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The Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings
Adrian Taylor Kane
This volume advances the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments, transcending national boundaries by addressing diverse regions. The forms of environmental criticism practiced converge with literary history, aesthetic theory, postcolonialism, and Marxism, broadening the ecocritical approach and providing a strong overview to this growing critical movement
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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 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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Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, 1900-1939
Joanne Klein
This book provides a comprehensive study of English police constables walking the beat in the early part of the twentieth century. Joanne Klein has mined a rich seam of archival evidence to present a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of these working-class men. The book explores how constables influenced law enforcement and looks at the changing nature of policing during this period.
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The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success
R. Eric Landrum and Stephen F. Davis
Landrum/Davis provides strategies for success that will allow students to achieve their career goals, whatever they may be. The authors provide fundamental tips and advice that can be useful to all students, but especially useful for psychology majors.
The approach of this book is applied—to provide students with practical, timely, up-to-date information. This text standardizes and catalogs much of the practical advice that professors often give to students—providing tips on how to do well in all classes, how to find research ideas, and how to write papers in general APA format. Also, the book contains up-to-date career information that faculty might not normally have at their fingertips, including the latest salary figures for a number of psychology-related jobs and occupations. Other benefits include the coverage of ethics for undergraduate students, sections on self-reflection, and an overview of disciplines related to psychology.
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Personal Conflict Management: Theory and Practice
Suzanne McCorkle and Melanie J. Reese
Personal Conflict Management utilizes a modernized theory/skill approach to interpersonal conflict, placing equal emphasis on the theoretical and practical.
Supporting the notion that there is not one correct approach to conflict management, and utilizing the authors’ shared experiences as mediators and organizational facilitators, this text demonstrates the value of collaborative models for resolving conflict and the necessity and benefits in understanding competitive approaches. Through the inclusion of both competitive and cooperative theories, the authors present contrasting perspectives of conflict management.
Beginning with an introduction to conflict, the text examines the major approaches and theories of conflict management. Following a discussion of the causes and variables which exist within conflicts, the skills necessary for conflict management are analyzed, including listening, the ability to seek information, the importance of understanding personality types and behavior patters, negotiation, and conflict assessment. The final two sections of the text take the reader beyond the basics, exploring the difficulties encountered in conflict management, the aftermath to a conflict, and conflicts in context, applying the theoretical concepts to everyday situations.
Written in an academic yet reader-friendly style, this textbook is enjoyable and thought-provoking for both students and instructors. Case studies, examples, essay suggestions, discussion questions, etc support an interactive environment that optimizes learning opportunities. Instructors will find these features useful in the development of classroom discussions and assignments, while students will benefit from the opportunity to examine their own conflict behavior and enhance their skills in conflict management.
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Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar
Richard D. Miller, John H. Bradford, Klaus Holliger, and Rebecca B. Latimer
Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar (SEG Geophysical Developments Series No. 15) is a collection of original papers by renowned and respected authors from around the world. Technologies used in the application of near-surface seismology and ground-penetrating radar have seen significant advances in the last several years. Both methods have benefited from new processing tools, increased computer speeds, and an expanded variety of applications. This book, divided into four sections - "Reviews," "Methodology," "Integrative Approaches," and "Case Studies" - captures the most significant cutting-edge issues in active areas of research, unveiling truly pertinent studies that address fundamental applied problems. This collection of manuscripts grew from a core group of papers presented at a postconvention workshop, "Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar," held during the 2009 SEG Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas. This is the first cooperative publication effort between the near-surface communities of SEG, AGU, and EEGS. It will appeal to a large and diverse audience that includes researchers and practitioners inside and outside the near-surface geophysics community.
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Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success
Nancy K. Napier
An expert shows how to cultivate “aha” moments—flashes of insight—that lead to business innovation and personal success.
Aha! We all know the moment when something utterly baffling all of the sudden becomes clear. Or when a new idea or creative solution seemingly pops up from nowhere. But aha! moments don’t come from nowhere, and while there is no way to summon them at will, there are ways to make them far more likely.
Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success helps individuals and organizations create the conditions that lay the groundwork for the distinct “Aha!” instances of insight—when connections between different pieces of information are revealed and ideas come together in ways that have never existed before.
Insight examines three stages of the Aha! experience, from the early confusion and chaos of "too much information," to how people organize and try out what they learn, to the “Aha!” moment itself. It then examines techniques people use to spark the creative aha experience—techniques that will work in a private business, education, government, nonprofit, and any other organizational setting. The book is based on interviews with over 100 people of all ages, backgrounds, and professions—from software developers to dancers, from detectives to football coaches—as well as the latest research results from management, psychology, and neuroscience studies about the workings of the brain in creative situations. -
Constantine and the Christian Empire
Charles Odahl
This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (273 – 337). Combining vivid narrative and historical analysis, Charles Odahl relates the rise of Constantine amid the crises of the late Roman world, his dramatic conversion to and public patronage of Christianity, and his church building programs in Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople which transformed the pagan state of Roman antiquity into the Christian empire medieval Byzantium.
The author’s comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources and his extensive research into the material remains of the period mean that this volume provides a more rounded and accurate portrait of Constantine than previously available.
A landmark publication in Roman Imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine history, Constantine and the Christian Empire will remain the standard account of the subject for years to come.
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Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy
Charles M. Odahl
This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of the defeated radical politician Lucius Sergius Catilina to bring together a group of disaffected Roman nobles and discontented Italian farmers in a conspiracy to overthrow the republican government at Rome and to take control of the Italian peninsula (while the proconsul Pompey the Great and the majority of Roman military units were campaigning in the Near East), and the success of the conservative optimate consul Marcus Tullius Cicero in uncovering the conspiracy, driving Catiline out of Rome, and defeating his revolutionary followers in the capital and in Etruria. The narrative reveals the political corruption, economic problems, and military instability which were leading to the demise of the republican system and the rise of an imperial government in the first century B.C.
The author’s comprehensive knowledge of the ancient sources and the modern scholarship relevant to the last century of the republic has allowed him to offer a detailed and definitive account of this important episode in Roman history. In the same seamless combination of vivid narrative and historical analysis through which he enlightened the Roman imperial age of Constantine, Dr. Odahl here illuminates the Roman republican era of Cicero. This book is a significant publication in Ciceronian studies and will become the standard account of the Catilinarian Conspiracy.
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Making Livable Places: Transportation, Preservation, and the Limits of Growth
Todd Shallat, David Eberle, and Larry Burke
Making Livable Places presents ten research essays on political and historical issues that shape metropolitan growth. Sponsored by Boise State University, the anthology was written and produced by graduate and undergraduate student researchers in the 2009 "Investigate Boise" field school on urban affairs.
"Social Science is civic engagement. Making Livable Places showcases a university's commitment to the pragmatic concerns of municipal government." Dean Melissa Lavitt, Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.
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Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
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State Legislatures Today: Politics Under the Domes
Peverill Squire and Gary Moncrief
A concise and provocative introduction to State Legislative Politics, State Legislative Politics Today is designed as a supplement for State and Local courses and upper level courses on legislative politics.
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Criminological Theory: A Text/Reader
Stephen G. Tibbetts and Craig Hemmens
Criminological Theory: A Text/Reader provides the best of both worlds—substantial but brief authored sections on all of the major course topics, followed by carefully edited, policy-oriented, original research articles covering criminological theory from past to present and beyond. The 39 articles reflect both classic studies and state-of-the-art research. Pedagogical tools include the helpful "How to Read a Research Article" before the first reading, article introductions, photographs, and discussion questions that capture student interest and help them develop their critical thinking skills.
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The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
Brady Udall
A tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family's future.
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International Business Law: Text, Cases and Readings
Ray August, Don Mayer, and Michael Bixby
For upper-level undergraduate and MBA students enrolled in an international business law course. August, 5e emphasizes the diversity and similarity of how firms are currently regulated and governed around the world.
