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Educating Teachers: Technology Skills for the Classroom
Constance Pollard, Todd VanDehey, and Richard Pollard
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A Field Guide to Biological Soil Crusts of Western U.S. Drylands: Common Lichens and Bryophytes
Roger Rosentreter, Matthew Bowker, and Jayne Belnap
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Getting it Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness
Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Describes the principals and methods of teaching English language grammar and usage.
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Environmental Politics and Policy in the West
Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth
Population growth and industrial development have put the wide-open spaces and natural resources that define the West under immense stress. Vested interests clash and come to terms over embattled resources such as water, minerals, and even open space. The federal government controls 40 to 80 percent of the land base in many western states; its sway over the futures of the West's communities and environment has prompted the development of unique policies and politics in the West. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth bring together a roster of top scholars to explicate the issues noted above as well as other key questions in this new edition of Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, which was first published in 1993. This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive and current survey. Contributors address the policy process as it affects western states, how bureaucracy and politics shape environmental dialogues in the West, how western states innovate environmental policies independently of Washington, and how and when science is involved (or ignored) in management of the West's federal lands. Experts in individual resource areas explore multifaceted issues such as the politics of dam removal and restoration, wildlife resource concerns, suburban sprawl and smart growth, the management of hard-rock mining, and the allocation of the West's tightly limited water resources.
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Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Anthony Walsh
This unique text offers an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality by integrating the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, and biology. Offering a more complete look at the world of criminology than any other existing text, authors Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis first present criminological theory and concepts in their traditional form and then show how integrating theory and concepts from the more basic sciences can complement, expand, strengthen, and add coherence to them.
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Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability
Brian Wampler
As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and began the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in developing new institutions to bring the benefits of democracy to the citizens in the lower socioeconomic strata intensified, and a number of experiments were undertaken. Perhaps the one receiving the most attention has been Participatory Budgeting (PB), first launched in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 1989 by a coalition of civil society activists and Workers’ Party officials. PB quickly spread to more than 250 other municipalities in the country, and it has since been adopted in more than twenty countries worldwide. Most of the scholarly literature has focused on the successful case of Porto Alegre and has neglected to analyze how it fared elsewhere.
In this first rigorous comparative study of the phenomenon, Brian Wampler draws evidence from eight municipalities in Brazil to show the varying degrees of success and failure PB has experienced. He identifies why some PB programs have done better than others in achieving the twin goals of ensuring governmental accountability and empowering citizenship rights for the poor residents of these cities in the quest for greater social justice and a well-functioning democracy. Conducting extensive interviews, applying a survey to 650 PB delegates, doing detailed analysis of budgets, and engaging in participant observation, Wampler finds that the three most important factors explaining the variation are the incentives for mayoral administrations to delegate authority, the way civil society organizations and citizens respond to the new institutions, and the particular rule structure that is used to delegate authority to citizens.
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Engaging Readers and Writers with Inquiry: Promoting Deep Understandings in Language Arts and the Content Areas with Guiding Questions
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Provides planning guidelines, sample inquiry units, and examples of guiding questions for multiple content areas.
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The Curious Reader: Exploring Personal and Academic Inquiry
Bruce Ballenger and Michelle Payne
Bridging the gap between personal and academic writing, The Curious Reader is a composition reader that introduces students to the unique reading strategies used by writers who research. Beginning with essays and creative nonfiction, readings that many students will be surprised to discover are research based, The Curious Reader leads students to see the many connections between all fact-based writing, whether it’s a personal essay or an article from a scholarly journal. The Curious Reader invites students to become active researchers as they are encouraged to confront underlying beliefs that either hinder or help their fact-based writing. Questions and assignments ask students to explain, evaluate, explore, and reflect on what they have read and how it has changed their thinking.
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Teaching Literature to Adolescents
Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
This text for pre-service and in-service English education courses presents current methods of teaching literature to middle and high school students. The methods are based on social-constructivist/socio-cultural theories of literacy learning, and incorporate research on literary response conducted by the authors. Teaching Literature to Adolescents--a totally new text that draws on ideas from the best selling textbook, Teaching Literature in the Secondary School, by Beach and Marshall--reflects and builds on recent key developments in theory and practice in the field, including: *the importance of providing students with a range of critical lenses for analyzing texts and interrogating the beliefs, attitudes, and ideological perspectives encountered in literature; *organization of the literature curriculum around topics, themes, or issues; *infusion of multicultural literature and emphasis on how writers portray race, class, and gender differences; *use of drama as a tool for enhancing understanding of texts; *employment of a range of different ways to write about literature; *integration of critical analysis of film and media texts with the study of literature; *blending of quality young adult literature into the curriculum; and *attention to students who have difficulty succeeding in literature classes due to reading difficulties, disparities between school and home cultures, attitudes toward school/English, or lack of engagement with assigned texts or response activities. Thoughtfully designed to draw readers into interacting with the text, each chapter is organized around a specific question English educators frequently hear in working with pre-service and in-service teachers, and includes a Case Narrative that frames discussion of the issue that is the focus of the chapter. Many chapters include teacher narratives or lesson plans that demonstrate how a teacher implements the proposed methods. All chapters conclude with an Action Research Activity or Portfolio Reflection Activity, and an Additional Online Activities, Links, and Further Reading Suggestions box directing readers to the Teaching Literature Web site designed to be used in conjunction with this text. The interactive Web site contains recommended readings, resources, and activities; links to Web sites and PowerPoint presentations; and opportunities for readers to contribute teaching units to the Web site databases. Instructors and students in middle and high school English methods courses will appreciate the clear, engaging, useful integration of theory, methods, and pedagogical features offered in this text.
