has always been a particularly potent symbol for the Basques. Along with the home, she has been seen as a repository of cultural values and a bulwark for traditional ways of life. In Ultrasounds: Basque Women Writers on Motherhood, a wide-ranging collection of contemporary women short story writers take on the subject of motherhood from a variety of perspectives, unique voices, and styles. The collection opens with Aurelia Arkotxa's micro-stories, which explore various aspects of motherhood in condensed fragments or "sparks." In "The Shopping Cart," Uxue Apaolaza Larrea challenges the notion of a mother as the family's foundation; Miren Agur Meabe uses myth and fable to illuminate the role of the woman as creator of language in her stories about Dolza; Irati Elorrieta explores multicultural relationships and motherhood in "Torn Landscapes," and Karmele Jaio Eiguren and Katixa Agirre Miguélez explore different types of motherhood altogether in "Ultrasounds" and "Guy Fawkes's Treason," respectively. These stories and many others bring a vibrant community of women writers who are exploring the notions of their culture and many others into English for the first time. With a comprehensive introductory essay by Gema Lasarte.
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When You Find Us We Will Be Gone: Stories
Christopher Linforth
Collection of multicultural stories exploring the complexities, difficulties, and troubling alienation of the modern world.
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Online Learning: Common Misconceptions, Benefits and Challenges
Patrick R. Lowenthal, Cindy S. York, and Jennifer C. Richardson
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Three-Ways: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery (Volume 4)
Mike Markel
When grad student Austin Sulenka is found strangled, nude on his bed, the first question for Detectives Seagate and Miner is whether it was an autoasphyxiation episode gone wrong. Evidence strewn around his small apartment suggests that he spent his last night with a number of different women. One was Tiffany, a former student who still resented the injustice of getting a C in the course when he promised her a B if she slept with him. Another was Austin's beautiful girlfriend, May, who had never before encountered a man she could not totally beguile. Then there was his thesis adviser, Suzannah Montgomery, who might have inadvertently revealed to Austin some information about her past that could ruin her own career. These three women and their other partners had plenty of reasons to kill the philandering graduate student. As Detective Karen Seagate and her partner try to unravel the complicated couplings, she finds herself in a three-way relationship that threatens to destroy her own fragile sobriety.
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People Skills for Public Managers
Suzanne McCorkle and Stephanie L. Witt
People Skills for Public Managers fills the need for a communication-focused book set in the public and nonprofit context. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in the public sector.
Chapter coverage of important skills includes:
- Resolving Disputes in the Workplace
- Creating and Maintaining Effective Work Relationships
- Working Together in Teams and Meetings
- Dealing with Incivility
- Effective Intercultural Communication
- Effective Public Speaking Skills
The book also features a strong "practice" orientation, with abundant boxed applications (Insights from the Field, Skill Development boxes, and Case Studies). It concludes with an especially useful summary chapter that describes the ten essential skills for successful communication.
People Skills for Managers is concise, exceptionally well written, and has been thoroughly class-tested with the author's students at Boise State University. It can be adopted in a wide range of Public Administration courses, and can also serve as a valuable guide for public service professionals.
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Society of American Archivists (SAA) Sampler: Archival Advocacy
Cheryl Oestreicher
This Sampler offers examples of the ways in which you can build advocacy efforts, discussing some of the techniques and tools developed by archivists. Archivists must continually explain who they are, what they do, and why archives are important to society. The selected chapters offer different approaches and techniques from three books which align with the core goal of advocating for archives.
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Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research
Michael O'Rourke, Stephen J. Crowley, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, and J. D. Wulfhorst
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Radical Theatrics: Put-ons, Politics, and the Sixties
Craig J. Peariso
From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance, among others, is often dismissed as naive and out of touch, or criticized for tactics condemned as silly and off-putting to the general public. In Radical Theatrics, however, Craig Peariso argues that these over-the-top antics were far more than just the spontaneous actions of a self-indulgent radical impulse. Instead, he shows, they were well-considered aesthetic and political responses to a jaded cultural climate in which an unreflective 'tolerance' masked an unwillingness to engage with challenging ideas. Through innovative analysis that links political protest to the art of contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Peariso reveals how the 'put-on'--the signature activist performance of the radical left--ended up becoming a valuable American political practice, one that continues to influence contemporary radicals such as Occupy Wall Street.
