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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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Shoshoni Texts
Beverly Crum and Jon P. Dayley
This monograph is intended as a companion volume to our earlier work, Western Shoshoni Grammar. It contains eight Shoshoni texts which were first given in oral form by eight different elderly native Shoshoni speakers and then later transcribed from tape-recordings and translated by the authors of the monograph. Seven of the texts are in Western Shoshoni spoken in and around the Duck Valley Reservation straddling the Idaho-Nevada border, and one is in Northern Shoshoni spoken in Eastern Idaho. The texts comprise a variety of genres and topics. One is a narrative on Shoshoni rites of passage; another on medicine, healing practices and healers; three others are prayers; two are folktales; and one is on place names. In addition, several of the texts contain prayer songs. At first glance, it might appear that the texts have little in common with each other except that they are all in Shoshoni. However, all of the texts have to do with Shoshoni spirituality and sacred outlook to one degree or another either directly or indirectly. For the Shoshoni, in some sense everything is sacred: the changes through life, medicine, healing practices and healers, prayers, songs and folktales, and this earth on which we all live, whatever particular place it may be. Songs and mythological stories in particular are regarded as very precious as they are passed down to the next generation of Shoshonis.
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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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Diccionario Tz'utujil
Francisco Pérez Mendoza, Miguel Hernández Mendoza, and Jon Philip Dayley
El Tz'utujil es un idoma Maya hablado por alrededor de 100,000 personas en los Departamentos de Sololá y Suchitepéquez región oeste media de la República de Guatemala, al sur del Lago de Atitlán. El Tz'utujil pertenece a la rama K'ichee' de los idiomas Mayas y está estrechamente relacionado con el K'ichee', Kaqchikel, Sakapulteko y Sipakepense. El área Tz'utujil se extiende desde el altiplano sobre los extremos sur y oeste del Lago de Atitlán, hasta las tierras bajas en los llanos sureños de la costa del Pacífico. En el Departamento de Sololá se habla el Tz'utujil en todos los pueblos, aldeas, caseríos y fincas sobre la orilla sur del Lago de Atitlán, Cerro de Oro, San Pedro la Laguna y San Juan la Laguna. También se habla en San Pablo la Laguna, en el lado Oeste del lago, y en Santa María Visitación al suroeste, en la zona montañosa. En el Departamento de Suchitepéquez se habla en Chicacao, así como en varias aldeas, caseríos y fincas disperasa a su alrededor.
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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.
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Western Shoshoni Grammar
Beverly Crum and Jon P. Dayley
This grammar is an introductory description of Western Shoshoni. It is intended for both native and nonnative speakers alike, whether laymen or specialists, and is meant to provide readers with a basic understanding of how the language works as a linguistic system. Throughout, we give copious examples illustrating the various grammatical elements and processes discussed in each section. In chapter 11 we give several texts illustrating running discourse in the language.
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Starting Out or Starting Over: A Guide for Writing
Karen S. Uehling
Janice's "dorm" is the two-family house she shares with her husband, parents, and three children.
Bill's idea of "homework" is his full-time carpentry business.
And the last time Joe was in a classroom, he was meeting with his daughter's high-school teacher.
These are the "new" students on college campuses: returning adults and younger students who have jobs, families, or both. Starting Out or Starting Over is the first basic writing text created specifically to suit their needs.
The text incorporates many features that mature students can relate to: interviews, journal entries, and sample student essays that speak specifically to "new" students; emphasis on writing complete and personally significant essays right from the start; acknowledgment of special concerns that adults who have not written papers in a while might have, such as writer's block and anxiety; and a unique presentation of grammar guidelines, instead of rules.
This book makes starting out or starting over not only less intimidating, but downright inviting.
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Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary
Jon P. Dayley
This dictionary is primarily of the Death Valley variety of what has come to be known in the linguistic and anthropological literature in recent years as Panamint (e.g., Freeze and Iannucci 1979; Lamb 1958 and 1964; McLaughlin 1987; Miller 1984), or sometimes Panamint Shoshone (Miller et al. 1971). In the nineteenth century and up to the middle of this century, it was often called Coso (sometimes spelled Koso) or Coso Shoshone (e.g., Kroeber 1925; Lamb 1958). In aboriginal times and even well into this century, Panamint was spoken by small bands of people living in southeastern California and extreme southwestern Nevada in the valleys and mountain ranges east of the Sierra Nevada. Thus, Panamint territory included the southern end of Owens Valley around Owens Lake, the Coso Range and Little Lake area, the southern end of Eureka Valley, Saline Valley and the eastern slopes of the Inyo Mountains, the Argus Range, northern Panamint Valley and the Panamint Mountains, northern and central Death Valley, the Grapevine Mountains and Funeral Range, the Amargosa Desert and area around Beatty, Nevada (see Maps, pp. x-xi; also Kroeber 1925:589-90 and Steward 1938:70ff).
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Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar
Jon P. Dayley
This monograph is an introductory descriptive grammar of Tümpisa Shoshone, meant to provide both layman and specialist with a basic understanding of how the language works as a linguistic system. In this sense, it is intended to be a "nuts and bolts" grammar with lots of examples illustrating the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language.
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Tzutujil Grammar
Jon P. Dayley
This work is a reference grammar of the Tzutujjl language spoken in the departments of Solola and Suchitepequez in Guatemala. Tzutujil is one of approximately thirty Mayan languages that are spoken by several million people in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. All Mayan languages lie within the Meso-American cultural area. Tzutujil belongs to the Greater Quichean branch of the Eastern division of Mayan languages, and it is most closely affiliated with Cakchiquel, Quiche, Sacapultec, and Sipacapa (Campbell 1977; Kaufman 1974, 1976).
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