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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.

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  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 Health and Rehabilitation

  James Graves PhD and Barry A. Franklin

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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.