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The Archaeology of Guyana
Mark G. Plew
This book is written for professional archaeologists, students of South American archaeology, heritage managers, museum staffs, and the general public. The book intends to provide sufficient breadth and detail that it stands as a scholarly work, while presenting data in a manner which allows for a wide use of the materials. Thus the book summarizes well-known sites and those less known but important to understanding the regional prehistory. The primary objective of this book is to craft an overview and synthesis of the archaeology of Guyana and in so doing document the diversity of human adaptations over several thousands of years. The ten chapters include an historical overview of the history of archaeological research in Guyana during the late 19th and late 20th centuries; an overview of the geological history, climate and geography; the general chronological context of Guyana prehistory; the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene paleo-environmental context; the evidence for Paleo-Indian occupations; the prehistory of Northwestern Guyana with specific reference to the Archaic shellfisher and later Horticultural patterns of the littoral; the archaeology of the Abary and Hertenrits Phases of Northeastern Guyana; an overview of the Taruma Phase of Southeastern Guyana; the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Horticultural occupations of the Rupununi savannahs; a summary and synthesis of the Iwokrama rainforest in central Guyana; and a review of major developments in Guyana archaeology and future research needs.
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Ensuring the Health of Active and Athletic Girls and Women
Lynda Ransdell and Linda M. Petlichkoff
This book serves as a comprehensive and contemporary resource for coaches, athletes, administrators, students and educators who are interested in improving the health of girls and women who participate in sport or recreational activities. The book is organized into three major sections: correlates of participation in physical activity and sport, and physiological and psychological issues related to healthy sport and physical activity participation for girls and women. In addition to updated information about each topic covered, each chapter contains a glossary of important terms and a list of questions for discussion.
The topic areas for the book include: (1) Factors related to physical activity and sport participation for girls and women; (2) Exercise and bone density; (3) Nutrition and the female athlete; Physical activity and breast cancer; (4) Preventing ACL injuries; (5) Masters’ women athletes; (6) Exercise and pregnancy; (7) Body composition testing and the female athlete; (8) The female athlete triad; (9) Eating disorders (Prevalence, Prevention and Treatment Issues); (10) Body image for active females; (11) Sport identity, physical self-perception, and sport participation; (12) The social psychology of leisure; (13) The impact of heterosexism and homonegativism on female athletes.
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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Critical Issues for Diversity in Gifted Education
Diane Boothe and Julian C. Stanley
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Critical Issues for Diversity in Gifted Education offers the most extensive look available at how gifted education can rise to encourage a more diverse student population and become enriched by the diversity of those children. This book looks specifically at diversity in gifted education as it relates to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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Existential Authenticity in Three Novels of Spanish Author Miguel Delibes
Teresa Boucher
Reference to Miguel Delibes as a novelist of authenticity has become an unexplored cliché of Delibean criticism. Grounded in a Heideggerian approach to (in)authenticity, this is a philosophical reading of three of his texts: Cinco horas con Mario [Five Hours with Mario], Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris [Lady in Red on a Gray Background], and Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso [Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian].
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Criminal Justice Case Briefs: Significant Cases in Corrections
Craig Hemmens, Katherine Bennett, and Barbara Belbot
This concise, invaluable volume is comprehensive in its treatment of corrections law, covering all of the major cases in the area. It features a list of cases, in alphabetical order and grouped by topic; briefs of each case, arranged by topic; a short introduction to each topic, which places the cases into a larger context; and a helpful index.
This text is one of three books in the Criminal Justice Case Briefs series, each of which provides a summary and analysis of leading cases in a particular area of criminal justice: criminal procedure law, corrections law, or juvenile law. Easily accessible to undergraduates, each volume has the same basic outline and format, which is neither exclusively "casebook" nor "textbook." The purely casebook approach is not always appropriate for undergraduates, whose primary focus is learning the law, not "how to think like a lawyer." Therefore, these books present briefs (or summaries) of the opinions, along with analyses and explanations, instead of the actual opinions themselves. This allows instructors to use the books as either supplements or as main, stand-alone texts. The volumes also include less background and extraneous material than most textbooks; the cases are presented in a context, with relevant commentary, which allows students to better understand the significance of the legal holdings, explains the Court's holdings, and places each case in context with the Court's other decisions.