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Film & Education: Capturing Bilingual Communities
Claudia Peralta, Fulvio Orsitto, and Fabio Caramaschi
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Credibility Assessment: Scientific Research and Applications
David C. Raskin, Charles R. Honts, and John C. Kircher
A dozen years have passed since the publication of Murray Kleiner's seminal work Handbook of Polygraph Testing. The events of September 11, 2001 and heightened concerns about national security and terrorism have resulted in increased efforts to improve existing techniques for the assessment of credibility and develop new techniques for implementation in field settings. We are all aware of the massive expansion of costly government programs, such as the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration programs for screening airline passengers. However, many concerns have been voiced by scientists and the Government Accountability Office about the scientific basis for such programs and their effectiveness for identifying individuals who plan to harm people, property, and society.
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An Easyguide to APA Style
Beth M. Schwartz, R. Eric Landrum, and Regan A.R. Gurung
Master APA style and format quickly and easily! Written by experienced psychology instructors who are respected members of the APA’s Teaching of Psychology division, this guide provides an easy alternative for anyone struggling with APA style. Written in a clear, conversational, and humorous style, this book presents easy-to-understand explanations of how to write research papers, cite research, and do any work requiring APA format. The authors simplify the process with easy-to-follow advice, tips, and visual representations of how to use APA style. This updated edition includes easy-to-read screen shots as well as guidance on where to find answers to commonly asked student questions.
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Hope for the Dammed: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Greening of the Mississippi
Todd Shallat
Always, like the Great Mississippi, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been a conduit of hope and fear and scientific conjecture, of faith in American progress and terror of what progress has wrought. Always the Engineers have shouldered much of the credit and blame for massively spectacular projects. Always, since the 1820s, when the agency emerged as a builder and broker on the Mississippi, the Corps has enlisted science in the service of waterway engineering that defenders call monumental and detractors call grandiose.
My involvement began in the aftermath of Earth Day when the Corps, said a famous critic, was the environment’s “public enemy number one.” The critic, quoted in the magazine Playboy in 1969, was Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Ten years later and eight blocks from Douglas’s courthouse, on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., I labored on a dissertation about engineering traditions in the Corps office of history in Washington, D.C. The dissertation led to a book that Corps insiders applauded and elsewhere denounced. One intelligent reader was General Robert Flowers of the Corps’ Lower Mississippi Valley Division (since expanded northward to include the upper valley). Flowers admired the book but claimed I had understated the depths of the Corps’s commitment to environmental protection. Would I visit the Corps in Vicksburg and tour the river up close? Corps historian Michael Robinson, who worked closely with Flowers, arranged for a sabbatical grant. Tragically, in 1998, Robinson died of heart failure. Two years into the project, with four of five chapters complete, the research was suspended. Chapters and excepts were published in a dozen places—in online exhibits on the Vicksburg division’s web page, in Technology and Culture, Illinois Heritage, The Military Engineer, and Craig Colten’s edited volume of New Orleans essays published in 2001.
Hope for the Dammed retrieves three regional parts of the 1990s research. Moving north against the current, and metaphorically against the flow of my own assumptions about the Corps on the Mississippi, the study extends from the Head of Passes to the locks of St. Louis. It sojourns in places besieged and bitterly contested—in St. Bernard Parish below New Orleans where swampers blame the rising ocean on shipping; in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya and Yazoo’s cotton plantations; in the dredged aquatic freightway of the Corps’ slackwater dams.
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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency
Justin S. Vaughn and Jennifer R. Mercieca
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The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, and Sara W. Fry
This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs to their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessments. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning cultivates, requires, and rewards literacy. Through the pursuit of service-learning projects, students learn how to develop perspectives on real-world issues and to develop intrapersonal and interpersonal connections and compassion. At the same time, students acquire literacies essential for creating a culture of civic engagement and for mastering the Common Core.
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Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want- and Why We Should Let Them
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, and Sharon Fransen
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Cases on Digital Game-based Learning: Methods, Models, and Strategies
Youngkyun Baek and Nicola Whitton
This book analyzes the implementation of digital game applications for learning as well as addressing the challenges and pitfalls experienced, providing strategies, advice and examples on adopting games into teaching
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Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools with Optimism and Opportunity
Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson
To succeed, children of poverty need more than academic instruction; they need an atmosphere of hope. Drawing on their extensive work with high-poverty, high-performing schools, authors Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson offer a blueprint for transforming low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope.
Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity identifies the essential social and emotional factors that lead to success: a sense of optimism; a sense of belonging; a sense of pride, self-esteem, and self-confidence; and a sense of purpose.
Using this fundamental guide, K-12 teachers and administrators can ensure that students thrive not only in school but in life.