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Go! with Internet Explorer 7.0: Getting Started
Shelley Gaskin and Susan K. Fry
For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2007 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2007 applications.
Teach the course YOU want in LESS TIME! The primary goal of the GO! Series, aside from teaching computer applications, is ease of implementation, with an approach that is based on clearly-defined projects for students and a one of a kind supplements package.
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A Course in Business Statistics
David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, and Kent D. Smith
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Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film
Marshall G. Most and Robert Rudd
This work treats baseball cinema as a separate film genre and explores the functions of baseball ideology as it is represented in that genre. It focuses on how the ideology of baseball has served not only to promote dominant values, but also to reconcile conflicting values in American culture
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Advances in Information Systems Development: Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry
Anders G. Nilsson; Wita Wojtkowski,; and Gregory Wojtkowski
Constitutes the collected proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice 'ISD' 2005 Conference. This two-volume set aims to examine the exchange of ideas between academia and industry and explore different solutions.
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The Archaeology of Antelope Creek Overhang, Southeastern Oregon
Sharon Plager, Mark G. Plew, and Christopher A. Willson
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Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation
George (Rip) Rapp and Christopher L. Hill
Considering the history and theory of geoarchaeology, this book discusses soils and environmental interpretations; initial context and site formation; methods of discovery and spatial analyses; estimating time; and others. It is for all professionals and students interested in the field of geoarchaeology.
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Hemingway's Italy: New Perspectives
Rena Sanderson
In 1918, a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway's fascination with Italy—a place second only to Upper Michigan in stimulating his lifelong passion for geography and local expertise. Hemingway's Italy offers a thorough reassessment of Italy's importance in the author's life and work during World War I and the 1920s, when he emerged as a promising young writer, and during his maturity in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This collection of eighteen essays presents a broad view of Hemingway's personal and literary response to Italy. The contributors, some of the most distinguished Hemingway scholars, incorporate new biographical and historical information as well as critical approaches ranging from formalist and structuralist theory to cultural and interdisciplinary explorations. Included are discussions of Italy's psychological functioning in Hemingway's life, the author's correspondence with his father during the writing of A Farewell to Arms, his stylistic experimentation and characterization in that novel, his juxtaposition of the themes of love and war, and his take on Fascism in both his fiction and journalistic work. In addition, the essayists explore relevant contexts of period and place—such as the rise of Fascism, ethnic attitudes, and the cultural currents between Italy and the United States. A landmark study, Hemingway's Italy brings long-overdue attention to this great writer's international role as cultural ambassador.
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Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning
Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Why do boys embrace literate behaviors outside of school but reject them inside school? How can adolescents connect their outside-of-school literacy to school purposes? How can we use the present instructional moment to encourage students to continue growing as readers and writers in the future? Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm have answers, and in Going with the Flow, they share new and powerful ways to build strong literacy habits in adolescent boys-and girls. Drawing on the research that won "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys" the NCTE David H. Russell Award, Smith and Wilhelm take Chevys out of the showroom onto the road, presenting classroom-tested units, lessons, and activities that get boys reading and writing and keep them involved in literacy learning. Going with the Flow fully illustrates their approach to designing and sequencing instruction, taking you from developing activities that prepare students for success before they are even given assignments to fostering meaningful classroom discussions. Even if you haven't read "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys," Smith and Wilhelm provide a succinct summation of their research to get you started, then give you classroom transcripts, lesson-planning tips, and strategies for interacting with students to help you implement their ideas. Learn how to help teenagers love learning and how to assist them in meeting new literacy challenges. Read Smith and Wilhelm and let Going with the Flow be your indispensable guide to discovering a new way to communicate with adolescent readers and writers.
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Discipline and Governmentality at Work: Making the Subject and Subjectivity in Modern Tertiary Labour
Donald Winiecki
Drawn from ethnographic research using post-structural analytics, this book describes how a collection of technologies is taken up in a common form of tertiary labour - call centres - to produce 'truth', knowledge, power and modern forms of subjectivity and social subjects. It provides a detailed look at the 'genealogy of subjectivity' at work.
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CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation
R. Jacob Baker
CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Second Edition covers the practical design of both analog and digital integrated circuits, offering a vital contemporary view of a wide range of analog/digital circuit blocks, the BSIM model, data converter architectures, and much more. This edition takes a two-path approach to the topics; design techniques are developed for both long- and short-channel CMOS technologies and then compared. The results are multidimensional explanations that allow readers deep insight into the design process.