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Criminal Justice Case Briefs: Significant Cases in Juvenile Justice
Craig Hemmens, Benjamin Steiner, and David Mueller
This text is one of three books in the Criminal Justice Case Briefs series, each of which provides a summary and analysis of leading cases in a particular area of criminal justice: criminal procedure law, corrections law, or juvenile law. Craig Hemmens is the lead author on all three books; there is a different set of coauthors on each book, all of whom are experts in their respective areas.
Easily accessible to undergraduates, each volume has the same basic outline and format, which is neither exclusively "casebook" nor "textbook." The purely casebook approach is not always appropriate for undergraduates, whose primary focus is learning the law, not "how to think like a lawyer." Therefore, these books present briefs (or summaries) of the opinions, along with analyses and explanations, instead of the actual opinions themselves. This allows instructors to use the books as either supplements or as main, stand-alone texts. The volumes also include less background and extraneous material than most textbooks; the cases are presented in a context, with relevant commentary, which allows students to better understand the significance of the legal holdings, explains the Court's holdings, and places each case in context with the Court's other decisions. Criminal Justice Case Briefs: Significant Cases in Juvenile Justice is comprehensive in its treatment of juvenile law, covering all of the major cases in the area. It features a list of cases, in alphabetical order and grouped by topic; briefs of each case, arranged by topic; a short introduction to each topic, intended to put the cases into context and provide some unity; and an index.
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Lest We Be Damned : Practical Innovation and Lived Experience Among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642
Lisa McClain
Through compelling personal stories and in rich detail, McClain reveals the give-and-take interaction between the institutional church in Rome and the needs of believers and the hands-on clergy who provided their pastoral care within England. In doing so, she illuminates larger issues of how believers and low-level clergy push the limits of official orthodoxy in order to meet devotional needs.
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Managing Relationships in Transition Economies
Nancy K. Napier and David C. Thomas
Helps foreign managers working in transition economies and their host-country counterparts to understand the nature of change they have encountered, and will experience, in transition economies and to manage the process of building relationships more smoothly.
The transition from socialist or communist economy to market economy in many countries has been dramatic, unpredictable, and mostly on the surface, observable in new consumption patterns or higher standards of living. But deeper change in the managerial mindset in these new market economies has been much slower and less evident. It is crucial to business success for foreign managers to understand their transition economy counterparts. This book examines the interactions that foreign and transition economy managers have in building business relationships, the influences behind those interactions, how the interactions themselves change over time, and how to manage the process of building relationships more smoothly.
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Constantine and the Christian Empire
Charles Matson Odahl
Under Constantine, Christianity was transformed from a persecuted cult into an established religion, and pagan Rome became the Christian empire of Byzantine times. This biography is a detailed, comprehensive, and compelling portrayal of the life and times of arguably the greatest of Roman emperors. In a seamless combination of vivid narrative and historical analysis, the crisis of the Roman Empire and the Great persecution, Constantine's political maneuvers and military campaigns, his conversion to and patronage of Christianity, and his church-building programs in Rome, Jerusalem, and Constantinople are brought to life and made understandable for modern readers. The author's comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources, and his extensive research into the material remains of Constantine's reign, mean that this volume provides a more rounded and accurate portrait of the emperor than ever before. Extensively illustrated and fully documented, Constantine and the Christian Empire is a landmark publication in Roman imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine history.
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Where Have All Our Values Gone?: The Decline of Values in America and What We Can Do About It
Andrew B. Schoedinger
Analyses the multiple causes of the decline of values in America throughout the 20th century and makes a recommendation, by way of an ethical discussion, as to how the decline in values can be rectified.