Readers will learn:
- Methods to gauge the state of a school's culture
- Strategies behind successful high-poverty, high-performing schools
- Pathways for emotional and social development from K-12 and beyond
- Processes to help students plan for 21st century lives
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Urbanization and Sustainability: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
Christopher G. Boone and Michail Fragkias
Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC.
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Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education
Cynthia Clark
Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education provides a comprehensive overview of civility and incivility in nursing education and presents a variety of evidence-based strategies that faculty - and students - can implement to promote and maintain civility and respect in the education setting.
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Wandering Women in French Film and Literature: A Study of Narrative Drift
Mariah Devereux Herbeck
How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films. Combining feminist theories and structural narratology, Devereux Herbeck illustrates the ways in which evidence and/or admissions of doubt by narrative entities in works featuring wandering women disrupt conventions of continuity, coherence, and authority and thereby forces the story in new, unexpected directions.
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Assessing Teaching and Learning in Psychology: Current and Future Perspectives
Dana S. Dunn, Suzanne C. Baker, Chandra M. Mehrotra, R. Eric Landrum, and Maureen A. McCarthy
Assessing Teaching and Learning in Psychology: Current and Future Perspectives is designed to be a helpful response to the assessment needs of psychology teachers, department heads, and program administrators in 2-year and 4-year institutions—one that builds on the momentum found in the wider assessment movement. Chapters of this professional reference explore assessment options and opportunities at all levels in the undergraduate psychology curriculum, offering practical guidance to educators who want to improve teaching and learning through assessment practices. In addition to learning how assessment can inform the quality of their teaching, faculty members can use assessment concepts and tools found in the book to properly interpret—and advocate for—the appropriate use of students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness.
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Women's Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century: Sarah Ruhl and Her Contemporaries
Leslie Atkins Durham
Women have claimed a spot at the center of American theatre, and the characters they craft, the stories they tell, the questions they pose, and the ideas they materialize have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of a large group of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl is the early twenty-first century's most widely produced and frequently honored American female playwright. While critics have heretofore emphasized the whimsical elements of her dramaturgy, this study highlights her feminist engagement with current social and ethical concerns. Ruhl's popular, feminist plays are best appreciated when they are read in concert with the work of her contemporaries - Lisa Loomer, Diana Son, Joan Didion, Jenny Schwartz, Young Jean Lee, Kate Fodor, Yasmina Reza, Bathsheba Doran, Lynn Nottage, and Kia Corthron - whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century.
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Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature
Samantha Harvey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit, and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge's work: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge's centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which profoundly affected the development of modern higher eduction, the national press, and the emergence of Pragmatism.
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Amor & Exile: True Stories of Love Across America's Borders
Nathaniel Hoffman and Nicole Salgado
Across the United States, American citizens are forced underground, exiled abroad and separated from their spouses for a surprising reason. Amor and Exile is the story of American citizens - including Veronica, Ben, J.W., and Nicole - who fall in love with undocumented immigrants only to find themselves trapped in a legal labryinth, stymied by their country's de facto exclusion of their partners. Journalist Nathaniel Hoffman visited both sides of the border to document the lives of these couples caught in the crossfire of America's high stakes political fight over immigration. In his disarming and precise style, Hoffman also traces the historical relationship between immigration, love and marriage. Lending an authentic voice to Amor and Exile, coauthor Nicole Salgado delivers a searing first-person account of life in the U.S. with her husband while he was undocumented, her tortured decision to leave the country with him, and their seven years of exile and starting over together in Mexico. Armor and Exile tells of love that transcends borders - a story shared by hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens - cutting through the immigration debate rhetoric and providing a courageous perspective for one of the most vexing policy problems of our time.
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Research Design for Educators: Real-World Connections and Applications
R. Eric Landrum
Research Design for Educators: Real-World Connections and Applications is a practical guide written for educators who want to have more insight into the role that research can play in informing practice and outcomes in the classroom. By focusing on real-world research scenarios that teachers encounter in the school system, this textbook addresses how to investigate current issues in teaching and learning. By providing realistic critical thinking questions throughout the chapters, the text provides opportunities to connect with educational research, explore how it applies to our classrooms, and learn to use it to solve problems and improve teaching practice.
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The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success
R. Eric Landrum and Stephen F. Davis
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Pioneer Theatre in the Boise Basin: 1863-1899: Boise, Idaho Theatre from Gold Rush Days Through the Gilded Age
Charles E. Lauterbach
The interesting story of how in four decades an isolated mining camp supply town in the Idaho territory overcame major obstacles to earn recognition as a Pacific Northwest "show town" with a fine theatre and large audiences to support frequent performances by national touring companies.
