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God's Dogs: A Novel in Stories
Mitch Wieland
Ferrell Swan has fled the shambles of his life in Ohio for the vast and empty landscape of Idaho’s high desert. Here he tries to escape his past and its failures—even to escape memory itself. He seeks solace in sunrises and sunsets, wild mustangs and wheeling hawks, and the coyotes that roam his one hundred acres of scrubland. Through visits from his stepson and his ex-wife, through occasional contacts with odd and reclusive neighbors, Swan confronts himself in order to realize his humanity.
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Inquiring Minds: Learn to Read and Write: 50 Problem-Based Literacy & Learning Strategies
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Peggy Jo Wilhelm, and Erika Boas
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Digital Age Teaching Skills: A Standards Based Approach
Constance Wyzard, Barbara Schroeder, and Chris Haskell
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CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
R. Jacob Baker
Covering the practical design of both analog and digital integrated circuits, this book offers a view of a range of analog/digital circuit blocks, the BSIM model, data converter architectures, and more. It takes a two-path approach to the topics: design techniques are developed for both long- and short-channel CMOS technologies and then compared.
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Saving our Students, Saving our Schools: 50 Proven Strategies for Revitalizing At-Risk Students and Low-Performing Schools
Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett
Demonstrating that both struggling students and low-performing schools can show dramatic improvement, the authors provide lessons learned from experienced teachers to help educators effectively instruct students who are disadvantaged, culturally diverse, or who may be at risk.
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The Legal Environment of Business
Michael B. Bixby, Caryn Beck-Dudley, and Patrick J. Cihon
Designed for the one-term legal environment of business course offered at four-year colleges and universities and in many two-year colleges, this text provides students with fundamental knowledge concerning a series of critical legal and regulatory issues that affect business. Written from the perspective and in the language of business: Students will learn not only how law and regulation affect business, but also how to avoid legal trouble in the real world.This text presents legal topics in an intuitive fashion, with background on where the law or regulation came from and the context within the future business person will encounter this law or regulation.
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Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology
Seung Youn Chyung
Whether you're studying or practicing in the fields of instructional technology and human performance technology, you need a foundation of knowledge to advance your career. Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology will provide you with an overview of principles and practices that is clear and easy-to-understand.
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Managing the Classroom: Creating a Culture for Middle and Secondary Teaching and Learning
Billie J. Enz, Connie J. Honaker, and Sharon A. Kortman
Planning a classroom is an overwhelming task for a teacher. Managing the Classroom guides teachers through the full school year's tasks and responsibilities. This book provides research-based best practices with useful information, resources and great tips for successful teaching. The topics included in this book parallel the responsibilities of teachers as they progress through the year.
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Managing the Classroom: Creating a Culture for Primary and Elementary Teaching and Learning
Billie J. Enz, Sharon A. Kortman, and Connie J. Honaker
Planning a classroom is an overwhelming task for a teacher. Managing the Classroom guides teachers through the full school year's tasks and responsibilities. This book provides research-based best practices with useful information, resources and great tips for successful teaching.The topics included in this book parallel the responsibilities of teachers as they progress through the year.
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach
David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, and Kent D. Smith
For the 1 or 2 semester course in Business Statistics. Emphasizing the use of statistical software like Excel and Minitab, this comprehensive text offers a rich array of business examples, real data, and a unique step-by-step framework that allows students to learn by doing.
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Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks: Basics, Techniques, and Applications
Zhu Han and K.J. Ray Liu
Merging the fundamental principles of resource allocation with the state-of-the-art in research and application examples, Han and Liu present a novel and comprehensive perspective for improving wireless systems performance. Cross-layer multiuser optimization in wireless networks is described systematically. Starting from the basic principles, such as power control and multiple access, coverage moves to the optimization techniques for resource allocation, including formulation and analysis, and game theory. Advanced topics such as dynamic resource allocation and resource allocation in antenna array processing, and in cooperative, sensor, personal area, and ultrawideband networks, are then discussed. Unique in its scope, timeliness, and innovative author insights, this invaluable work will help graduate students and researchers to understand the basics of wireless resource allocation whilst highlighting modern research topics, and will help industrial engineers to improve system optimization.