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Kitchen Capitalism: Microenterprise in Low-Income Households
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Cynthia K. Sanders, and Michael Sherraden
Businesses come to life as owners are allowed to speak in their own words in this first in-depth examination of self-employment told from the perspectives of low-income microentrepreneurs. The book systematically analyzes a range of issues, including who chooses to open a micro business, and why; what resources do they bring to their business venture; how well will their venture fare; and what contributes to the growth or decline of their business. The authors conclude that most microentrepreneurs believe self-employment offers a range of monetary and nonmonetary benefits and argue it would be more advantageous to view microenterprise as a social and economic development strategy rather than simply as an anti-poverty strategy. Based on this observation, a range of strategies to better promote microenterprise programs among the poor is advanced, with the goal of targeting the most promising approaches.
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The Inmate Prison Experience
Mary K. Stohr and Craig Hemmens
This book deals with a subject that is most timely - the United States today incarcerates more people than any other industrialized country in the world. The incarceration rate is growing rapidly, and minorities are disproportionately represented among correctional populations. This book provides a comprehensive examination of who the inmates are and what prison does to them, and places it in a historical context with the use of both recent and older research on the subject.
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The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry
Jeffrey W. Westover
Explorers, colonists, native peoples—all played a role in early American settlement, and the legacy they left was a turbulent one. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, as the United States asserted itself as a world power, poets began to revisit this legacy and to create their own interpretations of national history. In The Colonial Moment, Jeffrey Westover shows how five major poets—Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes—drew from national conflicts to assess America's new role as world leader.
Sensitive to the nation's memory of colonial brutality, these poets mingled their pride in America with moral protest against racism. Some identified a dark side to the nation's history, particularly in the conflicts between white pioneers and Native Americans, that haunted their otherwise confident celebrations of patriotism. Others used poetry as a vehicle of discovery to challenge existing historical accounts, or to criticize the failures of American democracy. Investigating these five major writers in terms of their cultural and political moment, Westover demonstrates how they dramatized the process of nation-building.
Colonization inevitably results in a sense of displacement. Each of these five poets struggled with such cultural alienation—especially those who belonged to a racial, sexual, or gender minority. They endeavored to unite their voices in a "vocabulary of the nationa," a search to define the concept of "we" that would encompass all modern readers while recognizing those whom previous generations had dismissed. In this way, each writer hoped to redeem the country's losses symbolically through language.
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Reading is Seeing: Learning to Visualize Scenes, Characters, Ideas, and Text Worlds to Improve Comprehension and Reflective Reading
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Tells why visualizing is so important to comprehension and then goes on to tell how to develop this.
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Japan: An Illustrated History
Shelton Woods
How did the inhabitants of several small islands in the Pacific become the world's first non-Western industrialised nation? The answer is found in the fascinating story of Japan's political and social history. This narrative chronicles Japanese history from earliest settlement to the present. It details the establishment of imperial rule under the Yamato clan, the transfer of power from emperor to shogun (supreme military leader), and the Edo period of Japanese isolationism. It also relates the industrial development of the Meiji Restoration, the devastating results of World War II, and Japan's remarkable recovery to become a democracy as well as an economic superpower. The book is the perfect introduction to this nation for students, travellers, businesspeople, and all curious readers.
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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
Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools: 50 Proven Strategies for Revitalizing At-Risk Students and Low-Performing Schools offers an exciting and dynamic approach to meeting the challenges faced by today's students and their schools, and is alive with the voices of students, teachers, and administrators. Authors Robert Barr and William Parrett join these voices with a breadth of understanding and current research that supports the fifty strategies provided. This valuable resource explains how to effectively apply and use these strategies. While these strategies are specifically designed for the student at risk, they can also be used effectively to reach out to every student.
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Exit to Freedom
Greg Hampikian and Calvin C. Johnson Jr.
