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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
Write narratives," states the Common Core, "to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences." In So, What's the Story? James Fredricksen, Jeffrey Wilhelm, and Michael Smith share lessons and unit frameworks on narrative that help students not only meet the standards, but do important real-world work.
So, What's the Story? provides ways to help students make the leap from composing stories to understanding how narratives can help them identify problems then critique and change how their world works.
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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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Making the Move to K-12 Online Teaching: Research-Based Strategies and Practices
Kerry Rice
Unique in its focus on K-12 learning, this book shows educators how to transform their teaching as they move from traditional face-to-face classrooms to online settings. Taking into account what teachers know about effective traditional classrooms, Kerry Rice guides the reader step by step through the change showing how familiar concepts, such as setting the tone, building community, course design, lesson planning and assessment, must be re-examined in the context of the online classroom. With the simple premise that teachers need practical information to move beyond traditional practices, it provides an overview of the key principles of effective online instruction, emphasizes the power of the learner-centered approach, and discusses the technology tools that make online delivery and design possible. Filled with checklist, guidelines, vignettes, and sample lessons, the book guides educators through the changing landscape of education as they make the move to K-12 online teaching.
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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
The Common Core State Standards are an argument that "students' ability to write sound arguments on substantive topics and issues...is critical to college and career readiness."
Oh, Yeah?! is an argument. Let it persuade you that it's an ideal resource for teaching argument writing to adolescents. And not just any arguments, but the substantive kinds the real world demands.
"We believe," write Michael Smith, Jeffrey Wilhelm, and James Fredericksen, "that instruction directed to improve student performance on standards-based assessments must be the most powerful and engaging instruction we can possibly offer." To that end they fill Oh, Yeah?! with proven lessons for writing, reading, assessing, and discussing arguments that you can use right now, ways to maximize the power of the lessons, and a compelling framework for creating your own lessons and units.
Life may be a series of arguments, but your decision about how to teach argument writing needn't be complicated. Trust Smith, Wilhelm, and Fredricksen, use Oh, Yeah?! in your classroom, and give students an argument for meeting—and exceeding—the Common Core standards.
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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.
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Improving Comprehension with Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Today's new standards, including the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), feature actions that center on production—write, research...information, draw evidence, produce, and publish—and call for making classrooms places of productivity and creativity. Jeffrey Wilhelm shows us how your students become active readers who can effectively control and use a wide range of "think-aloud" strategies" that mirror the moves of expert readers and teach them to engage visually, emotionally, and intellectually with the text.
Wilhelm presents dozens of motivating ideas using think-alouds that energize students before, during, and after reading. This book, one title in a three-book series, is indispensable for the teacher who is working with struggling readers and writers, Limited Formal Schooling students, and English Language Learners, as it shows how to help all students access, comprehend, and converse with complex texts of all kinds.
This updated and revised edition is aligned with Common Core State Standards [with convenient CCSS icons in the margins that signal a direct link] and includes a DVD demonstrating think-aloud strategies at work in classrooms. The book also includes many illuminating samples of student work, with additional samples featured on the DVD, and provides an overview of technology developments and formative assessment strategies.
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Get it Done!: Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, and James E. Fredricksen
Informational texts are a real-world tool for making things happen. Similarly, the Common Core State Standards for writing are designed to help adolescents be prepared for the world outside the classroom. That's why Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and James Fredricksen wrote Get It Done! So that once kids leave school, they'll have the skills, know-how, and agency to do work that matters by composing nonfiction texts—and so that their teachers have a clear-cut set of strategies for instruction in informational genres.
Get It Done! will both help you teach all kinds of informational texts engagingly and effectively, and explicitly connect your work with the Common Core State Standards.
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Urban West Revisited: Governing Cities in Uncertain Times
Stephanie L. Witt and James B. Weatherby
Urban West Revisited offers a colorful primer on challenges faced by elected officials in midsized western cities. Featuring ten bellwether cities—Boise, Eugene, Modesto, Pueblo, Reno, Salem, Salt Lake, Spokane, Tacoma, and Tempe—the exploration finds common problems and hard-fought solutions in difficult times.
