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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Ron Currie
A mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine.
Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance.
Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction.
When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs’s youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn’t seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath.
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy, award-winning author Ron Currie, delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us. -
One Hundred Applications of Maxwell’s Equations
Ashanthi Maxworth
Maxworth's book is a thorough look at Maxwell's four equations and how these theories can learned through applying them. Maxwell's theories structure a mathematical model for technologies including electric, radio and optical. This book communicates the theory and applications of Maxwell's equations through examples of everyday applications of electricity and magnetism.
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Decolonizing Classroom Management: A Critical Examination of the Cultural Assumptions and Norms in Traditional Practices
Flynn Ross and Larissa Malone PhD
Decolonizing Classroom Management: A Critical Examination of the Cultural Assumptions and Norms in Traditional Practices introduces a framework for decolonizing classroom management which entails critically examining the cultural assumptions and norms embedded in our traditional practices. This book helps educators and teacher educators orient toward liberation through questioning assumptive language, challenging popular classroom management models, and offering promising practices to create positive learning environments. The final section of the book provides promising practices that can guide educators who aim to create thriving learning environments.
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Where the Forest Meets the River
Shannon Bowring MFA
It's been five years since Bridget Theroux's death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young child. Nate doesn't always know how to answer her questions, but he is intent on raising her with joy--and shielding her from her grandmother, Annette, who remains dangerously locked away in her grief.
After his first year away at college, Greg Fortin is back in town for the summer to work at the family store. It's expected he'll take over the hardware business eventually, but finding the words to tell them no--and the truth about who he is--has become his own Everest. Rose's abusive ex, Tommy finally disappeared a few years ago, though sometimes his presence in the eyes of her oldest son unnerves her. She and Nate are finding themselves drawn together by their children's playdates, and into a delicate balance between friendship and the possibility of more.
And Trudy and Bev, always so sure of their love for each other, find themselves rocked when Trudy's husband Richard suffers a heart attack, bringing into focus all the guilt she has felt about their empty marriage for years.
Shannon Bowring demonstrates once again that she understands exactly where the heart of a story lies. Where the Forest Meets the River is a poignant return to the small town of Dalton, whose inhabitants continue to startle and humble both themselves--and us.
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Fire Exit
Morgan Talty MFA
From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life—from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.
Now, it’s been weeks since he’s seen Elizabeth, and Charles is worried. As he attempts to hold on to and care for what he can—his home and property; his alcoholic, quick-tempered, and bighearted friend Bobby; and his mother, Louise, who is slipping ever deeper into dementia—he becomes increasingly haunted by his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation, a love affair cut short, and the death of his beloved stepfather, Fredrick, in a hunting accident—a death he and Louise are at odds over as to where to lay blame—Charles contends with questions he’s long been afraid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his daughter want to know the truth, even if it could cost her everything she’s ever known?
From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.
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The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
Jason Read PhD
How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Spinoza, why do people fight to be exploited as if it were liberation?
To find the answer, The Double Shift turns to the intersection of Marx and Spinoza and examines contemporary ideologies and the modern phenomena of work—motivational meetings at Apple Stores, the culture of Silicon Valley, as well as film and television, from Office Space to Better Call Saul—to argue for the transformation of our collective imagination and attachment to work. -
Handbook of Forensic Social Work, Chapter, "Correctional Settings"
Rachel Casey PhD, MSW
Theory, Policy, and Fields of Practice
- Ensures users have the essential knowledge to understand the structures and functions of forensic settings
- Highlights structural barriers and injustices that are experienced by the distinct vulnerable populations (Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual, Transgender, Racial minority) across different forensic settings
- Includes how the theory covered historically and currently informs criminology and/or the criminal justice system and the practical application of these theories in forensic social work practice.
- Focuses on fields of practice in forensic social work practice along with Case Studies and Ethical Dilemmas
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Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® The Guidebook for Helping Professionals
Mary-Ann Peabody EdD, Kristen Klassen PhD, and Alec Hamilton PhD
LEGO® bricks are a staple in many child and play therapists’ offices, and Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® shows therapists and counselors how to integrate LEGO® in a therapeutically valuable way. This book presents a therapeutic approach based in biological, psychological, and social research, one that supports participants as they build models that represent their thoughts, emotions, experiences, and reflections. Using a variety of evidence-based intervention techniques, chapters show clinicians how to incorporate the model and associated metaphors to help clients, and they do so in a way that is compatible with any number of therapeutic orientations or perspectives.
Though based in current research, Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® is designed for psychologists, social workers, school counselors, occupational therapists, clinical educators and supervisors, coaches, support workers, and other health care providers across the lifespan who wish to use play therapeutically.
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Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries
Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle PhD
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use Southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze Southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for examining power relations, community formation, and historical memory.
Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and reinforced in these sacred spaces.
Each chapter is followed by a learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic landscape, and identity politics. -
Danger in Police Culture: Perspectives from South Africa
Grainne Perkins
Danger in Police Culture: Perspectives from South Africa offers a fresh perspective on how officers understand, interpret and construct danger. With unique insight from working with uniformed and detective police, the author breaks new ground as the first researcher to work alongside a Tactical Response Team in South Africa.
Through ethnographic research in South Africa, Perkins explores the lived experiences of police navigating danger and death. Reframing the question of what makes policing dangerous, the author employs a theoretical framework as a prism, illuminating ambiguous ideas shaping perceptions of danger in police culture. A vivid portrayal of how danger is materialized through risk reduction strategies and artefacts, dramatized through memorialization and normalized in daily police practices, Perkins concludes by reflecting on policy developments aimed at addressing the understanding and influence of danger in contemporary policing.
Underscoring the need to reconsider the concept of danger in policing, this is a much-needed assessment of its understanding and impact on contemporary police work.
In support of the Perkins Síochána Scholarship, the author’s proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to fund the continuing development of South African graduate students in Criminal Justice and Criminology studies in the Global South.
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Stranger In My Own Skin
Cody Mower MFA '21
After being medically retired out of the Marine Corps, Cody found himself separated from his wife and son, and struggling to deal with a brain injury that had fractured his personality and robbed him of all the things he thought he was. No longer able to stand the face in the mirror, he quickly fell down a rabbit hole of alcoholism, and self-loathing unable to forgive himself for the life he destroyed. Even though he moved to a new city and tried to start over by going to school and doing the 'right' things, he still felt like an empty shell, a ghost living in skin that didn't belong to him. It all came crashing down one summer afternoon when a still suffering from a massive hangover, he truly saw himself in the mirror for the first time, gaunt, broken, and pathetic. Staring at his reflection he knew something had to change. One way or another.
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The Stones of Riverton
Clif Travers MFA
The Stones of Riverton is a collection of linked short stories and novelettes inspired by the gravestones in a small Maine town. The stories are bound together by place and ancestry spanning over 200 hundred years. They un-bury an often shameful history of unexplained deaths and deeply held secrets in a town that is divided both economically and culturally. While fictional, the stories are grounded in the lore, rumors, and fables that were told to the author by parents, grandparents, and local storytellers.
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Getting Along With Rusty
Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett MSW
Spending time with horses can both amplify empathy and activate trauma responses, touching core human emotions. Interactions with them offer both opportunities and challenges to be better communicators. In Getting Along with Rusty, Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett shares her experiences as a human being, a trauma resolution practitioner, a therapeutic riding instructor, and a lover of horses. She weaves a compelling story tracing her healing journey and how a most unexpected partner—her horse, Rusty—taught her about connection and safety on the deepest of levels.
Getting Along with Rusty is an intimate, informative memoir. Readers are called to recognize the horse-human connections that are possible when self-awareness, personal growth, and hope become the foundation for improving our relationships. -
Aristotle on Human Nature The Animal with Logos
Joseph Arel PhD and Gregory Kirk PhD
Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.
Tracing its multiple meanings in different contexts, including reason, logic, speech, ratio, account, and form, contributors highlight the ways in which we can see logos in human thinking, in the organizing principles of our bodies, in our perception of the world, in our social and political life, and through our productive and fine arts. Through this focus, logos reveals itself not as one feature amongst others, but instead as the feature that organizes all others, from the most “animal” to the most “spiritual.” By presenting logos in this way, readers gain a complex account of the philosophy of human nature. -
Design and impact of student leadership programs
Paige Haber-Curran and Daniel M. Jenkins PhD
Student leadership programs exist in many contexts and encompass many different designs in institutions of higher education. This chapter examines what is known about the historical and current contexts, delivery modes, program audience and access, models, frameworks, and theoretical foci, structure and infrastructure, resources, and outcome and assessment practices, that contribute to the design and impact of student leadership programs. Gaps in the scholarship are identified, and a new agenda for research is proposed that emphasizes program integration and institutionalization, identity and social justice, and an increase in the rigor of research methods employed.
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The Kirschbaum Lectures
Seth Rogoff PhD
Sy Kirschbaum, renowned for his translations of major European writers like Jan Horak and Anton Grassfeld, has arrived at the college to teach a course called Introduction to Literature. He’s come from the Czech countryside, where he’d been undergoing treatment by Dr. L. Hruška for a psychological breakdown connected to the seventeen-year-long process of finishing Horak’s epic novel of Cold War dissent. Standing before a group of disoriented but enthralled students, facing down an increasingly tyrannical dean, Kirschbaum embarks on a twelve-week journey into his past and toward the heart of his literary life, 1990s Berlin, where art and dreams surged with the raw energy of utopian aspirations. Sy’s lectures cross treacherous narrative terrain and spiral toward the shocking revelation of an unhealed wound, from which literature itself, in its infinity of interwoven forms, seems to pulsate.
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The North Atlantic Polar Triangle Documenting The End of an Epoch
Matthew Bampton
Defines the NAPT in a way not previously identified as a unit of geographical analysis
Analyzes the current state of knowledge about changes within the NAPT
Proposes trajectories of change in other complex but less well-documented earth systemsPart of the book series: Springer Polar Sciences
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A Taste of Two Worlds: Stories and Recipes from Greenland and Maine
Tracy Michaud; University of Southern Maine; Edible Maine; U.S. Department of State’s Arctic Education Alliance; Inuili Food College Narsaq, Greenland; and Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness
"The Arctic Education Alliance Cookbook Project is a collaboration between the Inuili Food College in Narsaq, Greenland; Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness in Bangor, Maine, USA; and the Tourism and Hospitality program of the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, USA. The brainchild of Jacob Hansen, Uddannelseschef / Head of Education at Inuili, the cookbook and its theme, “Taste of Two Worlds,” is intended to illustrate the connections and dichotomies between the cuisine of two North Atlantic regions, such as in the preparation and consumption of fish. However, the book does more than encapsulate recipes from Maine and Greenland: It hints at a past in which the Western European world came in contact with the Indigenous people. Within each country, there are youth who straddle these worlds, with one foot in a traditional culture sustained by a balanced natural resource usage and the other foot in a modern society that tends to be driven by consumerism. Some argue we have lost the connection between food and the ways it is raised, grown, harvested, and processed. But cooking can reestablish that vital connection. “Being immersed in the kitchen with Indigenous people from two continents sparked excitement and joy. Being able to experience the rare opportunity to help create recipes using Indigenous foods which are then shared with the world is unmatched,” said Andrea Sockabasin, Co-Senior Director of Wabanaki Public Health, an Indigenous public health organization that provides community-driven public health services to all Wabanaki communities while honoring our cultural knowledge and cultivating innovation and collaboration..."
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Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Dr. Laima Vincė Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithuania’s difficult historical legacy in her ground-breaking book. She researched her community’s refugee ancestors, drawing both from personal interviews and dusty academic sources, confronting uncomfortable truths.»
(Philip S. Shapiro, President, Remembering Litvaks, Inc.)
As World War II ended, refugees fled Soviet-occupied Lithuania, finding shelter in the displaced persons camps of Europe. By 1949, most had emigrated to North America. They brought with them opposing narratives about the Nazi occupation (1941–1944) when 95 percent of Lithuania’s Jewish community was annihilated. Trauma narratives were passed down to the second and third generations through collective memory. Through postmemory, cultural memory, and trauma theory, Vanished Lands analyzes literary works by North American Jewish and Lithuanian writers who speak over the silence of decades, seeking answers. -
Hester
Laurie Lico Albanese MFA
WHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward's safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? In this sensuous and hypnotizing tale, a young immigrant woman grapples with our country's complicated past, and learns that America's ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise. Interwoven with Isobel and Nathaniel's story is a vivid interrogation of who gets to be a "real" American in the first half of the 19th century, a depiction of the early days of the Underground Railroad in New England, and atmospheric interstitials that capture the long history of "unusual" women being accused of witchcraft. Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined, Laurie Lico Albanese's Hester is a timeless tale of art, ambition, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down.
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Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty―with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight―breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs.
A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction.
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Getting your leadership game on in virtual environments
Daniel M. Jenkins PhD and Meghan L. Pickett
This chapter explores strategies for using virtual games in leadership education. Pedagogical practices, examples, and connections to leadership learning frameworks, learning goals, and competencies are also included. Implications for practice such as intentional design, pairing with other instructional strategies, and debriefing are also discussed with an emphasis on purposeful utilization.
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A Man for All Branches - Judge Frank M. Coffin of Maine
Richard J. Maiman
A biography of Frank M. Coffin, who was an important figure in Maine politics and served for 41 years as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The author, political scientist Richard J. Maiman, provides a detailed study of Coffin’s political career, drawing extensively on materials dealing with Maine politics, Congress, foreign aid, and the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He also makes liberal use of the burgeoning literature on federal court processes to help illuminate Coffin's judicial work.
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Post-Pandemic Pedagogy A Paradigm Shift
Maureen Ebben
EDITED BY JOSEPH M. VALENZANO III - CONTRIBUTIONS BY LINDSEY ANDERSON; LORI BLEWETT; LINDA CAROZZA; KATE CHALLIS; MAUREEN EBBEN; ALI GARIB; STEVE GENNARO; CYNDI GROBMEIER; KATHERINE HAMPSTEN; ASHLEY A. HANNA EDWARDS; ELIZABETH HELMICK; AMANDA HILL; ANNE KRETSINGER- HARRIES; BRITTANY N. LASH; AMANDA LOHISER; MELISSA A. LUCAS; RAPHAEL MAZZONE; MATT MCGARRITY; ANGELA M. MCGOWAN-KIRSCH; BRAD MELLO; SCOTT A. MYERS; JOHN J. RIEF; SHARON STORCH; CASEY M. STRATTON AND JOSEPH M. VALENZANO III
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered teaching and learning for faculty and students alike. The increased prevalence of video-conferencing software for conducting classes fundamentally changed the way in which we teach and seemingly upended many best practices for good pedagogy in the college classroom. Whether it was the reflection over surveillance software, or the increased mental health demands of the pandemic on teachers and students, or the completely reshaped ways in which classes and co-curricular experiences were delivered, the pandemic year represented an opportunity for one of the largest shifts in our understanding of good pedagogy unlike any experienced in the modern era. This edited collection explores what we thought we knew about a variety of teaching ideas, how the pandemic changed our approach to them, and proposes ways in which some of the adjustments made to accommodate the pandemic will remain for years to come. Scholars of communication, pedagogy, and education will find this book particularly interesting.
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Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
Michael G. Hillard PhD
From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventually slid toward failure. What happened? Shredding Paper unwraps the changing US political economy since 1960, uncovers how the paper industry defined and interacted with labor relations, and peels away the layers of history that encompassed the rise and fall of Maine's mighty paper industry.
Michael G. Hillard deconstructs the paper industry's unusual technological and economic histories. For a century, the story of the nation's most widely read glossy magazines and card stock was one of capitalism, work, accommodation, and struggle. Local paper companies in Maine dominated the political landscape, controlling economic, workplace, land use, and water use policies. Hillard examines the many contributing factors surrounding how Maine became a paper powerhouse and then shows how it lost that position to changing times and foreign interests.
Through a retelling of labor relations and worker experiences from the late nineteenth century up until the late 1990s, Hillard highlights how national conglomerates began absorbing family-owned companies over time, which were subject to Wall Street demands for greater short-term profits after 1980. This new political economy impacted the economy of the entire state and destroyed Maine's once-vaunted paper industry. Shredding Paper truthfully and transparently tells the great and grim story of blue-collar workers and their families and analyzes how paper workers formulated a "folk" version of capitalism's history in their industry. Ultimately, Hillard offers a telling example of the demise of big industry in the United States.
You can listen to interviews conducted by Dr. Hilliard about the history of Maine's paper industry by visiting Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation.
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The University Educator [Book Chapter]
Carol Fackler DNSc, RN
Chapter from The Many Roles of the Registered Nurse, ed. Debra Gillespie.
More about this book:
Nurses are the largest population of healthcare providers practicing in both urban and remote areas across the globe. Currently, the nursing profession is in the midst of a significant shortage as aging baby boomers retire and a nursing faculty shortage forces many colleges and universities to turn away qualified applicants. As healthcare needs of the population become more complex and technologies advance, our world needs nurses now more than at any other time in history. This book provides the reader with a wide overview of the many vast roles within the nursing profession, showing that the responsibilities are complex, challenging and rewarding. It will allow the reader to understand the current job market for nurses and perhaps even persuade some to choose this rewarding profession.
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Alienation: Now Delivered Right to Your Home
Joseph Arel PhD
In the context of contemporary capitalist societies, this book provides philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation in the social relations associated with work. Following Hannah Arendt, who viewed work as a world-building activity, the volume addresses issues pertaining to the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.
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A Mere Skeleton of the Sciences? Amalia Holst's Critique of Basedow and Campe
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany, edited by Corey W. Dyck.
BOOK DESCIPTION: Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period. Among the women profiled in this volume are Sophie of Hanover, Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Johanna Charlotte Unzer, Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, Amalia Holst, Henriette Herz, Elise Reimarus, and Maria von Herbert. Their contributions span the range of philosophical topics in metaphysics, logic, and aesthetics, to moral and political philosophy, and pertain to the main philosophical movements in the period. They engage controversial issues of the day, such as atheism and materialism, but also women's struggle for access to education and for recognition of their civic entitlements, and they display a range of strategies for intellectual engagement in doing so. This collection vigorously contests the presumption that the history of German philosophy in the eighteenth century can be told without attending to the important roles that women played in the signature debates of the period.
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‘An Illusion of Affability that Inspires Love’: Kant on the Value and Disvalue of Politeness
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in The Philosophy of (Im)politeness, ed. Chaoqun Xie.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Covers the social, normative, emotional, and moral dimensions of (im)politeness from a philosophical perspective Contributes to current hot topics and key issues within (im)politeness studies Advances human understanding of (im)politeness as essential to sociality, interaction, and existence
CHAPTER DESCRIPTION: During the Enlightenment a wide variety of views about both the value and disvalue of politeness were defended. At one end of the spectrum were authors such as Shaftesbury and Addison, who uniformly praised politeness for its positive contributions to communication and cultural progress. At the other end were theorists such as Rousseau and Montesquieu, both of whom were deeply critical of politeness. In this essay I focus on Kant’s views about politeness, examining and evaluating his arguments both for and against it. Although Kant’s position on politeness lies somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of Enlightenment views about progress, ultimately he sees more value than disvalue in it. There is something in politeness that “inspires love.”
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Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View
Robert B. Louden PhD
Kant's anthropological works represent a very different side of his philosophy, one that stands in sharp contrast to the critical philosophy of the three Critiques. For the most part, Kantian anthropology is an empirical, popular, and, above all, pragmatic enterprise. After tracing its origins both within his own writings and within Enlightenment culture, the Element turns next to an analysis of the structure and several key themes of Kantian anthropology, followed by a discussion of two longstanding contested features - viz., moral anthropology and transcendental anthropology. The Element concludes with a defense of the value and importance of Kantian anthropology, along with replies to a variety of criticisms that have been levelled at it over the years. Kantian anthropology, the author argues, is 'the eye of true philosophy'.
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Humans-Only Norms: An Unexpected Kantian Story
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant on Morality, Humanity, and Legality: Practical Dimensions of Normativity. Ed. Ansgar Lyssy Christopher Yeomans
CHAPTER DESCRIPTION: According to official Kantian doctrine, genuine moral norms are “pure” or a priori—viz., nonempirical, and marked by “necessity and strict universality.” And Kant interprets “strict universality” to mean that such norms apply not merely to all human beings but to “all rational beings in general.” But Louden draws attention to a second kind of norm in Kant’s philosophy—“humans-only norms.” These norms are impure, a posteriori, and empirical. After giving several examples of humans-only norms found in Kant’s own writings, Louden attempt to show both that some of these norms are genuine moral norms (even though they are not pure), and that they play a necessary and important role in Kant’s ethical theory. Louden concludes with some (not-quite-strictly Kantian) arguments in favor of a humans-only morality.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Explores the different conceptions of humanity, morality and legality in Kant as main ‘manifestations’ or ‘dimensions’ of normativity Maps out the conceptual geography in which the concept of normativity is articulated and evaluated Written for scholars and students working on Kant, as well as ethics, value theory and legal theory
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Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment
Robert B. Louden PhD
Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment. Since his death in 1790 a substantial body of German-language literature about his life, work, and school (the Philanthropin) has developed. In the first English intellectual biography of this influential figure, Robert B. Louden answers questions that continue to surround Basedow and provides a much-needed examination of Basedow's intellectual legacy.
Assessing the impact of his ideas and theories on subsequent educational movements, Louden argues that Basedow is the unacknowledged father of the progressive education movement. He unravels several paradoxes surrounding the Philanthropin to help understand why it was described by Immanuel Kant as “the greatest phenomenon which has appeared in this century for the perfection of humanity”, despite its brief and stormy existence, its low enrollment and insufficient funding.
Among the many neglected stories Louden tells is the enormous and unacknowledged debt that Kant owes to Basedow in his philosophy of education, history, and religion. This is a positive reassessment of Basedow and his difficult personality that leads to a reevaluation of the originality of major figures as well as a reconsideration of the significance of allegedly minor authors who have been eclipsed by the politics of historiography. For anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of the history of German philosophy, Louden's book is essential reading.
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Lectures on Anthropology
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in The Cambridge Kant Lexicon.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Immanuel Kant is widely recognized as one of the most important Western philosophers since Aristotle. His thought has had, and continues to have, a profound effect on every branch of philosophy, including ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. This Lexicon contains detailed and original entries by 130 leading Kant scholars, covering Kant's most important concepts as well as each of his writings. Part I covers Kant's notoriously difficult philosophical concepts, providing entries on these individual 'trees' of Kant's philosophical system. Part II, by contrast, provides an overview of the 'forest' of Kant's philosophy, with entries on each of his published works and on each of his sets of lectures and personal reflections. This part is arranged chronologically, revealing not only the broad sweep of Kant's thought but also its development over time. Professors, graduate students, and undergraduates will value this landmark volume.
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Philosophical Anthropology
Robert B. Louden PhD
Entry in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbreaking resource contains hundreds of specially commissioned entries covering the key themes, thinkers, works, and ideas in the field. Organized alphabetically, the Encyclopedia addresses an unmatched range of both historical and contemporary topics which reflect a diversity of theoretical and cultural perspectives. The entries encompass an extraordinary range of topics, from Aquinas and Kierkegaard, to teleological and ontological arguments, to cognitive science and psychology of religion, and many more. Each peer-reviewed entry is written by an acknowledged expert on the topic and includes short bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, and extensive cross-references. Accessible to scholars and non-specialist readers alike, this invaluable reference work: Provides balanced coverage of Abrahamic religions as well as different traditions from Asia, Africa, and other geographic regions Presents more than 450 entries which have been carefully reviewed by an editorial advisory board of world-renowned scholars Explores topics in various historical contexts, such as Jewish and Islamic contributions to medieval philosophy Discusses recent developments and new approaches to the study of philosophy of religion Examines significant theories and concepts including free will, atonement, moral argument, natural law, process theology, evolutionary theory, and theism Offers a fully cross-referenced and searchable online edition
CHAPTER DESCRIPTION: In this entry “philosophical anthropology” is defined broadly as philosophical reflection about the nature of human beings (rather than narrowly as a particular school of thought within twentieth-century German philosophy), and the topic is treated historically. I begin by discussing several important historical roots of philosophical anthropology in ancient Greek and Renaissance thought. Special attention is then given to Enlightenment contributions – above all Kant, but also Hume, Herder, and others. Comte, Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche are focal points in the section on nineteenth-century philosophical anthropology. In the section on twentieth-century contributions, primary attention is devoted to the triumvirate of German philosophical anthropology: Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner, and Arnold Gehlen. In the concluding section, I respond to several popular arguments against philosophical anthropology and discuss its future prospects in light of current intellectual trends.
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Was ist das Besondere an legalisiertem Sex? (Oder, wie kann doppeltes Unrecht Recht ergeben?)
Robert B. Louden PhD
Written in German. Ed. Jean-Christophe Merle, Universität Vechta, Deutschland, und Carola Freiin von Villiez, Universität Bergen, Norwegen.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Kant’s Doctrine of Right and his Doctrine of Virtue do not share only a common Introduction, but also methods of application and metaphors. Their relationship is more complex than suggested by the division into external and internal lawgiving. A close interpretation of of both writings brings out this complex relationship. This volume also assesses the contribution of these writings to the current debates in legal and moral philosophy.
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Perceptions of Teacher Expectations
Larissa Malone PhD
Chapter 7 in Family Engagement in Black Students’ Academic Success Achievement and Resistance in an American Suburban School, edited by Vilma Seeberg.
Book description:
This timely volume presents powerful stories told by Black families and students who have successfully negotiated a racially fraught, affluent, and diverse suburban school district in America, to illustrate how they have strategically contested sanctioned racist practices and forged a path for students to achieve a high-quality education. Drawing on rich qualitative data collected through interviews and interactions with parents and kin, students, community activists, and educators, Family Engagement in Black Students’ Academic Success chronicles how pride in Black American family history and values, students’ personal capabilities, and their often collective, proactive challenges to systemic and personal racism shape students’ academic engagement. Familial and collective cultural wealth of the Black community emerges as a central driver in students’ successful achievement. Finally, the text puts forward key recommendations to demonstrate how incorporating the knowledge and voices of Black families in school decision making, remaining critically conscious of race and racial history in everyday actions and longer term policy, and pursuing collective strategies for social justice in education, will help eliminate current opportunity gaps, and will counteract the master narrative of underachievement ever-present in America. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and academics with an interest in matters of social justice, equity, and equality of opportunity in education for Black Americans. In addition, the text offers key insights for school authorities in building effective working relationships with Black American families to support the high achievement of Black students in K-12 education.
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River Voices: Perspectives on the Presumpscot
Robert M. Sanford PhD, William S. Plumley, and Michael Shaughnessy
River Voices: Perspectives on the Presumpscot is a celebration of a river, a vision of stewardship and caring, with chapter topics ranging from geology to Native American history to fighting for fish passage. Illustrated throughout with original and historical works of art, this book embodies the concept of managing a river through appreciation of all of its attributes and aspects. If you live in this watershed you will appreciate it. And if you live somewhere else, this is a model for caring for a river.
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An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps [Book Chapter]
Maureen Ebben PhD and Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps, by Devjani Sen and Rukhsana Ahmed.
More about this chapter:
This chapter charts the language of privacy in published scholarship on mental health apps. What definition of privacy is assumed? What meanings of privacy are deployed in the research about mental health apps? Using a qualitative thematic approach, this analysis shows that privacy language can be understood as occurring in three phases: Phase 1: Discourse of Technological Possibility; Phase 2: Discourse of Privacy Challenges and Threats; and Phase 3: Discourse of Advocacy. The authors discuss each of these phases and propose a more critical discourse of privacy by identifying the issues inherent in understanding privacy as security.
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Creating a Multidirectional Memory for Healing in the Former Yugoslavia
Stephanie C. Edwards PhD
Book is Forthcoming: June 2020
Chapter from Healing and Peacebuilding after War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina, edited by Julianne Funk and Nancy Good.
About the book:
This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war, focusing on the aftermath of the traumatic armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
This book begins with a simple premise: trauma that is not transformed is transferred. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights from academics, peace practitioners and trauma experts, this book examines the limitations of our current strategies for promoting healing and peacebuilding after war, while offering inroads into best practices to prevent future violence through psychosocial trauma recovery and the healing of memories. The contributions create a conversation which allows readers to critically rethink the deeper roots and mechanisms of trauma created by the war.
Collectively, the authors provide strategic recommendations to policymakers, peace practitioners, donors and international organizations engaged in work in Bosnia and Herzegovina— strategies that can be applied to other countries rebuilding after war.
This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, social psychology, Balkan politics and International Relations in general.
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Automation and Augmentation: Human Labor as an Essential Complement to Machines
Maureen Ebben PhD
Chapter 1 from Maintaining Social Well-Being and Meaningful Work in a Highly Automated Job Market, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew.
More about this chapter:
This chapter examines the nature of work where human labor is a complement to machines and considers its import for social well-being. While dominant portrayals about the effects of work automation are often characterized by discourses of fear and hype, these have limited utility. The chapter proposes moving beyond fear and hype to consider the ways in which automation alters the organization of work and the human role. It asserts that, although essential, the human role in automation is often obscured. Drawing on the concepts of “fauxtomation,” "heteromation," and human infrastructures, the chapter makes visible hidden forms of human labor in automated work and maintains that a positive strategy for social well-being is the recognition and revaluation of human work in automated processes.
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The History of Cartography Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment
Matthew H. Edney PhD and Mary Sponberg Pedley PhD
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800.
The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
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Speculative Punishment, Incarceration, and Control in 'Black Mirror'
David P. Pierson PhD
Book chapter from The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media, edited by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes, and Barbara Harmes.
More about this chapter:
This proposed chapter will conduct a sociocultural and close textual analysis of the following Black Mirror television episodes: “White Bear” (2/18/2013), “White Christmas” (12/16/2014), and “Black Museum” (12/29/2017) to examine their representations of speculative punishment, incarceration, and social and mental control. One guiding research question is whether these representations illustrate present-day issues and concerns in Western criminology and penal theory. Black Mirror (2011-present) is a British science fiction TV anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, which usually focuses on a range of fictional computer-human interface technologies along with their unintended human consequences. In “White Bear” state penal authorities erase the daily memories of a convicted woman in order that she can relive a nightmarish experience of being hunted down by a gang of masked hunters while bystanders act as passive voyeurs watching and recording everything around them. The bystanders turn out to be park visitors enjoying the violent spectacle of the convict’s routine punishment. In “White Christmas” (12/16/2014) a networked, interactive dating coach, who was responsible for a client’s death, is released by the police but is registered as a sex offender, which means that he will be visually and aurally blocked by everyone. He will appear as a red silhouette and will be unable to interact with anyone for the rest of his life. In this same episode, a murder suspect has his consciousness downloaded into a digital copy called a “Cookie,” which enables authorities to incarcerate him within a virtual creation of the crime scene (a snowbound cottage) and to sentence him to such severe, Draconian punishments as having him experience time at the rate of one thousand years per minute and having a Christmas song play on a continuous loop for the time period. The suspect gradually begins to lose his sanity. In “Black Museum,” a convicted murderer agrees to have his post-death consciousness downloaded into a Cookie only to find himself as a hologram in a museum display whereby he continues to experience the agony of the electric chair at the hands of visitors. This study argues that these near future representations are expressive of contemporary neoliberal governance and criminology, public shaming and humiliation, penal tourism, and criminal justice and punishment as entertainment. The episodes’ futuristic punishments exemplify the type of retributive justice that has come to characterize the neoliberal penal turn in criminal justice in the United States and in the United Kingdom over the past three decades. This new punitiveness includes mandatory imprisonment sentences, such as the “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law, and zero tolerance school policies to schemes that provide for public humiliation and shaming for those under sentence (e.g., chain gangs) or ex-prisoners (“I am a sex offender” home warning signs). Mike Nellis (2006) affirms that dystopian penal imagery in American science fiction films approximately corresponds with markedly more punitive penal practices for the past 30 years. Some of these films as well as focus on the use of panoptic surveillance and digital technologies for disciplinary control and as agents of confinement express cultural anxieties about the increased capacity of these technologies for social and mental control. The aforementioned Black Mirror episodes intersect with these and other relevant discourses as they serve to imagine a technological future characterized by new forms of governance and social management, spectatorship punishment and confinement.
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Thinking Beyond “Languaging” in Translanguaging Pedagogies: Exploring Ways to Combat White Fragility in an Undergraduate Language Methodology Course
Heather Reichmuth
This chapter published in the book Language Learning in Anglophone Countries explores the sociopolitical implications of adopting multilingual pedagogies in teacher education. More specifically, the authors draw on data from a qualitative inquiry of how racism manifested and was addressed and ignored within an online undergraduate ESL methodology course for pre-service teachers (PSTs). Classwork from PSTs and interviews with PSTs revealed that race was an uncomfortable topic that PSTs rarely underscored despite the inextricable link between language and race. Using white fragility as a guiding framework, the authors highlight how the predominantly White PSTs understood and perceived the course’s coverage of race. Considering the limited coverage of race in the course, the PSTs’ confusion with key terminology, and patterns of defensive behaviors in response to discussions on race, the chapter closes with suggestions of how to raise racial awareness in an effort to better implement the instruction of multilingual pedagogies in language methodology courses.
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Telehealth Utilization in Low Resource Settings
Charles Bernacchio EdD, Josephine F. Wilson, and Jeewani Anupama Ginige
Chapter in Sustainable Community Health Systems and Practices in Diverse Settings, edited by Elias Mpofu.
Chapter Description:
In response to health access barriers, telehealth and telemedicine have grown as a supplemental healthcare delivery system to mainstream medical care. For rural and remote communities, which are mostly less well resourced, telehealth and telemedicine is increasingly a major system enabling health access and availability, bridging population health disparities by geography and socioeconomic gradients. People in low resources settings have less access to health care, while commuting for health services to the cities would be costly in terms of time, effort, and money, resulting in health inequities and social injustices on them. In this chapter, we examine the role of telehealth and telemedicine as health systems for providing sustainable community health in low resource settings. In doing so, we provide a historical overview of the research and practice in telehealth and telemedicine, followed by a discussion of current leading practices in telehealth and telemedicine. We consider the cultural and legal influences on telehealth and telemedicine services across jurisdictions highlighting responsiveness to local contexts and needs. Finally, we consider the issues for research and practice in telehealth and telemedicine, including security and privacy associated with telehealth; education for sustaining telehealth delivery; engaging high-risk populations from low-resource settings in telehealth services; and use of social networks to ensure telehealth care access for poor and remote regions.
Book description:
Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings. By examining the interdependence of environmental, economic, public health, community wellbeing, and development factors, the authors address the systemic factors impacting health disparities, inequality, and social justice issues.
The book analyzes strategies based on a partnership view of health, in which communities determine their health and wellness working alongside local, state, and federal health agencies. Crucially, it demonstrates that communities are themselves health systems and their wellbeing capabilities affect the health of individuals and the collective alike. It identifies health indicators and tools that communities and policy makers can utilize to sustain truly inclusive health systems. This book offers a unique resource for researchers and practitioners working across psychology, mental health, rehabilitation, public health, epidemiology, social policy, healthcare, and allied health.
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Actualism, Possibilism, and the Nature of Consequentialism
Yishai Cohen PhD
Chapter description: The actualism/possibilism debate in ethics is about whether counterfactuals of freedom concerning what an agent would freely do if she were in certain circumstances even partly determine that agent’s obligations. This debate arose from an argument against the coherence of utilitarianism in the deontic logic literature. In this chapter, we first trace the historical origins of this debate and then examine actualism, possibilism, and securitism through the lens of consequentialism. After examining their respective benefits and drawbacks, we argue that, contrary to what has been assumed, actualism and securitism both succumb to the so-called nonratifiability problem. In making this argument, we develop this problem in detail and argue that it’s a much more serious problem than has been appreciated. We conclude by arguing that an alternative view, hybridism, is independently the most plausible position and best fits with the nature of consequentialism, partly in light of avoiding the nonratifiability problem.
Book description: ed. Douglas W. Portmore This handbook contains thirty-two previously unpublished contributions to consequentialist ethics by leading scholars, covering what’s happening in the field today as well as pointing to new directions for future research. Consequentialism is a rival to such moral theories as deontology, contractualism, and virtue ethics. But it’s more than just one rival among many, for every plausible moral theory must concede that the goodness of an act’s consequences is something that matters even if it’s not the only thing that matters. Thus, all plausible moral theories will accept both that the fact that an act would produce good consequences constitutes a moral reason to perform it and that the better that act’s consequences the greater the moral reason there is to perform it. Now, if this is correct, then much of the research concerning consequentialist ethics is important for ethics in general. For instance, one thing that consequentialist researchers have investigated is what sorts of consequences matter: the consequences that some act would have or the consequences that it could have—if, say, the agent were to follow up by performing some subsequent act. And it’s reasonable to suppose that the answer to such questions will be relevant for normative ethics regardless of whether the goodness of consequences is the only thing that matters (as consequentialists presume) or just one of many things that matter (as nonconsequentialists presume).
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Healthcare Informatics
Carol Fackler DNSc, RN
Chapter 21 in Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Review, Third Edition, edited by Cynthia R. King PhD, MSN, NP, RN, CNL, FAAN; Sally Gerard DNP, RN, CDE, CNL; Carla Gene Rapp PhD, MNSc, RN.
Book description:
The third edition of this gold standard for CNL certification review continues to provide healthcare facilities and clients with validation of the qualifications and knowledge of this advanced nursing generalist practice role. This certification review is a product of Dr. King's rigorous exam preparation course, which resulted in a 100% pass rate among students. This review serves as a helpful guide for faculty on how to design CNL review courses, and has been used to teach in CNL programs, as well as for students and nurses preparing to take the exam.
Following an introductory section examining the CNL role, how to make the best use of the review, and strategies for taking tests, this text is organized to reflect the latest exam content outline, mirroring the domains and subdomains of the exam. It provides detailed information on how to analyze and interpret exam questions, disseminates expert test-taking skills, and offers a detailed content review of everything you need to know for exam success. It delivers new information corresponding to the new Commission on Nurse Certification (CNC) outline, with updated chapters on healthcare advocacy and ethics, lateral integration, interprofessional skills, team coordination, and evidence-based practice.
New to the Third Edition:
- Reflects updates and revisions based on the most recent exam content outline
- Provides 200 new multiple-choice Q&As with rationale created from scratch
- Delivers 16 new unfolding case studies
- Offers new objectives, updated summaries, and innovative review activities to reinforce material in each chapter
Key Features:
- Explains how to analyze and interpret questions for exam success
- Promotes savvy test-taking skills
- Includes a comprehensive exam with answers and rationales
- Includes an expanded glossary and additional tables and figures
- Provides easy access to information with an appendix that cross-references questions to appropriate exam content topics
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Hope Now [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Sartrean Mind, edited by Matthew C. Eshleman and Constance M. Lui.
More about this title:
Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments around the world. Beginning with an introduction and biography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Matthew C. Eshleman, 42 chapters by a team of international contributors cover all the major aspects of Sartre’s thought in the following key areas:
- Sartre’s philosophical and historical context
- Sartre and phenomenology
- Sartre, existentialism, and ontology
- Sartre and ethics
- Sartre and political theory
- Aesthetics, literature, and biography
- Sartre’s engagements with other thinkers.
The Sartrean Mind is the most comprehensive collection on Sartre published to date. It is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, as well as for those in related disciplines where Sartre’s work has continuing importance, such as literature, French studies, and politics.
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Using critical incident videos: An innovative strategy to improve teaching practice
Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE and Cynthia Randall DNP, RN, CNL
Attendees will view and participate in a simulated experience using Critical Incident Videos. Attendees will role-play possible outcomes and explore how the videos can assist to improve teaching practices of nurse educators. In debriefing, attendees will brainstorm ways to expand these ideas into their own teaching practice.
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The Limits of Virtue Ethics
Travis Timmerman PhD and Yishai Cohen PhD
Virtue ethics is often understood as a rival to existing consequentialist, deontological, and contractualist views. But some have disputed the position that virtue ethics is a genuine normative ethical rival. This chapter aims to crystallize the nature of this dispute by providing criteria that determine the degree to which a normative ethical theory is complete, and then investigating virtue ethics through the lens of these criteria. In doing so, it’s argued that no existing account of virtue ethics is a complete normative ethical view that rivals existing consequentialist, deontological, and contractualist views. Moreover, it is argued that one of the most significant challenges facing virtue ethics consists in offering an account of the right-making features of actions, while remaining a distinctively virtue ethical view.
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“Randolph Cemetery and the Politics of Death in the Post-Civil War South”
Ashley Towle PhD
This chapter examines the creation and use of Randolph Cemetery by African Americans in Columbia, South Carolina during Reconstruction and Jim Crow. Named after assassinated African-American state senator, Benjamin F. Randolph, the cemetery became an important memorial to the political advances black people made during Reconstruction and the violence they endured to achieve that progress. During Reconstruction African Americans used the cemetery to showcase their political power and to defy white Southerners’ violent intimidation. In the Jim Crow era, when white Southerners stripped African Americans of their voting rights, black people kept the memory of black political participation alive through memorial events they organized in the cemetery. Through funerals and burials, black leaders created new martyrs to racial equality, like fifteen-year-old Wade Haynes, who was executed by the state in 1893. Ultimately, this chapter contends that Randolph Cemetery demonstrates the significant role that death played in black community building, politics, and activism.
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Shared Service Cooperatives: A Qualitative Study Exploring, Applications, Benefits and Potentials
Christina Clamp, Eklou R. Amendah PhD, and Carole Coren
The story of shared services cooperatives is compelling for the breadth and depth of its utility across multiple sectors of the US economy. Shared services cooperatives are member associations formed to meet a variety of institutional needs for economies and efficiencies of scale through collaboration in areas such as purchasing, marketing, processing and distribution. They are organized and operate as for-profit or not-for-profit business entities and appear in a broad array of industry and public service sectors, providing a variety of benefits, services and opportunities today in rural, suburban and urban communities throughout the US. This qualitative study sets out to describe the ways in which shared services cooperatives are organized, who are the members, how shared services cooperatives benefit their members and why the members formed a cooperative as opposed to other forms of collaboration (joint ventures, subsidiaries or collaborative agreements). Shared services cooperatives in all the cases studied have led to long-term impacts in addressing organizational needs. All the cooperatives in this study have effectively served their members’ needs. Whether it was a cooperative designed to enhance competitiveness, or to lower risks, to acquire new sources of funding or to allow the cooperative members to scale up or sustain the organization, the story has been the same. The shared services cooperative works very well as a way to meet these varied needs.
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Gunpowder and the Creek-British Struggle for Power in the Southeast, 1763–1776
Jennifer Monroe McCutchen PhD
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Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision
Brendan McQuade PhD
The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation.
Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light. -
Energy Efficiency : Concepts and calculations
Daniel M. Martinez PhD, Ben W. Ebenhack, and Travis P. Wagner PhD
Energy Efficiency: Concepts and Calculations is the first book of its kind to provide an applied, systems oriented description of energy intensity and efficiency in modern economies across the entire energy chain. With an emphasis on analysis, specifically energy flow analysis, lifecycle energy accounting, economic analysis, technology evaluation, and policies/strategies for adopting high energy efficiency standards, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, tools and methodologies for studying and modeling macro-level energy flows through, and within, key economic sectors (electric power, industrial, commercial, residential and transportation).
Providing a technical discussion of the application of common methodologies (e.g. cost-benefit analysis and lifecycle assessment), each chapter contains figures, charts and examples from each sector, including the policies that have been put in place to promote and incentivize the adoption of energy efficient technologies.
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Cartography: The ideal and its history
Matthew H. Edney PhD
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include.
In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
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A Writer More Excellent than Cicero: Hume’s Influence on Kant’s Anthropology
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant and the Scottish Enlightenment, edited by Elizabeth Robinson, Chris W. Surprenant.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Most academic philosophers and intellectual historians are familiar with the major historical figures and intellectual movements coming out of Scotland in the 18th Century. These scholars are also familiar with the works of Immanuel Kant and his influence on Western thought. But with the exception of discussion examining David Hume’s influence on Kant’s epistemology, metaphysics, and moral theory, little attention has been paid to the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. This volume aims to fill this perceived gap in the literature and provide a starting point for future discussions looking at the influence of Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy.
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Freedom from an Anthropological Point of View
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Natur und Freiheit Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, edited by: Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing and David Wagner
BOOK DESCRIPTION: This volume collects the plenary, main and session lectures of the 12th International Kant Congress “Nature and Freedom” at the University of Vienna from September 21 to 25, 2015. The congress took into account two fundamental concepts of Kant’s Critical Works: “Nature” and “Freedom”. The international discussion of Kant’s philosophy nowadays is reflected in the broad range of attendees and their manifold contributions.
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Generalization and Maintenance
Jamie Pratt Psy.D, Garry Wickerd PhD, and Mark W. Steege
Chapter 5 in Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Evidence-Based Positive Strategies, Second Edition.
Book description:
Without effective behavior management, a positive and productive classroom environment is impossible. And while 50 years of scientific research supports the efficacy of behavioral interventions in the classroom, school psychologists and teachers are often unaware of these interventions or how to apply them. In this new edition of a landmark volume, Steven G. Little and Angeleque Akin-Little present a three-pronged approach to strengthening educators' understanding of the behavioral model. Contributors first describe the research foundations of behavioral interventions — a necessary understanding for these strategies to be implemented effectively and with integrity. Next, recognizing the rise in diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new chapters describe screening and diagnosis of ASD, discrete trial training, pivotal response training, verbal behavior interventions, and structured teaching approaches. Authors also explain how to use cognitive behavior therapy interventions with children and families to treat a variety of symptoms and behaviors. This book will provide school psychologists, counselors, social workers, school administrators, and teachers with the intervention and prevention strategies they need to succeed in today's classroom.
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Finding Joy and Satisfaction in Deaning and Directing
T Sirota and Brenda Petersen PhD, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CPNP-PC
Chapter 18 in Nursing Deans on Leading, edited by Joanne Robinson PhD, RN, FAAN; Carole Kenner PhD, NNP, FAAN; and Jana L. Pressler PhD, RN.
Book description:
Learn leadership skills from experienced deans!
The first resource written specifically for novice and aspiring deans and directors of nursing education, this engaging guide shares practical advice, wisdom, and insight from experienced academic leaders. These insights will help nurses who are new to academic leadership positions. Within its pages, experienced deans share their wisdom on how a new dean or director can succeed in a leadership position.
With an emphasis on acquiring critical knowledge and essential skills, this book describes the parameters of the nursing dean or director role, practical strategies for resolving day-to-day issues, everything from student success to budget and fiscal health, and how to practice self-care while constantly tackling the challenges of these roles. Seventeen academic nursing leaders from across the United States deliver fundamental guidance to help readers determine how to navigate the multifaceted opportunities and challenges of deaning and directing.
- Key Features:
- Written in an accessible, engaging style for novice and aspiring academic nursing leaders
- Everyday strategies for dealing with routine issues
- Addresses the need for self-care and how to manage the stress and complexities of the leadership role
- Abundant real-world case studies and best practices
- Online resources for further study
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Conducting school-based functional behavioral assessments: A Practitioner's Guide
Mark W. Steege PhD, Jamie Pratt Psy.D, Garry Wickerd PhD, Richard Guare, and T Steuart Watson
Widely recognized as a gold-standard resource, this authoritative book has been revised and expanded with 50% new material. It provides a complete introduction to functional behavioral assessment (FBA), complete with procedures, forms, and tools that have been piloted and refined in both general and special education settings. Numerous vivid examples illustrate how to use the authors' behavior-analytic problem-solving model (BAPS) to synthesize assessment results and guide the design of individually tailored interventions. Practitioners and students enjoy the engaging, conversational tone. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 17 reproducible checklists and forms. Purchasers get access to a companion Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition Revised BAPS model reflects the latest research and offers a more comprehensive approach to FBA. Chapters on professional and ethical standards; analyzing how biological/medical conditions, thoughts, and emotions influence behavior; and analyzing how executive skills deficits influence behavior. Chapters on testing hypotheses about the functions of problem behavior; testing reinforcer effectiveness; and evaluating function-based interventions. Chapter providing applied learning experiences for professionals and students. Most of the reproducible tools are new or revised.
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Sustainability and Plastic Waste [Book Chapter]
Travis P. Wagner PhD
Chapter from "Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability, Volume 2", edited by Pasquale Ferranti, Elliot M. Berry, and Jock R. Anderson.
Chapter synopsis:
Plastics are the dominant material for food and beverage containers and packaging. As a waste, the majority of plastics are landfilled, incinerated, or become litter; only 9% of all plastics are recycled. In addition to the low recycling rate, which is not sustainable, the increasing buildup of plastics in the environment, especially in the oceans, has made plastics a global concern. In the marine environment, plastics breakdown to microplastics, which negatively impact marine organisms through accidental and intentional ingestion. Most efforts to address plastic waste have been undertaken by local governments, but increasingly, national and state-level governments are seeking to shift the environmental responsibility of plastic waste back onto the producers as a means to reduce plastic waste.
