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  Roots Of The Past Nourish Present Research

  Jan Friesen, Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany; John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Albertus Tyasseta, Graphic Designer; and Ockto Baringbing, Graphic Designer

  5-4-2020
  

  This work was co-authored by Georgia Southern Faculty member Dr. John T. Van Stan II.

  The science comic 'Roots of the Past nourish present research' leads two students on a wild time travel to the first observations and observatories of plants and precipitation – the story of ecohydrology. Using past knowledge and new technologies they develop ideas for their own research.

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  Environmental Geology, 4th Edition

  James Reichard, Georgia Southern University

  2020
  

  This book was written by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. James Reichard. Environmental Geology, 4e focuses on the fascinating interaction between humans and the geologic processes that shape the Earth’s environment. This text emphasizes how human survival is highly dependent on the natural environment and students should find the topics to be quite relevant to their own lives and, therefore, more interesting.

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  Precipitation Partitioning by Vegetation: A Global Synthesis

  John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Ethan Gutmann, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Jan Friesen, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

  1-2-2020
  

  This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context. It describes the processes by which meteoric water comes into contact with the vegetation's canopy, typically the first surface contact of precipitation on land. It also discusses how precipitation partitioning by vegetation impacts the amount, patterning, and chemistry of water reaching the surface, as well as the amount and timing of evaporative return to the atmosphere. Although this process has been extensively studied, this is the first review of the global literature on the partitioning of precipitation by forests, shrubs, crops, grasslands and ... Read more

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  Wrack & Ruin: A Tale of Tortured Trees

  John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Albertus Tyasseta, Graphic Designer; and Siloy, Graphic Artist

  6-4-2020
  

  This work was co-authored by Georgia Southern Faculty member Dr. John T. Van Stan II.

  Here, we visit a community of trees living along the Georgia coast, just above the high tide line, on a little lump of sand called a "hammock." This hammock plant community is battered by a hurricane. The plants that survive soon realize that they have fallen prey to a hydrological torture wrack - one composed of the salty corpses of their neighboring marsh plants (Spartina alterniflora). This sci comic is based on the publication, "Wrack and ruin: Legacy hydrologic effects of hurricane-deposited wrack..." (https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab9527).

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  Medical and Veterinary Entomology

  Gary R. Mullen, Gettysburg College and Lance A, Durden, Georgia Southern University

  10-16-2018
  

  The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the focus on the diversity of arthropods affecting human and animal health, with separate chapters devoted to each of the taxonomic groups of insects and arachnids of medical or veterinary concern, including spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Each chapter includes sections on taxonomy, morphology, life history, and behavior and ecology, with separate sections on those ... Read more

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  Urban Forestry - Taming Precipita

  John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung; Tyasetta, Graphic Artist; and Siloy, Graphic Artist

  7-2018
  

  Since the beginning of human settlement, people have observed water in its many forms, recording the ways that water supports and subverts life... like a cunning and capricious witch. This is the story of Precipita, the waterwitch of Leipzig Germany, and the critical roles that urban forests play in protecting the city from her hydrological whims! This science comic was based on a book chapter "Urban Forestry: An Underutilized Tool in Water Management" in "Advanced Tools for Integrated Water Resources Management" by Van Stan, Underwood, and Friesen (Elsevier). Supported by NSF 11518726.

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  Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day

  Mark R. Welford, Georgia Southern University

  3-13-2018
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Mark R. Welford authored Geographies of Plague Pandemics: The Spatial-Temporal Behavior of Plague to the Modern Day.

  Book Summary: Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and the source of ancient and modern plagues. This book also discusses the role plague has played in shifting power from Mediterranean Europe to north-western Europe during the 500 ... Read more

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  Mathematica By Example

  Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University

  6-15-2017
  

  Georgia Southern faculty members Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton co-authored Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition.