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Set Theory and Its Applications: Annual Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory, 1995--2010, Boise, Idaho
Liljana Babinkostova, Andrés Caicedo, S. Geschke, and Marion Scheepers
This book consists of several survey and research papers covering a wide range of topics in active areas of set theory and set theoretic topology. Some of the articles present, for the first time in print, knowledge that has been around for several years and known intimately to only a few experts. The surveys bring the reader up to date on the latest information in several areas that have been surveyed a decade or more ago. Topics covered in the volume include combinatorial and descriptive set theory, determinacy, iterated forcing, Ramsey theory, selection principles, set-theoretic topology, and universality, among others. Graduate students and researchers in logic, especially set theory, descriptive set theory, and set-theoretic topology, will find this book to be a very valuable reference.
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Crafting Truth: Short Stories in Creative Nonfiction
Bruce Ballenger
Crafting Truthintroduces students to the craft of creative nonfiction by showing them models from the best nonfiction writers and offering plentiful exercises to help them more artfully tell true stories.
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The Curious Writer
Bruce Ballenger
The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.
Offering a unique, entertaining, and personal author voice, The Curious Writer, Third Edition is sure to grab student’s interest and motivate them to write. Also distinctive is The Curious Writer’s emphasis on inquiry as both a driving force behind the writing process and a method of discovery and learning. The book operates on the principle that writers who begin with questions, rather than answers, achieve better results in their work. It treats research, revision, and critical reading skills (of both texts and visuals) as organic components of every writing process. Each of the eight writing assignment chapters offers integrated coverage of these three key activities and also provides special attention to the Web as a resource for invention and research.
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Teaching Literature to Adolescents
Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey Wilhelm
Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate reading, writing, drama, talk, and media production. Each chapter is organized around specific questions that English educators often hear in working with preservice teachers.
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime
Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh
In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways. This title gives an overview of the state of research in the field.
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The Legal Environment of Business
Michael Bixby, Caryn Beck-Dudley, Patrick J. Cihon, and Susan Park
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Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering
David J. Duquette, Robert E. Schafrik, Aziz I. Asphahani, Gordon P. Bierwagen, Darryl P. Butt, Gerald S. Frankel, Roger C. Newman, Shari N. Rosenbloom, Lyle H. Schwartz, John R. Scully, Peter F. Tortorelli, David Trejo, Darrel F. Untereker, and Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald
"[This book] identifies grand challenges for the corrosion research community, highlights research opportunities in corrosion science and engineering, and posits a national strategy for corrosion research. It is a logical and necessary complement to the recently published book, Assessment of corrosion education, which emphasized that technical education must be supported by academic, industrial, and government research. Although the present report focuses on the government role, this emphasis does not diminish the role of industry or academia"
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Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach
David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, and Kent D. Smith
For one or two semester, undergraduate Business Statistics courses.
A direct approach to business statistics, ordered in a signature step-by-step framework.
Students could have a competitive edge over new graduates and experienced employees if they know how to apply statistical analysis skills to real-world, decision-making problems. To help students achieve this advantage, Business Statistics uses a direct approach that consistently presents concepts and techniques in way that benefits students of all mathematical backgrounds. This text also contains engaging business examples to show the relevance of business statistics in action.
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Volt: Stories
Alan Heathcock
A blistering collection of stories, in which the hard lives of Heathcock's characters try-- and sometimes fail-- to deal with the choices they have made.
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Moon Idaho
James P. Kelly
Seasoned food, wine, and travel writer James Patrick Kelly offers his unique perspective on this remarkable travel destination, from free Wednesday night concerts at The Grove in Boise to the bizarre rock outcroppings of the Magic Valley. Kelly uses his local knowledge to craft original trip ideas, including Five Days of Fun in the Sawtooths, Birding in Idaho, and Exploring Backcountry Hot Springs. Complete with details on skiing Silver Mountain, exploring McCall's numerous hot springs, and noshing on contemporary Northwest fare in downtown Nampa, Moon Idaho gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
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The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays
Helen Lojek
Contemporary Irish drama communicates not only through words but also through the non-verbal use of space - both the geographical places in which plays are set and the ways stage space is used. The work of cultural and physical geographers, brought to bear on plays by Friel, McPherson, Carr, and McGuinness, illuminates the extent to which perceptions of themes and characters are determined by the plays' uses of space. The plays shape reactions to issues of belonging and not belonging, home and homeland, by locating characters in specific places and by establishing stage spaces that inform perceptions of both Irish characters and Irish locales
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Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West
Gary F. Moncrief
In Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West, Gary F. Moncrief brings together some of the best-known scholars in American state and electoral politics to explore the unique processes and problems of redistricting in the western United States. These political scientists examine the specific challenges facing western states in ensuring fair and balanced political representation. Western states tend to be geographically large and experiencing rapid population growth and the chapters in this enlightening volume discuss the changing demographics in western states, paying special attention to the rise in the Latino population and the effect this has had on reapportionment and redistricting. They describe the ways in which some of these states achieve redistricting through independent redistricting commissions—a process rarely found in other regions—and they provide policy prescriptions for the future.