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Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts
Joseph C. Hill, Diane C. Lillo-Martin, and Sandra K. Wood PhD
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book:
- offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical components of phonology, morphology, and syntax with examples and illustrations;
- demonstrates how sign languages are acquired by Deaf children with varying degrees of input during early development, including no input where children create a language of their own;
- discusses the contexts of sign languages, including how different varieties are formed and used, attitudes towards sign languages, and how language planning affects language use;
- is accompanied by e-resources, which host links to video clips.
Offering an engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages, this book is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.
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Costs of Corporate Conscience: How Women, Queers, and People of Color Are Paying for Hobby Lobby’s Sincerely-Held Beliefs
Megan Goodwin PhD
Chapter from Religion in the Age of Obama, edited by Juan Marcial Floyd-Thomas and Anthony Pinn.
About the book:
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and their relationship to his vision of public life, as well as the way in which the general ethos of religion and non-religion has shifted over the past decade in the United States under his presidency.
Topics include how Obama has employed religious rhetoric in response to both international and domestic events, his attempt to inhabit a kind of Blackness that comforts and reassures rather than challenges White America, the limits of Christian hospitality within U.S. immigration policy and the racialization of Islam in the U.S. national imagination.
Religion in the Age of Obama shows that the years of the Obama presidency served as a watershed moment of significant reorganization of the role of religion in national public life. It is a timely contribution to debates on religion, race and public life in the United States.
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Evidence-Based Practice: The Scholarship Behind the Practice
Valerie J. Fuller PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FNAP; Debra Gillespie PhD, RN; and Debra Kramlich
Chapter 12 in DNP Education, Practice, and Policy, 2nd Edition Mastering the DNP Essentials for Advanced Nursing Practice, edited by Stephanie W. Ahmed, Linda C. Andrist, Sheila M. Davis, and Valerie J. Fuller.
Chapter description:
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the cornerstone of the doctor of nursing practice’s (DNP’s) role. It represents the practitioners’ commitment to use all means possible to locate the best (most effective) evidence for any given problem and at all points of planning and contact with clients. There are currently over 303 DNP programs nationwide with another 124 programs in the planning stages. With this meteoric rise in programs, it is essential that educational curriculums support DNP students to become EBP leaders and provide the knowledge and skill set needed to translate evidence into practice. EBP is a process that enables clinicians to seek out best practices and determine if and how these practices can be incorporated into patient care. The DNP-prepared nurse is uniquely prepared to synthesize clinical expertise with EBP to improve patient outcomes, provide clinical leadership, and transform healthcare.
Book description:
This book serves as a guide for students as well as Doctors of nursing practice (DNP) engaged in advance practice in the following specialty areas: leadership, policy, and information technology. The book is organized into five sections comprising 18 chapters. The first section retraces the rich history of advanced nursing practice. It further addresses the evolution of the DNP in the context of contemporary healthcare challenges and culminates in a discussion of how the DNP can influence the essential changes identified in The Future of Nursing reports. Section II takes the reader through the process of clinical scholarship, beginning with the definition of clinical scholarship and the evolution of students into scholars. Section III explores the application of the DNP essential, the role and continual evolution of the nursing profession. It gives concrete guidance on how to gain valuable leadership experience in the clinical setting and discusses the unique skill set needed for the advanced practice registered nurse and executive nurse leader. Section IV highlights three important essentials of the DNP curriculum: evidence-based practice, health information technology, and outcomes measurement. The final section addresses policy, politics, and the DNP. With the advent of the degree, national organizations and nursing leaders were engaged in discussion and the objectives for the practice doctorate defined. The book discusses the importance of developing a community for DNPs as a place to connect within the discipline. Healthcare economics and health reform unquestioningly represent both obstacles and opportunities for nurses engaged in advanced practice. Finally, the book culminates in a discussion around the need for global nursing leadership and the DNP.
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Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research
James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewyn Connell
Edited by James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewyn Connell
Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail.
The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckonings covers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory.
Gender Reckonings
combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fields, and world regions. The editors and contributors are leading social scientists from six continents, and the book gives vivid accounts of the changing politics of gender in different communities.
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DNP Education, Practice, and Policy, 2nd Edition
Stephanie W. Ahmed DNP, FNP-BC, DPNAP; Linda C. Andrist PhD, RN, WHNP; Sheila M. Davis DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN; and Valerie J. Fuller PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FNAP
This book serves as a guide for students as well as Doctors of nursing practice (DNP) engaged in advance practice in the following specialty areas: leadership, policy, and information technology. The book is organized into five sections comprising 18 chapters. The first section retraces the rich history of advanced nursing practice. It further addresses the evolution of the DNP in the context of contemporary healthcare challenges and culminates in a discussion of how the DNP can influence the essential changes identified in The Future of Nursing reports. Section II takes the reader through the process of clinical scholarship, beginning with the definition of clinical scholarship and the evolution of students into scholars. Section III explores the application of the DNP essential, the role and continual evolution of the nursing profession. It gives concrete guidance on how to gain valuable leadership experience in the clinical setting and discusses the unique skill set needed for the advanced practice registered nurse and executive nurse leader. Section IV highlights three important essentials of the DNP curriculum: evidence-based practice, health information technology, and outcomes measurement. The final section addresses policy, politics, and the DNP. With the advent of the degree, national organizations and nursing leaders were engaged in discussion and the objectives for the practice doctorate defined. The book discusses the importance of developing a community for DNPs as a place to connect within the discipline. Healthcare economics and health reform unquestioningly represent both obstacles and opportunities for nurses engaged in advanced practice. Finally, the book culminates in a discussion around the need for global nursing leadership and the DNP.
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Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Estienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
The Biblical psalms have been central to western worship since the Middle Ages, when monks focused their devotions on the psalter and the later medieval laity incorporated them into their Books of Hours.¹ Roger Wieck points out that ‘the great armature for most prayers in the Book of Hours is Psalms. A total of thirty-seven Psalms form the Hours of the Virgin; these did not change. Nor did the seven of the Penitential Psalms or the twenty-two in the Office of the Dead’.² Virginia Reinburg adds that while Books of Hours were ‘largely liturgical’ (that is, drawn from monastic liturgical...
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Bestial Oblivion: War, humanism, and ecology in Early Modern England
Benjamin Bertram PhD
Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare unsettles ideas of the human, yet ultimately contributes to, and is then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism. Bertram’s study of early modern warfare’s impact on human-animal and human-technology relationships draws upon posthumanist theory, animal studies, and the new materialisms, focusing on responses to the Anglo-Spanish War, the Italian Wars, the Wars of Religion, the colonization of Ireland, and Jacobean “peace.” The monograph examines a wide range of texts—essays, drama, military treatises, paintings, poetry, engravings, war reports, travel narratives—and authors—Erasmus, Machiavelli, Digges, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Coryate, Bacon—to show how an intricate web of perpetual war altered the perception of the physical environment as well as the ideologies and practices establishing what it meant to be human.
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Extra-syntactic factors in the that-trace effect
Jeanne Heil PhD
Chapter 14 in Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald.
Chapter description:
Using predictions from the Interface Hypothesis and the grammar of Spanish-English bilinguals, we test whether non-syntactic factors play a role in the that-trace effect. Though generally analyzed syntactically, some work on that-trace supports a syntax-prosody account (Kandybowicz, 2006). The Interface Hypothesis predicts that bilinguals will have difficulty with interface phenomena but not narrow syntax, such that testing bilinguals’ knowledge of that-trace provides a unique testing ground for comparing the two approaches. We demonstrate that bilinguals have the syntactic underpinnings necessary for both syntactic and syntax-prosody accounts of that-trace; however, they differ from the monolinguals with regard to that-trace, extending the phenomenon’s restriction on extraction to a new context, supporting a syntax-prosody account of that-trace.
Book description:
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in contact with English and Purépecha. The first part of the volume focuses on the structural aspects and use of these languages in the areas of syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, diachrony, phonetics, phonology and morphology. The second part discusses the effect of interacting multiple grammars, namely, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, varieties in contact, and bilingualism. As a whole, the contributions in this volume provide a methodological balance between qualitative and quantitative approaches to Language and, in this way, represent contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.
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The Boathouse: an Angus Quinn novel
Elaine Lohrman
The Boathouse is a suspenseful historical novel set in New York City during the early 1890s. The story unfolds as Hazel Chapman desperately searches for her missing husband, Lewis Chapman, while protecting their nineteen-year-old daughter, Nellie, from the truth that her father is wanted for murder. Hazel scours the Upper West Side, eventually crossing paths with a kindly Irish policeman, Sergeant Angus Quinn, and his rookie partner, Paulie Abbott. As the pair put their detective skills to work to find the killer before he strikes again, Hazel guards a secret about Lewis and their lives together, and vows to find her husband before the police can apprehend him. While Hazel fights exhaustion and is in danger of losing their family home, Sergeant Quinn makes a startling discovery about the leadership of the Twentieth Precinct police station. He puts his own life and that of his partner in danger as they fight the political powerhouse that controls city hall and the metropolitan police force. This thrilling story, the first in a series of novels featuring Sergeant Quinn and Patrolman Abbott, will compel readers to keep turning the pages right up to the very unexpected ending.
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Knowledge, Morals and Practice in Kant’s Anthropology
Gualtiero Lorini and Robert B. Louden PhD
This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant’s conception of anthropology. Neither a careful and widespread search of the sources nor a merely theoretical speculation about Kant’s critical path can fully reveal the necessarily wider horizon of his anthropology. This only comes to light by overcoming all traditional schemes within Kantian studies, and consequently reconsidering the traditional divisions within Kant’s thought. The goal of this book is to highlight an alternative, yet complementary path followed by Kantian anthropology with regard to transcendental philosophy. The present volume intends to develop this path in order to demonstrate how irreducible it is in what concerns some crucial claims of Kant’s philosophy, such as the critical defense of the unity of reason, the search for a new method in metaphysics and the moral outcome of Kant’s thought.
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Teaching Strategies That Create Assessment-Literate Learners
Anita Stewart McCafferty EdD and Jeffrey Beaudry PhD
Your go-to guide for using classroom assessment as a teaching and learning tool!
How can we bring students into the assessment process as full partners in ways that help them become owners of learning?
Becoming an assessment-literate learner means understanding where you are going as a learner, where you’re at now, and what you need to do to reach a learning goal. This book unpacks seven strategies of assessment for learning, along with the five keys of quality assessment, in a practical vision of quality assessment used to support and certify learning. With a focus on high-impact classroom practices, this book offers
- Clear and relevant examples of assessment for learning strategies in specific subject matter contexts
- Visual learning progressions for use in a self-assessment checklist and professional development
- Additional material and examples on an author-created website
When we take a balanced approach to assessment and give students the tools and skills to support their own progress, students and teachers win. This book gives you the strategies and examples to make this possible.
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Gender Relations (American Indian)
Jennifer Monroe McCutchen PhD
Entry in The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, edited by Alexandra Kindell.
About the book:
This set provides insight into the lives of ordinary Americans free and enslaved, in farms and cities, in the North and the South, who lived during the years of 1815 to 1860.
Throughout the Antebellum Era resonated the theme of change: migration, urban growth, the economy, and the growing divide between North and South all led to great changes to which Americans had to respond. By gathering the important aspects of antebellum Americans' lives into an encyclopedia, The World of Antebellum America provides readers with the opportunity to understand how people across America lived and worked, what politics meant to them, and how they shaped or were shaped by economics.
Entries on simple topics such as bread and biscuits explore workers' need for calories, the role of agriculture, and gendered divisions of labor, while entries on more complex topics, such as aging and death, disclose Americans' feelings about life itself. Collectively, the entries pull the reader into the lives of ordinary Americans, while section introductions tie together the entries and provide an overarching narrative that primes readers to understand key concepts about antebellum America before delving into Americans' lives in detail. -
Measuring Academic Success: How the Standardization of Evaluating Academic Achievement Leaves Students At-Risk Behind
Emily M. Newell PhD
Chapter from The Collegiate Athlete at Risk: Strategies for Academic Support and Success, edited by Morris R. Council III, Samuel R Hodge, and Robert A. Bennett III.
About this book: There are numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes and presenting recommendations for academic success. They primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and recommendations are oftentimes overly simplistic, failing to explicitly provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. In addition, the topic of supporting student-athletes who are academically at risk and/or are diagnosed with high incidence disabilities has been overlooked by scholars resulting in few publications specifically focusing on providing strategies to the staff/personnel who serve these populations. The general target audience is college/university practitioners who interface with student-athletes who demonstrate academic and social risk in the realm of athletics. These stakeholders include but are not limited to: academic support staff, student athletes, parents, coaches, faculty/educators, counselors, psychologists, higher education administrators, student affairs professionals, disability services coordinators/personnel, as well as researchers who focus on education leadership, sports, and special education. All of these groups are likely to find this book attractive especially as they work with student-athletes who are at-risk for academic failure. Also, it is ventured that this book will become the staple text for the National Association of Academic Advisors (N4A), the official organization for all personnel who work in collegiate academic support and can be used by members of intercollegiate athletic associations to reform policies in place to support at-risk student-athletes.
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The Viability of Digital Spaces as Sites for Transnational Feminist Action and Engagement: Why We Need to Look at Digital Circulation
Jessica Ouellette PhD
Chapter in Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis.
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Nurse Educators Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Horizontal Violence Measured through Dimensions of Oppression
Brenda Petersen PhD, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CPNP-PC
Part of Nursing Education Research Conference 2018 Conference Proceedings.
Conference description:
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) and the National League for Nursing (NLN) conducted the 2018 Nursing Education Research Conference in Washington, DC, April 19-21, with the theme of Generating and Translating Evidence for Teaching Practice, with 375 attendees.
Program outcomes:
- Translate research outcomes into educational practice and policy.
- Share research findings that impact learner preparation.
These conference proceedings are a collection of abstracts submitted by the authors and presented at the research congress. To promptly disseminate the information and ideas, participants submitted descriptive information and abstracts of between 300 and 1500 words. Each oral and poster presentation abstract was peer-reviewed in a double-blind process in which three scholars used specific scoring criteria to judge the abstracts in accordance with the requirements of Sigma’s Guidelines for Electronic Abstract Submission.
The opinions, advice, and information contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of STTI or its members. The enhanced abstracts provided in these proceedings were taken directly from authors’ submissions, without alteration. While all due care was taken in the compilation of these proceedings, STTI does not warrant that the information is free from errors or omission, or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy, and currency of the information.
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Thin Rising Vapors
Seth Rogoff ABD, MA
Thin Rising Vapors by Seth Rogoff (author of First, the Raven: A Preface) is a richly psychological novel about enduring yet fragile friendship and the allure of nature and faith.
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Environmental Site Plans and Development Review
Robert Sanford
The most effective way to participate in land stewardship and environmental management is to get involved in the review of proposed developments. In smaller communities, this review is primarily done by a planning board or commission made up of volunteer members, guided by professionals in certain aspects such as traffic, historic preservation, civil engineering, water supply, and wastewater disposal. In larger communities, professional planning staff with the assistance of municipal engineers conducts the review, which will then be presented to the planning commission. In either case, everyone—officials, volunteers, reviewers, consultants, neighbors, and the public in general—needs to know what is being proposed. The site plan itself is the primary tool for understanding the proposal.
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Critical Theory and History Education
Avner Segall, Brenda M. Trofanenko, and Adam Schmitt PhD
Chapter 11 in The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning, edited by Scott Alan Metzger and Lauren McArthur Harris.
Chapter description:
This chapter explores the epistemological underpinnings of critical—postmodern, poststructural, postcolonial, feminist, and psychoanalytic—theories in history education and their potential in, and impact on, the field. Following an introduction about the impact critical theories have had on the discipline of history and what those might mean in K-12 history education classrooms, the chapter includes an examination of how those theories have been used to explore: (1) representations of race and gender in textbooks, standards, and curricula; (2) difficult knowledge and the affective in encounters with history; (3) history education as experienced in history museums and monuments.
Book description:
A comprehensive review of the research literature on history education with contributions from international experts
The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning draws on contributions from an international panel of experts. Their writings explore the growth the field has experienced in the past three decades and offer observations on challenges and opportunities for the future. The contributors represent a wide range of pioneering, established, and promising new scholars with diverse perspectives on history education.
Comprehensive in scope, the contributions cover major themes and issues in history education including: policy, research, and societal contexts; conceptual constructs of history education; ideologies, identities, and group experiences in history education; practices and learning; historical literacies: texts, media, and social spaces; and consensus and dissent. This vital resource:
- Contains original writings by more than 40 scholars from seven countries
- Identifies major themes and issues shaping history education today
- Highlights history education as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry and academic practice
- Presents an authoritative survey of where the field has been and offers a view of what the future may hold
Written for scholars and students of education as well as history teachers with an interest in the current issues in their field, The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning is a comprehensive handbook that explores the increasingly global field of history education as it has evolved to the present day.
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Dr. Khalil Totah Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader
Amy M. Smith PhD
Born in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1886 Dr. Khalil Totah belonged to a generation of Syrians who grew up with an appreciation for the “modern” spirit that was sweeping the world.They looked forward to a social order that fostered Arab independence, but were also concerned with universal human problems. Totah’s life coincided with a period of tremendous transformation and change in the Middle East. Some historians, most recently Erez Manela, have argued that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inspired a rising global consciousness and that his rhetoric fostered the spread of anti-colonial movements across the Middle East. Totah and his fellow intellectuals were not so much inspired by Wilson’s words, but rather they viewed them as support of a pre-existing sentiment. Greater Syrians had been developing ideas of freedom and democracy since their cultural and intellectual renaissance in the mid-19th century. Like many peoples across the globe they were not so much taken by Wilson’s “new” vocabulary as they were validated by it. There were many circumstances which influenced the political and nationalist movements of the Middle East. The story of Dr. Khalil Totah provides one small piece of a larger transformation in Syria. His writings show the evolution of Arab nationalism in Palestine during a transformative era. Totah and his contemporaries had an alternate vision of world order shaped by their own social experiences. This study also shows a clear difference between the interests of the United States political and economic elites, who preached about democracy, and intellectuals in emerging nations who sought independence. An examination of Totah’s views on the challenges facing Palestine during his lifetime offers a way to understand the development of Palestinian national consciousness in the first third of the 20th century.
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How to Maximize the Caloric Costs of Exercise: A Relatively Short Story
Christopher B. Scott
Regular physical activity creates a myriad of physiological changes within the human body, almost all of it good. Exercise is, in fact, the heart and soul of physical and athletic development. The book you are reading however is not about that - you’ll need to read about the enhancement of muscular performance elsewhere. This is a book about the hows and whys of maximizing the caloric expenditure of exercise with the hopeful achievement of losing body fat. From such a perspective, I am at a current understanding that exercise designed to increase athletic ability does not necessarily carry-over to weight loss…the goal of weight reduction and the enhancement of physical performance require separate program designs. As part of my learning (data collecting) and teaching (data promoting) background, I count calories for a living and have been happily at it for over 30 years. The following chapters present energy cost estimates – aka, calories (kcal) burned - based on numbers collected from actual laboratory measurements as well as speculative interpretations that have all been converted into an energy cost and fat loss appraisal: More vs. Less. I continue to search for those specific types of exercises and activities that yield the largest numbers, with my primary objective being to find those physical movements with the best potential to maximize caloric costs and fat burning. It is not a straightforward story…
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Children's Performance Abilities: Language Production
Cecile McKee, Dana McDaniel PhD, and Merrill F. Garrett
Chapter 22 in The Handbook of Psycholinguistics, edited by Eva M. Fernández & Helen Smith Cairns.
Chapter summary:
This chapter describes the language production system and samples research on its development in children. The field of language acquisition uses children's speech to buttress claims about their linguistic competence. Such reasoning assumes two forms: (a) lack of a structure in children's speech indicates that it is not part of their competence, and (b) the frequent occurrence of a non‐adult structure indicates a non‐adult grammar. We argue that it is essential to determine how a production system might separately influence child speech. Performance models can provide alternative accounts for some of the phenomena attributed to competence. Production models capture children's developing capacity to integrate lexical, syntactic, morphological, and phonological knowledge in real time as they produce sentences. Data commonly used to study this capacity include speech errors, dysfluency patterns, priming, and measures of rate. Current consensus finds that the production system is architecturally adult‐like early on, but less efficient.
Book description:
Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields.
The Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section.
Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.
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First, the Raven: A Preface
Seth Rogoff
Sy Kirschbaum has spent almost twenty years in Prague translating legendary Czech dissident Jan Horak’s samizdat masterpiece, Blue, Red, Gray. On the cusp of finishing, he is called back to his Maine hometown to see his troubled former lover, Ida Fields, now the wife of their childhood friend Gabe Slatky. But before he can see her, Sy must meet with Gabe for an evening at a local bar, an encounter that becomes a test of their old friendship and their dueling accounts of reality. In the conversation that follows, narratives of past and present—of art and life—interweave with perfect inevitability, yet with unpredictable, even shocking consequences, spiraling Sy and Gabe into confusion, doubt, and despair, without quite eroding, perhaps, the possibility of hope.
First, the Raven: A Preface is a quietly yet profoundly radical work, as ingenious as a print by Escher or a Möbius strip: the Reader must glide along its whole immaculately ramified length before realizing how deeply life, despite its unceasing, nearly flawless appearance of normalcy, is upside down.
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Catastrophic Consequences: The Link Between Rural Opioid Use and HIV/AIDS
Jennifer Lenardson MHS and Mary Lindsey Smith PhD, MSW
This chapter from HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities compares the rural–urban prevalence of HIV and opioid use, treatment, and harm reduction, and highlights efforts to control HIV and opioid use in rural states and communities. Rural persons who use opioids appear to have lower perceived risks of contracting HIV and lower perceived consequences associated with heroin use. Close social networks in rural communities and high-risk sex and injection drug use practices may facilitate exposure and transmission of HIV. Rural persons who use opioids may experience numerous potential barriers to HIV and substance abuse treatment and harm reduction activities. Given the challenges of studying a small population of opioid users and dealing with confidential information like HIV status and drug use, studies comparing rural and urban persons within the same state or nationwide will be important going forward.
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Work and Precarity
Jason Read PhD
Chapter 16 from A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully.
More about this chapter:
The current economic crisis has returned work to the center of politics. This return is ambiguous and contradictory. Following Kathi Weeks’ discussion of the antinomies of work, this chapter examines three contradictions of work through Hegel, Marx, and Spinoza. Hegel explores the contradiction between the ethical and economic dimension of work; Marx investigates the contradiction between labor as an individual commodity and a cooperative endeavor; and Spinoza makes possible an examination of the activity and passivity of work, its relation to the affects of hope and fear. The sensibility of precarity can then be understood as siding with one contradiction against the others, emphasizing the ethical, individual, and passive dimension of labor. A movement against precarity must stress the economic, collective, and active dimension of labor.
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A Region Apart: Representations of Maine and Northern New England in Personal Film, 1920-1940
Libby Bischof PhD
Chapter in Amateur Movie Making Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960, edited by Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon.
About the book:
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915 and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a moving image repository and study center that was established to collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the original private contexts of the home movies before they were recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.
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Case Study of a Successful Ashfill Mining Operation [Book Chapter]
Travis P. Wagner PhD
Book chapter from "Waste Management and Valorization: Alternative Technologies," edited by Elena Cristina Rada.
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The ‘Other Scene’ of Political Anthropology: Between Transindividuality and Equaliberty
Jason Read PhD
This collection explores Balibar’s rethinking of the connections between subjection and subjectivity by tracing the genealogies of these concepts in their discursive history. The 12 essays provide an overview of Balibar’s work after his collaboration with Althusser. They explain and expand his framework; in particular, by restoring Arabic and Islamic thought to the conversation on the citizen subject. The collection includes two previously untranslated essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes.
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Brush, Seal and Abacus: Troubled Vitality in Late Ming China’s Economic Heartland, 1500–1644
Jie Zhao PhD
This book is a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social groups—literati, scholar-officials, and merchants—as the framework for discussing the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces that coalesced and reinforced one another to influence and facilitate the region's change. A still wider perspective reveals how the region's political ties with the state and commercial links with external markets impacted the region for better and for worse. The book also discusses the literati's reflection and discourse, which their participation in the change generated, on the issues of morality, money, politics, and disorder. The book evokes the richly textured social and cultural life of Ming China's heartland in an age of commercial and cultural vigor, which then descended into distress and despair. For scholars and for others conversant with Chinese history, and Ming history in particular, the extensive use of literati sources and the references to contemporary scholarship will be of interest.
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Social Functions
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages, Volume 2.
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The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Bringing together artifacts, texts and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley here presents a comparative study of the cults of the medieval Sainte Foy at a number of sites where she was especially venerated. This book analyzes how each cult site produced the saint it needed, appropriating whatever was required to that end. Ashley's approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, incorporating visual, religious, medieval, and women's/gender studies as well as literary studies and social history. She uses theoretical framework of "cultural work" to analyze how the cult of Sainte Foy was sponsored and received in specific locales across Europe. The book is comprehensive in terms of historical as well as geographical range, tracing the history of the cult from the early Middle Ages into the present day. It also includes historiographic analysis, examining the way the cults of Sainte Foy have been represented in various historical accounts. Ashley's narrative challenges boundary between "elite" and "popular" culture, and complicates the traditional vernacular vs. Latin language binary. A chief aim of the study is to show how "art" objects always operated in conjunction with other cultural texts to construct a saint's cult. The volume is heavily illustrated, showing artifacts such as stained glass windows and wall paintings, which are not readily available from any other source.
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Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis
Dušan I. Bjelić Ph.D.
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish’s mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.
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Attentional resources in the shaping of temporal experience
Scott W. Brown PhD
Chapter 23 in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience, edited by Ian Phillips.
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Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy – according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect, temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a wealth of areas, from philosophy of mind and psychology, to metaphysics and aesthetics.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is an outstanding reference source to the key debates in this exciting subject area and represents the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is organized into seven clear parts:
- Ancient and early modern perspectives
- Nineteenth and early twentieth-century perspectives
- The structure of temporal experience
- Temporal experience and the philosophy of mind
- Temporal experience and metaphysics
- Empirical perspectives
- Aesthetics
Within each part, key topics concerning temporal experience are examined, including canonical figures such as Locke, Kant and Husserl; extensionalism, retentionalism and the specious present; interrelations between temporal experience and time, agency, dreaming, and the self; empirical theories of perceiving and attending to time; and temporal awareness in the arts including dance, music and film.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience is essential reading for students and researchers of philosophy of mind and psychology. It is also extremely useful for those in related fields such as metaphysics, phenomenology and aesthetics, as well as for psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists.
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Marsden Hartley's Maine
Donna M. Cassidy Ph.D., Elizabeth Finch, and Randall R. Griffey
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memory and longing, a refuge, and a means of communion with other artists, such as Winslow Homer, who painted there. This is the first book to look at the artist's complex relationship with the Pine Tree State, providing a nuanced understanding of Hartley's impressive range in over 80 works, from the early Post-Impressionist interpretations of seasonal change to the late depictions of Mount Katahdin, the most dramatic and enduring series in his oeuvre.00Exhibition: The Met Breuer, New York, USA (14.03-18.06.2017); Colby College Museum, Waterville, USA (18.07-12.11.2017)
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Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self-Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms
Megan Goodwin PhD
Chapter 7 from Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Marco Edward Bever and Randall Styers.
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This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism.
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All About Process: The Theory and Discourse of Modern Artistic Labor
Kim Grant PhD
In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art.
This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor.
Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.
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Becoming Human: Kant’s Philosophy of Education and Human Nature
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in The Palgrave Kant Handbook, ed. Matthew C. Altman
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Offers an accessibly structured approach to the most significant aspects of Kant’s varied philosophical insights Expands enquiry outside of themes explored by Kant to examine the impact of his groundbreaking work on intellectual history more broadly Provides a fresh platform for debate, through the inclusion of work by well-established as well as more junior scholars, on the relevance of Kant’s philosophy to contemporary work in metaphysics and ethics
CHAPTER DESCRIPTION: Louden argues that, appearances to the contrary, philosophy of education is of central importance to Kant’s overall philosophical program. Its chief importance stems largely from the commanding position that education holds within his theory of human nature. In Kant’s view, education is fundamentally about the effort to realize our humanity. As he proclaims near the beginning of the Lectures on Pedagogy: “The human being can only become human through education. He is nothing except what education makes out of him” (LP 9:443). The final destiny of the human race is moral perfection, so far as it is accomplished through human freedom, whereby the human being, in that case, is capable of the greatest happiness.…How, then, are we to seek this perfection, and from which point is it to be hoped for? From nowhere else but education. – Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics (LE 27:470, 471, translation modified) This essay borrows a few points from my “Becoming Human: Kant and the Philosophy of Education,” in Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 136–49; an earlier version of which appears under the title of “Afterword” in Philosophy of Education: The Essential Texts, ed. Steven M. Cahn (New York: Routledge, 2009), 281–92.
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Phantom Duty? Nietzsche versus Königsbergian Chinadom
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics, ed. João Constâncio and Tom Bailey
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Much high-quality work has recently been done to elucidate Nietzsche’s ethics. But little attention has been given to the critical relations between his ethics and the Kantian approach to ethics and politics, dominant in both his and our time. Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics examines the critical responses to Kantian senses of agency, freedom, responsibility, duty, equality and normativity and to specific Kantian moral and political duties that can be derived from Nietzsche’s work. These responses and the normative, theoretical and methodological issues that they raise are analysed and evaluated by established scholars from both Nietzschean and Kantian perspectives. The result is a rich and extensive treatment of the critical significance of Nietzsche and Kantian ethics and politics for each other.
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What Does Heaven Say?’: Tian 天 in the Analects
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Readings in the Philosophy of Religion – Third Edition, ed. Kelly James Clark.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: This anthology contains the best of both classical and contemporary sources, offering a balanced historical approach to the philosophy of religion while reflecting the latest developments in the field. The included readings grapple with issues that are existentially compelling and provocative regardless of one’s religious leanings. Topics are covered in a point–counterpoint manner designed to foster deep reflection. This third edition contains an entirely new section on early Chinese religion as well as new essays on religious language, feminism, and the cognitive science of religion.
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The French and Indian War
Jennifer Monroe McCutchen PhD
Entry in the Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington.
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The Proclamation Line of 1763
Jennifer Monroe McCutchen PhD
Entry in the Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington.
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Leaves Surface Like Skin
Michelle Menting PhD
In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob's Big Boy statuettes; ruling cockroaches populate a nuclear fall-out film; lichen becomes litter; a horse and farrier practice their choreography, as he "let[s] her lean on him, her hips cocked, almost delicate." These poems teem with litany, landscape, literal and figurative image; an awareness of mortality hovers, not so much afterlife as underlife. Menting has a gift for moody and luminous phrasing: "For some, the world is wood tick wicked." There's magic to a collection that does such heavy lifting with a light touch.
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"Something A Little Bit Tasty": Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar British Africa
Lacey Sparks PhD
Widespread malnutrition after the Great Depression called into question the role of the British state in preserving the welfare of both its citizens and its subjects. International organizations such as the League of Nations, empire-wide projects such as nutrition surveys conducted by the Committee for Nutrition in the Colonial Empire (CNCE), sub-imperial networks of medical and teaching professionals, and individuals on-the-spot in different colonies wove a dense web of ideas on nutrition. African women quickly became the focus of efforts to end malnutrition due to Malthusian concerns of underpopulation in Africa and African women’s role as both farmers and mothers. Currently, the field focuses either on the history of nutrition science in Britain specifically, such as David Smith’s Nutrition in Britain: Science, Scientists, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, or broadly on the history of European scientists of all disciplines in Africa, such as Helen Tilley’s Africa as a Living Lab. Gendered medical histories in Africa tend to have a narrow geographical focus and a broad chronology, such as Henrietta Moore and Megan Vaughan’s Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990. This work enlarges the field both by linking British nutrition science to nutrition science in Africa, and by analyzing gendered colonial policy across space rather than across time. The dissertation examines the process by which colonial officials came to pin their hopes of ending malnutrition on the education of African women. Specifically, this project analyzes nutrition surveys from the League of Nations and the CNCE, as well as articles and pamphlets circulated by medical and education experts. Using circular dispatches from the Colonial Office and CNCE, meeting minutes from the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies, annual education reports, and medical journal articles, this work zooms out to show the global context of the interest in malnutrition and the scientific advancements of nutrition. Then, the dissertation zooms in to illustrate how those global concerns impacted women in Southern Nigeria, who used colonial education for their own goals of professional advancement or marrying up rather than ending malnutrition. I argue that African women’s education transitioned from under the control of missions to the control of the state as a result of the proposed solutions of colonial nutrition surveys. Furthermore, I argue that, as a priority of the colonial state, the pedagogy of African women’s nutrition education became its own kind of colonial experiment as educators and students disagreed on the best means of relating the new knowledge of nutrition. In conclusion, the colonial state increasingly controlled African women’s education by the end of the 1930s, and this focus on altering individual African women’s food habits via education allowed the colonial state to take action to solve malnutrition without altering the colonial economy from which they profited. State-controlled education attempted to create a new kind of colonial subject concerned with science, which revealed the limits of state intervention and provided a new arena for African women to shape their own futures.
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A Hike at the Seashore
Laima Sruoginis MFA
A Hike at the Seashore offers a snapshot into the lives of five Lithuanian women over fifty. All five are from Vilnius and have been friends since their university days. They have been through a lot together and are each others' support network. All five are divorced. All are single. All suffer from empty nest syndrome. All work as professionals. Every summer they organize a girls' trip together. This summer they have traveled to the Baltic Sea coast. The group's self-appointed organizer, Vida, is on a fitness binge and insists her girlfriends spend their much needed vacation hiking thirty kilometers along the Baltic coast with Alpine walking sticks. The only problem is that her girlfriends don't quite agree... The play is a comedy, but at the same time addresses social issues in today's Eastern Europe. These five women came of age under the Soviet system, but have had to build their adult lives under a fledgling democracy with its brutal post-Soviet brand of capitalism and other social problems. But, laughter and their tight friendship has gotten them through hard times. The women often use slang and joke around, make references to their lives in the good old Soviet Union. There is a lot to cry about too. Like all of my plays, A Hike at the Seashore raises contemporary social issues. Breast cancer is becoming an epidemic, especially in Lithuania where we still feel the legacy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Vilija, a sensitive literary editor is recovering from breast cancer. She has lost her hair from chemotherapy. She goes on the hike not at all sure if life is worth living anymore. Her girlfriends are all there to support her, but a conflict with Vida threatens to tear their friendships apart. Vida has been damaged by her experiences. She went into premature labor on the night of the January 13, 1991 Soviet attacks on the newly elected Lithuanian parliament and the television and radio towers. As she struggled to raise a premature baby during times of intense hardship during the economic blockade, her husband drank. When he grew up, her son left for England, leaving her alone. Now she is determined to wrestle whatever happiness she can out of life. Then there is Goda, a talented psychologist, who is on a never-ending quest to find her soul mate, despite the fact that its a little late for her in life and stigmas against middle-aged women in Lithuania discourage dating. Jurgita is a family doctor and has made it her life's mission to take care of her girlfriends' health, especially Vilija's. As a student Kotryna ditched her studies in psychology and took advantage of Gorbachev's perestroika to open her own cafe. She has never looked back since. The only problem is that she enjoys tasting her own baking just a little too much. She blames her weight on her hormones, but her girlfriends know better. Through economic hardships, divorces, empty nest syndrome, coping with aging parents, these women have stuck together, forming a type of “new family” or support system. The play was originally written and performed in Lithuanian. In this edition both Lithuanian and English language versions of the play are included along with stage directions. Also included are photographs from the Alternatyva Alternatyvai Theatre production of the play at Tallaght Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.
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How Many Ways Can You Break a Woman's Heart: A Play in One Act
Laima Sruoginis MFA
This play is based on true life events as experienced by women who had to face their abusers in the Portland, Maine District Court. This play hopes to shed light on the epidemic problem of abuse and how woefully unprepared some courts are to protect women and children from their abusers.
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The Way Life Should Be: Essays About People Who Live Their Dreams
Laima Sruoginis MFA
THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE is a collection of essays about people who live their lives in alignment with their soul path. With the exception of one person, all of the people I've written about in this book live in Maine. Whether it's the rough cold North Atlantic or the tall pines or that specific northern light that attracts artists and dreamers to Maine, or whether it's the possibility of living just that far away from “civilization”, the people in these essays share one thing in common—the lives they live and the work they do are in harmony. And so, this is a book about the way life should be...
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This is Not My Sky: A Novel
Laima Sruoginis MFA
This coming of age story spans two continents and several generations. Based on true events, the story begins with the armed resistance of Lithuanians against Soviet occupation in the 1940s, a struggle that will resonate with many people around the world today. After losing her parents in this “invisible war”, the story’s heroine is able to escape to Poland and then to New York City, where she and then her children grow up. And they grow up and look to find their way in the tumultuous 60s, 70s and 80s against the backdrop of social change, new opportunities for women, and the drug culture – and with the tragic legacy of their home country. Finally, as Lithuania begins to regain its independence in the late 1980s, the characters come to terms with life in their new country, the possibilities of returning to their old country, and their strong but challenging family relationships. The story is gripping, personal and ultimately insightful and rewarding.Paul Landsbergis, New York, 2018This is Not My Sky is a compelling family saga full of tragedies and miracles, secrets and revelations that show human emotions in all their passionate and often irrational complexity. The novel spans the horror of Lithuania in the forties, the grit of the Bronx in the postwar period, and finally redemption of a kind in the eighties as Lithuania helps to engineer the decline and fall of The Soviet Union. The lives of girls and women are the novel’s particular focus, as they struggle for self-fulfillment under conditions of political and domestic tyranny.
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Walking
Henry David Thoreau and Adam Tuchinsky
Introduction by Adam Tuchinsky
"In Wildness is the preservation of the World," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay "Walking." Published posthumously in 1862, "Walking" became a seminal influence in the environmental movement. "Above all," wrote Thoreau, "we cannot afford not to live in the present." He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature and awakening to the moment. "Walking" is widely recognized as Thoreau's "other" masterpiece, Walden in a more concise form. Each reading of "Walking" offers new epiphanies from a writer and thinker who, two centuries after his birth in 1817, remains a towering figure in American nature writing. In the introduction to this book, Adam Tuchinsky accessibly and engagingly unpacks the essay's nineteenth-century associations and highlights the startling modernity of its sentiments.
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Dying Free: African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom, 1863-1877
Ashley Towle PhD
This dissertation explores the ways in which African Americans in the South used death to stake claims to citizenship and equality in the years following emancipation. The death and destruction the Civil War wrought did not end at Appomattox Courthouse. After the war, freedpeople in the South continued to die from disease, starvation, and exposure and former bondspeople became the targets of racial violence by white Southerners. By recasting emancipation as a struggle for power over life and death, “Dying Free” provides a new framework for examining the fraught power relations between former masters, ex-slaves, and the federal government in the postwar South. This dissertation asserts that African Americans used the murders of their loved ones and community members as opportunities to protest the injustices they faced as they tried to forge new lives in freedom. By harnessing the power of the dead in a variety of arenas, freedpeople strengthened their bonds with relatives and communities, denounced their unjust treatment at the hands of white Southerners, and demanded equality and the rights of citizenship from the federal government.
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Experiencing Music Composition in Grades 3-5
Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith
This book provides a unique and practical series of materials that help music teachers connect music education to young composers' everyday emotions and activities. Authors Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith, both veteran music educators, offer new ways to promote not only creative intuition in children but also independent thought, preparing students for a fulfilling relationship with music.
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Vexation Lullaby
Justin Tussing
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup a-man whose girlfriend called him a mama's boy and whose best friend considers him a homebody, a squanderer of adventure. But when he receives an unexpected request for a house call, he obliges, only to discover that his new patient is the aging, chameleonic rock star Jimmy Cross. Soon Peter is compelled to join the mysteriously Ailing celebrity, his band, and his entourage as they travel from state to state. On the road the supposed first physician embedded in a rock tour is thrust into a way of life that embraces disorder and risk rather than order and discipline. Trailing the band at every tour stop is Arthur Pennyman, Cross's number-one fan. Pennyman has not missed a performance in twenty years, sacrificing his family and job to chronicle every show on his website. Cross insists that being a fan is how we teach ourselves to love, and, in the end, Pennyman does learn. And when he hears a mythic, as-yet-unperformed song, he starts to piece together the puzzle of Peter's role in Cross's past
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The Long Fight: 'Combat!' and the Generic Development of the TV War Drama Series
David P. Pierson PhD
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Maine Photography: A History, 1840-2015
Elizabeth M. Bischof, Susan Danly, and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
Maine has always played a rich and varied role in the art of photography. For over a century, photographers, like other artists, have made their way to Maine to capture the natural beauty and human culture of the state. So, too, have many photographers come from Maine, and many contributions by Mainers have been made to the medium. Maine in Photography is the first comprehensive overview of the history of photography in the state. Providing basic knowledge of the most important people and institutions to have promoted photography, this volume also studies the ways in which photography has informed the understanding of the social and cultural history of Maine.
Beginning with the earliest daguerreotype portraits of the 1840s, this history traces the growth of the medium—emphasizing key contributions, such as the Stanley brothers’ invention of the dry plate process—through to the present. Key topics addressed throughout the book include the importance of photography in documenting labor and economic life, the close relationship between photography and the growth of tourism, and the role of Maine photographers in advancing the medium as a fine art form. Published in conjunction with the Maine Photo Project, this is a unique and timely addition to the body of work on the importance of Maine to American art.
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Wolf Cubs, the Butchers and the Beaune Town Council
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Our Dogs, Our Selves.
Animals figure prominently in medieval texts, whether as tropes in didactic literature, magical beings in romances, symbols in hagiography, or comic and moral foils in visual iconography. This brief essay turns instead to animals in the historical records, specifically the registers of sixteenth-century town council meetings in Beaune, center of the wine country of Burgundy, France. In general, animals are mentioned in these town records when they pose problems for public health, safety, or commerce. But in the domain of history—as in literary and artistic domains—animals occupy an important semiotic position in relation to human behaviors. At times the animals are regarded as extensions of, or participants in, a particular profession that is being regulated; but they can also stand for that which is “other” to humans. The specific example of butchers adopting wolf cubs described in the Beaune town records raises the issue of the perceived boundary between “wild” and domesticated in late medieval urban life. It was the job of the town council to determine and enforce such categories through their regulations, and by studying the records we see modern urban society coming into being. Significantly, within the context of this volume on dogs, the way council members distinguished between domesticated dogs and their wild cousins raises the further question of why the familiar butchers’ dogs are never mentioned and reveals a profoundly puzzling difference between English and French town records of the period.
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Research Literacy: A primer for understanding and using research
Jeffrey S. Beaudry PhD and Lynne Miller
Preparing students to become informed, critical consumers of research, this accessible text builds essential skills for understanding research reports, evaluating the implications for evidence-based practice, and communicating findings to different audiences. It demystifies qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs and provides step-by-step procedures for judging the strengths and limitations of any study. Excerpts from real research reports are used as opportunities to develop methodological knowledge and practice analytic skills. Based on sound pedagogic principles, the text is structured for diverse learning styles: visual learners (concept maps, icons), active learners (building-block exercises and templates for writing), and story learners (examples, reading guides, and reflections).
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"Practical handbook of multi-tiered systems of support: Building academic and behavioral success in schools"
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP and Rebekah Bickford
Accessible and comprehensive, this book shows how to build a schoolwide multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) from the ground up. The MTSS framework encompasses tiered systems such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), and is designed to help all K-12 students succeed. Every component of an MTSS is discussed: effective instruction, the role of school teams, implementation in action, assessment, problem solving, and data-based decision making. Practitioner-friendly features include reflections from experienced implementers and an extended case study. Reproducible checklists and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8½“ x 11” size.
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Health Care Informatics
Carol Fackler DNSc, RN
Chapter 21 in Clinical Nurse Leader Certification Review.
Book description:
Now in its second edition, this book remains the only comprehensive resource for clinical nurse leaders preparing for certification. The guide stems directly from Dr. King's acclaimed exam preparation course, which resulted in a 100% pass rate among students who took the course. The second edition reflects the new requirements of Competencies and Curricular Expectations for Clinical Nurse Leader Education and Practice (2013), featuring new and updated chapters with information about risk mitigation, lateral integration, interprofessional skills, care coordination, and evidence-based practice; an updated glossary of key terms; and new multiple-choice questions and case studies. The resource mirrors the format of the AACN exam, and continues to cover all aspects of the current test, providing detailed information on taking the exam, how to analyze and interpret exam questions, basic test-taking skills, questions to stimulate critical thinking, a sample exam with answers and rationales, and content review of everything you need to know to succeed on the exam. The review not only helps individuals preparing for the exam, but also provides strategies to help groups of students make the best use of the book. It offers direction for faculty who are designing review courses and serves as a valuable resource during the clinical nurse leader program itself.
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Teaching an online course on Sexual Harassment [Book Chapter]
Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW
The frequency of sexual assault on college campuses is startlingly high. Notwithstanding this fact, most campus officials are not trained in the psychology of the victimization process, while most students are not aware of their reporting options. A practical guide to sexual assault at colleges and universities, this book integrates theories and empirical research with information about legislation and techniques to help college administrators deal with—and prevent—these disturbing offenses.
The work brings together a team of experts who discuss various types of assault, including rape, stalking, intimate partner violence, and sexual harassment, and detail the legal, educational, and federal responses to such events on college campuses. They address federal and state laws, including new bills being proposed in Congress, and present research on the physical and psychological dimensions of sexual assault. Perhaps most important, the book shows how human resource techniques and principles can be used to establish preventative measures and to respond appropriately when sexual assault does occur. Students' accounts of prevention training and education enhance the scholarly and legal contributions to this important—and timely—volume.
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Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention
Joel Fleurence and Ira Levine
Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention presents the potential usage of seaweed, macroalgae, and their extracts for enhancing health and disease. The book explores the possibilities in a comprehensive way, including outlining how seaweed can be used as a source of macronutrients and micronutrients, as well as nutraceuticals. The commercial value of seaweed for human consumption is increasing year-over-year, and some countries harvest several million tons annually. This text lays out the properties and effects of seaweeds and their use in the food industry, offering a holistic view of the ability of seaweed to impact or effect angiogenesis, tumors, diabetes and glucose control, oxidative stress, fungal infections, inflammation and infection, the gut, and the liver.
- Combines foundational information and nutritional context, offering a holistic approach to the relationship between sea vegetables, diet, nutrition, and health
- Provides comprehensive coverage of health benefits, including sea vegetables as sources of nutraceuticals and their specific applications in disease prevention, such as angiogenesis, diabetes, fungal infections, and others
- Includes Dictionary of Terms, Key Facts, and Summary points in each chapter to enhance comprehension
- Includes information on toxic varieties and safe consumption guidelines to supplement basic coverage of health benefits
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Exploring a Typology of Homelessness in Hawai‘i Using a Mixed Methods Approach
Kristen D. Gleason PhD
Homelessness has become one of the largest and most intractable problems of modernity. The State of Hawai‘i, like many other areas in the United States, has large numbers of homeless individuals and families who seek support through the many shelters and services available in the state. This mixed methods study was interested in exploring if there is identifiable diversity in how individuals and families tend to move through Hawai‘i’s homeless service system over time.
First, homeless service providers (n = 9) and service users (n = 9) were interviewed about the factors they saw as having a significant impact on differing experiences of homelessness in the state. Participant interviews were thematically coded and identified a number of individual and family, program and organization, systemic, and community and societal level factors that can shape an individual’s homeless experience.
The data obtained in these interviews were then used to inform a quantitative examination of administrative service usage data from the Hawai‘i Homeless Management Information System. The sample consisted of all adults who had entered the service system for the first time in the fiscal year of 2010 ( N = 4,655). These individuals were then tracked through the end of FY 2014, as they used emergency shelter, transitional shelter, and outreach services. A latent class growth analysis (LCGA) was conducted with this longitudinal data and identified four distinct patterns of service use: low service use (n = 3966, 85.2%); typical transitional service use ( n = 452, 9.7%); atypical transitional use (n = 127, 2.7%), and potential chronic service use (n = 110, 2.4%). A series of multinomial logistic regression models were the used determine if select demographic, family, background, or health variables were associated with class membership. The distinct profiles for class membership are discussed.
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Masculinities in the Making: From the Local to the Global
James Messerschmidt PhD
In Masculinities in the Making, James W. Messerschmidt unravels the mysteries surrounding the question of how masculinities are actually “made.” One of the most respected scholars on the subject of masculinities, Messerschmidt brings together three seemingly disparate groups—wimps, genderqueers, and U.S. presidents—to examine what insight each has to offer our understanding of masculinities. The book is unique in its coverage, including a revised structured action theory; an intersectional analysis of sex, gender, and sexuality; and an examination of the differences among masculinities from the local to the global. Messerschmidt provides a fresh, accessible, and provocative argument that significantly advances our knowledge on masculinities.