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The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers
Bruce Ballenger
Featuring an engaging, direct writing style and inquiry-based approach, this popular research guide stresses that curiosity is the best reason for investigating ideas and information.
An appealing alternative to traditional research texts, The Curious Researcher stands apart for its motivational tone, its conversational style, and its conviction that research writing can be full of rewarding discoveries. Offering a wide variety of examples from student and professional writers, this popular guide shows that good research and lively writing do not have to be mutually exclusive. Students are encouraged to find ways to bring their writing to life, even though they are writing with “facts.” A unique chronological organization sets up achievable writing goals while it provides week-by-week guidance through the research process. Full explanations of the technical aspects of writing and documenting source-based papers help students develop sound research and analysis skills.
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Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
Barton H. Barbour
An unvarnished picture of one of the West’s most complex characters
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.
Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times leavened with wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith’s journals to a greater extent than previous scholars and teases out compelling insights into the trader’s itineraries and personality. Use of an important letter Smith wrote late in life deepens the author’s perspective on the legendary trapper. Through Smith’s own voice, this larger-than-life hero is shown to be a man concerned with business obligations and his comrades’ welfare, and even a person who yearned for his childhood. Barbour also takes a hard look at Smith’s views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudson’s Bay Company competitors and evaluates his dealings with these groups in the fur trade.
Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today. This readable book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.
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I Used to be Irish: Leaving Ireland, Becoming American
Angeline Kearns Blain
Like so many Irish girls, 18-year-old Angeline Kearns saw her handsome GI as a rescuer from the grey skies of Ireland to the Hollywood-tinted USA. She flew happily away to the States in 1957—a bit scared, but blessing her luck.
But she quickly learned that America was not Ireland. The cheerful family life she had known in Dublin’s Irishtown was a world away from her husband's sober Maine Protestant upbringing. Adapting to Cold War America, appearing to be the perfect wife, the happy shopper, the all-giving mom, became an endurance test.
Then a childhood trauma came back to haunt her.
Working her way out of her depression she went back to school and then to university (an opportunity, as she bitterly notes, not offered in de Valera’s Ireland) and began exploring a whole new life, personal and political. She, who used to be Irish, had become American.
Over two million Irish women have gone to the US in search of liberty and happiness. In this sharply observed memoir Angeline Kearns Blain movingly evokes the culture shock, trauma and re-invention experienced by every immigrant. -
The Sociology of Terrorism: Studies in Power, Subjection, and Victimage Ritual
Michael Blain
This book is a compilation of previously published studies on the role of culture and language in political violence and terrorism. These studies have contributed to a paradigmatic shift in sociological thinking about language and culture in politics, particularly in regard to the genesis and dynamics of violence and terrorism. Blending ideas derived from Michel Foucault and Kenneth Burke, this book is unique in its range of focus from detailed studies of specific cases of violence and terrorism to peace movements in resistence of violence, war, and terrorism.
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Kavousi IIA, the Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: The Buildings on the Summit
Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. Klein, and Lee Ann Turner
This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982–1984) and excavations (1987–1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. These sites, Vronda and the Kastro, shed light on the Early Iron Age, the transitional period in Cretan history known popularly as the Dark Ages, thereby elucidating the way of life of the people who lived in the area of Kavousi during that period and how their culture changed over time. Kavousi IIA is devoted to the excavation of material from the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Vronda, particulary the houses on the summit of the Vronda ridge (Buildings A-B, C-D, J-K, and Q), along with earlier (Building P) and later (Building R) structures around them.
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Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
Heidi Estrem
Organic Writing Assessment represents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher education. This volume documents the second generation of an assessment model that is regarded as scrupulously consistent with current theory; it shows DCM's flexibility, and presents an informed discussion of its limits and its potentials.
