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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

  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.
  *Chapter on graphing student data.

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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.

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  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."

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  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).