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Masculinities, Structure, and Hegemony
James B. Messerschmidt PhD and Stephen Tomsen PhD
Chapter from The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts.
A comprehensive one-stop reference text, this Companion will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic. Comprising over a hundred concise and authoritative essays written by leading scholars in the field, this volume explains in a clear and inviting way the emergence, context, evolution and current status of key criminological theories and conceptual themes. The Companion is divided into six historical and thematic parts, each introduced by the editors and containing a selection of accessible and engaging short essays written specifically for this text: Foundations of Criminological Thought and Contemporary Revitalizations; The Emergence and Growth of American Criminology; From Appreciation to Critique; Late Critical Criminologies and New Directions; Punishment and Security; Geographies of Crime Comprehensive cross-referencing between entries will provide the reader with signposts to later developments, to critiques and to associated theoretical developments explored within the book and lists of further reading in every entry will encourage independent thinking and study. This book is an essential reference to criminology students at all levels and is the perfect companion for courses on criminological theory.
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Kant's Shorter Writings: Critical Paths Outside the Critiques
Rafael V. Orden Jiménez, Robert Hanna, Robert B. Louden PhD, Jacinto Rivera de Rosales, and Nuria Sánchez Madrid
This collection highlights the importance of Kant’s shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant’s work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of Kant’s complete corpus of writings. As such, this volume provides a ground-breaking approach to contemporary Kant studies by offering a new interpretive perspective to enable Kant scholars to advance their research projects. At the same time, it allows a general overview of Kant’s work for a broader non-scholarly audience interested in his critical philosophy and its context.
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The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from Deleuze and the Passions, edited by Ceciel Meiborg and Sjoerd van Tuinen.
In recent years the humanities, social sciences and neuroscience have witnessed an ‘affective turn,’ especially in discourses around post-Fordist labor, economic and ecological crises, populism and identity politics, mental health, and political struggle. This new awareness would be unthinkable without the pioneering work of Gilles Deleuze, who replaced judgment with affect as the very material movement of thought: every concept is an affective experience, a becoming. Besides entirely active affects, the highest practice of thought, there is no thought without passive affects or passions. Instead of a calm and rational philosophy of passions, Deleuzian thought is therefore inseparable from “isolated and passionate cries” that deny what everybody knows and what nobody can deny: “every true thought is an aggression.”
This inseparability of reason and passion is by no means an anti-intellectualist or irrationalist stance. Rather, it is critical, since it protects reason from its self-imposed stupidity (bêtise) by relating it to the unthought forces that condition it. And it is clinical, because thought becomes possessed by a power of selection. The purely active, i.e. free-floating, unrecorded desire, is never enough to produce a consistent relation to the future, which is why we need the passions to give us an initial orientation, to force and enable us to think. Passions are the beliefs, perceptions, representations, and opinions that attach us to the world; they make up the very material of which our lives and thoughts are composed.
Instead of truth as the ultimate criterion of judgment, the only principle according to which affective becomings can be selected and evaluated is the extent to which they proliferate joy. Spinoza and Marx show how the recruitment of desire traditionally takes place through the tyrants and priests who inspire sad passions in us. Similarly, the work of Deleuze and Guattari on capitalism and schizophrenia can be read as an encyclopedia of the passions that constitute the affective infrastructure of the socius of contemporary capitalism. If it takes a lot of inventiveness or imagination to be able to diagnose our present becomings, this is because becomings are always composites of joyful and sad passions. Capitalism could not exist if it did not also inspire happiness, love, courage, and perhaps even beatitude. That is why, today, we witness “the spectacle of the happily dominated” (Frédéric Lordon) of the self-entrepreneur, the managerial class, the flex worker, the citizen-consumer, the bean-roasting hipster, and the self-managed team.
It is within this field of contradictory and heterogeneous passions that the authors of this volume pursue the diagnosis of our past and present becomings. Their contributions add up to a systematic taxonomy of the passions and indicate their importance for a thinking that reaches beyond itself.
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The Politics of Transindividuality
Jason Read Ph.D.
The Politics of Transindividuality re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical speculation and political practice. While the term transindividuality is drawn from the work of Gilbert Simondon, this book views it broadly, examining such canonical figures as Spinoza, Hegel, and Marx, as well as contemporary debates involving Etienne Balibar, Bernard Stiegler, and Paolo Virno. Through these intersecting aspects and interpretations of transindividuality the book proposes to examine anew the intersection of politics and economics through their mutual constitution of affects, imagination, and subjectivity.
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Fostering globalism: Community partnerships to grow your own teachers
Flynn Ross EdD and A Ahmed
Chapter in Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts Critical Perspectives, edited by Clea Schmidt & Jens Schneider.
Book description:
Diversifying the teaching force has become a priority in many migrant-receiving jurisdictions worldwide with the growing mismatch between the ethnic backgrounds, cultures, languages, and religions of teachers and those of students and families. Arguments for diversification tend to be couched in terms of disproportionate representation and students from minority backgrounds needing positive role models, yet research identifies other compelling reasons for diversification, including the fact that teachers of migrant backgrounds often possess outstanding qualifications when multilingualism and internationally obtained education and experience are taken into account, and the fact that all students, including majority-background students, benefit from a diversity of role models in schools. Nevertheless, the process of diversification is fraught with complexity. Depending on the context, systemic discrimination, an oversupply of teachers in the profession generally, and outdated hiring policies and practices can all impede efforts to diversify the teaching force.This volume comprises original research from Canada, the U.S., Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and England that problematizes issues of diversifying the teaching force and identifies promising practices. A foreword written by Charlene Bearhead of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation questions the very purpose of education in and for diverse societies. An introduction written by the editors defines key concepts and establishes a rationale for diversifying the teaching force in migrant-receiving contexts. Following this, key international scholars offer empirical perspectives using a range of methodologies and theories rooted in critical social science paradigms. The volume informs future research, programming, and policy development in this area." Chapter description: A culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) teaching and leadership force has the potential to strengthen education for all students by fostering multilingual, global perspectives in increasingly diverse intercultural settings. The call to prepare students to be global citizens who are multilingual and cross culturally aware has been made by multiple groups in the United States, including Asia Society’s International School Study Network, Standards for 21st Century Learning, and International Baccalaureate.
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Digging a Hole to China: A Memoir on Teaching and Traveling
Laima Sruoginis MFA
DIGGING A HOLE TO CHINA is part travel writing, part memoir. Each chapter can be read as an individual essay or as part of the narrative. Laima Vince relocates to Hong Kong to teach at a Chinese international school (2013 - 2015). While she is in Hong Kong the Umbrella Revolution breaks out. Students and teachers in Hong Kong find themselves on opposing sides of the demonstrations. Some support mainland China while others dream of universal suffrage and democracy for Hong Kong. While living and working in Hong Kong Laima begins to understand the complex society that is today's China. This book chronicles life in Hong Kong as the region transitions from a former colony of Great Britain into a semi-autonomous city in China. Today's Hong Kong is a cultural crossroad between East and West. Contemporary Asia is a mixture of the ancient and the modern. Laima Vince documents the diverse voices of contemporary Asia while teaching, traveling,and exploring. Among the many people, whose lives she documents in this book, there is Michael, a mainland Chinese who grew up in a province of China and drew his community's discontent by learning English. Then there is Hans, a member of the Dusun Head Hunter's tribe of Borneo, who grew up in a traditional society in which his grandmother, a Baba Hasan, or medicine woman, could coax a breeze out of the sky. And there is Mariana, one of the last Macanese in Macau, a young archeologist striving to preserve her rapidly vanishing culture. During the two years chronicled in this book (2013 - 2015) Laima takes a 56-hour train ride from Guangzhou to Tibet; hikes through the rain forest with a descendant of Head Hunters; goes island hopping across the turquoise waters of the Philippines with three generations of a Filipino family in a fragile bamboo boat; together with her students builds a house from palm tree fronds in a Cambodian village; and stands with Hong Kong's student protestors as they politely request the Chinese government to respect their right to universal suffrage.
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The Cosmic Tree: Poems by Laima Vince
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Laima Vince began writing these poems as a MFA student at Columbia University School of the Arts. She continued writing poetry throughout her life, as she passed through many different phases of womanhood--marriage, motherhood, divorce, self-discovery, coming the terms. These poems consider what it means to be a woman in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. The poems also reflect a life of creativity and personal challenge.
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David Bowie and the Art of Performance
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s.
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Future Nostalgia: Performing David Bowie
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses-theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, theories of sound, post-colonial theory, and performance studies Waldrep examines Bowie's work in terms not only of his auditory output but his many reinterpretations of it via music videos, concert tours, television appearances, and occasional movie roles. Future Nostalgia looks at all aspects of Bowie's career in an attempt to trace Bowie's contribution to the performative paradigms that constitute contemporary rock music.
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The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general
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Psycholinguistics: Gestures & Home Signs
Sandra K. Wood PhD and J Morford
Entry in The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia edited by Genie Gertz and Patrick Boudreault.
Book description:
The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of entries defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level using critical and intersectional lenses encompassing the field. The emergence of Deaf Studies programs at colleges and universities and the broadened knowledge of social sciences (including but not limited to Deaf History, Deaf Culture, Signed Languages, Deaf Bilingual Education, Deaf Art, and more) have served to expand the activities of research, teaching, analysis, and curriculum development. The field has experienced a major shift due to increasing awareness of Deaf Studies research since the mid-1960s. The field has been further influenced by the Deaf community’s movement, resistance, activism and politics worldwide, as well as the impact of technological advances, such as in communications, with cell phones, computers, and other devices.
This new Encyclopedia shifts focus away from the medical model that has view deaf individuals as needing to be remedied in order to correct so-called hearing and speaking deficiencies for the sole purpose of assimilation into mainstream society. The members of deaf communities are part of a distinct cultural and linguistic group with a unique, vibrant community, and way of being.
As precedence, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia carves out a new and critical perspective that breathes meaning into organic deaf experiences through a new critical theory lens. Such a focus is novel in that it comes from deaf and hearing allies of the communities where historically, institutions of medicine and disability ride roughshod over authentic experiences.
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Sexual Harassment in Education and Work: Current Theories, Research and Best Practices for Prevention
Michele A. Paludi PhD; Jennifer L. Martin PhD; James E. Gruber PhD; and Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW
This book addresses current legal and psychological issues involved in campus and workplace violence, specifically sexual misconduct, and offers best practices for organizations seeking to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct.
Dr. Susan Fineran, Professor Emerita at the University of Southern Maine, wrote the Chapter 13 "Teaching an Online Course on Sexual Harassment: A Course for Graduate and Undergraduate Students".
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Windscapes: A Global Perspective on Wind Power
James Aber, Susan Aber, and Firooza Pavri
Wind power has emerged in the twenty-first century as a viable and significant component of global energy production. And while embraced in some sectors, resistance remains to its full implementation in other situations.
Windscape is the authors' term for the variety of elements that feed in to the harnessing of wind power. They include the combination of local climate and geography, environmental and ecological conditions; the mix of public policies; human land use and available infrastructure. Just as a variety of factors combine to create a landscape, so these factors combine, the authors argue, to create a windscape.
In developing the concept, the authors look at the history of wind energy and its modern emergence as a viable power source; the technology of converting wind into electricity; public policy as regards wind power. Importantly, the authors do not shy away from examining some of the environmental and aesthetic negatives attached to the subject of wind power. Case studies illustrating the authors' arguments are derived from Europe, Asia and the USA, and the book concludes with a review of the current status of wind power. This book will be particularly useful to students on all kinds of renewables/sustainability courses, as well as for researchers, educators and developers working in the general area of wind engineering.
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Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas
Stacy M. Jameson, Karen Klugman, Jane Kuenz PhD, and Susan Willis
On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not a world apart. Combining written critique with more than one hundred photographs by Karen Klugman, Strip Cultures examines the politics of food and water, art and spectacle, entertainment and branding, body and sensory experience. In confronting the ordinary on America’s most famous four-mile stretch of pavement, the authors reveal how the Strip concentrates and magnifies the basic truths and practices of American culture where consumerism is the stuff of life, digital surveillance annuls the right to privacy, and nature—all but destroyed—is refashioned as an element of decor.
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Unbuttoning America
Ardis Cameron Ph.D.
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based the novel’s setting, characters, and incidents on real-life places, people, and events. The novel sold more than 30 million copies in hardcover and paperback, and it was adapted into a hit Hollywood film in 1957 and a popular television series that aired from 1964 to 1969. More than half a century later, the term "Peyton Place" is still in circulation as a code for a community harboring sordid secrets.
In Unbuttoning America, Ardis Cameron mines extensive interviews, fan letters, and archival materials including contemporary cartoons and cover images from film posters and foreign editions to tell how the story of a patricide in a small New England village circulated over time and became a cultural phenomenon. She argues that Peyton Place, with its frank discussions of poverty, sexuality, class and ethnic discrimination, and small-town hypocrisy, was more than a tawdry potboiler. Metalious’s depiction of how her three central female characters come to terms with their identity as women and sexual beings anticipated second-wave feminism. More broadly, Cameron asserts, the novel was also part of a larger postwar struggle over belonging and recognition. Fictionalizing contemporary realities, Metalious pushed to the surface the hidden talk and secret rebellions of a generation no longer willing to ignore the disparities and domestic constraints of Cold War America.
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Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
Piers Bierne PhD
This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.
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Lizzie Borden on Trial : Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender
Joseph A. Conforti
Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.
Surprising for how much it reveals about a legend so ostensibly familiar, Conforti's account is also fascinating for what it tells us about the world that Lizzie Borden inhabited. As Conforti--himself a native of Fall River, the site of the infamous murders--introduces us to Lizzie and her father and step-mother, he shows us why who they were matters almost as much to the trial's outcome as the actual events of August 4, 1892. Lizzie, for instance, was an unmarried woman of some privilege, a prominent religious woman who fit the profile of what some characterized as a "Protestant nun." She was also part of a class of moneyed women emerging in the late 19th century who had the means but did not marry, choosing instead to pursue good works and at times careers in the helping professions. Many of her contemporaries, we learn, particularly those of her class, found it impossible to believe that a woman of her background could commit such a gruesome murder.
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Kant’s Lectures / Kants Vorlesungen
Bernd Dörflinger, Claudio La Rocca, Robert B. Louden PhD, and Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo Marques
Although they were not written by Kant himself, the transcripts of his lectures constitute an important source for philosophical research today. Some of the contributions presented in this volume discuss the authenticity and significance of these transcripts, for example the status of Kant's lectures on logic and anthropology, while others shed light on the historical formation of specific writings, for instance the texts on the philosophy of religion. The contributions provide new insights into Kant's philosophy, that, if looking at Kant's published writings alone, we would not be able to gain. In a number of cases, a critical analysis of Kant's lectures gives us a better understanding of his published works. Thus his lectures on metaphysics shed new light on his Critique of Pure Reason, while the lecture on natural law is a valuable source for the understanding of his published legal writings.
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Bullying and Peer Sexual Harassment in Schools [Book Chapter]
Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW
School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research has been a foundational guide to the profession for over 40 years. The first comprehensive introduction to the field, the book has featured the writings of the pioneers in the field while also accommodating the remarkable changes and growing complexities of the profession with each subsequent revision. The profession continues to grow in both the US and internationally, despite the ever-present concerns surrounding limited resources, budgets, and social worker to student ratios. Contemporary school social work takes place throughout the whole school and community, it takes place through policy change, and it takes place with at-risk students and their families as well as through individual and group work with students who struggle both emotionally and academically. This book reflects the many ways that school social work practice impacts academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for both youths and the broader school community.
This revision features the contributions of 21 new scholars who bring their expertise in the field to this classic text. There are ten all-new chapters that reflect the current and emerging issues central to the profession, and eight extensive revisions of chapters from the previous edition. The eighth edition strengthens the book's focus on evidence informed practice, and places all content within the context of the prevailing multi-tiered model of school interventions.
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"It's not just about giving them money": Cultural representations of father involvement among black West Indian immigrants in the United States of America
Lance Gibbs PhD
The current project examined the meanings of father involvement among black West Indian immigrant males and females (19-81 years old) who are lawful/legal permanent residents living in the United States (U.S.). Subsequent investigations explored the role race/ethnicity and migration played in producing and reproducing cultural meanings and understandings of father involvement, as an aspect of the immigrants' identity creation.
The issues of father involvement, especially among black migrant West Indians are important because work on Caribbean migration is feminized. Next, knowledge of black West Indian immigrant fathers and how they father in this new cultural space is not given much interest since all black fathers in the U.S. are seemingly placed into a preconceived racial category which carries very strong negative connotations. Lastly, black white dichotomization characterizes race relation in the U.S., but fails to take into consideration that blacks across the Diaspora are themselves a diverse group of people and as such, ethnic differences (West Indian immigrants and African Americans) and not across groups differences (black, white) need to be assessed.
Using racialogy and racial consciousness frameworks from Omi and Winant, and Roediger, I utilized survey responses and in-depth interviews from a diverse socio-economic group of West Indian immigrants at various sites across the U.S. to assess the issues of father involvement. I found that black West Indian migrants in the U.S. defined father involvement in holistic terms; financial provider, friend, educational instructor, life coach, and so on. The role of fathering was not limited to just childhood but continues until the father or child passed away. Father involvement was not confined to a household and is understood as a community behavior.
Migration and racial self-perception have profound effects on male immigrants' perceptions of fathering and plays an integral role in how they create and recreate their identities as immigrants. Religious attitudes from the home country also influenced how West Indian immigrants defined father involvement. Examinations of generational status did not reveal significant differences in responses.
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‘The End of All Human Action’/’The Final Object of All My Conduct’: Aristotle and Kant on the Highest Good
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are important differences in terms of content, there are also important similarities in terms of the structural features of Aristotle's and Kant's value theories. By carefully analysing Aristotle's and Kant's theories of the highest good, a team of experts in the field shed light on their respective ethical theories and highlight the richness, complexity, and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good.
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Vigilantius: Morality for Humans
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant’s Lectures on Ethics: A Critical Guide.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: This is the first book devoted to an examination of Kant's lectures on ethics, which provide a unique and revealing perspective on the development of his views. In fifteen newly commissioned essays, leading Kant scholars discuss four sets of student notes reflecting different periods of Kant's career: those taken by Herder (1762–4), Collins (mid-1770s), Mrongovius (1784–5) and Vigilantius (1793–4). The essays cover a diverse range of topics, from the relation between Kant's lectures and the Baumgarten textbooks, to obligation, virtue, love, the highest good, freedom, the categorical imperative, moral motivation and religion. Together they provide the reader with a deeper and fuller understanding of the evolution of Kant's moral thought. The volume will be of interest to a range of readers in Kant studies, ethics, political philosophy, religious studies and the history of ideas.
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Why be Moral?
Robert B. Louden Ph.D. and Beatrix Himmelmann
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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Valuing Energy for Global Needs: A Systems Approach
Daniel M. Martinez PhD and Ben W. Ebenhack
This book serves as a starting point for energy engineers, sustainability managers, political leaders, and properly informed citizens to explore the net value added by energy systems. Since some resources deplete and some new technologies will require time to emerge, the book takes the reader through the range of costs and benefits, considering the contexts of geography, human needs, and of time. The book takes a particularly close look at the underdeveloped world that currently lacks access to modern energy, and which is crippled by its dependence on dirty, inefficient biomass fuels o meet bare subsistence needs. The authors provide evidence for the reality that energy provides tremendous social value, ranging from the most basic survival to development, to great luxury, inevitably, at a cost. Based on this evidence the reader will be well-equipped to ask the questions: Which energy resources should be abandoned and which should be embraced as we strive for a sustainable future?
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Beauvoir’s Preface to Mihloud
Julien Murphy PhD and Lillian S. Robinson PhD
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women.
Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
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Newcomers entering teaching: The possibilities of a culturally and linguistically diverse teaching force
Flynn Ross EdD
Chapter 6 in Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: Preparing and Retaining Highly Effective Teachers, edited by Christine Sleeter, La Vonne Neal, & Kevin Kumashiro.
Book description:
Diversifying the Teacher Workforce critically examines efforts to diversify the teaching force and narrow the demographic gap between who teaches and who populates U.S. classrooms. While the demographic gap is often invoked to provide a needed rationale for preparing all teachers, and especially White teachers, to work with students of color, it is far less often invoked in an effort to examine why the teaching force remains predominantly White in the first place. Based on work the National Association for Multicultural Education is engaged in on this phenomenon, this edited collection brings together leading scholars to look closely at this problem. They examine why the teaching force is predominantly White from historical as well as contemporary perspectives, showcase and report available data on a variety of ways this problem is being tackled at the pre-service and teacher credentialing levels, and examine how a diverse and high-quality teaching force can be retained and thrive. This book is an essential resource for any educator interested in exploring race within the context of today’s urban schools.
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Changing the Field: Teachers of Color Move Into Leadership Positions
Flynn Ross EdD, A M. Watson, and R W. Simmons
Chapter 3 in Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: Preparing and Retaining Highly Effective Teachers, edited by Christine Sleeter, La Vonne Neal, & Kevin Kumashiro.
Book description:
Diversifying the Teacher Workforce critically examines efforts to diversify the teaching force and narrow the demographic gap between who teaches and who populates U.S. classrooms. While the demographic gap is often invoked to provide a needed rationale for preparing all teachers, and especially White teachers, to work with students of color, it is far less often invoked in an effort to examine why the teaching force remains predominantly White in the first place. Based on work the National Association for Multicultural Education is engaged in on this phenomenon, this edited collection brings together leading scholars to look closely at this problem. They examine why the teaching force is predominantly White from historical as well as contemporary perspectives, showcase and report available data on a variety of ways this problem is being tackled at the pre-service and teacher credentialing levels, and examine how a diverse and high-quality teaching force can be retained and thrive. This book is an essential resource for any educator interested in exploring race within the context of today’s urban schools.
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Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past
Robert M. Sanford PhD
Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see.
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A Mong Kok Romeo and Juliet: A Play in Four Acts
Laima Sruoginis MFA
This play for young adults is a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET set in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Mong Kok. The play tells a love story between teenagers from two Mong Kok families, who have been ensnared in conflict since “a business deal went wrong.” Raj Kapoor, an Indian, and an idealistic young man, as well as a poet, falls in love with Juliet Chiu, the only daughter of the wealthy and powerful Chius of Mong Kok. Juliet proves to be the perfect match for Raj. Misunderstood by her materialistic parents, Juliet is a sensitive soul who also writes poetry, causing her parents to worry. However, the Chius are truly alarmed when their usually obedient daughter refuses to enter into an engagement for an arranged marriage with a wealthy businessman hand-picked by her parents...
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Experiential Financial Therapy
Derek Tharp PhD, MFCS, CFP
Book chapter 7 by Derek Tharp.
Money-related stress dates as far back as concepts of money itself. Formerly it may have waxed and waned in tune with the economy, but today more individuals are experiencing financial mental anguish and self-destructive behavior regardless of bull or bear markets, recessions or boom periods. From a fringe area of psychology, financial therapy has emerged to meet increasingly salient concerns.
Financial Therapy is the first full-length guide to the field, bridging theory, practical methods, and a growing cross-disciplinary evidence base to create a framework for improving this crucial aspect of clients' lives. Its contributors identify money-based disorders such as compulsive buying, financial hoarding, and workaholism, and analyze typical early experiences and the resulting mental constructs ("money scripts") that drive toxic relationships with money. Clearly relating financial stability to larger therapeutic goals, therapists from varied perspectives offer practical tools for assessment and intervention, advise on cultural and ethical considerations, and provide instructive case studies. A diverse palette of research-based and practice-based models meets monetary mental health issues with well-known treatment approaches, among them:
- Cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused therapies.
- Collaborative relationship models.
- Experiential approaches.
- Psychodynamic financial therapy.
- Feminist and humanistic approaches.
- Stages of change and motivational interviewing in financial therapy.
A text that serves to introduce and define the field as well as plan for its future, Financial Therapy is an important investment for professionals in psychotherapy and counseling, family therapy, financial planning, and social policy
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The ‘China Girl’ Problem: Reconsidering David Bowie in the 1980s
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in David Bowie: Critical Perspectives.
David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of ‘textualities’, ‘psychologies’, ‘orientalisms’, ‘art and agency’ and ‘performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work. This comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.
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Cases on Teaching Critical Thinking Through Visual Representation Strategies
Leonard J. Shedletsky and Jeffrey S. Beaudry
This book brings together research from scholars and professionals in the field of education to provide new insights into the use of visual aids for student development in reasoning and critical thinking.
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The Performed Book: Textuality and Social Space in the Cult of Sainte Foy
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
Chapter in ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama.
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Responsive Assessment and Instruction Practices
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP; Mark W. Steege; and Rebekah Bickford
Chapter 10 in Academic Assessment and Intervention, edited by Steven Little & Angeleque Akin-Little.
Book description:
Serving students with academic deficiencies necessitates communication and collaboration among professionals from several disciplines. Academic Assessment and Intervention brings together divergent approaches in order to demonstrate that scientific evidence, rather than biases or previous practice, must determine assessment practices that are selected and used for particular purposes.
Similar to a handbook in its comprehensive topical coverage, this edited collection provides a contextual foundation for academic assessment and intervention; describes both norm-referenced and curriculum-based assessment/measurement in detail; considers the implications of both of these assessments on ethnically diverse populations; provides a clear link between assessment, evidence-based interventions and the RTI model; and considers other important topics related to this area such as teacher behavior. Intended primarily for graduate-level courses in education, school psychology, or child clinical psychology, it will also be of interest to practicing professionals in these fields.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions using case study data
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP; M.W. Steeg; and Rebekah Bickford
Chapter in Best Practices in School Psychology, edited by Patti Harrison and Alex Thomas.
This 4-volume printed set of Best Practices in School Psychology is your staple resource from grad school to retirement! With over 2300 pages of the most current, relevant, and valued information, this resource is sure to be essential in your daily practice.
In the latest edition, you'll find:
- An expanded focus on multitiered, problem-solving, and evidence-based approaches
- Information necessary for competent delivery of school psychological services
Volumes are organized by topic and subject area and focus on data-based and collaborative decision making, systems-level services, student-level services, and school psychology foundations.
Practitioners, graduate students, interns, and faculty will appreciate the thorough coverage contained in this set. The 4-volume set follows the framework of the 2010 NASP Model for Comprehensive and Integrated School Psychological Services.
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Exploring Discourses on Human Trafficking in Hawai'i
Kristen D. Gleason PhD
Human trafficking has garnered the attention of policymakers, the media, and academics for years. However, controversy, competing discourses, and a lack of conceptual clarity often complicate efforts to prevent and address the problem of human trafficking in local contexts throughout the U.S. Interviews with 13 local service providers on the islands of O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i were conducted to explore discourses on human trafficking in the Islands. Critical discourse analytical methodologies were used to: 1) map discourse strands, 2) understand how human trafficking is situated in a context of other phenomena, and 3) explore how key social actors were characterized. Results indicated that participant discourses were both idiosyncratically constructed according to individual preference, experience, and values, and were influenced by prevailing cultural and societal discourses. The implications of these discourses, in terms of their ability to hinder or aid socially just understandings of the issue, are discussed.
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Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education
Michele E. Kaschub and Janice P. Smith
Music teacher education is under heavy criticism for failing to keep pace with the changing needs and interests of 21st century learners. Technological innovations, evolving demographics in the school age population, and students' omnipresent access to music and music making all suggest that contemporary teaching and learning occurs in environments that are much more complex than those of the 19th century that served as music education's primary model. This book surveys emerging music and education landscapes to present a sampling of the promising practices of music teacher education that may serve as new models for the 21st century. Contributors explore the delicate balance between curriculum and pedagogy, the power structures that influence music education at all levels, the role of contemporary musical practices in teacher education, and the communication challenges that surround institutional change. Models of programs that feature in-school, out-of-school and beyond school contexts, lifespan learning perspectives, active juxtapositions of formal and informal approaches to teaching and learning, student-driven project-based fieldwork, and the purposeful employment of technology and digital media as platforms for authentic music engagement within a contemporary participatory culture are all offered as springboards for innovative practice.
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An Empirical Evidence of Willingness to Adopt RFID
Amarpreet Kohli PhD and Cheng Peng PhD
Book chapter 36 from Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, by the Information Resources Management Association.
About the chapter: This research examined the willingness of businesses and industries to adopt RFID. It was postulated that motivation to adopt RFID is influenced by the technological context, organizational factors, and perceived benefits of using RFID. Data was collected from Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals members using a 19-question web-based survey. Relative advantage that firms can achieve and the perceived benefits in improving product quality and information sharing along with better traceability in the supply chain were significant predictors of RFID adoption. Within the technological contexts, the visible obstacles of RFID adoption through quality of transmission and reliability, understanding of overly high investment costs, and importance of the privacy concerns were all significant. The IT readiness of a firm was also a significant predictor of RFID adoption in the organizational factor, however the size of an organization was not at all linked to the RFID adoption decisions. The results point to a number of important conclusions that are informative for various business and industries that might be contemplating to adopt RFID technology in their operations.
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Integrated Care in Rural Areas
David Lambert PhD and John A. Gale MS
Rural residents face distinct health challenges due to economic conditions, cultural/behavioral factors, and health provider shortages that combine to impose striking disparities in health outcomes among rural populations. This comprehensive text about the issues of rural public health is the only book to focus on rural health from the perspectives of public health and prevention. It covers specific diseases and disorders faced by rural populations, service delivery challenges, practitioner shortfalls in rural areas, and promising community health approaches and preventive measures. The text also addresses rural health care ethics and international perspectives.
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Substance Use and Abuse in Rural America
Jennifer D. Lenardson MHS; David Hartley PhD, MHA; John A. Gale MS; and Karen B. Pearson MLIS, MA
This book provides a summary and background of the current state of rural mental health and special consideration in working with rural populations. Chapters discuss some of the major models of service delivery that have been developed to address specific challenges faced in the delivery of quality mental health services. Finally, the book examines specific considerations and best practices for working with distinct subgroups in rural areas, ranging from minority groups to veterans. The book concludes with a discussion on the next steps in advancing the mental health of rural groups. This chapter on Substance Use and Abuse in Rural America looks at the prevalence of substance use and abuse in rural areas compared with urban, efforts to prevent substance use and abuse, treatment availability and accessibility, and continuing care and long-term support for abstinence. It also presents models of service delivery that address resource limitations common to rural areas.
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Cosmopolitical Unity: The Final Destiny of the Human Species
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offer the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy. They explore a wide range of topics, including Kant's account of cognition, the senses, self-knowledge, freedom, passion, desire, morality, culture, education and cosmopolitanism. The volume will enrich current debates within Kantian scholarship as well as beyond, and will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Kant, the history of anthropology, the philosophy of psychology and the social sciences.
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Aggregation‐Induced Emission in Group 14 Metalloles (Siloles, Germoles, and Stannoles): Spectroscopic Considerations, Substituent Effects, and Applications
Jerome L. Mullin and Henry J. Tracy PhD
Chapter 2 of Aggregation‐Induced Emission: Fundamentals and Applications, Volume 1 Fundamentals, edited by Anjun Qin and Ben Zhong Tang.
Chapter Abstract:
Group 14 metalloles, specifically aryl‐substituted siloles, germoles, and stannoles, have been shown to exhibit dramatic aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) in mixed‐solvent systems, polymer films, and other phases, with luminescence emission enhancements of over two orders of magnitude. Considerable research efforts have been devoted to these compounds owing to their potential for use in electrooptical devices and chemical sensors. The characteristics and selected applications of metallole AIE are discussed, as is the hypothesis of its origin.
Book Description:
Edited by Professor Tang, who first discovered this phenomenon, this 2-volume reference addresses the fundamentals of Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE). The book presents an overview of this rapidly emerging and exciting area of research, inviting scientists to renew their photophysical knowledge and stimulate new developments in the field. Covering fundamental issues of AIE, this reference work also discusses the design and synthesis of AIE-active molecules; includes an introduction to AIE, polymers with AIE characteristics and crystallization-induced emission enhancement. Mechanistic understanding of AIE processes are included, along with a discussion of the progress in the theoretical investigation of AIE mechanism and understanding of AIE mechanism by time-resolved spectrum measurements.
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AMC’s Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia [Book Chapter]
David Pierson PhD
Book chapter "AMC’s Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia" from Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the past, present and Future edited by Katharina Niemeyer.
Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.
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Adventure Week!: Travel Essays by Students from the American International School of Hong Kong
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Since 2005 the American International School of Hong Kong has developed an Outdoor Education and Leadership Program that enables the whole high school to annually go off campus and take part in outdoor education and adventure, in community service, or in leadership programs in a variety of locations. Every October, the week before autumn break, regular high school classes are suspended and all students take part in this off-campus program. The Adventure Week program is designed to develop students holistically in a way not possible in the classroom or home setting. During the 2013 – 14 academic year students from the American International School of Hong Kong traveled to the following locations: Siem Reap, Cambodia; Borneo, Malaysia; Guangzhou, China; Fiji; Bali, Indonesia; North Island, New Zealand; and India. I challenged my twelfth grade students to write travel essays reflecting on their adventures and community service work in the various destinations they visited. I also challenged myself to write a travel essay about my experience as a teacher in Cambodia. This collection of essays is the result of my students’ work. In these essays students reflect on the impact of poverty on children and families; on how little it takes to make a person happy when life is stripped down to its barest essentials; and on how good it feels to replace electronic friendships with real ones.
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Chaos@Chungking.Mansions: You can check in, but you can't check out...
Laima Sruoginis MFA
A flight is diverted from Shanghai to Hong Kong and three passengers, Rajesh (India), Paul (USA), and Luna (Indonesia), are thrown together for three days in a cheap hotel in Chungking Mansions. In this play the gritty reality of everyday life in Hong Kong's ethnic neighborhoods is played against the vulnerability of Hong Kong's elite rich and famous. This cultural clash comes to a head when the bumbling hotel manager, Sunil, orchestrates a botched kidnapping of the fictional daughter of a real Lee Ka-Shing, a Hong Kong billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist, and Rajesh, Paul, and Luna find themselves in the middle of the crime scene. They learn that in the great megacity of Hong Kong anything can happen, and does happen.
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Fourierism in America
Adam-Max Tuchinsky PhD
Entry in The Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, edited by Mark G. Spencer.
About the book:
The Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment is the first reference work on this key subject in early American history. With over 500 original essays on key American Enlightenment figures, it provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has centered on the European Enlightenment recently.
There are substantial and original essays on the major American Enlightenment figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Jonathan Edwards, and many others. The collection is wide-ranging and includes many topical essays and entries on dozens of often-overlooked secondary figures, offering a fresh definition of the Enlightenment in America.
It has long been known that Americans made their own contributions to the Enlightenment, most notably by putting Enlightenment ideas to work in defining the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the nature of the early American Republic. These volumes show that the American Enlightenment was more far reaching than even that story assumes. This remarkable work shows that the American Enlightenment constitutes the central framework for understanding the development of American history between c. 1740 and c. 1820. -
Unlikely Fame: Poor People Who Made history
David Wagner
The book chronicles the lives of many poor people who became famous including Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth, Malcolm X, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Margaret Sanger, Charlie Chaplin, Richard Pryor, Steve McQueen, Stephen King, Dolly Parton, Oprah Winfrey, Jack London, and others.
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Access to Medical Care in Rural America
Erika C. Ziller PhD
Rural residents face distinct health challenges due to economic conditions, cultural/behavioral factors, and health provider shortages that combine to impose striking disparities in health outcomes among rural populations. This comprehensive text about the issues of rural public health is the only book to focus on rural health from the perspectives of public health and prevention. It covers specific diseases and disorders faced by rural populations, service delivery challenges, practitioner shortfalls in rural areas, and promising community health approaches and preventive measures. The text also addresses rural health care ethics and international perspectives.
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The Savvy Principal: What Streetwise Principals Know
Jody Capellluti
This book is a manual on how to become a streetwise and savvy principal. These leaders do things very differently from other principals and what they do that distinguishes them is not found in studies on effective principals. There are two reasons for this: 1.) researchers aren’t asking the right questions and 2.) even if researchers were asking the right questions, principals would be reluctant to reveal their responses because of the controversial nature. This book provides specific and candid suggestions and ideas for becoming a standout leader. It recommends actions and strategies to positively influence others behavior. It also suggests tactics and actions to avoid. Because, in reality, if principals are successful: students, teachers, schools and superintendents will benefit. And if this is the case; it naturally follows that school boards, parents and communities will be proud and pleased with what is happening in their schools. Everyone wins when the principal is successful.
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The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems: How Do We Get There from Here?
Ben W. Ebenhack and Daniel M. Martinez PhD
Energy engineers, technology managers, and political leaders all need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy--the limits of that energy--and what we will need to do in the future if we are to have a cleaner and environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technological-based civilization. This book will shed some much needed light on that conundrum. It * Provides a broad overview of our current energy sources, their uses and limitations and political and economic constraints * Clarifies the urgency behind the sweeping changes in the world's energy needs and available supplies * Offers a rational paradigm for how we can go about selecting the optimal mix of fossil, renewable and sustainable energy sources and how we can then aggressively move toward those more sustainable sources Drawing from a combined 40 years of teaching about energy and its applications, the authors offer a broad, balanced analysis of our current energy circumstances and how we can intelligently transition from our reliance on fossil fuels to more sustainable and renewable energy sources--solar, wind, nuclear, and bio-mass. With their grounding in the traditional petroleum industries, the authors embed their arguments for cleaner and more sustainable energy sources in the hard realities of energy economics. Those hard realities include the enormous 'energy density' advantage that oil and gas currently provide over other alternative energies and how that must always enter into any rationale economic plan for future energy growth.
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Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series
David P. Pierson
Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. The book's first section locates and addresses the series from several contemporary social contexts, including neo-liberalism, its discourses and policies, the cultural obsession with the economy of time and its manipulation, and the epistemological principles and assumptions of Walter White's criminal alias Heisenberg. Section two investigates how the series characterizes and intersects with current cultural politics, such as male angst and the re-emergence of hegemonic masculinity, the complex portrayal of Latinos, and the depiction of physical and mental impairment and disability. The final section takes a close look at the series' distinctive visual, aural, and narrative stylistics. Under examination are Breaking Bad's unique visual style whereby image dominates sound, the distinct role and use of beginning teaser segments to disorient and enlighten audiences, the representation of geographic space and place, the position of narrative songs to complicate viewer identification, and the integral part that emotions play as a form of dramatic action in the series.
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Another City upon a Hill: A New England Memoir (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
Joseph A. Conforti
This gripping memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place--Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, Joseph Conforti's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. Conforti, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, recounts how he negotiated those identities in a city where ethnic heritage mattered. Paralleling his own account, Conforti shares the story of his family, three generations of Portuguese and Italians who made their way in this once-mighty textile city.
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Crime as Structured Action: Doing Masculinities, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime
James Messerschmidt
The groundbreaking Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. This edition also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality and their relationships to crime.
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The Alchemy of Teaching: The Transformation of Lives
Jeremiah Conway PhD
Education is, or should be, a spiritual act. It concerns the development of consciousness and how we relate to the world. In fact, the desire to affect lives in this deeper sense is what drives many people into teaching in the first place. Yet books on education often neglect this aspect of teaching, which gets buried under comprehensive plans, organizational restructuring, and curriculum reform. The Alchemy of Teaching takes readers into the messy, wondrous struggle for human change that occurs in classrooms. Written by long-time college professor Jeremiah Conway, the book contains teaching stories in which he reflects on the insights he and his students have gained from each other.
Through engaging narrative, he illuminates the transformative effects of education on the “student from hell” who argues with him constantly, a student diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and a talented student who is just going through the motions, among others.
This book is for teachers at all levels who are hungry to be reminded that teaching is a privilege and lives are at stake in it, students who want an education that is more than job training, and all who are concerned with the educator’s role in developing the whole person. -
To Think the New in the Absence of its Conditions: Althusser and Negri on the Philosophy of Primitive Accumulation
Jason Read PhD
Chapter 16 from Encountering Althusser : Politics and materialism in contemporary radical thought, edited by Katja Diefenbach, Sara R. Farris, Gal Kirn, and Peter D. Thomas.
Excerpt from this chapter:
Louis Althusser and Antonio Negri are two of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the (late) twentieth century. Despite their influence, influence that extends into the same spheres of theoretical and philosophical discussion, there has been little discussion and debate of their relation, at least in the Anglo-American world. This is perhaps because the lines of demarcation would seem to be drawn up in advance: Althusser is the philosopher of history as a process without subjects or goals, while Negri is the philosopher of living labour as subjectivity. They even draw from different texts: for Althusser, at least initially, Marx’s philosophy of structural causality must be read between the lines of Capital; while, Negri turns to the Grundrisse, a series of notebooks written in a time of crisis, to find the force of antagonism. The combined effect of their seemingly opposed positions with respect to subjectivity, and their emphasis on...
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Cultures of Devotion
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe.
Cultures of devotion in multiple forms were central to medieval lives, and because of their significance they became sites for defining and negotiating gender identities and issues. The essay first examines whether participation in communal rituals and popular devotion was open to women as well as to men. A second issue was the availability of membership for women in the religious orders, and a third was the relationship between male religious authorities and the women who sought a life of holiness, whether in or out of traditional communities. Other topics involve the gendered role of visual images and material objects in stimulating mystical experiences, and the role of devotional texts explicitly addressed to women. Finally, the essay takes up the destabilizing of gender identities in the language of medieval spirituality. In all cases, new paradigms and scholarship of the last forty years have challenged previous assertions about religious culture.
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Liz Lochhead, Shakespeare and the Invention of Language
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in The Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead.
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Workforce Leadership and Development
Katharine Kahn, Freda Bernotavicz, and Cathryn Potter
This centennial book brings together a national roster of child welfare experts from academia and practice to document the significant contributions of the Children's Bureau to U.S. policy development for children and families. Highlighting foster care developments, chapters illuminate for the reader the complexities of the system as it evolved from a tradition of 'rescue and punishment,' deeply seeped in racial inequities, to current efforts of advancing progressive policies that aim to correct systemic inequities, promote empirically based approaches that recognize the significance of culture in services planning, and affirm that the well-being of children is inextricably linked to the well-being of families and communities. The book makes an important contribution to the child welfare literature by documenting how far we have come as a nation in addressing the needs of dependent children and is an invaluable reference volume and a supplementary child welfare textbook. -Alma J. Carten, PhD,
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Composing Our Future: Preparing Music Educators to teach Composition
Michele E. Kaschub PhD and Janice P. Smith
In order to prepare pre-service teachers and meet the needs of practitioners in the field, music teacher educators need resources to guide the development of curriculum, specific courses, professional development workshops, and other environments where composition education can begin, grow, and flourish. With chapters ranging from practical information to solid theory to useful best practice examples, Composing Our Future offers fresh insight into composition in music education from authors who are directly engaged in this work.
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Children's health policy: Promising starts, disappointing outcomes
Elizabeth Kilbreth PhD and Erika C. Ziller PhD
Health politics and policy, 5th edition walks you through the inner workings of health care policymaking, from the legislative process to socioeconomic impacts, and reveals both modern and historical perspectives. A collection of writings by some of today's sharpest political minds and policy-makers, the book explores factors that shape the U.S. health care system and policy, such as values, government, and private players, and compares them to other countries for international context. Helpful learning features throughout include review questions and problems, supporting tables and graphs, and special "Consider This" essays that bolster chapter concepts. In an environment of ever-changing policies and politics, the new edition integrates themes of the past and present-day dilemmas with a look to the future of health care politics in America-- Publisher's description.
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Advancing the Use of CBT with Justice-Involved Women
Erica King MSW and Marilyn Van Dieten PhD
There is a growing expectation that empirically supported interventions and programs, primarily CBT, will be used by forensic practitioners in correctional facilities or probational situations. This edited volume is the first authoritative resource that addresses CBT in offender settings.
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Communication in infectious disease surveillance: PART 2: Health communication case study
Jeffrey D. Klausner PhD and Katherine A. Ahrens PhD
Chapter 41.2 from Infectious Disease Surveillance Second Edition, edited by Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha, Ruth Lynfield, Chris A. Van Beneden, and Henriette de Valk. A sharp rise in syphilis in 2001 among gay and bisexual men in San Francisco prompted health officials to introduce a novel social marketing campaign titled “Healthy Penis.” The primary goals of the campaign were to raise awareness of the syphilis outbreak, enhance knowledge about syphilis, and to increase the frequency of syphilis testing. Evaluations of the campaign revealed that >80% of respondents were aware of the campaign and men who were aware of the campaign had greater knowledge of syphilis and were more likely to be tested. We believe that because the campaign was developed by the health department in collaboration with the gay community and included relevant community values, it successfully reached the target population and resulted in increased syphilis knowledge, testing, and, subsequently, a reduction in syphilis incidence in 2005. After cessation of the campaign, a resurgence in syphilis infections was observed among gay and bisexual men. In 2008, the Healthy Penis campaign was relaunched; evaluations of its impact are underway.
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Increasing accessibility of college STEM courses through faculty development in UDL.
SJ Langley-Turnbaugh, M Blair, and Jean Whitney PhD
Part 2 in Universal design in higher education: Promising Practices, edited by Sheryl E. Burgstahler.
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Meaningful but Immoral Lives?
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in On Meaning in Life, edited by Beatrix Himmelmann.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and objectivist answers, confronting concepts of meaning with notions of happiness and morality, and considering the idea of human life's meaning both sub specie aeternitatis and in view of the world's finitude and contingency. The volume assembles contributions from leading scholars in the field, including John Cottingham, John Kekes, Iddo Landau, Dag T. Andersson, Robert B. Louden, Christoph Horn, and Bernard Reginster.
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Price, Richard
Robert B. Louden PhD
Entry in International Encyclopedia of Ethics
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Unmatched in scholarship and scope, the International Encyclopedia of Ethics is the most comprehensive and authoritative ethics resource of its kind. Available online or as an eleven-volume print set, the Encyclopedia espouses a broad vision of ethics that creates links to many other disciplines, including medicine, technology studies, computer science, business, religion, and law. Entries range in size from shorter definitions and biographies to extended treatments of major topics, and have been blind-reviewed by both the editorial team and an independent review board to ensure exceptional balance and accuracy throughout. Building on its established strengths, the second edition of the Encyclopedia covers topics, movements, arguments, and figures in normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics, containing over 850 fully-cross-referenced A-Z entries which emphasize the richness and diversity of the field. New to this edition are more than 300 original and updated entries which add coverage of contemporary topics including voting ethics, artificial intelligence, moral uncertainty, police bias, narcissism, structural injustice, bullying, biopolitics, legal moralism, and intellectual virtue. In its state-of-the-art electronic form, each entry is hyperlinked to other entries and to electronic editions of the renowned Blackwell Companions and Guides ¯ in all, more than 1,500 scholarly articles. The electronic version will continue to receive annual updates, continuing the legacy of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics as the preferred resource for research-active scholars, students, and general readers wanting to engage with ethics in their professional lives. -
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Robert B. Louden PhD
Entry in International Encyclopedia of Ethics
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Unmatched in scholarship and scope, the International Encyclopedia of Ethics is the most comprehensive and authoritative ethics resource of its kind. Available online or as an eleven-volume print set, the Encyclopedia espouses a broad vision of ethics that creates links to many other disciplines, including medicine, technology studies, computer science, business, religion, and law. Entries range in size from shorter definitions and biographies to extended treatments of major topics, and have been blind-reviewed by both the editorial team and an independent review board to ensure exceptional balance and accuracy throughout. Building on its established strengths, the second edition of the Encyclopedia covers topics, movements, arguments, and figures in normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics, containing over 850 fully-cross-referenced A-Z entries which emphasize the richness and diversity of the field. New to this edition are more than 300 original and updated entries which add coverage of contemporary topics including voting ethics, artificial intelligence, moral uncertainty, police bias, narcissism, structural injustice, bullying, biopolitics, legal moralism, and intellectual virtue. In its state-of-the-art electronic form, each entry is hyperlinked to other entries and to electronic editions of the renowned Blackwell Companions and Guides ¯ in all, more than 1,500 scholarly articles. The electronic version will continue to receive annual updates, continuing the legacy of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics as the preferred resource for research-active scholars, students, and general readers wanting to engage with ethics in their professional lives. -
Sartre’s Socialist Democracy and Global Feminism [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD and Constance Mui PhD
Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as a teacher, mentor, and scholar without peer. The author of seven books and more than two hundred book chapters, articles, and reviews, he is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and a leader in the international community of philosophers. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and former students. Together, they pay tribute to the intellectual, philosophical, and professional achievements of one of the most esteemed and accomplished scholars of his generation.