This is the first-ever personal account of a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence. "With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused of these crimes. I did not commit them. I'm an innocent man." In 1983 Calvin C. Johnson Jr. spoke these words to a judge who later handed down a life sentence for rape and related crimes. Johnson spent sixteen years behind bars before he was freed in 1999 after DNA testing conclusively proved him not guilty. "Exit to Freedom" is the unforgettable story of Johnson's unrelenting quest for justice against incredible odds and under circumstances that threatened to shred his dignity and hope. As Johnson recalls his trial and long journey toward freedom through five Georgia prisons, he speaks candidly about everything from his middle-class childhood in Atlanta to the reasons he became a rape suspect to the steadfast support of his family. However disturbed readers may become by this portrait of a justice system undermined by its own cynicism, Johnson feels no bitterness toward his accusers. In a book that offers many lessons about freedom, that may be the most important one of all.
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Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program
Werner W. K. Hoeger and Sharon A. Hoeger
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Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura
Robert McCarl
The essays are written in partial fulfillment of a "Model Initiatives" grant to the IHC from the NEH to document a cultural folk festival, in this case focusing on folk traditions of the Latino Community of southwest Idaho. This book is for anyone interested in Idaho's Latino heritage, as well as for those interested in developing similar folk festivals in their communities.
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Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Sandra K. Schackel
The seventeen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century. These writings go beyond the standard categorizations of gender, class, race, and ethnicity by providing a deeper understanding of women and distribution of power through examinations of generations, family and career, religion, sexual orientation, geography, and political preferences. The analysis that emerges is of an increasingly complex mix of experiences, some continuous from the nineteenth century and others unique to modernity, but all powerfully shaping how women lived in the West during the past century.
This collection is arranged around five themes: politics and power; women and mobility; staying on the land; uncovering women's voices; and reshaping cultural images and ideas. The individual contributors are a virtual "Who's Who" in the field of women's, ethnic, and gender studies: Karen Anderson (University of Arizona, Tucson), Antonia Castañeda (St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas), Virginia Scharff (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), Paul R. Spickard (University of California, Santa Barbara), Xiaojian Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara), Norma Chinchilla (University of California, Long Beach), Nora Hamilton (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Sherry L. Smith (Southern Methodist University, Dallas), Carol Wolfe Konek (Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas), Emily Honig (University of California, Santa Cruz), Dolores Delgado Bernal, Debra A. Castillo (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York), María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, Bonnie Delgado (Cornell University, Ithaca), Mary Murphy, Laura Jane Moore, Valerie Matsumoto, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University, Columbus), and the volume editor Sandra Schackel (Boise State University, Boise, Idaho).
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Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence & Writings, 1912-1970
Tom Trusky and Alan Virta
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Biosocial Criminology: Challenging Environmentalism's Supremacy
Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis
In criminology, environmentalism is the assumption that variations in criminal behavior result only from variations in environmental factors, especially social environmental factors. The biosocial perspective is quite different. It assumes that biological and environmental factors interact to affect criminal behavior. Social environmental explanations have dominated the field of criminology for at least the past century. Supporters of this perspective argue that because criminal is an ever-changing legal designation, it makes no sense to believe that crimes are the result of biology. Biosocial theorists concede that criminality is a legal concept, but argue that at the core of the concept are acts that are recognized as unacceptable in all societies.
The theme of this book is simple: Biology matters when trying to understand criminal behavior. This is not to exclude social factors but to maintain that social and biological factors interact to affect our varying tendencies to violate criminal statutes. Despite the conceptual simplicity of the biosocial perspective, the evidence that supports it is often complex and rests upon a number of biological principles that many criminologists do not understand. This book conveys some of the excitement that those working from a biosocial perspective are experiencing as they make new discoveries about how biological and social factors interact to affect criminal behavior. -
Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman's Remarkable Horse
Kathryn Baxter and Todd Shallat
Secrets lurk beneath Idaho's magical desert. Secrets of the Magic Valley explores mysteries of human and nonhuman nature that confound science and challenge us to rethink the history of a stark, spectacular land.