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The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Janice Neri
Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual images -- in illuminated manuscripts, still life paintings, the decorative arts, embroidery, textile design, and cabinets of curiosity. In The Insect and the Image, Janice Neri explores the ways in which such imagery defined the insect as a proper subject of study for Europeans of the early modern period. It was not until the sixteenth century that insects began to appear as the sole focus of paintings and drawings -- as isolated objects, or specimens, against a blank background. The artists and other image makers Neri discusses deployed this "specimen logic" and so associated themselves with a mode of picturing in which the ability to create a highly detailed image was a sign of artistic talent and a keenly observant eye. The Insect and the Image shows how specimen logic both reflected and advanced a particular understanding of the natural world -- an understanding that, in turn, supported the commodification of nature that was central to global trade and commerce during the early modern era. Revealing how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists and image makers shaped ideas of the natural world, Neri's work enhances our knowledge of the convergence of art, science, and commerce today.
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Aristotle on Time: A Study of the Physics
Tony Roark
Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular, but also worthy of serious philosophical scrutiny. He shows how Aristotle developed an account of the nature of time that is inspired by Plato while also thoroughly bound up with Aristotle's sophisticated analyses of motion and perception. When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th century philosophers. Roark's novel and fascinating interpretation of Aristotle's temporal theory will appeal to those interested in Aristotle, ancient philosophy and the philosophy of time.
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Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West
Sandra K. Schackel
Helen Tiegs didn’t take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer’s wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took a job off the farm to augment the family income during a period of rising costs. From Montana’s cattle pastures to New Mexico’s sagebrush mesas, women on today’s ranches and farms have played a crucial role in a way of life that is slowly disappearing from the western landscape. Recalling her own family-farm ties, Sandra Schackel set out to learn how these women’s lives have changed over the second half of the twentieth century. In Working the Land, she collects oral histories from more than forty women—in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas—recalling their experiences as ranchers and farmers in a modernizing West. Through this diverse group of women—white and Hispanic, rich and poor, ranging in age from 24 to 83—we gain a new perspective on their ties to the land. Although western ranch and farm women have often been portrayed as secondary figures who devoted themselves to housekeeping in support of their husbands’ labors, Schackel’s interviews reveal that these women have had a much more active role in defining what we know as the modern American West. As Schackel listened to their stories, she found several currents running through their recollections, such as the satisfaction found in living the rural lifestyle and the flexibility of gender roles. She also learned how resourceful women developed new ways to make their farms work—by including tourism, summer camps, and bed-and-breakfast operations—and how many have become activists for land-based issues. And while some like Lila made the difficult decision to work off the farm, such sacrifices have enabled families to hold onto their beloved land. Rich with memory and insight into what makes America’s family farms and ranches tick, Working the Land provides a deeper understanding of the West’s development over the last fifty years along with new perspectives on shifting attitudes toward women in the workforce. It is both a long-overdue documentation of the lives of hard-working farm women and a celebration of their contributions to a truly American way of life.
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Growing Closer : Density and Sprawl in the Boise Valley
Todd Shallat (editor), Brandi Burns (editor), and Larry Burke (editor)
How might we build modern cities as good as the neighborly places lost to suburbia's sprawl? Growing Closer surveys the housing patterns and trends. Sponsored by Boise State University, the anthology was written and produced by graduate and undergraduate students in the 2010 "Investigate Boise" field school on urban affairs.