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Dram Circuit Design: Fundamental High-Speed Topics
Brent Keeth and R. Jacob Baker
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) technology has been one of the greatest driving forces in the advancement of solid-state technology. With its ability to produce high product volumes and low pricing, it forces solid-state memory manufacturers to work aggressively to cut costs while maintaining, if not increasing, their market share. As a result, the state of the art continues to advance owing to the tremendous pressure to get more memory chips from each silicon wafer, primarily through process scaling and clever design." "From a team of engineers working in memory circuit design, DRAM Circuit Design gives students and practicing chip designers an easy-to-follow, yet thorough, introductory treatment of the subject. Focusing on the chip designer rather than the end user, this volume offers expanded, up-to-date coverage of DRAM circuit design by presenting both standard and high-speed implementations. Additionally, it explores a range of topics: the DRAM array, peripheral circuitry, global circuitry and considerations, voltage converters, synchronization in DRAMs, data path design, and power delivery. Additionally, this up-to-date and comprehensive book features topics in high-speed design and architecture and the ever increasing speed requirements of memory circuits." "The only book that covers the breadth and scope of the subject under one cover, DRAM Circuit Design is an introduction for students in courses on memory circuit design or advanced digital courses in VLSI or CMOS circuit design. It also serves as an essential, one-stop resource for academics, researchers, and practicing engineers.
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El Desafío Multipolar: La Política de las Grandes Potencias en el Siglo XXI
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
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Undergraduate Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story
R. Eric Landrum
Writing samples, including two full-length student papers in draft, marked-up, and final form, illustrate key concepts such as how to synthesize literature, how revision differs from editing, and how to recognize and avoid plagiarism. Guidance on how to communicate with instructors on a professional level is given, and the book shows examples of checklists and grading rubrics instructors might use. A self-quiz to engage the reader's knowledge of APA style and format is also included, as well as example reference formats and other quick-reference style tools.
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RTI: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementing Response to Intervention
Daryl F. Mellard and Evelyn Johnson
Written by leading special education researchers with the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and the University of Kansas, this comprehensive yet accessible reference provides administrators with practical guidelines for launching RTI in their schools. Highlighting the powerful role that RTI can play in prevention, early intervention, and determining eligibility for special services, the authors cover the three tiers of RTI, schoolwide screening, progress monitoring, and changes in school structures and individual staff roles.
The text includes
- Site-based examples and student case studies
- A discussion of the challenges to successful implementation
- A section on frequently asked questions
RTI: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementing Response to Intervention is an invaluable resource that helps administrators increase the likelihood of success for students at risk and meet the requirements of NCLB, Reading First, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004.
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The Creative Discipline: Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation
Nancy K. Napier and Mikael Nilsson
Why are some organizations more creative than others? What sets innovative, high-performing organizations apart? Can creativity and innovation be learned and enhanced? In The Creative Discipline, creativity experts Nancy Napier and Mikael Nilsson answer these questions and explain the six key factors that power creative, high-achieving organizations. Business people will learn how innovative organizations get superior results from employees, not just through disciplined methods of thinking, but also through free-flowing work spaces and work practices that help supercharge the imagination.
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John Taye: The Quiet Art of Drawing
John Taye, Kirsten Furlong, and Richard Young
This catalog is published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition...February 9-March 15, 2008.
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Maternal-Child Nursing Care
Mary Ann Towle and Ellise D. Adams
This text provides need-to-know information and skills for LPN/LVN related to maternal and pediatric nursing both as a textbook and as a later reference in an easy-to-read and understand format.
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Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader
Anthony Walsh and Craig Hemmens
An interdisciplinary introductory text to Criminology that includes readings and extra material on the accompanying student website.
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Law, Justice, and Society: A Sociolegal Introduction
Anthony Walsh and Craig Hemmens
Law, Justice, and Society is a text designed for use in courses such as Law and Social Justice, Introduction to Law, and Sociology of Law. Criminal justice is one of the fastest growing majors among students across the country, and more departments are offering a course on law. This textbook also has a market in political science and sociology departments, as many of these departments have a course for which this book would be ideal.