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Supervision in Social Work
Alfred Kadushin and Daniel Harkness
The book provides an overview of the art of social work supervision. It is designed to help the reader understand the place of supervision in the social agency, the functions that it performs, the process of supervision, and the problems with which it is currently concerned. It is intended to provide the knowledge base that is a necessary prerequisite to learning how to supervise. Now fully updated, this new edition inlcudes a wealth of new information on working with minorities and dealing with cultural diversity.
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Quality Financial Reporting
Paul B.W. Miller and Paul R. Bahnson
Offers a look at the shortcomings in financial reporting standards with a program for change. Outlining the rules for QFR, this work provides readers with: strategies and techniques for adopting a QFR standard; empirical research that supports QFR; and end-of-chapter evaluation checklists and questions.
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Human Resource Management: The Public Service Perspective
W. David Patton, Stephanie L. Witt, Nicholas Lovrich, and Patricia J. Fredericksen
[This book] is a combination text, reader, and casebook. It includes techniques and practices, as well as an overview of basic concepts and excerpts from professional literature.
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A Broken Mirror: Protestant Fundamentalism in the Philippines
L. Shelton Woods
An understanding of social and religious implications of Protestant fundamentalism in Vintar, Ilocos Norte, as well as understanding the methods and teachings of Protestant fundamentalist pastors.
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Vietnam: A Global Studies Handbook
L. Shelton Woods
The only handbook on Vietnam that combines colorful, discursive chapters and supporting reference materials.
While most Americans might still think of Vietnam as little more than the site of a war that spread from the 1960s to the 1970s, such broad typecasting glosses over a complicated and frequently misrepresented country. Vietnam brings the nation's dynamic history, society, religious institutions, and much more to the page.
Beginning with a lengthy introduction to Vietnam's past, this book traces the historical context that serves as a foundation for the present-day society and culture of this Southeast Asian nation. Intended for nonspecialists and other Asian enthusiasts, this work gives readers a thorough understanding of this diverse, richly storied land. From Vietnam's indigenous dynasties to outside influences including Buddhism, Confucianism, Western imperialism, and the Chinese bureaucracy system, the long path to a Vietnamese identity is traced—one that showcases a people's resilience, creativity, and intense love of freedom. This volume includes translations of numerous primary documents. From the narrative sections on Vietnamese history and society to the A–Z format of significant people and events, Vietnam: A Global Studies Handbook brings Vietnam to life. -
Vietnam: An Illustrated History
Shelton Woods
Complemented by more than 50 illustrations, this volume offers a panoramic view of Vietnam and its people. Its recounting of the story of Vietnam begins more than two thousand years ago, and progresses onward to the twenty-first century. Examining the major political, military, and social developments that have shaped Vietnam, it represents the perfect introduction to this vital country.
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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
Barton H. Barbour
In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century’s most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor’s fur trade empire.
From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants’ capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson’s Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs.
Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln’s Republican Party.
In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post’s former culture.
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Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs
Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, and Jon P. Dayley
Newe Hupia presents the poetry of Shoshoni songs in written form, with both figurative and literal English translations, and through recorded performances by Earl and Beverly Crum. An introduction and commentary discuss the Shoshoni language and the cultural background, meaning, forms, and performance contexts of the songs here organized into dance, medicine, and other categories. Glossaries of Shoshoni terms are included. The first major linguistic study of Shoshoni songs, Newe Hupia marks a significant achievement in the preservation of Shoshoni language and culture. Moreover, it displays the lyricism, pleasant sounds, and evocation of the natural world that permeate Shoshoni music.
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Ethics in Technical Communication: A Critique and Synthesis
Mike Markel
Drawing on theories of ethics from Aristotle through Foucault and on the research literature, the director of technical communications at Boise Stae U. explores the relationship between ethics and the rhetoric used by technical communication professionals in developing his own ethical decision-making approach. This sensitively realistic approach is then applied to issues and cases with analyses (e.g., of the Intel Pentium case) of five topics of interest to those in this field: truth-telling in product information, liability and the duty to instruct and warn, multicultural communication and ethical relativism, intellectual property, and codes of conduct.