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Introduction to Teaching Physical Education: Principles and Strategies
Jane M. Shimon
Combining the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching physical education, this text helps students build a base of instructional skills as they learn to apply the principles of teaching physical education.
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Information Systems Development: Asian Experiences
William Wei Song, Shenghua Xu, Changxuan Wan, Yuansheng Zhong, Wita Wojtkowski, Gregory Wojtkowski, and Henry Linger
Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; I
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The Idaho Adventure
Nancy Wilper Tacke and Todd Shallat
The Idaho Adventure is a multi-media textbook program for 4th grade Idaho Studies. The program is based on Idaho's Content Standards for social studies and teaches civics, history, geography, and economics. The program includes research-based literacy strategies, engaging primary source activities and skill pages, exciting connections between Idaho's past and present, Key Ideas and Key Terms, and full color photographs on each page.
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Feminist Criminology through a Biosocial Lens
Anthony Walsh
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. Feminist criminology has attempted to do this for decades without success because it has relied on conceptual and theoretical tools from a single discipline — sociology. 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 compass.
A number of other influential criminologists (e.g., Francis Cullen) have concluded that the biosocial paradigm is the paradigm of the 21st century. The biosocial paradigm is growing in strength every year, as an examination of both the number of published books and articles in professional journals in criminology and other social and behavioral science disciplines will attest. 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 to criminology. The book ranges across disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, behavioral and molecular genetics, the neurosciences, and evolutionary biology to attempt to answer the gender ratio problem. 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.
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Social Class and Crime: A Biosocial Approach
Anthony Walsh
Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a systematic exploration of what social class is, how individuals come to be placed in one rung of the class ladder rather than another, or the precise nature of the class-crime relationship. This book avers that the same factors that help to determine a person’s class level also help to determine that person’s risk for committing criminal acts. Social class is a modern outcome of primordial status-striving and requires explanation using the modern tools of genetics, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology, and this is what this book does. Many aspects of criminal behavior can be understood by examining the shared factors that lead to the success or failure in the workplace and to pro- or antisocial activities.
A biosocial approach requires reducing sociology’s “master variable” to a lower level analysis to examine its constituent parts, which is resisted by many criminologists as highly controversial. However, this book makes plain that the more we know about the nature side of behavior the more important we find the nurture side to be. It makes clear how the class/crime relationship and criminology in general, can benefit from the biosocial perspective; a perspective that many criminological luminaries expect to be the dominant paradigm for the twenty first century.
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Let's Get Boys Reading and Writing: An Essential Guide to Raising Boys Achievement
Jeffrey Wilhelm
A research-based practical guide for elementary teachers and parents that includes research evidence about why some boys struggle with reading and writing, guidance on taking a whole school approach to raising boys' achievement, and top ten tips for getting boys engaged in reading and writing.
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Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Bruce Novak
This book lays out a new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential "You Gotta BE The Book." With portraits of teachers and students, as well as practical strategies and advice, they provide a roadmap to educational transformation far beyond the field of English.
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Digital Age Teaching Skills: A Standards Based Approach
Constance Wyzard, Barbara Schroeder, and Chris Haskell
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Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought
Scott Yenor
With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society’s disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers—from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly presents how these individuals developed an understanding of family in order to advance their goals of political and social reform. Through this exploration, Yenor unveils the effect of modern liberty on this foundational institution and argues that the quest to pursue individual autonomy has undermined the nature of marriage and jeopardizes its future.
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Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives
John P. Ziker and Florian Stammler
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Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment
Leslie R. Alm, Ross E. Burkhart, and Marc V. Simon
This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy.
To what extent should science inform and shape the environmental policymaking process? By what mechanisms does it do so in the United States and other liberal democracies? How can scientists most effectively discharge their duty as citizens and public trustees to ensure that environmental policymaking in the United States is scientifically sound?
These are the key questions that this primary textbook for courses on American public policymaking and environmental policymaking addresses and attempts to answer. Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment first lays out the basics of the policymaking process in the United States in relation to the substantive issues of environmental policymaking. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, the authors highlight the views and experiences of scientists, especially natural scientists, in their interactions with policymakers and their efforts to harness the findings of their science to rational public policy.