- Illustrated with over forty historic photographs
- Brief biographies of many nineteenth century performers
- Covers a wide range of theatrical events: comedies, dramas, minstrel shows, circuses, musicians, magicians and variety shows.
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Reconnaissance des Formes: Théorie et Pratique sous Matlab - Cours et Exercices Corrigés
Laurence Likforman-Sulem and Elisa Barney Smith
La reconnaissance des formes, au cœur de systèmes qui simulent les activités humaines de perception, de reconnaissance et de compréhension, modélise les processus d'interprétation de signaux, d'images ou de textes. Ses applications phares sont la reconnaissnace de la parole, la reconnaissance des visages (et des sourires), la reconnaissance des écritures, ainsi que la détection des spams.
Ce livre explore les principes très divers sous-jacents à un système de reconnaissance des formes. Ils sont issues des probabilités, des processus stochastiques, de la programmation dynamique, des réseaux de neurones.
L'ouvrage comprend une partie théorique largement illustrée et des exercices accompagnés de leur correction. Lui est associée l'indispensable mise en pratique. A cet effet des exercices à réaliser sur ordinateur sont systématiquement proposés. Ils font appel au langage Matlab qui permet une mise en œuvre très rapide. Le lecteur, s'il n'est pas déjà familier avec ce language, trouvera ici une occasion pour acquérir des compétences dans l'utilisation de cet outil scientifique très répandu.
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Wise Beyond Your Field: How Creative Leaders Out Innovate to Out Perform
Nancy K. Napier, Jamie Cooper, Mark Hofflund, Don Kemper, Bob Lokken, Chris Petersen, Gary Raney, and John Michael Schert
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Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard
With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming monitored, armed, gated, and contracted out in the name of security. Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression. In this new Occupy Wall Street era, higher education mirrors the problems that plague urban schools in poor communities, including metal detectors, random locker searches, drug-sniffing police dogs, in-class arrests, and security guards at every major entrance. Policing the Campus is a wake-up call to protect higher education as a bastion of free thought, strategy, and challenge for the 99%, and not preserve it as the privilege of the elite 1%.
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Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater
Jacqueline O'Connor
From the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the O.J. Simpson trial to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill congressional hearings, legal and legislative proceedings in the latter part of the twentieth-century kept Americans spellbound. Situated on the shifting border between imagination and the law, trial plays edit, arrange, and reproduce court records, media coverage, and first-person interviews, transforming these elements into a performance. In this first book-length critical study of contemporary American documentary theater, Jacqueline O'Connor examines in depth ten such plays, all written and staged since 1970, and considers the role of the genre in re-creating and revising narratives of significant conflicts in contemporary history.
Documentary theater, she shows, is a particularly appropriate and widely utilized theatrical form for engaging in debate about tensions between civil rights and institutional power, the inconsistency of justice, and challenges to gender norms. For each of the plays discussed, including The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/Thomas Hearings, and The Laramie Project, O'Connor provides historical context and a brief production history before considering the trial the play focuses on. Grouping plays historically and thematically, she demonstrates how dramatic representation advances our understanding of the law's power while revealing the complexities that hinder society's pursuit of justice.
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The Moral Work of Teaching and Teacher Education: Preparing and Supporting Practitioners
Matthew N. Sanger and Richard Osguthorpe
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Local, Simple, Fresh: Sustainable Food in the Boise Valley
Todd Shallat, Larry Burke, and Guy Hand
Just eat local has emerged as the mantra of a spiritual quest for simple living and healthier food. Local, Simple, Fresh considers the economics and ethics of farm-to-fork within 100 miles. Topics include organic ranching, vanishing cropland, craft beers, local wines, public markets, potato pundits, urban worms and the politics of farm subsidies. Produced by the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State University, the volume is the fourth in an annual series on Boise's metropolitan growth.
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Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In Honor of Scott DeLancey
Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen
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Surviving Minidoka: The Legacy of WWII Japanese American Incarceration
Russell M. Tremayne and Todd Shallat
Surviving Minidoka preserves the legacy of Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during the Second World War. Elegantly presented with more than 200 photographs and paintings, the book confronts enduring questions of patriotic compliance and constitutional rights. Pictured playing flutes at Camp Minidoka, about 1943.