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Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature
Stanley F. Steiner
You will find this book invaluable for teaching students the beauties of diversity and for building understanding of cultures from around the world. This book features more than 800 titles, both single volume and series, selected for their multicultural content and compelling reflections of the social issues of diverse cultures. The more than 100 interdisciplinary application strategies for titles range from reading aloud with follow-up discussions to social activism. Fully indexed by author and title, this guide includes Web sites for literature integration, contact information, a discussion of the benefits of multicultural literature, and suggestions for further reading. The perfect guide for introducing students to other cultures and customs.
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Community Policing in a Community Era: An Introduction and Exploration
Quint C. Thurman, Jihong Zhao, and Andrew Giacomazzi
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Essential Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Conceptual Approach
Anthony Walsh and Jane C. Ollenburger
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S.-Canadian Acid Rain Debate
Leslie R. Alm
Examines the science-policy linkage that defined the policy debate over acid rain in the United States.
Alm provides a descriptive analysis of the science-policy linkage that defined the policy debate over acid rain in the United States. He focuses on the role that science and scientists played in both defining the acid rain problem as one worthy of policy consideration and in framing the acid rain issue in a way that would prompt action to reduce pollution levels.
A major concern of Alm's study are the problems scientists have in connecting to the policy side of environmental debates. He provides in-depth exchanges from the floor of Congress between scientists and policy makers as they debated the merits of reducing acid rain pollution. These exchanges provide special insight into the difficulty that scientists have in communicating the findings of their research to policy makers and the public. In addition, he uses in-depth interviews with the acid-rain scientists themselves to delineate the way they perceive how science is and ought to be linked to the policy world. Finally, Alm looks at the different perspectives offered by United States scientists versus Canadian scientists and natural scientists versus social scientists, and he examines the importance and implications of these differences to the future of environmental policy making in the United States. -
An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho
John Bieter and Mark Bieter
In An Enduring Legacy, brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheephearders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community of today. Over the century that Basques have been in Idaho, the choices and opportunities of each generation have created a subculture that is neither purely Basque nor purely American, but rather a very distinctive tile in the mosaic of the American immigrant experience.
The first Basques to arrive in Idaho were largely young, single, poor, and illiterate, and most were closely identified with sheephearding. Their cultural, religious, and linguistic differences isolated them from their non-Basque neighbors, and they tended to form connections almost exclusively with other Basques. By the second generation, Idaho's Basques had assimilated in their public lives while preserving their Basque traditions through dances, picnic festivals, and sporting events. Third generation Basques, mostly fully assimilated, have paralleled the national trend of cultivating the ethnicity of their grandparents, finding in it both a sense of community and a unique personal identity.
As this well-documented history demonstrates, Idaho's Basques have become one of the West's most successful ethnic minorities. But they are also among the most active in preserving and cultivating the traditions and culture by which Idaho's Basques maintain their ties with both the traditions of their immigrant grandparents and the modern European Basque homeland. Their experience offers rich insight into the complex process by which immigrants become American while retaining their distinctive cultural identity and roots.
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Bodily Discourses: When Students Write About Abuse and Eating Disorders
Michelle Payne
Bodily Discourses is based upon a study that draws from twenty-five student essays, as well as interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. It is the first book to move beyond teachers' typical concerns about how to respond and grade such "personal essays" to ask instead: Why are students writing about these subjects? How are they writing about them? What assumptions inform teachers' responses? What larger cultural contexts shape how such experiences are represented and understood by students and teachers? With each chapter, readers reexamine their own responses to these texts, discover a better way of reading and responding to them, and come to understand how students' writing about bodily violence challenges current debates about ideology, identity, and the teaching of writing.