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Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety
Andrew S. Finstuen
In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar "age of anxiety" as the Cold War took root. Finstuen focuses on three giants of Protestant thought--Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich--men who were among the era's best known public figures. He argues that each thinker's strong commitment to the doctrine of original sin was a powerful element of the broad public influence that they enjoyed. Drawing on extensive correspondence from everyday Protestants, the book captures the voices of the people in the pews, revealing that the ordinary, rank-and-file Protestants were indeed thinking about Christian doctrine and especially about "good" and "evil" in human nature. Finstuen concludes that the theological concerns of ordinary American Christians were generally more complicated and serious than is commonly assumed, correcting the view that postwar American culture was becoming more and more secular from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
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College Teaching and the Development of Reasoning
Robert G. Fuller, Thomas C. Campbell, Dewey I. Dykstra, and Scott M. Stevens
This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials were directed at physics concepts, they quickly expanded to include other sciences and the humanities and social sciences. On-going developments in the field will be included.
The editors have introduced new topics, including discussions of Vygotsky's ideas in relation to those of Piaget, of science education research progress since 1978, of constructivist learning theory applied to educational computer games and of applications from anthropology to zoology. These materials are especially relevant for consideration by current university faculty in all subjects. -
Spring Drive: A North Country Tale
Chuck Guilford
Set in Menominee, Michigan, in 1881 and based on an historical event, Spring Drive centers on the McDonald boys, two loggers who roll into town planning to collect their pay, have some fun, and leave for Oregon. Before they can do so, however, they are caught up in a violent swirl of events that leads to their lynching. It is a gripping, even terrifying tale. In telling the story, the book probes a complex web of environmental, social, and personal issues which remain important in today’s America.
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Canadian Courts: Law, Politics, and Process
Lori Hausegger, Matthew Hennigar, and Troy Riddell
Canadian Courts: Law, Politics and Process is the first and only Canadian text to specifically address the relationship between law and politics. Students will benefit from the broad, balanced portrait of the actors and institutions involved in Canada's judicial process provided by this core text. Taking a cross-cultural, comparative approach, the authors showcase Canada's legal system by illustrating the ways it differs and agrees with other systems worldwide. Each chapter features engaging case studies that encourage students to apply the concepts, theories, and critiques developed in the text. Comprehensive and accessible, Canadian Courts is simply the most up-to-date and relevant book available on the Canadian judicial process.
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Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program
Werner W. K. Hoeger and Sharon A. Hoeger
Written by a noted authority in the field, LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS, 10e, delivers thorough, balanced, and up-to-date coverage that equips students with the theory and tools needed to make positive health behavior choices now and throughout their lives. Werner Hoeger is routinely praised for his ability to include photos and descriptive examples that help students visualize the concepts and easily relate to them. The text also personalizes the information and shows students how to relate the content of the text and activities to their individual needs. Students quickly see that there is something to learn about fitness and wellness concepts, that the material is interesting, and that there are easy steps to starting positive behavior changes. The text's unique design integrates activities throughout each chapter--as opposed to including only end-of-chapter exercises. This innovative layout allows students to learn core concepts and immediately apply their knowledge to self-review and application activities, followed by more concepts and more activities. By focusing on information and its practical application, the text leaves time for instructors to get students out of the classroom to complete other activity-based assignments. LIFETIME PHYSICAL FITNESS AND WELLNESS features the latest research, including the new ACSM Guidelines. It also includes a wide assortment of exciting teaching and learning resources, such as the PowerLecture CD-ROM and CengageNOW™--an online resource that enables instructors to make assignments and track progress easily; it also provides pre- and post-tests, personalized study plans, activities, labs, and personal change planners for students.
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The Ms of My Kin
Janet A. Holmes
"If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin—the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind.
The practice of erasure was most famously accomplished (and perhaps invented) by the British artist Tom Phillips in his book A Humument (an erasure of a Victorian novel titled A Human Document) and later, by the American poet Ronald Johnson, who erased Milton's Paradise Lost into a book called Radi os. In Phillips's books—he did more than one version of A Humument—the artist created paintings over each page of the novel, reserving only certain words that told a different story than did the original work. (A new character, called "Toge," emerged from the word "together," for example.) Johnson, a poet, simply removed the words he did not wish to use as if whiting them out—the remaining words stood in the same relationship to each other as they did in the original poem.
