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WISDOMe Monograph Volume 2: Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Modeling: A Driver for STEM Integrated Education and Teaching in Context
Robert L. Mayes, Georgia Southern University and Larry Hatfield, University of Wyoming
1-1-2012
Book Summary: Quantitative reasoning is an essential tool for scientists, applied mathematicians, and statisticians in their work to model real world phenomena and address grand challenges in environment and energy. Some exemplars from practitioners in the established fields of biology and ecology, as well as from the emerging field of computational science are explicated in this paper. Our intent is to provide support for the argument of incorporating quantitative reasoning into the teaching of science, mathematics, and statistics, since it is an essential tool in the practice of STEM and has the potential to increase student engagement.
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Contemporary Mathematics: Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Andrea R. Nahmod, University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Christopher D. Sogge, John Hopkins University; Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa; and Shijun Zheng, Georgia Southern University
12-1-2012
Book Summary: This volume is based on the AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations and the AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, both held March 12-13, 2011, at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, as well as the JAMI Conference on Analysis of PDEs, held March 21-25, 2011, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. These conferences all concentrated on problems of current interest in harmonic analysis and PDE, with emphasis on the interaction between them.
This volume consists of invited expositions as well as research papers that address prospects of the recent significant ... Read more
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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 -
Pervasive Vulnerabilities: Sexual Harassment in School
Regina Rahimi, Armstrong State University and Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University
2012
Book Summary: Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression, and demonstrates that this double standard still dismisses males who harass young women with a cavalier "boys will be boys" attitude, while castigating young women if they express an interest in sexual expression. It discusses issues of sexual harassment through four domains: its impact on women’s lives, sometimes long ... Read more
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An End to All Things
Jared Yates Sexton, Georgia Southern University
12-21-2012
When Jared Yates Sexton finished his MFA and returned to his hometown in Indiana, he found a population plagued by the kind of turmoil and tension usually reserved for fiction. Unemployment and uncertainty lurked everywhere he looked. In his debut story collection, this pervasive turbulence tilts into the fantastical as we observe the inspired, absurd, and even horrific moments in the lives of lost and luckless Midwesterners looking for something to believe in.
Through language that's both striking and unassuming, Sexton creates a dangerous and disturbing world in which everything and everyone teeters precariously on the edge of total chaos; ... Read more
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Documents in World History, Volume 1, 6th Edition
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University; Stephen S. Gosch, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Erwin P. Grieshaber, Minnesota State University, Mankato; and Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State Univeristy
2012
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer co-authored Documents in World History, Volume 1, 6th Edition.
Offers a range of documents that illustrates civilizations from key stages in world history, with special attention to comparing major societies.
For introductory courses in world history.Documents in World History is a thematically organized, authoritative collection of original sources that highlight political, social, cultural and economic issues in world history. The text also provides documents on the hot topics of gender and cultural history. Revised and updated with over a quarter of the documents new, the sixth edition retains its global emphasis. ... Read more
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Documents in World History, Volume 2, 6th Edition
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University; Stephen S. Gosch, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Erwin P. Grieshaber, Minnesota State University, Mankato; and Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State University
2012
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer co-authored Documents in World History, Volume 2, 6th Edition.
Offers a range of documents that illustrates civilizations from key stages in world history, with special attention to comparing major societies.
For introductory courses in world history.Documents in World History is a thematically organized, authoritative collection of original sources that highlight political, social, cultural and economic issues in world history. The text also provides documents on the hot topics of gender and cultural history. Revised and updated with over a quarter of the documents new, the sixth edition retains its global emphasis. ... Read more
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Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War
Michael S. Van Wagenen, Georgia Southern University
9-12-2012
Georgia Southern faculty member, Michael S. Van Wagenen, authored Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War. On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending hostilities between the two countries and ceding over one-half million square miles of land to the northern victors. In Mexico, this defeat has gradually moved from the periphery of dishonor to the forefront of national consciousness. In the United States, the war has taken an opposite trajectory, falling from its once-celebrated prominence into the shadowy margins of forgetfulness and denial.