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You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Over a decade ago, Jeffrey Wilhelm’s groundbreaking book showed educators how to think of reading as a personally meaningful, pleasurable, and productive pursuit. In the 13 years since its publication, the author has experimented with and further developed all of the techniques he first explored in “You Gotta BE the Book,” including visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives. In this expanded edition, Wilhelm adds a new commentary to each chapter in which he reflects on the research and insights he introduced in his now-classic text.
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An Archaeological Survey and Assessment of the Vardis Fisher Property, Located Near Hagerman Idaho
Christopher A. Willson, Mark G. Plew, Brian Wallace, and Juli Walker
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Advances in Statistical Control, Algebraic Systems Theory, and Dynamic Systems Characteristics: A Tribute to Michael K. Sain
Chang-Hee Won, Cheryl B. Schrader, and Anthony N. Michel
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The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty
Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett
Successfully reach and teach the underachieving children of poverty with the help of this comprehensive resource. The authors have compiled 18 timely research studies to reveal an abundance of practical, usable best-practice strategies you can implement at district, school, and classroom levels.
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The Tools for Successful Online Teaching
Lisa Dawley
This book is a guide for those desiring more in-depth study of how to integrate a variety of internet technology tools for successful online learning. This is an excellent resource for all online teach ers, and those who design curricula for online environments
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr has received many awards -- from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins.
Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats -- the chroniclers of Rome who came before him -- and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.
This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft -- the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.
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After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
As the year 2001 unfolded, the United States stood at the apex of global power, possessing unrivalled military capabilities, a vibrant economy, and--most of all--great self-confidence about its security. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 shattered America's prevailing illusions of invulnerability, prompting the world's sole superpower to embark on a revolutionary national strategy that led to a preventive war against Iraq. Will the United States be safer and more secure as a result? This book shows why America's new assertively unilateral foreign policy will actually create perils for the next generation of Americans. Written by two seasoned scholars, After Iraq conducts a sweeping survey of America's present position in the global arena and identifies the opportunities and risks that the United States will likely face once the war in Iraq draws to a close. Kegley and Raymond provide an insightful overview of the U.S. response to the unconventional threats posed by global terrorism as well as a searching assessment of the challenges created by the rise of China and other emerging competitors. They argue that the current course of American foreign policy will harm the country by setting dangerous precedents that undermine the moral and legal restraints--which were built painstakingly over the past century--on when and how states may use force. Drawing upon a rich array of historical parallels and empirical evidence, the book illuminates instances in which previous great powers embarked on similar self-defeating strategies. Like the U.S. today, these states once stood at the pinnacle of world power. But due to misperceptions about what they could accomplish with unilateral, preventive uses of military force, they made short-run decisions that undermined their long-term strategic interests. With Americans facing questions about how to combat global terrorism, how to diffuse the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea, how to adjust to the growing power of China and India, and how to repair relations with traditional allies, After Iraq charts a path for restoring America's reputation and leadership in the world to strengthen both U.S. and international security in the turbulent decades ahead.
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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
The GLOBAL FUTURE is a brief introduction to the study of international relations, based on the framework of Charles Kegley's best selling WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION. Written in a clear, accessible style that speaks to students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, this textbook provides a set of concepts and analytic tools to help them 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. With an emphasis on engaging students in the latest international developments, THE GLOBAL FUTURE encourages them to think critically about contemporary issues and form their own opinions on how to address the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century.
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Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals
Lorrie L. Kelley and Connie M. Petersen
Designed to serve as both a clinical manual and an instructional tool, this text covers the sectional anatomy of the entire body. It presents diagnostic-quality images from both MRI and CT modalities, with line drawings to illustrate the various planes of anatomy.
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Workbook for Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals
Lorrie L. Kelley and Connie M. Petersen
Uses an integrated approach to learning sectional anatomy and applying it to diagnostic imaging. This book facilitates comprehension, learning, and retention of the material presented in "Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 2nd Edition". It includes fill-in-the-blank, matching, multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions
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Breakfast with Sylvia
Kevin Kiely
The poems of Breakfast with Sylvia are passionate, adventurous and daring. An astute observer of the subtle shift in emotional weather and a wry observer of the greater world outside, Kevin Kiely has shaped a collection which engages with the reader yet also reassures with a craftsman’s authority.