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Intellectual and Political Resistance to the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic - 1916-1924
John R. Paton PhD
In 1916, the United States intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic, established a military government in that nation, and continued to occupy it until 1924. This dissertation explores the intervention, occupation and pressure to withdraw using a cultural framework. It examines how the United States government used culturally influenced ideologies of racism, paternalism, and others to initiate and justify the U.S. intervention. Dominican intellectual and political leaders, with the assistance of other people and nations, contested the occupation leading to the removal of U.S. troops, using their own cultural resources. This dissertation elucidates the ways in which the resistance of Dominican political and intellectual leaders was instrumental in creating a significant opposition to the intervention in the United States and in the Spanish-speaking world. Led by Francisco Henriquez y Carvajal, the Dominicans utilized the institutions and public will of the United States, as well as pressure from friendly nations and groups to effect the removal of United States Marines by 1924. In effect, the employment of such resources was the primary means by which the Dominicans could exert agency within the U.S.-Dominican relationship. It is clear the efforts of the Dominicans were sufficient to make United States government officials, including Presidents Wilson and Harding, realize that the continued occupation of the Dominican Republic marred the reputation of the United States among Latin American nations, and was a potential stumbling block in U.S.-Latin American relations.
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Fostering Intraprofessional Collaboration: The APNA Janssen Scholars Workplace Violence Workgroup
Rebecca Schroeder DNP, MPH, RN, PMHNP, BC and A LaValla
Creating workgroups is beneficial to individuals, institu-tions, and professional organizations; however barriers exist that prevent formation or effective functioning. Obstacles may include lack of professional interest or expertise, time constraints, work overload, or geographi-cal distance. A model for intraprofessional online col-laboration may be one method of bridging this gap and bringing people together to form a cohesive workgroup. In November 2011, APNA (American Psychiatric Nurses Association) leadership called on current and former Janssen Scholars to form a workgroup. The mission was to dive into workplace violence and create a report brief for submission to the APNA Board of Directors. The culmination of this work produced several insights for its members: a deeper understanding of the researched topic, techniques for connecting over long distances, and newly found commitments to professional growth. As the global community of psychiatric nurses grows, taking the opportunity to connect with others in order to form pro-fessional workgroups will be increasingly important. Workgroups offer an expansive and creative venue for the endorsement and dissemination of evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice by involving professionals from various regions and institutions in a common review of current evidence. Linking with others across the coun-try will lead to the advancement of mental health nursing and professional growth.
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Friday Night Live in Hong Kong: A Play in One Act for Young Adults
Laima Sruoginis MFA
This play was developed working together with Drama Club students at the American International School of Hong Kong. When we started this project, we knew we wanted to put together a performance that consisted of a series of skits, something in the style of Saturday Night Live. As we brainstormed and improvised and worked through ideas, many details about the students’ home lives began to come out—parents’ high expectations for top grades; the often hilarious cross-cultural misunderstandings that occur when Asian and Indian students in international schools learn to speak in American accents and emulate an American lifestyle, while their parents remain traditional and sometimes do not even speak English. The nuances of daily life in a cosmopolitan multicultural Chinese city like Hong Kong color this play. Daily realities, like riding the MTR (Hong Kong’s mass transit system) to school, coping with wearing unflattering and uncomfortable school uniforms designed in the colonial era, and the pressures of consumerism are all issues addressed in the play. Admittedly, some of the themes in the play are edgy, but they are themes that are important to high school students. While working out ideas for this play we followed a simple rule: You can make fun of your own culture, but not someone else’s. I insisted that even as we laughed or gently criticized the students’ home and school lives, that we always remember the other side of the equation—their parents love and support them, and they want them to be successful. Writing this play, my goal was to create a play that is relevant to the cultural climate of contemporary international schools in Asia and to today’s Asian and Indian students, who live in a fast-paced and constantly evolving society. I wanted to write a play that is both fun to watch and to perform. A play, which, I hope, tells a larger story about the contemporary lives of young adults growing up in today’s Asia.
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Urban Immersion: The Impact of Preservice Preparation in an Urban School-University Partnership
Andrea Stairs-Davenport PhD and Audrey A. Friedman
Chapter 3 in Moving Teacher Education into Urban Schools and Communities Prioritizing Community Strengths, edited by Jana Noel.
Book description:
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!
When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic, cultural, and racial justice. This book describes how teacher education can become a meaningful part of this work, by re-positioning programs directly into urban schools and communities. Situating their work within the theoretical framework of prioritizing community strengths, each set of authors provides a detailed and nuanced description of a teacher education program re-positioned within an urban school or community. Authors describe the process of developing such a relationship, how the university, school, and community became integrated partners in the program, and the impact on participants. As university-based teacher education has come under increased scrutiny for lack of "real world" relevance, this book showcases programs that have successfully navigated the travails of shifting their base directly into urban schools and communities, with evidence of positive outcomes for all involved.
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"More Anon": American Socialism and Margaret Fuller's 1848
Adam-Max Tuchinsky PhD
Chapter in Margaret Fuller and Her Circles, edited by Brigitte Bailey, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright.
About the book:
These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the nineteenth century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades. The authors—leading scholars of Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the antebellum period—consider anew Fuller the critic, the journalist, the reformer, the traveler, and the social and cultural observer, and make fresh contributions to the study of her life and work. Drawing on developments in gender theory, transatlantic studies, and archival excavations of the networks of reform, this volume defines Fuller as a significant intellectual precursor, a critic who analyzed and challenged the dominant interpretive paradigms of her own time and who remains strikingly relevant for ours.
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The Persistence of the Dandy in Contemporary Culture: On David Bowie, Subcultures, and Resistance
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Sur le dandysme aujourd ́hui: Del maniquí en el escaparate a la estrella mediática.
Son muchos los artistas contemporáneos -desde Marcel Duchamp o Mano Ray a Andy Warhol- que se revelan deudores de las actitudes iconoclastas de los dandis, en tanto que personajes incómodos y críticos con el establishment del arte de su tiempo. La huella que el dandismo, en sus múltiples facetas, dejó en el arte contemporáneo es objeto de análisis de esta publicación, concebida por los miembros del equipo de curadores formado por Rocío Gracia Ipiña, Sergio Había trepado y Marta de lana Torriente, como complemento de la muestra colectiva Sur lee dandysme aujourd'hui. Más que un catálogo de exposición, este libro es un manual que recoge las contribuciones de reputados especialistas del campo de la historia del arte, la literatura y los estudios culturales sobre la figura del dandi en ámbitos como la moda, la cultura popular, la música pop o punk o las artes visuales.
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USM Authors List 2012
Pat Potter and Hannah Elwell
USM is proud of the scholarship of its faculty and staff. To highlight their work, the University Libraries has created a list of author’s publications with links to their works in USM's online catalog, URSUS.
This list includes monograph publications and CDs, but not journal articles or book chapters. The list is searchable by author, title and keyword in the Find box in the toolbar on the page.
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Distilling the Influence of Alcohol : Aguardiente in Guatemalan History
David Carey and William B. Taylor
Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally significant commodity: alcohol. Often illicitly produced and consumed, aguardiente (distilled sugar cane spirits or rum) was central to Guatemalan daily life, though scholars have often neglected its fundamental role in the country's development. Throughout world history, alcohol has helped build family livelihoods, boost local economies, and forge nations. The alcohol economy also helped shape Guatemala's turbulent categories of ethnicity, race, class, and gender, as these essays demonstrate. Established and emerging Guatemalan historians investigate aguardiente's role from the colonial era to the twentieth century, drawing from archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic sources. Topics include women in the alcohol trade, taverns as places of social unrest, and tension between Maya and State authority. By tracing Guatemala's past, people, and national development through the channel of an alcoholic beverage, Distilling the Influence of Alcohol opens new directions for Central American historical and anthropological research.
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Desire is Man’s Very Essence: Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from Hegel after Spinoza: Critical Essays, edited by Hasana Sharp and Jason E. Smith.
More about this book:
Recent work in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza and Hegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment thought. Yet, for many philosophers and political theorists today, one must choose between Hegel or Spinoza. As Deleuze's influential interpretation maintains, Hegel exemplifies and promotes the modern "cults of death," while Spinoza embodies an rrepressible "appetite for living." Hegel is the figure of negation, while Spinoza is the thinker of "pure affirmation". Yet, between Hegel and Spinoza there is not only opposition. This collection of essays seeks to find the suppressed kinship between Hegel and Spinoza. Both philosophers offer vigorous and profound alternatives to the methodological individualism of classical liberalism. Likewise, they sketch portraits of reason that are context-responsive and emotionally contoured, offering an especially rich appreciation of our embodied and historical existence. The authors of this collection carefully lay the groundwork for a complex and delicate alliance between these two great iconoclasts, both within and against the Enlightenment tradition.
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Wetland Environments: A Global Perspective
James S. Aber, Susan Aber, and Firooza Pavri
A complete study of wetland environments requires the assessment of their physical and biological attributes, properties and functions of these ecosystems, and the economic, political and social aspects that mediate their use globally. A systems approach is taken throughout this book which emphasizes the interactions between these elements of wetland ecosystems. Moreover, selected case studies from across the world are used to illustrate wetland characteristics and circumstances.
This book is intended to foster a greater awareness and appreciation of wetlands, promote a culture of conservation and wise management, and spread the knowledge that wetlands are important, indeed crucial, elements of the global environment. Our attempts to understand, manage and enhance wetlands in the twenty-first century are part of the larger effort to maintain a sustainable Earth.
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Groundwater Science, 2nd Edition
Charles R. Fitts Ph.D.
Groundwater Science, 2E, covers groundwater's role in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, contamination, and construction issues. It is a valuable resource for students and instructors in the geosciences (with focuses in hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental science), and as a reference work for professional researchers. This interdisciplinary text weaves important methods and applications from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, and environmental science, introducing you to the mathematical modeling and contaminant flow of groundwater.
New to the Second Edition:
* New chapter on subsurface heat flow and geothermal systems * Expanded content on well construction and design, surface water hydrology, groundwater/ surface water interaction, slug tests, pumping tests, and mounding analysis. * Updated discussions of groundwater modeling, calibration, parameter estimation, and uncertainty * Free software tools for slug test analysis, pumping test analysis, and aquifer modeling * Lists of key terms and chapter contents at the start of each chapter * Expanded end-of-chapter problems, including more conceptual questions
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Doing Experimental Syntax: Bridging the gap between syntactic questions and well-designed questionnaires
Wayne Cowart PhD
Chapter 3 in In search of grammar: Experimental and corpus-based studies, edited by James Myers.
Book Description:
Corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experimentation, and computer modeling can seem intimidating to linguists more familiar with the traditional low-tech methods of theoretical syntax, morphology, and phonology. Yet as this book demonstrates, it does not require much extra effort for grammarians to expand their methodological repertoire. Core contributions come from Wayne Cowart, author of the pioneering Experimental Syntax, and Michael Hammond, author of the standard reference The Phonology of English. They and four other contributing authors provide easy-to-follow tutorials and case studies on a variety of grammatical issues from Chinese, English, and other languages, using a variety of empirical methods. It is hoped that grammarians of all stripes, from syntacticians to phonologists, from formalists to functionalists, from students to professors, will find inspiration in this book for their own research.
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What Kind of Thing is a Coordinate?
Wayne Cowart PhD and Dana McDaniel PhD
Chapter 7 in In Search of Grammar: Empirical Methods in Linguistics, edited by James Myers.
Book Description:
Corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experimentation, and computer modeling can seem intimidating to linguists more familiar with the traditional low-tech methods of theoretical syntax, morphology, and phonology. Yet as this book demonstrates, it does not require much extra effort for grammarians to expand their methodological repertoire. Core contributions come from Wayne Cowart, author of the pioneering Experimental Syntax, and Michael Hammond, author of the standard reference The Phonology of English. They and four other contributing authors provide easy-to-follow tutorials and case studies on a variety of grammatical issues from Chinese, English, and other languages, using a variety of empirical methods. It is hoped that grammarians of all stripes, from syntacticians to phonologists, from formalists to functionalists, from students to professors, will find inspiration in this book for their own research.
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Scripts for Funeral Theater: Burgundian Testaments and the Performance of Social Identities
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in “For the Salvation of my Soul”: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France.
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A Summer in England: the Women’s Rest Tour Association of Boston and the Encouragement of Independent Transatlantic Travel for American Women
Libby Bischof PhD
Chapter in Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, edited by Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach.
About this book:
In this volume, fifteen scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers’ transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education. Presenting new material about women writers’ literary friendships, travels, reception and readership, and influences, the volume offers new frameworks for thinking about transatlantic literary studies.
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Assessment for Intervention: A Problem-Solving Approach
Rachel Brown-Chidsey and K. Andren (Ed.)
Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This authoritative work provides a complete guide to implementing a wide range of problem-solving assessment methods: functional behavioral assessment, interviews, classroom observations, curriculum-based measurement, rating scales, and cognitive instruments. Prominent experts demonstrate the key role of assessment throughout the process of supporting at-risk students, from identifying academic and behavioral problems to planning and monitoring interventions. Several chapters include reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
New to This Edition
*Reflects current education policy and best practices.
*Seminal chapter on problem solving by Stanley Deno has been updated with a revised model.
*All chapters now discuss assessment in the context of multi-tiered systems of support.
*Chapter on working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
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Inclusion or Intrusion? Reculturing Schools for Collaborative ESL Instruction
Clara Lee Brown and Andrea Stairs-Davenport PhD
Chapter in Co-Teaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom Rationale, Research, Reflections, And Recommendations, edited by Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove.
Book description:
Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other English-speaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world). Many guidebooks and professional development materials have been produced on teacher collaboration and co-teaching for special education, inclusive classrooms. Similarly, much has been published about effective strategies teachers can use to offer more culturally and linguistically responsive instruction to their language learners. However, only a few resources are available to help general education teachers and ESL (English-as-a-second-language) specialists, or two English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers (such as native and nonnative English speaking) teachers to collaborate effectively.
With this volume, our goal is to offer an accessible resource, long-awaited by educators whose individual instructional practice and/or institutional paradigm shifted to a more collaborative approach to language education. Through this collection of chapters, we closely examine ESL/EFL co-teaching and other collaborative practices by (a) exploring the rationale for teacher collaboration to support ESL/EFL instruction, (b) presenting current, classroom-based, practitioner-oriented research studies and documentary accounts related to co-teaching, co-planning, co-assessing, curriculum alignment, teacher professional development, and additional collaborative practices, and (c) offering authentic teacher reflections and recommendations on collaboration and co-teaching. These three major themes are woven together throughout the entire volume, designed as a reference to both novice and experienced teachers in their endeavors to provide effective integrated, collaborative instruction for EFL or ESL learners. We also intend to help preservice and inservice ESL/EFL teachers, teacher educators, professional developers, ESL/EFL program directors, and administrators to find answers to critical questions. -
Death of a Ventriloquist
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc MFA
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2011. This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one’s own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood—all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and humor, with an intimate voice that can both whisper in our ears and grab us by the collar and implore us to listen. “What drives the poems in this wonderfully animated debut volume and prompts the reader’s pleasure in them is the patent honesty of the poet’s voice. In the ‘ventriloquist’ series itself, Fay-LeBlanc creates a remarkable refracted self-portrait, bristling with moments of unabashed illumination.”—Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight “In the words of visual artist Paul Klee, whose synaesthetically suggestive work inspires this manuscript, ‘art doesn’t reproduce what we can see, it makes it visible.’ The turf of these poems is a ‘vision country’ in which our narrator / ventriloquist makes visible (and audible) the world to which he restlessly attends, offering up the ‘voices’ of everything. Formally deft, these poems address the limits and grace of lyric poetry.”—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Satin Cash and judge
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Villanelles
Annie Finch
The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku.
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle is a form that has fascinated poets since its introduction almost two centuries ago. Many well-known poets in the past have tried their hands at the villanelle, and the form is enjoying a revival among poets writing today. The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night," Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," and Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song." -
Counselor Self Care
Bette Katsekas EdD
Counselor Self Care offers any reader the unexpected positive energy that can arise from our daily, life enhancing connections with others. Our ongoing health, wellness, and self-care depends on how well we can find easily-accessible, simple ways to renew ourselves every day. Self-caring activities are essential for counselors in order to do their work effectively but are filled with healing potential for anyone interested in his or her own overall wellness.
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Dimensions of Therapeutic Change
Bette Katsekas EdD
Dimensions of Therapeutic Change outlines major themes people often work on in a counseling setting. It summarizes positive thoughts and strategies that naturally emerge in a therapeutic environment. This book can be useful to those who wish to explore dimensions of therapeutic changes we can all relate to, or useful as a review of major guidelines for growth and change for those who have undergone the therapeutic process already.
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A Timeline Perspective of the Counseling Process: Historical foundations and future trends
Diane LeMay and Bette Katsekas EdD
This book provides the reader with a perspective of the counseling profession with its processes over time as a focus. It also reviews some of its major contributions with an eye to possible future roles of the counselor.
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Conversations with Nora: A Family's Journey with Alzheimer's
Elaine Lohrman
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Conversations with Nora follows the journey of two sisters, Allison and Louisa, as they each struggle to understand the grip of Alzheimer's on their family. The novel, inspired by a true story, takes the reader from the sisters' first realization that something is wrong with Mother; through her agonizing denial and efforts to thwart the daughters' attempts to care for her; and then plunges the reader along with the entire family into the dark and confusing maze of dementia. The path to finding a place where Mother will be secure and can feel at home is filled with many obstacles, not the least of which are her own fight for independence and a medical system that seems unwilling to help them. Told through the conversations between the eldest daughter Allison and her friend Nora, the healing power of love and caring takes on a fresh meaning. Nora's supportive, patient, and nonjudgmental presence provides a safe place for Allison to move through a raw and painful reality toward healing. In this compelling narrative, Elaine Lohrman - an educator, musician, and author - writes from her heart, offering a story of understanding and encouragement to the many adult children in her generation who face the challenges of caring for elderly parents with dementia.
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National Character via the Beautiful and Sublime?
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant’s ‘Observations’ and ‘Remarks’: A Critical Guide.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764–5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rousseau, who 'turned him around' by disclosing to Kant the idea of a 'state of freedom' (modelled on the state of nature) as a touchstone for his thinking. This and related thoughts anticipate such famous later doctrines as the categorical imperative. This collection of essays by leading Kant scholars illuminates the many and varied topics within these two rich works, including the emerging relations between theory and practice, ethics and anthropology, men and women, philosophy, history and the 'rights of man'.
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‘Not a Slow Reform, but a Swift Revolution’: Basedow and Kant on the Need to Transform Education
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today. Given the historical and philosophical significance of Kant’s moral, political, and aesthetic theory, and the connection he draws between these theories and the appropriate function and methodology of education, it is surprising that relatively little has been written on Kant’s contribution to education theory. Recently, however, internationally recognized Kant scholars such as Paul Guyer, Manfred Kuehn, Richard Velkley, Robert Louden, Susan Shell, and others have begun to turn their attention to Kant’s writings on education and the role of education in cultivating moral character. Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary has gathered these scholars together with the aim of filling this perceived void in Kant scholarship. All of the essays contained within this volume will examine either Kant’s ideas on education through an historical analysis of his texts; or the importance and relevance of his moral philosophy, political philosophy, and/or aesthetics in contemporary education theory (or some combination). -
Virtue Ethics
Robert B. Louden PhD
Entry in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition, Four Volume Set addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or specialists in a branch of psychology - understand the field and how and why humans behave as we do. The work is an all-encompassing reference providing a comprehensive and definitive review of the field. A broad and inclusive table of contents ensures detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. Several disciplines may be involved in applied ethics: one branch of applied ethics, for example, bioethics, is commonly explicated in terms of ethical, legal, social, and philosophical issues. Editor-in-Chief Ruth Chadwick has put together a group of leading contributors ranging from philosophers to practitioners in the particular fields in question, to academics from disciplines such as law and economics. The 376 chapters are divided into 4 volumes, each chapter falling into a subject category including Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Computers and Information Management; Economics/Business; Environmental Ethics; Ethics and Politics; Legal; Medical Ethics; Philosophy/Theories; Social; and Social/Media. -
Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Anthropology
Robert B. Louden PhD, Allen W. Wood, Robert R. Clewis, and G Felicitas Munzel
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the lectures between 1772 and 1789, prior to the published version, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), which Kant edited himself at the end of his teaching career. The two most extensive texts, Anthropology Friedländer (1772) and Anthropology Mrongovius (1786), are presented here in their entirety, along with selections from all the other lecture transcriptions published in the Academy edition, together with sizeable portions of the Menschenkunde (1781–2), first published in 1831. These lectures show that Kant had a coherent and well-developed empirical theory of human nature bearing on many other aspects of his philosophy, including cognition, moral psychology, politics and philosophy of history.
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Structured Partialities: The African Educational Experience in Ireland
Larissa Malone PhD
Chapter 12 in Education in the Black Diaspora Perspectives, Challenges, and Prospects, edited by Kassie Freeman and Ethan Johnson.
Book description:
This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the era of globalization.
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Gender, Heterosexuality and Youth Violence: The Struggle for Recognition
James Messerschmidt
In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. This book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and femininities, bullying in schools, the body, heterosexuality, and violence and nonviolence.
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Beauvoir’s Preface to Djamila Boupacha [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
During the final two years of the Algerian War, Simone de Beauvoir demonstrated her commitment to the Algerian rebels by advocating for Djamila Boupacha. Boupacha, a twenty-three-year-old middle-class Algerian educated in France, was a member of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), and was arrested on the night of February 10, 1960....
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Revolutionary Road and The Second Sex [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD and Constance Mui PhD
Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
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Dwelling in American Dissent, Empire, and Globalization
John Muthyala PhD
Globalization is not the Americanization of the world, argues John Muthyala. Rather, it is an uneven social, cultural, economic, and political process in which the policies and aspirations of powerful nation-states are entangled with the interests of other empires, nation-states, and communities. Dwelling in American: Dissent, Empire, and Globalization takes up a bold challenge, critiquing scholarship on American empire that views the United States as either an exceptional threat to the world or the only hope for the future. It does so in order to provincialize America, to understand it from outside the borders of nation and location, and from inside the global networks of trade, power, and culture. Using comparative frames of reference, the book makes its arguments by examining the work of a diverse range of writers including Arundhati Roy (War Talk, Power Politics), Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat).
This is an original, complex, and often bracingly counterintuitive critique of the idea of American empire that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the complexities of globalization.
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Dwelling in American: Dissent, Empire, and Globalization
John Muthyala PhD
Globalization is not the Americanization of the world, argues John Muthyala. Rather, it is an uneven social, cultural, economic, and political process in which the policies and aspirations of powerful nation-states are entangled with the interests of other empires, nation-states, and communities. Dwelling in American: Dissent, Empire, and Globalization takes up a bold challenge, critiquing scholarship on American empire that views the United States as either an exceptional threat to the world or the only hope for the future. It does so in order to provincialize America, to understand it from outside the borders of nation and location, and from inside the global networks of trade, power, and culture. Using comparative frames of reference, the book makes its arguments by examining the work of a diverse range of writers including Arundhati Roy (War Talk, Power Politics), Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran), and Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat). This is an original, complex, and often bracingly counterintuitive critique of the idea of American empire that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the complexities of globalization.
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Making Up Mammy: Representing Historical Erasure and Confounding Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye’s "The Watermelon Woman"
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD
Chapter in Too Bold for the Box Office: Mockumentaries from Big Screen to Small.
Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order to better understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into their deception, these works demonstrate just how tenuous and problematic our collective understandings of our social worlds can be. In Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars and filmmakers who examine this unique cinematic form. Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume’s contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries, as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers and filmmakers who brought them into being. Reflections by filmmakers Kevin Brownlow (It Happened Here), Christopher Hansen (The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah), and Spencer Schaffner (The Urban Literacy Manifesto) add valued perspective and significantly deepen the discussions found in the volume’s other contributions. This collection of essays on films, television programming, and new media illustrates common threads running across cultures and eras and attempts to answer sweeping existential questions about the nature of social life and the human condition.
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Becoming Good Girls and Useful Citizens: Growing Up Poor, Black, and Female in Jim Crow era Missouri, 1909-1944
Leroy M. Rowe PhD
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In 1909, black citizens used their power as voters to successfully pressure legislators in Missouri to establish a state industrial home for the protection of African American juvenile delinquent girls. The Missouri State Industrial Home for Negro Girls, commonly referred to as the Tipton Home, operated from 1916-1956. For four decades it stood at the intersection of a productive relationship between the state and African American families. Over 1000 girls between the ages of seven and twenty-one were "incarcerated" there on the charge of delinquency, which included running away from home, truancy, engaging in premarital sex, and parental incorrigibility. An analysis of seventy-seven previously unexplored cases files and over 900 commitment records shows that a majority of these girls were institutionalized because they were poor and orphaned by the death of one or both parents. These girls were committed to the institution based on petitions filed by a parent, a relative, or a guardian. Families were motivated by their inability to care for needy children or to gain equal access to the formal child welfare system. This study's findings demonstrate that through the efforts of an all-African American staff, the Tipton Home provided impoverished girls tools to become self-supporting adult members of society. As such, the Tipton Home served the purpose of preparing the girls for what one superintendent of the institution called "useful citizenship." This positive experience was a direct result of the agency of black voters, the initiative of black families, and the commitment of the all-African American State staff and the ingenuity of the girls.
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Journey into the Backwaters of the Heart: Stories of Women Who Survived Hitler and Stalin
Laima Sruoginis MFA
A Fulbright grant enabled me to travel to Lithuania to record the oral histories of women and men who were former partisan fighters, liaisons, or supporters of Lithuania's post World War II armed resistance against the Soviet Union. I also spoke to Lithuanian Jewish Holocaust survivors and listened to the stories of women who survived Stalin's deportations to Siberia and Tajikistan. To hear these stories I traveled to remote rural locations, bumping down dirt roads in my Honda Civic. I sometimes slept in haylofts, helped out with household chores, or sat behind the table, as the Lithuanian saying goes, accepting the hospitality of my hosts. One visit was seldom enough. Often after hours of talk, we cried together, but more often we laughed. In 2007-2011 when I conducted these interviews, the people I spoke with were already in their seventies and eighties. The stories they told to me were detailed and precise. I discovered that the memories that remained most powerful at the end of these women's lives were memories of loves lived during times of trial and hardship. As I listened, I was continually amazed that people who had experienced torture, exile, loss, trauma, held one emotion close to their hearts: That emotion was love. Each story told to me, at its core, was a love story. That is why this collection of life stories is a journey into the backwaters of the heart.
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Lenin's Head on a Platter
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Laima Vince takes us on a harrowing through-the-looking glass tour of Lithuania in 1988 - 1989, during a time of great social and political turmoil. In diary form, she gives us her personal, unflinching account of the daily hardships that characterize this faltering society--one filled with guns, poverty, bitterness, mistrust, and sometimes, friendship. We see the full range of emotions here as people try to live normal lives against a backdrop of uncertainty. At times funny, at time poignant, this book explores the extraordinary human cost of an oppressive system of government, as well as the extraordinary human valor of those who survive it. It shows us that, underneath, all people share the same basic needs for freedom, for hope, and for love. This is a fine and important book. Reviewed by Clint McCown
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Love Cult at the Arctic Circle
Laima Sruoginis MFA
LOVE CULT AT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE presents two novellas. The first, LOVE CULT AT THE ARCTIC CIRLCE, traces the trail of two young women who meet at an intersection in Homer, Alaska and decide to go on a reckless road trip to the Arctic Circle on a service road in a compact car. Along the way they encounter a trucker on a death mission, drunken armed hunters, and a love cult. Ultimately, however, there biggest show-down comes when these two young women confront each other. The second novella, EL DIABLO AT THE SAINT CASIMIR'S POLISH-AMERICAN CATHOLIC CAMP FOR BOYS, tells the story of Agnes, a devout Catholic single mother whose unwavering faith leads her down a road from which there is no return.
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The Interpreter
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Julius, a telephone interpreter, works from his bedroom in Buenos Aires interpreting phone calls between Lithuanian immigrants and United Kingdom Social Services and the East London Women's Health Clinic. Julius himself is an immigrant, first to the United States, then to Argentina. Julius's Argentine partner, Xavier, was also an immigrant, but has now returned home to Buenos Aires to enjoy an early retirement. However, peace and quiet in their household is disrupted by the constant phone calls from Julius's countrymen, who are in trouble abroad. Julius's professionalism begins to crumble when he is unexpectedly reunited with his childhood first love, Joana, through a random phone call. The growing bond between Julius and Joana adds to the tension and forces Julius to finally face himself and come to terms with his past.
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The Snake in the Vodka Bottle: Life Stories from Post-Soviet Lithuania Twenty Years after the Collapse of Communism
Laima Sruoginis MFA
Twenty years after participating in Lithuania's independence movement as a student, Laima Vince returns on a Fulbright grant to post-soviet Lithuania with her three children. Over the course of four years, while living and teaching and raising her children as a single mother in Vilnius, she conducts interviews with a diverse range of people. In this book she records the life stories of traditional healers, who treat their patients using ancient verbal incantations; trafficked teenage girls and the activist social workers who shelter them; Baltic gay rights activists who fight, and win, the right to hold the first Baltic Pride March in Lithuania; Chechen war refugees and their Ambassador in Exile; a contraband butter smuggler; an unemployed ex-KGB informer; and the forgotten heroes and dissidents of the Cold War. This book illuminates one woman's personal odyssey into the sometimes tumultuous society of post-Soviet Lithuania.
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Maine [Book Chapter]
Travis P. Wagner PhD
Chapter from "Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste : The social science of garbage", edited by Carl A. Zimring.
About this book:
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.
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“Bond’s Body: Diamonds are Forever (1971), Casino Royale (2006), and the Future Anterior ” (invited essay)
Shelton Waldrep PhD
World Cinema and the Visual Arts, David Gallagher, ed.London: Anthem, 2012.
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The Fugitive
David P. Pierson
Television’s longest-running chase story, The Fugitive was a dramatically charged show that followed Dr. Richard Kimble on his quest to prove his innocence and find his wife’s one-armed killer. A product of veteran television producer-writer Roy Huggins (Maverick, The Rockford Files) and Quinn Martin, a newcomer producer, the series aired for four seasons between 1963 and 1967 on the ABC network. In The Fugitive, author David P. Pierson examines the creation of the series and its dominant social discourses and themes, along with the industry producers, writers, and actors who made it one of the most memorable and influential shows in 1960s American television.
In The Fugitive, Pierson discusses the context of the series’ creation at a time when federal regulators were forcing the three major television networks to broadcast adult programs with less physical violence. Pierson also offers a unique analysis of the major themes represented in The Fugitive’s episodes, such as individualism, love and marriage, the culture of professionalism, modern science and technology, and social justice and authority, along with how these themes connected to ongoing social and cultural struggles taking place in American society in the 1960s. The book explores the reasons why The Fugitive was so popular with audiences of the 1960s, and suggests that one of the strongest appeals of the series is the memorable, poignant performance by David Janssen as Richard Kimble. Pierson also argues that The Fugitive established the narrative and thematic grounds for the "wanderer-redeemer television tradition," whose influence he links to later series like Run for Your Life, Then Came Bronson, The Incredible Hulk, Highway to Heaven, Quantum Leap, and Touched by an Angel. Pierson concludes by examining the similarities and differences between The Fugitive and the 1993 feature film based on the series.
After a finale that held the record for the highest share of American homes with television sets tuned in, the series ended, but not without creating a cultural and programming legacy. Fans of the show and scholars of television history and American popular culture will enjoy this informative study.
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Hugging the Saint: Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Push Me, Pull You.
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Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900 - 1940
Libby MacDonald Bischof and Susan Danly
Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on the coast of Maine in a region then known as Seguinland. For photographer Paul Strand, painter Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, and others, it was a way to escape market-driven, competitive, and divisive New York City, and celebrate a new kind of American Modernism.
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Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Dušan I. Bjelić Ph.D.
Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover. Freud's self-analysis, influenced by his journeys through the Balkans, was a harbinger of orientalism as articulated by Said. However, whereas Said intended Orientalism to be a critique of the historical construction of the Orient by, and in relation to, the West, for Freud it constituted a medical and psychic truth. Freud’s self-orientalization became the structural foundation of psychoanalytic language, which had tragic consequences in the Balkans when a demonic conjunction developed between the ingrained self-orientalizing structure of psychoanalysis and the Balkans' own propensity for self-orientalization. In the 1990s, in the ex-Yugoslav cultural space, psychoanalytic language was used by the Serb psychiatrist-politicians Drs. RaÅ¡kovic and Karadzic as conceptual justification for inter-ethnic violence. Kristeva's discourse on abject geography and Zizek's conceptualization of the Balkans as the Real have done violence to the region in an intellectual register on behalf of universal subjectivity. Following Gramsci’s and Said’s 'discourse geography' Bjelic transmutes the psychoanalytic topos of the imaginary geography of the Balkans into the geopolitics inherent in psychoanalytic language itself, and takes to task the practices of normalization that underpin the Balkans’ politics of madness.
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Introducing the New Sexuality Studies
Wendy Chapkis PhD
Book chapter 47 "Sex Workers Interview" by Wendy Chapkis.
Breaking new ground, both substantively and stylistically, Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, Second Edition offers students and academics an engaging, thought-provoking introduction and overview of the social study of sexualities. Its central premise is to explore the social construction of sexuality, the role of social differences such as race or nationality in creating sexual variation, and the ways sex is entangled in relations of power and inequality. Through this approach the field of sexuality is considered in multicultural, global, and comparative terms, and from a truly social perspective.
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Eliot's Critical Reception: The Quintessence of Twenty‐First‐Century Poetry
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in A Companion to T. S. Eliot.
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“Gerontion” and The Waste Land: Prelude to Altered Consciousness
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe.
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Promoting Healthy Partnerships with Rural Communities
David Hartley PhD, MHA
Book chapter from Community as Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing.
Designed for undergraduate nursing students, practicing community nurses and other health professionals, this sixth edition of Community as Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing provides invaluable up-to-date strategies and frameworks for working in partnership with communities to plan and implement health programs.
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Connecting to the community: A case study in women's resettlement needs and experiences
Becky Hayes Boober and Erica King MSW
Working With Women Offenders in the Community builds on ideas presented in the editors’ previous book, What Works With Women Offenders (2007), extending the focus particularly on women offenders in the community rather than in prison. This book concentrates on women who have committed criminal offences and who may have been placed on probation or other community based court orders or who have been released from prison on parole. It discusses the work done by professional workers including probation officers, community corrections officers and specialist case managers in areas such as drug treatment, housing, mental health or employment programmes.
This book will be of interest to professional probation officers, case managers, drug treatment workers and others who work with women offenders. It will also be essential reading for students of criminology, social work, psychology, sociology and other disciplines who have an interest in women offenders.
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Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature
Robert B. Louden PhD
This book continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in the author’s highly acclaimed book, Kant’s Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant’s extensive writing career, the author focuses on Kant’s under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, “What is the human being” is philosophy’s most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. The author analyzes and evaluates Kant’s own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. The book is divided into three parts. Part One explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant’s ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant’s virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. Part Two uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant’s anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant’s work on human nature and his ethics. Part Three explores specific aspects of Kant’s theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education, and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings.
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‘The Play of Nature’: Human Beings in Kant’s Geography
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Reading Kant’s Geography.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: For almost forty years, German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant gave lectures on geography, more than almost any other subject. Kant believed that geography and anthropology together provided knowledge of the world, an empirical ground for his thought. Above all, he thought that knowledge of the world was indispensable to the development of an informed cosmopolitan citizenry that would be self-ruling. While these lectures have received very little attention compared to his work on other subjects, they are an indispensable source of material and insight for understanding his work, specifically his thinking and contributions to anthropology, race theory, space and time, history, the environment and the emergence of a mature public. This indispensable volume brings together world-renowned scholars of geography, philosophy and related disciplines to offer a broad discussion of the importance of Kant's work on this topic for contemporary philosophical and geographical work.
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Schedules of Reinforcement
F Charles Mace, Jamie Pratt Psy.D, A N. Zangrillo, and Mark W. Steege PhD
Chapter in Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis, First Edition.
Book description:
Describing the state of the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA), this comprehensive handbook provides detailed information about theory, research, and intervention. The contributors are leading ABA authorities who present best practices in behavioral assessment and demonstrate evidence-based strategies for supporting positive behaviors and reducing problem behaviors. Conceptual, empirical, and procedural building blocks of ABA are reviewed and specific applications described in education, autism treatment, safety skills for children, and other areas. The volume also addresses crucial professional and ethical issues, making it a complete reference and training tool for ABA practitioners and students.
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Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development: Contrasting the 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots'
David Marcuiller, Mark Lapping, and Owen Furuseth
Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. For many, traditional means of household sustenance gained through agriculture, mining and rustic tourism are giving way to large scale corporate agriculture, footloose and globally competitive manufacturing firms, and mass tourism on an unprecedented scale. These changes have brought about an increased presence of affluent amenity migrants and returnees, as well as growing reliance on low-wage, seasonal jobs to sustain rural household incomes. This book argues that the character of rural housing reflects this transition and examines this using contemporary concepts of ex-ubanization, rural amenity-based development, and comparative distributional descriptions of the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. Despite rapid in-migration and dramatic changes in land use, there remains a strong tendency for communities in rural America to maintain the idyllic small-town myth of large-lot, single-family home-ownership. This neglects to take into account the growing need for affordable housing (both owner-occupied and rental properties) for local residents and seasonal workers. This book suggests that greater emphasis be placed in rural housing policies that account for this rapid social and economic change and the need for affordable rural housing alternatives.
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Business Education and the Liberal Arts: A Rhetorical Approach
Joseph McDonnell PhD
The Oxford Handbook of Lifelong Learning is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the theory and practice of lifelong learning, encompassing perspectives from human resources development, adult learning, psychology, career and vocational learning, management and executive development, cultural anthropology, the humanities, and gerontology. Individual chapters address the most relevant topics on the subject, including:
- continuous learning as it relates to technological, economic, and organizational changes
- developmental theories and research, models of lifelong learning, and the neurological bases for learning across the lifespan
- examples of learning programs, tools, and technologies, with a focus on corporate programs and business education
- international perspectives on lifelong learning and learning across cultures
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Sum of the Parts: The Mathematics and Politics of Region, Place & Writing
Kent C. Ryden
Proponents of the new regional history understand that regional identities are constructed and contested, multifarious and not monolithic, that they involve questions of dominance and power, and that their nature is inherently political. Kent Ryden examines works of American regional writing to show us how literary partisans of place create and recreate, attack and defend, argue over and dramatize the meaning and identity of their regions in the pages of their books.
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A Review of Ethnic Identity in Advertising
Jeremy J. Sierra, Michael R. Hyman, and Robert S. Heiser PhD
Chapter in The Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing.
Chapter abstract:
Published research on ethnic identity in advertising differs by underlying theoretical framework, measurement type (i.e., single‐item measure vs multi‐item scale), study design (i.e., experiment vs survey), and diversity of respondent sample. A meta‐analysis indicates that ethnic identity effects are higher for atheoretical studies that relied on single‐item measures, experimental designs, and less diverse samples. For ethnically resonant ads, attitudes toward both actor(s)/model(s) and the ad moderate brand attitudes. Overall, ethnic identity influences several commonly studied attitudinal and purchase‐intention outcomes.
Book description:
Marking a landmark work of reference for the field, the Wiley Encyclopedia of Marketing spans six subject volumes and is the first international, multi-volume encyclopedia of marketing.
With 360 entries from over 500 global experts, the Encyclopedia offers one of the premier business reference sources available worldwide. Entries are arranged alphabetically within each subject volume, and each volume carries an index.
- The 6-volume Encyclopedia provides scholars and professionals with an international guide to marketing concepts and applications. The far-reaching new developments and challenges of the past twenty years are fully reflected in the constructs and entries covered and inter-linked through cross-references throughout the volumes.
- Authors from across the world offer their expertise on topics from global e-business to customer-centred organization, making this the most comprehensive, scholarly work of reference available. It will not only appear in hard copy but also on-line throughout the globe.
- Contributions include 2 levels of entry: topic summaries of about 600 words and mini-essays of about 3000-5000 words explaining significant topics or debates in the field.
- Users will enjoy the flexible, multi-level structure, with entries ranging from topic summaries to short essays reviewing areas of development and debate. Entries are further extended by sophisticated cross-referencing both among volumes and between encyclopedia entries and external sources.
- Bibliographies attached to individual entries refer readers to the relevant wider international literature surrounding the items they are researching. Already representing editorial expertise from the world’s leading schools of management, the Encyclopedia links readers to the relevant global scholarship in their field.
- Publication online widens the scope and reach of the whole encyclopedia project, ensuring it provides users with a fully flexible resource linked to the wider literature and to an associated on-line reference library of Handbooks and Journals.
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Preservice Teacher Learning in a Professional Development School: Recognizing and Accepting the Complexity of Urban Teaching
Andrea Stairs-Davenport
Chapter in Investigating University-School Partnerships, edited by Janice L. Nath, Irma N. Guadarrama, John Ramsey.
Book description:
Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the national level. A wide variety of authors from the professional community of PDS researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders engage the reader in research or case studies that foreground real-life, authentic contexts, which, in turn, are designed to generate and fashion more questions and ideas. The volume’s contents of 26 chapters is divided into five areas: (1) PDS Evaluation (2) Teacher Research and Inquiry, (3) PDS Stakeholders’ Studies, (4) Studies for Thought – Ideas for Development, and (5) Teaching Content Areas in PDSs. As a whole, the volume of papers maintains a consistency within a cohesive undercurrent that illustrates the spirited and visionary purpose of professional development schools to advance educational reform that leads to substantive change.
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Urban Teaching in America Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Classrooms
Andrea Stairs-Davenport PhD, Kelly A. Donnell, and Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Urban Teaching in America: Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Classrooms is a brief yet comprehensive overview of urban teaching. Undergraduate and graduate students who are new to the urban context will develop a deeper understanding of the urban teaching environment and the challenges and opportunities they can expect to face while teaching in it. The authors have combined the work of urban education theorists, researchers, and practitioners to demonstrate that urban students bring many resources to their learning environment and can often serve as educators to the teachers themselves. Readers will feel prepared to challenge, rather than maintain, the status quo after reading this book.
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Conversion to Narrative: Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles
Megan Goodwin PhD
Book chapter from Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, edited by Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis.
About the book:
Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels.
In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material-in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts-occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
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Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams
Annie Finch
In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman’s harrowing mythological journey of discovery. Tutored by encounters with seven Goddesses, both frightening and nurturing, Marie/Lily is tested by loss, rape, and abortion as she finds her community and her spiritual strength. This magical book embodies the goddesses in every woman and gives voice to the power of the feminist spirtuality movement.
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Patient-Provider Communications: Caring to Listen
Valerie A. Hart
Patient-Provider Communications: Caring to Listen offers specific patient communication for advanced practice nurses. Role-plays for different clinical situations, with varying patient populations, provide a bridge for implementing communication strategies in the clinical setting. Each chapter gives a brief synopsis of current communication theories that relate to the topic and which drive communication strategies with patients.
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Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies for Effective Practice (2nd Ed.)
Rachel Brown-Chidsey and Mark W. Steege
This bestselling work provides practitioners with a complete guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. The authors are leading experts who explain the main components of RTI—high-quality instruction, frequent assessment, and data-based decision making—and show how to use it to foster positive academic and behavioral outcomes for all students. Implementation procedures are described in step-by-step detail. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding to facilitate photocopying, the book includes reproducible planning and implementation worksheets. Book purchasers can download an accompanying PowerPoint presentation for use in RTI training.
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Contemporary Field Social Work: Integrating Field and Classroom Experience
Mark Doel, Steven M. Shardlow, and Paul G. Johnson
This comprehensive and interactive text rooted in contemporary social work practice provides a lively guide through the curriculum for social work practice learning. Written by three respected social workers with significant teaching, practical, and writing experience, it bridges the gap by offering learning activities that can be worked in both classroom and field settings. Helpful teaching and learning materials for students, field instructors, faculty and staff supervisors can be found throughout, and pointers through the book are useful for group learning as well as for one to one supervision. Topics include ethical dilemmas, multi-cultural practice, evidence and knowledge, making assessments in partnership, making priorities in interventions, working in and with groups and law-informed practice.
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Mankind
Kathleen Ashley and Gerard NeCastro
Mankind is without a doubt the most amusing and controversial morality play surviving from fifteenth-century England. As an allegory about the vulnerable situation in which most people find themselves—torn between good judgment and the temptation to misbehave—the play’s moral action is conventional.
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Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes
Leonerd Shedletsky and Joan E. Aitken
Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes contains examples of online discussions in a variety of contexts and for a variety of purposes, allowing readers to understand what is likely to facilitate discussion online, what is likely to encourage collaborative meaning-making, what is likely to encourage productive, supportive, engaged discussion, and what is likely to foster critical thinking. This book assembles cases that address an array of research methods, online communication media, forms of expression, communication contexts, and philosophical perspectives.
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Research on Urban Teacher Learning: Examining Contextual Factors Over Time
Andrea J. Stairs and Kelly A. Donnell
This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning. Part I introduces the reader to the conceptual and empirical literature on urban teacher learning. Part II shares eight research studies that examine how, what, and why urban teachers learn in the form of rich longitudinal studies. Part III analyzes the ways federal, state, and local policies affect urban teacher learning and highlights the synergistic relationship between urban teacher learning and context. What makes this collection powerful is not only that it moves research front and center in discussions of urban teacher learning, but also that it recognizes the importance of learning over time and the way urban schools' contexts and conditions enable and constrain teacher learning.
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France, Social Capital, and Political Activism
Francesca Vassallo
France, Social Capital and Political Activism deals with the theme of political participation in France, focusing on conventional and unconventional forms of political activism over the last three decades. Measures of social integration and political involvement are used to question the validity of social capital theory. The French model of political participation supports the interpretation that countries do not need necessarily to focus on the development of social capital to increase people's political involvement and consequently the quality of their participatory democracies.
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A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium, edited by Sam Binkley and Jorge Capetillo.
More about this title:
How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today?
This collection comprises several essays considering the contemporary relevance of the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault is best remembered for his historical inquiries into the origins of “disciplinary” society in a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, it seems that today, under the conditions of global modernity, the relevance of his ideas are called into question. With the increasing ubiquity of markets, the break up of centralized states and the dissolution of national boundaries, together with new scientific and political discourses on biological life, the world of today seems far removed from the bounded, disciplinary societies Foucault described in his most famous books. Yet in recent years, it has become apparent that Foucault’s thoughts on modern society have not been exhausted, and, indeed, that much remains to be explored. Within this volume, novel interpretations and thematic developments of key Foucauldian concepts are presented in the works of 24 authors. Prominent among them are new forms of neoliberal economic conduct framed by distinct governmentalities; new critical concepts of biological life reflected in Foucault’s analysis of biopower, and new theoretical treatments of the effects of subjectivation. Moreover, included among these theoretical departures are empirical studies of contemporary formations of religion and spiritual practice, consumerism, race and racism, the discourse of genetics and the life sciences, surveillance and incarceration, and new social movements. Drawn from a conference held at the University of Massachusetts, Boston bearing the same title, A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governnentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium both expands our understanding of Foucault’s central theoretical legacy, and applies his ideas to a range of contemporary empirical phenomena.
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Abigail Mathieu’s Civic Charity: Social Reform and the Search for Personal Immortality
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
One example of this reluctance to give women their due as historical agents may be found in accounts of the Catholic Reformation. As Barbara Diefendorf comments in her study From Penitence to Charity: “Traditional histories have obscured women’s active part in shaping the institutions, spirituality, and value system that characterized the Catholic Reformation in France by concentrating too narrowly on the achievements of a handful of great men.”4 Diefendorf’s study of the role played by pious women in the early seventeenth-century Catholic revival marks an intervention into the dominant masculinist interpretations of religious history. She stresses the importance of individual laywomen donors with initiative, organizational skills, and money who built innumerable convents and who were “leaders in the spiritual revival that lay at the heart of the Catholic Reformation.”5 Her focus is the women of Paris, but she ends her study with the implicit plea for research into the roles that pious women may have played in the Catholic Reformation elsewhere in France.6 This essay, which makes a case for the importance of the immensely wealthy Abigail Mathieu to the early modern history of Chalon, takes up Diefendorf’s challenge to document female leadership in building the social institutions and religious values of their place and time.
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Narrative Accounts, Itineraries and Descriptions
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage.
Pilgrim authors write in various languages and from perspectives that differ depending upon their nationality, culture, social status, professional interests and audience. Despite the variety within the genre, recurrent themes may be expected in pilgrim literature; these include venerating the relics at shrines, describing churches (architecture, personnel and ceremonies), identifying potential lodgings en route, and commenting on the landscape, the people, and the food in each…
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Timing, resources, and interference: attentional modulation of time perception
Scott W. Brown PhD
Chapter 8 in Attention and Time, edited by Anna C. Nobre and Jennifer T. Coull.
Chapter Abstract:
This chapter describes a research that investigated the attentional modulation of time perception. It explains that this research involved various techniques for modifying attention to time including manipulations of temporal awareness and variations in the nature of the distractor tasks. All of the different approaches produced a consistent set of findings which indicate that interval timing requires attentional resources and that time judgement performance is influenced strongly by the allocation of those resources.
