The books contributed to this Digital Commons@Georgia Southern collection are authored or edited by the faculty of Georgia Southern University.
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Faculty bookshelves include content attributed to Georgia Southern faculty. For a complete list of their works, view their SelectedWorks profiles.
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Graphing Calculator Manual for the TI-83/84 Plus, TI-89, and TI-Nspire: Stats: Modeling the World 3rd Edition
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University and John Diehl
4-1-2009
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On Not Being Able to Play: Scholars, Musicians and the Crisis of the Psyche
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
3-5-2009
Book Summary: Scholars and musicians from many different backgrounds will find this book helpful as it deals with psychic problems in both professions. This book might help scholars and musicians to find a way out of their psychic dilemmas. From classical musicians to rock stars, from curriculum theorists to music teachers, from anthropologists to philosophers, this book takes the reader through a rocky intellectual terrain to explore what happens when one can no longer play or work. The driving question of the book is this: What do you do when you cannot do what you were called to do? This ... Read more
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Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Time to Event Endpoints
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University
4-23-2009
Book Summary: Using time-to-event analysis methodology requires careful definition of the event, censored observation, provision of adequate follow-up, number of events, and independence or "noninformativeness" of the censoring mechanisms relative to the event. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoints provides a thorough presentation of the design, monitoring, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in which time-to-event is of critical interest.
After reviewing time-to-event endpoint methodology, clinical trial issues, and the design and monitoring of clinical trials, the book focuses on inferential analysis methods, including parametric, semiparametric, categorical, and Bayesian methods; an alternative to the Cox model for ... Read more
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Paid In Full
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2009
Book Summary: The Autobiography of Karl E. Peace traces the author's life from his humble beginning in Baker County, Georgia, located in the southwest area of the state. Born to tenant farmer parents with little education, he presents vivid accounts of sharecroppers' existence in the 1940s and 1950s. He became the first in his family to earn a high school diploma and later a college degree. Upon earning a Ph.D in Biostatistics, he became the first individual from rural Baker County to claim such a lofty educational status. After a career as a classroom instructor at the college and university ... Read more
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The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity
William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University and Julie Webber, Illinois State University
2009
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored The Civic Gospel: A Political Cartography of Christianity.
Part of Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Series, Volume: 29
This book is a result of the times in which we are living. These times demand a response. When the authors began to write this book, it was not popular to dissent against the Bush administration. In fact, dissent was and still is equated with terrorism. Now, it might seem that the tide is turning and maybe after the 2008 election some of this nightmare we have been experiencing will change. At least that ... Read more
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Popular Culture
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
5-19-2009
This revised edition of 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 covers the cultural studies of science and technology, the biosciences, drugs, and sports as well as other often-ignored topics such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential text for any class devoted ... Read more
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The Tet Offensive: A Brief History with Documents
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University
3-19-2008
Book Summary: With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to the fighting, the Tet Offensive of 1968 proved to be the turning point of the Vietnam War. In The Tet Offensive, historian William Thomas Allison provides a clear, concise overview of the major events and issues surrounding the Tet Offensive, and compiles carefully selected primary sources to illustrate the complex military, political, and public decisions that made up Tet.
The Tet Offensive is composed of two parts: an accessible, well-illustrated narrative overview, and ... Read more
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Dreams, Myth, and Reality: Utah and the American West
William T. Allison, Georgia Southern University and Susan J. Matt, Weber State University
6-27-2008
Book Summary: During the settlement of the West, through the Civil War and Gold Rush periods, the average Anglo household consisted of two or three bachelor farmers or miners. The nuclear Ingalls family from Little House of the Prairie was less typical than Bonanza’s Cartwright family with three boys, a father, and a male cook.
There were exceptions. The Willamette Valley in Oregon was settled by traditional families who carved out a middle-class existence on small farms. In Utah Territory, less fertile soil and more fertile polygamous fathers produced families who struggled against poverty and isolation.
The first Americans out ... Read more
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Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
Hamid Reza Arabnia, University of Georgia; Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University; and Fernando G. Tinetti, National University of La Plata, Argentina
2008
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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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Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication
Timothy D. Giles, Georgia Southern University
2008
Examination of the work of scientific icons-Newton, Descartes, and others-reveals the metaphors and analogies that directed their research and explain their discoveries. Today, scientists tend to balk at the idea of their writing as rhetorical, much less metaphorical. How did this schism over metaphor occur in the scientific community? To establish that scientists should use metaphors to explain science to the public and need to be conscious of how metaphor can be useful to their research, this book examines the controversy over cloning and the lack of a metaphor to explain it to a public fearful of science's power.The disjunction ... Read more
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Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830‐85
Carol M. Herringer, Georgia Southern University
2008
This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape, both retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant attitude to the feminine ideal.
This book will be useful to advanced students and scholars in a variety of disciplines ... Read more
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Graphing Calculator Manual (11th Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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SPSS Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (2nd Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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SPSS Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (6th Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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TI Graphing Calculator Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (2008)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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TI Graphing Calculator Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (2nd Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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TI Graphing Calculator Manual with Solutions to Selected Problems (6th Edition)
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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Colon, Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior and Status in Bulloch County, Georgia.
Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University and Kelley Chester, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2008
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Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition)
Zvi Lerman
2008
Georgia Southern University faculty member Gregory J. Brock co-authored “Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture” in the publication Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition).
Chapter Summary: For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input/output relationship in Russian agriculture (e.g., Clayton, 1980, 1984; Gray, 1981; Johnson and Brooks, 1983), which generally followed ... Read more
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Teaching Through the Ill Body: A Spiritual and Aesthetic Approach to Pedagogy and Illness
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
6-30-2008
Book Summary: This book raises questions around pedagogy and illness. Morris explores two large issues that run through the text. What does the ill body teach? What does the teacher do through the ill body? The body has something to teach while teaching through the ill body. This book is theoretically framed by connections between spirituality and aesthetics. As the great spiritual traditions teach, our responsibility as teachers is to help others, especially those who are marginalized. What is lacking in our educational discourse is a discussion of the responsibility we all have to help those who get sick and ... Read more
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Terrorism: Communication and Rhetorical Perspectives
H. Dan O'Hair, University of Oklahoma; Robert L. Heath, University of Houston; Kevin J. Ayotte, California State University, Fresno; and Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University
1-30-2008
Book Summary: This volume offers the best available thinking and analysis on the topic of the rhetoric and communication of terrorism. Each of the chapters isolates a particular issue or concern and exposes the difficult choices and subsequent processes facing participants in the management of terrorism. By wrapping the analysis in a web of communication and rhetorical processes and theories, the authors develop unique perspectives from which to characterize these contexts. This volume is intended for multiple audiences, including those interested not only in the specific topic but in risk communication, crisis management, policy management and political science.
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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
2008
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Proceedings of the 2007 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
1-1-2007