Following tradition, that's the method I used. The idea is that my poems would look identical to what you'd see in the Franklin Reading Edition of Dickinson if I were to go through it with white-out and preserve only the words you now see on the page. And in fact, in my typescripts of the poem, I actually type in the poem and then "color" the erased words white. They're there, but they don't show up when printed. That my resulting Dickinson-derived poems resemble in appearance Charles Olson's open-field poems of the mid-twentieth century is a delicious coincidence: two New Englanders meeting fortuitously in a most unlikely place."
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How RTI Works in Secondary Schools
Evelyn S. Johnson, Lori Smith, and Monica L. Harris
Practical solutions for implementing RTI and improving student outcomes in Grades 6-12!
Implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in Grades 6-12 offers many unique challenges, but this comprehensive research-based book provides secondary school administrators with the information, resources, and guidance necessary to use RTI for the benefit of struggling adolescent learners.
Drawing on the latest research, the authors identify the current best practices for key components of RTI and demonstrate how school teams can work together to implement an assessment- and data-driven decision-making process for educators. In discussing how each component fits into the RTI framework, How RTI Works in Secondary Schools provides
- Specific guidance on building leadership capacity to make RTI implementation a success
- Case studies illustrating real middle and high school RTI models
- Instructional strategies for Tiers 1, 2, and 3
- Forms, checklists, and lists of Web and print resources
With this valuable resource, secondary school leaders can avoid potential missteps when implementing RTI and dramatically improve outcomes for adolescent learners!
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Finding Jobs with a Psychology Bachelor's Degree: Expert Advice for Launching Your Career
R. Eric Landrum
Psychology is one of the most popular college majors and can lead to a satisfying career in many different fields. If graduate school is not in your immediate plans, this book is for you. It will show you how to leverage your bachelor's degree to find a career with intellectual, emotional, and perhaps even financial rewards.
In this book, 28 professionals describe the scope of their work, level of career satisfaction, and how their bachelor's degree in psychology helped get them there. You also get a snapshot of salary, benefits, and day-to-day pleasures and challenges in a variety of jobs as well as advice and questions to help you reflect on the classes, internships, experiences, and attitudes that will make you a success in your career of choice.
In addition to the profiles, this book offers detailed instructions for how to use interest inventory and career search tools such as the Holland Self-Directed Search and O*NET database to refine your post-college plans. It candidly reviews best and worst strategies for resume building, job searching, and interviewing and offers up-to-date tips on how to combine personal networking and technology to get noticed. As a bonus, author Eric Landrum provides a backstage pass to the research behind this book, uncovering the process so you can appreciate the data or perhaps get some ideas for your next project.
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Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society
George A. Papadopoulos, Gregory Wojtkowski, and Wita Wojtkowski
This volume constitutes the published proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development. They present the latest and greatest concepts, approaches, and techniques of systems development - a notoriously transitional field.
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Sports First Aid and Injury Prevention
Ronald P. Pfeiffer, Alton L. Thygerson, and Nicholas F. Palmieri
When athletes become ill or injured during practice or competition, coaches and athletic trainers need to know how to respond. Whether on the court, on the field, at the pool, or in the gym, coaches and trainers must be prepared to handle the common injuries and illnesses they will likely encounter while coaching their sport. Sports First Aid and Injury Prevention teaches coaches and trainers how to administer basic first aid to sick and injured athletes as well as well ways to prevent illnesses and injuries from occurring.
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Developing Effective Physical Activity Programs
Lynda B. Ransdell, Mary K. Dinger, Jennifer Huberty, and Kim H. Miller
Developing Effective Physical Activity Programs emphasizes the move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to physical activity interventions by providing evidence-based recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating more effective and appropriate physical activity interventions for diverse populations. Part of Human Kinetics' Physical Activity Intervention series, the book provides research, methods, techniques, and support to health professionals seeking ways to promote physical activity programs that meet the specific needs of women, overweight and obese populations, older adults, and ethnically diverse populations—those shown as most likely to be sedentary and in need of the benefits of physical activity interventions.
