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Conceptualizing, developing, and implementing a student-centered strategic approach to assessment: Why theory matters
R Underhile, Michael Stevenson PhD, and R P. Keeling
Chapter in Innovations in Assessment of Higher Education, edited by R.P. Keeling.
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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.
Book description:
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.