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Soil Carbon Management: Economic, Environmental and Societal Benefits
J. M. Kimble, C. W. Rice, D. Reed, Sian Mooney, R. F. Follett, and R. Lal
Highlights the significant economic, environmental, and societal benefits that result from land management practices that maintain or increase soil carbon (C). This book explores the potential for agricultural soils to generate soil C credits that could be traded in the broader greenhouse gas credit market and the benefits of farm programs
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Dynamic Modeling and Control of Engineering Systems
Bohdan T. Kulakowski, John F. Gardner, and J. Lowen Shearer
This textbook is ideal for a course in Engineering System Dynamics and Controls. The work is a comprehensive treatment of the analysis of lumped parameter physical systems. Starting with a discussion of mathematical models in general, and ordinary differential equations, the book covers input/output and state space models, computer simulation and modeling methods and techniques in mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid domains. Frequency domain methods, transfer functions and frequency response are covered in detail. The book concludes with a treatment of stability, feedback control (PID, lead-lag, root locus) and an introduction to discrete time systems. This new edition features many new and expanded sections on such topics as: Solving Stiff Systems, Operational Amplifiers, Electrohydraulic Servovalves, Using Matlab with Transfer Functions, Using Matlab with Frequency Response, Matlab Tutorial and an expanded Simulink Tutorial. The work has 40% more end-of-chapter exercises and 30% more examples.
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The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success
R. Eric Landrum and Stephen F. Davis
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Advances in Information Systems Development: New Methods and Practice for the Networked Society
Gabor Magyor, Wita Wojtkowski, and Gregory Wojtkowski
A monograph that details the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems Development.
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The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991
Nick Miller
Argues that cultural processes are too often ignored in favor of political ones; that Serbian intellectuals did work within a historical context, but that they were not slaves to the past.
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The Boy Who Returned from the Sea
Clay Morgan
Jack is reunited with his beloved sheepdog Moxie on the island where they first met, but the dangerous Blackburn Jukes is there too, searching for valuable amber that is hidden in the island's bogs. Moxie and Jack soon realize that they must work together in order to protect themselves and their island from Jukes.
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Jim Bridger: Trapper,Trader, and Guide
Rosemary G. Palmer
Jim Bridger was one of the greatest explorers, traders, and trappers of the American West. At the age of 18, he left Missouri on a journey to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Later he blazed the trail for what would become the route of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Bridger also established a popular outpost for settlers on their trek to the West and became an important part of an expanding nation.
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Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television
Thomas Peele
Queer Popular Cultureis an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities. Other essays address queer representations from soap operas to gangster films. The book also includes a pedagogical section that addresses the use of queer concepts in the classroom.
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Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations of the Kabakaburi Shell Mound, Northwestern Guyana
Mark G. Plew, Gerard Pereira, and George Simon
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Educating Teachers: Technology Skills for the Classroom
Constance Pollard, Todd VanDehey, and Richard Pollard
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A Field Guide to Biological Soil Crusts of Western U.S. Drylands: Common Lichens and Bryophytes
Roger Rosentreter, Matthew Bowker, and Jayne Belnap
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Getting it Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness
Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Describes the principals and methods of teaching English language grammar and usage.
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Environmental Politics and Policy in the West
Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth
Population growth and industrial development have put the wide-open spaces and natural resources that define the West under immense stress. Vested interests clash and come to terms over embattled resources such as water, minerals, and even open space. The federal government controls 40 to 80 percent of the land base in many western states; its sway over the futures of the West's communities and environment has prompted the development of unique policies and politics in the West. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth bring together a roster of top scholars to explicate the issues noted above as well as other key questions in this new edition of Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, which was first published in 1993. This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive and current survey. Contributors address the policy process as it affects western states, how bureaucracy and politics shape environmental dialogues in the West, how western states innovate environmental policies independently of Washington, and how and when science is involved (or ignored) in management of the West's federal lands. Experts in individual resource areas explore multifaceted issues such as the politics of dam removal and restoration, wildlife resource concerns, suburban sprawl and smart growth, the management of hard-rock mining, and the allocation of the West's tightly limited water resources.
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Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Anthony Walsh
This unique text offers an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality by integrating the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, and biology. Offering a more complete look at the world of criminology than any other existing text, authors Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis first present criminological theory and concepts in their traditional form and then show how integrating theory and concepts from the more basic sciences can complement, expand, strengthen, and add coherence to them.