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Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics
Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren
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Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror
Michael Blain
Blending concepts from 'dramatism' such as 'victimage ritual' with Foucault's approach to modern power and knowledge regimes, this book presents a novel and illuminating perspective on political power and domination resulting from the global war on terrorism. With attention to media sources and political discourse within the context of the global war on terror, the author draws attention to the manner in which power elites construct scapegoats by way of a victimage ritual, thus providing themselves with a political pretext for extending their power and authority over new territories and populations, as well as legitimating an intensification of domestic surveillance and social control. A compelling analysis of ritual rhetoric and political violence, Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror will be of interest to sociologists, political theorists and scholars of media and communication concerned with questions of surveillance and social control, political communication, hegemony, foreign policy and the war on terror.
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So, What's the Story?: Teaching Narrative to Understand Ourselves, Others, and the World
James E. Fredricksen, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and Michael W. Smith
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The Geologic Time Scale 2012
Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Mark D. Schmitz, and Gabi M. Ogg
The Geologic Time Scale 2012 is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic research and initiatives to create an international geologic time scale for many years, and the charts in this book present the most up-to-date, international standard, as ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences. This 2012 geologic time scale is an enhanced, improved and expanded version of the GTS2004, including chapters on planetary scales, the Cryogenian-Ediacaran periods/systems, a prehistory scale of human development, a survey of sequence stratigraphy, and an extensive compilation of stable-isotope chemostratigraphy. This book is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous colour charts, maps and photographs. The most detailed international geologic time scale available that contextualizes information in one single reference for quick desktop access. Gives insights in the construction, strengths, and limitations of the geological time scale that greatly enhances its function and its utility. Aids understanding by combining with the mathematical and statistical methods to scaled composites of global succession of events. Meets the needs of a range of users at various points in the workflow (researchers extracting linear time from rock records, students recognizing the geologic stage by their content).
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Business Aha! Tips: On Creativity
Gundars Kaupins and Nancy K. Napier
The Business Aha! Tip books, offered by the CCI Press, are by the creators of Boise State Public Radio's long running radio feature program, Idaho Business Matters. Gundy Kaupins and Nancy Napier bring their ideas and wit to the book series, starting with this book on creativity. Other books — on management topics ranging from performance to ethics — will offer snappy, easy to read tips and "Use It Now" sections for immediate application of the ideas.
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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS, Fourth edition is a concise overview of the study of world politics, based on the framework of Charles Kegley's best-selling WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION. Written in a way that speaks to students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, THE GLOBAL FUTURE provides concepts and analytical tools to help readers understand contemporary events and emerging global trends. Every chapter contains thought-provoking case studies, box inserts with rival views on current controversies, and a marginal glossary, as well as vivid graphs, maps, and photographs. Centering on the latest international developments, THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS encourages students to form their own opinions about the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century.
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Teaching Ethically: Challenges and Opportunities
R. Eric Landrum and Maureen McCarthy
Educators work within a fluid academic and social landscape that requires frequent examination and re-examination of what constitutes ethical practice. In this book, editors R. Eric Landrum and Maureen McCarthy identify four broad areas of concern in the ethical teaching of undergraduate psychology: pedagogy, student behavior, faculty behavior toward students, and considerations in the diverse classroom. Together with their team of experts, they provide evidence-based advice and case studies that illustrate the application of relevant ethical principles. Ethical teachers need to reflect on commonly accepted practices and make individual decisions about responsible teaching behaviors, such as honoring individual differences and respectfully challenging beliefs. Other challenges examined in this book include grading, textbook adoption, honor systems, online instruction, and conducting and using research on pedagogy to improve classroom practice. Infusing the undergraduate experience with ethics is the focus of chapters on supervising student internships, coauthoring research with students, and modeling appropriate professional boundaries. Readers will find a host of practical suggestions for approaching ethics proactively in both traditional and virtual classrooms. This book will become an instant resource for all teachers in the social and behavioral sciences who care about ethical interactions between faculty members and students.
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You've Earned Your Doctorate in Psychology-- Now What?: Securing a Job as an Academic or Professional Psychologist
Elizabeth M. Morgan and R. Eric Landrum
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Live Oak, with Moss : A Restorative Edition
Steven Olsen-Smith
This is the first printing of a newly restored edition of Walt Whitman’s twelve-poem sequence written in the late 1850s and subsequently dispersed by the poet among the “Calamus” cluster in Leaves of Grass. After an exhaustive textual analysis of Whitman’s manuscripts of the poems, Steven Olsen-Smith, professor of English at Boise State University, has restored the sequence to its original state and supplied an afterword on the interpretive significance of the restorations. Images of Whitman’s annotated manuscript pages parallel the restored text. A very personal foreword by poet Richard Tayson positions the piece within the context of a 21st century gay man. Photographs by University of Connecticut Professor of Art Emeritus Roger Crossgrove provide a further visual narrative.