More about the book:
Our ability to attend selectively to our surroundings is crucial if we are to negotiate the world around us in an efficient manner. Several aspects of the temporal dimension turn out to be critical in determining how we can put together and select the events that are important to us as they themselves unfold over time. For example, we often miss events that happen while we are occupied perceiving or responding to another stimulus. On the other hand, temporal regularity between events can also greatly improve our perception. In addition, our perception of the passage of time itself can also be distorted while we are performing actions or paying attention to different aspects of the environment. This interplay between ‘attention’ and ‘time’ has been relatively neglected in the psychology and neuroscience literatures until very recently. This book addresses this foundational topic, bringing together several hitherto fragmented findings into a cohesive field of enquiry. It contains thirty-one critical-review chapters, organised into three stand-alone, yet extensively cross-referenced, themed sections. Each section focuses on distinct ways in which attention and time influence one another. These sections, each encompassing a range of methodologies from classical cognitive psychology to single-cell neurophysiology, provide functionally unifying frameworks to help guide through the many various experimental and theoretical approaches adopted. Section 1 considers variations of attention across time; Section 2 describes several types of temporal illusion; and Section 3 examines how attention can be directed in time.
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Wordcraft, Applied Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) : Tools for Public and Voluntary Social Service
Vincent Faherty
This text helps students and social service personnel better evaluate agency programs using the various qualitative documents (such as case intake forms and case progress notes) already at their disposal.
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Bullying and Sexual Harassment of Adolescents [Book Chapter]
James E. Gruber PhD and Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW
In this landmark three-volume set, a remarkable team of contributors draws on a wealth of contemporary research to discuss pivotal events, issues, and controversies related to the global women's movement, with chapters addressing reproductive rights, sexual slavery, harassment, forced marriage, mortality in birthing, domestic violence and rape, job discrimination, pay inequities, women in leadership positions, and other crucial issues. Together these volumes offer today's generation the real story of feminism and a call to action for the next wave of advocacy in education, religion, politics, the military, personal relationships, the workplace, and the home.
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Marxian and Institutional Industrial Relations in the United States
Michael G. Hillard PhD
Chapter 6 from 21st Century Economics: A Reference Book, edited by Rhona C. Free. This chapter presents industrial relations (IR)—the study of the capitalist employment relationship, with particular emphasis on employer/worker or “capital-labor” conflict.
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Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View: Toward a Cosmopolitan Conception of Human Nature
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Rethinking Kant: Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The goal of the series Rethinking Kant is to bear witness to the richness and vitality of Kantian studies in North America. The collection is unique in its kind, for it garners papers from a whole generation of Kantian thought, ranging from doctoral students and recent Ph.Ds, to up-and-coming young scholars, to some well-established and influential players in the field. This combination is designed to take the pulse of current Kantian scholarship in the U.S. and rethink its fundamentals. This is the second volume in the series. It contains papers from three regional study groups of the North American Kant Society. Contributions tackle some of the most important and controversial themes in Kant’s philosophy: the relation between concepts and intuitions, Hume’s influence on Kant, the strengths and weaknesses of moral constructivism, Kant’s theory of moral feeling, the faultlines within Kant’s political philosophy, the role of cosmopolitanism in moral progress, the systematic function of the Critique of Judgment, and Kant’s alleged racism. Some critical, other exegetical or apologetic, these essays show a sustained effort to rethink Kant and explain his inescapable influence on contemporary philosophical debates.
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Evil Everywhere: The Ordinariness of Kantian Radical Evil
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant’s Anatomy of Evil.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Kant infamously claimed that all human beings, without exception, are evil by nature. This collection of essays critically examines and elucidates what he must have meant by this indictment. It shows the role which evil plays in his overall philosophical project and analyses its relation to individual autonomy. Furthermore, it explores the relevance of Kant's views for understanding contemporary questions such as crimes against humanity and moral reconstruction. Leading scholars in the field engage a wide range of sources from which a distinctly Kantian theory of evil emerges, both subtle and robust, and capable of shedding light on the complex dynamics of human immorality.
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Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post-Nationalism
F C. McGrath PhD
Chapter in A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume 2.
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Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynesty and its War Against Iraq
James Messerschmidt
Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, regionally, and globally. This book outlines how state leaders may appeal to particular hegemonic masculinites in their attempt to sell wars and thereby camouflage salient political practices in the process.
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Urban expansion and sea-level rise related flood vulnerability for Mumbai (Bombay) India using remotely sensed data
Firooza Pavri
This book examines how Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The volume is a compilation of recent research using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and other technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to examine urban hazard and disaster issues. The goal is to improve and advance the use of such technologies during four classic phases of hazard and disaster research: response, recovery, preparation and mitigation. The focus is on urban areas, broadly defined in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas.
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Critical Thinking in Discussion: Online versus Face-to-Face [Book Chapter]
Leonard Shedletsky PhD
Book chapter "Critical Thinking in Discussion: Online versus Face-to-Face" by Leonard Shedletskey from Shedletsky from Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Environments: Processes and Interactions ed. by Donna Russell.
As emerging technologies increase the potential for constructivist learning processes and responses, it is critical that educational researchers, instructional designers, cognitive scientists, and information scientists become more aware of advances in these correlating fields.
Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments: Processes and Interactions provides a systematic response to this highly innovative and rapidly evolving field for enhanced education and training. Containing unique research cases on experiences, implementations, and applications of virtual learning environments, this publication offers a critical collection of leading explorations useful to educational practitioners, researchers, and those involved in related fields of study.
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Unwanted Childhood Sexual Experiences Questionnaire
Michael Stevenson PhD
Chapter in Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures 3rd Edition, edited by Terri D. Fisher, Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, Sandra L. Davis.
More about this book:
This classic and invaluable reference Handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new edition complete with its own companion website. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previously been used in sex research.
In this third edition of the Handbook, 218 scales, complete with full descriptions and psychometric data, are made available, with additional information provided at the companion website for this volume.
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Adult and Continuing Ed. In Relation to an Aging Society
M. A. Wolf and E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter 34 in Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education, edited by Carol E. Kasworm, Amy D. Rose, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon.
Book description:
An authoritative overview of the current state of the field of adult and continuing education Drawing on the contributions of 75 leading authors in the field, this 2010 Edition of the respected Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides adult education scholars, program administrators, and teachers with a solid foundation for understanding the current guiding beliefs, practices, and tensions faced in the field, as well as a basis for developing and refining their own approaches to their work and scholarship. Offering expanded discussions in the areas of social justice, technology, and the global dimensions of adult and continuing education, the Handbook continues the tradition of previous volumes with discussions of contemporary theories, current forms and contexts of practice, and core processes and functions. Insightful chapters examine adult and continuing education as it relates to gender and sexuality, race, our aging society, class and place, and disability.
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Stringer Bell’s Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, edited by Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall.
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The first collection of critical essays on HBO's The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years.
The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without job security, and without social structures. This is a world that is only grey, an exacting autopsy of a side of American life that has never seen the inside of a Starbucks.
Over its five season, sixty-episode run (2002-2008), The Wire presented several overlapping narrative threads, all set in the city of Baltimore. The series consistently deconstructed the conventional narratives of law, order, and disorder, offering a view of America that has never before been admitted to the public discourse of the televisual. It was bleak and at times excruciating. Even when the show made metatextual reference to its own world as Dickensian, it was too gentle by half.
By focusing on four main topics (Crime, Law Enforcement, America, and Television), The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television examines the series' place within popular culture and its representation of the realities of inner city life, social institutions, and politics in contemporary American society. This is a brilliant collection of essays on a show that has taken the art of television drama to new heights.
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Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor
Adam-Max Tuchinsky
In the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune had the largest national circulation of any newspaper in the United States. Its contributors included many of the leading minds of the period-Margaret Fuller, Henry James Sr., Charles Dana, and Karl Marx. The Tribune was also a locus of social democratic thought that closely matched the ideology of Greeley, its founder and editor, who was a noted figure in politics and reform movements.
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Primary Care for Sports and Fitness: A Lifespan Approach
Brian Toy and Phyllis Foster Healy
Here are the practical knowledge and the clinical skills you need to help your patients prevent common sports-related injuries...and to assess, diagnose, and treat them when they occur—all in a handy, easy-to-use reference.
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Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships
Piers Beirne
Confronting Animal Abuse presents a powerful examination of the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it. Piers Beirne, a leading scholar in the growing field of green criminology, explores the heated topic of animal abuse in agriculture, science, and sport, as well as what is known, if anything, about the potential for animal assault to lead to inter-human violence. He convincingly shows how from its roots in the Irish plow-fields of 1635 through today, animal-rights legislation has been primarily shaped by human interest and why we must reconsider the terms of human-animal relationships. Beirne argues that if violations of animals' rights are to be taken seriously, then scholars and activists should examine why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and still others as neither criminal nor abusive. Confronting Animal Abuse points to the need for a more inclusive concept of harms to animals, without which the meaning of animal abuse will be overwhelmingly confined to those harms that are regarded as socially unacceptable, one-on-one cases of animal cruelty. Certainly, those cases demand attention. But so, too, do those other and far more numerous institutionalized harms to animals, where abuse is routine, invisible, ubiquitous and often defined as socially acceptable. In this pioneering, pro-animal book Beirne identifies flaws in our traditional understanding of human-animal relationships, and proposes a compelling new approach.
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Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization
Jonathan P. Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard
Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of by Coupon Companion" >the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place financial instability, macroeconomic crisis, rising global inequality and a grasp of the perverse and pernicious qualities of global and domestic macroeconomic policy making since 1980 into a coherent perspective. It familiarizes the reader with the emerging unified theory of heterodox macroeconomics and its applications.
The book is divided into four key sections: I) Heterodox Macroeconomics and the Keynes-Marx synthesis; II) Accumulation, Crisis and Instability; III) The Macrodynamics of the Neoliberal Regime; and IV) Heterodox Macroeconomic Policy. The essays include theoretical, international, historical, and country perspectives on financial fragility and macroeconomic instability.
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Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking
Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith
This textbook enhances preservice and practicing music educators' understanding of ways to successfully engage children in music composition. It offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education programand a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date. Minds On Music offers a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons with students in grades PreK-12.
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RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success
Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh, and Kelly McGraw
Written expressly for teachers, this book is jam-packed with tools and strategies for integrating response to intervention (RTI) into everyday instruction in grades K-5. Numerous real-world examples connect RTI concepts to what teachers already know to help them provide effective instruction for all students, including struggling learners.
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Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan
The Way of St James has been a pilgrimage event for over 1000 years as people have flocked to the site of the burial of the apostle St James the Great. Legend states that the body of James was carried by boat from Jerusalem to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where a church was erected on the site of the tomb. There is no single route for the pilgrims to follow, but there are several key paths. Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan capture the experience of the medieval pilgrim through an examination of art, historical and social contexts as well as themes related to pilgrimage such as music, legend and ritual. The book is copiously illustrated with new photographs by Marilyn Deegan showcasing the visual legacy of the medieval pilgrimage experience in sculpture, painting and architecture. Interwoven in Kathleen Ashley's narrative text are original sources bringing to us the voice of these men and women who set out on what was then an epic journey.
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The Convalescent
Jessica Anthony
The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar Ákos Pfliegman—unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
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Rough Cradle
Betsy Sholl
Betsy Sholl’s masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormous, and no life too small or mean to matter.
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Understanding and Preventing Suicide: The Development of Self-Destructive Patterns and Ways to Alter Them
Kristine Bertini
Every 18 minutes, there is a suicide attempt somewhere in the United States, with some 30,000 of those resulting in completed suicide each year. Worldwide, there are more than 1 million suicides annually. We know the basic facts: Most of the people were depressed or suffered another mental illness, and many were facing stressful life events with which they could not cope. But is there no way to prevent the tragedy? Author Kristine Bertini, a clinical psychologist, says one of the most effective means may be to understand first how suicidal tendencies and thinking develop, how environment, biology, culture, and societal factors all play a role in predisposing some people to give up hope and see death as the only way to end their suffering. In this book, Bertini explains the development of suicidal thinking and, through patient vignettes, illustrates the ways this thinking develops. She also describes and illustrates signals friends and loved ones as well as professionals can watch for pointing to such thinking, which may be kept secretive by the person at risk, as well as approaches that can be used to alter tendencies and thinking for the person at risk.
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Latino Voices in New England
David Carey Jr and Robert Atkinson
Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.
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Environmental Science: Active Learning Laboratories and Applied Problem Sets
Travis Wagner and Robert Sanford
One of the few lab books available in the field, Environmental Science is designed to provide environmental scientists with active learning situations that demonstrate the impacts of interactions between humans and the environment. It encourages readers to reflect on real life conditions and the connection to the environment and sustainability. Emphasis is placed on writing and communication through lab reports, presentations, and real-world scenarios. Environmental scientists will be able to apply concepts in the lab and gain a stronger understanding of the field.
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Saint Louis’ Letters of Instruction to His Son and Daughter
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behaviour for Youths with English Translations.
Conduct literature is a term used to identify writings that address how one should 'conduct' oneself in social situations. In the medieval period conduct literature was essential reading for nearly all literate children and adolescents to educate them in the expected social behaviours for their culture, gender, and status. Using a comparative approach, this anthology pairs together pieces of male-directed and female-directed medieval conduct literature, many being translated into English for the first time, to present an illuminating picture of medieval gender norms, parenting, literary style, and pedagogy. Containing texts written in six vernacular languages, each section is also accompanied by textual notes, an introduction, and an English translation. A fascinating examination of a diverse range of regions and cultures, Medieval Conduct Literature is a remarkable window into medieval life, customs, behaviour, and social expectations.
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Philosophy and Sex: Adultery, monogamy, feminism, rape, same-sex marriage, abortion, promiscuity, perversion
Robert B. Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger PhD
Ed. by Robert B. Baker and Kathleen Wininger.
This classic sourcebook, which has for three decades helped thousands rethink their views of ethics and human sexuality, is all new and totally revised for the challenges of the 21st century. Featuring essays on adultery, monogamy, perversion, homosexuality, pederasty, sex without love, sexual equality and more, Philosophy and Sex retains its uniqueness and accessibility without compromising quality and versatility. New to this fourth edition are essays on the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and in South Africa (including a piece on homosexuality and Apartheid by Desmond Tutu), the historical stigmatization of unmarried women ("On Spinsters"), intersexuality, female sexuality and the Vagina Monologues, male and female circumcision, and much more.
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“I am a Catholic just as I am a dweller on the Planet:“ John Boyle O’Reilly, Louise Imogen Guiney and a Model of Exceptionalist Catholic Literature in Boston
Libby Bischof PhD
Chapter in Two Centuries of Faith The Influence of Catholicism on Boston: 1808–2008, edited by Thomas H. O'Connor.
About the book:
To celebrate the archdiocese of Boston’s bicentennial, this informative volume chronicles a wide range of Boston history with a particular concentration on religion.
Each chapter examines a different angle of the Church’s past by focusing on influential figures, including Bishop Cheverus, John F. Kennedy, and Elizabeth Seton. Contributors—such as Libby MacDonald Bischof, François Gauthier, Carol Hurd Green, and Rev. Joseph M. O’Keefe, SJ—also provide keen insights into the future of the city and its faith in this valuable reference.
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Marsden Hartley’s Church at Head Tide, Maine
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Chapter in Art at Colby : celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, exhibition and publication organized by Sharon Corwin, Elizabeth Finch, and Lauren Lessing ; edited by Joseph N. Newland.
Book Description:
With more than 170 artworks and commissioned texts, including original poems, by 98 writers and artists--such as Barbara Haskell, Bill Berkson, Carol Troyen, Michael Leja, Rachael Ziady DeLue, Geoffrey Batchen, Sanford Schwartz, Anne M. Wagner, Ron Padgett, Irving Sandler and Lydia Yee--Art at Colby highlights artworks that represent the full scope of the museum's superb holdings. The works span the entire history of American art (with a particularly fine selection of painting from New York since 1960), and also include examples of European and Asian works. Texts by a range of writers--scholars, curators, critics and artists--are paired with gorgeous reproductions of pieces from the collection: James Cuno on Henri Fantin-Latour, for instance, Rackstraw Downes on John Marin, Alex Katz on Winslow Homer and Richard Hell on Joe Brainard.
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Rockwell Kent’s Monhegan, Maine
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Chapter in Art at Colby : celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, exhibition and publication organized by Sharon Corwin, Elizabeth Finch, and Lauren Lessing ; edited by Joseph N. Newland.
Book Description:
With more than 170 artworks and commissioned texts, including original poems, by 98 writers and artists--such as Barbara Haskell, Bill Berkson, Carol Troyen, Michael Leja, Rachael Ziady DeLue, Geoffrey Batchen, Sanford Schwartz, Anne M. Wagner, Ron Padgett, Irving Sandler and Lydia Yee--Art at Colby highlights artworks that represent the full scope of the museum's superb holdings. The works span the entire history of American art (with a particularly fine selection of painting from New York since 1960), and also include examples of European and Asian works. Texts by a range of writers--scholars, curators, critics and artists--are paired with gorgeous reproductions of pieces from the collection: James Cuno on Henri Fantin-Latour, for instance, Rackstraw Downes on John Marin, Alex Katz on Winslow Homer and Richard Hell on Joe Brainard.
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On the homogeneity of syntax: How similar do coordinates and subordinates look to the comprehension system?
Wayne Cowart PhD and Tatiana Agupova
Chapter 5 in Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, Scott O. Farrar.
Chapter abstract:
Our goal here is to explore an unusual approach to the long-standing problem of coordination in natural language — the problem of accommodating subordinate and coordinate structures within a consistent and empirically sound syntax. In what follows we’ll offer a brief overview of the problem and identify a central assumption about the syntax of coordinates (the Homogeneity Thesis) that seems to be very widely shared by investigators working on coordination regardless of their theoretical orientation. We will then review some recent experimental results that seem to clash with certain implications of the Homogeneity Thesis. Though the evidence reviewed here is far from definitive, we argue that serious consideration of alternatives to the Homogeneity Thesis is in order.
Book description:
This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical directions inspired by generative theory. In fact, the papers show a progression from core theoretical concerns to data-driven experimental investigation and can be divided roughly into two categories: those that follow a syntactic and theoretical course, and those that follow an experimental or applied path. Many of the papers revisit long-standing or recurring themes in the generative tradition, some of which seek experimental validation or refutation. The merger of theoretical and experimental concerns makes this volume stand out, but it is also forward looking in that it addresses the recent concerns of the creation and consumption of data across the discipline.
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Ubart: Juris Ubans Retrospective
Dennis Gilbert
This 2009 exhibition catalog showcases the collection of USM Professor Emeritus Juris Ubans and his four decades of work as an artist and educator.
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The Word Within the World: Ash-Wednesday and the ‘Ariel Poems’
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Critical Insights: T. S. Eliot.
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Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and globalization
Jonathan P. Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard PhD
Introduction from Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx, and Globalization, Jonathan P. Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard, editors.
Chapter 14: Historically Contingent, Institutionally Specific: Class Struggles and American Employer Exceptionalism in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization
Michael G. Hillard and Richard McIntyre
More about this book:
Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place financial instability, macroeconomic crisis, rising global inequality and a grasp of the perverse and pernicious qualities of global and domestic macroeconomic policy making since 1980 into a coherent perspective. It familiarizes the reader with the emerging unified theory of heterodox macroeconomics and its applications
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The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to ‘Rebuild the Labor Movement.'
Michael G. Hillard PhD and Richard McIntyre
Chapter 10 from Class Struggle on The Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household, edited by Graham Cassano.
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Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household.
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A Radical Critique and Alternative to U.S. Industrial Relations Theory and Practice.
Michael G. Hillard PhD and Richard McIntyre
Chapter from Radical Economics And The Labor Movement: Essays Inspired by the IWW Centennial, edited by Frederic Lee and John Bekken.
More about this book:
To celebrate the centenary of the most radical union in North America - The Industrial Workers of the World - this collection examines radical economics and the labor movement in the 20th Century. The union advocates direct action to raise wages and increase job control, and it envisions the eventual abolition of capitalism and the wage system through the general strike.
The contributors to this volume speak both to economists and to those in the labor movement, and point to fruitful ways in which these radical heterodox traditions have engaged and continue to engage each other and with the labor movement. In view of the current crisis of organized labor and the beleaguered state of the working class—phenomena which are global in scope—the book is both timely and important. Representing a significant contribution to the non-mainstream literature on labor economics, the book reactivates a marginalized analytical tradition which can shed a great deal of light on the origins and evolution of the difficulties confronting workers throughout the world.
This volume will be of most interest to students and scholars of heterodox economics, those involved with or researching The Industrial Workers of the World, as well as anyone interested in the more radical side of unions, anarchism and labor organizations in an economic context.
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Applying Kant’s Ethics: The Role of Anthropology
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in A Companion to Kant.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest. Written by an international cast of scholars Covers all the major works of the critical philosophy, as well as the pre-critical works Subjects covered range from mathematics and philosophy of science, through epistemology and metaphysics, to moral and political philosophy
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Immanuel Kant - Afterword
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Philosophy of Education: The Essential Texts
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Philosophy of education is a study both of the aims of education and the most appropriate means of achieving those aims. This volume contains substantial selections from those works widely regarded as central to the development of the field. These are the "essential texts" that lay the foundation for further study. The text is historically organized, moving from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle), through the medieval period (Augustine), to modern perspectives (Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft), and twentieth-century thinkers (Whitehead, Dewey). Each selection is followed by an extended interpretative essay in which a noted authority of our time highlights essential points from the readings and places them in a wider context. Exhibiting both breadth and depth, this text is ideal as a reader for courses in philosophy of education, foundations of education, and the history of ideas.
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Making the Law Visible: The Role of Examples in Kant’s Ethics
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide
BOOK DESCRIPTION: In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant portrays the supreme moral principle as an unconditional imperative that applies to all of us because we freely choose to impose upon ourselves a law of pure practical reason. Morality is revealed to be a matter of autonomy. Today, this approach to ethical theory is as perplexing, controversial and inspiring as it was in 1785, when the Groundwork was first published. The essays in this volume, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discuss Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's moral metaphysics and theory of value, and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom. They reflect the approach of several schools of interpretation and illustrate the lively diversity of Kantian ethics today.
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The Critique of the Morality System
Robert B. Louden PhD
Chapter in Bernard Williams.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams' contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers. The seven essays, which were specially commissioned for this volume, examine his work on moral objectivity, the nature of practical reason, moral emotion, the critique of the 'morality system', Williams' assessment of the ethical thought of the ancient world, and his later adoption of Nietzsche's method of 'genealogy'. Collectively, the essays not only engage with Williams' work, but also develop independent philosophical arguments in connection with those topics that have, over the last thirty years, particularly reflected Williams' influence.
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Frequency effects in children’s syntactic and morphological development
Cecile McKee and Dana McDaniel PhD
Chapter 8 in Time and again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, edited by William D. Lewis, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, Scott O. Farrar.
Chapter abstract:
We have long loved Langendoen (1970) — a paper on the theoretical justification of “transformations, their effects on the structure of sentences, and the conditions under which they are optional or obligatory” (p. 102). In that paper, Langendoen argued that acceptability and grammaticality are “partially independent [and] partially dependent notions” (p. 103). We are struck by the implications of this contrast for language learning. If the learner’s grammar is a set of probabilistic patterns and not (also or instead) a set of grammatical rules, one might expect high frequency elements to be ‘grammatical’ and low frequency elements to be ‘ungrammatical.’ In other words, grammaticality and acceptability should be similar if frequency is the determining factor. But Langendoen (1970) hypothesized that grammatical competence contributes to grammaticality while processing factors contribute to acceptability. Our research shows clearer effects of frequency on the latter than the on former and thus relates to Langendoen’s observation.This chapter explores the role of frequency in children’s syntactic and morphophonological development. One study compares relative clauses involving different extraction sites, which constructions vary considerably in their frequency of occurrence. Children’s production of these relatives suggests that frequency affects sentence planning, but their judgments of the same relatives are out of synchrony with the frequency rates. The other study presented here concerns the a and an forms of the indefinite article, which distinction is acquired relatively late even though the forms occur frequently. These studies show that frequency cannot be the whole story. We conclude that children’s mastery of a system of rules proceeds — at least to some extent — independently of frequency patterns in the input.
Book description:
This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather, it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical directions inspired by generative theory. In fact, the papers show a progression from core theoretical concerns to data-driven experimental investigation and can be divided roughly into two categories: those that follow a syntactic and theoretical course, and those that follow an experimental or applied path. Many of the papers revisit long-standing or recurring themes in the generative tradition, some of which seek experimental validation or refutation. The merger of theoretical and experimental concerns makes this volume stand out, but it is also forward looking in that it addresses the recent concerns of the creation and consumption of data across the discipline.
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Goal Implementation: The Benefits and Costs of If–Then Planning
Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm PhD and Peter M. Gollwitzer
Chapter 14 of The Psychology of Goals; edited by Gordon B. Moskowitz and Heidi Grant.
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Bringing together leading authorities, this tightly edited volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge about goals and their key role in human behavior. Presented are cutting-edge theories and findings that shed light on the ways people select and prioritize goals; how they are pursued; factors that lead to success or failure in achieving particular aims; and consequences for individual functioning and well-being. Thorough attention is given to both conscious and nonconscious processes. The biological, cognitive, affective, and social underpinnings of goals are explored, as is their relationship to other motivational constructs.
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The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual: Marx and Deleuze
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from Deleuze and Marx: Deleuze Studies, Volume 3 (Supplement), edited by Dhruv Jain.
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Writings on Deleuze and Guattari's twin volumes, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, have often focused on questions about desire, body without organs, the schizophrenic etc. There have been a few notable exceptions that have attempted to articulate and expound upon the numerous political problems that Deleuze and Guattari attempt to resolve through analyses of concepts such as de-/re-territorialization, coding and re-coding etc, however a specter is haunting Deleuze and Guattari that has yet to be explained, articulated and debated; the specter of Karl Marx. This volume attempts to analyze the relationship between Deleuze (and Guattari) and Marx and their respective works. This volume is an intervention into the fields of Deleuze Studies, Marxist and Marxian philosophy and political economy, and critiques of capitalism through an examination of the relationship between Deleuze and Marx. Themes that will be covered in this volume include hegemony and theories of imperialism, the role of philosophy in changing the world, surplus, tensions between the virtual and the potential, ideology and noology, modes of production, and the very nature of anti-capitalist politics in Deleuze's work. This volume will be of interest to people interested in Deleuze Studies who are interested in questions of politics and critiques of capitalism, Marxist theory and philosophy and people interested in political economy.
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University Experience: Neoliberalism against the Commons
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from Toward a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge and Exodus from the Education Factory by the Edu-Factory Collective.
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The Ghost in Hannah's Parlor
Laima Sruoginis MFA
"The Ghost in Hannah's Parlor" is a novel for children ages 8 through 11. Set on a fictional island off the coast of Maine, the novel tells the story of 9-year-old Hannah's hunt for the ghost of the legendary turn of the last century Star of the Sea opera singer, Hilda De Witt Rose. To catch up with Hilda, Hannah must battle the school bully and rally the forces of her classmates to help her find "evidence" of Hilda's existence. The novel introduces children to Maine history and the traditional lifestyle of the Maine islands through the use of regional legends and stories. The novel also deals with the issue of bullying in the schools. "The Ghost in Hannah's Parlor" was translated into Lithuanian and in 2007 was selected as one of the top five books for children by Lithuanian National Radio and Television.
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Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form
Annie Finch and Susan M. Schultz
Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form explores new directions in poetic form and theory. The “multi” in “multiformalisms” is nothing if not multifarious. This collection of essays by important poets and critics investigates traditional and exploratory forms, as well as the ways cultures and histories have come to shape them. Multiformalisms juxtaposes essays on traditional formalism and flarf; the American long poem and native Hawaiian poetry; rhyme in Paul Muldoon and textual variability in New Media poetry; Susan Howe and Lucinda Roy, jazz and Asian American poetics, and more.
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How Clean is Clean?: A Comparative Analysis of the Reliance of Risk Assessment in Contaminated Site Cleanup
Travis Wagner
Quantitative risk assessment is a crucial tool in determining the degree of clean up at contaminated sites and to answer the fundamental question -- how clean is clean? The purpose of this study was to examine how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has relied on quantitative risk assessment in its three site remediation programs: Superfund, the RCRA Corrective Action Program, and the Underground Storage Tank Corrective Action Program. Interestingly, each of these programs were created within a few years of each other, has the same statutory cleanup goals, addresses some similar contaminants, addresses the same environmental media,uses the same toxicological data, and uses the same default exposure assumptions. However, over time,each program's reliance has become quite different.This study explores the scientific, political,programmatic, organizational, historical, and socio-economic factors that have influenced the divergence.
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A Primer for the Exercise and Nutrition Sciences: Thermodynamics, Bioenergetics, Metabolism
Chistopher B. Scott
The subject of thermodynamics is rarely found in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology textbooks. Yet this material is fundamental to any serious inquisition concerning energy exchange.
This book provides a fresh approach to the study of energy expenditure by introducing the latest concepts in open system thermodynamics and cellular to whole-body energy exchange. The text traces biological energy exchange, from the molecules in the food we eat to the energy demands of rest, physical exertion and its recovery.
The carefully researched text advances traditional exercise physiology concepts by incorporating contemporary thermodynamic and cellular physiology principles into the context of a ‘working’ metabolism.
This book is written for upper level undergraduate and graduate students, but will also appeal to exercise physiologists, registered dieticians and nutritionists, and applies to cardiac rehabilitation, exercise science and health fitness programs.
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The Certified Quality Inspector Handbook
Roger Berger, Donald W. Benbow, Ahmed K. Elshennawy, and H Fred Walker
The quality inspector is the person perhaps most closely involved with day-to-day activities intended to ensure products and services meet customer expectations. The quality inspector is required to understand and apply a variety of tools and techniques as described in the ASQ Certified Quality Inspector (CQI) Body of Knowledge (BoK). The tools and techniques identified in the BoK include technical math, metrology, inspection and test techniques, and quality assurance. Quality inspectors frequently work in the quality function of organizations in the various measurement and inspection laboratories, as well as on the shop floor supporting and interacting with quality engineers and production/service delivery personnel. This handbook is intended to serve as a ready reference for quality inspectors and quality inspectors-in-training, as well as a comprehensive reference for those individuals preparing to take the ASQ CQI examination. Examples and problems used throughout the handbook are thoroughly explained, algebra-based, and drawn from real-world situations encountered in the quality profession. To assist readers in using this book as a ready reference or as a study aid, it has been organized to conform explicitly to the CQI Body of Knowledge. It addresses all the topics critical to the work of quality inspectors: evaluating hardware documentation, performing laboratory procedures, inspecting products, measuring process performance, recording data and preparing formal reports, and much more. This comprehensive reference is a must-have for every quality inspector s bookshelf.
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Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D. and Richard J. Webb
In Dying to Get High, noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is a unique patient-caregiver cooperative providing marijuana free of charge to mostly terminally ill members. For a brief period in 2004, it even operated the only legal non-governmental medical marijuana garden in the country, protected by the federal courts against the DEA.
Using as their stage this fascinating profile of one remarkable organization, Chapkis and Webb tackle the broader, complex history of medical marijuana in America. Through compelling interviews with patients, public officials, law enforcement officers and physicians, Chapkis and Webb ask what distinguishes a legitimate patient from an illegitimate pothead, good drugs from bad, medicinal effects from just getting high. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.
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Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age
David Wagner
David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of poverty as people s lives change over the course of time. The voices of the inmates of the infamous Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury resonate in remarkable ways today, helping us to understand that many individuals living in poverty make inventive, bold moves to escape it.
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Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach, 4th edition
Ann B. Hamric, Judith A. Spross, and Charlene M. Hanson
Covering all advanced practice competencies and roles, this book offers strategies for enhancing patient care and legitimizing your role within today's health care system. It covers the history of advanced practice nursing, the theory behind the practice, and emerging issues. Offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced practice nursing, this edition also adds a focus on topics including the APN scope of practice, certification, and the ethical and legal issues that occur in clinical practice.
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Teachers in Professional Communities: Improving Teaching and Learning
Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller
Based on research and many years of lived experience in schools, the authors have become convinced that teachers learn best within their own work communities. In this volume, they explore what research and practice have to tell us about how such communities grow and develop, and how to negotiate the inherent tension between improving competence and building community. Using five themes that emerged from their studies of practice (context, capacity, content, commitment, and challenge), the authors examine selected research studies, personal reflections, and five cases that were especially commissioned for this volume in order to uncover new insights and understandings. The text begins with essays on research and long-term development projects and concludes with vignettes that address the following questions: What is the context of your program? How does your program deal with facilitating both competence and the building of community? What are the challenges and how has your program dealt with them?
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The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Political Logic of Contemporary Capitalism
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from Deleuze and Politics, edited by Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn.
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This volume in the Deleuze Connections series debates and extends Deleuze's political thought through engagement with contemporary political events and concepts.
Against recent critique of Deleuze as a non-political thinker, this book explores the specific innovations and interventions that Deleuze's profoundly political concepts bring to political thought and practice. The contributors use Deleuze's dynamic theoretical apparatus to engage with contemporary political problems, themes and possibilities, including micropolitics, cynicism, war, democracy, ethnicity, friendship, revolution, power, fascism, militancy, and fabulation. Approaching Deleuze's politics from the disciplines of political theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, and sociology, the book is designed to appeal to a diverse audience.
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Patient Safety and Quality in Home Health Care
Carol Hall Elllenbecker; Linda Samia PhD, RN, CNL; Margaret J. Cushman; and Kristine Alster
Chapter 13 in Patient Safety and Quality An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses, edited by Ronda G. Hughes.
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Throughout these pages, you will find peer-reviewed discussions and reviews of a wide range of issues and literature regarding patient safety and quality health care. Owing to the complex nature of health care, this book provides some insight into the multiple factors that determine the quality and safety of health care as well as patient, nurse, and systems outcomes. Each of these 51 chapters and 3 leadership vignettes presents an examination of the state of the science behind quality and safety concepts and challenges the reader to not only use evidence to change practices but also to actively engage in developing the evidence base to address critical knowledge gaps. Patient safety and quality care are at the core of health care systems and processes and are inherently dependent upon nurses. To achieve goals in patient safety and quality, and thereby improve health care throughout this nation, nurses must assume the leadership role.
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Time and attention: Review of the literature
Scott W. Brown PhD
Chapter in Psychology of Time, edited by Simon Grondin.
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Recent developments in the field of timing and time perception have not simply multiplied the number of relevant questions regarding psychological time, but they have also helped to provide more answers and open many fascinating avenues of thought. "Psychology of Time" brings together cutting-edge presentations of many of the main ideas, findings, hypotheses and theories that experimental psychology provides to the field of timing and psychological time. The contributors, selected for their ability to address various specific questions, were asked to discuss what is known in their field and what avenues remain to be explored. As a result, this book should point readers in the right direction and guide them to reflect on the various and most fundamental issues on psychological time. It offers a balanced integration of old and sometimes neglected findings and more recent empirical advances, all presented within the scope of the critical sub-fields of psychological time in experimental psychology.
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A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize!, a Holistic Approach to Acting
Emmanuelle F. Chaulet
Going beyond where Michael Chekhov left off, this book presents acting as a mind, body and spirit practice and actors as emotional athletes, spiritual stuntmen and stuntwomen exposed to a constant roller coaster of emotions. Emmanuelle Chaulet, international film actress and artists coach, develops her own acting technique ENERGIZETM using discoveries from holistic and energy healing modalities and breaking new ground in the performing arts field. Answering an urgent -yet never addressed- need, this book offers invaluable tools to balance life and acting, heal post-performance stress disorder and performance anxiety. You'll find cutting edge information about recovering your Highest Creative Self, the essence of your character, and true emotional balance. Foreword is written by Lisa Dalton, co-founder National Michael Chekhov Association.
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The syntax of coordination and the evolution of syntax
Wayne Cowart PhD and Dana McDaniel PhD
Chapter in The Evolution of Language Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12 – 15 March 2008, edited by Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith, Ferrer I. Cancho.
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This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7), held in Barcelona in March 2008. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many fields including anthropology, archeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, paleontology, primatology, psychology and statistical physics.
The latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution is presented in this collection. It includes contributions from leading scientists such as Derek Bickerton, Rudolf Botha, Camilo Cela Conde, Francesco d'Erico, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Simon Kirby, Gary Marcus, Friedemann Pulvermüller and Juan Uriagereka.
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Same-sex sexual harassment [Book Chapter]
Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW
Interpersonal violence is behavior that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts harm on another. This violence invades both the public and private spheres of our lives; many times in unexpected and frightening ways. Interpersonal violence is a problem that individuals could experience at any point during the life span—even before birth. Interpersonal violence is experienced not only throughout the life course but also as a global problem in the form of war, genocide, terrorism, and rape of women as a weapon of war.
The Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence provides accurate, research-supported information to clarify critical issues and educate the public about different forms of interpersonal violence, their incidence and prevalence, theoretical explanations, public policy initiatives, and prevention and intervention strategies. These two volumes contain more than 500 accessible, jargon-fee entries written by experts and provide cross-references to related entries, as well as suggested readings for further information.
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Mental health impact of sexual harassment [Book Chapter]
Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW and James E. Gruber PhD
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women made up 46.4 percent of the civilian labor force in 2005, and that percentage is expected to reach 47 percent by 2014. Professional and health-related occupations are the fastest-growing roles for women, with computer-related, environmental, and educational fields also drawing increasingly on the female workforce. The bottom line at a macro level is that, more and more, women are driving the country's economic development. But with that phenomenon come questions, challenges, and concerns, on many diverse levels. Debates rage on psychological topics such as the effect the increasing number of women at work has on marriage and divorce, family and children, women's identities and stress levels and, overall, their physical and mental health. Psychologist Michele A. Paludi and her team of experts from across fields examine all aspects of women at work - the pros and cons, how it is changing American society, its women, their relationships, partners, and children.
The factors that fuel women achievers are also discussed by female scholars and experts in the field, who illustrate points with vignettes and their own career development stories. Issues in the workplace affecting women's wellbeing are also discussed, including sexual harassment and related laws, pregnancy-related work policy and regulations, challenges for women bosses and career moms, the glass ceiling, racism, women's relationships with male coworkers, and issues that rise when a woman is the breadwinner. This unique and timely set will appeal to those who are interested in psychology, women's studies, education, law, business, and public policy.
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Bullying, and sexual harassment in schools: Pathways to assessment [Book Chapter]
Susan Fineran PhD, LICSW; S. McDonald; and R. Constable
School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research, seventh edition, is still the most comprehensive guide to social work practice in schools. This edition includes a greater emphasis on evidence-based practices and an enhanced focus on diversity. Two new chapters address the history of education of African American children and important policies regarding work with vulnerable groups in the United States. School Social Work maintains its extensive coverage of contemporary topics, including the No Child Left Behind Act, the accountability movement in education, and the changing economic, social, and political climate for schools in the 21st century. Case examples and policy and practice applications support the book's strong emphasis on group work, work with families, attendance, case management, the child welfare system, social skills training, violence reduction, crisis intervention, and peer mediation.
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Book of Abstracts
Debra Gillespie PhD, RN
Publication of Maine Medical Center's Center for Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes.
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Living on the Edge: Shifting Between Nonconscious and Conscious Goal Pursuit
Peter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm PhD, and Gabriele Oettingen
Chapter 27 in The Oxford Handbook of Human Action; edited by Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh, and Peter M. Gollwitzer.
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In the last decade, there has been a tremendous surge of research on the mechanisms of human action. This volume brings together this new knowledge in a single, concise source, covering most if not all of the basic questions regarding human action: What are the mechanisms by which action plans are acquired (learned), mentally represented, activated, selected, and expressed? The chapters provide up-to-date summaries of the published research on this question, with an emphasis on underlying mechanisms.
This 'bible' of action research brings together the current thinking of eminent researchers in the domains of motor control, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, biology, as well as cognitive, developmental, social, and motivational psychology. It represents a determined multidisciplinary effort, spanning across various areas of science as well as national boundaries. -
Consolidated imaging: Implementing a regional health information exchange system for radiology in Southern Maine
Stephanie L. Loux MS, Robert Coleman BS, Matthew Ralston MD, and Andrew F. Coburn PhD
The traditional, film-based radiology system presents serious limitations for patient care. These include forcing clinicians to make decisions based on information that is often less than optimal and making transfers of films and prior studies to other facilities more complicated than they need to be. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) address these issues by allowing for acquisition, storage, display, and communication (e.g., transportation) of images in a digital format. Although PACS has been shown to improve patient care, many rural health care organizations have found obtaining these systems cost-prohibitive. The Consolidating Imaging Initiative (CI-PACS) in Maine provides an alternative way to offer this technology to rural hospitals. Through CI-PACS, a tertiary care hospital and its health care system have implemented a shared, standards-based, interoperable PACS in two rural hospitals (one belonging to the larger health system and one not). In this article, we discuss how the regional system works, and how it will be sustained. We also highlight the unique challenges associated with implementing a regional system.
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Building Bioethics Networks in Rural States: Blessings and Barriers [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD and Frank Chessa PhD
Edited by Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis
Klugman and Dalinis initiate a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States.
This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What challenges do health care workers face in remote locations? What are the differences between rural and urban health care practices? What particular ethical issues arise in treating residents of small communities? Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis gather philosophers, lawyers, physicians, nurses, and researchers to discuss these and other questions, offering a multidisciplinary overview of rural health care in the United States.
Rural practitioners often practice within small, tight-knit communities, socializing with their patients outside the examination room. The residents are more likely to have limited finances and to lack health insurance. Physicians may have insufficient resources to treat their patients, who often have to travel great distances to see a doctor.
The first part of the book analyzes the differences between rural and urban cultures and discusses the difficulties in treating patients in rural settings. The second part features the personal narratives of rural health care providers, who share their experiences and insights. The last part introduces unique ethical challenges facing rural health care providers and proposes innovative solutions to those problems.
This volume is a useful resource for bioethicists, members of rural bioethics committees and networks, policy makers, teachers of health care providers, and rural practitioners themselves.
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Gray Zones: Teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Oscar Wilde.
It is both a challenge and a pleasure to teach the works of Oscar Wilde, “the master of paradox,” in the words of this volume’s editor. Wilde wrote at a pivotal moment between the Victorian period and modernism, and his work is sometimes considered prescient of the postmodern age. He is now taught in a variety of university courses: in literature, theater, criticism, Irish studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and gay studies. This volume, like others in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Litereature, is divided into two parts. The first, “Materials,” suggests editions, resources, and criticism, both in print and online, that may be useful for the teacher. The second part, “Approaches,” contains twenty-five essays that discuss Wilde’s stories, fairy tales, poetry, plays, essays, letters, and life—from the perspective of a wide range of disciplines.
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Trampled no more : voices from Bulawayo's townships about families, life, survival, and social change in Zimbabwe
Otrude Nontobeko Moyo
The stories of the Zimbabwean situation, particularly those of the urban townships of Bulawayo, are poignantly narrated through the voices of family members recounting their personal circumstances and what they perceive as the primary factors contributing to their repressed positions in the socio-economical hierarchy. Using an insider's perspective, Professor Moyo goes behind the scenes in order to dismantle the simplistic "blame game" which asserts that the deterioration of Zimbabwe was caused solely by the current ZANU-PF lead government.
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Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
Nelson Madore and Barry Rodrigue
Dozens of voices celebrate--in essays, stories, plays, poetry, songs, and art--the Franco-American and Acadian experience in Maine. They explore subjects as diverse as Quebec-Maine frontier history, immigrant drama, work, genealogy, discrimination, women, community affairs, religion, archeology, politics, literature, language, and humor. The voices, themselves, are equally diverse, including Norman Beaupré, Michael Michaud, Ross and Judy Paradis, Susann Pelletier, John Martin, Béatrice Craig, Michael Parent, Linda Pervier, Alaric Faulkner, Ray Levasseur, Yves Frenette, Paul Paré, Yvon Labbé, Rev. Clement Thibodeau, Bob Chenard, Denis Ledoux, Josée Vachon, Greg Chabot, Jean-Paul Poulain, Stewart Doty, Rhea Côté Robbins, and many others. This is a rich resource and an engaging read, one that will resonate with many.
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Creating Portland: History and Places in Northern New England
Joseph A. Conforti
Portland, the largest city in Maine, has recently become one of the most popular destinations in the United States.
From the colonial period, Portland has been defined by its diverse array of peoples. Native American inhabitants possessed a strong sense of place rooted in spiritual beliefs, environmental practices, and tribal lore. Puritans, Quakers, and Baptists brought religious diversity to Colonial Falmouth (one of several early names for Portland). By the late eighteenth century, free blacks formed an important community. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Irish, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants made their way to Portland. Today, more recent immigrants include individuals from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, Portland has a thriving gay community.
Geography, history, and public policy all shaped modern Portland.
A model of contemporary place studies, Creating Portland brings together essays by fourteen scholars on the history, geography, arts, literature, and built environment of Portland over the course of three centuries. -
Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living
Craig L. Williamson
Here's an innovative and practical approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain, written by a popular occupational therapist with thirty years of experience freeing people from the discomfort of tendonitis, lower back pain, and neck and shoulder tension. These types of chronic pain can be caused by a number of factors, including old injuries, habitual movement patterns, problems with body alignment, psychological causes, and inability to sense your own body movements accurately. Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living clearly and concisely explains the causes of persistent muscle pain and offers a therapeutic exercise program to address these problems and end pain.
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The Political Culture of Democracy in Jamaica: 2006
Ian Boxill PhD, Balford Lewis, Roy Russell, Arlene Bailey, Lloyd Waller PhD, Caryl James, Paul Martin PhD, Lance Gibbs PhD, and Mitchell A. Seligson PhD
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Re-mapping Land Use: Remote sensing, institutional approaches and landscape boundaries
Firooza Pavri PhD
Chapter 8 from the book Natures Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice
Leading environmental thinkers investigate the complexities of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of environmental problems.
Nature’s Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future.
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Gender stereotypes in the workplace: Obstacles to women’s career progress
Madeline E. Heilman and Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm PhD
Chapter in Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of Gender Volume 24, edited by Shelley J. Correll.
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This chapter focuses on the implications of both the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of gender stereotypes for women in the workplace. Using the Lack of Fit model, we review how performance expectations deriving from descriptive gender stereotypes (i.e., what women are like) can impede women's career progress. We then identify organizational conditions that may weaken the influence of these expectations. In addition, we discuss how prescriptive gender stereotypes (i.e., what women should be like) promote sex bias by creating norms that, when not followed, induce disapproval and social penalties for women. We then review recent research exploring the conditions under which women experience penalties for direct, or inferred, prescriptive norm violations.
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The Two-Edged Scalpel: Health Care and the Rural Economy
Charles S. Colgan PhD and David Hartley PhD, MHA
Book chapter from Health Care and Tourism: A Lead Sector Strategy for Rural Maine.
Revitalization in rural Maine is possible through state-level long-term planning and strategic initiatives. The Maine Center for Economic Policy's Spreading Prosperity project focuses on how to improve on past rural development efforts and make new gains, specifically in the six rural "rim" counties - Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Pscataquis, Aroostook, and Washington.
Charles Colgan and David Hartley's Chapter 4 starts from the premise that health care services should be viewed as a major economic sector, indeed as a growing export sector, not simply as a supplier of services that enhance rural residents' well-being. Strategic proposals in Chapter 4 center on strengthening state initiatives in human resource development, technology, and organization.
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The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems
Jeffrey Harrison
This volume gathers poems from Harrison's three published books, over two decades of poetry, and also includes a section of more recent poems.
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Accounts of Lives
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500.
A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Includes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve. Confronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.
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"Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary" ; "Mary and Martha" ; "Foy"
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapters in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe An Encyclopedia.
From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.
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Culture and Occupation: A Model of Empowerment in Occupational Therapy
Roxie M. Black and Shirley A. Wells
Since Cultural Competency for Health Professionalswas first published in 2000, much has changed in the world. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have resulted in increased suspicion in the United States and around the world of people of Arab descent. In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that began shortly thereafter, people from many countries have been killed or seriously wounded, among them U.S. service members whose injuries are significantly challenging health care practitioners in the armed services and Veterans Administration hospitals around the country. In addition, the United States is becoming an increasingly diverse nation, and advances in communications technology have made it possible to connect with cultures from around the world in an instant.
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Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region
JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White (Ed.)
In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and "lost" until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States.
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The New Teacher of Adults: A Handbook for Teachers of Adult Learners
Michael Brady and Allen Lampert
Have you just been hired by an adult education program to teach a GED prep, computer, or even a cooking course for your local school district or community agency? Chances are you feel quite confident when thinking about what you are going to teach. However, if you have not had specific training in the field of education or a range of experiences as a classroom instructor, you may feel significantly less confident about how you will teach.
New Teacher Concepts is a resource to get you on your way to a successful teaching career.
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Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, And the Writing of History
Lorrayne Carroll
In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. This "gender impersonation" significantly shaped the authorial voice and complicated the use of these texts as examples of historical writing and as women's literature. Carroll contends that gender impersonation was pervasive and that not enough critical attention has been paid to male intervention in female accounts.