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Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
Brian Wampler
As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and began the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in developing new institutions to bring the benefits of democracy to the citizens in the lower socioeconomic strata intensified, and a number of experiments were undertaken. Perhaps the one receiving the most attention has been Participatory Budgeting (PB), first launched in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 1989 by a coalition of civil society activists and Workers’ Party officials. PB quickly spread to more than 250 other municipalities in the country, and it has since been adopted in more than twenty countries worldwide. Most of the scholarly literature has focused on the successful case of Porto Alegre and has neglected to analyze how it fared elsewhere.
In this first rigorous comparative study of the phenomenon, Brian Wampler draws evidence from eight municipalities in Brazil to show the varying degrees of success and failure PB has experienced. He identifies why some PB programs have done better than others in achieving the twin goals of ensuring governmental accountability and empowering citizenship rights for the poor residents of these cities in the quest for greater social justice and a well-functioning democracy. Conducting extensive interviews, applying a survey to 650 PB delegates, doing detailed analysis of budgets, and engaging in participant observation, Wampler finds that the three most important factors explaining the variation are the incentives for mayoral administrations to delegate authority, the way civil society organizations and citizens respond to the new institutions, and the particular rule structure that is used to delegate authority to citizens.
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Engaging Readers and Writers with Inquiry: Promoting Deep Understandings in Language Arts and the Content Areas with Guiding Questions
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Provides planning guidelines, sample inquiry units, and examples of guiding questions for multiple content areas.
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The Curious Reader: Exploring Personal and Academic Inquiry
Bruce Ballenger and Michelle Payne
Bridging the gap between personal and academic writing, The Curious Reader is a composition reader that introduces students to the unique reading strategies used by writers who research. Beginning with essays and creative nonfiction, readings that many students will be surprised to discover are research based, The Curious Reader leads students to see the many connections between all fact-based writing, whether it’s a personal essay or an article from a scholarly journal. The Curious Reader invites students to become active researchers as they are encouraged to confront underlying beliefs that either hinder or help their fact-based writing. Questions and assignments ask students to explain, evaluate, explore, and reflect on what they have read and how it has changed their thinking.
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Teaching Literature to Adolescents
Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
This text for pre-service and in-service English education courses presents current methods of teaching literature to middle and high school students. The methods are based on social-constructivist/socio-cultural theories of literacy learning, and incorporate research on literary response conducted by the authors. Teaching Literature to Adolescents--a totally new text that draws on ideas from the best selling textbook, Teaching Literature in the Secondary School, by Beach and Marshall--reflects and builds on recent key developments in theory and practice in the field, including: *the importance of providing students with a range of critical lenses for analyzing texts and interrogating the beliefs, attitudes, and ideological perspectives encountered in literature; *organization of the literature curriculum around topics, themes, or issues; *infusion of multicultural literature and emphasis on how writers portray race, class, and gender differences; *use of drama as a tool for enhancing understanding of texts; *employment of a range of different ways to write about literature; *integration of critical analysis of film and media texts with the study of literature; *blending of quality young adult literature into the curriculum; and *attention to students who have difficulty succeeding in literature classes due to reading difficulties, disparities between school and home cultures, attitudes toward school/English, or lack of engagement with assigned texts or response activities. Thoughtfully designed to draw readers into interacting with the text, each chapter is organized around a specific question English educators frequently hear in working with pre-service and in-service teachers, and includes a Case Narrative that frames discussion of the issue that is the focus of the chapter. Many chapters include teacher narratives or lesson plans that demonstrate how a teacher implements the proposed methods. All chapters conclude with an Action Research Activity or Portfolio Reflection Activity, and an Additional Online Activities, Links, and Further Reading Suggestions box directing readers to the Teaching Literature Web site designed to be used in conjunction with this text. The interactive Web site contains recommended readings, resources, and activities; links to Web sites and PowerPoint presentations; and opportunities for readers to contribute teaching units to the Web site databases. Instructors and students in middle and high school English methods courses will appreciate the clear, engaging, useful integration of theory, methods, and pedagogical features offered in this text.
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Go! with Internet Explorer 7.0: Getting Started
Shelley Gaskin and Susan K. Fry
For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2007 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2007 applications.