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Field Flow Fractionation Handbook
Martin Schimpf, Karin Caldwell, and J. Calvin Giddings
Field-flow fractionation (FFF) occupies a unique niche in the field of analytical separations because it is the only technique that is capable of separating materials over the entire colloidal size range (1-1,000 nm) with high resolution. Still, FFF has not enjoyed what can be considered an explosive phase of growth, like those encountered in the development of gas and liquid chromatography. There are many theories as to why this is so, and certainly a combination of factors if responsible. FFF practitioners clearly agree that one hindrance to the widespread use of FFF as a routine tool for sizing macromolecules and colloids stems from its greatest asset. That asset is its versatility, and versatility comes with a price. Thus, even though FFF is applicable to an incredible range of materials, from macromolecules of a few thousand grams per mode or more to particles as large as 100 μm, there is no simple formula for choosing the proper subtechnique, let alone the experimental variables within a given subtechnique for a given application. One must understand the underlying mechanism of the separation and gather a certain amount of experience to apply FFF to a new separation problem with reasonable success or efficiency. The goal of this handbook is to provide a useful guide to the implementation of FFF by first-time or infrequent users, while serving as a broad reference for more experienced FFF practitioners. In addressing this goal, than handbook contains a comprehensive description of the four primary FFF subtechniques, with specific examples and applications for each. Perhaps the greatest value, of this handbook lies in the fact that the authors are experts in the respective subtechniques that they address and so are able to advise the reader, from firsthand experience, on how to avoid certain pitfalls associated with developing and implementing FFF applications.
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Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities: Projects for the New Millennium
Stanley F. Steiner, H. Mark Krank, Peter McLaren, and Robert E. Bahruth
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Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation
George (Rip) Rapp and Christopher L. Hill
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Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia before the First World War
Nick Miller
Miller chronicles the politics in Croatia prior to the first World War. The failures of the Croat-Serbian Coalition led to their inability to create a cohesive civic/democratic union during the war years, and prevail to this day.
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Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing
Bruce Ballenger and Barry Lane
Provides exercises designed to help one write more freely and expressively and includes advice on evaluating and editing one's work.
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The Legal Environment of Business: A Practical Approach
Michael B. Bixby, Caryn Beck-Dudley, and Patrick J. Cihon
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Willy Slater's Lane
Mitch Wieland
The story of two recluse brothers in Ohio. When the father died, Harlan, the elder, sold off the land, sharing the proceeds with Erban, and Erban's wife. The house is about to collapse, but they don't know that yet. They read, analyze life and watch the hard-working Amish pass by.
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Cooperative Teaching: Rebuilding the Schoolhouse for All Students
Jeanne Bauwens and Jack J. Hourcade
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SNAKE: The Plain and Its People
E. B. Bentley, Bill Bonnichsen, John C. Freemuth, Bill Hackett, Glenn Oakley, F. Ross Peterson, Mark G. Plew, Todd Shallat, and Steve Stuebner
Idaho's longest river curves west through desert landscapes, cutting deep through ancient formations, flowing through space and time. How have humans dealt with the desert? How have we been shaped by the land? SNAKE: The Plain and Its People explores the physical and ecological roots of Idaho civilization through science, social science, photography and art.
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Vision and Revision: A Reader for Writers
Karen S. Uehling
Vision and Revision is a multicultural, cross-generational reader which addresses the needs of nontraditional students: returning adults and younger students with adult responsibilities. Diverse selections, including essays, excerpts, articles, oral histories, letters, poems, short stories, and student-authored selections are organized thematically around such adult issues as returning to school, relationships and parenting, and work and recreation.
Grounded in reader-response literacy theory, this text encourages students to read and respond actively and critically. Pre- and postreading journal entries and suggested writing projects prompt students to write personal, creative responses and analytical expository papers.
Vision and Revision can be used as a companion volume to the author's rhetoric Starting Out or Starting Over: A Guide for Writing.
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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