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Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History
Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube
Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and localized crime of female infanticide in colonial India became a generalized practice of femicide in postcolonial India, the authors closely examine the progressivist British-colonial history of the discovery, reform, and eradication of the practice of female infanticide. Contemporary tactics of resistance are offered in the closing chapters.
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Staging Gertrude Stein: Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre
Leslie Atkins Durham
Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theater, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage. Iconoclastic directors and production teams-including Virgil Thomson, the Living Theatre, the Judson Poets Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, the Wooster Group, Robert Wilson, Anne Bogart, Frank Galati and Heiner Goebbels-have ardently roamed Stein's spare dramatic "landscapes," but even these convention-defying artists had to fill some of her absences in order to bring the texts to life on stage. Inevitably contemporary culture infiltrates Stein's pristine topography via these extra-textual additions, transforming it in ways virtually unimaginable when the reader encounters the text on the printed page. It is only by mapping the intersections of written text, performance text, and context, that one can gain a full appreciation of what Stein's dramatic writing has meant at various historical moments, how she herself has been imagined, and how her writing has transformed the landscape of the American alternative theater.
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Engineering Design
Rudy Eggert
Engineering Design is intended as a text for senior capstone courses as well as junior and sophomore engineering design courses. The text integrates the best concepts and methods presented in other design textbooks, while providing additional topics such as human factors, materials and manufacturing processes. Using a "just-in-time" philosophy of learning, topics are presented in a timely, orderly fashion, progressively building engineering design methods and terminology. Key terms are defined, emphasized, and distinguished to highlight important subtitles. Exercises at the end of each chapter reinforce the knowledge and methods presented. In addition, self-quiz exercises are included at the end of each chapter
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Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program
Werner W. K. Hoeger and Sharon A. Hoeger
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Hazardous Fuels Treatments: National Fire Plan Implementation in Idaho
Brett Ingles
The Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group has effectively overseen the adoption of Wildland Fire Mitigation Plans in most Idaho counties. This report includes a brief program description of the Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group, including a characterization of the major assistance programs available to local jurisdictions in Idaho. It also includes a comparative analysis of the way that hazardous fuels treatments are prioritized by affected federal agencies as well as the way in which the National Fire Plan has been implemented in states adjacent to Idaho.
The report focuses on the results of in-depth interviews with sixteen members (both full members and alternative members) of the Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group and 39 individuals representing five Idaho counties in order to better understand how the National Fire Plan, and Wildland Fire Mitigation Plans are being implemented at the state and local levels in Idaho. Success of these plans and their associated county working groups appear to be related to the following factors:
- Geographic and Political Factors
- Stringency of Existing Building Ordinances
- Direct Involvement of County Commissioners
- Funding Available to Specific Counties
- Presence of a Countrywide Hazardous Fuels Coordinator
- Involvement/Interest of State and Federal Agencies
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Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness
Robert L. Kane MD, Reinhard Priester JD, and Annette M. Totten
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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
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The BEST Standards in Teaching: Reflection to Quality Practice
Sharon A. Kortman and Connie J. Honaker
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James Stevens
James H. Maguire
Biography and criticism of fiction writer James Stevens (1892-1971), with detailed summaries of his Paul Bunyan stories and of novels Brawnyman, Mattock, and Big Jim Turner.
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Mediation Theory and Practice
Suzanne McCorkle and Melanie J. Reese
Mediation Theory and Practice provides a thorough introduction to the ever expanding world of mediation. By blending theory with practical application, this book introduces the process of mediation while grounding the student in informative research and theory.
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Concepts of Athletic Training
Ronald P. Pfeiffer and Brent C. Mangus
Concepts of Athletic Training, Fourth Edition represents over a decade of evolution and revision of the previous editions in an effort to better serve students considering a career in athletic training, or for those going on to careers as K-12 physical educators or coaches. This outstanding introductory text presents key concepts pertaining to the field of athletic training in a comprehensive, logically sequential manner that will assist future professionals in making the correct decisions when confronted with an activity-related injury or illness in their scope of practice.
New Topics and Features
- Updated materials on the incidence of sports injuries in the pediatric age group, and on the etiology of overuse injuries. (Chapter 1)
- Inclusion of recommendations regarding the athletic health care team, as well as new material from the ACSM's Team Physician Consensus Statement. (Chapter 2)
- An introduction to the recently passed federal HIPAA regulations as they relate to sports injuries, as well as updated information on state regulation of athletic training. (Chapter 3)
- Recent research on the psychological impact of sports injuries on adolescents, as well as updated material on eating disorders among athletes. (Chapter 5)
- New information on supplements, since many athletes are turning to ergogenic aids in an effort to improve their performance. (Chapter 6)
- Extensive material on the development and implementation of the "Emergency Plan." (Chapter 7)
- Updated information on the epidemiology of head injury along with a new evidence-based classification system for cerebral concussion. (Chapter 9)
- Updated with the latest Emergency Care and Safety Institute CPR and Bloodborne Pathogens Guidelines. (Appendix 1, 2)
- New information on exertional heat illnesses (Chapter 18), and on NATA's position statement on exertional heat illnesses. (Appendix 3)
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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 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.
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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