Teach the course YOU want in LESS TIME! The primary goal of the GO! Series, aside from teaching computer applications, is ease of implementation, with an approach that is based on clearly-defined projects for students and a one of a kind supplements package.
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A Course in Business Statistics
David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, and Kent D. Smith
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Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film
Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd
This work treats baseball cinema as a separate film genre and explores the functions of baseball ideology as it is represented in that genre. It focuses on how the ideology of baseball has served not only to promote dominant values, but also to reconcile conflicting values in American culture
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Advances in Information Systems Development: Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry
Anders G. Nilsson; Wita Wojtkowski,; and Gregory Wojtkowski
Constitutes the collected proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice 'ISD' 2005 Conference. This two-volume set aims to examine the exchange of ideas between academia and industry and explore different solutions.
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The Archaeology of Antelope Creek Overhang, Southeastern Oregon
Sharon Plager, Mark G. Plew, and Christopher A. Willson
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Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation
George (Rip) Rapp and Christopher L. Hill
Considering the history and theory of geoarchaeology, this book discusses soils and environmental interpretations; initial context and site formation; methods of discovery and spatial analyses; estimating time; and others. It is for all professionals and students interested in the field of geoarchaeology.
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Hemingway's Italy: New Perspectives
Rena Sanderson
In 1918, a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway's fascination with Italy—a place second only to Upper Michigan in stimulating his lifelong passion for geography and local expertise. Hemingway's Italy offers a thorough reassessment of Italy's importance in the author's life and work during World War I and the 1920s, when he emerged as a promising young writer, and during his maturity in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This collection of eighteen essays presents a broad view of Hemingway's personal and literary response to Italy. The contributors, some of the most distinguished Hemingway scholars, incorporate new biographical and historical information as well as critical approaches ranging from formalist and structuralist theory to cultural and interdisciplinary explorations. Included are discussions of Italy's psychological functioning in Hemingway's life, the author's correspondence with his father during the writing of A Farewell to Arms, his stylistic experimentation and characterization in that novel, his juxtaposition of the themes of love and war, and his take on Fascism in both his fiction and journalistic work. In addition, the essayists explore relevant contexts of period and place—such as the rise of Fascism, ethnic attitudes, and the cultural currents between Italy and the United States. A landmark study, Hemingway's Italy brings long-overdue attention to this great writer's international role as cultural ambassador.
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Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning
Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Why do boys embrace literate behaviors outside of school but reject them inside school? How can adolescents connect their outside-of-school literacy to school purposes? How can we use the present instructional moment to encourage students to continue growing as readers and writers in the future? Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm have answers, and in Going with the Flow, they share new and powerful ways to build strong literacy habits in adolescent boys-and girls. Drawing on the research that won "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys" the NCTE David H. Russell Award, Smith and Wilhelm take Chevys out of the showroom onto the road, presenting classroom-tested units, lessons, and activities that get boys reading and writing and keep them involved in literacy learning. Going with the Flow fully illustrates their approach to designing and sequencing instruction, taking you from developing activities that prepare students for success before they are even given assignments to fostering meaningful classroom discussions. Even if you haven't read "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys," Smith and Wilhelm provide a succinct summation of their research to get you started, then give you classroom transcripts, lesson-planning tips, and strategies for interacting with students to help you implement their ideas. Learn how to help teenagers love learning and how to assist them in meeting new literacy challenges. Read Smith and Wilhelm and let Going with the Flow be your indispensable guide to discovering a new way to communicate with adolescent readers and writers.
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Discipline and Governmentality at Work: Making the Subject and Subjectivity in Modern Tertiary Labour
Donald Winiecki
Drawn from ethnographic research using post-structural analytics, this book describes how a collection of technologies is taken up in a common form of tertiary labour - call centres - to produce 'truth', knowledge, power and modern forms of subjectivity and social subjects. It provides a detailed look at the 'genealogy of subjectivity' at work.
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CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
R. Jacob Baker
CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Second Edition covers 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. This edition takes a two-path approach to the topics; design techniques are developed for both long- and short-channel CMOS technologies and then compared. The results are multidimensional explanations that allow readers deep insight into the design process.
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Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History
Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube
Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.