Why is ... Read more -
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina
1-1-2011
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Proceedings of the 2011 Georgia Water Resources Conference
Gwendolyn Carroll, Georgia Southern University
4-2011
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Making Meaning: Literature and the Research Process
H. Elizabeth Howells, Georgia Southern University
2011
Literature: Reading to Write masterfully weaves critical thinking skills, writing, and reading instruction using writing prompts, literary selections, and intriguing discussion points. Students transition from active readers to critical writers through a series of reading prompts and unique writing exercises. This process helps students find meaning in a broader context by forging connections between literature and their personal experiences.
Additionally, the book features an eclectic array of classic and contemporary voices in literature as well as sections devoted to newer genres such as graphic novels. This interactive approach leaves students with the knowledge and confidence to write research papers and ... Read more
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Minitab Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (2nd Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2011
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TI Graphing Calculator Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (2nd Edition-1)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2011
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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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Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y su visión del México colonial
Dolores Rangel, Georgia Southern University
2011
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The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems
Theresa Malphrus Welford, Georgia Southern University
10-1-2011
Book Summary: As Gertrude Stein might have put it, a cento is a collage is a mix tape is a video montage.
This hypothetical description is fitting in a number of ways. Although the cento form is ancient - in existence since at least the days of Virgil and Homer - it was also used to striking effect in the Modern era: consider, for example, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Ezra Pound's Cantos.
More recent centos include John Ashbery's ""The Dong with the Luminous Nose,"" Peter Gizzi's ""Ode: Salute to The New York School 1950-1970"" (a libretto), Connie ... Read more
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Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina
1-1-2010
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Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy
Allison Scardino Belzer, Armstrong State Univeristy
2010
Georgia Southern faculty member Allison Scardino Belzer authored Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy.
Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of ... Read more
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GACE Mathematics Assessment (022, 023)
Gregory Chamblee, Georgia Southern University
7-19-2010
Book Summary: If you’re ready to start teaching in Georgia, REA has the GACE test prep you need! REA’s GACE High School Mathematics Assessment (022, 023) Test Prep with TestWare® CD Puts Georgia Teachers in a Class of Their Own! New! First Edition! REA’s newest addition to our GACE (Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators) test prep library helps you get one step closer to teaching in a Georgia classroom. This test prep is perfect for teacher candidates, students, out-of-state teachers, and career-changing professionals who are seeking a Georgia teaching license. Completely aligned with the most recent GACE High ... Read more
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Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R
Ding-Geng Chen, Georgia Southern University and Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University
12-14-2010
Book Summary: Too often in biostatistical research and clinical trials, a knowledge gap exists between developed statistical methods and the applications of these methods. Filling this gap, Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R provides a thorough presentation of biostatistical analyses of clinical trial data and shows step by step how to implement the statistical methods using R. The book’s practical, detailed approach draws on the authors’ 30 years of real-world experience in biostatistical research and clinical development.
Each chapter presents examples of clinical trials based on the authors’ actual experiences in clinical drug development. Various biostatistical methods for analyzing the ... Read more
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The School Library Media Specialist's Policy and Procedure Writer
Elizabeth Downs, Georgia Southern University
2010
Book Summary: In one detailed multimedia source, you'll find everything you need to evaluate your library's current policies and procedures, and suggestions to help you develop new ones in today's more complex digital content environment.
Among the many areas covered are:
* Collection Development
* Acquisitions
* Budgeting
* Equipment and Materials Maintenance
* Year-End Reporting
* Scheduling
* Web Publishing and Design
* Reading Incentive Programs
* Serving Students with Special Needs
* CopyrightYou'll find more than 300 sample policies, procedures, and forms you can customize and print to help you manage each aspect of your library's operations. ... Read more
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College Algebra in Context with Applications to the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences (3rd. Ed.)
Ronald J. Harshbarger, University of South Carolina - Beaufort and Lisa S. Yocco, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2010
Book Summary: Harshbarger/Yocco’s College Algebra in Context with Applications for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences, Third Edition uses modeling and real-data problems to develop the skills that students will need for their future courses and careers. Applications anticipate the math that students will encounter in their professional lives, giving them the practice they need to become adept problem-solvers. Every chapter begins with the Algebra Toolbox, which reviews the skills and concepts necessary to master the material ahead. This new full-color edition offers a greater number of technology tips, and the content has been reorganized to accommodate a wide range ... Read more
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Instructor’s Manual for textbook Literature: Reading to Write
H. Elizabeth Howells, Georgia Southern University
2010