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Talk Of The Town: Figurative Publics in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ann C. Dean
This study argues that in eighteenth-century Britain, the public sphere was a figure of speech created by juxtaposed images of more limited, local, and particular arenas of discussion. In letters, newspapers, and books, eighteenth-century British writers described the "public" qualities of three different spaces: court, coffeehouse, and meeting. Writers referred to the proliferation of these social spaces, describing multiple coffeehouses, drawing rooms, and meetings, among which the customary language of each was circulated in repeated conversations and printed newspapers.These multiple references created a set of interrelated, competing, and mutually defining metaphors and figurations: figurative public spheres.
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Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services : with Exercises and Instructions in SPSS
Vincent Faherty
Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Instructions for SPSS 14.0) is an attempt to "de-mythologize" a content area that is both essential for professional social service practitioners, yet dreaded by some of the most experienced among them. Using friendly, straightforward language as well as concrete illustrations and exercises from social service practice, author Vincent E. Faherty catapults students and experienced professionals to a pragmatic level where they can handle quantitative analysis for all their research and evaluation needs.
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Flexible Tenacity in Goal Pursuit
Peter M. Gollwitzer, Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm PhD, Alexander Jaudas, and Paschal Sheeran
Chapter 21 in Handbook of Motivation Science, edited by James Y. Shah and Wendi L. Gardner.
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Integrating significant advances in motivation science that have occurred over the last two decades, this volume thoroughly examines the ways in which motivation interacts with social, developmental, and emotional processes, as well as personality more generally. The Handbook comprises 39 clearly written chapters from leaders in the field. Cutting-edge theory and research is presented on core psychological motives, such as the need for esteem, security, consistency, and achievement; motivational systems that arise to address these fundamental needs; the process and consequences of goal pursuit, including the role of individual differences and contextual moderators; and implications for personal well-being and interpersonal and intergroup relations.
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Statistical Quality Control for the Six Sigma Green Belt
Bhisham C. Gupta and Fred H. Walker
This book focuses on statistical quality control (SQC), and covers such topics as: sampling, process set-up/verification and pre-control, control charts for variables and attributes, cumulative sum and exponentially weighted moving average control charts, process capability indices, measurement systems analysis, and acceptance sampling. Guidance is also given on the use of Minitab and JMP in doing these various SQC applications. Examples and sample problems from all industries appear throughout the book to aid a Green Belt's comprehension of the material.
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Liszt/Ravel: Transcriptions for Piano
Laura Kargul
A must-have for enthusiasts of the virtuoso piano repertoire, this CD presents a stunning collection of transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt and Maurice Ravel as performed by the brilliant, internationally acclaimed artist Laura Kargul.
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The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us
Robert B. Louden PhD
This book compares the future world that Enlightenment intellectuals had hoped for with the world as it really is. It explores the ways the two worlds differ, and why are they so different; to what extent our world is or isn't the world such intellectuals desired, and the extent to which we still want their world. Unlike previous philosophical critiques and defenses of the Enlightenment, this study focuses extensively on the relevant historical and empirical records first, by examining carefully what kind of future Enlightenment intellectuals actually hoped for; second, by tracking the different legacies of their central ideals over the past two centuries. But in addition to documenting the significant gap that still exists between Enlightenment ideals and current realities, the book also attempts to show why the ideals of the Enlightenment still elude us. What does our own experience tell us about the appropriateness of these ideals? Which Enlightenment ideals do not fit with human nature? Why is meaningful support for these ideals, particularly within the US, so weak at present? Which of the means that Enlightenment intellectuals advocated for realizing their ideals are inefficacious? Which of their ideals have devolved into distorted versions of themselves when attempts have been made to realize them? How and why, after more than two centuries, have we still failed to realize the most significant Enlightenment ideals? In short, what is dead and what is living in these ideals?
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Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, and Education
Robert B. Louden PhD and Günter Zöller
Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise.
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Willing the Freedom of Others After 9/11: A Sartrean Approach to Globalization and Children’s Rights [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD and Constance Mui PhD
Chapter from Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil, edited by Robin May Schott.
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Any glance at the contemporary history of the world shows that the problem of evil is a central concern for people everywhere. In the last few years, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and ethnic and religious wars have only emphasized humanity’s seemingly insatiable capacity for violence. In Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil, Robin May Schott brings an international group of contemporary feminist philosophers into debates on evil and terrorism. The invaluable essays collected here consider gender-specific evils such as the Salem witch trials, women’s suffering during the Holocaust, mass rape in Bosnia, and repression under the Taliban, as well as more generalized acts of violence such as the 9/11 bombings, the Madrid train station bombings, and violence against political prisoners. Readers of this sobering volume will find resources for understanding the vulnerability of human existence and what is at stake in the problem of evil.
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Deconstructing arguments against same-sex marriage
M Oliver and Michael Stevenson PhD
Chapter 6 in Defending Same-Sex Marriage, Volume 3:The Freedom-to-Marry Movement: Education, Advocacy, Culture, and the Media, edited by Martin Dupuis and William A. Thompson.
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Today we find ourselves at a crossroads of two powerful, unrelenting currents that are completely at odds with one another. The movement for legal recognition of same-sex unions has gone beyond the separate but equal status of civil unions to demand equality in marriage for all couples. Progress is being made on many fronts: mayoral action, clergy officiating at same-sex marriage and union ceremonies, state legislative responses, and street protests, to name a few. Meanwhile, opposition to same-sex marriage has also been gathering strength. The struggle is sure to continue unabated for some time to come, pitting those who believe in the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman—and who seek to codify this belief in the U.S. Constitution—against those who find the basis for marriage between two loving, committed individuals not only in the history of our civil rights legislation and court decisions, but also in scripture and sacred religious traditions. Those who believe in extending to same-sex couples the 1,049 rights conferred by marriage as well as the supportive embrace of religious communities seek to strengthen the institution of marriage by making it inclusive and by passing laws and broadening doctrines to uphold marriage rights for all couples. This three-volume set clarifies the legal, political, religious, cultural, and social ramifications of same-sex marriage for gay and lesbian couples and their families and friends, and for the general public interested in the future of civil rights in the United States.
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- Volume 1: Separate but Equal No More: A Guide to the Legal Status of Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Other Partnerships, edited by Mark Strasser, who is also General Editor of the set, includes discussions of different kinds of legally recognized same-sex unions in the United States.
- Volume 2: Our Family Values: Same-Sex Marriage and Religion, edited by Traci C. West, contains an array of religious traditions, practices, and leaders that support same-sex marriage, and describes the struggles for its recognition within denominations, including analysis of racial dynamics.
- Volume 3: The Freedom-to-Marry Movement: Education, Advocacy, Culture, and the Media, edited by Martin Dupuis and William A. Thompson, explores the political movement to legalize and recognize same-sex marriage and unions, including the movement's education and advocacy efforts and its opposition.
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Implementation Intentions
Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm PhD, Anja Achtziger, and Peter J. Gollwitzer
Entry in Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, edited by R. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs.
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Automatic and Controlled Components of Social Cognition: A Process Dissociation Approach
B K. Payne and Brandon D. Stewart PhD
Chapter in Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes, edited by John A. Bargh.
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Evidence is mounting that we are not as in control of our judgments and behavior as we think we are. Unconscious or ‘automatic’ forms of psychological and behavioral processes are those of which we tend to be unaware, that occur without our intention or consent, yet influence us on a daily basis in profound ways. Automatic processes influence our likes and dislikes for almost everything, as well as how we perceive other people, such as when we make stereotypic assumptions about someone based on their race or gender or social class. Even more strikingly, the latest research is showing that the aspects of life that are the richest experience and most important to us - such as emotions and our close relationships, as well as the pursuit of our important life tasks and goals - also have substantial unconscious components.
Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes offers a state-of-the-art review of the evidence and theory supporting the existence and the significance of automatic processes in our daily lives, with chapters by the leading researchers in this field today, across a spectrum of psychological phenomena from emotions and motivations to social judgment and behavior.
The volume provides an introduction and overview of these now central topics to graduate students and researchers in social psychology and a range of allied disciplines with an interest in human behavior and the unconscious, such as cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, political science, and business.
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Maine's Jewish Heritage
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Jean M. Peck
According to historian Benjamin Band, the first record of a Jew in Maine concerns Susman Abrams, a tanner who resided in Union until his death at 87 in 1830. Historical records beginning in 1849 also tell of a small Bangor community that organized a synagogue and purchased a burial ground. But it was not until the late 19th century that Jewish communities grew large enough to establish multiple synagogues, Hebrew schools for boys, kosher butcher shops, and Jewish bakeries. Eventually there were Jewish charitable societies, community centers, and social clubs across the state. Now, 150 years later, Jews serve every Maine community in every possible capacity, free from the barriers of social or religious discrimination. This book honors the accomplishments of Maine's Jewish residents.
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Boreal: Poems
Bruce Pratt
Bruce Pratt, long recognized as one of New England’s finest writers of short fiction, has now produced his first poetry collection, Boreal. The book has aroused enthusiasm among all who have seen it in draft form, among them Dzvinia Orlowsky, who writes as follows: “A memorable outpouring of passion and paradox, Pratt’s pitch-perfect poems entwine uncertainties into a retrospective which rather than striking back at experience, holds it gracefully, gratefully, close at hand. Again and again I’m drawn back into these poems of faith, deeply rooted in a man standing firm, chest-deep in the current of each passing, uncertain moment, any desire to be rescued not out of fear but because someone looked for you and not finding you where you should be,/ dove into the waves for love.” Gerald Costanzo has commented that “Bruce Pratt’s poems are smart and accomplished. He keeps a close watch on the natural world, and an even closer one on human nature. Boreal is a collection which extends pleasure to insight on every page.” (From the publisher's page.)
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The Potentia of Living Labor: Negri’s Practice of Philosophy
Jason Read PhD
Chapter from The Philosophy of Antonio Negri: Revolution in Theory, edited by Timothy S. Murphy and Abdul-Karim Mustapha.
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"To see so many friends bringing such critical contributions to bear on my work serves as a spur to action once again." Antonio Negri The spectacular success of Empire and Multitude has brought Negri's writing to a new, wider audience. Negri’s work is singular in its depth and expression. It can be difficult to grasp the complexity of his ideas, as they are rooted in the history of philosophy. This book offers an introduction to his thinking, and is ideal for readers who want to get to grips with his key themes. Outstanding contributors include Pierre Macherey, Charles Wolfe, Alex Callinicos, Miguel Vatter, Jason Read, Alberto Toscano, Mamut Mutman, Ted Stolze and Judith Revel. Written with dynamism and originality, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the evolution of Negri’s thought, and especially to students of political philosophy, international studies and literary theory. This book is the sequel to The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, Volume One: Resistance in Practice (Pluto, 2005) but can be read entirely independently.
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Functional behavioral assessment of classroom behavior
Mark W. Steege, F Charles Mace, and Rachel Brown
Chapter 3 in Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior: Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms, edited by Sam Goldstein and Robert B. Brooks.
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A classic guide to creating a positive classroom environment
Covering the most recent and relevant findings regarding behavior management in the classroom, this new edition of Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior has been completely updated to reflect the current functional approach to assessing, understanding, and positively managing behavior in a classroom setting.
With its renewed focus on the concept of temperament and its impact on children's behavior and personality, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior emphasizes changing behavior rather than labeling it.
Numerous contributions from renowned experts on each topic explore:
How to identify strengths and assets and build on them
Complete functional behavioral assessments
The relationship between thinking, learning, and behavior in the classroom
Practical strategies for teachers to improve students' self-regulation
How to facilitate social skills
Problem-solving approaches to bullies and their victims
Medications and their relationship to behavior
The classic guide to helping psychologists, counselors, and educators improve their ability to serve all students, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, Second Edition will help educators create citizens connected to each other, to their teachers, to their families, and to their communities.
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Public Policy, Mental Health, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients
Michael Stevenson PhD
Chapter 16 in The Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients, Second Edition, edited by Kathleen J. Bieschke, PhD, Ruperto M. Perez, PhD, and Kurt A. DeBord, PhD.
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The second edition of the Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients serves to build on areas of knowledge outlined in the first edition while also incorporating new and emerging areas of scholarship relative to psychotherapy with LGB clients. The second edition focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, the provision of psychotherapy to LGBT clients across a range of presenting concerns, and emerging socio/political issues.
In this thoroughly updated edition, the editors focus critical attention on the need to enhance our understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. They incorporate new and emerging areas of scholarship and reflect on implications of recent changes in our society, including political struggles for gay civil unions, marriage, and adoption rights. This volume focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and explores how to provide them with effective psychotherapy across a range of presenting concerns. The authors stress the importance of affirmation with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients throughout. This second edition of the Handbook will be an essential resource for all therapists, counselors, and researchers.
The first edition of the Handbook received the 2001 Distinguished Book Award by Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues). With the adoption of the Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients (APA Division 44/Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns, 2000), there is increased interest and attention to areas of research and practice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients.
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Empowering Children through Art and Expression : culturally sensitive ways of healing trauma and grief
Bruce St. Thomas and Paul Johnson
"Empowering Children through Art and Expression" examines the successful use of arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those whose lives have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a different culture or community. The book explores how children express and resolve unspoken feelings about traumatic experiences in play and other creative activities, based on their observations of peer support groups, outreach programs and through individuals' own accounts.
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The Certified Quality Engineer Handbook, Second Edition
Roger W. Berger; Donald W. Benbow; Ahmad K. Elshennawy,; and H Fred Walker
Completely updated and revised, this book is a comprehensive resource for engineers both studying for the Certified Quality Engineer exam and also on the job. Every quality engineering concept and technique is covered, including management and leadership, quality systems, product and process design, product and process control, continuous improvement, and quantitative methods and tools. A supplemental CD-ROM includes sample exams with answers, and trial versions of Minitab and JMP.
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Incomplete Knowledge
Jeffrey Harrison
This collection consists at its core of a sequence of poems that speak to the loss of the writer's brother to suicide. These poems stun us by their restraint and simplicity, and by their astonishment that this life, so important to so many, could be extinguished in such a manner. Harrison's poems are impeccably crafted and move through narrative seamlessly--dry, naive, vulnerable, always accessible.
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Journeys: Monograph prepared for the Maine Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative (MMSTEC) Project
Richard Stebbins PhD and Amy Johnson
A collection of papers describing the impact of the Maine Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative on the improvement of student learning and teaching practices.
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Focus on the Future: A Career Development Curriculum for Secondary School Students
Nancy Perry and Zark VanZandt
This book offers a curriculum that helps secondary students prepare for careers in the 21st century. Through a series of 36 lesson plans that stress learning through activities, students discover their interests, abilities, values, and aspirations and relate them to occupational choices. They explore career and educational options and develop a career plan that outlines the preparation required to pursue their career choice. Each lesson plan contains learning objectives, materials needed, teacher preparation tips, step-by-step activities, activity or resource sheets, and discussion questions. Activity and resource sheets are available for downloading from the Web site.
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Democratic School Accountability: A Model for School Improvement
Ken Jones (ed.)
For what, to whom, and by what means should schools be held accountable? What are the purposes and goals of schooling in a democratic society? What can serve as a fair system of quality assurance for schools in a world of change and complexity? Democratic School Accountability addresses such concerns by defining and describing an alternate vision for school accountability.
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Kant: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Robert B. Louden PhD and Manfred Kuehn
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View essentially reflects the last lectures Kant gave for his annual course in anthropology, which he taught from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The lectures were published in 1798, with the largest first printing of any of Kant's works. Intended for a broad audience, they reveal not only Kant's unique contribution to the newly emerging discipline of anthropology, but also his desire to offer students a practical view of the world and of humanity's place in it. With its focus on what the human being 'as a free-acting being makes of himself or can and should make of himself,' the Anthropology also offers readers an application of some central elements of Kant's philosophy. This volume offers an annotated translation of the text by Robert B. Louden, together with an introduction by Manfred Kuehn that explores the context and themes of the lectures. Kant's pioneering contribution to the then newly emerging discipline of anthropology New annotated translation, which includes all the supplementary texts from Kant's original manuscript Includes an introduction, which explores the themes in the text and places it in its historical context, plus a guide to further reading
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Rural Health Research in Progress in the Rural Health Research Centers Program
Maine Rural Health Research Center and Muskie School of Public Service
This book describes the research and policy analysis projects underway in the Rural Health Research Centers Program of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP), Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The objective of this program is to produce research and policy analyses that will be useful in the development of national and state policies to assure access to quality physical and behavioral health services for rural Americans.
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Exploring Future Options: A Career Development Curriculum for Middle School Students
Nancy Perry and Zark VanZandt
This book offers teachers a curriculum that introduces middle students to career development and teaches them the importance of planning for their future. In a series of 36 lesson plans that stress learning through activity, students gain self-knowledge, explore career and educational options, and begin basic career planning. A practical guide, linking school to the ever-changing world of work, it teaches students how to make informed decisions and have a better understanding of career development as a life-long process. It also emphasizes the concept of "Career as Life," that work is only one of several interconnected life roles.
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Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application
Richard L. West and Lynne H. Turner
This text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical in their thinking about theory.
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Criminology
Piers Beirne and James W. Messerschmidt
The Fourth Edition of CRIMINOLOGY is Piers Beirne and James W. Messerschmidt's well-respected and comprehensive introduction to the study of crime and criminological theory. The authors take a critical sociological approach that emphasizes the relationship between four different sociological variables (gender, class, race, age) and crime.
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Green Criminology
Piers Beirne and Nigel South (Ed.)
In little more than a decade, "Green Criminology" has become an established new perspective in the field. It embraces an exciting and wide range of topics, from controversies about genetic modification through corporate offending against the environment and human communities, to animal abuse. "Green Criminology" provides a focal point for longstanding and new areas of research as well as making important interdisciplinary connections.
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Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms Against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals
Piers Beirne and Nigel South (Ed.)
Issues in Green Criminology: confronting harms against environments, humanity and other animals aims to provide, if not a manifesto, then at least a significant resource for thinking about green criminology, a rapidly developing field.
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Experiential Learning: Journal of a Journey—Teaching Baseball on the Road
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter in Baseball in the classroom: Essays on teaching the national pastime, edited by Edward J. Rielly.
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As scholarly interest in baseball has increased in recent years, so too has the use of baseball both as subject and as teaching method in college courses. In addition to lecturing on baseball history, professors are more frequently using baseball as a pedagogical tool to teach other disciplines. Baseball’s interdisciplinary appeal is evident in the myriad ways that diverse college faculty have made use of it in the classroom. In this collection of essays, professors from different disciplines explain how they have used baseball in higher education. Organized by academic field, essays offer insight into how baseball can help teach key issues in archival research, business, cultural studies, education, experiential learning, film, American history, labor relations, law, literature, Native American studies, philosophy, public speaking, race studies and social history.
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Indian Captivity Narratives
Lorrayne Carroll PhD
Chapter in American History Through Literature 1820-1870.
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The Invisibility of Race and Modernist Representation: Marsden Hartley’s North Atlantic Folk
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Chapter in Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, edited by Patricia Johnston.
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The Invisibility of Race and Modernist Representation: Marsden Hartley’s North Atlantic Folk [Book Chapter]
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Book chapter "The Invisibility of Race and Modernist Representation: Marsden Hartley’s North Atlantic Folk" by Donna M. Cassidy from Seeing High and Low: Representing social conflict in American visual culture ed. by Patricia A. Johnston.
This cutting-edge volume presents a sweeping view of the evolution of visual culture in the United States through fifteen absorbing case studies by top scholars of American art that explore visual culture’s engagement with social controversy. Written especially for this work in lively and accessible language, the essays illuminate what visual forms—including traditional crafts, sculpture, painting and graphic arts, even domestic and museum interiors—can tell us about social conditions, how visual culture has contributed to social values, and how concepts of high and low art have developed. The only work on visual culture to span American history from the early republic to the present and to delve into issues from ethnicity to geography, Seeing High and Low allows readers to follow the evolution of concepts of “high” and “low” art as well as to gain new insight into American history.
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Rural Hospitals and Long-term Care: The Challenges of Diversification and Integration Strategies
Andrew F. Coburn PhD, Stephenie Loux MS, and Elise J. Bolda PhD
Book chapter from Service Delivery to Older Adults: The Challenges of Diversification and Integration Strategies.
Service Delivery to Older Adults provides a comprehensive discussion of contemporary challenges experienced by older rural residents and their communities in accessing and providing services. Many of the chapters provide details about programs and services which have been successful and may serve as models for others to consider.
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Théâtre de Femmes de l'Ancien Régime
Aurore Evain, Gethner Perry, Henriette Goldwyn, and Nancy Erickson (Ed)
1. XVIe siècle : Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Catherine Des Roches.
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National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History
Polly Welts Kaufman
A decade has passed since the publication of the first edition of National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. Polly Welts Kaufman thought it time to revisit the subject of activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and to learn how far the promise of the inclusion of career women in the Park Service hierarchy has progressed.
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Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Ectogenesis : artificial womb technology and the future of human reproduction, edited by Scott Gelfand and John R. Shook.
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This book raises many moral, legal, social, and political, questions related to possible development, in the near future, of an artificial womb for human use. Is ectogenesis ever morally permissible? If so, under what circumstances? Will ectogenesis enhance or diminish women's reproductive rights and/or their economic opportunities? These are some of the difficult and crucial questions this anthology addresses and attempts to answer.
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Reworlding America Myth, History, and Narrative
John Muthyala PhD
John Muthyala’s Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas.
By emphasizing transnational migration, border crossing, and colonial modernity, Reworlding America exposes how national, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural boundaries have been continually created and transgressed—with profound consequences for the peoples of the Americas.
Drawing from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and history, Muthyala examines the literatures of the Americas in terms of their intimate relationship to questions of cultural survival, identity formation, and social power. He goes beyond nationalist, ethnocentric, and religious frameworks used to conceptualize American literary history and examines the connection between modernity and colonialism.
Reworlding America's significance extends into the realm of education, history, ethnography, and literary and cultural studies and contributes to the larger project of refashioning the role of English and American studies in a transborder, postnational global culture.
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Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative
John Muthyala Professor
John Muthyala’s Reworlding America moves beyond the U.S.-centered approach of traditional American literary criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Muthyala argues for a transgeographical perspective from which to study the literary and cultural histories of the Americas. By emphasizing transnational migration, border crossing, and colonial modernity, Reworlding America exposes how national, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural boundaries have been continually created and transgressed—with profound consequences for the peoples of the Americas. Drawing from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and history, Muthyala examines the literatures of the Americas in terms of their intimate relationship to questions of cultural survival, identity formation, and social power. He goes beyond nationalist, ethnocentric, and religious frameworks used to conceptualize American literary history and examines the connection between modernity and colonialism. Reworlding America’s significance extends into the realm of education, history, ethnography, and literary and cultural studies and contributes to the larger project of refashioning the role of English and American studies in a transborder, postnational global culture.
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Unsere Stunde Null : Deutsche und Juden nach 1945 : Familiengeschichte, Holocaust und Neubeginn : historische Memoiren
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Gottfried Wagner
How does a society reconcile itself in a post-genocide era? How can generations of those whose families were victims and victimizers break the cycle of hate, mistrust, shame, and guilt that characterizes their relationship? What family reactions do they face as they seek to begin the act of sitting across from each other and facing their legacies?
For more than two decades, Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner, whose music inspired Adolf Hitler and whose family helped the Nazis rise to power, and Abraham J. Peck, the son of two survivors whose entire families were murdered in the Holocaust, have been engaged in a unique and often torturous discussion on the German-Jewish relationship after the Shoah. That discussion has focused on their family histories and on the myths and realities of the relationship between Germans and Jews since the beginning of the nineteenth century and the process of reshaping that relationship for those Germans and Jews born after 1945. Rejecting the notion that they are either victims or perpetrators, both authors examine the "unwanted legacies" they inherited and have had to confront and overcome.
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Crystallography Made Crystal Clear, Third Edition: A Guide for Users of Macromolecular Models
Gale Rhodes
An overview of protein crystallography.
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Profiles of Intentional Teaching and Liberal Learning
Robert Sanford (Ed.), Tom Mulrey (Illus.), and Michael Brady (Pref.)
Preface / E. Michael Brady -- Foreword / Robert M. Sanford -- A passion for education / Roxie Black and Susan Spear -- Creating a learning party / Tara Coste and Holly Lasagna -- Promoting positive learning experiences / Ann Dean and Meggin Chase -- Moving beyond the classroom : teaching,learning,and citizenry / David Jones and Louise Nisbet -- Excellence in teaching : collaboration and concern / Wil Kilroy and Calien Lewis -- Contemplative teaching, dialogue, and respect for learners / Desi Larson and Julie Anderson -- Signs of learning / Cathy Lushman and Jolene MacDonald -- The applied science of teaching / John Marshall and Susie Stowbridge -- A cup of coffee with Lynne Miller / Lynne Miller and Carrie Wood Peabody -- Elements and actions that promote good learning / Lisa Morris and Angelia Herrick -- Expectations, encouragement, and compassion / Jeanne Munger and Cindy Cronkite -- A philosophy of teaching physics / Paul Nakroshis and Danielle Naimey -- Students in the center / Robert Schaible and Pamela Murphy -- Teaching : a science or an art? / Terry Theodose and Catherine Foyt
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Urban Immersion: A Prototypical Early Clinical Immersion Experience
Andrea Stairs-Davenport PhD
Chapter 3 in Recruiting, Preparing and Retaining Teachers for Urban Schools, edited by Kenneth R. Howey, Linda M. Post, and Nancy L. Zimpher.
Book description:
How can the "revolving door" at the nation's high-poverty schools be slowed down? How can diversity be taught in teacher preparation that relates to teaching and learning? How can teachers learn to use the diverse urban classroom as a rich asset? By focusing on reconceptualizing general education studies, addressing key urban understanding and abilities throughout the professional program, implementing multiyear induction programs, and integrating outstanding veteran urban teachers, the authors of this volume take an affirming look at preparing teachers for the complexities of urban teaching. They candidly present lessons from a variety of urban settings for attracting, preparing, and supporting teachers who are both caring and qualified.
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The Best People in the World
Justin Tussing MFA
In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new history teacher, a woman eight years his senior—and when he meets Shiloh, a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont, this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom, intimacy, and seclusion, unfettered by commitments and rules. But a life apart from the world does not ensure a life apart from the past—and for one of them, the past that emerges will threaten tragedy.
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Nom de guerre: Homosociality in Timothy Findley’s The Wars
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature.
The advent of gay and lesbian studies as an academic field opened the door for a new exploration of sexuality in literature. Here, works generally considered heterosexual are re-examined in the light of queer theory. The notion of homosexuality is viewed as a social construction that emerged during the 19th century, with a definitive difference between biological sex and gendered behavior. Heterosexuality is determined by whether sexual performance conforms to society-designated gender roles. From this wider perspective, this book examines literature previously viewed as “straight” in a search for alternative manifestations of desire and performance, relationships that contain an apparent disconnect between gender and desire. With broad coverage of many periods, authors, and genres, the 17 essays identify inherently queer heterosexual practices and critique the idea of heteronormativity, blurring the line between homo- and heterosexuality. Topics discussed include sodomy and chastity; Victorian literature; the relationship between sex, gender and desire; and the instability in literary portrayals of gender and sexuality. George Eliot, George Meredith, Ernest Hemingway, and Rider Haggard are among the many authors discussed.
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Opportunities to learn: Beyond access to engagement
Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter 5 in Democratic School Accountability A Model for School Improvement, edited by Ken Jones.
Book description:
For what, to whom, and by what means should schools be held accountable? What are the purposes and goals of schooling in a democratic society? What can serve as a fair system of quality assurance for schools in a world of change and complexity? Democratic School Accountability addresses such concerns by defining and describing an alternate vision for school accountability. Working from a model adapted from the world of business, the contributors depict dimensions for school accountability based on democratic values and local empowerment. The central premise is that schools, districts, and states should together be accountable for student learning, but also for providing opportunities to learn, being responsive to students, parents, and communities, and developing organizational capacity for high performance.
The system described in this book is built on high-resolution information gathering, not high-stakes testing. It proposes and shows examples of using local and multiple methods for assessing student learning, cultivating and sustaining the professional knowledge and skills of teachers, engaging the community in meaningful and empowered decision-making, organizing schools for greater performance, and conducting self-studies and external visitations for monitoring and fostering high quality schooling within the local context. This book encourages readers to step out of the box of the current approach to school accountability and to reframe the very concept of accountability so that it may truly serve as a positive force for school improvement and renewal. It is a hopeful expression of what could be.
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Caryl Chessman
Garry Wickerd PhD
Entry in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, edited by Paul Finkelman.
Book description:
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.
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Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
Garry Wickerd PhD
Entry in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, edited by Paul Finkelman.
Book description:
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.
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Saints and Strangers : New England in British North America
Joseph A. Conforti
In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England.
Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop's famous description of New England as a "city upon a hill" has tended to reduce the region's history to an exclusively Pilgrim-Puritan drama, a world of narrow-minded founders, the First Thanksgiving, steepled churches, and the Salem witchcraft trials.
In a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply. As the region evolved into British America's preeminent maritime region, the Atlantic Ocean served as a highway of commercial and cultural encounter, connecting white English settlers to different races and religious communities of the transatlantic world.
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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women As Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970
David Carey
Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past.
Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatemalan, Mayan, and Latin American history. -
Best New American Voices 2006
Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, and Jessica Anthony
The best new American voices are heard here first:
Writers like Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000.
The new volume features a new crop of promising stories selected by renowned novelist Jane Smiley, who continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers. Culled from hundreds of writing programs like the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences like Sewanee and Bread Loaf-and including a complete list of contact information for these programs-this exciting collection showcases tomorrow's literary stars. -
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Maine Women
Kate Kennedy
This book recreates the life-and-times of thirteen inspiring and independent women in fascinating, brief biographies. Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, the "mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who tramped Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Penobscot basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her people.
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Going Higher: Oxygen, Man and Mountains
Charles S. Houston, David Harris, and Ellen J. Zeman
How the body responds to high altitude--the classic study revised for the latest scientific findings. Cutting-edge information on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat altitude illness and hypoxia in everyday life.
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The Southern Maine Review: A Journal of Scholarship and Creative Expression
University of Southern Maine
The Southern Maine Review was published by the University of Southern Maine. The purpose of the journal was to provide a public forum for exemplary work by faculty, students, and staff at this institution and throughout the University of Maine System; other academies; and citizens at large. The journal sought provocative work bridging disciplines and linking academic inquiry to matters of common social, political, or ethical concern.
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The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography
Robert Atkinson, Babatunde Olatunji, and Joan Baez
Babatune Olatunji's record album Drums of Passion proclaimed that the time had come for America to recognize Africa's cultural contributions to the music world. Through his many albums and live performances, the Nigerian drummer popularized West African traditional music and spread his message of racial harmony. In this long-awaited autobiography, Olatunji presents his life story and the philosophy that guided him. Olatunji influenced and inspired musicians for more than forty years--from luminaries to music students and the many ordinary people who participated in his drum circles. He writes about rhythm being "the soul of life," and about the healing power of the drum. Ultimately, The Beat of My Drum shows why at the time of his death in 2003, Olatunji had become, according to The New York Times, "the most visible African musician in the United States."
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Applied Statistics for the Six Sigma Green Belt
Bhisham C. Gupta and Harvey Fred Walker
Applied Statistics for the Six Sigma Green Belt is a desk reference for Six Sigma green belts or beginners who are not familiar with statistics. As Six Sigma team members, green belts will help select, collect data for, and assist with the interpretation of a variety of statistical or quantitative tools within the context of the Six Sigma methodology. This book will serve as an excellent instructional tool developing a strong understanding of basic statistics including how to describe data both graphically and numerically. Its specific focus is on concepts, applications, and interpretations of the statistical tools used during, and as part of, the Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) methodology.
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The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Annie Finch
The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. Her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought Finch a substantial following as a "postmodern poetess" whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. The Body of Poetryincludes essays on metrical diversity, poetry and music, the place of women poets in the canon, and on poets Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Hacker, and John Peck, among other topics. In Annie Finch's own words, these essays were all written with one aim: "to build a safe space for my own poetry. . . . [I]n the attempt, they will also have helped to nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry's heart."
Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is co-editor, with Kathrine Varnes, of An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, and author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.
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The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution
David Wagner
Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the 'Monopoly' game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Surprisingly these institutions variously named poorhouses, poor farms, sometimes almshouses or workhouses, have received rather scant academic treatment, as well, though tens of millions of poor people were confined there, while often their neighbors talked in hushed tones and in fear of their own fate at the 'specter of the poorhouse.' Based on the author's study of six New England poorhouses/poor farms, a hidden story in America's history is presented which will be of popular interest as well as useful as a text in social welfare and social history. While the poorhouse's mission was character reform and 'repressing pauperism,' these goals were gradually undermined by poor people themselves, who often learned to use the poorhouse for their own benefit, as well as by staff and officials of the houses, who had agendas sometimes at odds with the purposes for which the poorhouse was invented.
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This Is The City: Making Model Citizens In Los Angeles
Ronald Schmidt
An interesting and original approach to the powers of the mass media on the citizenry of Los Angeles, specifically, from the turn of the 20th century to around 1973, with ramifications continuing on to the present day. Schmidt's thesis concludes that the powers-that-be of LalaLand have used the persuasive power of the press(specifically Harrison Grey Otis and the L.A. Times) and the entertainment industry(movies and television) to provide role models for L.A...ones which strive to inculcate the virtues of self-reliance, justice and respect for the law, albeit safely within the confines of the prevailing political power structures. At best, they would create model citizens who would imitate these qualities and thrive in a community of hard-working and productive law-abiding citizens...but without the political and progressive independence which would jeopardize the status quo. At worst, they encouraged a passive and subservient relationship to those in power.
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Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People
Ardis Cameron
Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the “visual” in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century.
- Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of “others”
- Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to "read" an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections
- Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related fields eager to incorporate the visual into their teaching—and telling—of the American story.
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Starting A Business in Maine: Guide and Resource Manual to Accompany the Maine Public Broadcasting Network's TV and Video Series on Entrepeneurship
Frederic Aiello
Guide and resource manual to accompany the Maine Public Broadcasting Network's TV and video series on entrepreneurship.
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The Liturgy as Social Performance: Expanding the Definitions
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD, C Clifford Flanigan, and Pamela Sheingorn
Chapter in The Liturgy of the Medieval Church.
This volume seeks to address the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studies by reference to the various liturgies that were fundamental to the lives of medieval peoples. In a series of essays, scholars of the liturgy examine The Shape of the Liturgical Year, Particular Liturgies, The Physical Setting of the Liturgy, The Liturgy and Books, and Liturgy and the Arts. A concluding essay, which originated in notes left behind by the late C. Clifford Flanigan, seeks to open the field, to examine liturgy within the larger and more inclusive category of ritual. The essays are intended to be introductory but to provide the basic facts and the essential bibliography for further study. They approach particular problems assuming a knowledge of medieval Europe but little expertise in liturgical studies per se.
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The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England
Benjamin Bertram
The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change in England. Bitter disputes concerning religious reformation divided Catholics and Protestants, radical reformers and religious conservatives. The Church of England won the loyalty of many, but religious and political dissent continued. Social and economic change also created anxiety as social mobility, unemployment, riots, and rebellions exposed the weakness of an ideology of order. The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England situates the work of four skeptics—Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare—within the context of religious and social change. These four writers responded to the dislocations that upset the stability of the newly formed Protestant nation by raising bold and often disturbing questions about religion and epistemology. The historical tropes covered in this book—witchcraft debates, New World discovery, economic struggle, and religious reformation—reveal the diverse contexts in which skepticism appeared and the many contributions skepticism made to a nation undergoing radical change.
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“Against an epoch”: Boston moderns, 1880–1905
Libby Bischof PhD
Employing Boston as the primary site of cultural investigation, this dissertation expands the narrative of American Modernism with a discussion of the centrality of the city of Boston in understanding the development of Modernism in America. The project is divided into two sections: Bohemia, and Decadence and Retreat, as a way to describe the progression and decline of Boston's modern moment throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The lives of three eminent Boston artists: photographer F. Holland Day, writer Louise Imogen Guiney and architect Ralph Adams Cram and their circle(s) of association are the primary focus of this study. Their cultural productions and simultaneous participation in burgeoning social, religious and aesthetic movements, specifically Anglo-Catholicism, Decadence, Pictorialism, The Arts and Crafts Movement and Socialism, reveal a complex network of association in fin-de-siecle Boston. This dissertation emphasizes the centrality of friendship and collaboration in the cultural production of these Bostonians and their associates, and differentiates this particular Boston Modernism from the later “High Modernism” of New York City. The individuals at the heart of this dissertation continually attempted to balance a desire for a simpler life focused around the appreciation of the beautiful and progressive social reform within the confines of an increasingly fast-paced world. This dissertation engages and interprets cultural data—photographs, literature and buildings, as visual representations of Boston's alternative modernism.
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Education and Learning
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter 9 in Perspectives on productive aging: Social work with the new aged, edited by Lenard W. Kaye.
Book description:
This ground-breaking book in the field of aging and gerontological social work fills a major gap in social work literature by debunking the myth that older people are less productive than younger ones. It redefines and expands the profession's responsibility in previously unexplored territory, including a much-needed emphasis on promoting and sustaining empowerment, voice, and engagement of older adults in the lifeblood of their families and communities. Perspectives on Productive Aging lays out a far-reaching set of contemporary functions that social workers will need to assume in advocating for elder rights and quality of life. Focusing on the new cohort of older adults and those that will follow them – the leading edge baby boomers who are nearing retirement – the book expands our professional perspective on working with elders who are educated, active, mobile, financially secure, and engaged. It examines social work practice in nontraditional practice areas and settings, including physical fitness, spirituality and religion, the workplace, voluntarism, and education and learning.
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Marsden Hartley
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters.
An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England’s unique regional history and culture Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes of white-clapboard buildings surrounding an idyllic village green, hillside farms, and red-brick mills rub shoulders with advanced research centers, nuclear power plants, and urban neighborhoods of immigrants from around the globe. In entries written by leading authorities in the field, The Encyclopedia of New England presents a comprehensive view of this important region, past and present. Both authoritative and entertaining, this single-volume reference will be an invaluable resource for the scholar and an irresistible pageturner for the browser.
The Encyclopedia contains
• 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries examining significant people, places, events, ideas,and artifacts
• Fascinating and little-known facts that rarely appear in history books
• More than 500 illustrations and maps
• Contributions from nearly 1,000 distinguished scholars and writers, including journalists, academics, and specialists from museums, industries, and historical societies
• 1.5 million words in 22 thematic sections, ranging from agriculture to tourism, each with an introduction by a leading specialist in the field
• Extensive cross-references and a full index
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Modernism and New England Art
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters.
Book description:
An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England’s unique regional history and culture Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes of white-clapboard buildings surrounding an idyllic village green, hillside farms, and red-brick mills rub shoulders with advanced research centers, nuclear power plants, and urban neighborhoods of immigrants from around the globe. In entries written by leading authorities in the field, The Encyclopedia of New England presents a comprehensive view of this important region, past and present. Both authoritative and entertaining, this single-volume reference will be an invaluable resource for the scholar and an irresistible pageturner for the browser.
The Encyclopedia contains
• 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries examining significant people, places, events, ideas, and artifacts
• Fascinating and little-known facts that rarely appear in history books
• More than 500 illustrations and maps
• Contributions from nearly 1,000 distinguished scholars and writers, including journalists, academics, and specialists from museums, industries, and historical societies
• 1.5 million words in 22 thematic sections, ranging from agriculture to tourism, each with an introduction by a leading specialist in the field
• Extensive cross-references and a full index
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Overview: Art
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters.
Book description:
An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England’s unique regional history and culture Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes of white-clapboard buildings surrounding an idyllic village green, hillside farms, and red-brick mills rub shoulders with advanced research centers, nuclear power plants, and urban neighborhoods of immigrants from around the globe. In entries written by leading authorities in the field, The Encyclopedia of New England presents a comprehensive view of this important region, past and present. Both authoritative and entertaining, this single-volume reference will be an invaluable resource for the scholar and an irresistible pageturner for the browser.
The Encyclopedia contains
• 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries examining significant people, places, events, ideas, and artifacts
• Fascinating and little-known facts that rarely appear in history books
• More than 500 illustrations and maps
• Contributions from nearly 1,000 distinguished scholars and writers, including journalists, academics, and specialists from museums, industries, and historical societies
• 1.5 million words in 22 thematic sections, ranging from agriculture to tourism, each with an introduction by a leading specialist in the field
• Extensive cross-references and a full index
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Picturing Place: Portland and the Visual Arts
Donna M. Cassidy PhD
Chapter in Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England, edited by Joseph A. Conforti.
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Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
Donna M. Cassidy Ph.D.
At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native region--the North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount Katahdin--producing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history's customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies.
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Collaboration and inquiry: Learning to teach at the Lynch School of Education
K Donnell, Andrea Stairs-Davenport PhD, and N Guttenberg
Chapter in Portraits of Teacher Preparation: Learning to Teach in a Changing America, edited by Patrick M. Jenlink and Karen Embry Jenlink.
Book description:
More often, teacher educators and the programs and institutions they represent are often confronted with an increasingly difficult responsibility of preparing teachers to address issues of diversity, social justice, and equity. Here, Patrick and Karen Jenlink bring to the foreground, current work by teacher educators in universities across the U.S. It specifically focuses on the challenges of:
·Standards and accountability
·The No Child Left Behind Act
·Licensure/certification issues
·Increasing diversity
·Issues of social justice
·Shifting demographics, and
·The myriad of social issues that make schools and teaching problematic.
The editors incorporate "portrait" as a metaphor and guiding lens for examining their respective programs, providing richly detailed descriptions, and defining qualities of the teacher preparation programs that illuminate how teachers learn in a field-based program. The nine portraits presented throughout this book provide the reader an experience of seeing new ways of learning to teach, set against the backdrop of a changing America. The authors demonstrate an understanding of the need to set aside conventional practices for new mediums of expression and learning and constructing new and alternative pedagogies for learning. Importantly, the authors present a narrative window into learning to teach that reflects a re-imagining of teacher education as a culturally and ethically responsive action towards creating alternative futures for America's schools.
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Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception
Kim Grant PhD
This 2005 study traces the development of Surrealist theory of visual art and its reception, from the birth of Surrealism to its institutionalization in the mid-1930s. Situating Surrealist art theory in its theoretical and discursive contexts, Kim Grant demonstrates the complex interplay between Surrealism and contemporary art criticism. She examines the challenge to Surrealist art raised by the magazine Cahiers d'Art, which promoted a group of young painters dedicated to a liberated and poetic painting process that was in keeping with the formalist evolution of modern art. Grant also discusses the centrality of visual art in Surrealism as a material manifestation of poetry, the significance of poetry in French theories of modern art, and the difficulties faced by an avant-garde art movement at a time when contemporary audiences had come to expect revolutionary innovation.
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Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health
Institute of Medicine; Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care; Board on Health Care Services
Contributors include Andrew F. Coburn, PhD, and David Hartley, PhD, MHA.
Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20 % of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face.
Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends:
- Adopting an integrated approach to addressing both personal and population health needs
- Establishing a stronger health care quality improvement support structure to assist rural health systems and professionals
- Enhancing the human resource capacity of health care professionals in rural communities and expanding the preparedness of rural residents to actively engage in improving their health and health care
- Assuring that rural health care systems are financially stable.
- Investing in an information and communications technology infrastructure
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Ktaadn trails : Lucius Merrill and the paths to Katahdin
Richard W. Judd and Edward Zip Kellogg
The four dozen photographs reproduced and annotated in this important historical document offer a glimpse into a world in many respects irrevocably gone but in other respects still with us to this day. The centerpiece is what Merrill called "our one great mountain," as it appeared in the 1890s, in its regeneration after an extensive fire in the previous decade, and as it was being used by its human guests. An introductory historical essay provides an informative background and an inspiring prelude to one's personal experience of this "vast, Titanic" world now known as Baxter State Park.
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Strategies for self care: A counselor's reflections on interpersonal wellness
Bette Katsekas EdD
Strategies for Self Care: A Counselor's Reflections on Interpersonal Wellness is a daily reader of practical and focused thoughts and exercises geared toward interpersonal wellness. We often think of wellness as our physical health, weight, diet, stress management and so on. Interpersonal dynamics form a central and important role in our lives. Interpersonal wellness is a dimension of health in relation to others. We encounter this dimension every day. It is a dimension filled with possibilities for deeper health and well-being physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually in our interpersonal lives. As a counselor, the author has personally and professionally found daily readers helpful, and wanted to contribute to that literature drawing from her work and life experience. The area of self care is important, and wellness from an interpersonal perspective is just as essential as a good diet, exercise and vocational satisfaction. "Strategies for Self Care" is intended to offer the reader some gentle and caring thoughts for daily life in relation to others.
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Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
Drucilla Barker and Susan K. Feiner
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality -- in economic processes shaping the home, paid employment, market relations, and the global economy. Throughout they connect women's economic status in the industrialized nations to the economic circumstances surrounding women in the global South.
Rooted in the two disciplines, this book draws on the rich tradition of interdisciplinary work in feminist social science scholarship to construct a parallel between the notions that the "personal is political" and "the personal is economic." -
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish
Bringing together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches, this collection studies T.S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and feminism in his poetry, prose, and drama. In particular, it illuminates the influence of Eliot's poet mother; the dynamic of homosexuality in his work; his poetic identification with passive desire; and his reception by female academics from the early twentieth century to the present. The book will be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as of queer theory and gender studies.
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The 'Tragic Mulatta' Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction
Eve Allegra Raimon
"This very sophisticated book is distinguished by taking the figure of the tragic mulatta seriously as an embodiment of central concerns about race and nation in the antebellum United States."-Michael Bennett, Long Island University, Brooklyn Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and political fabric, including our sense of national identity. And yet, in both its quantitative and symbolic forms, interracialism remains an extremely elusive phenomenon, causing policy makers and census boards to wrangle over how to delineate it and, on an emblematic level, stirring intense emotions from fear to fascination. In The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited, Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of race and nation-both of which were in crisis in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, judicial, statutory, social, and scientific debates about the meaning of racial difference (and intermixture) coincided with disputes over frontier expansion, which were never merely about land acquisition but also literally about the "complexion" of that frontier. Embodying both northern and southern ideologies, the "amalgamated" mulatta, the author argues, can be viewed as quintessentially American, a precursor to contemporary motifs of "hybrid" and "mestizo" identities. Where others have focused on the gendered and racially abject position of the "tragic mulatta," Raimon reconsiders texts by such central antislavery writers as Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson to suggest that the figure is more usefully examined as a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period. Eve Allegra Raimon is an associate professor of arts and humanities at the University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College.
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Big Places, Big Plans
Mark Lapping and Owen J. Furuseth
With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifestation of the environmental movement, the revolution prompted governments at several levels to attempt to protect critical areas and vulnerable natural resources. Many of the most dramatic and far-reaching shifts in planning regimes have occurred in large-scale, environmentally unique or sensitive regions. It is these big places, looming large in the American and Canadian psyches, that are the focus of this edited volume. Each of the chapters reflects on the contemporary challenge of environmental and land use planning. Ten leading distinguished scholars here provide thoughtful analyses and critical insights into the processes and contexts shaping the innovative planning and policy schemes in seven regional landscapes.
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John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy
Joseph Grange and Roger T. Ames
Bringing together the philosophies of John Dewey and Confucius, this work illustrates a means for cultural interaction and provides a model of global philosophy. Joseph Grange's beautifully written book provides a unique synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and Confucius, and points the way to a global philosophy based on American and Confucian values. Grange concentrates on the major themes of experience, felt intelligence, and culture to make the connections between these two giants of Western and Eastern thought. He explains why the Chinese called Dewey "A Second Confucius," and deepens our understanding of Confucius's concepts of the way (dao) of human excellence (ren). The important dimensions of American and Chinese cultural philosophy are welded into an argument that calls for the liberation of what is finest in both traditions. The work gives a new appreciation of fundamental issues facing Chinese and American relations and brings the opportunities and dangers of globalization into focus. “…Grange’s presentation of Dewey’s philosophy of experience and culture as well as the parallels he develops with Confucianism are truly valuable contributions to the field of comparative philosophy.” — Philosophy East & West “…a slim but important book for next steps in the world philosophical conversation. Grange is a subtle and creative thinker, and this volume whets the philosophical appetite for more in an increasingly shrinking global village.” — Dao "Grange draws upon his sustained and substantial reading of the original reflections of John Dewey and of Confucius to bring into focus several seminal ideas from each of these two traditions that provide us with a resonance between them, and that can serve us as the terms of art necessary for undertaking such a Sino-American dialogue." — from the Foreword by Roger T. Ames "Grange writes with a sure mastery of the relevant texts and secondary literature. His grasp of Dewey's vast corpus is outstanding and his explication of Confucius's ideas is crisp and on the mark. Grange is able to elicit connections between Confucius and Dewey without straining expert credulity or merely saying the obvious." — Robert Cummings Neville, author of Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World
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Teacher Leadership
Ann Liberman and Lynne Miller
In Teacher Leadership, Lieberman and Miller discuss current changes in the teacher's role, and make sense of the research on teacher leadership. They offer case studies of innovative programs - such as the National Writing Project - that provide teachers with opportunities to lead within a professional community. In addition, they tell stories of individual teachers - from Maine to California - who are able to lead in a variety of contexts. Teacher Leadership offers a new standard of teaching and community that recognizes all teachers as leaders. It shows how to develop learning communities that include rather than exclude, create knowledge rather than merely apply it, and that offer challenge and support to both new and experienced teachers.