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Staging Gertrude Stein: Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre
Leslie Atkins Durham
Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theater, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage. Iconoclastic directors and production teams-including Virgil Thomson, the Living Theatre, the Judson Poets Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, the Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart, Frank Galati and Heiner Goebbels-have ardently roamed Stein's spare dramatic "landscapes," but even these convention-defying artists had to fill some of her absences in order to bring the texts to life on stage. Inevitably contemporary culture infiltrates Stein's pristine topography via these extra-textual additions, transforming it in ways virtually unimaginable when the reader encounters the text on the printed page. It is only by mapping the intersections of written text, performance text, and context, that one can gain a full appreciation of what Stein's dramatic writing has meant at various historical moments, how she herself has been imagined, and how her writing has transformed the landscape of the American alternative theater.
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Engineering Design
Rudy Eggert
Engineering Design is intended as a text for senior capstone courses as well as junior and sophomore engineering design courses. The text integrates the best concepts and methods presented in other design textbooks, while providing additional topics such as human factors, materials and manufacturing processes. Using a "just-in-time" philosophy of learning, topics are presented in a timely, orderly fashion, progressively building engineering design methods and terminology. Key terms are defined, emphasized, and distinguished to highlight important subtitles. Exercises at the end of each chapter reinforce the knowledge and methods presented. In addition, self-quiz exercises are included at the end of each chapter
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Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program
Werner W. K. Hoeger and Sharon A. Hoeger
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Hazardous Fuels Treatments: National Fire Plan Implementation in Idaho
Brett Ingles
Reviews the Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group, the ways in which the National Fire Plan has been implemented in neighboring states, the amount of hazardous fuels treated on federal and private lands in Idaho, and the processes used by federal agencies to prioritize hazardous fuels treatments in Idaho. Focuses on the results of in-depth interviews with members of the Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group and 39 individuals representing five Idaho counties. Includes recommendations to the Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group for improving the way it functions.
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Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness
Robert L. Kane MD, Reinhard Priester JD, and Annette M. Totten
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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
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The BEST Standards in Teaching: Reflection to Quality Practice
Sharon A. Kortman and Connie J. Honaker
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James Stevens
James H. Maguire
Biography and criticism of fiction writer James Stevens (1892-1971), with detailed summaries of his Paul Bunyan stories and of novels Brawnyman, Mattock, and Big Jim Turner.
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Mediation Theory and Practice
Suzanne McCorkle and Melanie J. Reese
Mediation Theory and Practice provides a thorough introduction to the ever expanding world of mediation. By blending theory with practical application, this book introduces the process of mediation while grounding the student in informative research and theory.
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Concepts of Athletic Training
Ronald P. Pfeiffer and Brent C. Mangus
Concepts of Athletic Training, Fourth Edition represents over a decade of evolution and revision of the previous editions in an effort to better serve students considering a career in athletic training, or for those going on to careers as K-12 physical educators or coaches. This outstanding introductory text presents key concepts pertaining to the field of athletic training in a comprehensive, logically sequential manner that will assist future professionals in making the correct decisions when confronted with an activity-related injury or illness in their scope of practice.
New Topics and Features
- Updated materials on the incidence of sports injuries in the pediatric age group, and on the etiology of overuse injuries. (Chapter 1)
- Inclusion of recommendations regarding the athletic health care team, as well as new material from the ACSM's Team Physician Consensus Statement. (Chapter 2)
- An introduction to the recently passed federal HIPAA regulations as they relate to sports injuries, as well as updated information on state regulation of athletic training. (Chapter 3)
- Recent research on the psychological impact of sports injuries on adolescents, as well as updated material on eating disorders among athletes. (Chapter 5)
- New information on supplements, since many athletes are turning to ergogenic aids in an effort to improve their performance. (Chapter 6)
- Extensive material on the development and implementation of the "Emergency Plan." (Chapter 7)
- Updated information on the epidemiology of head injury along with a new evidence-based classification system for cerebral concussion. (Chapter 9)
- Updated with the latest Emergency Care and Safety Institute CPR and Bloodborne Pathogens Guidelines. (Appendix 1, 2)
- New information on exertional heat illnesses (Chapter 18), and on NATA's position statement on exertional heat illnesses. (Appendix 3)
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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