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Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools
William H. Parrett and Kathleen Budge
What do high-performing, high-poverty schools do differently? Learn the day-to-day realities and the actionable research gleaned from hundreds of these schools--and discover how your school can adopt practices that make a positive difference, too.
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An Easyguide to APA Style
Beth M. Schwartz, R. Eric Landrum, and Regan A.R. Gurung
Written by experienced psychology instructors who are respected members of the APA's Teaching of Psychology division, this guide provides an easy alternative for anyone struggling with APA style. Written in a clear, conversational, and sometimes humorous style, this book represents easy-to understand explanations of how to write research papers, cite research, and do any work requiring APA format. The authors demystify the process with easy-to-follow advice, tips, and visual representations of how to use APA style.
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Down and Out in Ada County: Coping with the Great Recession 2008-2012
Todd Shallat (editor), Larry Burke (editor), and Bethann Stewart (editor)
Surging unemployment and the crash of property values have hit Boise-Meridian especially hard. In an economy built mostly on housing construction, in cities where the value of housing has fallen more than 40 percent, the damage is long term. Down and Out in Ada County examines the dislocation with comparisons to past recessions and an emphasis on people struggling to cope
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Oh, Yeah?!: Putting Argument to Work Both in School and Out
Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and James E. Fredricksen
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Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness
Terry-Ann Spitzer Gibson and Werner W. K. Hoeger
From aerobics and yoga — to bowling, tennis, weight training, and more — Cengage Learning offers a complete line of activities texts to meet your teaching needs. Written for individuals of all skill levels and backgrounds, the Cengage Learning Activity Series goes beyond the mere fundamentals, showing students how to improve, excel, and simply get more enjoyment from their favorite physical activities. Offering the latest information for obtaining and maintaining wellness, WATER AEROBICS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Fourth Edition, provides students with guidelines, exercises, and examples to develop a water aerobic program. The text includes unique chapters on fitness assessment, nutrition, and weight management as well as hundreds of illustrations to promote a healthy fitness and wellness program. The use of this text in your course will provide an excellent resource guide to all participants.
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From Caves to Cathedrals: Visual Arts in Ancient and Medieval Texts
Lee Ann Turner
"Caves to Cathedrals" is the nickname for a traditional art history survey class, taught throughout the country, that examines the artistic monuments of the Western world from the Paleolithic era through the Gothic Period. This collection of excerpts, in English translation, from original texts by ancient and medieval authors is meant as a supplement to the textbook for such a class.
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The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction
Anthony Walsh and Jonathan D. Bolen
Explores criminal behaviour from various aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions. This book examines the neurobiology of crime from a biosocial perspective. It suggests that it is necessary to understand some genetics and neuroscience in order to appreciate and apply relevant concepts to criminological issues.
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Real-Time Digital Signal Processing from MATLAB® to C with the TMS320C6x DSPs
Thad B. Welch, Cameron H. G. Wright, and Michael G. Morrow
Mastering practical application of real-time digital signal processing (DSP) remains one of the most challenging and time-consuming pursuits in the field. It is even more difficult without a resource to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Filling that void, Real-Time Digital Signal Processing from MATLAB® to C with the TMS320C6x DSPs, Second Edition is organized into three sections that cover enduring fundamentals and present practical projects and invaluable appendices. This updated edition gives readers hands-on experience in real-time DSP using a practical, step-by-step framework that also incorporates demonstrations, exercises, problems, coupled with brief overviews of applicable theory and MATLAB®applications.
Engineers, educators, and students rely on this book for precise, simplified instruction on use of real-time DSP applications. The book's software supports the latest high-performance hardware, including the powerful, inexpensive, and versatile OMAP-L138 Experimenter Kit and other developmental boards.
Incorporating readers' valuable feedback and suggestions, this installment covers additional topics (such as PN sequences) and more advanced real-time DSP projects (including higher-order digital communications projects), making it even more valuable as a learning tool.
The Faculty & Staff Authored Books collection is comprised of monographs written by members of the Boise State University faculty and staff on a variety of academic subjects. Some titles are available for download as a pdf and for others you will find a link to the library catalog where you can find a copy of the book. Most titles are also available in the Boise State Special Collections and Archives located on the 2nd floor of Albertsons Library.
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