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Assessment in Residential Care for Children and Youth
Roy Rodenhiser
Offers information on the placement of children in residential care programs, the efficacy of those programs, staff issues, and outcomes for youths in the programs. This book describes assessment processes and tools that enhance therapeutic childcare interventions. It is suitable for residential administrators, program directors and coordinators.
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In Post-Communist Worlds: Living and Teaching in Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
Martin Scheffer
Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Russian Empire. In Post-Communist Worlds is the product of four years which professor Scheffer and his wife spent inside the former empire: in Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan; “taking life big,” while becoming thoroughly engrossed in the author’s appointments as a visiting lecturer teaching both students and their teachers about democracy, liberal economy, and other social science subjects.
In this lively combination memoir/travel narrative, Dr. Scheffer provides both cultural/historical, and ethnographical description, while recounting numerous personal incidents in his and his wife’s life, and offering stories of the lives and events of people they encountered around them. This book provides a fascinating record of a huge, unique event in human history, told with the personal touch of the author’s direct experience.
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Corrections: A Text/Reader
Mary Stohr, Anthony Walsh, and Craig Hemmens
Corrections: A Text/Reader provides the best of both worlds - authored text Sections followed by carefully selected accompanying Readings that illustrate contemporary concerns and questions surrounding corrections in the 21st century. The articles, drawn primarily from leading journals in criminology and criminal justice, reflect both classic studies and current research in corrections and correctional practices and often have a policy perspective that make them more applied, less theoretical, and more interesting to both undergraduate and graduate students.
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TechTactics: Technology for Teachers
Carolyn Thorsen
This concise and practical text describes the major educational computer applications and provides methods for using computer tools effectively in the teaching/learning process.
The author focuses on the word processor, database, spreadsheet, Internet, and hypermedia software–tools that all classrooms with computers have. The text is independent of hardware and equally applicable to Macs or PCs, and speaks to methods that apply across grade levels and disciplines. The text has been extensively class tested and written from the perspective of what will work for teachers. Many helpful models, lesson plans, skill–building tips and activities are included to allow students to pick up this book and put it to use in the classroom right away.
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Biology and Criminology: The Biosocial Synthesis
Anthony Walsh
Noted criminologist Anthony Walsh demonstrates how information from the biological sciences both strengthens criminology work and complements traditional theories of criminal behavior. With its reasoned case for biological science as a fundamental tool of the criminologist, this text is required reading for students and faculty within the field of criminology.
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Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research
Anthony Walsh and Kevin M. Beaver
Designed to bring criminology into the 21st century by showing how leading criminologists have integrated aspects of the biological sciences into their discipline. This book covers behavior and molecular genetics, epigenetics, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, and apply them to various correlates of crime such as age, race, and gender.
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Carlos Santana: A Biography
Norman Weinstein
As eclectic and paradoxical as its subject, this is the first and only book about Carlos Santana that reveals the full sweep of his musical odyssey.
Fronting the group that bears his name, his signature soaring guitar as recognizable as any voice, Carlos Santana became an iconic Latin superstar of American rock. But while much has been made of the musical influence of his native cultural heritage, Latin music is far from the only thread woven into Santana’s sound.
Carlos Santana: A Biography explores the life and music of this extraordinary guitarist, ranging from his professional beginnings—his first regular gig was at a Tijuana strip club—and early success in San Francisco to the definitive songs and albums of the 1970s, the commercial resurgence with 1999’s Supernatural, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and his current work with producer Bill Laswell.
Unlike other biographies, this book offers a comprehensive look at Santana's transitions through a variety of musical styles beyond rock, including blues, salsa, jazz, and world music. It also portrays Santana as very much a child of the eclectic musical culture of the 1960s, as well as showing the profound influence of the New Age movement on Santana’s life and music. -
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 Culture is 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
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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