This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education - a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.
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Child Care and Children with Special Needs - Challenges for Low Income Families: Parents' Voices
Helen Ward, Julie Atkins, Angie Herrick, and Patricia Morris
"While the primary focus of this research is access to child care by low income families of children with special needs, we are also looking at the related issues of welfare reform, the impact on work force participation of having a child with special needs, and the issue of coordination of early intervention services with the child care system. This is a three-year study which began on October 1, 2001." (From the Introduction.)
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Entry on Etiquette and Manners
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14: Supplement 1.
This single-volume supplement to the Dartmouth Medal-winning Dictionary of the Middle Ages features more than 300 articles written by a new generation of scholars on new or newly understood topics relating to the period. Like the original set, the Supplement's coverage ranges over one thousand years of European and Middle Eastern history, covering the people, places and institutions of both high and popular culture. Articles include: Body Capital punishment Chastity belt Child rearing Monumental architecture Vatican library Violence William ("Braveheart") Wallace Women And many others Students at the high school level through graduate school have relied on the Dictionary of Middle Ages for years and this supplement updates the set, ensuring its value for the next generation of researchers.
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Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving: The Evidence of French and English Wills
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval Fabrications - Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings.
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.
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Toni Morrison’s Tricksters
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography.
Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the volume exemplify a renewed awareness of the paradoxical nature of literary texts both as works of literary art and as documents embedded in and functioning within a writer’s life and culture. Together they offer fresh and often interdisciplinary perspectives on twentieth-century American writers of more or less established status (Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O’Connor, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros) as well as on those who, for reasons of fashion, politics, ideology, or gender, have been unduly neglected (Booth Tarkington, Julia Peterkin, Robert Coates, Martha Gellhorn, Isabella Gardner, Karl Shapiro, the young Jewish-American writers, Julia Alvarez, and writers of popular crime and detective fiction). Exploring the fruitful interactions and uneasy alliance between literature and ethics, film, biography, gender studies, popular culture, avant-garde art, urban studies, anthropology and multicultural studies, together these essays testify to the ongoing pertinence of an approach to literature that is undogmatic, sensitive and sophisticated and that seeks to do justice to the complex interweavings of literature, culture and biography in twentieth-century American writing.
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Professional Development Needs of Middle Level Mathematics and Science Teachers in Maine
Nancy Jean Austin, Ken Bedder, and Kim Conway
This monograph details a professional development needs assessment of middle level mathematics and science teachers in Maine, reporting teacher survey data from May 2002 on teacher background information, school instructional practices, teachers' beliefs and personal instructional practices, and professional development needs. Additionally, the monograph details MMSTEC project background information, related research, and implications of the findings to professional development needs.
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Discrete trial teaching
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP and Mark W. Steege
Entry in The Encyclopedia of School Psychology.
Book description:
School psychologists are on the front lines in dealing with the most significant challenges facing children and the educational community today. And in a world of ever-increasing risks and obstacles for students, school psychologists must be able to use their in-depth psychological and educational training to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other mental health professionals to help create safe learning environments. By recognizing each individual student's unique circumstances and personality, school psychologists are able to offer specialized services to address such crucial children's issues as: family troubles (e.g., divorce, death); school assignments; depression; anger management; substance abuse; study skills; learning disabilities; sexuality; and self-discipline. The Encyclopedia of School Psychology provides school psychologists and other educational and mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the most current theories, research, and practices in this critical area. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on important issues from assessment to intervention to prevention techniques.
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Punishment
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP and Mark W. Steege
Chapter in The Encyclopedia of School Psychology.
Book description:
School psychologists are on the front lines in dealing with the most significant challenges facing children and the educational community today. And in a world of ever-increasing risks and obstacles for students, school psychologists must be able to use their in-depth psychological and educational training to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other mental health professionals to help create safe learning environments. By recognizing each individual student's unique circumstances and personality, school psychologists are able to offer specialized services to address such crucial children's issues as: family troubles (e.g., divorce, death); school assignments; depression; anger management; substance abuse; study skills; learning disabilities; sexuality; and self-discipline. The Encyclopedia of School Psychology provides school psychologists and other educational and mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the most current theories, research, and practices in this critical area. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on important issues from assessment to intervention to prevention techniques.
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At Play: An Anthology of Maine Drama
Laura Emack and Assunta Kent
Standing just outside the door / Sanford Phippen -- Ugly ducklings / Carolyn Gage -- Writers block / Laura Emack -- Strange love triangle at the children's theatre / Caitlin Medb Harrison -- Oh grow up! / Scribes of Bucksport High School -- Let me count the ways / Linda Britt -- Inside out / Peter Lee -- Turned tables; The Liebestod / Hugh Aaron -- Regalia / Rick Doyle.
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Discarnate Desire: T. S. Eliot’s Poetics of Dissociation
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot.
A blind, dirty, senile old man haunts the margins of Eliot's 1910 poem “First Debate between the Body and Soul.” Along with a cast of characters in Inventions of the March Hare – clowns, actors, marionettes – he inserts himself in the consciousness of Eliot's narrators as both self and other, a voice at once within and without the “I” who ostensibly speaks. Unlike Eliot's theatrical personae, this often vile, chattering, drunken, or mad old man carries with him a horror of self-representation little mediated by a stage setting or controlled script. Similar figures appear in other poems, notably “Dans le Restaurant” and “Hysteria.” Yet he plays one role among many; in other forms, alien and intimate figures serve, in Eliot's work, both to claim and to disavow desire. For example, the marionettes – “my marionettes” – of “Convictions (Curtain Raiser)” are filled with naive and exaggerated desires carefully detached from the narrator who also claims them: they “Await an audience open-mouthed / At climax and suspense” and have “keen moments every day.” The narrator of “The Little Passion from ‘An Agony in the Garret’” observes himself walking and notes, sardonically, his own “withered face” as if in a mirror behind a bar: speaker and other are strangely indistinguishable.
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In Endless Song/Be Anxious for Nothing
Robert Russell
The musicians of the USM Chamber Singers represent the most outstanding singers at the University. Chosen through a careful audition process and committed to choral excellence, these undergraduate students have accepted a responsibility for musical distinction through a focus on warmth of tone, precise intonation, and the artistry of understanding the nuance of text. Throughout the northern New England region the Chamber Singers have performed a diverse repertory centered on a cappella literature of the renaissance era and the twentieth century and music of various world cultures. In May 1999 the ensemble toured Europe, singing in some of the most beautiful churches of western Europe, including a performance at Notre Dame in Paris and service music for Sunday Mass at the Karlskirche in Vienna. The singers received wide acclaim in April 2000 for a performance of the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble toured Ireland, Wales, and England in May 2002 and are planning a third tour in 2005.
More information about the USM School of Music may be found at:
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Site Plan and Development Review : A Guide for Northern New England
Robert Sanford and Dana H. Farley
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The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie
Shelton Waldrep PhD
By printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation-and perhaps the most significant of his career, proclaiming his belief that he could redesign not just his image but his very self. Shelton Waldrep explores the cultural influences at play in Wilde's life and work and his influence on the writing and performance of the twentieth century, particularly on the lives and careers of some of its most aestheticized performers: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and David Bowie. As Waldrep reveals, Wilde's fusing of art with commerce foresaw the coming century's cultural producers who would blend works of both "high art" and mass-market appeal. Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed. Shelton Waldrep is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. He is the coauthor of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995) and editor of The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (2000).
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The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose
Laima Sruogini
The anthology covers a wide range of Lithuanian voices, from young writers who began their literary careers in the post-Soviet period to older émigré writers who wrote in Lithuanian but published outside of their native land for nearly fifty years.
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Toward an inclusive psychology: Infusing the introductory psychology course with diversity content
Joseph E. Trimble, Michael Stevenson, and Judith P. Worell
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Becoming a Reader: A Developmental Approach to Reading Instruction (3rd Edition)
Michael P. O'Donnell and Margo Wood
Main text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Elementary Reading/Literacy Instruction. This is a practical “how to do” book that represents a synthesis of many points of view on how to assess the reading needs of children and to address them with highly effective teacher-tested strategies. Organized around stages of development rather than randomly arranged topics.
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Teaching Literature: A Companion
Tanya Agathocleous and Ann C. Dean
In Teaching Literature scholars explain how they think about their everyday experience in the classroom, using the tools of their ongoing scholarly projects and engaging with current debates in literary studies. Until recently, teaching has played second fiddle to literary research as a mode of knowledge in academia, leaving new teachers with nowhere to turn for advice about teaching and no forum for discussion of the difficulties and opportunities they face in the classroom.
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In Dewey's Wake : Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction
W J. Gavin
In a pluralistic tapestry of approaches, eminent Dewey scholars address his pragmatic philosophy and whether it should be reinterpreted, reconfigured, or "passed-by," so as to better deal with the problems posed by the twenty-first century. For some, Dewey's contextualism remains intact, requiring more to be amended than radically changed. For others, his work needs significant revision if he is to be relevant in the new millennium. Finally, there are those who argue that we should not be so quick to pass Dewey by, for he has much to offer that has still gone unnoticed or unappreciated. This rich narrative indicates both where the context has changed and what needs to be preserved and nurtured in Dewey as we advance into the future.
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The Certified Quality Technician Handbook
Donald W. Benbow; Ahmad K. Elshennawy,; and H. Fred Walker
This book covers all of the topics listed in the Certified Quality Technician Body of Knowledge. The conversational tone of this reference book makes it easy to read while helping readers master quality assurance subject matter. Those interested in auditing, design of experiments, education, management, quality costs, sampling, and reliability will find this text helpful. Whether you want to brush up on skills needed in your profession, or review material before taking the Certified Quality Technician exam, this guide can help. Readers do not need a formal statistical background nor is it necessary to attend a course before using this book. This guide can also help an engineer or quality professional brush up on skills required for one’s job due to newly assigned responsibilities.
Additionally the authors provide references and introductions to topics that quality technicians will need as they grow more advanced in their career. Review questions are included in a supplementary section. While no text can guarantee success, it’s an excellent resource for those preparing to take the Certified Quality Technician exam or for your professional library.
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The Spectrality of the Sixties
Benjamin Bertram PhD
Chapter in Historicizing Theory.
Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory—a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—has often been derided as a mere "relic" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.
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Counseling approaches to working with students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds
Mary Lynn Boscardin; J C. Gonzalez-Martinez; and Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP
Chapter in Multicultural Counseling in Schools: A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited by Paul B. Pedersen and John C. Carey.
Book description:
This practical handbook focuses on the practice of multicultural counseling in K-12 school settings.
Noted authorities in multicultural counseling contribute chapters that cover important topics such as promoting academic achievement, individual counseling, group counseling, family consultation, career development, violence prevention, training, and consultation. Unlike other multicultural books, the text provides information that is racial-ethnic specific, but also goes further to provide general principles of multicultural practice that are illustrated by reference to one or more racial-ethnic groups. Current theory and research are clearly reviewed with direct reference to the improvement of practice.
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A Distinct Sense of Belonging
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter 1 in Baseball and American Culture Across the Diamond, edited by Frank Hoffmann, Edward J Rielly, Martin J Manning.
Book description:
Discover baseball's role in American society!
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's involvement in virtually every important social development in the United States—past and present.
Baseball and American Culture examines baseball’s unique role as a sociological touchstone, presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm for American society—good and bad. Topics include the struggle for racial equality, women’s role in society, immigration, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself.
Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this fascinating subject, including:
“On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects”
“Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of Community”
“The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology”
“Writing Their Way Home: American Writers and Baseball”
“God and the Diamond: The Born-Again Baseball Autobiography”
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular culture, and students of American society. -
The Hungry Ghost: IMF Policy, Capitalist Transformation and Laboring Bodies in Southeast Asia
Lorrayne Carroll PhD and Joseph Medley
Chapter in Postcolonialism Meets Political Economy.
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The Characteristics and Roles of Rural Health Clinics in the United States: A Chartbook
John A. Gale and Andrew F. Coburn
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Complexities of Subjectivity: Scottish Poets and Multiplicity
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally.
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Two Pronominal Mysteries in the Acquisition of Binding and Control
Dana McDaniel PhD
Chapter 4 in Anaphora: A Reference Guide, edited by Andrew Barss.
Book description:
Anaphora: A Reference Guide is a collection of essays that report on the major results of recent research in anaphora and set the stage for further inquiry.
- Reports on the major results of recent research in anaphora and sets the stage for further inquiry.
- Features contributions from among the world's leading researchers on anaphora.
- Presents an exciting picture of how broad the phenomenon of anaphora is and how it can reveal many mysterious properties of language.
- Includes articles of interest to many disciplines, including philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, language studies, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics.
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The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present
Jason Read PhD
Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.
What is the relation between the economy, or the mode of production, and culture, beliefs, and desires? How is it possible to think of these relations without reducing one to the other, or effacing one for the sake of the other? To answer these questions, The Micro-Politics of Capital re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogations of subjectivity in the works of Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Negri. Jason Read suggests that what characterizes contemporary capitalism is the intimate intersection of the production of commodities with the production of desire, beliefs, and knowledge.
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Everyday activism: A handbook for lesbian, gay, & bisexual people and their allies
Michael Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan
From same-sex marriages to hate-crime laws, gay, lesbian and bisexual people have fought an uphill battle to gain equal rights. Now a comprehensive new reference collects in one volume the strategies, hard data, and legal arguments that are central to the fight for equality in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) life.
Up-to-date and readable, Everyday Activism is the one essential book that provides the basic facts on the key questions faced by LGB citizens. -
Economics and Performance: Wilde’s Aesthetics of Self-Invention
Shelton Waldrep Ph.D.
Paper by Shelton Waldrep, Ph.D., included in Oscar Wilde: the man, his writings, and his world. This title is a collection of academic papers first presented at a conference at Hofstra University, April 27-29, 2000. Edited by Robert N. Keane.
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Afterword
Lisa Walker PhD
Afterword in The Girls in 3-B.
Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self-expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience firsthand the dangers and limitations of women’s economic reliance on men. Lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skillfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America—and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, The Girls in 3-B approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology.
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Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics
Robert B. Louden PhD
This is the first English translation of Friedrich Schleiermacher's mature ethical theory. Situated between the better-known positions of Kant and Hegel, Schleiermacher's ethics represent an under-explored option within the rich and creative tradition of German idealism. Although Schleiermacher is known to English readers primarily as a theologian and hermeneuticist, many German scholars have argued that his philosophical work in ethics constitutes his most outstanding intellectual achievement. This edition includes an historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading.
- The first English translation of these texts
- Schleiermacher is increasingly recognized as an important and distinctive figure in German idealism
- Likely to appeal to theologians as well as historians of philosophy
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Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom
Rita M. Kissen
This book argues that issues of sexual diversity are inextricably interwoven into the basic concerns of pre-service teacher education. How do we make our students aware of assumptions regarding masculinity, femininity, and sexuality that arise from what is presented, represented, or omitted from curricula and classroom practice? What do we say about homophobia and heterosexism as we anticipate the administrative hierarchies, school cultures, parent and community politics they will encounter as teachers? What special challenges might face a teacher (straight or gay) who discusses sexual orientation in a high school classroom, or responds to a homophobic remark in the hallway or the cafeteria? How should we prepare a teacher for a parent conference with two moms or two dads? The essays in this volume range from an analysis of gay stereotypes in teacher education textbooks, to a discussion of queer multiculturalism, to personal accounts by lesbian and gay teacher educators and heterosexual allies who are challenging homophobia and heterosexism in their own classrooms and programs. All agree that education for sexual diversity is as important as education about all other forms of difference, and that future teachers need to know how to create safe spaces for lesbian and gay students, along with the children of gay families who are increasingly a part of the classroom landscape.
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Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, an Anthology of Sources
Robin Bisha, Jehanne M. Gheith, Christine Holden, and William G. Wagner
This rich anthology of source materials makes available for the first time in any language a multitude of primary sources on the lives of Russian women from the reign of Peter the Great to the Bolshevik revolution. The selections are drawn from a wide variety of documents, published and unpublished, including memoirs, diaries, legal codes, correspondence, short fiction, poetry, ethnographic observations, and folklore. Primacy is given to sources produced by women and previously unavailable in English translation. Organized thematically, the documents focus on women’s family life, work and schooling, public activism, creative self-expression, and sexuality and spirituality, as well as on the cultural ideals and legal framework which constrained women of all social classes.
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From Their Lives: A Manual on How to Conduct Focus Groups of Low-Income Parents
Helen Ward and Julie Atkins
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Groundwater Science
Charlie Fitts
Groundwater Science is a timely, current, and comprehensive presentation of groundwater hydrology that integrates chemistry, physics, geology and calculus. With the input of students and other hydrology instructors, the author has developed a text reference that will be appreciated by students and professors alike.
2nd Edition now available: http://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/44/
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A Framework for Quality Assurance in Child Welfare
Mary O'Brien and Peter Watson
This guide outlines a framework for implementing quality assurance programs for child welfare services. The components are based on federal requirements, national standards, and child welfare research. Five steps are described: select outcomes and standards, integrate quality assurance goals and procedures throughout the agency, collect data about outcomes, analyze data, and improve systems as indicated by evaluation findings. Specific topics include the role of the quality assurance system in the Child and Family Services Review process, communication of quality assurance practices, and staff participation in analysis. The manual describes each step of the quality assurance system and reviews the tasks.
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The Family Support Act of 1988: A Case Study of Welfare Policy in the 1980s
Luisa Stromer Deprez
This study makes a contribution to understanding the politics of policy-making by exploring the relationship between political ideology, public opinion, and social welfare policy. It investigates this linkage through a case study of the Family Support Act of 1988. Findings are based on analysis of Congressional hearings and debates, news media editorials and commentaries (over three years), Congressional interviews, and documentary evidence obtained from the private legislative files of Senetor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the legislative sponsor. The latter, exclusive access to the files, provides the study with the perspective of enabling a "policy story" to be told using "insiders" information. Prevailing notions about poverty, dependance and welfare, and the role of government are examined and placed within a theoretical framework grounded in individualistic and structuralist perspectives.
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Performing Folklore: The Dilemmas of Zora Neale Hurston
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Feminine Identities.
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L'intervista narrative: Raccontare la storia di sé nella ricerca formativa, organizzativa e sociale
Robert Atkinson
Perché la ricerca basata sulle storie riscuote un crescente interesse? Che tipo di errori l'intervistatore deve evitare? Quali applicazioni risultano più promettenti nell'ambito delle organizzazioni e del lavoro? Coniugando accuratezza e pragmatismo Atkinson risponde a queste domande spesso eluse dagli addetti ai lavori: da un lato individua regole metodologiche capaci di guidare coloro che si avvicinano alla ricerca narrativa nelle attività di preparazione, negoziazione, conduzione, analisi e interpretazione delle interviste; dall'altro offre concreti esempi di utilizzo delle storie per la progettazione e la valutazione dei comportamenti organizzativi, delle competenze e dei percorsi di apprendimento e di formazione.
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Whooping It Up for Rational Prosperity: Narratives of the East Asian Crisis
Lorrayne Carroll PhD and Joseph Medley
Chapter in World Bank Literature.
A trailblazing interrogation of the cultural, political, and economic implications of World Bank hegemony.
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Music Dear Solace to My Thoughts: Songs from The First Booke of Ayres and Lute Solos by Francis D. Pilkington
Bruce Fithian and Olav Chris Henriksen
Francis Pilkington: Songs from the First Booke of Ayres and Lute Solos. Music dear solace to my thoughts; Beauty sat bathing; Now peep, Bo Peep; Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott's delight; Whither so fast; You that pine in long desire; Pavane; Diaphenia like the daffdowndilly; The Lord Hastings' good morrow; Curranta for Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott; Curranta for Mrs. Elizabeth Murcott; Down a down, thus Phyllis sang; Go from my window; Underneath a cypress shade; Now let her change; Galliard; My choice is made; The Spanish pavane; Ay me, she frowns; Rest sweet nymphs; Bruce Scott Fithian, tenor; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute
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Child Care, Money and Maine: Implications for Federal and State Policy
William Hager, Allyson Dean, and Judy Reidt-Parker
"Child Care, Money and Maine" was chosen as the title for this document because, as we enter into the new century, child day care services have become an essential component to a healthy economy in Maine and in the nation. The availability of good child care has a major impact on a family’s ability to find, train for, and sustain employment. Child care is also crucial to modern businesses being able to recruit, retain and sustain employees. Lack of dependable and appropriate child care will be a critical barrier to the movement of low-income families from welfare to work. The quality of the care being provided has a profound effect on the lives of our children, which in turn has major implications for state education, social services, juvenile justice and Medicaid budgets.
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Assessment and Standards for Professional Improvement
Walter Kimball PhD, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley
Chapter 3 in Rethinking Standards through Teacher Preparation Partnerships, edited by Gary A. Griffin.
Book description:
Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment. This book documents six exemplary teacher preparation programs participating in school-university partnerships in an effort to examine issues of standards in teacher education. It describes how attention to standards has played out in contrasting demographic, political, and intellectual contexts. The authors reveal the realities and consequences involved in the complex process of implementing standards in varied program contexts often having to reconcile external mandates with the needs of their students and their own program values. Working in pairs, teacher educators formed critical friend research partnerships focused on assessment, inquiry, equity, diversity, and technology. Institutional partnerships discussed include: The University of Louisville with University of Southern Maine; Teachers College, Columbia University with University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Wheelock College.
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Getting Beyond the Talking and into the Doing
Ann Larson, Phyllis Metcalf-Turner, Walter Kimball PhD, Nancy Harriman, and Susie Hanley
Chapter 4 in Rethinking Standards through Teacher Preparation Partnerships, edited by Gary A. Griffin.
Book description:
Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment. This book documents six exemplary teacher preparation programs participating in school-university partnerships in an effort to examine issues of standards in teacher education. It describes how attention to standards has played out in contrasting demographic, political, and intellectual contexts. The authors reveal the realities and consequences involved in the complex process of implementing standards in varied program contexts often having to reconcile external mandates with the needs of their students and their own program values. Working in pairs, teacher educators formed critical friend research partnerships focused on assessment, inquiry, equity, diversity, and technology. Institutional partnerships discussed include: The University of Louisville with University of Southern Maine; Teachers College, Columbia University with University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Wheelock College.
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Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings
Robert B. Louden PhD
This is the first book-length study in any language to examine in detail and critically assess the second part of Kant's ethics--an empirical, impure part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation. Drawing attention to Kant's under-explored impure ethics, this revealing investigation refutes the common and long-standing misperception that Kants ethics advocates empty formalism. Making detailed use of a variety of Kantian texts never before translated into English, author Robert B. Louden reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of Kantian ethics as a whole, once the second part is re-admitted to its rightful place within Kant's practical philosophy.
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Sartre on American Racism [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Philosophers on race : critical essays, edited by Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Scott.
More about this title:
Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.
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Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism
Julien Murphy PhD and Constance Mui PhD
Contemporary feminist theory and postmodernism have left significant marks on how we think about practical matters, most notably the old and new forms of gender struggles that many women confront in their daily lives. The essays collected in Gender Struggles are designed to highlight those influences by addressing the following questions: What is practical feminism in a postmodern world? How does rethinking the nature and boundaries of philosophy affect the way we understand practical issues that we confront daily? What new forms of freedom, autonomy, subjectivity, social welfare, motherhood, public and private space, and political resistance have emerged from this new philosophical sense? Together, the sixteen essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks. The essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such as adoption, care work, and the home. Incorporating the latest, most 'cutting-edge' material on feminism, this volume aims at reaching a broad spectrum of readers by connecting postmodern feminist theory with concrete issues that are practical and relevant to their daily lives and experiences.
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What's Happening in Our Family?: Understanding Sexual Abuse Through Metaphors
Constance M. Ostis
In her book What's Happening in Our Family? Understanding Sexual Abuse Through Metaphors, author Connie Ostis, helps adults - parents, educators, counselors - understand how abuse occurs by using stories that expose the manipulative relationships established and maintained by abusers. The metaphors explain how sexual abuse begins in hidden ways and deepens in secrecy; clarify what harm is caused and how long it lasts; suggest how to cope with the "whirlpool" of emotions; help adults provide the support children need; and explain guidelines for keeping children safe. Using the non-threatening language of these stoires, adults can help children recognize when they are being manipulated and understand why they are not responsible for their abuse.
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The Holocaust and History : the Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Michael Berenbaum
Fifty-four chapters by the world's most eminent Holocaust researchers probe topics such as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the role of the Allies, the Axis, and neutral countries; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors.
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This Thread: For Mezzo, Solo Violin, and Chamber Orchestra: On a Poem by Toni Morrison
J Mark Scearce
Setting of Toni Morrison’s poem, “The Dead of September 11,” premiered by the Nashville Chamber Orchestra on September 11, 2004. For Mezzo, Solo Violin, and Chamber Orchestra
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Best practices in evaluating interventions
Mark W. Steege; Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP; and F C. Mace
Chapter in Best Practices in School Psychology, 4th edition.
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Postmodern Casinos
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies.
Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions. Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers around the two theorists' senses of pastiche and parody. For Jameson, postmodern texts are ahistorical, playing with pastiched images and aesthetic forms, and are therefore unable to provide a critical purchase on culture and capital. For Hutcheon, postmodern fiction and architecture remain political, opening spaces for social critique through a parody that deconstructs official history. Thinking in the space between these two sharply different positions, the essays in this collection investigate a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture—from such narratives as Don DeLillo's Libra, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, to the vastly different spaces of Las Vegas casinos and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—in order to ask what the cultural work of a postmodern aesthetic might be. “Although there are many books on postmodernism, I don't know of any that theorize Jameson and Hutcheon this way or that bring history-fiction-architecture together so provocatively. I like the way these essays, all of them, put theory into practice.” — Dawne McCance, author of Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical “The text articulates well the shift from postmodernism as a de(con)structive fragmenting theory/act (as it is so often in both popular and academic contexts) to a productive fragmenting theory/act. The book contributes to the field of postmodern theory as well as to the literary, architectural, historical, and aesthetic fields tapped into through the individual essays.” — Beth Martin Birky, Goshen College Contributors include Paul Budra, Thomas Carmichael, Kimberly Chabot Davis, John N. Duvall, W. Lawrence Hogue, Linda Hutcheon, Kevin R. McNamara, Stacey Olster, Nancy J. Peterson, Shelton Waldrep, and Michael Zeitlin.
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Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England (American Land & Life)
Kent C. Ryden and Wayne Franklin
Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the countryside. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature.
Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again-. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, then returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.
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Case Management: Nurses and Physicians Confronting Gendered Organization
Russell J. Kivatisky PhD
Book chapter from Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power, and the Word, edited by Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill.
About the book:
The words and grammatical structure of a given language are the most basic building blocks of thought and communication; they reflect the ways speakers conceptualize themselves and their world and communicate with others. Since language reflects a culture's biases and inequities, a socially constructed, gendered power differential between men and women may lead each to have very different relationships to language. The essays in this collection explore some of the ways in which power and its expression (or repression) is gendered.
The contributors seek to discover contexts and patterns within which power is articulated, reproduced, and ultimately transformed. While some contributors provide primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relationships. An important collection for scholars and researchers involved with communication and with gender issues.
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Medieval Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Robert L A Clark
Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy—conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records—the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Contributors: Mark Addison Amos, Anna Dronzek, Roberta L. Krueger, Ruth Nissé, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jennifer Fisk Rondeau, Claire Sponsler.
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Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Wim Hüsken
Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of “moving subjects” they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.
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The Spirit of Teaching
Michael Brady and Desi Larson
1999-2001 Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education at the University of Southern Maine
Edited by E. Michael Brady and Desi Larson
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Cambodian Refugees' Pathways to Success: Developing a Bi-Cultural Identity
Jullie G. Canniff
Canniff's work makes explicit the Buddist values that inspire Cambodian adults and adolescents to be successful individuals within their families, their culture, and the larger American society. Her evidence is based on her relationship with a Cambodian community in a New England city and consists of narrative accounts and participant observation over a nine-year period. The findings support the research on immigrants which maintains that individuals who sustain strong cultural identity, while adding pragmatic strategies for getting ahead in American society, are consistently the most successful.
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Our Elder's Teach Us: Maya - Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
David Carey
The Maya-Kaqchikel record their history through oral tradition; thus, few written accounts exist. Comparing the Kaqchikel point of view to that of the western scholars and Ladinos who have written most of the history texts, Carey reveals the people and events important to the Maya, which have been virtually written out of the national history.
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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to Mid Twentieth Century
Joseph A. Conforti
Imagining New England investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past.
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Adoption, Identity, and Voice Jackie Kay’s Inventions of Self
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture.
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"Interview with Jackie Kay" & "Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self"
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapters in Imagining Adoption: Essays in Literature and Culture.
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Resistance training: Reduced training and long-term adherence
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Introduction to resistance training for health and rehabilitation
James Graves PhD and B Franklin
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Resistance training for low back pain and dysfunction
James Graves PhD, J M. Mayer, T Driesinger, and V Mooney
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Interpersonal Mindfulness in the Classroom
Bette Katsekas EdD
Chapter in The Spirit of Teaching, ed. M. Brady.
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Psychological violence against gay men and lesbian women: An interpersonal perspective
Bette Katsekas EdD
Chapter 12 in Faces of violence: Psychological Correlates, concepts, and interventions, edited by D.S. Sandhu.
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End Over End
Kate Kennedy
Ivory is fourteen years old and is madly in love with fifteen-year-old Blake. She hangs out with a tough older crowd, drinks, smokes, and even has a pregnancy scare. One night Ivory doesn't come home. Her body is found a few months later, brutally stabbed to death. Blake stands accused of her murder, but the evidence is inconclusive. Who murdered Ivory Towle? Will the truth ever be known?
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Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters
Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller
Because what we do in staff development can best be understood in terms of Contexts, Strategies, and Structures, the remainder of the book features distinguished educators who write from their own unique experiential and theoretical stances
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Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State, edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann
More about this title:
This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law.
Chapters address the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism. Giving special attention to families of color, immigrant, and poor families, the authors examine the risks entailed in coming out and the significance of class, race, and sexual and gender identity in this process. Parenting also creates dilemmas of visibility as queer families negotiate malls and schools as well as the medical, legal, and political institutions that regulate their families.
This book explores how heteronormative and class assumptions influence state polices on parenthood, adoption, and relationships between adults, to question whether the law can meet the needs of queer families. Also discussed is how queer family politics are complicated by bisexuality, nonmonagamy, and gender nonconformity.
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Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert Sanford
Cultural resources (CRM) archaeology is where graduating archaeology students get their jobs and where most field work and funding is now found. Yet, to date, there has not been a basic textbook introducing students to the proper practices of cultural resources archaeology…until now. Neumann and Sanford use their decades of teaching and field experience to walk students through the process of conducting a CRM project. After an introduction to the legal and ethical aspects of cultural resources management, the authors describe the process of designing a project, of conducting assessment, testing, and mitigation (Phase I, II, and III) work, and preparing a report for the project sponsor.
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Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert Sanford
This is an introduction to the basic elements of cultural resources (CRM) archaeology. This is a training manual that discusses the processes involved in conducting a CRM project. It deals with everything from law to logistics, archival research to zoological analysis, and project proposals to report production.
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Strengthening the Foundations of Emotional Health in Early Childhood: A Handbook for Practitioners
Susan E. Partridge Ph.D.; Deborah Devine Psy.D.; John Hornstein Ed.D.; and Jayne D. B. Marsh MSN, MPA
Second Edition
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Bright Journeys
Robert Russell
Music CD: University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers
Robert Russell, professor and director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine, has developed a reputation for choral excellence throughout New England for his work with the University choral program, his leadership as a music director of The Choral Art Society, and his guest conducting of festival choruses.
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Conceptualizing Diversity in Sexuality Research
Michael R. Stevenson PhD
Chapter in Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality, edited by Michael W. Wiederman and Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.
More about this book:
Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual, methodological, or ethical issues for which their professional training or prior experience may not have prepared them. The goal of this handbook is to provide that guidance to students and professionals interested in the empirical study of human sexuality from behavioral and social scientific perspectives. It provides practical and concrete advice about conducting human sexuality research and addresses issues inherent to both general social scientific and specific human sexuality research.
This comprehensive resource offers a unique multidisciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. The methodological techniques and advances that are familiar to researchers trained in one discipline are often unfamiliar to researchers from other disciplines. This book is intended to help enrich the communication between the various disciplines involved in human sexuality research. Each of the 21 self-standing chapters provides an expert overview of a particular area of research methodology from a variety of academic disciplines. It addresses those issues unique to human sexuality research, such as:
* how to measure sexuality variables;
* how to design studies, recruit participants, and collect data;
* how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and
* how to perform and interpret statistical analyses.
This book is intended as a reference tool for researchers and students interested in human sexuality from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, family science, health communication, nursing, medicine, and anthropology. -
Developing Your School Counseling Program: A Handbook for Systemic Planning
Zark VanZandt
This practical handbook, designed to complement a theoretical text, is perfect for students who will be entering the workforce as school counselors as well as for seasoned school counselors who are ready to implement change in their programs. The book emphasizes developing, organizing, and administering school counseling programs. It not only explains to readers how to develop a school counseling program, but it also goes the extra step in teaching the skills needed and the process of developing a program. After completing this handbook, readers will be prepared to organize or reorganize their school guidance program on a developmental, comprehensive basis.
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"David Bowie"; "Truman Capote"; "Lou Reed"
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Entries in Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History.
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
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Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity
Lisa Walker PhD
Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.
Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.
Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory.
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Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology
Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD
The book presents a new conceptual framework and a set of research principles with which to study and interpret technology from a phenomenological perspective.
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Strange and Exotic: Images of the Other on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference.
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Agency in Archaeology
Marcia-Anne Dobres PhD and John E. Robb
Ed. Marcia-Anne Dobres, PhD. and John E. Robb.
Agency in Archaeology
is the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group.
Agency in Archaeology
brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.
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Health and Exercise Science: Team Research Report
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Using Student Teams in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide; ed. Ruth Federman Stein & Sandra Hurd.
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Considerations for the development of back extensor muscle strength
James Graves PhD and J M. Mayer
Chapter in Exercise Prescription and the Back.
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Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Globalizing feminist bioethics : crosscultural perspectives, edited by Rosemarie Tong, with Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos.
More about this title:
Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting, fatal daughter syndrome, use of reproductive technologies, male responsibility, pediatrics, breast cancer, pregnancy, and drug testing.Jean-Paul Sartre analyzed oppression within the larger socioeconomic system that constitutes it, seeing it primarily in terms of scarcity. It is the perception of scarcity in reproduction that fuels, in part, the race to clone humans. For Sartre, scarcity is the basis of alienation in modern societies marked by competition over limited resources, and it characterizes all human relationships. In the case of cloning, overabundance is created by an attempt to address scarcity, since at present cloning is a highly inefficient mode of reproduction. Whether cloning will advance or impede women's liberation is a complex matter that is not discernable in the short term. Cloning, when viewed from an international perspective, raises issues of social justice. International consensus, when possible, on bioethics issues related to cloning and embryo research is increasingly important, as are global assessments of the distribution of medical resources.
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"Civic Character" Engaged: Adult Learners and Service Learning
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD and Jan L. Hitchcock
Chapter in The Practice of Change.
This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women’s studies sources.
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Frederic Hudson
Adam-Max Tuchinsky PhD
Entry in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Dr. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; David J. Coles, Associate Editor.
About the book:
The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War is the most comprehensive reference set ever compiled on this pivotal confrontation. Its five oversized volumes, rich with illustrations, maps, and primary source documents, offer more than 1,600 authoritative entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict.
Written by scholars, the essays are both authoritative and easily accessible to history buffs, students, and general readers. Brief entry bibliographies lead curious readers to the most reliable sources for further information. -
The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Edited by Shelton Waldrep
The 1970s rather than the 60s is the defining decade of millennial anxieties, according to Waldrep (English, U. of Southern Maine). Fourteen essays by academics, journalists, and KC of KC & the Sunshine Band re/define the 70s through commentary on its New Journalism, movements (from the Black Panthers to Jonestown), pop culture genres, fashion as "compulsive artifice," the gay 70s, and the era's music. Includes b&w illustrations of 1970s fashions (some being recycled today), gender-bending stars David Bowie and Sandra Bernhard, and films such as Wayne's World . Indexed solely by proper name. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde
Shelton Waldrep PhD
Chapter in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.
Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-consciousness about its own appropriations of the past. This diverse collection of essays begins a long-overdue discussion of how postmodernism understands the Victorian as its historical predecessor.
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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
Matthew Edney
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities.
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Lives of Medieval Urban Lay Women
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.
Tierney's highly acclaimed Women's Studies Encyclopedia has become the standard in the field, but research on women has proceeded rapidly since its publication. Feminist thought has grown and branched out, and women's conditions have changed markedly in some areas. This revised and expanded edition will meet the continuing need for a multidisciplinary reference tool on all facets of the female condition. With close to 400 contributors, it expands coverage of such areas as violence against women, women in public life, and women in specific countries and regions. Many of the articles are new or completely rewritten, while others have been updated or expanded. The encyclopedia contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study, written in non-specialist language accessible to all readers. It will continue to be a useful resource for students and scholars doing research outside their fields, and the interested layperson.
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Writing Faith: Text. Sign. and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
A trickster saint whose miracles reportedly included the healing of an inguinal hernia via a hammer and anvil, Sainte Foy inspired one of the most important collections of miracle stories of the central middle ages. Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn explore the act of "writing faith" as performed both by the authors of these stories and by the scholars who have used them as sources for the study of medieval religion and society. As Ashley and Sheingorn show, differing agendas shaped the miracle stories over time. The first author, Bernard of Angers, used his narratives to critique popular religion and to establish his own literary reputation, while the monks who continued the collection tried to enhance their monastery's prestige. Because these stories were rhetorical constructions, Ashley and Sheingorn argue, we cannot use them directly as sources of historical data. Instead, they demonstrate how analyzing representations common to groups of miracle stories—such as negative portrayals of Muslims on the eve of the Crusades—can reveal the traces of history.
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Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics
F C. McGrath PhD
Brian Friel is Ireland's most important living playwright, and this book places him in the new canon of postcolonial writers. Drawing on the theory and techniques of the major postcolonial critics, F. C. McGrath offers fresh interpretations of Friel's texts and of his place in the tradition of linguistic idealism in Irish literature. This idealism has dominated Ireland's still incomplete emergence from its colonial past. It appeals to Irish writers like Friel who, following in a line from Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey, challenge British culture with antirealistic, antimirnetic devices to create alternative worlds, histories, and new identities to escape stereotypes imposed by the colonizers. Friel grew up in Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and now lives in the Irish Republic. McGrath maintains that all Friel's work is marked by colonial and postcolonial structures. Like his predecessor Wilde, Friel mixes lies, facts, memories, and individual perception to create new myths and elevates blarney to a realm of aesthetic and philosophical distinction. An important, accessible, scholarly introduction, this book illustrates how Friel playfully subverts the English language and transcends British influence. Friel's reality is constructed from personal fiction, and it is his liberating response to oppression.
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Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Julien Murphy PhD
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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Feminist interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
Ed. Julien S. Murphy
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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The syntax of American Sign Language : functional categories and hierarchical structure
Carol Neidle, Judy Kegl PhD, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan, and Robert G. Lee
Recent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific differences, signed languages are organized according to the same underlying principles as spoken languages. This book addresses the organization and distribution of functional categories in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on tense, agreement, and wh-constructions. Signed languages provide illuminating evidence about functional projections of a kind unavailable in the study of spoken languages. Along with manual signing, crucial information is expressed by specific movements of the face and upper body. The authors argue that such nonmanual markings are often direct expressions of abstract syntactic features. The distribution and intensity of these markings provide information about the location of functional heads and the boundaries of functional projections. The authors show how evidence from ASL is useful for evaluating a number of recent theoretical proposals on, among other things, the status of syntactic agreement projections and constraints on phrase structure and the directionality of movement.
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The Life Story Interview
Robert Atkinson
First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. This volume provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Robert Atkinson places the life story interview into a wider research context before elaborating on planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview. The author provides a sample life story interview in the appendix.
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Courtesy Literature
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia.
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
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Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866-1954)
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline.
E.K. Chambers, historian of the medieval and Elizabethan stages, was born at West Ilsley, Berkshire, on 16 March 1866. His father, William Chambers, was curate of West Ilsley and later rector of St. Mary Blanford. His mother was Anna Heathcote; her father, Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, was a churchman and editor of schoolbooks.
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Mary Antin’s Biomythography
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography.
The twenty-nine essays in this collection explore the theory and practice of writing lives of the self and of others from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Drawing on new insights from literary theory including feminism, poststructuralism, multiculturalism and psychoanalysis, scholars and biographers examine a wide range of examples.
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Sponsorship, Reflexivity, and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Performance of Middle English Culture.
Theatricality as a cultural process is vitally important in the middle ages; it encompasses not only the thematic importation of dramatic images into the Canterbury Tales, but also the social and ideological `performativities' of the mystery and morality plays, metadramatic investments, and the ludic energies of Chaucerian discourses in general. The twelve essays collected here address for the first time this intersection, using contemporary theory and historical scholarship to treat a number of important critical problems, including the anthropology of theatrical performance; gender; allegory; Chaucerian metapoetics; intertextual play and jouissance; social mediation and rhetoric; genre; and the institutionality of medieval studies. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida; LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER is Professor of English at Indiana University; SYLVIA TOMASCHis Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. Contributors: KATHLEEN ASHLEY, MARLENE CLARK, RICHARD DANIELS, ALFRED DAVID, RICHARD K. EMMERSON, JOHN GANIM, WARREN GINSBERG, ROBERT W. HANNING, SHARON KRAUS, SETH LERER, WILLIAM MCLELLAN, PAMELA SHEINGORN, PETER W. TRAVIS
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Macrophyte Structure and Growth of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): Design of a Multilake Experiment
Stephen R. Carpenter, Mark H. Olson, Paul Cunningham, Sarig Gafny, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Tom Pellett, Christine Storlie, Anett S. Trebitz, and Karen A. Wilson PhD
Book chapter from "The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes", eds. Erik Jepsen, Martin Søndergaard, Morten Søndergaard, and Kirsten Christoffersen.
About this chapter:
Experimental manipulations of whole ecosystems can be a powerful test of ecological understanding. In particular, ecosystem-scale manipulations can evaluate basic ecological ideas in ways that complement comparative studies, models, and smaller-scale experiments (Carpenter et al., 1995a). From an applied perspective, ecosystem experiments can also give unique insights into what works at a scale directly relevant to managers (Kitchell, 1992). When management actions are coupled with scientific studies of the response of the ecosystem, learning may lead to improved management practices (Gunderson et al., 1995). Here we present early results of an experiment to test the idea that nuisance macrophytes can be managed to enhance fish growth.
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Feminism, Poetry, and the Church: Interview with Denise Levertov
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Conversations with Denise Levertov.
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Families: The heart of transition
C Hanley-Maxwell, S M. Pogoloff, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Beyond high school: Transition from school to work, edited by F.R. Rusch & J.G. Chadsley.
Book description:
This text summarizes knowledge from research that focused on reforming secondary special education and high schools and makes recommendations for improving high schools' effectiveness.
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Anatomy of a Portfolio Assessment System: Using Multiple Sources of Evidence for Credentialing and Professional Development
Walter Kimball PhD and Susie Hanley
Chapter 12 in With Portfolio in Hand. Validating the New Teacher Professionalism, edited by Nona Lyons.
Book description:
This book suggests that portfolios can become a new kind of credential of competent and effective teachers.
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Accessing the Issues: Current Research in Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD, Beth Haller PhD, and Tanis Doe PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the April 1995 annual meeting of the Chronic Disease and Disability Section of the Western Social Sciences Association and the June 1995 annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, both of which were held in Oakland, California.
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Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax
Dana McDaniel PhD, Cecile McKee, and Helen Smith Cairns
This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar.
The study of child language and, in particular, child syntax is a growing area of linguistic research, yet methodological issues often take a back seat to the findings and conclusions of specific studies in the field. This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar. For example, a method (or combination of methods) can be chosen based on what is measured and who the target subject is. In addition to the selection of methods, there are also pointers for designing and conducting experimental studies and for evaluating research.
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax combines the best features of approaches developed in experimental psychology and linguistics that ground the study of language within the study of human cognition. The first three parts focus on specific methods, divided according to the type of data collected: production, comprehension, and judgment. Chapters in the fourth part take up general methodological considerations that arise regardless of which method is used. All of the methods described can be modified to meet the requirements of a specific study.
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Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, edited by Patrick D. Hopkins.
More about this title:
How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.
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Miscegenation, ‘Melaleukation,’ and Public Reception
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD
Chapter in Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture.
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.
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Wrapped in Song, A Christmas Portrait
Robert Russell
The singers in the USM Chamber Singers represent the most outstanding vocal performers at the University of Southern Maine. Chosen through a careful audition process, the singers rehearse two and a half hours each week. Committed to choral excellence, these students have accepted a responsibility to musical distinction through a focus on warmth of tone, precise intonation, and the artistry of understanding the nuance of text. The Chamber Singers perform a diverse repertory centered on a cappella literature of the Renaissance era and the twentieth century. Robert Russell, professor of music and music director of Portland's Choral Art Society, is the director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine.
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'Their Terrors Came Upon Me Tenfold': Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography
Richard G. Swartz PhD
Chapter in The Lessons of Romanticism.
Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology—in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context—ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies. With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethoven’s music and letters, Lessons of Romanticism reveals the practices that were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking, and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as discussions on newly recovered women’s writings follow fresh discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.
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Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities
Lisa Walker PhD
Chapter in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender.
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Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910 - 1940
Donna M. Cassidy Ph.D.
Focusing on the work of John Marin, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, and Aaron Douglas, the author describes music as a cultural marker for American modernist painters who adopted the themes of the musical city, jazz, and the jazz musician to represent the urban scene. She explains how each artist took advantage to varying degrees of avant-garde music, fledgling audio technologies, and an emerging popular culture - moving easily between concert hall and nightclub - to experience and interpret urban dissonance and jazz improvisation. Painting the Musical City explores the complicated relationship between African American culture and modernism, showing how white painters such as Dove and Davis evoked the dynamism of African American music but "painted out" its black practitioners. Aaron Douglas, in contrast, represented jazz and the jazz musician as the embodiment of both racial and national identity in his painting Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, which juxtaposes the figure of a black saxophonist with the Statue of Liberty. By considering painters and composers together, by examining canonical modernists in relation to African American artists, and by showing how their images have resonated during the latter half of the century, Cassidy provides an enhanced reading of modernism, introducing themes of racial identity into the discussion of a distinctively American art.
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Reading Early Modem Books of Female Instruction and Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Attending to Early Modern Women.
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Evaluating the Results of Multicultural Education: Taking the Long Way Home
Jeffrey Beaudry PhD and James Earl Davis
Chapter 15 in Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education: A Broader Truth, edited by Ann Intili Morey & Margie K. Kitano.
Book description:
According to a survey conducted in the early 1990s, over one-half of the 196 colleges and universities surveyed were already introducing multiculturalism into departmental course offerings. This thoroughly documented book was written to help instructors integrate multicultural content, processes, and strategies into their courses in order to meet the needs of a changing student population, and to better prepare students for effective functioning in a diverse society. The authors point out that the information in the book is relevant for homogeneous as well as highly diverse campuses because a transformed course provides a more comprehensive view of the discipline and better prepares all students for world citizenship. The two-dimensional model presented here identifies three levels of change (exclusive, inclusive, transformed) and four course components in which change can be applied: content, instructional strategies, assessment of student knowledge, and classroom dynamics.
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Using person centered planning to address personal quality of life
John Butterworth, D E. Steere, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Quality of life: its application to persons with disabilities, edited by R.L. Schalock.
Book description:
This volume summarizes current policies and programmatic practices that are influencing the quality of life of persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
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Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D.
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
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Experimental Syntax: Applying Objective Methods to Sentence Judgments
Wayne Cowart PhD
This original work provides a concise introduction to methods that linguists may use to describe patterns of sentence "acceptability" in speech communities. Experimental Syntax will enable an investigator with a well-formed question about a matter of fact-- relative to sentence acceptability--to design, execute, and analyze an appropriate survey experiment. The book examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether individual informants do or do not use a particular "dialect." Furthermore, this well-formulated book shows how to determine whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect. Experimental Syntax is recommended to researchers and professionals in linguistics who are interested in learning more about the methods available for dialect and sentence structure studies.
