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The Norton Mix: Sociology
Nathan Palmer, Georgia Southern University; Tanya Gladney, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota; Erica Hunter, University at Albany, State University of New York; and Fernando I. Rivera, University of Central Florida
1-1-2013
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Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court
Richard L. Pacelle Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Brett W. Curry, Georgia Southern University; and Bryan Marshall, Miami University - Oxford
6-2012
There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models. In examining the modern Supreme Court, since Brown v. Board of Education, the book argues that decisions are a function of the sincere preferences of the justices, the nature of precedent, and the development of the particular issue, as well as separation of powers and the potential constraints posed by the president and Congress. To ... Read more
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Corporal Punishment Around the World
Matthew Pate, University at Albany, State University of New York and Laurie A. Gould, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2012
Book Summary: This unique volume provides an insightful research-based overview of corporal punishment as implemented in a variety of venues and cultures. It is the first comprehensive analysis of practices that while often controversial, remain deeply ingrained in human culture.
Corporal Punishment defines what may be humanity's oldest form of punishment both historically and in its contemporary forms, then looks at how it is currently applied to children, students, the incarcerated, and in religious settings. A series of case studies examines corporal punishment in specific regions of Bolivia, the Bahamas, Nigeria, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia to understand why certain societies ... Read more -
The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University
3-31-2011
This study of the political significance of theories of tragedy and ordinary language uses of "tragedy" offers a fresh perspective on democracy in contemporary times.
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Teambuilding Activities for the Digital Age: Using Technology to Develop Effective Groups
Brent Wolfe, Georgia Southern University and Colbey Penton Sparkman
2010
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The Next Phase of Latin American Development: Business and Society
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University; Eduardo R. Gomes; and Laura K. Stephens
2008
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This Georgia rising : education, civil rights, and the politics of change in Georgia in the 1940s
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
1-2-2007
This Georgia Rising is a study of Georgia's political changes during the Second World War and in the postwar era, with a particular emphasis on Georgia's higher educational system as well as early struggles for civil rights and social change in the 1940s.
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Eastern Cherokee Fishing
Heidi M. Altman, Georgia Southern University
2006
Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.
In Eastern Cherokee Fishing, life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people provide a clear and personal picture of the changes in the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of the) Cherokee in the last 75 years. Coupled with documentary research, these ethnographic histories illuminate changes in the language, culture, and environment (particularly, aquatic resources) since contact with Europeans and examine the role these changes have played in the traditions and lives of the contemporary Cherokees.
Interviewees include a great range of informants, from native ... Read more
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Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University and Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
2006
As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player’s Association was able to finally tear down baseball’s permanent reserve clause—the contract language that essentially bound a player to a single team until he was released or traded—and owners and sportswriters again insisted that the competitive balance of the game was threatened by player greed. The rhetoric from the baseball establishment did not match the on-field reality. From 1981 to 1993, the first significant era of free agency in ... Read more
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Latin America in the New International System: Challenges and Opportunities
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University and Eduardo R. Gomes
2005
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Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full Of Sense, Heart Full Of Gold
Rebecca Davis, Georgia Southern University and Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University
11-1-2004
On a cold winter day in the midst of the Depression, the hardworking wife of a farmer and Primitive Baptist preacher in South Georgia gave birth to her 11th child, a daughter named Faye. Money was scarce, times were hard, and from the moment she could walk, Faye worked, doing whatever it took to keep the ninety-acre farm going. No one could have predicted that this little girl would grow up to be the first woman attorney in the country, the first woman appointed to the Georgia Superior Court bench, and the first woman chief superior court judge in Georgia. ... Read more
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American Politics: Transformation and Change
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University; Becky Kohler da Cruz; and Andre J. Dowdle
2004
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Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture
William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University
6-2004
Four thousand Irish-born and Irish-seminary educated priests have served in the United States and nearly 1,250 are currently affiliated with American dioceses. The Irish-Catholic upbringing of these priests, along with their Irish education, immigrant status, and missionary spirit, distinguish them from American-born priests. These priests have left an indelible mark in the U.S. primarily by staffing Catholic parishes in the South, West, and Southwest. They are, however, a vanishing subculture due to an increasing mortality rate and the dearth of vocations to the priesthood in Ireland.
This book is the beginning of a much-needed discussion about the experiences and beliefs of ... Read more -
Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Robert Pirro, Georgia Southern University
2001
A German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval during the years of Nazi conquest, Hannah Arendt turned to classical literature and drama as she struggled to make sense of the terrible events of her time. Studying fiction, plays, and poetry, she found a way to meld theoretical political philosophy and concrete personal commitment to action. Among her literary resources, the epics and plays of ancient Greece provided the ideal balance of politics and culture.
In Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy, Pirro focuses especially on the influence of Greek tragedy on Arendt's political writings. Pirro casts Arendt's ... Read more -
Child Development: From Theory to Practice
Jerri J. Kropp, Georgia Southern University; Janna C. Taulbee, Georgia Southern University; and Alice Hall, Georgia Southern University
2000
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Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2000
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U.S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative Shift
Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University and Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
1999
This thoughtful, highly original book investigates the influence of globalization on ideology and politics in the United States.
Cox and Skidmore-Hess argue that U.S. policy increasingly has been motivated less by anxiety about the independence and stability of the domestic economy and more by worry about factors that might limit the participation of U.S. corporations in international markets. Connecting trends in domestic and foreign policy with the changing needs of industry, they associate increased globalization with the the breakup of the liberal, New Deal coalition; the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement in the 1970s; the neoconservative, antiregulatory movements of ... Read more
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Families and Communes: An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles
William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University
8-27-1999
This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are predisposed to families while others are not and some communal families can be replacements or substitutes for nuclear families. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as Twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites.
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An Illustrated History of the LeConte Woodmanston Rice Plantation and Botanical Garden
James D. Bigley, Georgia Southern University
1-1997
