Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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Learning to Teach: Critical Approaches to the Field Experience
Natalie Adams, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Christine Mary Shea, East Carolina University; Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University; and Bryan Deever, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections ... Read more
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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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Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
10-5-2006
Book Summary: Reforming Priests and Parishes consists of case studies of diocesan seminaries in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Lucca from 1563-1660s. The major cases are Arezzo, Siena, Volterra and Lucca, and the dioceses and institutions are examined in their financial, educational, and religious milieux. Several other cases--Florence, Montepulciano, Pienza, and Pisa--are treated in less detail to provide contextual interpretative focal points. Most of the seminaries have never been treated in English-language studies before, and no comparative study exists in any language. All of the case studies contain in-depth analysis of rare primary source material.
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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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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
Christopher E. Hendricks, Georgia Southern University
11-15-2006
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A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of Participants in Cervical and Prostate Health Education Programs in Southeast Georgia
Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2006
Book Summary:
Introduction: The cervical cancer mortality rate (Southeast Georgia 2001 – 2005) was 3.3 / 100,000 compared to 2.5 / 100,000 nationally. Likewise, the region’s prostate cancer mortality rate for African-Americans (2001 – 2005) was 63.7 / 100,000 compared to 59.4 / 100,000 nationally. In 2006 – 2008, education programs were developed for school – based delivery for mothers/daughters cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination and community – based delivery for prostate screening information to African – American males; programs were delivered in Southeast Georgia. Late in 2008, a study determined the success of the programs.
Methods: Educational program ... Read more
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Jewish Intellectuals and the University
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos.
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Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2006
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Maple By Example
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
4-4-2005
Maple by Example, Third Edition, is a reference/text for beginning and experienced students, professional engineers, and other Maple users. This new edition has been updated to be compatible with the most recent release of the Maple software. Coverage includes built-in Maple commands used in courses and practices that involve calculus, linear algebra, business mathematics, ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical methods, graphics and more.
* Updated coverage of Maple features and functions
* Backwards compatible for all versions
* New applications from a variety of fields, including biology, physics and engineering
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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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Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University
4-4-2005
Georgia Southern University faculty member Ray Hashemi co-edited Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing alongside Henry Selvaraj, Pradip K. Srimani, A. Spink, E. Regentova, A. Abraham, J. Thomas, S. Vasikarla, N. Nedjah, L. Mourelle, M. Mirto, M. Cannataro, J. Domingo-Ferrer, Y. A. Aslandogan, S. Dua, M. Garuba, E. Lawerence, N. Goharian, M. Eyadat, S. I. Ahamed, P. Douglas, C. Willow, Y. Kim, M. Yang, and V. Muthukumar.
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Popular Culture Primer
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
1-31-2005
The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact that these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential assigned text for any classroom devoted to teaching ... Read more
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Differential Equations with Mathematica
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
2-16-2004
The Third Edition of the Differential Equations with Mathematica integrates new applications from a variety of fields,especially biology, physics, and engineering. The new handbook is also completely compatible with recent versions of Mathematica and is a perfect introduction for Mathematica beginners.
* Focuses on the most often used features of Mathematica for the beginning Mathematica user
* New applications from a variety of fields, including engineering, biology, and physics
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Mathematica By Example
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
1-19-2004
This third edition of Mathematica by Example is completely compatible with recent Mathematica versions. Highly readable and informative, this volume is geared toward the beginning Mathematica user, and focuses on the most often used features of this powerful tool. The book covers popular applications of mathematics within different areas including calculus, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations.
Key Features:
* Fully compatible with recent releases of Mathematica
* Includes CD-ROM containing all input used in text
* Focuses on the beginning Mathematica user
* Covers all the basics needed to get up and running with Mathematica, especially ... Read more -
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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Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2004
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University
2004
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-edited Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dis/positions and Lines of Flight.
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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 -
Business Data Communications, 6th ed
David A. Stamper and Thomas Louis Case, Georgia Southern University
2004
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Statistics with Maple V
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University; James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University; and John A. Rafter, Georgia Southern University
2003
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Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University
4-28-2003
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Introduction to Java Programming with Sun ONE Studio 4
Y. Daniel Liang, Georgia Southern University
2003
For one/two-semester courses in Java—Introduction to Programming/CSI, Object-Oriented Programming, and Java—Intermediate/Advanced Programming.
First on the market to cover Forte, this text is aided by Sun's Forte IDE for Java to facilitate developing and managing Java programs. The text covers all subjects required in the Level 1 Java Certification Exam—fundamentals of programming (including primitive data types, control statements, methods, and arrays); object-oriented programming; graphics programming; exception handling; internalization; multithreading; multimedia; I/O; networking; and Java data structures. With this text, students will gain core Java knowledge that is needed to develop useful projects.
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Rapid Java Application Development Using Sun ONE Studio 4
Y. Daniel Liang, Georgia Southern University
2003
For courses in advanced Java programming or rapid Java application development. This book covers the advanced Java features that are used in upper level courses such as software engineering, graphical user interface design, database programming and distributed programming so it can also be used as a supplementary text for such courses.
Comprehensive and incremental, this text introduces advanced Java programming with the tool Forte while focusing on rapid Java application development. The early chapters introduce JavaBeans—the bases of rapid Java application development—while subsequent chapters apply step-by-step rapid application development techniques to build comprehensive, robust and useful graphics applications, RMI, and ... Read more