  Mathematica by Example, Fifth Edition is an essential desk reference for the beginning Mathematica user, providing step-by-step instructions on achieving results from this powerful software tool. The book fully accounts for the dramatic changes to functionality and visualization capabilities in the most recent version of Mathematica (10.4). It accommodates the full array of new extensions in the types of data and problems that Mathematica can immediately handle, including cloud services and systems, geographic and geometric computation, dynamic visualization, interactive applications and other improvements. ... Read more

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  Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life

  Maria Cristina Pereyra, University of New Mexico; Stefania Marcantognini, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research; Alexander M. Stokolos, Georgia Southern University; and Wilfredo Urbina Romero, Roosevelt University

  2017
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Alexander Stokolos co-edited Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life (Volume 2) in collaboration with non-faculty members Maria Cristina Pereyra, Stefania Marcantognini, and Wilfredo Urbina Romero.

  Book Summary: This book is the second of a two volume series. Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in weighted norm inequalities, Schur-Agler class functions, complex analysis, dynamical systems, and dyadic harmonic analysis. Graduate students and researchers in analysis will ... Read more

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  Environmental Geology 3rd Edition

  James Reichard, Georgia Southern University

  1-1-2017
  

  Environmental Geology is an exciting new entry for introductory geology courses. This text skillfully weaves the important themes of energy, human interactions, and global climate systems into a readable and contemporary view of geologic processes within the environmental framework. In addition, the author has utilized specific learning aids to pique student interest and to enhance the learning experience.

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  An Invitation to the Rogers–Ramanujan Identities

  Andrew V. Sills, Georgia Southern University

  10-12-2017
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Andrew Sills authored An Invitation to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.

  Book Summary: The Rogers--Ramanujan identities are a pair of infinite series—infinite product identities that were first discovered in 1894. Over the past several decades these identities, and identities of similar type, have found applications in number theory, combinatorics, Lie algebra and vertex operator algebra theory, physics (especially statistical mechanics), and computer science (especially algorithmic proof theory). Presented in a coherant and clear way, this will be the first book entirely devoted to the Rogers—Ramanujan identities and will include related historical material that is unavailable elsewhere.

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  Plant Invasion Alters Canopy Ecohydrology

  John T. Van Stan II, Georgia Southern University; Seyed Mohammad M. Sadeghi, University of Tehran; Jan Friesen, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung; and Thomas G. Pypker, Thompson Rivers University

  2-2017
  

  Graphic novella by artist Bagus Seta (Tyasseta) based on the scientific story told in Sadeghi et al. (2017), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 240, 10.

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  Differential Equations with Mathematica

  Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University

  9-13-2016
  

  Georgia Southern faculty members Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton co-authored Differential Equations with Mathematica, 4th Edition.

  Differential Equations with Mathematica, Fourth Edition is a supplementing reference which uses the fundamental concepts of the popular platform to solve (analytically, numerically, and/or graphically) differential equations of interest to students, instructors, and scientists.

  Mathematica’s diversity makes it particularly well suited to performing calculations encountered when solving many ordinary and partial differential equations. In some cases, Mathematica’s built-in functions can immediately solve a differential equation by providing an explicit, implicit, or numerical solution. In other cases, mathematica can be used to perform ... Read more

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  Introduction to Numerical Methods

  Aniruddha Mitra, Georgia Southern University and Aditi Mitri, Georgia Southern University

  7-29-2016
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty members Aditi Mitri and Aniruddha Mitra co-authored Introduction to Numerical Methods.

  Book Summary: Written for sophomore-level students in mechanical engineering programs and designed to give them the math preparation they need to succeed in higher level mechanical engineering courses, Introduction to Numerical Methods incorporates theory and worked-out engineering-related problems that apply that theory, as well as relevant laboratory exercises.

  Ideally suited to one-semester, three-credit, problem solving session-based courses, the book covers errors in computation, rounding and chopping, solving equations with numerical techniques, matrixes and vectors, and complex numbers. The material also includes an introduction to optimization, ... Read more

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  Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life

  Maria Cristina Pereyra, University of New Mexico; Stefania Marcantognini, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research; Alexander M. Stokolos, Georgia Southern University; and Wilfredo Urbina Romero, Roosevelt University

  2016
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Alexander Stokolos co-edited Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory: Celebrating Cora Sadosky's Life (Volume 1) in collaboration with non-faculty members Maria Cristina Pereyra, Stefania Marcantognini, and Wilfredo Urbina Romero.