The proper role of science and scientists in relation to environmental policymaking hinges on fundamental questions at the intersection of political philosophy and scientific epistemology. How can the experimental nature of the scientific method and the probabilistic expression of scientific results be squared with the normative language of legislation and regulation? If scientists undertake to square the circle by hardening the tentative truths of their scientific models into positive truths to underpin public policy, at what point may they be judged to have exceeded the proper limits of scientific knowledge, relinquished their role as impartial experts, and become partisan advocates demanding too much say in a democratic setting? Providing students—and secondarily policymakers, scientists, and citizen activists—a theoretical and practical knowledge of the means availed by modern American democracy for resolving this tension is the object of this progressively structured textbook. -
Introduction to Philosophy
Erin Anchustegui
Introduction to Philosophy approaches an introductory philosophy course focusing on traditional questions such as: Can we prove God’s existence? What is morality? Can we know the external world? What is reality? Historically significant responses to these questions are presented in the writings of celebrated philosophers ranging from antiquity and the enlightenment to the present day. Introduction to Philosophy provides readers with a solid foundation concerning the nature and method of philosophical reasoning.
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CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
R. Jacob Baker
The third edition of CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation continues to cover the practical design of both analog and digital integrated circuits, offering a vital, contemporary view of a wide range of analog/digital circuit blocks, the BSIM model, data converter architectures, and much more. The 3rd edition completes the revised 2nd edition by adding one more chapter (chapter 30) at the end, which describes on implementing the data converter topologies discussed in Chapter 29. This additional, practical information should make the book even more useful as an academic text and companion for the working design engineer. Images, data presented throughout the book were updated, and more practical examples, problems are presented in this new edition to enhance the practicality of the book.
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Biosocial Theories of Crime
Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh
Biosocial criminology is an emerging perspective that highlights the interdependence between genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of antisocial behaviors. However, given that biosocial criminology has only recently gained traction among criminologists, there has not been any attempt to compile some of the "classic" articles on this topic. Beaver and Walsh's edited volume addresses this gap in the literature by identifying some of the most influential biosocial criminological articles and including them in a single resource. The articles covered in this volume examine the connection between genetics and crime, evolutionary psychology and crime, and neuroscience and crime. This volume will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the causes of crime from a biosocial criminological perspective.
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Ncer National Certification Exam Review: Abdominal Sonography Including Superficial Structures and Musculoskeletal
Joie Burns, Julia M. Ladisa-Michalek, and Ann Willis
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Accounting Information Systems: Understanding Business Processes
Brett Considine, Alison Parkes, Karin Olesen, Derek Speer, and Michael Lee
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English Fragments : A Brief History of the Soul
Martin Corless-Smith
Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Corless-Smith proposes and confers with entities in "the janus-faced doorway" of antiquity and contemporaneity; inference and exposition; soul and body—the "experience and the coming-into-history of that experience."
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Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Lee Ellis, Richard D. Hartley, and Anthony Walsh
The authors offer an interdisciplinary approach of research that anchors on a broader spectrum of interests in methodology than most textbooks. Instead of solely focusing on criminal justice research, this book introduces the major social/behavioral science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, and their relationship with criminal justice and criminology. I think it is a smart and thoughtful approach given the facts that majorities of research methods applied in CJ are borrowed from those closely related disciplines and I have no doubt that they will have continuing influence in CJ research.
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Sage and Solitude
Roy Harris and Lisa Kleiman
Whether you are a cowboy enthusiast, a fan of Dr. Roy Harris, or enjoy humorous, warm-hearted and inspirational stories, and poems, this unique look at the cowboy lifestyle captures the tenderhearted essence of the joy of a life lived with horses. These gentle and noble animals are similar to people in temperament and personality, and the training of a horse can teach valuable life lessons.
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Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective
Craig Hemmens, David C. Brody, and Cassia C. Spohn
Written by three leaders in the field, this comprehensive and accessible text for undergraduate courses explores all conventional topics (court structure, courtroom actors, and the trial and appeal process) as well as others seldom covered. The text first reviews the judicial function, the role and purpose of law, sources of law, the various types of law, and the American court system structure and operations, both state and federal. The participants in the system are discussed next, followed by the pretrial, trial, and posttrial processes. A wealth of pedagogical tools adds valuable related content, ranging from the points of view of court process participants to comparative information to hotly debated topics.
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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