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Black No More: George Schuyler and the Politics of ‘Racial Culture'
Jane Kuenz PhD
Chapter in The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined: A Revised and Expanded Edition.
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Theory, Practice, and the Millennium
Kathleen I. MacPherson
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1996-1998: Theory, Practice, and the Millenium
The Russell Scholar Symposium: Theory and Practice in Academia
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A Spy in the House of the Thought Police
Kenneth Rosen
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1994-1996
Cover and inside art by Richard Wilson, Running Man.
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Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics
Assunta B. Kent
This first book dedicated to US-Cuban playwright/director Maria Irene Fornes is a lucid theoretical, historical, and production-oriented study of her published works and their critical legacy.
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The Translations of Foy: Bodies, Texts and Places
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD, René Tixier, and Pamela Sheingorn
Chapter in The Medieval Translator.
Avec ses concepts et sa terminologie, la traduction fournit aux auteurs médiévaux tout un registre de métaphores leur permettant de passer d'un environnement culturel à un autre. Le culte de Sainte Foy en est un exemple: à travers la dévotion qu'elle suscite sont mises en relation la traduction des textes relatant son histoire, la translatio de ses reliques d'Agena Conques, ainsi que la dissémination de son culte à travers l'Europe médiévale. A l'occasion de chacune de ces "translations" s'opère une "reformulation culture He" du culte voué à la jeune martyre. Ceci illustre l'analyse de Rita Copeland, pour qui la traduction est "la production active d'un texte nouveau, qui a conservé sa charge affective originelle et s'est adapté aux conditions historiques particulières de sa réception" (voir note 11 ).
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The Greeks and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. H. Adkins
Robert B. Louden PhD and Paul Schollmeier
Arthur W. H. Adkins’s writings have sparked debates among a wide range of scholars over the nature of ancient Greek ethics and its relevance to modern times. Demonstrating the breadth of his influence, the essays in this volume reveal how leading classicists, philosophers, legal theorists, and scholars of religion have incorporated Adkins’s thought into their own diverse research.
The timely subjects addressed by the contributors include the relation between literature and moral understanding, moral and nonmoral values, and the contemporary meaning of ancient Greek ethics. The volume also includes an essay from the late Adkins himself illustrating his methodology in an analysis of the “Speech of Lysias” in Plato’s Phaedrus. The Greeks and Us will interest all those concerned with how ancient moral values do or do not differ from our own.
Contributors include Arthur W. H. Adkins, Stephanie Nelson, Martha C. Nussbaum, Paul Schollmeier, James Boyd White, Bernard Williams, and Lee Yearley. Commentaries by Wendy Doniger, Charles M. Gray, David Grene, Robert B. Louden, Richard Posner, and Candace Vogler.
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End Results and Starting Points: Expanding the Field of Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 23-25, 1994, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Rockville, MD.
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The Condition of K-12 public education in Maine 1996
Terry McCabe, Jeffrey Beaudry PhD, and David L. Silvernail
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Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture
Joseph A. Conforti
As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.
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The Gift of Stories
Robert Atkinson
The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. The current interest in mythology has made evident how the classic hero's journey represents a theme not only common to all the world's myths, but also our own lives today. The Gift of Stories offers a clear concise basis for understanding the nature and potential of sharing our stories. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories. Its basic framework enables individuals with little experience to begin writing about the really important aspects of their lives and understanding how and why the universal elements of the stories we tell contribute to our continuing growt
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Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Ardis Cameron
Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-class women in the textile manufacturing town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the role of women in worker militancy from the perspective of the neighborhood and argues for the importance of female networks and associational life in working-class culture and politics. Radicals of the Worst Sort is a study of domination and power, constructed not only at the level of economics and politics but also at the level of social perception and conceptualization. It thus provides the basis for a new set of generalizations about the lives of nineteenth-century factory women in their jobs and communities. This exciting history illuminates ongoing debates about the dynamic role of gender and challenges shifting perceptions and definitions of what a "woman" should be. Cameron shows that unionized women who fought for equality were "radicals of the worst sort" (as one mill officer tagged them) because they rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women. Radicals of the Worst Sort includes oral histories of former strikers in the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912. Four full-color maps show Cameron's meticulous documentation of the nationalities of every Lawrence family living in the multicultural neighborhoods featured in her book.
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Inside the Mouse : Work and Play at Disney World
Jane Kuenz PhD, Shelton Waldrep PhD, Susan Willis, and Karen Klugman
This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?"
Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions.
As projects like EuroDisney and the proposed Disney America test the strength of the Disney cultural monolith, Inside the Mouse provides a timely assessment of the serious business of supplying pleasure in contemporary U.S. culture. Written for the general reader interested in the many worlds of Disney, this engrossing volume will also find fans among students and scholars of cultural studies.
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Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors [Book Chapter]
Bob Boothe PhD
Chapter from Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures, eds. Thomas M. Conte and Charles E. Gimarc.
More about this chapter:
Execution driven simulation [7] is a technique for building fast instruction level computer simulators. It is applicable when the instruction set of the simulation host machine is the same as, or very similar to, that of the machine being simulated. In this chapter we examine three execution driven simulators designed to study shared memory multiprocessors using a uniprocessor as the simulation host machine.
[7] R. C. Covington et al. The Rice Parallel Processing Testbed. In Proc. 1988 ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 4–11, 1988.
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Exercise Programming: Muscular Strength and Endurance
C X. Bryant, J A. Peterson, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
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Health and Fitness Assessment: Muscular Strength and Endurance
James Graves PhD, M L. Pollock, and C X. Bryant
Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
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Improving Student Learning
Walter Kimball PhD, Susan Swap, Patricia A. LaRosa, and Thomas Howick
Chapter 2 in Partner Schools: Centers for Educational Renewal, edited by Russell T. Osguthorpe, R. Carl Harris, Melanie Fox Harris, Sharon Black.
Book description:
Diverse contributors offer an inside look at promising school-university partnerships across the country and discuss the principles and benefits of such programs in promoting educational innovation.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethics [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Julien S. Murphy.
More about this title:
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology and Ethics
Julien Murphy PhD
This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
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The Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Contemporary women philosophers : 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe.
More about this title:
Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of 20th century philosophy's interests in moral pragmatism, logical positivism, philosophy of mathematics, of psychology, and of mind. Their writings include feminist philosophy, classical moral theory reevaluated in light of Kant, Mill, and the 19th century feminist and abolitionist movements, and issues in logic and perception. Included in the fourth volume of the series are discussions of L. Susan Stebbing, Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad Martius, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Mary Whiton Calkins, Gerda Walther, and others. While pre-20th century women philosophers were usually self-educated, those of the 20th century had greater access to academic preparation in philosophy. Yet, for all the advances made by women philosophers over two and a half millennia, the philosophers discussed in this volume were sometimes excluded from full participation in academic life, and sometimes denied full professional academic status.
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The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology, and Ethics
Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
This book takes a phenomenological approach to feminist issues in medical ethics: AIDS and reproductive technology.
This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
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Assessment of Body Composition
Michael L. Pollock, James Graves PhD, and L Garzarella
Chapter in Physiological Assessment of Human Fitness.
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Exercise Prescription for Rehabilitation of the Cardiac Patient
Michael L. Pollock, M A. Welsch, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in Heart Disease and Rehabilitation.
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Chou Ju-teng (1547-1629) at Nanking: Reassessing a Confucian scholar in the late Ming intellectual world
Jie Zhao PhD
Chou Ju-teng, an influential Confucian thinker of the late Ming, has remained a neglected and marginal figure in Ming studies. Knowledge of him is mainly drawn from the brief description in Huang Tsung-hsi's (1610-1695) Ming-ju hsueh-an (Intellectual biography of the Ming thinkers). This dissertation is an attempt to reassess Chou Ju-teng's position in the late Ming intellectual world, and then to use it as a means to re-evaluate Huang Tsung-hsi's characterization of late Ming thought.
My dissertation deals with two different intellectual settings that are ultimately interconnected. One is the early Ch'ing period, where I have investigated why and how Huang Tsung-hsi came to choose Chou Ju-teng to carry out his agenda; the other is the late Ming, where I have investigated the intellectual growth of Chou Ju-teng and the people with whom he was associated. I try to explore the connections between their education, their social background and their official careers, and to identify their teachers, their associates and the literati circles they frequented. I seek to analyze the tensions and contentions that created divisions among them, and that sometimes led to heated debates. I also pay close attention to where they and their colleagues stood in relation to the power struggles going on in the central bureaucracy. This revisit to the late Ming intellectual world provides me with a basis upon which I am able to offer my critical assessment of Huang Tsung-hsi's views of late Ming thought.
In this dissertation, Chou Ju-teng serves as a key figure who connects the intellectual setting of his day with that of Huang Tsung-hsi's. Reassessing his place in the late Ming intellectual world requires me to carefully examine the strategies Huang used to justify his interpretation of late Ming thought. My study shows that Huang's treatment of Chou reveals his attempt to remap late Ming thought in such a way as to spare Wang Yang-ming's (1472-1528) teachings from the harsh criticism by Huang's own early Ch'ing intellectual rivals.
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Second Generation Curriculum : Changing What and How We Teach Early Adolescents
Jody Capellluti and Edward N. Brazee
By working with teachers who use curriculum integration daily, Ed Brazee and Jody Capelluti have spent years studying this important way of working with young adolescents. A rationale for curriculum integration is offered, followed by definitions and an explanation of the curriculum continuum. Strategies for change are then suggested. The authors move beyond "getting started" to help middle level educators develop a total integrative curriculum.
From the Forward by Robert Spear
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Hematology
Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C
Chapter in American Nursing Review for Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification. Also contributed sections on Pain, Infection, Inflammation, Stress Response.
Book description:
An ever-popular study guide now thoroughly updated to better prepare nurses for a difficult exam. Organized by major disorders and grouped by body system, appropriate nursing actions are given along with insightful rationales. Contents include certification examination guidelines; foundations of nursing; legal and ethical aspects of nursing; principles of medical-surgical nursing; principles of wound care; principles of home health care; disruptions in homeostasis; cardiovascular disorders; hematologic disorders; respiratory disorders; neurologic disorders; musculoskeletal disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; skin disorders; endocrine disorders; renal and urinary tract disorders; reproductive system disorders; immune system disorders; ear, nose, and throat disorders; eye disorders; perioperative nursing; appendices: NANDA taxonomy and nursing implications of diagnostic tests, oncology care, and clinical pharmacology; and posttest.
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Imagist Movement
Jane Kuenz PhD
Chapter in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
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Insights and Outlooks: Current Trends in Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 17-19, 1993, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Seattle, Washington.
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Autobiography & Postmodernism
Gerald Peters PhD, Kathleen Ashley, and Leigh Gilmore
Edited by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters.
These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity,
Contributors are Betty Bergland, Andrei Codrescu, Michael M. J. Fischer, Leigh Gilmore, David P. Haney, Paul Jay, Shirley Neuman, Christopher Ortiz, Sidonie Smith, Kirsten Wasson, and Hertha D. Wong.
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A Nurse Speaks
Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE
Chapter in Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition), edited by Elizabeth M. Vacarolis.
Book description:
Teaches undergraduate nursing students to care for clients with the full range of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial problems. Features a popular anxiety continuum framework and nursing process format. Chapters on group communication and aggressive behaviors teach students to work with groups and to diffuse potentially dangerous situations. Learning objectives, self-study questions, bold-faced key terms and concepts, tear-out pocket-sized medication cards, and sample care plans simplify learning. An instructor's manual and examaster are also available.
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'Why Should I Wish for Words?': Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary Culture
Richard G. Swartz PhD and Lucinda Cole
Chapter in At the Limits of Romanticism.
The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns.
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Gender Differences in Communication: Possible Consequences for the Learning Process
R Bruce Thompson PhD
Chapter in Group and Interactive Learning.
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Using the Exercise Test to Develop the Exercise Prescription in Health and Disease
M A. Welsch, M L. Pollock, W F. Brechue, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in Exercise Testing: Current Applications for Patient Management.
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In Our Backyard: A guide to understanding pollution and its effects
Travis Wagner PhD
Most attempts to control pollution have been piecemeal, focusing on one environmental component at a time, such as air or water, and have not addressed the big picture. Such efforts have not fully accounted for the Earth's fundamental interconnectedness and unity; as a result, pollution control has often lagged behind pollution-related problems. This book puts all the pieces together as it explains how pollution affects all components of the environment. Using layperson's language and an easy-to-use question and answer format, it describes: how the components of the environment operate together; major sources of pollution; and what we can do to clean up our surface water, groundwater, and air. Care has been taken to avoid bias and to present only the most sound, objective data available.
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Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place
Kent C. Ryden
This book is about the mystery, dimension and depth of any place people live, listen,and remember, talk and write.
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Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability
Richard Barringer (ed.)
Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability
Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine
Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.
The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.
Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and Human-made Capital / Sustaining Our Community Resources / Sustaining Our Human Resources / Concluding Remarks / Appendices
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Lesbian Stereotypes
M Eliason; C Donelan; and Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE
Chapter 9 in Lesbian Health: What Are The Issues?, edited by Phyllis N. Stern.
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The lumbar musculature: testing and conditioning for rehabilitation
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Rehabilitation of the Spine: Science and Practice.
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Exercise testing in cardiac rehabilitation: role in prescribing exercise
James Graves PhD and Michael L. Pollock
Chapter in Cardiology Clinics Exercise Testing and Cardiac Rehabilitation.
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Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads
Josephine M. LaPlante and Robert G. Devlin
Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads provides a "bird's eye" view and analysis. The value of this approach is the capacity to take an "arm's length" look at state finances. We hope that the broader perspective will promote viewing expenditure and tax policy issues comprehensively, not as isolated slices of the state budget pie, but rather, as interdependent building blocks of a healthy fiscal system. There is an important limitation to an "outside" study, however, which is actually the same as its strength: distance from the "whys" and "whens." We do not pretend to understand every policy area as fully as specialists within government, nor to be privy to the same information. Thus, this report will be best used as a working document, to encourage and facilitate directed inquiry, open and thoughtful discussion of issues, and hopefully, decisions that can place Maine on a sound fiscal footing for the 1990's.
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Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women: A Philosophical Discussion of Postmortem Pregnancy [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Moral controversies : race, class, and gender in applied ethics, edited by Steven Jay Gold.
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Sephardim in the Americas : Studies in Culture and History
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Martin A. Cohen
Multidisciplinary essays examining the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.
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Archives of the Holocaust : an International Collection of Selected Documents v. 8-9
Abraham J. Peck PhD, Henry Friedlander, and Sybil Milton
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The Mutilating God : Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion
Gerald Peters PhD
This theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable study presents a genealogy of the uses of conversion narratives in linking individual identity to various forms of social authority. In The Mutilating God, Gerald Peters shows how these narratives have been used in different ways to negotiate between private motivation and social authority in the production of an identity.
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"Being Bridges": Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and African-American Sexism and Sexuality
Shelton Waldrep PhD
American sexism and sexuality from Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color (Harrington Park Press, 1993)
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The complete book of everlastings : growing, drying, and designing with dried flowers
Mark Silber and Terry Silber
Now in paperback, the most comprehensive guide to every aspect of working with everlastings--those flowers, foliage, plants and herbs that retain their color and shape long after they have been picked. The Silbers discuss 145 varieties of everlastings--each illustrated with full-color photos--and provide detailed instructions for handling each. 382 full-color illustrations.
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Understanding the Physiological Basis of Muscular Fitness
James Graves PhD and Michael L. Pollock
Chapter in The StairMaster Fitness Handbook, ed. J.A. Peterson & C.X. Bryant.
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Morality and Moral Theory: A Reappraisal and Reaffirmation
Robert B. Louden PhD
Contemporary philosophers have grown increasingly sceptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise which does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. This book attempts to respond to the arguments of both “anti-morality” and “anti-theory” sceptics. Part One develops and defends an alternative conception of morality. On this book's model, morality is primarily a matter of what one does to oneself, rather than what one does or does not do to others. This model eliminates the gulf that many anti-morality critics say exists between morality's demands and the personal point of view. The book further argues that morality's primary focus should be on agents and their lives, rather than on right actions, and that it is always better to be morally better—i.e. it is impossible to be “too moral.” Part Two presents an alternative conception of moral theory. It reaffirms the necessity and importance of moral theory in human life, and shows that moral theories fulfill a variety of genuine and indispensable human needs.
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A Principled Approach to Solving Complex Discrete Optimization Problems [Book Chapter]
Bruce MacLeod PhD and Robert Moll
Book chapter from Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in their Interfaces, ed. Osman Balci.
More about this chapter:
In this work we report on a general and extensible framework, called OPL, for quickly constructing reasonable solutions to a broad class of complex discrete optimization problems. Our approach rests on the observation that many such problems can be represented by linking together variants of well-understood primitive optimization problems. We exploit this representation by building libraries of solution methods for the primitive problems. These library methods are then suitably composed to build solutions for the original problem.
The vehicle routing problem and its generalizations, which involve not only routing but also delivery scheduling, crew scheduling, etc., is a significant and extensively investigated area of operations research. In this paper we report on OPL definitions and solutions for a wide variety of such problems.
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Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Crossover?
Dana McDaniel PhD and Cecile McKee
Chapter in Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing, edited by Helen Goodluck & Michael Rochemont.
Chapter abstract:
This study examines children’s knowledge of strong crossover in two-clause sentences. The relevant constructions are illustrated in Types Ito IV below, where the intended interpretation of each question is indicated by indexing in the question. The answers provided correspond to the indexing in the question.
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The Body with AIDS: A Post-Structuralist Analysis [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Body in Medical Thought and Practice, edited by Drew Leder.
More about this chapter:
The epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most significant threats to health in the United States in the latter part of the century. While medical researchers scurry to find ways to arrest AIDS-related infection in the body, scholars in the humanities have been at work analyzing a crisis of representation in academia, manifested by recent theories of interpretation (e.g., deconstruction, post-structuralism, post-modernism). In the epistemic epidemic, the vitality of our conceptual framework, the ways we know, and the means by which we interpret cultural experience are under siege. These two epidemics have much to do with each other, not only because of their synchronicity, but also because breakthroughs in ways of understanding cultural experience affect our interpretations of health and disease. One person whose life was caught up in both epidemics was Michel Foucault. Foucault was a leading French post-structuralist, perhaps the most notable French philosopher since Sartre. He was also involved in gay liberation struggles and the first intellectual of international importance to die of AIDS, a disease that is, not infrequently sexually transmitted, and in the U.S. was first diagnosed in and disproportionately affects gay men. Foucault’s death brought to an end his three-volume study of sexuality, a work which leaves no hint that it was written during an epidemic, and bears no mention of sexually transmitted disease. Yet, his writings on the whole lend themselves to analyses of the AIDS epidemic.
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The Elderly and Endurance Training
Michael L. Pollock, D T. Lowenthal, James Graves PhD, and Joan F. Carroll
Chapter in Endurance in Sport, ed. R.J. Shepherd and P.O. Astrand.
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Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease: a Gender Difference
Christopher B. Scott PhD
Chapter in Exercise and Disease, edited by Ronald R. Watson and Marianne Eisinger.
More about this title:
Begins a series exploring aspects of nutrition and exercise, including sport, for researchers, physicians, and a broad range of health-care providers and people involved in exercise or sport, either professionally or recreationally. The 11 studies include discussions of the role of physical activity in the development of childhood obesity, short-term exercise and immune function, and the psychological effects of exercise for disease resistance and health promotion. No specialized knowledge in any field is assumed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
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The Hazardous Waste Q&A: An In-Depth Guide to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
Travis P. Wagner PhD
The Hazardous Waste Q & A An In-depth Guide to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and The Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Revised Edition Travis P. Wagner The "Answer Book" for all your compliance questions. How much of your company's waste is considered "hazardous" under current federal regulations? If the carrier you hire to remove waste is cited for a violation, can you also be held liable? Does your company's disposal program meet new EPA and DOT requirements? Now you can find the authoritative answers to these and hundreds of other critical waste management problems--in minutes--with the revised edition of this practical, quick-reference guide to RCRA and HMTA compliance. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act have spawned an enormous and complex body of regulations and requirements--among the most complicated laws in the land. Unfortunately, while ensuring compliance with these regulations is a top priority for both the EPA and DOT. helping businesses understand and comply with the regulations is not. Written by a former technical compliance specialist for EPA. The Hazardous Waste Q&A helps you make sure your waste management practices fully meet these tough regulations--and will help you reduce your liability, too. The Hazardous Waste Q&A simplifies hazardous waste management under RCRA and HMTA by presenting these highly technical and often difficult to interpret regulations in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-use question-and-answer format. This approach lets you go straight to the help you need without digging through pages and pages of dense, technical detail.
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Middle level education : policies, programs, and practices
Jody Capellluti (Ed.) and Donald Stokes (Ed.)
Middle level education is experiencing unparalleled growth as an organizational alternative. No longer referred to as a movement, it has become a fixture in our educational system. The lesson for educators and others, it would appear, is that educators have the knowlege and desire to implement change. If such change is to be successful, however, individual, group, and intergroup needs must be considered.
This monograph provides an opportunity for readers to examine current policies,programs, amd practices in light of recent developments at the middle level. It is our desire that by studying the successes of out colleagues at the middle level, all levels will be improved.
From the Preface by Jody Capelluti
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Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics; A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman
Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl
Edited by Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl.
Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly establishes the relationships between psychology and linguistics. It begins with a thorough examination of issues in developmental psychology, continues with questions on perception and cognition, studies the realm of psycholinguistics, and concludes with an exploration of theoretical linguistics.
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Bonding and Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet.
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Cultural Approaches to Medieval Drama
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama.
Anyone who has recently attended a professional meeting devoted to medieval drama or witnessed a revival of a medieval play knows that the genre is alive and flourishing. This volume offers help for new teachers of these works, encourages experienced teachers to rethink classroom presentation of familiar plays, and suggests new ways for all teachers to integrate medieval drama into undergraduate courses. Like other books in the Approaches series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, “Materials,” reviews editions, translations, and anthologies of medieval drama and discusses useful secondary readings for both students and instructors. In the second part, “Approaches,” seventeen essays present a rich array of ideas for teaching medieval English drama, from the liturgical texts of the tenth century to the morality plays and cycle plays of the fifteenth century. Several authors focus on particular classroom strategies; others apply methodologies informed by theoretical approaches such as feminism, semiotics, and anthropology; still others discuss staging and performance of the plays.
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Images of Women in Medieval Drama
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 1st Edition.
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Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
During the past twenty years of intellectual boundary-crossing and widespread borrowing between fields, Turner's notions of "liminality" and the "processual" have been adopted by many theorists of art and society. This is the first volume to place individual Turner concepts into the context of his entire career and to spell out their implications for literary studies.
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Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Pamela Sheingorn
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Input/Output and Devices: Microprocessor System I/O [Book Chapter]
David F. Bantz PhD
Chapter from Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, 4ed., edited by Myer Kutz.
Bantz also authored another chapter in this volume: Chapter 9.10 Input/Output and Devices: General Considerations
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Crown Point
Jerry L. Bowder PhD
J. L. Bowder
Crown Point for Winds and Percussion (1990)
1. 1991 Reading Session
2. 1998 Concert
The University of Southern Maine Concert Band
Peter Martin, Conductor
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Books of our own: Adult educators and journal writing
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter in The Joy of Learning, edited by W.D. Callender, Jr., M.A. Vishneau, & K.D. Nelson.
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Change in Education : Strategies for Improving Middle Level Schools
Jody Capellluti and Judy Eberson
A detailed discussion of change, its impact on middle level education, and how, through a collaborative process, one middle school was able to assist another in addressing change in its own milieu.
From the forward by Michael G. Allen
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University of Southern Maine Concert Band & Chorale
Peter Martin and Robert Russell
VOCAL MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
The University Chorale, an ensemble of music majors and other University students, performs a wide variety of music from all historical periods. The Chorale offers singers instruction that will enable them to sing a broad spectrum of choral music expressively and with musical understanding. In recent years the Chorale has sung with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and with the Elmer Iseler Singers.
Students have further singing opportunities in Chamber Singers, Opera Workshop, and in vocal ensembles that include madrigal singers, jazz choir, early music ensembles, and barbershop quartets. Members of the Chamber Singers principally sing a capella repertoire from the Renaissance and Twentieth Century and masterworks from the Classic Era. Singers in the Opera Workshop perform opera and musical comedy both in scene and in fully staged productions jointly produced with the University Theatre Department.
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The Processing and Acquisition of Control Structures by Young Children
Dana McDaniel PhD and Helen Smith Cairns
Chapter in Language Processing and Language Acquisition, edited by Lyn Frazier and Jill De Villiers.
Chapter abstract:
In order to interpret a sentence involving control, the hearer must identify a referent for the phonetically null element PRO. It is, therefore, of interest to investigate how children acquire this ability.
Book description:
Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches to language acquisition, the role of language processing has not been prominent. With few exceptions (e. g. Goodluck and Tavakolian, 1982; Pinker, 1984) discussions of language perform ance tend to arise only when experimental debris, the artifact of some experiment, needs to be cleared away. Consequently, language pro cessing has been viewed as a collection of rather uninteresting perform ance factors obscuring the true object of interest, namely, grammar acquisition. On those occasions when parsing "strategies" have been incorporated into accounts of language development, they have often been discussed as vague preferences, not open to rigorous analysis. In principle, however, theories of language comprehension can and should be subjected to the same criteria of explicitness and explanatoriness as other theories, e. g. , theories of grammar. Thus their peripheral role in accounts of language development may reflect accidental factors, rather than any inherent fuzziness or irrelevance to the language acquisition problem. It seems probable that an explicit model of the way(s) processing routines are applied in acquisition would help solve some central problems of grammar acquisition, since these routines regulate the application of grammatical knowledge to novel inputs.
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Practical Hypermedia and Hypertext [Book Chapter]
P. C. Patrikis, J. H. Murray, David F. Bantz PhD, R. L. Jones, and J. S. Noblitt
Chapter from Multimedia and Language Learning. Technology in Higher Education : Current Reflections. Fourth in a Series, eds. Peter Patrikis and others.
About this book:
The five essays in this volume represent the contributions of one group of leaders in the application of computers to the teaching and learning of foreign languages and illustrate present and future uses of technology in assisting language learning. Various pedagogical problems and approaches are considered in the papers.
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The German-Jewish legacy in America, 1938-1988 : from Bildung to the Bill of Rights
Abraham J. Peck PhD
The essays in this volume were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the fateful pogrom in early November 1938 which was a watershed in the treatment of Jews in Germany and signaled the end to more than a century of specific Jewish culture there.
Historian George Mosse in the opening essay characterizes this spirit as represented by Bildung, a post-emancipation notion that included character formation, moral education, the primacy of culture, the acquisition of aesthetic taste, and the belief in the potential of humanity. Bildung became to large portions of German Jewry an important, if not central, expression of their Jewishness. It is this legacy that this volume explores and seeks to understand. Among the questions contributors examine are the meaning of this legacy in our time, what has happened to it in its American context, whether it has found a home in the United States or whether it remains in exile, and which elements of the legacy are worth preserving for the next generation.
Two groups address this range of questions. The first is made up of Jews born in Germany but who reached their professional maturity in the United States. The second is made up primarily of American-born individuals whose Jewish parents had either fled Nazi Germany or who, as German Jews, survived the Holocaust.
The Germany Jewish Legacy in America commemorates the end of one of the greatest communities in Jewish history and explores those elements of its greatness which may still be relevant in insuring a vibrant and productive Jewish community in a free and democratic American society.
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Hazardous Waste Identification and Classification Manual : The identification of hazardous wastes under RCRA and the classification of hazardous waste under HMTA
Travis Wagner PhD
The stringent framework established under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was designed to protect human health and the environment from the effects of improper management of hazardous waste. The classification procedure of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) was created to ensure its proper handling throughout its transportation.
The Hazardous Waste and Identification Classification Manual is now the most comprehensive guide to identifying and classifying hazardous waste material in accordance with the stringent provisions of the RCRA and the HMTA.
Included in the wealth of in-depth information in plain English that will help readers understand this lengthy and complex regulatory system.
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Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report
E Michael Brady PhD
To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
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Reviews of Instructional Software in Scholarly Journals : A Selected Bibliography
David F. Bantz PhD, P. Wykes, and N. Millichap
This bibliography lists reviews of more than 100 instructional software packages, which are arranged alphabetically by discipline. Information provided for each entry includes the topical emphasis, type of software (i.e., simulation, tutorial, analysis tool, test generator, database, writing tool, drill, plotting tool, videodisc), the journal citation of the review, the name and institutional affiliation of the author of the review, the length of the review, and the copyright-holding agency. Subject areas represented by the reviews include biology, chemistry, economics, education, engineering, English composition and literature, geology, history, foreign languages, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology.
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Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report
E Michael Brady PhD
To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Infectious Body [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Meaning of AIDS: Implications for Medical Science, Clinical Practices, and Public Health Policy, edited by Eric T. Juengst and Barbara A. Koenig.
More about this title:
The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS seems to seek out as its victims the weakest and already victimized, writes Albert R. Jonsen, describing the inhumanity of this disease. Jonsen states that scientists have already fashioned a language for describing the disease in objective, clinical terms. What is needed now is a language to describe the human experience and instruct us on how to live humanely while AIDS is among us. To help construct this language, this collection examines AIDS from the perspective of the humanities: History can recall past experience for our instruction, Philosophy can define terms such as welfare, freedom, health, and disease, that guide our discourse, and Literature can reveal the images that shape the social reality of AIDS.
Editors Eric T. Juengst and Barbara Koenig begin this study by delineating six interpretations of AIDS. Their aim is to demonstrate the many ways in which AIDS is viewed by society. The book is then divided into three parts. Part One examines how our current knowledge of AIDS was generated and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning of AIDS for health professionals and the ethical issues it can raise. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotions and into the light of reason. divided into three parts. Part One examines the current knowledge of AIDS and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning and perceptions of AIDS in the medical community. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotion and into the light of reason.
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The Look in Sartre and Adrienne Rich [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young.
More about this title:
Marking a radical shift in the traditional philosophical separation between muse (female) and thinker (male), The Thinking Muse revises the scope and methods of philosophical reflection. These engaging essays by American feminists bring together feminist philosophy, existential phenomenology, and recent currents in French poststructuralist thought.
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Queen City Refuge : an Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Uri D. Herscher
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The Teenage World: Adolescent Self-Image in Ten Countries
Daniel Offer, Eric Ostrov, Kenneth I. Howard, and Robert Atkinson
A Cross-National Study of Adolescent Self-Image Adolescence is not, as has been previously assumed, a developmental stage that was defined after the industrial revolution.
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Renaming the Sins: A Homiletic Topos of Linguistic Instability in the Canterbury Tales
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature.
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Retirement: The challenge of change
E Michael Brady PhD
Intended for persons in their 50s and 60s who are seriously thinking about retirement and younger people who want to learn about aging and retirement, this book was developed as a companion piece to the training program offered to business and nonprofit organizations by the University of Southern Maine retirement planning team. Most of the contributors to the book live in Maine and the settings and examples used reflect this location, although the research cited is national or international in scope. The following 13 chapters are included in the document: "Faces of Retirement" (Brady); "The Aging Body" (Friedman); "Financial Planning for Retirement" (Jagolinzer); "Changing Relationships in Retirement" (Davis, Martay); "Where to Live in Retirement" (Murray); "Exercise, Health, and Fitness" (Jordan); "The Use of Leisure Time" (Brady); "Community Resources" (Spear, Wolfberg); "Transferring Skills to New Work and Volunteer Options" (Viehmann); "Health Insurance in Later Life" (Turyn, Comerford); "Legal Concerns in Retirement" (Valcourt); "Find Some Happiness Today" (Langlois); and "A Voice from Retirement" (Sandmel). (CML)
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Feelings and perceptions of graduate students about their undergraduate nursing education
Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C
University of Southern Maine Master's thesis.
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The Waste Land: A Poem of Memory and Desire
Nancy Gish PhD
Since its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's epic poem The Waste land has come to be considered the preeminent work of the modern period in English literature. In this enlightening guide to Eliot's masterpiece, Nancy K. Gish examines the history of its composition and, through careful analysis, reveals a poem that is both deeply personal in tone and universal in impact.
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Safe, Specific Testing and Rehabilitative Exercise for the Muscles of The Lumbar Spine
A Jones, M Pollock, James Graves PhD, M Fulton, W Jones, M MacMillan, D Baldwin, and J Cirulli
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What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 1
University of Southern Maine
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
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What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 2
University of Southern Maine
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
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Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Transient Electric Birefringence, and Characterization of Particle Size Distributions in Colloidal Suspensions
Renliang Xu, James R. Ford PhD, and Benjamin Chu
Chapter 8 from Particle Size Distribution; edited by Theodore Provder.
Chapter abstract:
By using a combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering (LLS) and transient electric birefringence (TEB) we have been able to determine structural characteristics and size distributions of polydisperse disk-shaped particles (bentonite) in suspensions. In the limit of low concentration and scattering angle we obtained the weight-average molecular weight Mw, the z-average radius of gyration 1/2 and the second virial coefficient A2 from static light scattering measurements; at higher scattering angles we were able to estimate an average particle thickness. Photon correlation function measurements of both the polarized and the depolarized components of scattered light give us the average diffusion coefficients DT (translational) and DR (rotational) which can in turn be converted to average particle dimensions. Detailed analysis of characteristic linewidth distributions yield particle size distributions consistent with direct observations using electron microscopy. The TEB experiment provides us with the average optical polarizability difference Δα°, the ratio of permanent dipolar moment to electric polarizability difference, and the average rotational diffusion coefficient DR (TEB). Profile analysis of the decay curve yields a distribution of particle sizes consistent with the results from LLS.
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Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Ideology of Conduct.
As many historians have pointed out, the late Middle Ages was an era obsessed with codified and externalized behaviors. For aristocrats, such codes promised to maintain social identities at a time of blurring boundaries between upper and "middle" classes. However, the wealthy bourgeoisie and other upwardly mobile groups subverted the boundaries as they increasingly adopted aristocratic codes to define their new sense of worth and place in medieval society. Although the flourishing of courtesy literature during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was connected to both these impulses, I will be concerned here primarily with conduct books addressed to non-aristocratic women and their influence on the French and English cycle plays.
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Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth
Dale W. Jorgenson, Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni
Although the level of U.S. per capita output was higher than that of any other industrialized country at the end of World War II, output has increased by more than four times and per capita output has more than doubled. Empirical evidence has shifted the terms of professional debates over the importance of investment and productivity as sources of postwar growth. This volume traces this outstanding growth performance to investments in tangible assets and human capital. The distinctive feature of investment as a source of economic growth is that returns can be internalized by the investor. The most straightforward application of this idea is to investments that create property rights. These include rights to transfer the resulting assets and benefit from the incomes that are generated. This volume broadens the meaning of capital formation to include the investments in education and training. The contributions of these investments to economic growth can be identified from their impacts on labor incomes. After the slowdown in U.S. economic growth that began in 1973 it became apparent that economic research had failed to produce a satisfactory basis for policies to generate growth. This volume provides the starting point for development of a new consensus based on the policies that stimulate and reward investments in tangible assets and human capital. These policies will focus on returns that can be internalized by investors, ending the fruitless search for "spill overs" that can generate growth without providing incentives for capital formation.
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Women with AIDS: Sexual Ethics in an Epidemic [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from AIDS : principles, practices & politics, edited by Inge B. Corless and Mary Pittman-Lindeman.
More about this title:
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Awakening and Growth of the Human Infant: A Telecourse Study Guide for Infant Mental Health Practitioners
Susan E. Partridge MSW, PhD
This Study Guide is an accompaniment to "The Awakening and Growth of the Human: Studies in Infant Mental Health", a series of 10 videotapes, produced and narrated by Mr. Michael Trout.
The Infant Mental Health Telecourse materials consist of the Study Guide, the Trout Videotapes, and 30 highly recommended readings on infant mental health topics.
An Instructor's Guide is available.
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Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D.
A provocative exploration of the links between appearance, gender and sexuality. Discusses beauty and ugliness, racism and beauty standards, and the role of class in shaping images of beauty.
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Correlation function profile analysis of polydisperse, macromolecular solutions and colloidal suspensions
Benjamin Chu, James R. Ford PhD, and H S. Dhadwal
Chapter 15 of Methods in Enzymology Volume 117: Enzyme Structure Part J; edited by C.H.W. Hirs, Serge N. Timashef.
Chapter summary:
This chapter presents the detailed descriptions of five methods of obtaining information about the characteristic linewidth distribution function G(F) from measured photocount autocorrelation functions, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The cumulants and nonlinear double exponential approaches require no a priori information about G(F), but are severely limited in the form of the distribution functions they can adequately represents. Both the methods discussed in the chapter are useful in providing starting estimates for the other techniques. The linear multiexponential and histogram approaches with singular value decomposition, and the regularized inversion, address the ill conditioning and may therefore be capable of more detailed description of G(F). The singular value decomposition methods requires a value for the range of G(F) in order to set up the model, are not constrained to physically reasonable distributions, and requires an interactive rank reduction stop to achieve a meaningful solution. The results of the histogram and multiexponential singular value decomposition and regularization techniques are illustrated in the chapter.
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Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1921
Anna Baerg and Gerald Peters PhD
Anna Baerg was born 30 January 1897 in Bijuk Busow, Crimea, Russia, the oldest cchild of Gerhard and Anna Baerg. She lived through the turbulent years of World War I, the Communist Revolution, and the ensuing civil war, in the Molotschna Mennonite colony in the Ukraine.
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The American Rabbinate : a Century of Continuity and Change, 1883-1983
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Jacob Rader Marcus
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Correlation Function Profile Analysis in Laser Light Scattering. III. An Iterative Procedure
James R. Ford PhD and Benjamin Chu
Chapter in Photon Correlation Techniques in Fluid Mechanics: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference at Kiel-Damp, Fed. Rep. of Germany, May 23–26, 1982: edited by Erich O. Schulz-DuBois
Chapter Abstract:
In photoelectron correlation function profile analysis, the inversion of the Laplace transform ∣∣g(l)(τ)∣∣=∫0∞G(Γ)e−ΓτdΓ (1) to obtain the normalized linewidth distribution function G(Γ) from the net electric field correlation function g(l)(τ) is essentially an unresolved ill-conditioned problem, where Γ and τ are, respectively, the characteristic linewidth and the delay time. In practice, g(l)(τ) contains noise and the integral has upper (b) and lower (a) bounds. Consequently, in order to remove the ill-conditioning, we need to have estimates of both the signal-to-noise ratio and the width, in terms of the support ratio γ(≡ b/a), of the linewidth distribution function. However, asg(l)(τ) depends upon the delay time range of our experiment, we now encounter a problem whereby our experimental conditions and the results we hope to obtain are interactive. Then, the success of a laser light scattering experiment depends upon (1) a proper choice of experimental conditions, as well as (2) appropriate inversion of the measured g(l)(τ) to obtain G(Γ). Thirdly, further analysis of G (Γ) is often required to obtain the desired information, such as molecular weight distribution, internal motions, etc. These three requirements are highly interdependent and the experimenter must be aware of the uncertainties introduced at each step. In this article, we propose an iterative procedure that tries to meet the above requirements.
About the book:
Photon correlation is a kind of spectroscopy designed to identify optical frequency shifts and line-broadening effects in the range of many MHz down to a few Hz. The optical intensity is measured in terms of single photon detection events which result in current pulses at the output of photomulti plier tubes. This signal is processed in real time in a special-purpose paral lel processor known as a correlator. The resulting photon correlation func tion, a function in the time domain, contains the desired spectral informa tion, which may be extracted by a suitable algorithm. Due to the non-intrusive nature and the sound theoretical basis of photon correlation, the phenomena under study are not disturbed, and the parameters in question can be precisely evaluated. For these reasons photon correlation has become a valuable and in many instances indispensable technique in two distinct fields. One of these is velocimetry in fluid flow. This includes hydro- and aerodynamic processes in liquids, gases, or flames where the velo city field may be stationary, time periodic, or turbulent, and may range from micrometers per second for motion inside biological cells to one kilometer per second for supersonic flow. The other major field is stochastic particle propagation due to Brownian motion.
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Jews and Christians after the Holocaust
Abraham J. Peck PhD
Essays read at a symposium sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in Cincinnati.
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Light Scattering Studies of the Internal Structure of Emulsion Polymer Particles
James R. Ford PhD
Chapter 17 of Emulsion Polymers and Emulsion Polymerization; edited by David R. Bassett and Alvin E. Hamielec.
Chapter abstract:
Wide angle light scattering is used as the principal probe to examine the core-shell structure proposed for certain acrylic acid acrylate ester copolymer latexes. Additional techniques were sedimentation and photon correlation spectroscopy. The work represents an application of core-shell light scattering theory to polymer latex suspensions and addresses the separate identification of light scattering by dust, latex particles and low molecular weight solutes. Core-Shell Theory and Model The exact electromagnetic scattering theory of the concentric shell model was first solved by Aden and Kerker (1) and shortly thereafter by Güttler (2). The problem has been extensively studied both theoretically and experimentally for aerosols by Kerker and co-workers and is reviewed in Kerker's book (3). The aerosol system had a core of relative refractive index m1=2.105 and a shell of m2=1.482 corresponding to silver chloride coated with linolenic acid. The results indicated that for a smooth variation in the refractive index.
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Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings
Joseph A. Conforti
Samuel Hopkins was the closest friend and disciple of the man generally considered to be the greatest religious thinker America has produced—Jonathan Edwards. Hopkins was also a founder and leading spokesman of the New Divinity Movement, a major religious movement in New England congregationalism from 1740 to 1800.The author here combines biographical detail with a balanced and scholarly assessment of the historical and theological significance of this influential Calvinist thinker.
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Voice and Audience: The Emotional World of the Cantigas de Amigo
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Vox Feminae: Studies in Medieval Woman's Song.
It is the artistic use of the female voice (as role, persona, or rhetorical stance) in particular lyrical traditions or by particular poets, that is of interest here. Woman's songs are found in all parts and periods of medieval Europe; the study of medieval woman's song is primarily the study of the image of a voice. This is not an attempt to completely cover the field but to offer an introduction and guide to those who are not familiar with woman's song, and a stimulation to those who are.
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Old age and beliefs in immortality
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter in The Older Woman, edited by V.C. Little.
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Wide Angle Light Scattering Investigation of the Internal Structure of Polymer Latexes
R L. Rowell, James R. Ford PhD, J W. Parsons, and D R. Bassett
Chapter 2 of Polymer Colloids II; edited by Robert M. Fitch.
Chapter abstract:
A new apparatus has been developed for the measurement of wide-angle and low-angle scattering from colloidal suspensions. The in strument employs an argon ion laser source, single photon counting detection, data acquisition by minicomputer and has an easily accessible angular resolution of 0.6°. The accuracy of the light scattering apparatus along with the reliability of the data-inversion procedure has been tested by comparison of measurements on a standard polystyrene latex by four independent methods on the same sample as well as comparison with numerous reports in the literature. An improvement of the inversion procedure of Rowell and Levit has been used in a double blind analysis of a control latex with no shell structure and the subject latex of pH-dependent shell structure. Both control and subject latex were analyzed using both homogeneous sphere theory and concentric sphere theory. The results conclusively established the existence of a concentric-shell structured latex and were in agreement with an independent study of the system by sedimentation methods, which is reported elsewhere in this book.
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Dynamics of Human Behavior: A Telelecture Program
University of Southern Maine
Table of contents:
Course Overview
Meet the Instructor
Course Objectives
Topical Outline
Session I
- Approaches to Human Behavior
- Reference Materials
Session II
- The Family
- Reference Materials
Session III
- Stages of Adulthood
- Reference Materials
Critique Form
Session IV
- Coping
- Reference Materials
Session V
- Issues in Geriatric Care
- Reference Materials
Bibliography
Telelecture Reaction Form
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Radicals and Reactionaries : the Crisis of Conservatism in Wilhelmine, Germany
Abraham J. Peck PhD
This is book is the first to attempt to deal fully with the Germany Conservative Party both as a long-time participant in the domestic affairs of the Wilhelmine Empire as a conservative political organization caught between the tradition and modernity in the last three decodes before 1918.
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The Effect of Angular Resolution on the Determination of Particle Size Distribution of Polymer Latexes by Light Scattering
R L. Rowell, J W. Parsons, James R. Ford PhD, and S R. Vasconcellos
Chapter in Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, edited by Paul Becher and Marvin N. Yudenfreund.
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Millennialism in American Thought, 1740-1840
Christopher M. Beam PhD
Doctoral dissertation on ideology of pre-Civil War reform movements.
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The Wild Colonial Boy
Jerry L. Bowder PhD
The Wild Colonial Boy Presents several tunes from the 16th through the 18th centuries that were associated with life at sea and on land in Maine in the 1700's and 1800's. Commissioned by the Town of Bath for Bicentennial Celebration in 1976, the work was ordered to be five minutes in length, and to be based on tunes that were selected by Larry Douglas in an arrangement suitable for performance by Bath's public school music groups. The songs and one hymn were arranged in such a way as to suggest a story of the life a boy raised in Casco, Maine (i.e. the wild colonial boy) who goes to sea (Haul on the Bolin - a short-haul ditty sung by sailors as early as the time of King Henry VIII), falls in love and leaves his life at sea (Up She Goes), settles down on land (Plenitude -a hymn written by Supple Belcher of Farmington, Maine [from his hymn book Harmony of Maine of 1794], and Simple Gifts - a song composed by Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848 at the Shaker colony in Alfred, Maine), and finally takes up arms to defend his country in its fights for independecne from the British (Portsmouth).
Of interest: Supply Belcher served under George Wshington in the Revolutionary War and was an associate of Wm. Billings, another pioneer American Composer. Joseph Brackett, Jr. lived for a short time in Gorham, Maine. His father, Joseph Brackett, Sr. donated his farm and its land to form the basis of the Shaker Colony at Sabbath Day Lake.
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The Fall of the Bourgeoisie: Cuba, 1959-1961
Alfred L. Padula PhD
This is an inquest into the demise of the Cuban bourgeoisie. How is it that, within the space of twenty-eight months, Castro's revolution was able to destroy this once powerful, talented and rapidly growing class?
It is the thesis of this dissertation that the Cuban bourgeoisie was destroyed not only by pressure from without, by events beyond its control, but also that it disintegrated in considerable part from within. To an important exten, the bourgeoisie died of its own follies, its own failures.
This dissertation focuses on the process of internal disintegration. Separate chapters consider the impact of Castro's revolution on the sugar mill owners, the sugar planters, the cattlemen, the industrialists, the banks, the public utilities, the Catholic church and the professional organizations. Other chapters discuss the nature of the pre-revolutionary bourgeoisie, and their financing of Castro's rebellion. Each chapter provides sufficient historical background to make evident the strengths and vulnerabilities of the sector in question. And each chapter is developed around one or more leading personalities of that sector.
The outstanding characteristic of the pre-revolutionary bourgeoisie was its ambiguity. The Cuban bourgeoisie was torn between Madrid and Miami, between an aristocratic and egalitarian tradition. It lacked widely respected leaders, and widely admired goals. Most members of the bourgeoisie were wrapped in an intense individualism and devotion to their families. They were only rarely able to conceive of and support broader national interests. Safe in their comfortable economic and military dependence on the United States, the bourgeoisie sought the pleasures, but not the responsibilities, of affluence.
Castro brilliantly exploited the weakness of the old bourgeoisie. He played on their opportunism to help finance his rebellion. Once in power, he cultivated and won their support, giving his revolution a powerful initial momentum. Thereafter he began to turn against his benefactors, encouraging the ambitions of the less successful ranks of the bourgeoisie for the jobs, the lands, and the honors of their upper-class confreres. For every organization of the old bourgeoisie, a new revolutionary counter-organization sprang up to contest its authority. The bourgeoisie, betrayed by its own rebellious clerks, began to crack along the lines of age, of class ranking, of economic interest.
The speed and audacity of Castro's revolution left the bourgeoisie stunned; paralyzed. A bourgeoisie accustomed to manipulating government by financial lures found the revolutionary government was disinterested in money. The bourgeoisie was unnerved by Castro's sway over the masses, and fearful of penalties that might accrue owing to their misbehavior during the Batista era. The leaders of the bourgeoisie vacillated, temporized, and then went into exile. Other burgueses remained behind, attracted by Castro's appeal to idealism, nationalism and heroic tradition. In 1959 some were ready to substantially modify their traditional dependence on the United States. And in an orgy of self-criticism, others concluded that Castro was right: Cuba could no longer afford a bourgeoisie.
By 1960, a bourgeoisie weakened by the increasing socialization of the economy, and demoralized by its own impotence and loss of status, fled increasingly to Miami. Even in exile the bourgeoisie found itself disunited, able to agree only that the United States must save them. When the U.S. failed to do so, they were lost.