  Book Summary: Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book contains survey and expository articles by leading experts in their corresponding fields, and features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in spectral theory, mathematical physics, geometric function theory, and partial differential equations. Graduate students and researchers in analysis will ... Read more

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  Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies

  Stephen P. Hanna, University of Mary Washington; Amy E. Potter, Georgia Southern University; E. Arnold Modlin, Norfolk State University; Perry Carter, Texas Tech University; and David L. Butler, University of Southern Mississippi

  2-11-2015
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Amy E. Potter co-edited Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies alongside non-faculty members Stephen P. Hanna, E. Arnold Modlin, Perry Carter, and David L. Butler.

  Potter also co-authored "Introduction" alongside non-faculty member E. Arnold Modlin and "The Commons as a Tourist Commodity: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of Barbuda" in Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies.

  Book Summary: The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re-examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, ... Read more

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  Introductory Differential Equations

  Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern faculty members Martha L. Abell and James P. Braselton co-authored Introductory Differential Equations.

  Book Summary:

  This text is for courses that are typically called (Introductory) Differential Equations, (Introductory) Partial Differential Equations, Applied Mathematics, and Fourier Series. Differential Equations is a text that follows a traditional approach and is appropriate for a first course in ordinary differential equations (including Laplace transforms) and a second course in Fourier series and boundary value problems.

  Some schools might prefer to move the Laplace transform material to the second course, which is why we have placed the chapter on Laplace transforms in its ... Read more

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  Principles of Biology II Laboratory Manual

  Gwendolyn Carroll, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern faculty member Gwendolyn Denise Carroll edited Principles of Biology II Laboratory Manual

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  Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored "Instructors Guide with Full Solutions" to accompany the publication Statistics in Practice.

  Book Summary:

  Statistics in Practice is an exciting new addition to W.H. Freeman’s introductory statistics list. Co-authored by David Moore, it maintains his pioneering data analysis approach but incorporates significant changes designed to help students. Statistics in Practice introduces data collection early, covers tests of proportions first before tests of means, and engages students with its conversational writing style. SIP is a modern approach to the introductory statistics course, clearly showing the importance of statistics to students during their ... Read more

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  Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member authored "Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions" to accompany the publication Introduction to the Practice of Statistics.

  Book Summary:

  With this updated new edition, the market-leading Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (IPS) remains unmatched in its ability to show how statisticians actually work. Its focus on data analysis and critical thinking, step-by-step pedagogy, and applications in a variety of professions and disciplines make it exceptionally engaging to students learning core statistical ideas.

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  Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  1-1-2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored Instructor's Guide with Full Solutions for the publications Statistics in Practice and Introduction to the Practice of Statistics .

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  Student Solutions Manual

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  1-1-2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored Student Solutions Manual for the publication Statistics in Practice.

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  Student Solutions Manual

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored "Student Solutions Manual" to accompany the publication Statistics in Practice.

  Book Summary:

  Statistics in Practice is an exciting new addition to W.H. Freeman’s introductory statistics list. Co-authored by David Moore, it maintains his pioneering data analysis approach but incorporates significant changes designed to help students. Statistics in Practice introduces data collection early, covers tests of proportions first before tests of means, and engages students with its conversational writing style. SIP is a modern approach to the introductory statistics course, clearly showing the importance of statistics to students during their academic life ... Read more

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  Student Study Guide with Solutions Manual

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored "Student Study Guide with Solutions Manual" to accompany the publication Introduction to the Practice of Statistics.

  Chapter Summary:

  This manual provides stepped-through solutions for all odd-numbered exercises in the text. Available electronically within LaunchPad, as well as in print form.

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  Student Study Guide with Solutions Manual

  Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University

  4-1-2014
  

  Georgia Southern University faculty member Patricia B. Humphrey authored Student Study Guide with Solutions Manual for the publication Introduction to the Practice of Statistics.

  Book Summary: This manual provides stepped-through solutions for all odd-numbered exercises in the text. Available electronically within LaunchPad, as well as in print form.